Monday, October 3, 2011

Homework Due October 10th 2011

Write
Finish writing your essay comparing your heros with the Greek heros in the Illiad.
Write a paragraph comparing The Fellowship of the Ring and the Illiad.

Read Iliad book 24
Add outline information to notebook.
  • New Characters
  • Character Development
  • Note New Vocabulary Words- look up definitions
  • Major Plots Developments
  • Examples of Literary Techniques
  • Your Interpretation of Passages
  • Interesting Quotes or passages

Answer 5 of the following questions. Respond in complete sentences.

1. What is the morality of the gods in this story? What is the morality of the men in this story?

2. Contrast Hector and Achilles. Which do you like better? Why

3. Some scholars have seen Priam's trip to Achilles' tent a symbolic journey to Hades; how so?

4. Why does Achilles surrender Hector?

5. Do you think that Achilles has grown as an individual and learned wisdom about himself and the world, or is he the same Achilles as before?

6. Do you think Achiles is a tragic hero? Are any of the other characters?

7. What are some of the meanings of fate in the epic?


Read Pilgrim's Progress chapters 1-2
Add outline information to notebook.
  • New Characters
  • Character Development
  • Note New Vocabulary Words- look up definitions
  • Major Plots Developments
  • Examples of Literary Techniques
  • Your Interpretation of Passages
  • Interesting Quotes or passages
Answer 5 of the following questions. Respond in complete sentences.

1. "City of Destruction." Bunyan's name for our world is strongly negative. Would you name our world "City of Destruction"? If you would name it something different what would that be?

2. How does Christians quest for life begin?

3. What does the dump of despond represent? Can you think of any other items that belong in this dump?

4. The cross seems hateful and bigoted to Worldly Wiseman. Why does he think tolerance is morally superior to the way of the cross?

5. Evangelist explains how the "floating" is connected to losing confidence that any larger story of life is true. Why do you think the image of "floating" might describe a person who believes in an evolutionary perspective?

6. At the end of Evangelist's story, the smaller screens on the dam disappear. Why do you think that is?

7. List 5 allegories you have seen in the book. List their names in the book and what they stand for.

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