Monday, June 4, 2007
Gallery Walk
The most important part of expository writing is making choices. For this assessment, you have spent class time brainstorming possible choices you could make about your essay. By no means must you select your quotes and essay elements from this gallery walk. Your classmates' thoughts are here only as a resource for you.
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I agree that there are many similarities between what slaves did in the fictional work of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the biographical book Frederick Douglass, as stated in the Logos argument.
I like the quote from the preface that gives Beecher-Stowe's thesis and says it is to awaken sympathy for the African race. It shows her true intent and helps us to identify the purpose of her writing
I agree with what the Ethos group said about how Stowe appealed to the Sentimental culture and values. The way she portrayed Eliza and other characters both aroused sympathy in the audience and made them realize that slavery is immoral.
I agree with the Pathos group and how they included Prue's story as an example of the usage of pathos by Stowe. Prue's story makes the audience feel sympathy for Prue, and makes the audience realize how bad her owner was.
I think that the quote in Leads from page 3 is very good. I think it clearly shows that UTC is a work of persausion. One could then lead into whether or not they believe it is propaganda based on HBS's presentation of facts of the time. That could then lead into values of the time and a thesis and method statement.
I think that the connection people drew between slavery and Pru's inability to follow the rules of temperance is very strong and clearly shows that Stowe used ethos in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
I think that none of the zingers really capture the essence of Uncle Tom's Cabin in a more general sense, and need some work. However, I think that all of the theses are very usable, and the examples of logos, ethos, and pathos are definitely pertinent, especially the example for sentimental values.
I really liked how the pathos group include Eva dying. I think that slow emotional death was a great example of pathos. It evoked compassion and sympathy.
I agree with Bea. I think that the zingers are more like theses than zingers. Everything else seems to be good
I agree with what Bea said about the zingers that they didn't capture Uncle Tom's Cabin that well. I also would like to add that they didn't really leave you with something to think about more as they just restated the thesis. On the other hand, I would say that the ethos, logos, and pathos, the theses, and the grabbers were very solid.
I think that the logos group did a very good job using the primary documents to prove points. I see factual evidence to support both the arguement that UTC is a little bit exaggerated and is propaganda, and the arguement that it is an accurate portrayal of the time period and is meant as something other than propaganda.
I really liked the Pathos group and how they included the fact that even though Sambo and Quimbo were bad, you could still feel bad for them and realize that their "badness" is slavery's fault.
I agree with Sree's comment about Marie being "anti-pathos". I think this is shown with numerous other characters such as Prue. I agree that the zingers could be stronger, and I think including more page citations in all the groups would be useful.
I agree with Jewel about what the Pathos group said. There are other charachters that you could just feel sorry for, but buy showing how Sambo and Quimbo were led to bad behavior because of slavery, the Pathos argument is stronger.
I disagree with Laura A when she stated that Prue was an example of an anti'pathos character. I think that Prue makes a very good example of a pathos argument, as she ends up drinking and dying (sad) because of the brutallities she has faced while being enslaved. However, she is a better ethos argument, as she drinks and steals (unsentimental) because of slavery.
I really liked how the Logos group connected Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to Uncle Tom's Cabin. I especially thought the connection between George (Harris) and Frederick Douglass was good, as it shows how Beecher Stowe based a lot of events and characters in the book off of true facts and real people.
My opinion is that the pathos groups came up with some examples of when pathos was used realisticly and some examples that were completely overblown. Two examples that show this disparity are when George is forced to tie a stone around his dog's neck and drown it, which, to me seemed like it could have happened. In contrast, the scene where Tom forgave his murderers seemed extremely unlikely to have actually occured.
I think that the pathos argument is a good one because Beecher Stowe's book definatley evokes emotion and makes the reader sympathetic to the slave more than the book persuades the reader to be sympathetic to the master as many books of that time period about slavery did. (Other books about slavery written in the 1800s tried to make you favour the masters in some by some form of persuasion.)
Sorry, I made some typos.
I meant IN SOME WAY BY SOME FORM OF PERSUASION not in some by some form of persuasion.
I liked how the lead/grabber group did not only suggest to use quotes and examples from the book as a grabber, but they also suggested that you talk about how successful the book actually was. It makes sense to talk about how persuasive the book was to people of the 19th century because in the essay you are talking about why it is persuasive. The book was very successful, so it would make an interesting grabber.
I agree with most of the pathos comments. Except I do think that Pru would be an example of pathos, since she drinks and dies (like Kristina said). I also agree with all the ethos comments.
I think that the zingers (on the most part) are just restating the thesis, but I really like the grabbers such as the one saying how Uncle Tom’s Cabin outsold the Bible in the 19th century. Although I think you need to include something at the end that says because of its use of ethos, pathos, and logos (next sentence).
I liked the pd 7 ethos group because it clearly shows reasons and support for how Beecher-Stowe used ethos. Also, I liked how the the ethos, pathos and logos groups all supported the thesis that said, "UTC was a work of both honest persuasion and propaganda because it encompassed events both realistic and overly exaggerated."
The chart showing that characters who were sentamental were anti-slavery, and vice versa, was useful for the Ethos argument.
I like the link one group made with Pru's story, which is normally assocaited with pathos, to ethos and the temperance movement. This fits in with the sentimental culture that Stowe shows throughout the book.
I agree with the Pd 4 Ethos group about Stowe's use of Sentimental Culture. I think that she uses characters who are protagonists (Eliza, other slaves/good people) and sentimental and she uses characters who are not protagonists (Legree, Marie, other slaveholders/bad people) who are unsentimental to persuade the readers that slavery is wrong.
I think the leads/grabbers were catching although I agree with Beatrice that the zingers need to be improved. It was also good to know that argue that UTC is a work of both pursuasion and properganda.
I thought that one of the pathos groups did a good job saying that Cassy's story represented the sentimental culture and pity. I guess that falls under the ethos category, too.
I agree that the zingers could be a lot stonger. I also think that the theses are very well thought out and supported as well as the grabbers.
Since I personally think that the logos part is the most difficult to argue for this essay, I focused on what groups said about that the most. Since transitions is really important for our essay, I thought that maybe a flowing transition between an ethos and logos argument would be as follows. Regarding ethos, the importance of christianity was a reoccuring concept. This can be talked about in logos too because Stowe often exaggerated the role of christianity in the slaves' lives. I think that those two ideas are highly relatable and with a connecting sentence, the essay's structur will be much more professional and smooth.
I thought that many of the theses were very repetitive, but they wqere nonetheless helpful. I also liked how the grabbers were not all really specific, but more fo general ideas, which was more useful to me when I was thinking of a grabber to use. Like everybody else, I too thought that the zingers were a little weak, but it is difficult to come up with a zinger until you have actually written the entire essay.
I agree with Jewel and Nadia's arguement that seeing how Sambo and Quimbo became corrupt evoked sympathy in the reader. This blog has been very helpful in identifying different ways to think about the question.
I think that the zinger that states "The events in UTC...techniques Stowe employs." is more of a thesis than a zinger. generaly speaking, the zinhers need work.
The thesis "Stow uses ethos, pathos, and logos to her advantage to persuade her audience" would not make for a good three paragraphs or strong arguments, because ethos, pathos and logos are THE ONLY three categories under which persuasive arguments fall, so obviously Stowe would have to use them in writing a persuasive piece.
I disagree with the first zinger from pd. 4. Stowe certainly exaggerated some aspects of various characters to get her point across, but her facts are not "skewed" and "untrue", rather a little biased. After all, she was trying to persuade the audience of her argument against slavery, and her success is in no way "appalling".
I agree with Alden. The connections between abolitionism and sentimentalism are basis for ethical points connecting these two otherwise differing ideals.
Out of the zingers, I think the best were creating a question or using a quote from either the book, a modern person, or a person living at the time Uncle Tom's Cabin was written. However, in regard to having a zinger that sums everything up, I think it would bog the paper down very quickly and not pull people in so much as push them away.
I liked how the Logos group compared Emmeline to Harriet Jacobs because it displays how some of the women slaves were actually treated. This also is an example of pathos because it evokes sympathy towards the harassed women.
I think this gallery walk was a successful way to roughly organize the content of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The information provided by all of the classes is helpful in summing this Sentimental Culture unit. I like how the different ways of organizing the essay is posted along with the other information.
I agree with Eli. We should remeber that UTC doesnt pretend to be a historical work. Its purpouse was merely to persuade the people of the time that slavery was wrong. Even though it employs propoganda, not all propoganda is negative. Effective propoganda for a good cause is certainly a good thing. If UTC actually helped to end slavery, than i dont think we should judge Stowe's accuracy too harshly.
group DASH -- i think you mean to represent the evils of slavery, because HBS was definitely not trying to show the evils of slaves. She was using everything she could to make them seem morale and good to appeal to the white audience by using foils, contrast, etc.
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I thought it was really interesting how for period 7 thesis, all four thesis were exactly the opposite. The first said UTC was a work of propaganda, the second said Stowe used honest persuasion, the third said Stowe used neither and the last said she used both. This really shows how this question is a matter of the writers opinion, and how well they can support it.
I'm not sure which period created the list, but I thought that the list of grabbers (seventh from the bottom) were really well written. I liked how they questioned the reader and how they thought up questions that would easily transition into the rest of the paper. I also agree with Lorena, that this gallery walk is extremely helpful in organizing our thoughts and preparing for the ECR.
i would say i do not agree with the group that put down do you support slavery as a suggested zinger i think this is offensive to a person reading the paper who was merely unpersuaded by stowes argument also the zinger which talks about the stir caused by this boook as appalling i think it is a bit strong for an expository piece this sentence a la molly bloom
I agree with everyone that has said that the zingers need some work. We especially need to remember that zingers are not only supposed to tie together the paper, but are supposed to link back to your grabber by answering the question you asked in the grabber, connects back to the quote, etc. I understand that it was hard to write just zingers for this activity, because we didn't write the rest of the paper, but the zingers need to be more than just a restatement of the thesis.
However, I do agree with Spencer that "Do you support slavery?" is a little too 'out there' to put in this essay.
I think everyone had a good suggestion for each group. Especially the theses because they applied to every point of view. I also thought that the pathos group had very good ideas. But, I think some of the logos ideas were stretching it a little bit.
I liked how the ethos groups talked about how families were very important in UTC, like with Eliza, Mammy, Cassy, Prue and Aunt Chloe, as they were in the time period relating to sentimental culture. I also liked how they showed that occurring in a primary source, Frederick Douglas, when most other relations to primary sources were in Logos.
Throughout looking at several of the pathos pages, I noticed that several people have stated the dramatic death of Uncle Tom as a work of pathos. Although I agree that him being beaten to death is pathos, I feel the deeper meaning of what he was trying to persuade Legree was Ethos. I felt that Stowe was trying to evoke pity for him that he was letting such a horrible person kill him, but I also thought she was trying to show her audience that slaves can share the same ideas of God and Christianity, if not to an even more loyal sense, than whites can.
Whoops! I accidentally commented on the exam question! Feeling stupid...
Anyway, I agree with whatever group that used Prue as an example of pathos. She really shows what slavery could supposedly do to a person and how this defied the sentimental culture of that time.
I disagree with Pippa that Prue is an example of Pathos. Though her character evokes emotion, I think that Prue is more an example of Ethos, because it her drinking problem conflicts with the Temperance movement. By making slavery the driving cause behind her drinking, I think Stowe is using the value of temperance to display abolitionist views.
I personally think that Uncle Tom's Cabin, while offering a look at brutality not unlike that found on plantations, displayed ridiculously maudlin and pious ethos and pathos. I agree that the book is a reflection of contemporary sentimental culture, but given some of the extremely outdated concepts of sentimentalism (total anti-feminism, a complete intolerance for alcohol, etc.) we can see why the book is maudlin. Stowe herself never actually told us that the book was anything but melodramatic, and like Mr. Fuller said, anyone else beaten as badly as Tom would have died "cursing Simon Legree". That's not to say that there isn't real pathos, but rather that the pathos is pretty heavy. It seems unlikely that someone could be as unfortunate as Prue in what led to her binge-drinking death. Nor common to see such a thoroughly heart-wrenching story as Cassie's. Slavery did cause sadness, horror and the corruption of the human spirit, but these tales are simply unrealistic, staged. And whatever supremely-pious ethics motivate Tom to be so stubbornly tolerant, and Mrs. Shelby to be so patronizing of her slaves, just as much as they make Legree into an utter devil, are also unreal. The story is designed to make us wonder this very question, edgily: how unreal is this? But so much exaggeration, heroicized slaves and their demonized owners, are simply not accurate universal reflections of the people. The pathos and ethos in these sheets really reflect the melodrama found in the novel.
I agree with what Jewel said about Sambo and Quimbo in the Pathos group, I thought that it was a really innovative and interesting argument.
I really like the idea of using the quote from page three as a grabber for the essay. If you have a direct quote saying what beecher- Stowe's point in writing the book is, it would make it easier to explain how Beecher-Stowe uses e,p,and l,to prove her point.
I liked the quote that explains Stowe's intent for writing the book because it helps us today understand where she was coming from when we analyze her work.
I agree with the group that gave Eliza as an example of ethos. Slavery threatening to prevent Eliza from taking care of her child as well as many other families mentioned that are destroyed by slavery show that slavery goes against the strong values of family and typical gender roles.
I definitely agree that Stowe did not use much logos in her argument. This played a big role in my opinion that UTC may actually be a form of propaganda. There were not many hard facts on slavery.
I definitely agree with all the pathos information because throughout the time of slavery, it's very easy for their to be stories that make you feel something for a person. An example is family separation. After you get to know the people and what their like and then find out that something has happened and they have to separate just makes you feel very sympathetic to them. Just like the Eliza plot and Uncle Tom's separation.
I don't necessarily agree with Dennis because although there aren't any specific statistics, polls, or anything of the sort in UTC, there is logos present in the book in the sense that the topics that Beecher-Stowe discusses are based on real life, and are therefore facts. She says in the very last chapter of the book that although the specific characters and instances aren't real people, all the events and most of the characters are based either upon people that she knows/ has seen or people that her friends and family have met.
A lot of the grabbers/zingers that people wrote were creative, but the ones I liked the most were the quotes from Uncle Tom's Cabin, such as a quote from HBS's sister that states: "If I could use a pen as you can, I would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is."
Like Dennis, I'm having a hard time identifying where logos is used in HBS's argument, but I can see how some stories could have been based in real life. I thought the idea that "George=Fredrick Douglass" was a really good parallel.
The lead that describes how the cruel acts of slavery was common practice two centuries before has a lot of impact on the reader. It captures how horrible slavery was, but that it was a "justified" crime.
I like the thesis stating that HBS manipulates persuasive strategies to persuade her audience. I agree with this stance and I think the use of the word manipulate is well-done in this thesis
I liked the lead that said UTC sold more copies than the bible in the 19th century because it shows how much of a influence it had on the people of that time and that it must have been very persuading. It's a good introduction for a persuasion paper.
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