Your final exam will be based off of the thesis and sources you came up with during Module 6. The research paper must contain a title page, at least 5 to 7 pages, and a page of references. All aspects of the paper must comply with APA style. You must include at least three body paragraphs that support your thesis and utilize your research. Your final paper must include at least three sources: one of the sources must be a book and one must be a scholarly article. This draft must demonstrate the incorporation of revisions from throughout the course. Your paper must be 3-4 pages in length.
WEEK 6
Play Questions
1. This is the first scene of a play. The play is structured like a boxing match. How so? What is the conflict between Shlink and Garga? Why does the narrator say, “Don’t waste time trying to figure out why these men are fighting.”
Shlink and Garga are having a fight over buying a book, for which Garga gives his opinion. Shlink is trying to buy Garga’s opinion, and he feels insulted, as he is only trying to go on with his duties. The reason why the narrator says, “Don’t waste time trying to figure out why these men are fighting,” is because their fight is petty and over nothing. In the scene, one cannot get to the root of the fight as it happened abruptly.
2. What kind of person is Garga? Who is Shlink? What kind of person is he?
Garga is a calm, self-composed, and a confident person. Even though Shlink is provoking and insulting him, he manages to maintain his cool. Garga is also a humble person, as he does not shy away from accepting his condition. Moreover, it is evident that Garga is harried. The remarks that Shlink makes easily offend him. Shlink is a lumber dealer. He is the kind of person who likes to demotivate others, bully and belittle them. He tries to intimidate Garga by uttering mean words to him and making him feel terrible for his condition.
3. What is the scene trying to say about cities? How does the scene reflect the play’s title that cities are a jungle?
The scene is trying to bring out the fact that the cities are not clean. Garga explains the environment in which he lives and the conditions that surround him are nothing but filthy. Garga lives next to a burst sewage pipe, the city has a terrible smell, and people have to sleep with their windows closed. The jungle is a place in which human beings cannot live because of the inhabitable conditions. The scene reflects the title of the play, that cities are a jungle, by making the audience aware of the terrible conditions.
O. Henry Story
According to O. Henry, in the first paragraph, life in the city is miserable and mysterious. He says, “Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side.” The city residents move from one place to another looking for a more comfortable home which they never find. They spend their entire lives homeless, without a place to call their home. In the story, O. Henry uses poetic diction to describe the city. In the second paragraph, O. Henry says, “Hence the houses of this district, having had a thousand dwellers, should have a thousand tales to tell, mostly dull ones, no doubt….” The tone of the entire story is poetic, made up of short statements which involve vocabulary, phrasing, and grammar considerably for poetry.
O. Herny’s views about the city are not only applicable to New York but other cities. In the story, the city is mysterious and complicated with deceptive people. According to O. Henry’s second paragraph from last, the housekeep failed to tell the young man that the woman he was searching for committed suicide in the same room he rented, “…A pretty slip of a colleen she was to be killin’ herfelf wid the gas—a swate little face she had, Mrs Purdy, ma’am”. Like New York in other cities, people are concerned about money and survival, and they can deceive for that. Also, some problems such as homeless, drug abuse, and deception are not only the problem of past cities, but they still exist in today’s cities. O. Henry’s description of the city in the story is applicable in modern cities.
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