Analytical Review Sheet for The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe
Due date: Any time up to and including Friday, May 5, at 12 noon
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What is the background of the author? What are his qualifications to write this book?
The author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe, was born on March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, where Wolfe would grow up to be an all-star student and athlete at St. Christopher’s Episcopal School for Boys. After his graduation from high school in 1947, Wolfe decided to turn down his admission to Princeton University to attend Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Wolfe majored in English and practiced writing as a sports editor at the college newspaper, while helping to establish a literary magazine, Shenandoah. Wolfe enrolled in Yale University’s American studies doctoral
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Wolfe’s first main point was to emphasize the psychedelic movement’s disillusionment with society during the 1960s, which is clearly seen by Ken Kesey’s urgings to use LSD to transcend reality and bring a higher state of consciousness to those individuals involved. Wolfe’s second main point was to highlight the desire to escape, which is clearly seen in many of the Merry Pranksters, especially Mountain Girl, who escapes a mundane life in New York to join Kesey and the psychedelic movement. Wolfe’s last point was to show equally the darkness and light in Kesey’s story to educate people about the good and bad sides of the 1960s psychedelic movement, which is clearly seen by Wolfe’s descriptions of the enlightenment that LSD brings as well as the bad trips that could leave people wounded for
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Bruce Allardice, a writer for the Society for
3.List whether each of the following substances was positive or negative for starch, as indicated by using iodine. (7 points)
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest operates as an entertaining and interesting novel on a pure surface level. There’s a good story, well-developed characters and fresh language. It has all the workings of a good novel, but One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest isn’t just a good novel. It’s a great one, because Kesey uses Chief Bromden’s perspective to let imagery flow out of the novel and have it all come back to one theme: individuality and its repression by society. This idea is highlighted by the image of gambling vs. playing it safe, whether in literal card games or as a way of living. The mental ward’s new patient, Randle Patrick McMurphy, is a self-described “gambling fool” (12)1, while his opposer, “Big Nurse” Ratched,
Ken Kesey’s figurative language in his novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, suggests that broken individuals can connect and make each other whole again. The traumatic events that occur when the patients are younger still affect them in their current state. For example, throughout his life, Bromden has always been assumed to be deaf and dumb. When he spoke to people their “machinery dispose[d] of the words like they weren’t even spoken” (181). Kesey’s metaphor represents how Bromden feels that the Combine influences him. When Bromden speaks, the words do not “fit” in the listener’s brain and they ignore him (181). Being a large Native American man, Bromden does not fit into the mold that is set by the Combine (societal expectations), so
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2.) Who is this author? What are his/her expertise in relation to this topic? What is his/her experience with this
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Most people say that the home is where the heart is. More than just where one lives, home is where one can relax after a long and tiring day, or where one can be with their loved ones around them. Similarly to Odysseus’s, the featured hero in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, home is Ithaca, an island in the Ionian Sea of Greece, where his beloved wife, son, and kingdom is. While my Ithaca is different than Odysseus’s, my Ithaca still contains meaning and provides me with a purpose to work hard.
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Through critical analysis, historical research, and textual evidence, a study on Kurt Vonnegut’s background will be conducted in order to display the effects that the era in which he lived had on his writing.
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