prompt #1 old leisure lost/gone, place in new society, author's views on and stylistic devices (George Eliot)
- new leisure created by machines meaning there's time free from manual labor
- leisure now is too fast paced and everyone always has to be doing something of importance
- old leisure is calm, peaceful, content with not knowing everything
- Old Leisure is personified into a man
- she admires Old Leisure
- scoffs at her time's "leisure" activities
- metaphors
- tone- easy&reminiscent w/old and frantic&upset w/new
prompt #2 attitudes/traditions author wanted to modify, analyze techniques used to influence audience's views (Grapes of Wrath)
- judging what you don't know; fear of the unknown
- the Joad family received a lot of criticism and was treated poorly for just being outsiders when they did nothing wrong
- humans can tend to push away others in need because they don't want to be responsible
- the constant struggle of the Joads leads to sympathy from the reader- feeling, pathos
- protagonist gets the short end of the stick, a perspective where nothing is sugarcoated
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