Answer each question in five complete sentences (dont skip any space . No student name, date etc. [THIS NOT AN ESSAY) Please refer to specific details and include quotations from the works of literature in your answers. You may certainly do additional research to strengthen your answers if you wish, but don’t plagiarize 🙂
QUESTION 1: Not the faintest trace of the melancholy Jacques about him; nothing interesting, romantic, pensive, or even stern. Only a broad-shouldered, brown-bearded man, with an old hat and coat, trousers tucked into his boots, fresh mold on the hand he had given her to shake, and the cheeriest voice she had ever heard.
Which character does this passage describe? [Note: Mold in this context means ordinary garden dirt, not fungus.] In what ways does his appearance reflect his personality, as it is revealed later in the novel
QUESTION 2: Her eye wandered to and fro, and brightened as it went; for though a poor, plain room it was as neat as hands could make it, and so glorified with sunshine that she thought it a lovely place, in spite of the yellow paper with green cabbage roses on it, the gorgeous plaster statuary on the mantelpiece, and the fragrance of doughnuts which pervaded the air. Every thing suggested home life, humble but happy, and Christie’s solitary heart warmed at the sights and sounds about her.
Which place does this passage describe? What qualities or values would its specific details have been likely to connote for nineteenth-century readers? (Note: you’re welcome to look for historical information about specific items, like the “gorgeous plaster statuary” or the yellow and green wallpaper; just check that your sources are valid and relevant to the specific period when Work takes place, and identify your information sources clearly in your answer.)
QUESTION 3:Although much of Work is Realist in tone, a few episodes are written in a style emphasizing dramatic, extraordinary events and eerie, gloomy details. What is a specific term for this literary style? Identify a particular chapter or passage marked by this style, pointing to its distinctive features.
QUESTION 4: When Christie opened the eyes that had closed so wearily, afternoon sunshine streamed across the room, and seemed the herald of happier days.
Light, especially sunlight, is a recurrent motif throughout Work. What symbolic purposes do the references to or descriptions of sunlight serve? How is light relevant to larger themes or philosophical assertions of the novel?
QUESTION 5: What American philosophers are associated with the values and beliefs that Mr. Power and David Sterling represent? What is the name of this philosophical movement? Feel free to research this question; just be sure to document any information sources you use.
