Madiha Rehmath Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hello everyone! For the IOP part of my syllabus, our class has selected the books Like Water for Chocolate and Pride & Prejudice. I basically came up with the topic of how effectively satire is used in P&P, but food plays an extremely important role in the book LWFC, and I need to find a way to link the both of them together so I can compare and contrast the writing style of the authors. Any suggestions? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harihrrnn Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 I suggest you to " ask Mrs.Rajender kaur..! " lol.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madiha Rehmath Posted August 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 GO DIE HARI Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmi Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Instead of trying to link together two unrelated topics, why don't you just choose a topic that is common to both novels? 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CkyBlue Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 A lot of us haven't read both novels. I've only read LWFC, so asking how the two novels relate is a tall task for us even if we've read both. We also can't give you ideas to use in your work; the community exists to try to guide you in the right direction. In order to do that, you have to show us work that you've done so you can help us help you. I suggest you do what Emmi says- try to find a common theme between both novels. Don't try to force a comparison between the novels' major ideas if one simply can't be made. Start looking for common themes or symbols in both, or something that is repeated. Do the authors stress a certain idea or write in certain ways that can be compared? Maybe they write to suggest a common or contrasting perspective on X, Y or Z? The comparative IOP SUCKS and the essay even more. My English teacher even said it's too difficult at our level to make any meaningful comparison. But just keep trying until you find something interesting worth explaining for 20-ish minutes. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madiha Rehmath Posted August 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 Thanks a lot, CkyBlue I went over the two books again and they both have a lot of other themes in common, one of them being romance, which I thought I could take. While in LWFC, its love at first sight and then forbidden love throughout the book, P&P has the protagonist and love interest disliking each other very much in the beginning, but the entire society is vying for them to fall in love and get married, in the most basic sense. This could be a good question, couldn't it?: How does society influence the character relationships in both the works? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackcurrant Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 The first part (society) does not work consistently with the second (character relationships) as it treats society as a piece of sociology rather than a literary construct. The second part suits an IOP which views and treats works as literature. So there is a mis-match in approach. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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