by mroybal m 9 years ago
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Anderson is beginning to develop the theme of stupidity here because we see two characters--Marty and Loga--acting not so intelligently. In the opening pages of a novel, if an author reveals that one of his characters doesn't understand basic biology, and we hear another character speak "valley talk," we need to pay attention. This is the beginning--the exposition of the novel--and Anderson is letting us know right way what his characters are like--stupid.
Theme of stupidity
This is evidence of characterization because we clearly see Marty, Loga, and Link as different and unique. We see that Link understands the criteria for an organ--he's smarter than Marty. Marty, on the other hand, is shown to be pretty stupid because he doesn't understand the basic criteria for life, nor what the criteria for an organ. We also see Loga being characterized as kind of stupid by the way she talks. She uses "like" three times in two sentences, although we get the sense that she at least understands Marty's stupidity.
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"Dude," Link said. "Your face is not an organ." "It is, too!" Marty said. "It's alive!" "Like, oh my god," Loga complained. "Is there like enough air in here? Are you like dying some kind of neuron death?"
Characterization
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Another way this reveals the character with the conflict would be because it shows that spending all those years in prison got him some education and that the money didn't mean anything to him because prison made him realize you aren't anything unless your alive.
This is evidence because it shows that even though he had this bet that he didn't even want the money and that even though if your big in life and stuff that if you die all that's going to go away.
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"And I despise your books, despise all worldly blessings and wisdom. Everything is void, frail, visionary and delusive as a mirage. Though you be proud and wise and beautiful, yet will death wipe you from the face of the earth like the mice underground; and you posterity, your history, and the immortality of your men of genius will be as frozen slag, burnt down together the terrestrial globe."
Another reason that's evidence is because it shows that the banker wants to be right too believe that both of the situations were equal and that he doesn't care about his money.
This is evidence because the bet which is the conflict is making the banker have second thoughts and that means he likes to think things through.
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And now the banker, pacing from corner to corner, recalled all this and asked himself: "Why did i make this bet? What's the good" The lawyer loses fifteen years of his life and I throw away two millions.Will it ocnvince people that capital punishment is worse or better than imprisonment for life? No, no! all stuff and rubbish. On my part, it was the caprice of a wellfed man; on the lawyer's, pure greed of gold."
Discuss: How was the Minor device used by your author to develop this Major Device.
Another reason this is evidence is because it shows that the lawyer would rather live even though he didn't have as much freedom, what that means is that he values life.
What is your Major device?
Conflict
Provide a warrant for your evidence above...Why is your quote evidence of your minor literary device?
This is evidence with the thesis because the conflict is the argument that the lawyer and the banker are having that leads to the lawyer making the bet of imprisonment.
Provide evidence from the text as proof of this minor device.
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"Capital punishment and life imprisonment are equally immoral; but if I were offered the choice between them, I would certainly choose the second. Its better to live somehow than not to live at all."
What is your Minor device?
Character
