For the final exam, you should be able to answer some basic, “factual” questions about the content of Green Grass, Running Water—plot points, characters, images, and themes. But you should also be able to: use the concepts and analytical tools from Chapter 1 of Text Book to identify and distinguish the various narrative strands of GGRW (and chart some of the significant relationships and intersections between them); recognize where and how you’re receiving important “background” information (i.e., “Orientation”) about the characters and their situation before the start of the narrative proper; recognize where and how (in the book’s “Abstract,” for example, or via one or another type of “Evaluation”) you’re receiving clues about the novel’s “themes” and/or about how to regard certain characters, topics, and events in the book; describe the nature and stakes of the “contest” and “conflicts” within and among the novel’s principal characters; discuss prominent “reversals” and “recognitions” experienced by the novel’s main characters

For the final exam, you should be able to answer some basic, “factual” questions about the content of Green Grass, Running Water—plot points, characters, images, and themes. But you should also be able to: use the concepts and analytical tools from Chapter 2 of Text Book to identify and trace some of the major images, motifs, figures, and symbols that recur throughout the novel understand what resonances or other “deeper” meanings are condensed, displaced, or carried by those figures discuss how the book’s plot(s) and/or theme(s) might be structured—whether systematically or in part—by metaphor(s)

For the final exam, you should be able to answer some basic, “factual” questions about the content of Green Grass, Running Water—plot points, characters, images, and themes. But you should also be able to: use the concepts and analytical tools from Chapter 3 of Text Book to place this book within one or more intertextual networks describe how—and discuss why—GGRW is alluding to, appropriating, and/or transforming other texts (i.e., what point is the novel making with any given instance of borrowing?) discuss what cultural knowledge is needed in order to make sense of this novel identify what ideological questions this novel is concerned with and interpret what it means to propose, oppose, or expose with regard to those questions perform other aspects of the “The Reader’s Work” by forming some well grounded conclusions about what this novel means.