Possible+Oral+Presentation+Topics

Possible Oral Presentation Topics
 * Highlighted topics are those ideas on which you have decided to focus, however, adjustments need to made to the thesis statement.
 * Include title of work(s) and writer(s).
 * Make sure your thesis statement is clear, specific, defendable, and literary.
 * **Final versions are due by the end of Friday's class (December 19th).**

the other narrative because of the social and economic differences between the times. || Wilson uses the character Troy to show the negative effects of racism don’t fade, even when society is becoming more accepting of differences. || In "The Ferryer" by Sharon Olds and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson the poets have similar but different ideas about what happens when someone dies and what will become of them in the afterlife. || but find a depressed, constrained, and even boring lifestyle when they live with spouses.
 * ** student ** || ** Heat & Dust ** || ** Fences ** || ** Poetry ** ||
 * ** Andrew ** || The concept of wealth has a definition in one narrative that is different in
 * ** Angus ** || Women are shown to gain freedom and liberty in the absence of spouses,

//Be careful to keep focus on literary, rather than social, topics. // ||  The influence of minor characters (Alberta, Raynell, Gabriel) on major characters (Troy, Rose, Cory) They act as catalysts to the transformations of relationships between major characters. Briefly speaking, without these minor characters, the plot in //Fences// would have little chance to develop. || In terms of structure, the greater portion of these poems display Larkin’s or the speaker’s merry memories about finding love, even suggesting the poet/speaker is a romanticist. But in the final (around last 5) lines, Larkin exhibits a transition into his disappointment, dismay, and disapproval of love, sometimes criticizing or mocking it. ||

|| How location and time peroid have influenced the style and themes of the poetry of Philip Larkin and William Wordsworth. || || In August Wilson’s __Fences__, baseball was a prominent component of Troy’s life and gave him hope and strength in his youth, but failure in the sport later became stubborn barriers that blinded Troy from the signs of a better life for African Americans and ultimately, baseball turned into an escape for Troy’s disappointing and stagnant life.  || In his poem "The Tables Turned", William Wordsworth praises the importance of studying our natural environment and feeling the positive influence it brings to our health and intellect, where as in Emily Dickinson's pome "A narrow Fellow in the Grass", she incorporates seetings in nature to express the feeling of detachment and isolation. || || In Heat and Dust, India’s culture has a profound negative effect on Chid and Harry’s personality during the character’s stay in India, they both live in India and is eventually destroyed and leaves in the end.   ||  Seeds and growth are a motif in the play that presents a theme that show the characteristics of Troy and Rose and how it affects other characters such as Raynell and Cory negatively and positively. Rose is the one encouraging growth while self sacrificing and Troy is the one denying growth for his own self satisfaction.
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 * ** Henry ** || ????????????????? || ?????????????
 * ** Jacky ** || Heat is used as a motif ot illustrate the character's love and hate relationship with India the country, its people, and its culture. ||
 * ** Jerome ** || <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">

<span style="color: rgb(12, 228, 76);"> || <span style="font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">The Poem Dockery and Son compares the speaker (with the personality of Larkin) with a man named Dockery, who seemed to have everything by seizing the chance during his youth, which is why the narrator has a sad, boring and regretful life. <span style="font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">This poem is more self-reflective as opposed to his other works which were more critical on life and relationships. || ||
 * ** Jimmy ** || The irritating and eroding effect of India on foreigners symbolized by Dust. || The stubbornness and insecurities of Troy contribute to his overwhelming character, which is the main driving force of the play and influences all his surrounding characters. || <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">Through the means of colloquial diction, mundane imagery, and loose structure Larkin in “Church Going” portrays the trivialization of religion in modern society. <span style="font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';"> || ||
 * ** John ** || The false impression of an imagined better world in the minds of hippies shown through different scenes, settings, and character interaction. || The importance of the birth of Raynell, signifying a major turning point in the play and how her arrival further stretches the tension between fragile character relationships. ||  || ||
 * ** Linda ** || <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-size: 12pt;">In Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust, how characters treat each others and the degree of relaxation indicates the power of the older compared to the younger generation, the European to the Indian, the ones that get around well and those that don't as much, and shows the distance between the powerful and the less powerful characters. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;"> || The responsible and inresponsible behaviors of Troy was a result of the combination of his childhood, and his violent but managed-to-raise-him father.

-A focus on responsibility- what, how and why. -Possible: Contrast among Troy's Rose's, and Cory's attitude/responds to his responsibilities reflects their different personalities.

-needs further adjustment. still thinking || || <span style="color: rgb(31, 209, 35);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Wilson uses the devil as a symbol to portray Troy’s exaggerated imagination and his perspective towards people. The devil is also used to represent Troy’s struggle to survive the trials of life Still need to adjust more. || <span style="font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';"><span style="color: rgb(19, 2, 2);"><span style="color: rgb(123, 14, 14);"><span style="color: rgb(183, 26, 26);">Sharon Olds uses the poems, “The End” and “The Victim” to portray her emotions and attitude towards conflicts in relationship such as divorce and abortions. || || <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">A comparison between the two narratives and the impacts of minor characters on Olivia and Anne to adjust or not adjust to cultural displacement in India and help the characters understand themselves better. <span style="font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';"> || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Troy's tendency to act on "heart" rather than "mind", often lead to the wrong decisions and conflict. //<span style="color: rgb(21, 193, 28);">Be sure that you are addressing more than plot..a study of literary features is essential. // || <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">An analytical comparison of the underlying theme of nature between Philip Larkin’s “Here” and William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”. Philip Larkin uses structure, style and imagery whereas William Wordsworth uses verbal techniques and sublime diction to convey nature from their understandings. || || <span style="color: rgb(31, 209, 35);">Quite heavy, but not entirely clear. What are the "man's actions [that] are emotionally imposed"? || <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 12pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">The parallelism of actions, events, and tension among each of the son and father relationships introduced in the play //Fences// by August Wilson suggest that the father has an everlasting and empowering affect on their sons regardless of the son's actions; the fathers' actions are reflected from their own fathers and upon their sons, creating a cycle of similar actions that the father and son both undergo. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">The cynical style of Philip Larkin and Sharon Olds to present their views on personal subjects. In Larkin’s “Love Songs in Age”, Larkin discusses the absence of love, while in Sharon Olds’ “Take the I Out”, Olds talks about the loss of identity. In both, the poems reveal the poets’ cynicism towards the sensitive or touchy subjects, making the reader feel uncomfortable. || ||
 * ** Neville ** || <span style="color: rgb(31, 209, 35);"> ?????????????
 * ** Niu Niu ** || <span style="color: rgb(31, 209, 35);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
 * ** Roy ** || Characters from different cultures are used in H&D to portray contrasting perceptions of wealth in different time periods which is set by the two narratives in the novel. || <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 10pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In August Wilson’s //Fences// storytelling functions in the play as a catharsis for Troy and his only way of expressing his emotions while maintaining his tough and manly image. || <span style="font-family: 'Perpetua','serif';">Through the comparison between the speaker and Dockery in the poem “Dockery and Son”, Larkin challenges the conformity to society || ||
 * ** Vickie ** || The love relationships (Nawab & Sandy, Olivia & Douglas, Ritu & Inder Lal) in the 1923 and 1975 narratives are ostensibly strong and firm; however, as the novel progresses, and as the man's actions are emotionally imposed onto other characters, these relationships fall apart and contrastingly become weak, ultimately leading into a non-existent one.