Hi everyone,
Below are three blog prompts (one for each story we read this week) to use if you wish when formulating your posts for this week.
1. In relation to "Mrs. Sen's" by Jhumpa Lahiri meditate on the significance of food in the story. How does food function as a metaphor for culture and human emotions? What does food allow us to see about the characters that we otherwise would not?
2. In relation to "Accomplice" by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, in your opinion is Ms. Hempel an effective or an ineffective instructor? According to Bynum, are the best instructors those who seek to be their students' "accomplices" as opposed to working against their students or feeling as though they are superior to them? Support your opinions with specific examples from the story.
3. Using James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" to guide your response, discuss what the role of the artist in society is. Does the blues musician fulfill a social function? According to the story, why is music important? How does it help Sonny--or people in general--to survive?
Also, make sure that your blog posts center on analyzing and giving your personal opinions and interpretations of the text as opposed to summarizing the plot. Summaries are unnecessary as you should compose your posts from the standpoint that everyone has already read the text in question and will understand whatever aspect of it you choose to blog about.
Happy blogging!
--JI
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