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I. Question about chapter 5 1.What is Father Delaura's punishment for embracing the demon of love, in the form of Sierva Maria? What do you think about this novel and give a couple sentences about it 6. What were some of the preparations that Maria had to go through to prepare for the exorcism? [Name at least three 8. A new priest, Father Tomas de Aquino de Narvaez, becomes Maria's new spiritual guide. What is the 1st thing he does when he meets Maria? 9. What ultimately happens to Father Aquino? (Be specific so I know that you read) Essays (40 word minimum) 15.In contrast to her husband, Bernarda is ravaged by her addictions, vomits bile, breaks wind "in pestilential explosions that startled the mastiffs, " and turns her back on her "freak" of a daughter. Why does García Márquez portray Sierva Mara's mother as such a grotesque figure? 16. Sierva Mar'a claims to know what demons look like, chooses to live in filth, declares herself "worse than the plague," "bewitches" the visiting Vicereine, and presents Delaura with "the fearful spectacle of one truly possessed." Yet, as the priest points out to the Abbess, the assignation of her powers to Satan rather than God is completely arbitrary. Is Sierva Mara indeed possessed? Why is it so important for the Abbess to believe that she is? If not, why does Sierva Mar'a shake her head in answer to the Marquis's question "Do you know who God is?" 17. Before she leaves home for the convent, Sierva Mar'a asks her father if love conquers all, as the songs said. "Yes," he tells her, "but you would do well not to believe it." Does she die believing it? Does her and Delaura's love triumph? II/ Of Love and Other Demons Essay Topics •Choose Topic – Write the Question Number at the top of the Doc •Classic 5 paragraph essay style •Introduction – Thesis Boldfaced •Body Paragraph (Argument) #1 – One piece of Evidence Boldfaced •Body Paragraph (Argument) #2 - One piece of Evidence Boldfaced •Body Paragraph (Argument) #3 - One piece of Evidence Boldfaced •Conclusion •Typical 12pt font •Double Spaced •Typed and Turned In •Remember that a Quote MUST be PART of A SENTENCE!!!!!!!! oUse MLA for in-text citation (Marquez 47) Essay Topic 1 Consider the paradox of Sierva being subjected to a torturous exorcism so that other characters may rid themselves of their own demons. Citing specific examples from the text, write an essay discussing one of the following: - What is her family's role in her behavior and her subsequent imprisonment? - The Bishop's perceived failure to keep everyone faithful to the church. - The Abbess's extreme distaste for the citizens of New Grenada. Essay Topic 2 Dr. Abrenuncio and Father Cayetano are the two most highly educated men in New Grenada. Citing specific examples from the text, discuss these two characters, including the following: - Their differing backgrounds of science and faith. - Their perceptions of each other, before and after they meet. - Their concern over Sierva's fate. - The possibilities of faith and science coming together, as exemplified by these two characters. Essay Topic 3 Citing specific examples from the text, discuss the author's use of magic realism in this novel. In what ways does the author make this story true to life? In what ways is this story fantastical? (Please note that the term "fantastical" encompasses more than just the miracle of Sierva's hair growing after death and is meant as something that likely could not happen in real life). Essay Topic 4 "[The Bishop] spoke of Yucatan, where they had constructed sumptuous cathedrals to hide the pagan pyramids, not realizing that the natives came to Mass because their sanctuaries still lived beneath the silver altars. He spoke of the chaotic mixing of blood that had gone on since the conquest: Spanish blood with Indian blood, and both of these with blacks of every sort, even Mandingo Muslims, and he asked himself whether such miscegenation had a place in the Kingdom of God." Using this quote from the book as a springboard, discuss the story as an overall allegory for racism. Keep in mind the treatment of the slaves, Sierva's attachment to the African culture and her own racial background, and the use of the character of Sagunta and the motives of the Bishop in performing an exorcism on Sierva. Essay Topic 5 Sierva asks her father if love can truly conquer all. His response is that, while it can, it would be best if she did not believe it. Citing specific examples from the text, discuss the statement within the overall context of this novel. How does this statement ring true for Sierva? How does it fail? Does it appear that she believes love can conquer all? In the end, does it? Provide thorough explanations for each statement. Essay Topic 6 Citing specific examples from the text and including a strong thesis statement, discuss the use of religion in this novel, including the following: - Dr. Abrenuncio's relationship with the church and the Marquis - Dominga's religions and the effects on Sierva - The Abbess and the Bishop's relationship with each other. Essay Topic 7 Citing specific examples from the text and including a strong thesis, discuss the use of Sierva as a "blank slate" for all the other characters, including the following: - Attributes assigned to her by other people. - Cayetano's obsession and love for her. - Her neglectful childhood. - Her affiliation with the slaves and their culture. - The author's intent in leaving Sierva's personality a mystery. III/ I will sent you the file later ‘Invisible Cities’ Abstract Urban Philisophical Memoir Where we live is made up of physical material that creates geometric shapes amidst which we as people navigate our daily lives. At one turn, where we live is as simple as that, but on another level, there is so much more that exists in our city which if we are not looking for it, often times remains unseen, or invisible. It is these parts of your city (neighborhood?) that I wish us to exlore. As you read through the following reviews and excerpts from Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’ I want you to try to replicate, in some way, the approaches Calvino used (through Marco Polo’s descriptions) of the Invisible Cities. Our first move is to read the actual excerpts from ‘Invisible Cities’ before you we do anything. Feel free to write your own notes on any of these handouts. Written Portion: This will be turned in on a Word Document and then transcribed accordingly on your Powerpoint prezzie. You will cut and paste all of your essay onto the powerpoint next to the appropriate photograph. 250 word minimum [Remember the format of Marco Polo’s Monologue – Physical Description, Invisible Reality, and Artsitic Reflection] Multiple paragraphs Spacing = 1.5 lines 1st Movement – Physical Description – What would someone see with their eyes? 2nd Movement – Invisible City – What is the city really? What is the Invisible essence? 3rd Movement – Artistic Reflection/Ties to Humanity – What does it really mean about your city? Powerpoint Portion a. 5 photographs (minimum) that illustrate your writing - MAKE A VIDEO OF YOUR INVISIBLE CITY? b. Local map c. Other visuals that occur to you? d. Symbols or logos If you choose to do a video, you will paste your essay onto a PP for presentation and then play your video after! Soooooooooo…… 1. Cut and Paste your essay from your Word Doc onto the PP. Ensure you include the actual name of your neighborhood and an Invisible Cities Name! a. Make sure you break it up in such a way that the font is large enough (22pt. Minimum), this may take you up to 10 or 15 slides depending on layout and design 2. Sprinkle your photographs and map accordingly into your PP, I have asked for a minimum of five but of course the more solid photographs the better a. If you are making a video, we will read your essay off your PP and then show your video 3. Musical Accompanyment Choose a piece of music (lyrical or non-lyrical) that will be long enough to be played while the class is watching your presentation a. Please include the name and artist that you have chose in the comments section when your submit your PP i. I will play this off my computer Things to consider… 1. I would prefere that you write about your particular neighborhood rather than Chicago as a whole unless you are a near-Loop or Loop liver? 2. Probable start to collect mental notes (which you need to write down immediately before you forget them) before you start writing. a. If I was doing this project I would try and record 15 to 20 thoughts about Chicago (in both the physical and the abstract) before I even began the story. i. I would then type all of my commentary down and then begin my arrangement, as if I was a musical composer. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and William Weaver Paperback, 165 pages | · · Eric Weiner's latest book is Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine. Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities might be labeled travelogue. It was, in fact, the traveler in me that first fell under its spell. The places Calvino describes, though, don't exist on any map. Technically, this is a novel, a work of fiction, but one without any storyline. The only characters are an aging Kublai Khan and a young-ish Marco Polo. They're sitting in a garden, where the Venetian explorer is regaling the Mongol ruler with tales of the cities he has seen journeying to the far reaches of Khan's vast empire. Each short chapter describes a different city, 55 in all. These are fantastical, beguiling places, where things are never as they seem. There's Hypatia, a city of beautiful blue lagoons but where "crabs were biting the eyes of the suicides, stones tied around their necks"; Laudomia, the city of the unborn, whose inhabitants have constructed a parallel city for those yet to come; Octavia, the spider-web city, whose residents live suspended over an abyss, supported by a net they know won't last long; and Argia, a city with earth instead of air. At some point, you realize that Calvino is not talking about cities at all, not in the way we normally think of the word. Calvino's cities — like all cities, really — are constructed not of steel and concrete but of ideas. Each city represents a thought experiment, or, as Polo tells Khan at one point, "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." The question that Calvino seems to be asking is a big one: How should we live? The inhabitants of Calvino's cities are a tortured lot,