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Literary Analysis: Exploring Themes and Techniques in 20th Century American Literature, Exams of Legal English

Louisiana State University at AlexandriaLegal English

This study guide delves into key concepts and literary techniques prevalent in 20th century american literature. It explores the shift from didactic to aesthetic writing, examines the impact of existentialism and feminism on literary works, and analyzes the iceberg effect in hemingway's writing. The guide also includes examples of literary works that exemplify these concepts, such as 'hills like white elephants' by hemingway and 'the storm' by kate chopin.

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something written/created to teach a moral or a lesson. the author states the moral or lesson very
clearly. outright easy to understand - ✔✔didactic
something written only for its own beauty. if there is a moral or lesson it is up to the reader to decide
what it is. not trying to teach a moral or a lesson. harder to understand and requires more work. -
✔✔aesthetic
didactic stories - ✔✔The North Wind and The Sun, The Tortoise and The Geese, and Godfather Death.
aesthetic stories - ✔✔Hills like White Elephants
why did literature change from being mostly didactic to mostly aesthetic? - ✔✔because the world was
becoming more compex
an American man trying to get a girl to get an abortion? - ✔✔hills like white elephants
a way of living life in which morality does not play a role. if there is a God it is an uncaring God. you do
whatever you have to do to stay alive and be happy. - ✔✔existentialism
civil war - ✔✔shocked the nation. America was the supposedly "perfect country"
Charles Darwin's origin of species - ✔✔shocked the nation it taught us to believe in the evolution theory
and to look away from God and Christianity and doubt God's existence.
world war 1 - ✔✔shocked the world. modern warfare like tanks and machine guns, chemical warfare like
gases etc. this is the depth of mans depravity.
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something written/created to teach a moral or a lesson. the author states the moral or lesson very clearly. outright easy to understand - ✔✔didactic something written only for its own beauty. if there is a moral or lesson it is up to the reader to decide what it is. not trying to teach a moral or a lesson. harder to understand and requires more work. - ✔✔aesthetic didactic stories - ✔✔The North Wind and The Sun, The Tortoise and The Geese, and Godfather Death. aesthetic stories - ✔✔Hills like White Elephants why did literature change from being mostly didactic to mostly aesthetic? - ✔✔because the world was becoming more compex an American man trying to get a girl to get an abortion? - ✔✔hills like white elephants a way of living life in which morality does not play a role. if there is a God it is an uncaring God. you do whatever you have to do to stay alive and be happy. - ✔✔existentialism civil war - ✔✔shocked the nation. America was the supposedly "perfect country" Charles Darwin's origin of species - ✔✔shocked the nation it taught us to believe in the evolution theory and to look away from God and Christianity and doubt God's existence. world war 1 - ✔✔shocked the world. modern warfare like tanks and machine guns, chemical warfare like gases etc. this is the depth of mans depravity.

authors began to say why bother putting morals in our stories when it feels like no one is listening the world is going crazy. authors said that they will just write for the beauty of their work. T/F - ✔✔true he changed the way fiction was written. the most influential fiction author of 20th century and beyond. - ✔✔ernest hemingway hills like white elephants - ✔✔Ernest Hemingway what did Ernest Hemingway create - ✔✔the iceberg effect writing style to focus on action and dialogue. there is little focus on character background and motivation. - ✔✔the iceberg effect stories in which the main character will either survive his/her environment or be defeated by his/her environment. God will not help character. if there is a God He doesn't care. can take place in nature or in the city. ( it was inspired by the concept of survival of the fitest- Darwin) - ✔✔nationalism written to show the unfair inequalities between men and women. - ✔✔feminist literature one of the first American Feminist Authors... - ✔✔Kate Chopin The Awakening - ✔✔Kate Chopin marriage was like a prison for most wives lost their identity - is a feminist story - ✔✔story of an hour At the Cadian Ball - ✔✔not Feminist the Storm - ✔✔is Feminist

"you want them with water? asked the women. it tastes like liquorice, the girl said and put the glass down. that's the way with everything. yes, said the girl. everything taste of liquorice. especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe. oh, cut it out. you started it, the girl said. i was being amused. i was having a fine time." (hills like white elephant- what does this mean) - ✔✔iceberg effect "it's really an awfully simple operation, jig the man said It's not really an operation at all. the girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on. i know you wouldn't mind it, Jig.it's really not anything. it's just to let the air in. the girl did not say anything." (hills like white elephants- whats the meaning) - ✔✔the man is trying to manipulate the girl. he is telling her lies. "that's the only thing that bothers us. it's the only thing that's made us unhappy. the girl looked at the bead curtain, put her hand out and took hold of the two of the strings of beads. and you think then we'll be all right and be happy. i know we will. you don't have to be afraid. i've known lots of people that have done it. so have i, said the girl. and afterwards they were all so happy. well, the man said, if you don't want to you don't have to. i wouldn't have you do it if you didn't want to. but i know it's perfectly simple" (Hills like white elephants- the meaning) - ✔✔Iceberg effect. the man trying to manipulate her. "i dont care about me. well, i care about you. oh, yes. but i dont care about me. and ill do it and then everything will be fine. i dont want you to do it if you feel that way." (hills like white elephants- the meaning) - ✔✔iceberg effect "would you please please please please please please please stop talking? do you feel better? he asked. i feel fine, she said. there's nothing wrong with me. i feel fine." (hills like white elephants-meaning) - ✔✔iceberg effect "sammy have you rung up this purchase? i thought and said no but it wasn't about that i was thinking. i go through the punches, 4, 9, GROC TOT - its more complicated than you think and after you did it often enough it begins to make a little song that you hear words to in case hello (bing) there you (gung) hap-py pee-pul (splat)! - the splat being the drawer flying out. i uncrease the bill tenderly as you may imagine it just having come from between the two smoothest scoops of vanilla i had ever known were there and pass a half and a penny into her narrow pink palm and nestle the herrings in a bag and twist its neck and hand it over all the time thinking"(A&P-meaning) - ✔✔objectification "Lengel signs and begins to look very patient and old and gray. He's been a friend of my parents for years. Sammy, you don't want to do this to your mom and dad, he tells me. It's true I don't. But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. I fold my apron, Sammy stitched in read on the pocket and put it on the counter and drop the bow tie on the top of it. The bow tie is

theirs if you've ever wondered. You'll feel this for the rest of your life, lengel says and I know that's true too but remembering how he made that pretty girl blush makes me so scrunchy inside I punch the no sale tab and the machine whirs pee-pul and the drawer splats out. One advantage to this scene taking place in summer I can follow this up with a clean exit there's no fumbling around getting your coat and galoshes I just saunter into the electric eye in my white shirt that my mother ironed the night befor - ✔✔Sammy is naive Sammy's life lessons (A&P) - 2 - ✔✔1.we are all replaceable. Sammy thought if he did something noble he would be rewarded 2.sometimes in life Nobel deeds do not get rewarded. "Once in a while the thought reiterated itself that it was very cold and that he had never experienced such cold. As he walked along he rubbed his cheekbones and nose with he back of his mittened hand. He did this automatically now and again changing hands. But rub as he would the instant he stopped his cheekbones were numb and the following instant the end of his nose went numb. He was sure to frost his cheeks he knew that and experienced a pang of regret that he had not devised a nose strap of the sort Bub wore in cold snaps. Such a strap passed across the cheeks as well and saved them. But it didn't matter much after all. What were frosted cheeks? A bit painful that was all they were never serious.(to build a fire-meaning) - ✔✔Mans instincts are dull Hypothermia (to build a fire) - ✔✔Environment defeated the man he was not strong enough to survive he lacked instincts. The dog(to build a fire) - ✔✔Yearning for fire, smell death "There had even been a breath of scandal whispered about her a year ago when she went to assumption— but why talk of it? No one did now. C'est Espagnol, ça most of them said with lenient shoulder- shrugs. Bon chien tient de race the old men mumbled over their pipes stirred by recollections nothing was made of it except that Fronde threw it up to Cali ya when the two quarreled and fought on the church steps after mass one Sunday about a liver. Calixta swore roundly in fine cadian French and with true Spanish spirit and slapped fronies face. Fronie has slapped her back tiens, bocotte, va! Espèce de lionèse prends ça et ça! Till the cure himself was obliged to hasten and make peace between them. Bobinot thought of it all and would not go to the ball"(at the cadian ball-meaning) - ✔✔Calixta is a "bad girl" who breaks all the men's rules of society.