Today in class we participated in a mini Socratic seminar. We began our disucssing by reading and analying Langston Hughes' heartbreaking narrative, "Saved." I say "heartbreaking" because Hughes' despair at the end of the essay could have been so easily avoided if the adults in his life and spoken to him like the child that he was. "Saved" is a wonderful companion piece to Kimmel's "Slumber Party" essay because both authors show their respective audiences the power of adult influence. Continue to pay careful attention to the way Kimmel develops her religious motif in the memoir.
Some of the major questions concerning the religios motif in Zippy that we discussed in the seminar were:
1. Is Zippy really an atheist? Cite evidence supporting or refuting your assesment.
2. Kimmel begins her "Slumber Party" essay with a paradoxical quote from Einstein. How does this quote lend iteself to the various paradoxes within the essay itself?
3. Is Zippy's father a negative or a positive influence on her religious beliefs?
Homework:
Friday reading due tomorrow.
In Zippy, read "ESP" through "Reading List" for Monday. Your chapter rhetorical strategy analysis is due Monday as well.
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