AGENDA:
1. Bellwork: Sentence Composing
2. Discuss Age of Miracles/Thompson Walker's TED talk/
Post two more questions in paragraph form. Cite text.
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/nyregion/the-novelist-karen-thompson-walker-holes-up-in-brooklyn-on-sundays.html?_r=0
4. Work on Qualities. Your revised and proofread qualities pieces are due on Tuesday next week.
5. HMWK: Read to pg. 119 (Ch. 15) for Tuesday
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ReplyDeleteDo you relate more to real-timers or the clock timers? Why?
I feel kind of torn in half by this question, to be honest. I feel like I can relate to the real-timers when it comes to trying to be natural, and all, when I comes to the rotation of the earth, and the way they thought the human body could adapt. But in the end, the days and nights were stretched, and the results were catastrophic. I can also relate to the clock-timers, because they feel that it is not natural to go by “real time” at this point. In the end, I have to say that I probably relate more to the clock timers.
What role does religious faith, superstition, or skepticism play in the novel?
It effects the way certain characters, like Hanna and her family, decided to live their lives when the slowing started, because they’re reacting to it based on their religious faiths, superstitions and, in Julia’s grandfather’s case, skepticism.
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ReplyDeleteDiscuss the challenges that the main characters are already coping with before the slowing begins?
Some characters, such as Julia, are already dealing with personal struggles such as puberty, family, and friends. Another character, Julia’s mother, is having conflicts with her husband that are linked to mistrust. Along with the addition of her paranoia, which only increases when the slowing begins. Seth, a classmate of Julia’s, is also dealing with his mother losing to cancer. This causes Seth to keep to himself, although people try to interact with him, he rejects it.
What do we learn about the other main characters, as well as Julia, through the narrator’s observations?
We learn that, through Julia’s eyes, her parents are shifting away from each other. Her father is conducting suspicious activities and proceeds to increase the paranoia of her mother. Her mother also becomes more and more stressed as the story goes on that, to Julia, it makes her more uncomfortable to around. Julia, herself, becomes more isolated through a certain series of events that makes her lose more than she can take.
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ReplyDelete1. How would the novel be different if it was told in the perspective of her parents?
- It would be told in a more mature perspective. It also may have been directed to a different type of audience.
2. How is science represented?
- It is represented in the book because it talks about the destruction of the Ozone layer or the slowing and how it affects the world
9.) Julia is forced to question things she shouldn't have to question which makes her have to mature more quickly. With her parents focused on other things like the "slowing" she has to fend for herself almost but not quite. She grows up more quickly by having to deal with this sudden change. She didn't expect this to happen so she has to make life adjustments.
ReplyDelete6.) The characters personalities are revealed with small details by how they react to the news of the earth slowing. Her father was more chill, her mommy was very panicked and Julia was confused on what was happening showing us that she did not understand what was happening because she is so young.
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ReplyDeleteHow do the lies of Julia’s father change over the course of the novel and why? Are any of his lies justified?
When her father begins to have an affair with Sylvia, it doesn’t seem like her mother knows. He lies to her and doesn’t let her know about it. What he is doing is wrong and could hurt his wife. This lie is bad enough, but soon they continue to grow. Julia explains, “This was not the first lie I ever heard him tell, and it would not be the last. It was just the boldest and the best. Simple and succinct. An elegant, outlandish fiction. One untrue sentence” (Walker 158). The lie she is referring to is when he tells her mother that the man she hit with her car was still alive when he was in fact dead. The lies only begin to protect the sanity of his wife for she is already paranoid from the slowing. They continue to become more powerful and more secretive but I do feel like they were justified. If he had told her, this could have eventually led to his wife dying in theory. He was just trying to keep his family together and do what is best for them.
What draws Julia and Seth together?
Julia and Seth are drawn together because they need each other. Both of them have had someone very important to them vanish from their lives so both have a void in their hearts. For Julia, her best friend, Hanna, has left for Utah in an attempt to escape the slowing and her parents have begun to fall out of sync. “I missed Hanna like a phantom limb” Julia says (35). With all of this going on, she needs someone to rely on, and Seth is the only one she can. Seth, on the other hand, had a mother who had been battling cancer for years and after that time, she finally passed, “Breast cancer: She’d had it for years already, forever, it seemed, but I’d heard that now she was really dying” (38). With both of them suffering these losses from their families, they choose to rely on each other, drawing them together.
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ReplyDelete1. How does the author inform the reader about the initial setting of the narrative?
The author informs the reader of the initial setting by introducing it as “Pre Slowing” or modern times. “But there were those who would later claim to have recognized the disaster before the rest of us did” (Walker, 3). This displays how the author presents setting as a time of ignorance and obliviousness to what was going on around the characters in the novel.
2. Discuss how the writing is imagistic or visual. In what ways is it cinematic?
The writing is cinematic because it goes into great detail and describes sights and sounds to help you get a grasp of what is going on in the story. “The clocks ticked as usual. Seconds beaded into minutes. Minutes grew into hours” (Walker, 3). This gives the reader a visual in their head of a ticking clock and puts emphasis on the role time plays in this novel.