More on A Raisin on the Sun

American Dream Ted Talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/courtney_martin_the_new_american_dream

Background Info on the play:

http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/lorraine-hansberrys-a-raisin-in-the-sun

https://theundefeated.com/features/new-documentary-lorraine-hansberry-of-a-raisin-in-the-sun-one-tough-minded-woman/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/05/09/playwright

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/lorraine-hansberry-review-superb-portrait-of-important-playwright-activist-1.16239285

Hansberry on Writing the Play:

https://nj.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hans17-ela-writing/lorraine-hansberry-a-raisin-in-the-sun-hansberrys-writing-process/#.WoGoha6nG70

A Raisin in the Sun

Link to "Harlem" poem:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem

Below are links that would function as strong outside sources:

http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/araisininthesun/historicalcontext.html

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/36902365/somewhat-like-war-aesthetics-segregation-black-liberation-and-raisin-sunhttp://lifeofannekathrin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/race-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun.pdf

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=45950

http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=62331

You can look through these links to see if any may be useful for your paper:

https://www.google.com/#q=a+raisin+in+the+sun+scholarly+articles

this link will explain how to quote and cite a play in your paper:
http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=1751573

American Dream:

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/raisin-sun-quest-american-dream

https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/articles/A-Raisin-in-the-Sun/A-Dream-Realized-Hansberrys-iA-Raisin-In-The-Suni/

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/12/10/many-feel-the-american-dream-is-out-of-reach-poll-shows/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0&referrer


Women in the play:

http://www.academypublication.com/issues/past/tpls/vol01/10/04.pdf

http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=undergrad_rev

Some Important Quotes from the play:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/blog/eight-haunting-quotes-raisin-sun/

Background Info on the play:

http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/lorraine-hansberrys-a-raisin-in-the-sun

https://theundefeated.com/features/new-documentary-lorraine-hansberry-of-a-raisin-in-the-sun-one-tough-minded-woman/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/05/09/playwright

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/lorraine-hansberry-review-superb-portrait-of-important-playwright-activist-1.16239285

Hansberry on Writing the Play:

https://nj.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hans17-ela-writing/lorraine-hansberry-a-raisin-in-the-sun-hansberrys-writing-process/#.WoGoha6nG70

Beasts of the Southern Wild

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/what-beasts-of-the-southern-wild-really-says/261228/

https://academic.oup.com/isle/article/25/3/603/5106400

https://beastsofthesouthernwild.com/news/lessons-learned


https://ransomfellowship.org/movie-comment-beasts-of-the-southern-wild-2012/


https://www.patheos.com/blogs/schaeffersghost/2013/02/what-are-the-beasts-of-the-southern-wild/

Salvage the Bones Sources

Videos form Class:

https://www.voa.org/hurricane-katrina-the-aftermath-and-recovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc72DrF5Kx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HPT5PuHtqg


Salvage the Bones Sources

https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2011-dec-04-la-ca-jesmyn-ward-20111204-story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/11/salvage-bones-jesmyn-ward-review

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/jesmyn-wards-haunted-novel-of-the-gulf-coast

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/08/30/jesmyn-ward-on-salvage-the-bones/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=143141874

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/jesmyn-ward/

https://apublicspace.org/news/detail/reading-jesmyn-wards-salvage-the-bones

More on The Great Gatsby

This links provide many articles and resources for The Great Gatsby:

http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/great_gatsby_resources.htm

http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/resources/critical-materials.html

Some more helpful links: 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/10/great-gatsby-fitzgerald-jay-mcinerney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/achenblog/wp/2015/03/20/why-the-great-gatsby-is-the-great-american-novel/?utm_term=.d4153c7d759f

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-great-gatsby-f-scott-fitzgerald-hl-mencken-20141010-story.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karielle-stephanie-gam/the-great-gatsby-analysis_b_3430967.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/to-early-reviewers-the-great-gatsby-was-not-so-great/390252/



1) In Defense of The Great Gatsby

2) Do Americans Get Second Chances

3) Gatsby's Green Light a New Set of Strivers

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text.

Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:
 “ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1).

“”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22).

”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48).

“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (60).

Trump and The Great Gatsby:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/how-the-great-gatsby-explains-trump/562673/

Article from class today on the green light:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/education/17gatsby.html?referrer=&_r=1

and one on the American Dream:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-usa-land-of-limitations.html?referrer=&_r=1

This article is about Jay Gatsby as a dreamer:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/jesmyn-ward-great-gatsby.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below


This link discusses some random facts about the novel and the writer:

http://gothamist.com/2013/05/07/gatsby_facts.php

The Wire breaks down The Great Gatsby (There is some strong language here):

http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ithe_wirei_breaks_down_ithe_great_gatsbyi_f_scott_fitzgeralds_classic_criticism_of_america_nsfw.html

Footage of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/rare_footage_of_scott_and_zelda_fitzgerald_from_the_1920s.html

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/THE GREAT GATSBY

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=the%20great%20gatsby

Race and The Great Gatsby:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/rise-of-the-colored-empires/276844/

https://www.uscupstate.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Research/Reseach_Journal/006_ARTICLE5_2009.pdf

http://flavorwire.com/391193/the-complicated-and-troubling-role-of-race-and-class-in-baz-luhrmanns-Gatsby

https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/why-i-believe-that-jay-gatsby-was-black/153166.article

"Babylon Revisited"

Here is the link for "Babylon Revisited"


Read this for next Monday:

http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html


Outside sources for "Babylon Revisited":

Outside Sources for "Babylon Revisited"

Link to the story:

http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html

Outside Sources:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00144940.1990.9934031

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-0773-3_8?LI=true

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8289335/Babylon-Revisited-When-the-money-runs-out.html

http://iws2.collin.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesbabylon.htm

http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/f-scott-fitzgeralds-babylon-revisited-and-the-lost-decade-damaged-men-and-fractured-pasts/

https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/bruce.brogdon/engl1301/oral-reports/short-story-criticism/babylon-revisited-a-story-of-the-exiles-return/view

http://kb.gcsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=thecorinthian

http://libguides.fau.edu/c.php?g=325462&p=2181967

Themes found in the story:

• Facing the consequences of one’s actions
• The struggle to change

Symbols found in the story:

• Honoria’s doll
• Snow

This link has some background information and criticism of the story (there is a lot of info here that could be used if you choose to write your first essay about this story):

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tdlarson/fsf/babylon/chap_3.htm

In the next two weeks we will discuss The Great Gatsby which “Babylon Revisited” shares many themes and issues with. Here is a short description of how they are similar:

“Babylon Revisited”: Similarity to The Great Gatsby
In both works, the main character is trying to create a new identity. In the case of Jay Gatsby, he has reinvented himself by a name change and by becoming rich through criminal acts to win Daisy. In Charlie’s instance, he has made a serious effort to reform to gain custody of Honoria.

Both The Great Gatsby and “Babylon Revisited” are also statements about the twenties, the pursuit of wealth and careless living of that generation. Gatsby’s pursuit of wealth, hoping it will bring him happiness and fulfillment, is the embodiment of the American Dream gone wrong. “Babylon Revisited” makes a statement not only about Charlie’s his personal dilemma but the irresponsible seeking of pleasure that was characteristic of the post-war Roaring Twenties generation.

From: http://vickie-britton.suite101.com/babylon-revisited-summary-and-analysis-a204727

NYTimes article:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/specials/fitzgerald-taps.html

America and Second Chances:
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/09/19/history/post-perspective/f-scott-fitzgerald.html

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/07/13/president-obama-announces-46-commutations-video-address-america-nation-second-chance

http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/31/america-really-believe-second-chances/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-second-chances-for-elites-only-perspec-1196-20141105-story.html