You will have one of two options for this blog assignment (due Sunday Dec. 7):
1. Find a passage in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things of no more than 2 paragraphs, and write a close reading of it. This is practically the same assignment as the book report for Mao II--you want to elucidate the themes and questions that emerge from the passage and relate it to one of the following topics that we've discussed in class with regard the novel: (1) Global/Colonial English, (2) The Love Laws, (3) History, and (4) The God of Small Things
But make sure to be as detailed as possible, drawing our attention to the use of figurative language, capitalization, "foreign" sounding words, images, dialogue, repetition, etc. Please paste the passage that you intend to analyze.
As a refresher, the following links explain the idea of close reading:
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/reading_lit.html
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/CloseReading.html
2. Pick an object from everyday life, something that you use regularly, and write a "close reading" of it, identifying its role in rituals of everyday life, and relating it back to at least one concept that we have covered in this course. This is a relatively open assignment, but make sure to apply the rules of close reading on this object.
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