Short ID
Shield Sheafson
Beowulf by unknown author, translated by Seamus Heaney
1st named character, king of the Danes
Amen,
Your Sister, Celie
Folkspants, Unlimited
Sugar Avery Drive
Memphis, Tennessee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I remembered, of course, that the World's Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. (73)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Othello by William Shakespeare
des-DEMON-a
The Shaper
Grendel by John Gardner
The name of the poet who retells the story of the Hrothgar's Danes in beautiful lies.
Sing!
"I'm singing!"
Sing words! Sing raving hymns!
"You're crazy, Ow!"
Sing!
"I sing of walls," I howl. "Hooray for the hardness of walls!"Grendel by John Gardner
West Egg
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The location of Gatsby's residence; the location of Nick's residence; NOT East Egg
Never before has a force under arms
disembarked so openly--not bothering to ask
if the sentries allowed them safe passage
or the clan had consented. Nor have I see
a mightier man-at-arms on this earth
than the one standing here: unless I am mistaken,
he is truly noble. This is no mere
hanger-on in a hero's armour.
Beowulf by an unknown author, translated by Seamus Heaney
Adam
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Celie's son; Close read his name...
Harpo
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Mr.______'s son; rejected by Sofia's family because his mother was murdered by her boyfriend; opens a jukejoint;
the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms father....And one fine morning--
So we beat on, boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past. (180)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bianca
Othello by William Shakespeare
Cassio's love interest; prostitute; her name means "white"; Iago accuses her of injuring Othello
It a nice pattern call Sister's Choice. If the quilt turn out perfect, maybe I give it to her, if it not perfect, maybe I keep. I want it for myself, just for the little yellow pieces, look like stars, but not. (58)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Michaelis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Neighbor to the Wilsons; owns a coffee shop; sees the accident
Dan Cody
The Great Gatsby
The individual who welcomed Jay Gatsby onto his yacht and taught him how to navigate upper class society. His name is, arguably, a nod to Daniel Boone (a pioneering explorer) and Buffalo Bill Cody (who popularized Wild West shows).
Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour
As husbands have. What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is't frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well; else let them know
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
Othello by William Shakespeare
Edward DuBoyce
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Harvard scholar who criticized the medal that Samuel and Corrine's Aunt Theodosia had been awarded by King Leopold of Belgium (A not so thinly veiled reference to WEB Du Bois)
Here, where the startling tiny jaws of crocuses snap at the late-winter sun like the heads of baby watersnakes, here I killed the old woman with the irongray hair. She tasted of urine and spleen, which made me spit. Sweet mulch for yellow blooms. Such are the tiresome memories of a shadow-shooter, earth--rim-roamer, walker of the world's weird wall."
Grendel by John Gardner
Queen Modthryth
Beowulf by author unknown, translated by Seamus Heaney
A Geat queen known for her bad behavior until she married the best of kings
Red Horse
Grendel by John Gardner
The nickname of the man who consults with Hrothulf on strategies for taking over control of the Geat kingdom. A nod to French philosopher Georges Sorel. (A sorrel is a red horse.)
Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness. I could never better stead thee than now. Put money in thy purse. Follow thou these wars; defeat thy favour with an usurped beard. I say, put money in thy purse.
Othello by William Shakespeare
Naegling
Beowulf by author unknown, translated by Seamus Heaney
Beowulf's own sword
Her onslaught was less
only by as much as an amazon warrior's
strength is less than an armed man's
when the hefted sword, its hammered edge
and gleaming blade slathered in blood
razes the sturdy boar-ridge off a helmet. (89)
Beowulf by an unknown author, translated by Seamus Heaney
Lodovico
Othello by William Shakespeare
Desdemona's cousin, asks Othello to call her back, Othello's response is ugly