AP+CARDS

__All Quiet On The Western Front__, Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 Paul Baumer; Stanislaus Katczinsky; Albert Kropp; Muller; Tjaden; Kantorek; Corporal Himmelstoss; Franz Kemmerich; Joseph Behm; Detering; Gérard Duval; Mittelstaedt The location of the novel takes place in the German/France Front. The Front is the front line is where the German soldiers fight to hold off England. Paul recalls his schoolmaster, Kantorek, of when they were at school and how he convinced his students to join the army because it was their patriotic duty. Joining the war was terrible idea and this caused Paul and his friends to not be able to trust other adults; Paul is trying to get help for Kemmerich but the doctors do not bother to help because other patients need more help and he would be dying anyway; Trjaden remembers the time in his training when Corporal Himmelstoss was trying to help his bed wetting problem. Trjaden was never able to forgive him and held a grudge on his forever; While laying barbed wire on the front Second Company is being bombarded by the English. Paul and Kat notices a soldier who is severely wounded and would not be able to live and have to endure a horrible pain until he dies, Paul and Kat decides to kill the soldier to give him a painless death; Paul is at a training camp and is located next to a prison camp. Paul befriends some Russian prisoners and realizes that they are just as human as him; Paul volunteers to the enemy lines to gain information. He is being attacked and hides in a shell hole. Another enemy soldier goes into the same hole and Paul quickly stabs him. Paul becomes traumatized because he realizes that soldiers don’t fight because they hate each other but fight because they are fighting for their survival. “One operation after another since five o’clock this morning. You know, to-day alone there have been sixteen deaths – yours is the seventeenth. There will probably be twenty altogether” (32); “The others jest too, unpleasant jests, but else can a man do? The coffins are really for us. The organization surpasses itself in that kind of thing.”(100); “I will write to your wife, I will write to her, she must hear it from me, I will tell her everything I have told you, she shall not suffer, I will help her, and your parents too, and your child.” (224) World War I started in 1917. Germany was one of the major nations in the Central. After the war, Germany was blamed for the war and forced to pay reparations for the damages to Britain and England. During this time Germany used propaganda to convince teenagers to join the military. However when the soldiers joined they hated the fighting. They did not believe that the fighting was necessary and that wars would only promote the leaders of the nations, not the soldiers. The soldiers only fought because their lives were on the line, not because they truly hated who they were fighting.
 * Characters:**
 * Location**:
 * Major Scenes:**
 * Quote:**
 * Social/Political/Philosophical Agenda:**
 * Critical Problem:**

//The Once and Future King// T.H White 1958 King Arthur, Lancelot, Merlyn, Guenever, Mordred,Elaine, Galahad, Gareth, Gawaine, King Pellinore, Sir Kay, Sir Ector, Morgan le Fay This story took place in Medieval England and France. This story also took during the time of the legendary King Arthur.
 * Characters:**
 * Location**:

=

 * Major Scenes:** The Wart discovers a cottage and an old man named Merlyn. Merlyn tells the Wart that he is a magician who lives backward in time and that he will be the Wart’s new tutor. Merlyn turns the Wart into a merlin, a kind of hunting bird, and puts the Wart in the Mews with the other birds for the night. The Wart pulls the sword from the stone with ease. The Wart brings the sword back to Kay and is accepted as king after repeatedly putting the sword into the anvil and drawing it back out again.======

=
“We have to take note of the parentage of Arthur’s son Mordred, and to remember … that the king had slept with his own sister. He did not know he was doing so … but it seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.”(312)======

=
A narrator is used to both tell the story of King Arthur and explain the plot to the reader. //The Once and Future Kings// is written in one book divided into four books. The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, The Candle in the Wind. The book uses a lot of symbolism throughout the story, like The Questing Beast, The Round Table, and The Holy Grail.======

=
//The Once and Future King// shows the creation of The Round Table. The Round Table was made because King Arthur believed that all his knights are equal. The Round Table also created a brotherhood between the knights, as they all were very close to each other. Lancelot however broke this trust when he had an affair with King Arthur’s wife. Lancelot and Arthur eventually waged war against each other and this affair causes the downfall of Camelot.======

=
This book was written in 1939 by T.H White. T.H White’s used the system of hierarchy. The hierarchy had a two rules that states no element had power over the same element and only one element was in charge of everyone else and that was the hierarch or “leader of sacred rites”. Ex: The Round Table, King Arthur said that he created The Round Table so that one knight would not have power over another. During this time Chivalry was a major deal in England. Everyone wanted to be a knight and have a chance to participate in the tournaments that were held.======

THE JOY-LUCK CLUB
SUMMARY: Jing-mei (June) Woo, Suyuan Woo, Canning Woo, Wang Chwun YuWang, Chwun Hwa Chwun, Lindo Jong Waverly Jong, Tin Jong, Vincent Jong, Marvin Chen, Rich Schields, An-mei Hsu, Rose Hsu, Ying-ying St. Clair, Lena St. Clair, Clifford St. Clair, Harold Livotny For the mothers, their childhood took place in China; the daughters grow up into San Francisco when their mothers moved from China to America; Jing-Mei Woo is asked by her father to take over her late mother’s place at the Joy Luck Club and accepts but has doubts about replacing her. (The Joy Luck Club) Jing-Mei learns that she has two half sisters that are still alive, and is told by her aunts that she must travel to China and tell them about her life of her mother. (The Joy Luck Club) An-mei was told that she must forget about her mother. An-Mei remembers her mother when she visit to give respect to her sick grandmother. (Scar) An-mei saw her mother cut a piece of her skin and put it in the grandmother’s soup. According to tradition this sacrifice is the ultimate respect.(Scar) Waverly learns how to play chess and eventually becomes a chess prodigy. As Waverly becomes known around San Francisco, Lindo starts to brag about Waverly to a point where Waverly yells at her mom in front of everyone. (Rules of the Game) Rose is given a 10,000 dollar check by her husband Ted to sign the divorce papers and to move out of the house. An-mei tells Rose to stand up for herself. Rose tells ted that she will not be signing the divorce papers and will be keeping the house. (Without Wood) -** "Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine." Chapter 1, pg. 21 - "Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain." __ Chapter 2 __, pg. 48 - Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!" Chapter 8, pg. 142 - "I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things __ do not __ mix?" Chapter 15, pg. 254 This book was set from the 1920 s– 1930 s, 1940 s– 1950 s, 1960 s, and the 1980 s. During the 1930’s there was the Second Sino-Japanese War. China and Japan were fighting against each other and with no fighting chance again Japan, many people fled their cities and eventually moved to America. There is a stereotype that Asians must have an extraordinary talent or skill or be a “prodigy” in order to become successful The daughters of the Joy Luck are all married to a white man. This was strange to the mothers because they believed that their daughters would marry a Chinese man. Amy Tan uses short narration from other women of the Joy Luck Club and their daughters. She uses symbolism such as Red Candle, and the Mahjong Table. A lot of her themes use love. (Love for the mothers to the daughters; the wives to the husband) During the novel is constantly shows the decline of culture and the lack of understanding between the first generation (mothers) and the second generation (daughters). Because of this the daughters grow up not knowing their heritage and not understanding the hardship their mothers went through.
 * Characters: **
 * Location: **
 * Major Scenes:**
 * Quotes:
 * Social/Political/Philosophical Agenda: **
 * Structural Style:**
 * Critical Problems:**

=Oedipus The King=

Oedipus, Jocasta, Antigone, Creon, Tiresias This play was a greek theather. The location of the play was set in Thebes. Oedipus travels around Thebes hoping to find answers how the murderer of Lauis and who his real parents are. ** Quotes: ** "So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with-who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood, the dead below the earth and the living here above, and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse will whip you from this land one day, their footfall treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light!" “Pride breeds the tyrant violent pride, gorging, crammed to bursting with all that is overripe and rich with ruin.... Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god?" ** Major Scenes: ** Thebes has been struck by a plague because there was a murder. Creon tells Oedipus that the god Apollo, who spoke through the oracle says the murderer of Laius, is in Thebes and must be driven out in order for the plague to end. Oedipus begs Tiresias to reveal who Laius’s murderer and eventually tells him that he is the murderer. Oedipus criticizes Tiresias’s powers and insults his blindness, but Tiresias only responds that the insults will eventually be turned on Oedipus by all of Thebes. Jocasta says all hat all prophets are false and tells her how Laius would be murdered by his son but was murdered by a band of thieves. Laius finds out that his natural parents was in fact Lauis and Jocasta. After finding out who his parents where he realizes that the prophecies did come true. He did kill his father and sleep with his mother. He then blinds himself and leaves Thebes forever. ** This play was played during 430 B.C During this time Greek City-States used the theater to tell stories. These stories would have a moral meaning or lesson in each of them. These plays were written an act of worship, not entertainment or intellectual pastime. These plays would also happen annually at festivals and have as many as 15000 spectators attending one play. At the end of every festival judges would rank would play was the best. ** Structural, Stylistic Strategies: ** This story was written as a play, in a tragic genre. The play is told by major characters such as Oedipus and Creon. The story is also narrated by the chorus. The chorus are minor characters in any Greek play and they comment on the theme of the play and help the audience better understand the play. The Chorus usually sings out their lines but if the talked, they would talk in unison. ** Critical Problem: ** Throughout the play we are constantly being told that we can not let our own arrogance or how would we want to see things blind us from certain truth. Oedipus was told that he was the murder by the oracle Tiesias, but instead of listening to what he had to say he accused him of being the murderer and mocking his blindness. Mocking his blindness would hurt him later on, because as the play comes to an end he blinds himself and must leave Thebes forever.
 * Oedipus the King by Sophocles 5th Century B.C **
 * Characters: **
 * Location:**
 * Social/Political/Philosophical