PAAE: 147-175

Free write: "Her every belonging, Madam van Seyveld said, has been replaced by something that resembled its predecessor but was fundamentally different" (123). This same sentiment was shared by many people after the war. We can even see this happening to Max as he is trying to replace Rose/their relationship and his father's paintings.

Option 1: Think about your character for the scrapbook project and write about something that was replaced in their lives with a similar yet "fundamentally different" item.

Option 2: Think about your own life and write about how something was replaced with something similar but "fundamentally different."

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Discussion

** Let's look at some slides, first

1. In what ways is Chaim's refusal to have his passport stamped "Deporté" a sign of his struggle with identity, a struggle with its dynamics and what define him?

2. p. 124: the resourcefulness of the art dealers (I love this story!)

3. p. 129: Chevalier's "Valentine"

4. What does Sara contrast of Chaim and Max's war time experiences on p. 131?

5. In what ways has Max receded from the foreground of the action?

6. Exactly what did Rose do during the water (p. 148-152, 158, 170-175)?

7. Do you think Max needs Rose or wants Rose? Justify your response.

8. Recovery of one painting ... p. 162

9. Dream p. 165

10. Rose's rebuttal: p. 169

**How has Max's voice changed over the course of the novel thus far? How would you describehis voice in Parts 1 & 2? Part 3?

PAAE: 113-146

Night & Fog video

** Let's look at some slides

PAAE: 81-112

Free write: How much change can we survive and still remain ourselves? Think about how context informs our identity and what happens when the context changes to the extent that Max and Daniel experienced it.

Some questions from prior reading ...

1. "You love to learn, Max, you love to desire" (58) Is this a true assessment of Max as we, the reader, know him?

2. What role does Bertrand serve as this point in the novel?

3. Tone of the start of Chapter 6

4. Part 3: the homecoming. Let's read the chapter out loud. How would you describe the tone and mood of the chapter?

From last night's

1. What has become of Paris? Reference specifics from the text as to the changes that have occurred or are observed.

2. p. 96: the curse. What's that all about? How does Daniel's response to the stolen art work reveal his true character?

3. p. 98: What are we to think of Daniel's comment that, "This is why we do poorly when we affix ourselves to objects. They lead to longing and to speculation." What then is Daniel missing? Why is he so depressed in Paris? So depressed is has begun to die.

4. How is Max surviving in Paris? How is he trying to recapture what was lost in his life?

PAAE: 57-80

Some creative writing

p. 43: Pictures at an Exhibition Promenade (walking between paintings), Gnome (first painting seen), The Old Castle (next painting)

"This is the closest you can ever get to that exhibition. They say all of Hartmann's paintings have been lost, so there is only the music."

What do you see?

PAAE: 24-56

Free write: How does absence register in our awareness? When we miss something or someone, how do we know that?

When Max notices his curiosity about Rose, it comes through the hot water he misses in his shower, from the outline of light cast from her window at night, from the empty chair at meals.

For your writing today, you have two choices. If you want, target this to your character for the scrapbook project. Imagine a journal entry in which your character is missing someone or something. By what means does your character measure what is not there? How is that someone or something known in its absence?

If you can’t imagine (at least right now) what or who your character would be missing, think about the phrase “the room was empty” and think of what an empty room contains that makes us know it as “empty”. Use all your senses. If you closed your eyes, for example, what would tell you about a room and it’s being empty?

Perhaps the room exercise will lead you later to something about your character.

**Let's move to the board!

PAAE: 1-23

Free write
Step 1: Think of a significant experience from 7+ years ago.
Step 2: In 6-8 sentences, describe the experience. This is a good time to practice showing not telling. Use your present voice as you remember
Step 3: In 6-8 sentences, describe the experience, but capture the voice of your age when it happened. This is where your vocabulary and sentence structure and tone should match your younger age.
Step 4: How do age and reflection change our experience of an event? How do age and reflection express express themselves in our writing?

Discussion
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. — Degas

Let's look at some artwork

1. Let's look at the narrator and how he is telling his story.

• Tone?
• Dominant Impression?
• What details are conveyed and how?

2. Goethe's Theory of Color
3. The relationship between Max and his father is somewhat tenuous. Why doesn't Daniel want Max to inherit the family's art gallery? Why did Daniel make Max rehearse the art of the gallery's past exhibits?
4. What insights about the family do we gain from Rose, our first outsider looking in?
5. When does Max speak in art & music? (find specific examples) What does this reveal about his character?

PAAE: it begins

Free write:
In what way does memory influence our identity? YES, I want you to write a SPA paragraph on this topic. NO, I am not collecting this. But YES, I want you to write with structure and thought.

Let's look at the novel
First section: The 3-read (1. class, 2. silent, 3. class)

What kind of tone does the narrator create?
What is your dominant impression of the narrator?
What kinds of details does he convey?