1. Questions? 1.Middle east? 2.Bazaar? 3.Gothic? 4.Guild? 5.Veiled women? Islam? 6.Justice, honor, persecution? 7.Caravanserai? 8.British English? 9.…

2. British Empire

18. Description or Narrative? Break the Fence!  Setting: 1950s, 1960s?  Plot/Conflict: West vs. East, Modern vs. Traditional, Civilized vs. Uncivilized, Order vs. Disorder, Feminist Freedom vs. Veiled Women, Fixed Price vs. Bargaining, Labor Law vs. Child Labor, Industrialization vs. Animal Power, Man vs. Women, Sumptuous Meal vs. Humble Meal, Upper Class vs. Lower Class, Open Square vs. Dark Cavern, Humanity vs. Inhumanity  Character: protagonist and antagonist  Structure: a climax?  Style  Atmosphere  Theme

19. Break the Fence!  Emotional, exaggerating expressions  Hypotactic mostly  An order of time and space  A good beginning?  A good ending?  Can we remove the seventh paragraph? The carpet market, the spice market, the food market, the dye market, the pottery market, the carpenters’ market

20. The Middle Eastern Bazaar Market in the British World ?? Bazaar in the Middle East  Take…back  A Gothic-arched gateway  A cool dark cavern  Little donkeys  Bells  Donkey-boys and porters  Stall-holders  Bargaining  Veiled women

21. Perspectives: Middle Eastern Bazaar or British Bazaar? How Ironic!

22. Rhetorical Devices  the heat and glare of a big, open square  as far as the eye can see  tinkling bells  arguing and bargaining  a fairyland of dancing flashes  the apprentices—boys and youths, some of them incredibly young  textures and regional designs—some bold and simple, others unbelievably detailed and yet harmonious  lie disdainfully chewing their hay

23. Rhetorical Devices  a vast, somber cavern of a room  tower  groan  a flood of glistening linseed oil  sigh  simple/compound/complex sentences  right-branched/left-branched sentences

24. Rewrite Exercise  Write paragraph eight into one sentence!

25. Here is a possibility for 8 and 9. The most unforgettable thing in the bazaar is the oil- making place where a mechanism of three stone wheels, a huge pole, a camel, a stone channel, and an attendant is used to extract the linseed oil. After some creaking, groaning, squeaking, and rumbling from the ramshackle apparatus and some occasional grunts and sighs from the camel, a flood of glistening linseed oil flows into a used petrol can.

26. Transitional Questions What is a description?description What is a narration? In which parts has the descriptive strategy used in Everyday Use for Grandmamma?

27. Questions 1. American Pet Culture & the Image of a Dog in the United States 2. African American Culture in the United States 3. African American Experience in the United States 4. African American Women’s Experience in the United States 5. The Mind of the South 6. African American Experience in the Civil War 7. Cultural Revolution in the Mid-20 th Century 8. Irony, Irony, Irony! 9. Symbolism 10. Foreshadow 11. Damn it! Who’s correct?

28. Basics of a Story Setting? Plot/Conflict? Character: protagonist and antagonist Structure: a climax? Style? Atmosphere? Theme? Narrator?

29. Video Clips for the Short Story www.sparknotes.com literary rags www.sparknotes.com

31. Augusta, GA