Week 10 Discussion

My research paper will be the focus on James Joyce’s work “Araby”.  How this you man relates back to his wanting to be in love with his buddy’s sister.  Then his realizing that his love for her will never be.

My research paper focuses on the story “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The short story narrates events that follow a dead stranger swept by sea currents to a small remote town. Even though the villagers knew little about the stranger, they gave him a unique respectable burial because of his beauty. The thesis of my essay is that inspiration arises from the least expected sources because, at the end of the story, the stranger`s presence influenced the villagers to make their town and lives better beyond their imagination. The essay will use Runyon et al. (2008) article “The Most Wonderful Thing I Have Ever Seen’: Indiana’s Contribution to Petrified Man Hoaxes. The latter article explores Gabriel`s short story. I will use the JASTOR database.   Applicability of JSTOR arises from the fact that it presents researchers with a wide range of study materials, including academic content and primary source content. Moreover, the database allows students to filter their search using varying criteria.

My research paper is about brief tale “The handsomest Drowned Man” composed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A Latin author, who composed the brief tale “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” A Tale for Children, Creative Education, was distributed in the 1993. this sort of narrating into a domain of the incredible that appears to have no association with a specific time or spot. By the by, Garcia Marquez has been affected by his childhood in a waterfront Colombian town during the fierce 1930s. This article upholds my proposal proclamation since it makes sense of how one individual can help someone else create and look thing at things distinctively throughout everyday life.

I have chosen “Salvation” by Langston Hughes for my research essay. My thesis statement is “the author shows how the narrator’s mood changes throughout the story. Langston is seen as an excited, curious young boy at first, but it changes at the end which is very obvious “. As you can see, the literary work I focused on was the character’s mood. I believe a secondary source that would support my thesis is a biography of Langston to see how this real-life experience shaped him into a person in the future. After reading some readings, I have read that Langston was not religious growing up and this may be from the experience he had as a child and the church,

My essay will be talking about The most handsome dead man” By “Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I will be focusing on trying to prove more on how the story she made is very imaginative and has lots of magical realism. the reason why I chose this as my thesis and what to talk about was because I like the imagination it put in my mind when the women said he was the size of a sperm whale. this shows that this has an imagination side and a magical realism to it because a man being the size of a sperm whale isn’t normal. I will be using the news paper Beyond magical realism: Teaching Creative Thinking Using Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” as my secondary source due to it being a newspaper. I chose this news paper because it stood out of the crowd and looked like it had good information. Im still looking for a primary source and thinking. In the news article it talked about Marquez used magical realism which falls right under my thesis topic number 2.

I will write about “Salvation” by Langston Hughes for my research essay. “Salvation” by Langston Hughes published in 1940, is a short story from “The Big Sea”. “Salvation” is a short story about a 12 years old kid, who questions Jesus existence after church services, and also reached out to adults after that visit. In this short story, there are a lot of ironies popping out. But the main point which was a lie changed him because Langston realized if he didn’t lie about being saved, his aunt will be disappointed in him. He cried at the end and realized something about Jesus. In BMCC databases I didn’t find any resources yet because of reasons. I will try to find mostly about, how a can lie affects someone, or how can a lie changes a child’s mind. Since we as the reader saw what happened to Langston at the end. My thesis statement would be “A simple lie can affect a kid(person) mentally”.  

My research paper focuses on the short story “The handsomest Drowned Man” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A Latin writer, who wrote the short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” A Tale for Children, Creative Education, was published in the 1993. I will focus to write about “Leaf Storm and Other Stories” published in 1972. Garcia Marquez, considered by many to be Colombia’s foremost writer, has gained much of his recognition by writing stories that operate on a mythical, almost allegorical, level. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” takes this type of storytelling into a realm of the fantastic that seems to have no connection to a particular time or place. Nevertheless, Garcia Marquez has been influenced by his upbringing in a coastal Colombian village during the turbulent 1930s. “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” has always interested critics, both those who interpret the story as a comment on Colombian. The thesis of my essay is: “Esteban a truly great person has the power to change others, to inspire them to be better, to make them want to be extraordinary. The villager’s transformation originates entirely from within. The dead man is dead, after all, which means the villagers are responsible themselves and for the changes that they make. Therefore, my main goal is finding a great biography in context to connect to my primary source to connect with “The handsomest Drowned Man” to help me prepare for the next step.

In my research I will be writing about is Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”. The reading The Lesson is about how a teacher takes a group of students from Harlem on a school trip to a toy store to try and teach them the worth of money and see how they hold them selves accountable in a store. While looking through the BMCC library I really could not find anything yet to write about but I will continue on doing more research in the library to find something good enough and more understandable and then I will include the sources information in my writing, as their are a lot of stories that can be found to relate to this story I am trying to find one that talks about representation and how the way you represent yourself shows the type of person you are and also gives people a way to judge you.

“The Lesson” is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara written in a first-person narrative told by a young black girl named Sylvia. My thesis of the story is about self-empowerment. From my knowledge of the story, Miss Moore is taking the kids to Fifth Avenue for a tour to encourage the children to walk into the stores on the fifth avenue to explore the new environments and gave a lecture about race inequality. I found the purpose of the lesson is to tell the children that they are not different from other races and how important to have self-empowerment. I haven’t found the book I needed just yet. So far the story’s I found do not have enough details to support my thesis. Still, I am looking for books about self-empowerment and race inequality and see what I can combine for a more exciting research summary and outside sources that can prove my thesis and elevate the details of my essay.

My research paper will focus on the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. A young boy who faces emotional pressure to be saved by his aunt and church members. The irony of this is that he wasn’t saved and lost faith in God. My thesis statement is: “Hughes uses an ironic twist between dramatic and situational irony to show a young boy’s disillusionment with faith.” After looking over the secondary sources on BMCC I have learned how to view a story from different people’s points of view of what the story means to them or the message they got from the story. When reading the secondary sources I learned Langston was a famous black American poet who expressed how he felt through his work.

My thesis statement is the following: The gravity of the narrator’s inner turmoil and confusion is expressed through the use of several types of irony throughout the short story. It is my plan, in order to further demonstrate the irony of “Salvation” by Langston Hughes, besides introducing examples of the different types of irony from the short story, to use the writer’s biography as reference, with emphasis on his relationship with religion, spirituality and the church. To gain sufficient and accurate information for this, I intend on using the Gale in Context database, as there is a quite informative biography on this site. I am still in the midst of my research for the best material for my secondary research but I trust, the Library’s databases won’t let me down.  

My essay is about Langston Hughes’ “Salvation” and how the adult narrative voice serves to highlight the youth of the narrator and the significance of his lie. Though I had not considered it before, looking at secondary sources will help to bring a new aspect into my essay: how the author’s actual life and own identities may have influenced their writings. For example, from “Salvation” one can infer that Hughes was not a religious man, due to the ending in which he professes a lack of belief in Jesus, for He had not come at a time of need. However, looking through the Gale in Context site, I was able to find a biography, and an essay on a conference about Langston Hughes and his works. Through connecting the biography of his life and the time-frame that “Salvation” was written, one can deduce more through what the author had experienced in their life to influence their works. Similarly, the conference essay has information about what historians were able to piece together from Hughes’ life, or rather, the pieces that they were able to glean, as evasive as he proved to be. 

I am doing Langston Hughes “Salvation”.  “This epiphany was a lot more than Langston just losing his faith, because his innocence left with it.”  I think both biographical sources and Literary Critiques would both be helpful secondary sources for me. Biographical because “Salvation” is a true story from his childhood, and Literary Critiques because the way he tells the story is beautiful and complex, and also full of Dramatic Irony. I have looked at JSTOR because it’s my old faithful, and found some interesting critiques of not just “Salvation” but many other of his short stories and poems, and many people exploring religion in many of his works. And I explored the Biography in Context and found a few interesting biographies as well.

My research paper will be the focus on James Joyce’s work “Araby”. The story is told from the distance of a painful childhood experience, which is being narrated by an unnamed boy. The narrative in “Araby” briefly outlines the young boy’s first love with a girl from his neighborhood at the beginning of the story. Later on, the boy’s thoughts about the girl differ as his motivation to meet up with the girl at the bazaar leads to his disappointment. The central focus that is being depicted on the theme of coming of age is the narrative emotions toward the girl and, Joyce depiction of the narrator’s wasted efforts in approaching the girl that he fantasizes about .  

I will be working on the author Toni Cade Bambara and her short story “The Lesson.” The story’s central theme is economic injustice, supported by the characters and their trip to FAO Schwartz. I will be looking for a critical essay or a biography that analyzes the story’s central theme and the characters in the story. I have searched through the JSTOR database and found four articles on the lesson, and while they were thoughtful critiques of “The Lesson,” I didn’t think they would help further my thesis. I also searched through the Gale in Context / Biography database and found several biographies, but unfortunately, the information wasn’t detailed enough to help analyze the short story I chose. I also searched through the Literature Resource Center, and I found several articles on “The Lesson,” but I didn’t think these would fit well either. Finally, I looked through the Short Story Criticism database, and I found one article that seemed pretty promising. I will be using an essay by Melanie A. Marotta called “Teaching Toni Cade Bambara Teaching: Learning with the Children in Toni Cade Bambara’s ‘The Lesson’.” for my research article.

I’m writing on the short story “Araby” by James Joyce. I concluded that the boy can’t get enough of the girl and sees her in a celestial light. As the story develops, it becomes evident that the little child has difficulty grasping the concept of Mangan’s sister’s illusion and reality. He discovers the bareness of ordinary existence towards the end of the short novella. Arbay’s disappointment causes the child to realize that his adolescent ambitions have blinded him. Finding a precise theme that ties to the story was challenging. I’ve looked through various BMCC databases but have yet to find anything that relates to my topic. In addition, I’ve been working on improving and improving my essay.  I also want to conduct my research using a secondary source rather than a biographical or informational piece.

Research Summary: “When It’s Time to Grow Up” My research essay focus on the short story “Araby”, one of fifteen stories from the collection“Dubliners”, written by James Joyce. My thesis statement, word-for-word, is: “ The transition between the narrator’s childhood to adulthood is described through a series of symbolic imageries, where Joyce uses the contrast between lightness and darkness to exemplify the narrator’s growth, and reveal the story’s true meaning.”  The secondary source informations used so far to support my thesis are the Biography “James Joyce.” from Authors and Artists for Young Adults, vol. 42, Gale, 2002. Gale in Context: Biography in the BMCC library. This biography contains important informations about the collection “Dubliners” and how meaningful it was for Joyce to write about Dublin after he left Ireland, consequently being an inspiration for the upcoming stories. Moreover, it gives further details about how Joyce separated the stories in a chronological order, replicating the growth of the narrator and making “Araby” even more meaningful.  So far, I still did not find a reference about the imagery and the symbolism behind light and dark in the narrative. 

I have chosen to write about Langston Hughes “Salvation”. My thesis statement being: “Throughout the story, the author uses dramatic irony to emphasize the struggles of faith and the pressure of religion.” After looking at the provided database from BMCC I have learned a few things about Mr. Hughes. Firstly, he was considered one of the most popular Black American poets in the U.S. and was strongly criticized for the way he chose to portray his view of life and those around him. That in itself supports any writings of his, having lived a culture to back up what one is writing about is undeniable. Since he was so widely known I feel the best secondary sources to use would be writings and critics directly related to his work as well as those who may have really known him as a person. Biographies and article clippings would absolutely work best.

The literary work i am focusing for my research essay is “Araby” which is a short story written by James Joyce. This short story is about a young boy in Ireland obsessed with the girl living across the street. When the young girl mentions how badly she wants to attend a certain bazaar, he sees an opportunity to win her heart by attending the bazaar himself and bringing her back a gift.The story opens with the narrator’s description of his home and neighborhood, in which we first see Joyce’s use of the close first-person narrator to convey the full sensory range of sensory detail – sights, smells, colors, textures – that comprise the setting. The author is James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. I have searched for options in the BMCC databases and I still haven’t been able to find one that matches my story that I choose.

In my research paper i will be writing about Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”. This story is about a group a students learning the racial inequality on the meaning of money. For my research i will be using the article called “The role of dialect representation in speaking from the margins: “The Lesson” of Toni Cade Bambara” by Katy M. Wright. When reading this article, the author mentions how Toni Cade Bambara uses foul language with the character named Sylvia to show stronger emotion when talking about the trip to the toy store. I am using this article as it was one of the articles that stood out the most when describing the emotions of the characters in “The Lesson” and the way Toni Cade Bambara uses them. In “The Lesson” Toni Cade Bambara likes to have their characters do most of the talking instead of the teacher named “Miss Moore” because the students are the ones learning. https://go-gale-com.bmcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&u=cuny_mancc&id=GALE%7CA181406651&v=2.1&it=r

The piece of literature I will be writing about for my research essay is “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. My thesis statement is as follows: “The underlying irony of this story is in how in trying to be “saved”, he has actually become a sinner in the process.” I will be using “Critical Insights: Langston Hughes” found in the BMCC database published by Miller. (2013). Langston Hughes. Salem Press. In it, there are many points of view on Hughes and his effect on the African American people as a whole. From lynching to faith, and even his influence on music (the Blue’s specifically). With the many insights on how he influenced the people and how they influenced him. The chapters in this book will be sure to give me a better understanding of what kind of person Hughes came to be after being that 12-year-old boy in church looking to be saved.

My research essay focuses on Langston Hughes’ “Salvation”. My thesis statement is “Throughout the narrative, Hughes uses verbal, dramatic, and situational irony”. Hughes’ use of irony is evident in the sarcastic and mocking tone he uses, this is an example of verbal irony. Dramatic irony is used by letting the readers know the outcome of the situation in the first sentence of the narrative, “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved”. And the religious revival is an example of situational irony because instead of strengthening Hughes’ connection with Christianity, he loses faith completely. I believe that a biography of Langston Hughes would be most appropriate for my essay. Using the BMCC database, I found an autobiography that discusses Hughes’ early life. The biography mentions that Carrie Hughes, Hughes’ mother, left him at a young age with his grandmother’s friend, Auntie Reed, and her husband. They were described as being devout Christians who constantly pressured Hughes to join the church, and the narrative “Salvation” explains the result of this. The incident in the religious revival event marked the beginning of his disbelief in religion.

“Araby” is a short story written by James Joyce. This short story is about a young boy in Ireland obsessed with the girl living across the street. When the young girl mentions how badly she wants to attend a certain bazaar, he sees an opportunity to win her heart by attending the bazaar himself and bringing her back a gift.The story opens with the narrator’s description of his home and neighborhood, in which we first see Joyce’s use of the close first-person narrator to convey the full sensory range of sensory detail – sights, smells, colors, textures – that comprise the setting. The author is James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. I have searched for options in the BMCC databases and I still haven’t been able to find one that matches my story that I choose.

I am writing about James Joyce’s short story known as “Araby”. The narrator of the story is a young boy who is infatuated by a girl from his neighborhood. In the story, we notice that the author uses bright color to represent the girl and to demonstrate her significance in the young boy’s life. The setting of the story is dark and dull. The author uses lots of imagery throughout the story to paint a picture of the young boy’s life, which is dull and boring. And how the girl seems to be the only bright light in the young boy’s life. It was difficult to find a critique that related to the theme of my essay. I went through several BMCC databases and I didn’t specifically find results relating to the author’s use of imagery. But “Blind streets and seeing houses: Araby’s dim glass revisited” by Margot Norris is the source I will most likely use for my research essay.   

I’m writing about Gabriel Garcia Marques’s “The handsomest man drowned in the world” is a story that was written in 1968. The story has a particular flavor to it in that, it is the tale of a guy who got himself into difficulty and died in a fishing town. Because of the use of magical realism in this literature, the actual world is changed into something magical or legendary as a consequence of the author’s imagination and thereby serves as an excellent representation of what I’m trying to convey. It is difficult to find information’s about Magical Realism. I found a Article by Alfred Kazin Author: Alfred Kazin Date: Feb. 20, 1972 From: The New York Times Book Review. Beyond Magical Realism: Teaching Creative Thinking Using Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” Donna A. Gessell. My research is going to based on this article.   The link: https://go-gale-com.bmcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?p=LCO&u=cuny_mancc&id=GALE|HLABSI894039616&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-LCO&asid=ba2744bd 

My research essay focuses on “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story explores how myths can change people’s ways of thinking, attitudes, and ways of life. The stories give the villagers a new perspective on life. It gathers the locals and brightens their miserable life. Transformation affects the entire village. Inspire them and make them want to be extraordinary. I chose literary articles as a secondary source of support for my dissertation. I mainly searched using BMCC library. The BMCC library is very easy to use and I searched and found a lot of related articles. I have read some interesting articles that provided a useful analysis of this short story and contributed significantly to my essay. There aren’t many articles that are useful for my dissertation.

For my research essay, I have been working on the character analysis of “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. My thesis statement is “The depiction of the main character demonstrates an empathetic change as he goes from being a naive child to a shameful liar who no longer believes in God”. I feel the secondary resources that best support my thesis is the biography either about Hughes’ early religious influence before “Salvation” in his childhood, which can support “Salvation” does cause a huge empathetic hurt to him, or about after “Salvation”, Hughes living as an atheist for the rest of his life. But it looks like there is no information about how Hughes is instilled the notion of the significant value of being a Christian by his aunt or the family. At least I found some critical essays about his firm position as a nonbeliever from his life experience related to religion and some of his poems.

My research paper would be on the short story “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story is written by villagers that thought of him as a perfect man he was different from everyone around them, so they thought a change is what they needed because of the handsome man. The article that I would be using as a secondary source is Reading the Meaning of life through symbols: The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World. I was able to find this source through the BMCC library. This article supports my thesis statement because it explains how one person can help another person develop and look thing at things differently in life.

My research paper will focus on “The lesson” is a story written by Toni Cade Bambara. An African American writer, so she wrote: “The Lesson” a short story that was published in 1972 following the Civil Rights movement, during that time social inequality in the United States was colossal. “The Lesson” is set in Harlem in New York City. A group of Black children is taken to the F.A.O Schwartz Toy store by an unusual woman in the neighborhood. Throughout the short story, Sylvia is portrayed as a tough hard-shelled individual. The thesis of my essay is” Her character is at the heart of the story as she reacts to the people around her and the lesson, she learns at the toy store.” As a result, my main goal is to find a very good critical article through this second source to connect with “The Lesson” that could help me prepare a good writing final essay.

My research paper focuses on the short story The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World. The thesis of my essay is “The story shows the force of stories to have an impact on the lives and perspectives of the villagers.” The title of my secondary source is “Overview of “The Handsomest Drowned Man”. It is a critical essay from Liz Brent. I found this source in the database Gale Literature Resource Center in the BMCC library. The main idea of this essay is that the author discusses the element of fantasy in García Márquez’s story “The Handsomest Drowned Man.”. This secondary source supports my thesis because it goes in-depth on how each of the characters reacted to Esteban, “The children immediately allow their fantasies to determine what it must be; the narrator states that they “let themselves think it was an enemy ship.” The statement that they “let themselves think” this indicates that they were indulging in a fantasy…”

I am writing about Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World.” This story is about how everyone is so entranced by a man’s beauty that they change for the better because they imagine a world where this handsome man lived and thrived. The article that I will be using for research is one that supports the same views as in my essay which is “Beyond Magical Realism: Teaching Creative Thinking Using Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World’ Donna A. Gessell.” In this article, she talks about how this story is “more than an opportunity of teaching elements of magical realism; it offers lessons in the creative thinking process itself.” There weren’t many article about Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Most Handsomest Drowned Man In The World”, but knowing that her article still stands out a lot more than the rest which is why I chose this article from the BMCC library. https://web-p-ebscohost-com.bmcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=aa5a5142-6230-4dec-a30d-b26ca1fafef7%40redis

I will be focusing my research essay on “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story explores the ways in which the arrival of the unknown drowned man invokes a sense of wonder among the people of the village and sparks their interest in the extraordinary. I have chosen literary articles as a secondary source of information to support my thesis. I have been searching mostly using the Gale Literary Sources database. I found this database to be very easy to utilize and my search returned many relevant articles. I have already read several interesting articles that provide helpful analysis of this short story and will contribute significantly to my essay. Some of the articles I found do not refer specifically to this title, but to other works by Garcia Marquez. I found these articles to be helpful as well as they show insight into this author’s writing style over time.