1. Welcome! Walk in work: Please take out your notebooks and label your next A and B pages: Literary Allusions Periods 5 and 6

2. Please record the following in your notebooks: (B side)  Allusion- a figure of speech that refers to a well known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the reader’s mind.  Add theme, archetype, allusion, Point of view and conflict to your Glossary section. Periods 5 and 6

3. On your tables, you will find a large list of common allusions.  While you may have never come across a moment when your author mentions these allusions directly, there may be situations or characters that have the same characteristics, or serve the same purpose within the text.  It is important to recognize these allusions when they occur in your reading to deepen your understanding of the text (theme, character, conflict)

4. Watch as I read the “Three Sisters” vignette and look for literary allusions  This vignette comes from later in the House on Mango Street  Before this vignette begins, one of Esperanza’s baby cousins has died and there are strange family members arriving for the memorial. Periods 5 and 6

5. The Three Fates – Greek Mythology  Usually three women (old, stern, ugly)  one who spins the thread of life  one who determines how long one lives by measuring the thread of life  one who chose how someone dies by cutting the thread of life with her shears  Three days after a child was born, it was thought that the fates would visit the house to determine the child's fate and life Periods 5 and 6

6. On the “A” side, take 5-7 minutes to make a list of some of the allusions you could see in your books EXAMPLE:  If you have a Creature of Nightmare, look at how your character defeats this creature (David vs. Goliath)  If you have a character v. Society conflict, are characters unjustly accused of crimes? (McCarthyism)  If you have a mentor archetype, does this mentor die to save the protagonist and others? (Jesus Christ)  If you have a character that did something they shouldn’t have done that has caused consequences (Pandora’s box) Periods 5 and 6

7. Contrast the original allusion to the version referenced in your book Periods 5 and 6 Three Fates The House on Mango Street Came after a death One with blue veins One with cat eyes One with a funny laugh Could see the unknown: “They had the power and could sense what was” (Cisneros 104). Three Women Old Not described as beautiful “Magical” quality Come after a birth One who spins the thread of life One who determines how long one lives One who chooses how someone dies