1. Warming up with a mini-write on two Adam and Cathy scenes: 199-200 and 322-323
- What has shifted?
- How does Steinbeck depict that shift?
- Why has this shift happened? How does it contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole?
2. Enjoying a big Socratic seminar on Chapters 22-26
3. Wrapping up with remaining questions, epiphanies, and kudos
HW:
Read Chapters 27 through 30 for Friday's Socratic; create a ticket that you will turn in on Friday.
Today's daily scribing (thanks to Finn!):
ReplyDeleteWhy does steinbeck mentions Cain and Abel?
Interesting they tried to make so much sense of Cain and Abel
Noticed that Caleb and Aaron are following Adam and Charles's paths
Will Caleb and Aaron follow the Cain and Abel story
Hopes they don’t
Caleb and Aaron changed their names as to not be like Cain and Abel
Cathy vs Kate, multiple personalities
When she changes her name she changes it to start with a K, moving away from Cain?
Lack of scar on Kate=she’s getting over her fear
Cathy lost her significance to the novel?
Still think she had a purpose because she has tied herself to Adam via hate
How are Samuel, Liza, and Steinbeck connected specifically to the setting
Who is Steinbeck more similar to?
Develops Samuel more so that makes him closer to Sam?
You write yourself into the character you like the best
Mrs. Leclaire sees Liza and Cathy as similar because of their dedication but they use dedication differently
Sam content with things but Adam needs things to be perfect (specifically when it comes to land)
Connection between Adam and Charles, both of them try to get things perfect but then have things fall flat
Adam has choice whether to fall back into temptation or to overcome it when it comes to Cathy
Important for steinbeck to give Adam a chance to see who Cathy really was
Adam soaked by rain leading up to confrontation with Cathy, symbolism?
Sam wakes Adam up out of trance
Even after Sam’s intervention it still took meeting Cathy face to face for Adam to “wake up”
Seeing her face to face allowed him to see her outside of her bubble
Interesting how after he sees Cathy he’s excited to see the twins
Without the twins would he realize Cathy’s a monster?
Drew says he would be stuck in that world if not for kids
Kenzie thinks that even without kid’s he would have seen the true Cathy because of Samuel’s intervention
The kid’s “accelerated the process”
Interesting that he said it wouldn’t matter even if the kids aren't his
Why was Adam not as hurt but Charles’s betrayal?
Earlier in story Adam said it doesn't matter how his dad gets his money because “he’s still my dad”
Blood doesn’t make someone a father, it's how you raise kids that makes you a father
Adam still loves the kids regardless
Cathy is the most herself in the whorehouse because it reflects her
Any symbolism in Cathy’s hands changing
She will always look the same in the face because she symbolizes the snake but her hands are what she uses for bad things so they become withered
Hands are a key feature of humans
Hands symbolize her lacking human-ness
Wrap Up:
-Did Kate really love Faye?
-Compared Kate to the devil
-Was Adam’s ability to see the good in people a gift or curse
-What is Steinbeck trying to reveal by showing parallels to the Cain and Abel story across multiple generations
-Adam “reborn” after being knocked out by Sam
-Correlation between how Cyrus and Adam are fathers