Questions to think about...
Smirnoff "Declaration of Intent" from Oxford American issue 1
Chuck Reece "We Are Bitter" from The Bitter Southerner
1.According to Declaration of Intent, why the writers were forced to send their works Eastward?
2. Oxford American called themselves dirt poor but spirited, what things make them special?
3. The Deep South video shows varies kinds of lives in South Area, such as Kentucky, Georgia and Florida, why the boundary line between North and South is the South of Pennsylvania?
Cobb Away Down South "Cavalier and Yankee"
Hobson Tell About the South Prologue
Ayers "What We Talk About When We Talk About the South"
1. Since slavery makes the planter lazy and tempting him to immoral behaviour, why does slavery permitted through out the Southern states during the history?
2. What are several factors that result in a situation where a male slave tend to have female characters?
Cobb Away Down South "The South Becomes a Cause"
1. While the South and the Northeast had some notable similarities in 1800, what made them become different and the latter become significantly more urban and industrial?
2. I don’t quite understand what Jefferson Davis means when he says “we may not hope to see the rebuilding of the temple as our fathers designed it…we can live on praying for that event and die with our eyes fixed on the promised land.”?
Gone with the Wind
1. Through three marriages of heroine Scarlett, what does the author want to show about her value and what does she really want?
2. Why named the movie "Gone with the wind"? Is there a connotation of the title?
Faulkner As I Lay Dying
1. What does William Faulkner want to show by describing the environment when Jewel and I are on the way to the house?
2. By saying the wealthy people who ordered the cake and did not buy it, does the author want to say that wealthy people in the South usually don't keep their words?
3. Why did Darl regarded Jewel's mom as a horse and Vardaman regarded her mom as a fish?
4. Why did the father keep saying "It ain't right"? What did he mean?
5. Why did the river looks peaceful even if Jewel and Vernon were back into the river?
6. Cash said it was not n a balance in Chapter 38, what is the thing?
7. How is that only Pa had a comparatively "good ending" relates to Southern characteristics?
8. Is the story better to be regarded as a comedy or a tragedy?
Smirnoff "G&G Me with a Buccellati Silver Spoon"
1. How do Garden and Guns relate to Southern lifestyle: unapologetic?
2. It is said that the photographs are beautiful, instead of farmland as necessity, it was farmland as fantasy, but what does the real life look like?
Blount Long Time Leaving
1. Why active voice is always better than passive voice?
2. Would it be better if the writer use more complex words throughout the essay rather than simple words?
Chuck Reece "We Are Bitter" from The Bitter Southerner
1.According to Declaration of Intent, why the writers were forced to send their works Eastward?
2. Oxford American called themselves dirt poor but spirited, what things make them special?
3. The Deep South video shows varies kinds of lives in South Area, such as Kentucky, Georgia and Florida, why the boundary line between North and South is the South of Pennsylvania?
Cobb Away Down South "Cavalier and Yankee"
Hobson Tell About the South Prologue
Ayers "What We Talk About When We Talk About the South"
1. Since slavery makes the planter lazy and tempting him to immoral behaviour, why does slavery permitted through out the Southern states during the history?
2. What are several factors that result in a situation where a male slave tend to have female characters?
Cobb Away Down South "The South Becomes a Cause"
1. While the South and the Northeast had some notable similarities in 1800, what made them become different and the latter become significantly more urban and industrial?
2. I don’t quite understand what Jefferson Davis means when he says “we may not hope to see the rebuilding of the temple as our fathers designed it…we can live on praying for that event and die with our eyes fixed on the promised land.”?
Gone with the Wind
1. Through three marriages of heroine Scarlett, what does the author want to show about her value and what does she really want?
2. Why named the movie "Gone with the wind"? Is there a connotation of the title?
Faulkner As I Lay Dying
1. What does William Faulkner want to show by describing the environment when Jewel and I are on the way to the house?
2. By saying the wealthy people who ordered the cake and did not buy it, does the author want to say that wealthy people in the South usually don't keep their words?
3. Why did Darl regarded Jewel's mom as a horse and Vardaman regarded her mom as a fish?
4. Why did the father keep saying "It ain't right"? What did he mean?
5. Why did the river looks peaceful even if Jewel and Vernon were back into the river?
6. Cash said it was not n a balance in Chapter 38, what is the thing?
7. How is that only Pa had a comparatively "good ending" relates to Southern characteristics?
8. Is the story better to be regarded as a comedy or a tragedy?
Smirnoff "G&G Me with a Buccellati Silver Spoon"
1. How do Garden and Guns relate to Southern lifestyle: unapologetic?
2. It is said that the photographs are beautiful, instead of farmland as necessity, it was farmland as fantasy, but what does the real life look like?
Blount Long Time Leaving
1. Why active voice is always better than passive voice?
2. Would it be better if the writer use more complex words throughout the essay rather than simple words?