10/14/08

Objective:
Students will read aloud with expression, conveying the meaning and mood of a work.
Students will use inference and deduction to understand the text.
Students will evaluate literary merit based on an understanding of the genre, the literary elements, and the literary period and tradition

Aim: How does the protagonist suffers further dehumanization and degradation in Chapter VII "The Lover?"

de·hu·man·ize (dē hyo̵̅o̅′mə nīz′)
transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing
to deprive of human qualities, as pity, kindness, individuality, or creativity; make inhuman or machinelike

Degrade:
To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
2. To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace: a scandal that degraded the participants.3. To lower in moral or intellectual character; debase.4. To reduce in worth or value: degrade a currency.5. To impair in physical structure or function.

Do Now: Start writing in your notebook I have experienced/witnessed/felt dehumanization or/and degraded....

Comprehension Check:
Who is Linda in love with? (36)
Linda is in love with a young neighborhood carpenter.
What is her lover's profession in the neighborhood? (36)
He is a carpenter.
Who did Linda confide in about her lover?
She confided in her grandmother about her lover.
Who did she ask for help to talk to Dr. Flint?
A lady who often visits their house, and is fond of Dr. Flint.
What was Dr. Flint's response to Linda's proposal of marrying her lover?
He was outraged, he would not let her be wed to him but he gave her a choice of being wed to one of his own slaves.
How are they acquainted?
They were childhood friends and grew up to see each other alot.

Literary analysis:
How is slavery metaphorically illustrated in the text? (look at the first paragraph of "The Lover")


Close/Interpretive/Infer:
How are men further emasculated in this literary work?

Why does Dr. Flint tells Linda to take up with one of his slaves instead of granting her permission to marry her lover?
Dr. Flint proposes to let Linda marry one of his other slaves instead of letting her marry a free black man because if she marries one of his slaves she is still under his control. He can do as he pleases with her still.
In what way is Dr. Flint acting like a jealous lover himself?
He doesnt want her to get married to someone else, he rather have her marry someone that is his slave. Which means she is still his because the husband is still his other slave.
What really triggers Dr. Flint to physically abuse Linda and why?
When Linda tells him the honest answer that she does love him, she also slightly insults him saying she has a right to love another black man, because she is a black women. Saying how she is entitled to loving another black man but him, he is just a white rich guy.
Explain Linda's response "Do you know....that I can kill you, if I please? You have tried to kill me, and I wish you had; but you have no right to do as you like with me" (39).
She is like telling him what is he waiting for, just kill her already. She rather be dead than bear the sexual harrasement from him.
What does it mean to have "high notions?" (39).
To have "high notions" is to think highly of yourself/one self. Linda was talking to/back to Dr. Flint and she speaks of herself so highly. Like she's not of the slave category.
Why does Dr. Flint tell Linda that she "[has] been the plague of [his] life" (39)?
He is saying how she has had such a huge influence on his life. How what she does to him is so addicting (so to say), and yet she does nothing to him. Its like saying she has no idea what she is doing to him, but at the same time she is doing something to him, and hes just so hooked and addicted to it he cannot stop.

Critical Thinking:
What is the importance of virtue in this chapter?

In her slave status, why is Linda allowed to "answer back" Dr. Flint?
How is Dr. Flint portrayed as an animal and Linda like prey? (40)
Dr. Flint stalkes Linda like a prey, telling her if he catches her seeing her lover he will surely die. So he watches her, stalks her, watching her every move and where she goes. Like a lion and its prey.
Why do we not know the lover by his real name or fake name?
Because he was too special to put a name to him, or to announce his real name put him in danger. To say someone was your lover is like an air full of mystery and yet deep passion. To make him sound so mysterious, and its so special to her about how much she adores him.
Why did Linda have to give up the thought of marrying her lover?
Linda gave up on the thought of trying to marry her lover because she knows in the end they both will still suffer. Her master will never let him buy her, and he will just stand there being able to do nothing if Dr. Flint continues his "ugly" acts on Linda. And if they have children, the children will inheret the mothers status--as a slave, as Dr. Flint's slaves. She doesn't want that at all, she doesn't want to bear children into the world only to let them suffer the same fate she is.

Connect and write in your notebook: Can you connect to anything in this chapter? Did you ever have a boy/girl/friend that someone did not approve of?


Homework: Read chapter VIII Period 8 please post today's lesson on your Blogs if you did not complete in class.

Vocabulary to know:
tendrils -

dehumanize -

degrade -

sanction -

dissipated -

manifested -

lenient -

desolate -

defray -