Each pair of students should post four short examples (40 to 50 words maximum) before Friday's class. Two examples should come from "Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden" and two from "Homework." It is not necessary to name the story in your answer. Each example must contain a quotation (or two) but quotations should not take up more than half of any one example.
We will review and correct examples on the screen this Friday.
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E.L. Doctorow uses atmosphere to show a contrast in his opening paragraphs. When the boy’s body is found, “dew was on the grass” and “the light inside the tent was soft and filled with shadows.” In this beautiful setting, we contrast the ugliness of a boy found in a “shroud-like wrapping.”--51 words
from “Homework”
Conflicts
Mom helps George for his homework. Mom believe something change a juvenile’s life is “the death of a parent” or “parents’ divorce”. Their conflict is that Mom enjoys helping even though it is not true, but George worries about the results concerning with his teacher.
from “Child dead, in the rose garden”
Characters
Chrissie says what redemption she could do is “to put a tincture of shame into their hearts”, and “Am I the family disgrace?” Her conflicts come from that she wants to be an environmental fighter, but her father’s business makes a lot of money but murders innocent people.
The mother tells “interesting” story of her grandfather, but George says it is “boring”. Helen Simpson uses a different society setting to explain life can be totally different. It is hard for George to understand “the Event That Change Your Life”.—41 words
George “complained” that he had no idea about the topic. The grandma “desperate” “filled half a red silvine exercise book”. Helen Simpson makes two contrast characters—experienced and inexperienced character. You can’t do anything about age. It will take “fifty years’ time” to write the event. –46 words
E.L.Doctorow expressed two paradox feelings in the same area (the White house).”sun”, ”dew”, ”rose garden”, ”fresh”, and ”grass” explained the bright atmosphere .On the other hand “the body of a child”, “shroud-like wrapping” demonstrated darkness of finding a little boy’s body in the Rose garden. It‘s like a dirty stain on a white silk.
Their reactions toward a body of a little boy‘s body -five or six years old –in the White house were prejudicial. President‘s family and resident staff left the area ,for they were worrisome about terrorist ruse. “Unwrapped by the FBI bomb squad” ,”unmarked agency sedan” confirmed the unjustifiable behaviours. Not only they care about his reason of death, but also they took him away by a unmarked agency .
#4 The irony
The author E.L Doctorow broke the tragedy of the story in a breeze of irony and mixed feelings.He used the humor technique in the right place,to produce another flavour to the reader."I know Dady and his exalted friends...would never lift a hand against a child","configured to win.And fuck all else"(clear expressions that shows personal benefits and selfishness in a humor way)
#6 Figurative language
Again here Helen Simpson kept fabulous images of "the tines of a garden fork,the solid shaft of the handle would rear up and hit him".(suffering description,and the challenges)what fantastic pictures of lovely metaphor that made the reader in another world
#2
The characters in the story are mother and thirteen years old boy .There is conflict between his age and homework assigned to him. So, he complained “I’d write about any thing else in the world”. His mother wants to help him with examples her senior relatives. The boy feels it a “Boring”, is a conflict too.
#5
The protagonist, George’s mother, has a very mature and thoughtful personality and it seems like she has learned a lot from her own mother’s life. She is her role model and she wants George to learn from her life too. These qualities create the conflict between her and her son’s thoughts.
“Homework”
No 1
Homework’s author portraits a flaw in concealed actions as “Jacob’s mother died,” but this event is ashamed and difficult for him; so, “He doesn’t want to talk about.” In fact she committed suicide “it was a bottle of tablets.” Always for children, “The death of a parent . . . might bring bad luck.”
No 2
Another society aspect is the recurrent events in families as “your great-grandmother, was found as a newborn baby wrapped in a flour sack on the church steps early one Sunday morning” and similar experience had George’s great-grandfather “at first he slept wrapped in old newspaper on benches along the Embankment. Repetitive events “that accounts for a lot” in families histories.
CHILD, DEAD, IN THE ROSE GARDEN
Chrissie Steven describes the air smells as “like burning tires”. Here, Chrissie used a simile to give us the clear image of the environment and the danger that the young boy has been leaving with since he came to this life.
Words: 45
Chrissie said, “after all they didn’t force his family to live where the air smells like burning tires.” Her anger was clear about what happened to the little boy and her beliefs. Her conflict was between whether it is an environmental problem or a significant business for her dad.
Words: 43
Jessie & George
Setting:
The writer described a situation that the environment had been contaminated and a boy who had asthma and could not afford to move to a non-polluted place. Finally, this boy died due to air pollution. Therefore, he wrote “. . . they didn’t give our gardener’s son the asthma he was born with” and “. . . they didn’t force his family to live where the air smells like burning tires” to show the helpless situation of those people.
Conflict:
The different position was the major conflict between Molly and Chrissis. Molly was an agent, he had the responsibility to find out who put the child's body in the garden. Chrissis represented for the poor, she wanted to use this illegal way to wake up public's conscious. However, both of them knew Chrissis had done the right thing, so Chrissis asked "Are you not one of the configured gentlemen?"
Society:
The author, E.L. Doctorow, believed the society is flawed. The people with power are busying in tracing their own benefits. The serious air pollution issues are not their priority. Therefore, he wrote “They always win, don’t they” and “We are such amateurs.” to show his upset and helpless.
Irony:
The writer assumed the men worked for the government should do every effort to protect their people, so he wrote those people “would never lift a hand against a child”; ironically, those “configured gentlemen” had done the things to harm their people. The author described the politicians sarcastically by using the words “configured gentlemen” to show his anger.
The important elements of the setting is to show a reader where the story was occurred.It’s also easy for a reader to make a picture about the whole description of the story.Furthermore,it’s important to have setting in the story because it tells in which particular time the story was happened.For example, “One morning the body of a child was discovered in the Rose Garden.” Immediately, the reader can know where the story took a place at.
The author portrayed how society life destroyed,and how society flawed.
The government instead of showing a strong concern after they found the body of Roberto Guzman, they immediately took the body, put it in the trunk of unmarked agency sedan, and immaculated the area. They pretended like nothing was occurred in the Rose Garden. Not only that, they also freed the workers who were held outside the gates to get in. Then the president and his workers started to party. I quoted this example from the story, “After the public rooms of the White House and grounds had been gone over, the president party was allowed to return.”
All the actions above, described a weakness of the USA government, and Mr. President didn’t quite show a grieve about the dead boy. He absolutely broke a responsibility to his citizens.
Destroying Society
When Chrissie Stevens says "Configured to Win. And fuck all else." E. L. Doctorow describes us a despairing society － where the power and money come together. Chrissie tried to evoke their conscience by placed the body of Roberto Guzman in Rose Garden, but apparently she failed.
Irony:
Chrissie Stevens delivers "Daddy and his exalted friends never lift a hand against a child." Actually she knows they are Roberto Guzman's murder, and they are killing people while they make money or get power. The most ironical is "They are configured gentlemen." And what Chrissie did is "Family disgrace."
by Carlos & Sophie
Figurative Language:
George’s mother speculated that Jacob would escape from the pain of losing his mother “till middle age” “when he would step onto his death as onto the tines of a garden fork,” which could hit him to wake up.
Setting:
The story began in one morning when “Dew was on the grass and the air was fresh,” setting off by contrasting to the dead boy who had died of the polluted air at his hometown. After “a few hours later,” “the White House grounds and gardens stood immaculate” again.
Character and Conflict:
George was striving to do his homework and asked his mother for help. His mother attempted to convince him that he would be “desperate to set down” his “memories” and “might find it interesting” in his “old age,” but he said “No,” “boring.”
Hyperbole and Setting:
Chrissie Stevens was angry and disappointed with her father and his “exalted friends”, those “configured gentlemen,” so she said “they always win” and “very skillful,” and “we are such amateurs.” However, she could not even “put a tincture of shame into their hearts.”
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