English 2nd monthly

Essay

Organized into clear paragraph

Complete sentence

It has a complete thought

Introduction

provides background. Give your thesis statement

Conclusion

Emphasize the significance. Synthesize the arguments made in body.

Point

Clearly state the topic

Evidence

Use evidence and examples

Explanation

Eşarplın your evidence

Link

Final sentence to link

Imagery

To create images in the mind of the reader

Blue kimono

What color is the kimono the nameless character is wearing?

Yellow kimono

What color is the kimono the old woman wearing?

Rashomon

Ruined gate

True

Nameless character was a servant and he got fired.

True

Old woman get hair from the dead to make a wig to sell

Survival

It’s about surviving

Morality

No other choice

Meaninglessness

Lost hope

Filial Piety

Respectful to elders

Loyalty and honors

Loyalty to their kings

Selflessness

Common good over their self morals

Ruined gate

Refelection of changing morals

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Father of Japanese short stories

visual

Sense of sight

Auditory

Sense of hearing

Kinesthetic

Movements/actions

Olfactory

Sense of smell

Gustatory

Taste of food or many things

Tactile

Sense of touch

Organic

sense of feeling/sensations

Feudal system

Changes in society ; to modernized (westernized)

Societal issues

Justification of wrong doings because others are doing it

Enumeration

Give the three calamities why kyoto struggle