Ruth's October 10 Group Work
Each student in the group is responsible for posting an answer to one question taken from available questions on four different literary terms. Be sure to include the question you are answering in your comment. Group members are Natalia, Lydia and Max.
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Question about character:
Question 7: Dose the author want us to compare one character with another?
In “The Heyday of the Blood”, the author wants readers to compare Gran’ther and Farrar.
Gran’ther has a cheerful life because he is dauntless and fears nothing. He is dominant and insists on something he likes to do and lives life with a “whoop.” Oppositely, Farrar’s life is like a stress disease for his cautiousness and timidity. Everything makes him nervous and frightful, “I’m frightened to death.” He’s lost not only his nerve, but also himself. Gran’ther’s dauntlessness might be the best remedy to heal him. Behind the comparison, we might draw a truth: courageous people live better!
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The question about social setting.
How do the social environments portrayed affected the characters?
In the story, “THE HAYDAY OF THE BLOOD”, characters are evidently affected by their social environments, especially the protagonist - “Granther”. As an old man, he has a lot of experiences. He has been on active duty in an army. In the War in1812, he lost his an arm and his friend, Jeroboam Warner, who used to tell him not to live half-life but to live with “Whoop”. By Fisher’s description, we can understand that it is because of being affected by the special social environments, Granther” Pendleton has an enthusiastic, adventurous characteristic, and he also has a very different attitude toward life, which is-“live while you live, and then die and be done with it”.
Questions about point of view
Question 1: Who tells the story? Can you trust the narrator to tell the truth about events, characters, setting?
In “ The Heyday of the Blood”, the author uses First Person, Mallory, to tell the story. As our knowledge, we can’t believe that an “ older professor” can remember the every detail of the event which happened at his “most eight”. But the dramatic description of characters and plots makes you not doubt the reality of the story. We are easily seized by the narrator who seems to tell his real life. The First Person enhances the character vividly and events trustfully. Then we only pay attention to the fortune of the character , the development of the events but the reality of the story.
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Hello everydody,
Thank you for comments. Here is my rewritiung.
In the story, “The Hayday of The Blood”, characters are evidently affected by their social environments, especially the protagonist - “Granther”. As an old man, he has a lot of experiences. He has been on active duty in an army. In the War in1812, he lost his arm and his friend, Jeroboam Warner, who used to tell him not to live half-life but to give her “Whoop”. By Fisher’s description, we can understand that it is because of being affected by the special social environments, Granther” Pendleton has an enthusiastic, adventurous characteristic, and he also has a very different attitude towards life, which is-“live while you live, and then die and be done with it”.
Question about characters:
Question 7: Does the author want us to compare one character with another?
In “The Heyday of the Blood”, the author wants readers to compare Gran’ther and Farrar.
Gran’ther has a cheerful life because he is dauntless and fears nothing. He is dominant and
insists on something he likes to do and lives life with a whoop.” Oppositely, Farrar is a “fraid-cat.” His life is stressful for his cautiousness and timidity. Everything makes him nervous and frightful, “I’m frightened to death..” Gran’ther’s braveness might be the best remedy to heal him. Behind the comparison, we might draw a truth: courageous people live better.
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Questions about Irony
Question 1: Mark examples of verbal irony either by the narrator or other characters. Explain how a character's verbal irony helps characterize him or her.
Using verbal irony, Dorothy Canfield Fisher intensifies the characters’ descriptions in her story, “The Heyday of the Blood.” It helps to notice Professor Mallory’s sense of sarcastic humor when he names the nerve specialists “those great friends of [Farrar],” or when he describes the fat lady at the fair who “must have weighted at least a ton.” His frequent use of overstatements in descriptions such as “ambrosial” food at the fair, or “incalculable distance”, or “hundreds of thousands” stories, or “agony of delight” shows his very emotional character. He seems to be a very careful and tactful concerning Farrar’s psychological conditions, when he starts telling the story about his Grant’her and calls it “very quiet and unexciting.”
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