Chapter 20-21

Chapter 20 -- ...So Does Season
Find a poem that mentions a specific season. Then discuss how the poet uses the season in a meaningful, traditional, or unusual way. (Submit a copy of the poem with your analysis.)

The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the different.

In The Road Not Taken, Frost mentions a yellow wood and leaves on the ground which means that it is Fall. He uses it in a traditional way because when one steps on leaves they begin to rot into the ground. He says in his poem, "In leaves no step had trodden black" which means that no one had stepped on them, thus it being the road less taken.

Interlude -- One Story
Write your own definition for archetype. Then identify an archetypal story and apply it to a literary work with which you are familiar.

Definition: a theme that is repeated over and over again in a different context. An archetypal story is the story of Romeo and Juliet. They loved each other but there was conflict that kept them from being together. In A Walk to Remember, Landon and Jaime love each other but she  has cancer whic in the end kills her. In this story, cancer is the conflict that keeps them apart.

Chapter 21 -- Marked for Greatness

Figure out Harry Potter’s scar. If you aren’t familiar with Harry Potter, select another character with a physical imperfection and analyze its implications for characterization.

Harry Potter is only famous because of his scar. Voldemort killed Harry's' parents and then proceeded on to kill him but failed in the attempt; that is where Harry acquired his scar. Had Harry not obtained the scar in the first place, he would not evolve into the courageous young man that ruthlessly chased after Voldemort because he wanted revenge for the death of his parents and many other loved ones. When Voldemort gave Harry the scar, he instilled in him a sense of hostility that in the end led Harry to killing him with no regrets.