WEEK SIX: BEING THERE
Chapter 1: Metaphor
Who is Chance?
Who is the Old Man?
What is the Garden?
Chapter 2: Existence
Symbols
Television
Names
Chapter 3: Exodus
Motifs
Television
Assumptions
Misunderstandings
Analogies
Who is EE?
Chapter 4: Reality
Conflict and Irony
Literal vs. Figurative
Characters as Symbols
Chapter 5: Perception
More Conflict
Chance vs. Society
Innocence vs. Experience
Style vs. Substance
Perception vs. Reality
Is this a story about Chance or about us?
Chapter 6: Consciousness
Being There vs. Being There
Chapter 7: Return to the Garden
7 Chapters = 7 Days of Creation: But just what has been created?
WEEKLY MENU
MONDAY
Due: Conversational Roundtable
Read: Chapter 7
Novel Summary
TUESDAY
Quiz: Lit Terms
One-Page Essay
WEDNESDAY
Overview
Distilled Notes
Five for Ten
Conversational Roundtable
THURSDAY
Film: Stranger Than Fiction
FRIDAY
Film: Stranger Than Fiction
WEEKEND
Due Monday: One-Page Essay
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