On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
For this story, the first critical strategy I’m going to use is the historical approach. While reading this story I’ll ask questions in a history way like what major historical events was presented in the story, is they any dates used, what's the background of the author or main character, etc. I would have all these questions in the back of my mind if I wanted to understand this story with a historical view. Now if I were a history critic reading this piece I would have got the feeling this story has to do with history. I say this because a couple of old pieces was presented in this story; the keywords I saw was American history, tribal stories, and 15,00 years older. These words to me indicated history, and with mine old mindset I thought this story about a lady talking to this man that is native American and telling him about all the cool things that see-saw. A question I’ll have for the author is why did he use Spokane in this story when he talks about the Walden Ponds? Is there a lot of history of Native Americans in Spokane? This is the question I'll ask.
The second critical strategy I used was gender. I feel like gender is a big part of this story, I say this because the main character is a male and the passenger talking to him is a female. …show more content…
As a formalist critic I’m looking for the structure of the story, and the structure of this story was in a storytelling a type of way. The story seemed like it was told in a first person point of view. Also, as a formalist critic, I'm looking for figurative language (metaphor, symbolism) that has meaning to the theme of the story. There was a lot of symbolism in this story to represent the social and economic inequality faced by the kids in the story. An example of symbolism was when Miss Moore took the kids to a toy store to show them outside of Harlem and that they can live like the rich
For this story, the first critical strategy I’m going to use is the historical approach. While reading this story I’ll ask questions in a history way like what major historical events was presented in the story, is they any dates used, what's the background of the author or main character, etc. I would have all these questions in the back of my mind if I wanted to understand this story with a historical view. Now if I were a history critic reading this piece I would have got the feeling this story has to do with history. I say this because a couple of old pieces was presented in this story; the keywords I saw was American history, tribal stories, and 15,00 years older. These words to me indicated history, and with mine old mindset I thought this story about a lady talking to this man that is native American and telling him about all the cool things that see-saw. A question I’ll have for the author is why did he use Spokane in this story when he talks about the Walden Ponds? Is there a lot of history of Native Americans in Spokane? This is the question I'll ask.
The second critical strategy I used was gender. I feel like gender is a big part of this story, I say this because the main character is a male and the passenger talking to him is a female. …show more content…
As a formalist critic I’m looking for the structure of the story, and the structure of this story was in a storytelling a type of way. The story seemed like it was told in a first person point of view. Also, as a formalist critic, I'm looking for figurative language (metaphor, symbolism) that has meaning to the theme of the story. There was a lot of symbolism in this story to represent the social and economic inequality faced by the kids in the story. An example of symbolism was when Miss Moore took the kids to a toy store to show them outside of Harlem and that they can live like the rich