Discussion Forum 3
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Hemingway/Setting
Initial Post: 200-300 words by Wednesday
In this discussion you will examine the role that setting plays in Hemingway’s short story ″Hills Like White Elephants.″ Discuss the location of the story and how you feel both characters react and respond to the setting. How does it make them feel uncomfortable, and how does it reflect something of the situation in which they find themselves? Also, consider how another setting might have altered the story. How would these characters have interacted in a seaside town, for example? How about if they were sitting at an outside café in a busy city?
Posts 2-3: Minimum 200 words total for each response (due Friday)
In response to the posts of classmates, provide feedback on setting as it is presented in Hemingway’s short story and how the classmate feels an alternative setting would alter the story. How do you feel this new location would alter the story? How would this new location have altered your reading of the story, including your perception of the characters?
Course Objective 2: Identify traditional techniques and rhetorical devices in writing that may include fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction
Module objective 1: Student will identify setting and its implications in ″Hills Like White Elephants″
Module objective 2: Student will apply setting to analysis of the story in ″Hills Like White Elephants″
Course Objective 3: Use critical reading and writing to analyze literature, infer meanings, and identify messages that are explicit and implicit
Module objective 1: Student will consider how setting could alter a story’s meaning in initial discussion post
Course Objective 11: Create and develop written products using appropriate technologies
Module objective 1: Student will illustrate a consistent understanding of writing and submitting in required formats (Word, discussion forum, dropbox)
Course Objective 14: Use conventions of grammar and punctuation effectively
Module objective 1: Student will proofread to reflect a working understanding of grammar and punctuation
