Of course, If you choose to analyze a group other than your own, you will need to read their story too in Files. So, to make this clear: you are not continuing your analysis of the story; you are analyzing A group's (just one) analyses of the story. Here are some questions to consider: Why do you think the group gravitated towards certain details in the story? Why do you think some interpretations were similar? Different? How did the group agree to disagree? What does all this mean in terms of the theory of reader-response? Definitely look again at the Reader-Response chapter, the questions in the chapter (not the ones about Gatsby), and my Pp on the theory. Look at the different styles of reader-response in the textbook (transactional, effective- stylistic, psychological..) and consider using one of those as a platform for your essay. You will have access to the essay exam before you submit it so you can prepare. The essay exam should cite source material from the story, the group's responses, and, if you see helpful, the Tyson textbook. It should be 750What I noticed at first in the rst signpost, is that the author describes the versatility in this segment. He says that he has 3 stories with 3 different titles that all has a part to play in the overall text. He begins by telling his readers about how bad of a cockroach problem he has had in his place and it is very clear that the narrator is very furious about this. Something that really stood out to me was when he said the roaches never became his problem until he created the substance that would kill them. From this I got that he used this as a way to describe a real life scenario. Whenever we are having a problem or something is getting to us, its not our problem until we take action towards it. So like the story the action taken towards the cockroaches was creating the poison. He then informs the reader that he was successful in his tasks, killing all the roaches overnight. In the next signpost paragraph he compares the roach killing to Pompeii, describing killing these insects as a massacre. He also seems very obsessed with how these roaches died. The narrator claims they were trying to fight for their life by trying to get away from the substance and he noticed this by the white markings on the oor from the powdery poison. Eventually I sensed a bit of pity that this person had for the roaches, like he was in the wrong for what he did to them. The last part of the story again relates to another real life situation. He says today he must either sacrifice his soul or instead himself. Here was the hardest piece to analyze for me personally because we were dealing with roaches here and l have had a roach problem as well. l have never once felt such pity or any additional thoughts in general towards my actions. But I began to consider how this could be used in a metaphorical way and I came up with the conclusion that he must live with what he has done. He feels this burden of killing these insects and he must decide whether he should justify his actions for killing these roaches and move on or hold this heaviness on his soul. o '5 Danielle Espinoza - ' Oct 21, 2022 The details that I gravitated to are the narrator's obsession with the cockroaches, and that the storyr seemed to make less sense the more it got split up and broken down. I asked important questions as soon as I started reading the story. I was trying to figure out why the first two titles were "The Statues" and "The Killing", especially since at first glance they have nothing to do with each other. I did not judge any character per say, but I was confused as to why one story got broken up in parts when it would be more coherent as one story. I became subjective at about the second "signpost" when the story started to be repetitive. There was no real confusion, just questioning as to why the story was broken up so much and as to why she was obsessed about the cockroaches so much. I found it odd that the narrator went inot detail about them and that she called them her "evil secret", especially since they were never really her problem at first. All ve stories are connected because they are all the same story but with more or different details than the others. From the very rst story I wondered if the narrator was actually talking about cockroaches. The way the narrator talks about roaches kind of makes it sound like they are talking about people and not roaches. There's not much information about who the narrator so that is something I was curious about. Every story mentions that the narrator was complaining about the cockroaches. The third story reminded me of a bible story I heard before about a family that turned to stone when they looked back. This story was called "The Statues" and was the longest and had the most details. By the fourth story l was pretty creeped out. It sounds like the narrator is either a serial killer or she/he thinks they are a god. By the fth story the only detail is that the narrator complained about the cockroaches. This makes me think that the point of all the stories is about the choices people have to make in life. The narrator complains about the cockroaches and they have to decide what they are going to do about it. They can decide to take the advice of the woman and kill the roaches or they can just leave things the way they are. After reading all the responses from the group members, it was pretty obvious that we would all focus on the cockroaches because it's constantly being brought up. I think there was a little bit of confusion or we just all took in the meaning of the cockroaches and what they signify differently. Some think they signied secrets we want to get rid of and others see it as problems we have to deal with. I agree with a response that l was confused on if the author was talking about actually killing cockroaches or people because the way he was explaining the formula he was given to kill them, it threw me off a bit. I can see that we can all come to agree that the cockroaches have a meaning and connection to people and I think we will all come to agree on the meaning of the cockroaches and what the author is really meaning when we talks about killing them. While reading through my group's journals I noticed that unlike me, my peers tended to perceive the story in a very different manner. They all seemed to find real word meanings and metaphors, while I mainly focused on the content about how the cockroaches affected the narrator. The group seemed to understand or find a buried meaning within the story. This shows because most of the group came to a conclusion that the story might be about people and things we have to face, go through, or deal with in our day to day lives. Nobody really disagreed, they just saw the story from different points of view, which is a normal thing because not everyone thinks the same about the same topics. Many of the people in the group gravitated toward the details about the cockroaches. This may be in part because cockroaches were brought up so much, or it could be due to the fact that the narrator goes into detail about them, extensively. They also focused on the details about what the narrator was saying, mainly if it was a phrase in quotation marks. This is most likely because when something is in quotes people tend to pay attention to it more than if it is not in quotes. By agreeing to disagree, you can come to a collective interpretation because by seeing things differently you are also able to have a broader idea of what the story could be about. From reading my peer's responses to our week 6 discussion about the short story. I can clearly see we all had a common question in our minds, why in the world is this individual so obsessed with these roaches? I personally feel even a story about roaches in general can be quite unappealing and this is simply because people tend to try and keep these insects away from their homes as much as possible. I agree with my peers with the common thought that there was more to the story than just insects being killed. There had to be a connection between these roaches and a real life occurrence that happens to us in our lives. One of these great students claimed that this person sounded like a serial killer to them at one point and I was very intrigued while reading this because I never noticed it until I read the response. The man became obsessed with these bugs and he also became obsessed with the way they were killed. He had a title for a part of his story called "The Statue" and I believe he is referring to when the roaches are dead, that they are motionless; staying still. He also had another name for a certain piece of his story titled \"The Killing". This only added to my own thought that this person has become deeply obsessed with these roaches and is either feeling guilt over killing them, or is happy about it. I believe that when we either agree or disagree we are able to share each other's thoughts and this act opens up new scenarios that we never would've though about with our own opinions. It enhances the readers ability to comprehend a given text. I think most of the group seemed to agree that the story was about more than just cockroaches. Even though we didn't all agree about what the meaning of the cockroaches was, we know that the roaches represent real life problems or feelings, or maybe even people. Some of us thought it was strange and a bit confusing to break up a story into 5 different mini stories with different details, titles, and points of View. The details most of us focused on were of the narrator making the poison and also describing the massacre in the morning. Journal 6 (due Friday} Below are the steps for this journal entry. This and journal 7 will provide the base for essay #2, which is a reader-response essay. Each group has been assigned a different story. They are all in Modules. Yours is \"The Fifth Story" (Fifth.pdfj. 1. Read your assigned story and stop at the \"signposts\" (the *j to respond for about 2 minutes to what you read. Your response can be whatever: observations, questions, comments... Do this until you've created a response "transcript" for the story. You can hand-write this stage while you read (it will not be posted). 2. Go back and read your transcript; do a self-analysis of your responses. To what details did you gravitate? Why? At what points did you ask important questions? Judge characters? Become subjective? Become confused? Why? What else? Post this self-analysis as journal 6 on your board. Journal 7 will come soon and will build on these responses. Journal 7 (due Thursday): First, read all the posts from your group about the story you were assigned. Make some observations and generalizations about the group's responses relative to the story. Note you are looking at their responses, not the story itself. Write a short journal (a paragraph or so) in which you characterize and describe your interpretive community. On what elements in the story did you disagree? Agree? To what details did you gravitate? How can you come to a collective interpretation of the story by actually agreeing to disagree? As noted last week, these journals6 and 7will serve as the content for essay exam 2