Sunday, February 14, 2010

Collaborating Paragraph

In my paragraph about The Importance of Being Earnest, I am writing about the last level of dishonesty, because that's the topic we are doing. Our thesis is basically the prompt, but we changed the words around a little, whoops. (: Anyways, the last level of dishonesty is how Jack lies about himself and what he does, and how he makes another person just to get out of family matters, and dinners and stuff. He lied about his whole life and who he is, and so did Algernon. The irony of it is that he actually was Ernest in the end of the book, and that he actually had a brother. Like the concrete detail that I am going to paraphrase, 'I am Jack in the country and Ernest in the city.' About how he invented a brother just so he could be two different people in two different places. This was the highest level only because he invented a PERSON.

I'm almost 100% sure that none of my group's concrete details will overlap, since our topics are totally different, since they're different levels and all. Keenan's writing about the lowest level, like white lies. But basically it's just about cucumber sandwiches, and how Algernon lied to Jack about not eating them, then he ate them, and lied again to Lady Bracknell about how they didn't have them, even though it was him who ate them. Nicole is writing about the baby issue, about how Miss Prism lost a baby and lied about it sort of, how she forgot. We were going to put this as the top level, but then I brought up a point that Miss Prism didn't mean to lose a baby, she just wasn't paying attention when she was holding the volumes she wrote.

2 comments:

  1. I think you did a really good job on this. And i'm not sure about Keenans either. I think you were right about how it is ironic that in the end Jack ends up being Ernest but I think you should also include how it is ironic that the word earnest means honesty and they are being dishonest

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  2. Nikki, I think your reasoning really checks out on this one! Nice job. You obviously thought this one out, and it totally shows. Sorry for getting the conclusion in so slow.

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