English 4 Finals
English Finals Study Guide
- In Memoriam (pgs. 918-920) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
o 27. Value of person’s role in your life doesn’t diminish in value, when the
o 54. We don’t need to know the purpose to have a purpose
o They’re still of a value or there’s still relationship even after loss (death).
person dies. On the contrary, it highlights it.
ß “Death doesn’t kill the experience”
ß “We do not know the purpose of loss.”
ß “loss is actually a connection.”
- The Darling by Anton Chekhov
(JUST KNOW THE PLOTS)
- What Men Live By Leo Tolstoy *P.S.: 3 things (lessons that Simon learns)
o Learn what dwells in man…
o Learn what is not given to man…
o Learn what man lives by…
ß Love (of God)
ß Knowing his own need
ß Love
- The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence *P.S.: Characters and their
relationship -> boy/mother through his action
o His whole motivation is to “compel her attention (feels if, from the voices
from the voice) translates ti as getting her love.”
ß Mother doesn’t love him, but loves money, so he believes that he
can buy her love with money. B/c if she have money (she loves),
she’ll love him as well.
ß Luck: the basis of story (is about boy being able to find what he
wants)
ß (irony was rocking horse ---> b/c horse never moves or progressive
and is stuck. –like kid trying to get mother’s love, but he never gets
it.)
• Confidence
- Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
o The consideration of indifference… why are important things NOT
o To horses are more aware and concerned about scratching its bottom on
important to us?
ß Mythology of Icarus (escaping prison by evil king) with his son.
ß First stanza “aged are reverently… childrens don’t look forward
to” ---> birth of a sibling (b/c mom and dad doesn’t pay attention
to them anymore.)
a tree than to know and notice that the person on the horse is the torturer
(scratching butt is
- In Memoriam (pgs. 918-920) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
o 27. Value of person’s role in your life doesn’t diminish in value, when the
o 54. We don’t need to know the purpose to have a purpose
o They’re still of a value or there’s still relationship even after loss (death).
person dies. On the contrary, it highlights it.
ß “Death doesn’t kill the experience”
ß “We do not know the purpose of loss.”
ß “loss is actually a connection.”
- The Darling by Anton Chekhov
(JUST KNOW THE PLOTS)
- What Men Live By Leo Tolstoy *P.S.: 3 things (lessons that Simon learns)
o Learn what dwells in man…
o Learn what is not given to man…
o Learn what man lives by…
ß Love (of God)
ß Knowing his own need
ß Love
- The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence *P.S.: Characters and their
relationship -> boy/mother through his action
o His whole motivation is to “compel her attention (feels if, from the voices
from the voice) translates ti as getting her love.”
ß Mother doesn’t love him, but loves money, so he believes that he
can buy her love with money. B/c if she have money (she loves),
she’ll love him as well.
ß Luck: the basis of story (is about boy being able to find what he
wants)
ß (irony was rocking horse ---> b/c horse never moves or progressive
and is stuck. –like kid trying to get mother’s love, but he never gets
it.)
• Confidence
- Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden
o The consideration of indifference… why are important things NOT
o To horses are more aware and concerned about scratching its bottom on
important to us?
ß Mythology of Icarus (escaping prison by evil king) with his son.
ß First stanza “aged are reverently… childrens don’t look forward
to” ---> birth of a sibling (b/c mom and dad doesn’t pay attention
to them anymore.)
a tree than to know and notice that the person on the horse is the torturer
(scratching butt is