Unit 15 english presentation
Transcript of Unit 15 english presentation
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UNIT 15: UNIVERSAL THEMES
Micah Wong, Kaska Tomasik, Diana Oliyarnyk, Leslie Mota
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IDENTITY
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GORILLA, MY LOVE
• Hazel desires to think like an adult and to be treated as one but still acts and thinks like a young adult
• On one hand:
Hazel is impulsive and immature (theater incident, defying teachers/movies)
• On the other hand:
Hazel believes people should mean what they say and is both confident and assertive in her beliefs
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GORILLA, MY LOVE
• Thus:
Hazel struggles to identify herself with either a child or an adult and is left in tears after Hubba Bubba merely rejects her
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ARABY• The narrator/boy in Araby initially struggles to grow
out of his “puberty” phases
• The narrator wishes to be one of the “knights” in his books and “sweep away” the girl (his friend’s sister)
• Therefore, the narrator is willing to go the distance with this girl (who is totally oblivious to his motives) and embarks on his destiny (a lame fair called araby)
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ARABY• The narrator struggles to understand the concept of
love, and soon wishes to identify himself as a man, filled with hatred and anger for his former self
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN• Biff, under the false pretenses and failures of his
father, struggles to find his true purpose in life
• Biff struggles to grow out of the shell he and his father had created:
A star football player who only knows success (but cant pass math)
• Biff’s confidence is crushed when his image of his father is tarnished after his cheating incident
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN• Thus, Biff struggles to become an individual, free from
his father’s burdens, who knows what he wants in life
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SKIT INTERPRETATION
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67fOdqxhXA&feature=youtu.be
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UNIVERSAL QUESTIONS (WE HAVE CANDY!)
• How might our desires to become mature impact our search for identity? (Gorilla, my love)
• How might our influences/incidents as a child carry over into our growth as adults? (Araby) Do we really become hateful because of one incident?
• How much do our parents actually influence our indentity/growth into adulthood? (Death of a salesman)