AGENDA:
http://learn.lexiconic.net/characters.htm
https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Realistic-Fiction-Character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtin70TxRvM
READ AND ANNOTATE JOYCE CAROL OATES PREFACE. POST A COMMENT IN RESPONSE TO HER ESSAY.
GHOST GIRLS: What are some of the ways Oates characterizes Ingrid in "Ghost Girls"? Post comment referring to the text.
Writing: Continue to work on synaesthesia/deja vu exercise.
If you have done this exercise, choose either exercise 12 or 14 to work on today--characterization!
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Joyce Carol Oates' essay is about why people write. It's a question I've seen asked and answered dozens of times and generally get the same result each time. She mainly talks about the Ego and how writers want to nurture and cultivate that by creating a world in which we have control over. She says that art is a dream in which the artist controls. Lastly she says that writing is a pretty cathartic thing to do, which I think is pretty accurate.
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ, the question "Why do you write?" is now somehow an attack? This Oates chick goes way overboard in analyzing how people are using the question to "suggest their superiority" or "suggest the writer's inability to cope with the real world". Nine times out of ten, they're asking a damn question!
ReplyDeleteHer focus on writing is centered on appeasing her ego by giving it a full world to control. I could expand on that a bit, but Kaneil summed it up well above. (She cites Freud, too.) Oates goes on, saying that writers must feel to write, and that they must write to feel. It would've been better if she had phrased it the way I just did, but I guess she didn't think of it. Oh well.
The essay by Joyce Carol Oates speaks about the reason she writes. Every writer gets asked this question and they all answer differently. Most writers say they want to express themselves. Oates confirms that by stating that a writer writes by expressing what they feel because they want to communicate their feelings. Oates speaks about always being asked that question. She explains how writing allows her imagination to flow. Oates states that writing is a form of art. Writing allows the writer to seek the meaning of life. If you are a writer, you will feel it when you look at nature and your 'deepest self is pleased by it.'
ReplyDeleteJoyce Carol Oates ask about why people write, she focuses on the aspect of the Ego of the writer as well as posing an idea of subjectivity or scrutiny of people being asked the aforementioned question. However, the common question usually falls back to the generic answer "To Express ones self" though, Oates also believes the art of writing is also an existential search.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of over "why I write" responses, most writers seem to have the same basic ideas over and over. I've never read one of these and been shocked and surprised at some new and amazing insight a writer has given me. Joyce Carol Oats brings in psychology which I suppose is unique, talking a lot about Freud, briefly mentioning Gestalt. I think the issue is that writers know that this "why I write" is asked all the time and we've all read it a million times so they end up trying to hard to be different.
ReplyDeleteOkay, let's talk about the whole "why we write" question. The thing is I could most likely get away with not even reading Joyce Carol Oates essay and still have had a conversation as though as I did. This being because every writer always seems to say the same thing just worded different. The only difference is what they "focus" on for lack of a better word. Good ol Joyce decides to focus on the ego.
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ReplyDeleteOates characterizes Ingrid by her traits. In the beginning of the story, Ingrid seems to be talking about a memory that she had at the age of five. Oates describes Ingrid as young, but very intelligent for her age. Since Ingrid is smart, she is aware to distinguish and understand the situation that is going on. Oates use dialogue characterization to show how Ingrid's father speaks to her, like 'Birdie.' Oates describes Ingrid as grabbing on to her mother and crying with fear at certain times. Oates also portray Ingrid's innocence towards the end of the story, when Ingrid starts talking with the Ghost Girls. Oates shows her curious child-like side as Ingrid overhears her parents conversations. Ingrid observes everything. Since she is always with her mom, she is able to understand her mom without her mom telling her how she feels. Ingrid is a young child, but her curiosity allows her to maturely understand everything going on around her.
Extenuating Circumstances
Joyce Carol Oates characterizes the main character of the story. The main character is the speaker. Oates shows how the main character is a mother and is suffering out of self love from circumstances from a love partner. Oates allows the speaker to tell her motherly duties and how overwhelming it was at times. Her partner did not want her to have the child. She was confused and afraid of her responsibilities. The main character wants to give up. She decides ending the story the way she started it, which was hoping for mercy in this bad deed that she committed.
Joyce Carol Oats speaks for all artists when it comes to people asking her "why do you write?". It's redundant and probably not as complex as others make it out to be. She also mentions how people should write of their true subjects and one will know what that is when they see them selves writing easily and they can't seem to stop. That is true. If you write about something that you truly like then you'll enjoy it and it will be authentic and the reader will be able to tell.
ReplyDeleteIn ''Ghost Girls'' Ingrid is portrayed as one of those children who constantly know what's going on. Ingrid knows when things aren't going well, and she realizes that her mother isn't okay. Ingrid is young but quite intelligent for her age. Oftentimes we come across children like this and this can lead to negative outcomes in their future. They aren't as naive, they're aware. This means that they're exposed to such circumstances that result in their innocence being taken away from them. This happens to children now, Ingrid for example. It's not okay for kids to know too much then because once that innocence is demolished they can be miserable. That depends on the type of approach they take when it comes to certain things though. Innocence is a beauty that should be preserved in children. Ingrid's a curious child and Oates does a good job at showing this. When one reads this it's easy to distinguish how she's different from the other people in the story. Though she is mature, she's not so mature that you can't tell her apart from the others. She's mature in a child-like manner.
ReplyDeleteJoyce Carol Oates brings up the question that all the writers are asked at sometime in their life, "why do you write?" Everyone has their reason for why they write, but they aren't unique. they either write to make up their own world, pour their feelings out or confess something they couldn't say aloud. In "Extenuating Circumstances," Oates begins every sentence with "because." It characterizes the woman, which is the main character of the story and tells the story in a different way. She is now a single mother struggling to take care of her son. She is not really prepared to do this alone and is scared of what is coming next in her life. She is worried that she will fail and wants it to end.
ReplyDeleteOates emphasizes the idea of writing as a way to seek out the hidden meanings of life. I can relate to this. I recall the first time I ever felt like something I wrote was worthwhile, sixth grade. It got recognition by my teachers and that had been the moment they realized that I could write, that I had potential; that I had the ability to write something that could change the way people view certain things. I never took a second to really reflect on the reason why I write, this has always been something that has been far from my train of thought. I realize now that I write because if there aren't people who are writing about things, about everything, then how else are we supposed to affect the world around us if not by writing. I write because writing enables me to look deep within myself, to really explore through my imagination, my feelings, and my many questions about life that are yet to be answered.I tend to analyze things a lot deeper now that I have really engulfed myself in this world of creative writing. I write because I have discovered that by doing so I can find out so many things about myself and others that I never would've known if I hadn't begun writing in the first place. Writing has made me discover that my mind has the most complex and bizarre thoughts, ones that I want people to know about through the ability I have attained over the years. Sure, anyone can say they write because they enjoy it but I don't think that's true. If you really can't find the words to describe why you write then I wonder if you really do enjoy it. I write because I want to introspect. If I hadn't started writing I never would've realized half of the things that go on around me. Writing makes you reflect upon all of the experiences you go through. I know about what I went through, about how it changed me, and about how it will continue to change me because I write.
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ReplyDeleteThere is strong characterization of Ingrid in "Ghost Girls". When someone reads this it's easy to distinguish how she's different from the other people in the story. Though she is mature, she's not so mature that you can't tell her apart from the others. She is mature while still acting like a child.Oates shows her curious child-like side as Ingrid overhears her parents conversations. Ingrid observes everything. Since she is always with her mom, she is able to understand her mom without her mom telling her how she feels.
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
The main character wants to give up. It characterizes the woman, which is the main character of the story and tells the story in a different way. She is now a single mother struggling to take care of her son. She is not really prepared to do this alone and is scared of what is coming next in her life.She decides ending the story the way she started it, which was hoping for mercy in this bad deed that she committed. It's a nice story loop beginning and ending the same.
JOYCE CAROL OATES/ON WRITING
Joyce Carol Oates speaks about the reason she writes. Every writer gets asked this question and they all answer differently. Most writers say they want to express themselves. This question is asked too often specifically to writers and Oates response isn't different from others in that she looks at the creative and mental aspect from the writers point of view to answer the question.
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