Part 1: Journal 1
Prompts
Read Chapters 2-5 from Tillie Olsen’sYonnondio: From the Thirties.
Choose a single key passage from Chapters 2-5 of Yonnondio to examine and respond to subjectively, following the same response pattern you used in your first Journal write of the unit.
Using this scene/passage/moment/event/etc. as your starting place, try out some of the theoretical principals you’ve learned from your study of Reader Response criticism this unit. How do you respond to the passage from Olsen’s story, subjectively? How does your response help you make sense of the work, in turn making it more “real” and meaningful for you? Do you think this is how Olsen wants you to respond to this moment in the story? Why? How exactly does she construct her language in her characterizations of people, place, time frame, tone and mood and atmosphere, to shape your response in a particular way? Why do you think she is trying to elicit certain responses from you? How do your subjective responses to this extended passage serve the larger goals Olsen might have for her storytelling in the novel?
Part 2: Journal 2
Prompts
Read Chapters 6-8 from Tillie Olsen’sYonnondio: From the Thirties.
Review the last section from Chapter 8 of Yonnondio, the final tableaux of the family in the kitchen (pp 184 through the end of the chapter on p 191).
Using this series of scenes as your starting place, try out some of the theoretical principals you’ve learned from your study of Reader Response criticism this unit. How do you respond to this passage from Olsen’s story, subjectively? How does your response help you make sense of the work, in turn making it more “real” and meaningful for you? Do you think this is how Olsen wants you to respond to this moment in the story? Why? How exactly does she construct her language in her characterizations of people, place, time frame, tone and mood and atmosphere, to shape your response in a particular way? Why do you think she is trying to elicit certain responses from you? How do your subjective responses to this extended passage serve the larger goals Olsen might have for her storytelling in the novel?
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