Dear Scholars,
Today I can really begin to call you scholars because several of you read The Bluest Eye closely and offered interpretations of the text in class which may or not be accurate, but showed a new awareness of reading into "what a writer writes" and what he or she is trying "to achieve." This is the stuff of LITERARY ANALYSIS. It is what English majors truly enjoy in seminar discussions in class and what doctoral candidates and professors write books about in college.
Maybe some of you will understand that so many things in a literary text are very deliberate--symbols, names, settings, language, style, dialogue, characterization, etc.--all those literary elements that a writer employs to create LITERARY ART. Like painters, sculptors, musicians, actors,dancers, and other artists, writers use a craft with various techniques to try to achieve their artistic goals.
There are ways to talk about these things. That's what you're learning--a lot of jargon, technical terms, etc.
Still, nothing can replace your insight as a reader whatever literary approach you begin to favor.
Uh, oh, is Ms. Gamzon about to introduce LITERARY THEORY!
Yes. Hang on, because here it comes.
https://rak12ela11.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Bluest+Eye+Intro.ppt
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