Math/Sci English 11 ~ AP Literature Ms. Clopton Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Seminar
Focus When creating your seminar questions, use the ideas below to help guide you. You may incorporate these themes into your questions in any way you see fit, but you must include them in some way. You need to create five questions in total. You also need to answer two of these questions in microtheme form with textual evidence for support.
1) The various uses of the symbolism of flying and their significance including how the author uses it to represent oppression and characters breaking free from oppression or failing to do so.
Given the emphasis of the myths of flight and the general symbolism of flying throughout the book, what can it tell us about the concluding scene of the book, as Milkman leaps into the air towards Guitar? Can it be assumed that Milkman flies, like the African myth, or rather does he perish as seen in the western myth? Furthermore, Morrison …show more content…
How does the author do so in this novel? Include: references to Bible, Greek, and African mythology, and any other. (Those three must be covered in all manifestations.)
How does Morrison allude to the bible in Song of Solomon beyond the fact that the title is a biblical verse? Furthermore, what effect does this have on the piece? Additionally, Morrison alludes to Greek and African mythology. Simply put, why does she do this, and what effect does it have on the reader and how they perceive the novel?
5) How Morrison tells the story. The key elements in her structure: repeating patterns, such as the opening scene, multiple interpretations of different characters perceive the same scene, mixing fantasy with reality, how she layers the truth beneath levels of lies, half- truths, legends and ignorance use of flying as symbolism here, if you didn't use it in #
Focus When creating your seminar questions, use the ideas below to help guide you. You may incorporate these themes into your questions in any way you see fit, but you must include them in some way. You need to create five questions in total. You also need to answer two of these questions in microtheme form with textual evidence for support.
1) The various uses of the symbolism of flying and their significance including how the author uses it to represent oppression and characters breaking free from oppression or failing to do so.
Given the emphasis of the myths of flight and the general symbolism of flying throughout the book, what can it tell us about the concluding scene of the book, as Milkman leaps into the air towards Guitar? Can it be assumed that Milkman flies, like the African myth, or rather does he perish as seen in the western myth? Furthermore, Morrison …show more content…
How does the author do so in this novel? Include: references to Bible, Greek, and African mythology, and any other. (Those three must be covered in all manifestations.)
How does Morrison allude to the bible in Song of Solomon beyond the fact that the title is a biblical verse? Furthermore, what effect does this have on the piece? Additionally, Morrison alludes to Greek and African mythology. Simply put, why does she do this, and what effect does it have on the reader and how they perceive the novel?
5) How Morrison tells the story. The key elements in her structure: repeating patterns, such as the opening scene, multiple interpretations of different characters perceive the same scene, mixing fantasy with reality, how she layers the truth beneath levels of lies, half- truths, legends and ignorance use of flying as symbolism here, if you didn't use it in #