Dialectical
Quotation Log Book Report
(100 Points)
Neatly hand write each journal entry. You must include a total of ten entries for your book. Try to include a quotation from each chapter. If your book has more than ten chapters, space your quotations out so that you have “covered” the entire novel (i.e., if your novel has 20 chapters, you might include a quote for every other chapter). Include the following information in your entries:
1. Chapter and page number of a significant quote.
2. The exact text of the quote.
Place the text in quotation marks. If you are quoting dialogue, use
single quotation marks to indicate what is said and double quotation marks
around the entire quote.
3. Choose your quotes carefully, as your analysis must include
a statement showing how the specific quotation relates to the novel as a whole
(in the early chapters, you may need to make predictions). Possibilities
include quotations that show key character or theme development (how a
character changes and/or a key theme of the novel is supported), symbolism, or
the narrator’s tone and viewpoint. While you may include some brief
interpretation (what is happening in the selected text), the focus of your
entry should be on analyzing the significance of the quote you have chosen.
Please
review the sample entry for The Pearl below:
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Chap/Page
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Text of Quote
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Analysis
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One/
Pg.
2
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“His people
had once been great makers of songs so that everything they did or heard
became a song . . .In Kino’s head there was a song now, clear and soft, and
if he had been able to speak of it, he would have called it the Song of the
Family.”
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The
narrator is talking about how Kino’s ancestors wrote many songs about their
lives and circumstances. Here Kino has
written one about family. The “songs” represent values that are important to
Kino’s people; specifically, the love and bonding of family. This supports
one of the novel’s themes; that people and their families are more important
than worldly success or money.
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