Monday 26 November 2012

Time and Distance Overcome

1. Post your notes on genre, themes and main points
2. Post the quotes and ideas that, in your view, exemplify the significance of the composition of the text.
3. Post quotes and ideas on the intention of the essay.
If you have questions, ideas or comments, you may also post them here for your classmates to comment on.

19 comments:

  1. 1. Genre: Essay
    2. What and who is it about?:
    Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, telephone poles and the war of these - Afro-Americans and racism/lynching
    3. Main Points?:
    Telephone poles have been the center of much bad throughout time - Telephone war, lynching, breaking the back of narrator’s grandpa etc. Afro-Americans have been through a lot throughout the years.
    4. Intention: Showing how much hatred and racism was going on against Afro-Americans back then (maybe still) and tlf-poles were used as gallows and other instruments for executions.
    Theme: Racism, fear of the foreign, the evil in man, hatred.

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  2. 1) One of the themes, to this story, may be development and the fact that people dont like changes. And it dosent matter if the changes are good or bad for the people. you can also look and compare telephone poles versus black people. they chop down telephone poles, because they dont want them, but they need them, so they stay, and they multiply. The same with the black people, they dont like down and wanna kill them, but they need them in their country, so they will keep them, and they will multiply. the point is, you cant stop changes and you cant stop people and science for evolving.

    Mikael/kristian

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  3. Genre: Essay. We can see this because there is no plot, yet there is use of metaphors and wordplay. The title, structure and composition leads to interpretation.

    Themes and points: The history of the telephone, the history of the persecution of black people in America, and lynchings specifically. Sinning, repentance, forgiveness.

    Quotes that exemplify the significance of the composition of the text:
    (From the first section:) "Imagine the mind that could imagine this. That could see us all connected through one branching cable."
    (From the second section:) "The poles, of course, were not to blame. It was only coincidence that they became convenient as gallows ..."
    (From the third section:) "But nothing, I would like to think, remains unrepentant. One summer, heavy rains fell in Nebraska and some green telephone poles grew small leafy branches."

    Ideas:

    The structure signifies a descend from "Eden" into sin - and ultimately to repentance and forgiveness (in example: the poles that, after time and distance has been overcome, grow small leafy branches).

    And so the title is, in a way, a key to the meaning and intention of the essay: that of forgiveness. Time heals all wounds.

    By: Bastian and Samuel

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  4. 2)
    Looking for contrast from the first part to the third part, there is a positive ideal about bringing people together in the beginning whereas the opposite of being evil in the third part takes place.

    Alexander, René og Tharsan

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