Summary of The American Dream

The American Dream is a play written by Edward Albee set in the 1960s. The play would fall under the category of absurd theater in many ways. His tone would come off as sarcastic and very repetitious.

The characters of the play The American dream are all very different. There is Mommy who we see as the power or head of the family and Daddy who has been emasculated and Grandma who gives off a feminine and a masculine charm and Mrs. Barker who is a proper lady standing for more then what she really is and finally the Young Man who is the American dream. Each character very different but playing a role in the theme emasculation.

There is one part of the play that really stood out to me as being important. When Grandma is telling Mrs. Barker about the bumble that Mommy and Daddy used to have,

“GRANDMA: Then it turned out it only had eyes for Daddy. MRS. BARKER: For its Daddy! Why, any self-respecting woman would have gouged those eyes right out of its head. GRANDMA: Well, she did. That's exactly what she did.” This quote is talking about the bumble having liking Daddy instead of who most little boys like, Mommy. This quote also refers to how that action and those feelings are unacceptable for the bumble to feel.

Close Reading Number 2

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/21/sen-graham-calls-admin-handling-libya-case-study-in-failure/

Rep. Rogers calls latest Libya intel disclosures ‘orchestrated defense’ of administration


In this article the author uses a lot of diction that would lead you to believe that what Rogers has said is true. They call it the "deadly attack" and then leading you to believe it was brought on by our own administration.
The article includes details that would make the reader appauled that the administration would do such a thing. Like that 3 other US citizens were killed along with the ambassador Stevens.
The language on this post is very informative. Even though the author wants you to be on the side of Rogers that would fall under diction. Everything he is saying is very detail oriented and informative> the author is just telling the reader facts so that you will choose his side.

Prompt 2

1970 Also. Choose a work of recognized literary merit in which a specific inanimate object (e.g., a seashell, a handkerchief, a painting) is important, and write an essay in which you show how two or three of the purposes the object serves are related to one another.

In the book The Picture of Dorian Gray the pictures purpose is to take responsibility for his actions and to show how his inner self. By taking responsibility for his actions there are no repercussions so he does what ever he wants. While he does what ever he wants his uglier self is shown in his painting, showing his dark side to the world.

The two purposes of the picture, to show his inner self and to take responsibility for Dorians actions are closely related because they both change the painting itself. The painting becomes more evil as he does representing his soul. While it takes responsibility for his actions by not letting any of the age show on his own face but appear in the painting. 

Response to course materials #2

In class we learned a lot about humor. I thought that being funny was something you were born with but it looks like you can plan it. and apparently there are many forms of it... who knew! But the one that struck me was the theater of the absurd. When we read the play The American Dream it was really confusing to me because there seemed to be no plot. Then I understood what theater of the absurd was, it was really well absurd.
The in class essay structure we did on the prompt really scared me to be honest. If thats on the AP exam count me out!  I am totally not prepared for that. I'm going to have to work on that a lot.We went through it all so fast and it seemed really complicated. But I guess with enough practice i might be able to do it! I'm not sure yet thought,
The literary movements were kind of fascinating. seeing what people were inspired by at specific times in our history. All of the themes and heros of the writing went along with the time period. Or maybe the time period went along with the writing? Who knows.
Emily Mackson