Warm-up: copy the notes and think about how they apply to your novel
A. Red: ~immoral; the color of the life principle, blood, passion,
emotion, danger, or daring; often associated with fire
B. Black: seen as a cold and negative aspect suggesting
passivity, death, ignorance, or evil; black hens are used in witchcraft as are black cats
C. White: innocence, life, light, purity, or enlightenment
D. Green: inexperience, hope; new life, immaturity;, a
combination of blue and yellow, it mediates between heat
and cold and high and low; it is a
comforting, refreshing human color; it is the
color of plant life
E. Yellow.: rotting, heat, decay, violence,
decrepitude, old age, and the approach of death
F. Blue: cool, calm, peaceful; an insubstantial color
in the real world except as translucency, the void of heavens
Classwork: finish reading "It's All Political" (chapter 13 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor) - now available under the classroom documents link on the blog
take notes on the chapter and then find at least 3 quotes/moments from your novel that are political and explain how (this work will be collected once we do both chapters)
Homework: final projects due 6/3
