Unit 4 Text 1
What was the first text that was read to start off the understanding of allegory and unit 4?
What is the Lottery?
What was the title of the second text that was read in unit 4 before crescendo started?
What is the Communist Manifesto
What is allegory?
a narrative technique—in literature, film, or art—where characters, settings, and events act as symbols, conveying hidden political, moral, or philosophical meanings beyond their literal surface story
is the communist manifesto a work of fiction or non-fiction?
What was the Plot of the Lottery?
there is a lottery held every year across the country and the focus of the story is on a particular town that takes it very seriously. Everyone is onboard and enthusiastic about the yearly tradition until...one of them is chosen in which that person has a pretty strong shift in opinion about it. That is because it leads to them being stoned to death by the whole town
Daily double:
who are the authors of the communist manifesto?
Friedrich Engles and Karl Marx
Daily Double
who is the character introduced by name in the lottery?
Bobby M
What does Bourgeois mean?
adj: characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
n: member of the middle class, property owner
What is the name of person chosen for the lottery in the story?
Tess Hutchinson
What does Proletariat mean?
workers or working-class people, regarded collectively