The Awakening and Invisible Man

Blog Post #1

To receive full credit for this blog post, you may answer one of the following questions or record your impressions of the novel through Chapter 7 or Chapter 2.  Responses should be detailed with specific examples from the text (INCLUDE PAGE or CHAPTER #) illustrating your knowledge and understanding of the text.  In addition, you must respond to at least one other response.

The Awakening:  Respond to one of the questions below, or post your impressions of the book so far (through Chapter 7). 

1. What is important about the title? 

2. How essential is the setting to the story? Could the story have taken place anywhere else?

3. What types of conflict (physical, moral, intellectual, or emotional) have you noticed in this novel so far?

4. How does Kate Chopin reveal character in The Awakening?

Invisible Man:  Respond to one of the questions below, or post your impressions of the book so far (through Chapter 2).

1.  Why has Ellison omitted the article the or an from his title?

2.  The narrator distinguishes between civilization and culture.  What is the difference?

3.  Like Dante's descent in The Divine Comedy, the narrator's experience with marijuana takes him down into music that reveals parts of the black experience in America.  What are the three levels through which he passes and why are the levels significant?

4.  In what ways is Norton like the men of Greenwood who attended the Battle Royal?

DUE:  Friday, 2/8, at midnight