ENGL1080 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hisaye Yamamoto, Eveline, Chinua Achebe
11 Jun 2018
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Short Stories:
Seventeen Syllables — Hisaye Yamamoto
○ Narration: 3rd person omniscient
○ Main Characters: Rosie, the father, the mother Tome/Ume
○ Mother has two personalities
○ Clash between the old generation (Isse) vs the new modern generation (Nisie)
○ Preservation of culture and americanization
■ Mother falls in love above her class, old Japanese culture shames her
■ daughter falls in love with Mexican neighbor, americanization
○ Connection to other stories:
■ Girl
● Similarities: gender stereotypes/troubled mother-daughter
relationships
● Differences: gender equality/social status/mother’s desire
■ Story of an Hour
● Unhappy Marriages
○ Themes: Female struggles in family and marriage, generational gap, family
violence and male dominance
○ Connection to Dracula:
■ Gender stereotypes: Victorian oppression of the new women
■ Cultural Gaps: Jonathan’s thoughts of Transylvanian citizens
○ Lit Crit: Feminist: the new woman; Rosie and her mother
■ Independent, don’t need marriage (or in the case of Rosie’s mom she did
need a marriage)
■ Pursue desires
Dead Man’s Path — Chinua Achebe
○ Narration: 3rd person objective
○ Main Characters: Michael Obi, Nancy (wife), village priest, white Supervisor
○ Irony: Michael tries to please the white supervisor by alienating the villagers
tradition and is seen as the instigator in the end by the supervisor.
○ Connection to other stories:
■ Garden Party: sense of superiority
■ The Flowers: respect for the old
■ Eveline: resisting change
■ Revelations: superiority, intolerance, and ignorance
○ Themes: Tradition vs Modern, Inability to Coexist, Spirituality and Superstition
○ Connection to Dracula: use of modern technology, disrespect for superstitions
■ The band of men and Mina use to modern technology to get rid of Dracula
because they can’t coexist
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Document Summary
Main characters: rosie, the father, the mother tome/ume. Clash between the old generation (isse) vs the new modern generation (nisie) Mother falls in love above her class, old japanese culture shames her. Daughter falls in love with mexican neighbor, americanization. Themes: female struggles in family and marriage, generational gap, family violence and male dominance. Gender stereotypes: victorian oppression of the new women. Cultural gaps: jonathan"s thoughts of transylvanian citizens. Lit crit: feminist: the new woman; rosie and her mother. Independent, don"t need marriage (or in the case of rosie"s mom she did need a marriage) Main characters: michael obi, nancy (wife), village priest, white supervisor. Irony: michael tries to please the white supervisor by alienating the villagers tradition and is seen as the instigator in the end by the supervisor. Themes: tradition vs modern, inability to coexist, spirituality and superstition. Connection to dracula: use of modern technology, disrespect for superstitions.
