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Project 2- Shakuntala Themes and Symbols

Kaitlyn Mader Dr. Helms Currents in Global Literature October 20, 2020 Second Project- Themes and Symbols in Shakuntala             For my second project, I decided to do a more interactive and visual project.  I decided to do a Jeopardy type “game”.  I chose to do this project on Kalidasa’s play Shakuntala.  I wanted to focusContinue reading “Project 2- Shakuntala Themes and Symbols”

Second Major Project: The Literary Analysis Podcast Episode Two: Justice and Danticat

Script: Opening Music Luke: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Literary Analysis Podcast, I am your host Luke. Today marks the second episode in the podcast and today we will be taking a deep dive into Edwidge Danticat’s 2004 piece entitled The Dew Breaker and how it contributes to an ongoing conversation surrounding justiceContinue reading “Second Major Project: The Literary Analysis Podcast Episode Two: Justice and Danticat”

Shakuntala Unessay

For my second project, I decided to make a poster about some major these in the Shakuntala reading. The 3 large themes that I identified were Love vs Duty, Nature, Body and Spirt, and Concealment vs Separation. I felt like these themes specifically stuck out to me.  “But how can it have happened that, simplyContinue reading “Shakuntala Unessay”

Project #2

https://plymouthstate-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mlr1047_plymouth_edu/Documents/Microsoft%20Teams%20Chat%20Files/Shakuntala.html For my second project of the semester, I knew I wanted to do something with the story of Shakuntala. I considered doing something like my last unessay but after meeting with professor helms I decided to take an alternative route. We had talked about me creating a possible text quest following the storyline ofContinue reading “Project #2”

Duality in The Dewbreaker

When coming up with an idea for this unessay, I wanted to find something that obviously wasn’t an essay. Obviously essays are SO MUCH FUN to write, but sometimes an essay isn’t the best way to convey the message you want to. Eventually I realized, why not make a video? I’ve been wanting to makeContinue reading “Duality in The Dewbreaker”

Ka’s Monologue – The Condensation Tracer

For my second project, I decided to write a monologue of Ka reflecting on her father after the revelation at the end of “The Book of the Dead” chapter. I found The Dew Breaker to be a very powerful book and I honestly was left in stunned silence at the end of it. It’s justContinue reading “Ka’s Monologue – The Condensation Tracer”

New York Vs. Haiti: Themes in The Dew Breaker

link to image in google doc in case it is hard to read here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XF93AwNqRWpFHtTQ8IH8BEq0LrzuUYK/view?usp=sharing As I was reading through The Dew Breaker, I noticed that the living situation in Haiti and in New York was very different. The chapters that centered around life in Haiti showed a life where family and community were veryContinue reading “New York Vs. Haiti: Themes in The Dew Breaker”

Dew Breaker Family Tree

In The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat constructed a tangled web of people, connected through a common heritage, a shared experience of immigration, and a the shadow of a dark past that looms over them all. This complex web is illustrated above. The different colored lines represent the nature of the relationships between people, whether theyContinue reading “Dew Breaker Family Tree”

Scars, Erasure, Papa and Sgt. Barnes

“Besides, soon after her husband had opened his barbershop, he’d discovered that since he’d lost eighty pounds, changed his name, and given as his place of birth a village deep in the mountains of Leogane, no one asked about him anymore, thinking he was just a peasant who’d made good in New York. He hadn’tContinue reading “Scars, Erasure, Papa and Sgt. Barnes”