The Arrival Parts IIIIV Objectives I will analyze

The Arrival Parts III-IV Objectives: � I will analyze The Arrival so I can apply multiple critical perspectives to a text and evaluate media production elements and the effects of shifting narrative point of view. Today, you will need: � SSR Book � Composition Book � Spring. Board Book � The Arrival (one copy per group) Part IV of The Arrival may be found at the following link: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=nc_Fkys. JAy. E

SB 4. 7. Marginalized Peoples �Read the next 7 pages of Part III (stop where the father begins to share his narrative. �Answer in your composition books: � What cultural elements are present in this section? � Which cultural elements are familiar to the protagonist? Which are alien? � What is the significance of the cultural elements you identified?

SB 4. 7. Marginalized Peoples �Read the father’s narrative. �How does Tan transition into the father’s narrative? � Zooms in for an extreme close-up on the father’s eye. � Scene to scene transition. �Tan juxtaposes sepia toned illustrations with black and white illustrations. What effect does this have on the narrative?

SB 4. 7. Marginalized Peoples Archetypal Criticism �Archetypes are universal symbols – images, characters, motifs, or patterns – that recur in myths, dreams, oral traditions, songs, literature, and other texts of peoples widely separated by time and place. �Archetypal Criticism deals with the similarities of these patterns in the literature of widely diverse cultures.

SB 4. 7. Marginalized Peoples Archetypal Criticism �Assumptions: � Certain images recur in texts from diverse cultures that share a common interpretation – water, sun, colors, the tree, settings such as the garden, the desert. � Certain characters recur – the hero, the trickster, the great mother, the wise old man, the prodigal son. � Certain motifs and patterns occur – creation stories, the quest, voyage to the underworld, journey, and initiation.

SB 4. 7. Marginalized Peoples Read the father’s narrative. In your composition books: �How can Archetypal Criticism be applied to the father’s narrative?

SB 4. 7. Marginalized Peoples Archetypes that appear in the Father’s Narrative: �Cyclops – giant figures with one eye that destroy humans. �The Guide – a person who will guide them to safety, but who may not be trustworthy. �River Styx – from Greek mythology; passengers must pay a boatman so that they can cross the water to a new phase of their lives. �Story of Escape

SB 4. 7. Marginalized Peoples Finish reading Part III. In your composition books: �What cultural elements are present in this section? �Which cultural elements are familiar to the protagonist? Which are alien? �What is the significance of the cultural elements you identified? �What is the significance of the protagonist making an origami creature for the little boy?

SB 4. 8. Choosing a Perspective �Read the first 9 pages of Part IV (stop with the full page view of the assembly line). �In your composition books: �Which critical perspective (Cultural, Historical, Feminist, Marxist, or Archetypal) could you apply to these pages?

SB 4. 8. Choosing a Perspective �On the assembly line, the protagonist meets an elderly man who shares a narrative about going off to war. �While you read the old man’s narrative, try to visualize the narrative as a film. In your composition books: �What diegetic sounds would appear on the soundtrack? �What non-diegetic sounds would you add? �Note the frames in which these diegetic and non-diegetic sounds would appear.

SB 4. 8. Choosing a Perspective �In your composition books: �Which critical perspective (Cultural, Historical, Feminist, Marxist, or Archetypal) would best apply to the old man’s narrative? Explain your answer.

SB 4. 8. Choosing a Perspective �Finish reading Part IV. �In your composition books: � Which critical perspective (Cultural, Historical, Feminist, Marxist, or Archetypal) could you apply to these pages?