This week was all about metaphors in AP Lit. We spent the whole week on making metaphors using our summer reading choices and a chapter from How to Read Lit. My groups was "Geography Matters" and our books were The Book Thief and Obasan. We realized how important geography is to the story of both of those two books, all books, and just life in general. Obasan set in a different place couldn't be the same story. The way the cultures of the different generations of children clash is important for the characters. Part of the story is based on the Japanese relocation in Canada and wouldn't be the same somewhere else. The same applies to The Book Thief and real life. You or I would not be the same as we are today if we'd been raised somewhere separate. All of your experiences would either be slightly different or completely different. One might not even exist because their parents wouldn't have met. Geography is super important for everything that shapes us. We also wanted to tie the interlude "One Story" into our metaphor because both books are very closely related and we thought that the idea of everyone sharing the same story was very powerful. At the tail end of the week we switched lanes and got into groups for our first unit. The only thing we've done so far is read a passage about the difference between story and literature. I really liked it and felt like I understood it well. It talked about how a great book can possibly make such a mediocre movie. How a narrative voice completely changed how a book portrays a character. It changed the way I view book to movie adaptations and made me appreciate the differences and the benefits of both forms of media.
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