Does anyone have English 11A in Connexus? I'm seriously so stuck on the final essay questions.

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igreen · Answer

What's the question?

anonymous · Answer

It has to do with the stories we read in semester A. 
In her essay “Writing Short Stories”, Flannery O’Connor says this about characterization:
	“You can’t cut characters off from their society and say much about them as individuals.”
AND
	“You can’t say anything meaningful about the mystery of personality unless you put that personality in a believable and significant social context.”
Consider the quotation above. Then pick a story from semester A and evaluate how the social context and the characters work together not only to provide a vivid setting, but also to help explain and develop the characters thoughts’, words, and actions.

igreen · Answer

Okay..that doesn't look like a question though..what is the question?

anonymous · Answer

That is the question. It says at the bottom pick a story from semester A and evaluate it the social context and all that and then I write a paragraph about it.

igreen · Answer

And where are you stuck..?

igreen · Answer

Social context is like the influence people have..

Here's a definition:

Social context is the indirect and direct influence individuals are in constant communication and within Involvement of by means as role player or participants.

anonymous · Answer

I don't know how to relate it to the stories. I know what social context is.

lockejames · Answer

O'Connor's neglect of the "Purple Elephant Theory of Literature" which is based around the idea that people are like purple elephants--and are thus
unique individuals and can be stipped of their social context.  However, being social creatures, social context is important--because context is key.
Context lets people know where their circumstances are, what influences that they may have, and such other things like that.
IT is important to note that though O'Connor says this, her own works sometimes strip characters of their social context and put them in situations
which are unconforatble for them, and to which they do not belong.  This is interesting, as Flannery does this against her own suggestion.