All depends on yer point-of-view, don't it?
"That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan."
What is the omniscient third-person?
"Today, Maman died."
What is The Stranger by Albert Camus?
The Globe Theater
What is theater?
That every object, every human, from inception, is endowed with some defining attribute or quality key to its identity or function.
What is Essentialism?
"what's with your dad and that pole?"
Who is the narrator's girlfriend in "Sticks"?
"For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate”
What is the first-person?
"Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig."
What is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe?
“As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others”
What is Okonkwo's violation of Ibo taboo?
Existence precedes essence.
What is Existentialism?
"It is an abomination for a man to take his own life"
Who is Obierika in Things Fall Apart?"
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,. Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
What is the third-person, omniscient?
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things Fall Apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy loosed upon the world."
What is "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats?
“Living fire begets cold, impotent ash”
What is Okonkwo's relationship with his son, Nwoye?
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Camus uses a myth as an allegory for this philosophical concept.
What is "the absurd?"
" We are soldiers and our only duty is to win. Therefore, to be precise, I would now like to ask you a question: Should France remain in Algeria? If you answer "yes," then you must accept all the necessary consequences."
Who is Colonel MATHIEU, from The Battle of Algiers?"
"You are amongst them, of course. Your curiosity got the better of you, as curiosity is wont to do. You stand in the fading light, the scarf around your neck pulled up against the chilly evening breeze, waiting to see for yourself exactly what kind of circus only opens once the sun sets."
What is the second-person?
“O brave new world, that has such people in it”
What is The Tempest by William Shakespeare?
“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness”
What is Meursault's inexplicable and irrevocable act, the 4 bullets he fired into another human being?
"Conquering nations cast their role as civilizing “barbaric” or “savage” nations, and argued that they were acting in the best interests of those whose lands and peoples they exploited."
What is Colonialism?
“That’s all for today, Monsieur Antichrist”
Who is the Magistrate in The Stranger?
"Dejamos el hogar, nos casamos, tuvimos nuestros propios hijos y descubrimos que las semillas de la mezquindad también florecían dentro de nosotros."
What is the first-person (plural)?
"He ran lengths of string between the pole and the sticks, and taped to the string letters of apology, admissions of error, pleas for understanding, all written in a frantic hand on index cards."
What is "Sticks" by George Saunders?
The tempest in The Tempest.
What is ???????
This is a theological conflict between two religious cosmologies. One posits that a singular deity is sole creator of all that is; the other posits that multiple or myriad deities share these divine powers.
What is monotheism versus polytheism?
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on"
Who is Prospero in The Tempest?