Daniel Alarcon Stories "War by Candlelight"

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I need someone who has read and has the hardcopy of the book. I need someone to read and create an outline for a story in the book called "war by Candlelight." Not to get confused, the book and story has the tittle. I need someone to write an outline or a essay for the story not the book. The Details would be in the file I have attached.

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As I have discussed at length from the beginning of the semester, one of the primary reasons to engage with literature (or art generally) is that it asks us to pay attention to the particulars of something. The space of a story or a poem is a space framed in the world, one that we are called to pay attention to, to consider how we enter that space and time, what we encounter within it, and how we return to the world that we live in with a greater sense of what that world means, how it was created and for whose benefit, and what we can do to transform that world. Daniel Alarcón's collection of short stories, War by Candlelight, is one of those spaces and times, but it is one composed within it of different spaces and times. The focus for the midterm exam is the title story, "War by Candlelight," but we have to link that specific story and its frame to the others stories we have read in the collection so far. The world you actually live in isn't one place, one space and time, but many, with many conflicts, hidden or secret things, questions, moments of anger and joy, hopes and fears, etc. We can see these issues explored both at an individual or existential level in “War by Candlelight," and at a social or political level. This story explores the life and perception of the focal character, Fernando. It follows the circular logic of memory and of thought, not of chronological or "clock” time. This requires that you, the reader, pay attention to the particulars of each section of the story, how each is a kind of frame within the larger frame of the story, in order to make connections and sort out the frame of Fernando's life: where and who it came from; how and why he grew and developed as he did both in the family of which Don José is head as well (including his brothers and sister) as with Fernando's own family (Maruja his wife, Carmen his daughter); the education that Fernando received both in and out of the schools he attended (both secondary and college or university); his friends and the choices he makes as an adult. Throughout this story, Alarcón asks his reader to consider the relationship between an individual life, with all its existential questions and personal relationships, and the ways that individual lives are shaped by the social, political, and historical world in which they live. Topic question: Summarize the life of Fernando, organizing key moments of his life from childhood to adulthood and marking key moments in his grown from child to adult man (identify key aspects of setting, including specific places and dates). Identify key statements that tell us what those key moments meant to him as well as to the country in which he lives, Peru. How are his life and the history of Peru in the period covered by the story connected? How does his personal life, as a son and as a husband/father, and his life as a student and eventual revolutionary present him with specific conflicts? Given this information, as provided by the specific and literal facts of the story, how would you define the relationship between our personal lives and our lives as members of a society or citizen of a specific country, one (like ours) with deep divisions of class, race, and gender-divisions that are used as tools to divide and separate people rather than connect or unite them? Prepare carefully for this exam by outlining the details of Fernando's life, showing you have read and understood the story thoroughly. Identify key quotations to support your outline and the answers you provide to each question. Prepare to write a thorough, detailed paragraph in response to each question asked above in the hour you have to write the exam. ܐ݈ܢܳܐ ܕ݁ܒ݂ܶܣܛ 1. ܝ. ܐ ܐ .܂ You are permitted to use outline, notes, and the text during the exam, but you must prepare carefully to respond effectively to these complicated questions in the time given. You are NOT permitted to write your response ahead of time. You will be given an exam booklet for your in-class written response. s40!
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