The Glass Castle, Part III (and Yoda)

Great discussion in class today, as usual. Well done everyone!

Our rhetorical strategy focus today was: anastrophe.

Anastrophe is only effective when the syntax changes the audience's focus and therefore, the meaning of the phrase!

I think most of you would agree that today's multiple choice question passage was easier than the work from Wednesday! Remember to think things through and TRUST your instincts. The majority of mistakes are made when you decide to choose an answer other than your original idea because you "thought" the latter answer "looked better!"

Monday's assignment:
Read through page 202 and answer the following questions:
1. Why does the author develop Dinitia Hewitt’s role in her life? Why do you think Dinitia was so cruel to Jeannette when the Walls family first moved to Welch?
2. Briefly reflect on Mary’s defense of Erma and Hitler.
3. List three examples from the book that note a reversal of roles in the parent/child relationship.
4. Erma’s actions lead the Walls children to make excuses for their father. Refute or defend the author’s forgiveness for her father due to his upbringing.
5. Have Jeannette’s parents become worse since moving to Welch or has the author developed a different perspective? Justify your answer.
6. How are Jeannette and her siblings changing in the way they react to their parents’ flights of fancy?
7. What does Miss Bivens give Jeannette that her own parents cannot (or will not)?
8. Identify and analyze the effect of an appeal to ethos, an appeal to pathos, and an appeal to logos.

Additonally, continue your annotations on:
1. The differences between the way Rex and Rose Mary (the author’s parents) view the world and the way the author views the world, based on the rhetoric she uses to convey the differences between these viewpoints.
2. The contrast in the way the author views her life as she grows older
3. The reversal of roles in the parent/child relationship
4. Appeals to pathos, ethos, and logos
5. The symbolism of events, places, people and things. Specifically, how do the parents and children in the memoir view these events, places, people and things differently?