LA302 – Semester One Final

For each era, there will be an additional related reading that we have not yet read. You will be responsible for closely examining this piece, and, just like we’ve done in class all year, making connections between literature and history. The eras included are:

-World War I

-Depression

-World War II (Europe)

-World War II (America)

-Red Scare/McCarthyism

You will also be responsible for knowing the major events and characters of the following pieces:

-Chapter One of All Quiet on the Western Front

-"Christmas Eve" from Silent Night

-"Dulce Et Decorum Est"

-"The Things that Make a Soldier Great"

-“Flander’s Field”

-Johnny Got His Gun

-Cannery Row

-Night

-Emperor of the Sun

-Farewell to Manzanar

-The Crucible

-ACT Preparation work

Finally, you will be response for knowing the thematic significance of key literary quotes (appearing in the works listed above). A selection of these passages follows:

-“My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori” (“Dulce Et Decorum Est”)

-“Put the guns into our hands and we will use them. Give us the slogans and we will turn them into realities. Sing the battle hymns and we will take them up where you left off. Not one not ten not ten thousand not a million not ten millions not a hundred millions but a billion two billions of us all the people of the world we will have the slogans and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use them and we will live. Make no mistake of it we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquility in security in decency in peace. You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.” (Johnny Got His Gun)
-“[Cannery Row’s] inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,” and he would have meant the same thing” (Cannery Row)
- “There are your true philosophers…I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.” (Cannery Row)
-"The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it." (Night)
-"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me." (Night)
-“Here, there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends” (Night)
-“When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?” (Farewell to Manzanar)
-“I smiled and sat down, suddenly aware of what being of Japanese ancestry was going to be like. I wouldn’t be faced with physical attack, or with overt shows of hatred. Rather, I would be seen as someone foreign, or as someone other than American, or perhaps not be seen at all.” (Farewell to Manzanar)
-“And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” (The Crucible)
-“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” (The Crucible)