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====== Dave Eggers: The Circle ====== | ====== Dave Eggers: The Circle ====== | ||
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- | | + | **What is this?** |
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+ | The following are are my unstructured study notes for the novel “The Circle” by Dave Eggers (Paperpack Edition, Penguin 2014, ISBN 978-0241970379). | ||
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+ | The notes were created with classroom discussions in mind about the consequences and implications of increasing social-media use. So you can take them as they are but need to put in some more work before they can be used in class. | ||
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===== Talk with Eamon Bailey — privately and on stage (p. 276 ff) ===== | ===== Talk with Eamon Bailey — privately and on stage (p. 276 ff) ===== | ||
- | * Slogan in three Parts (p. 303). Cf. [[George Orwell: 1984]] | + | * Slogan in three Parts (p. 303). Cf. George Orwell: 1984 |
===== Mae is transparent (p. 307 ff) ===== | ===== Mae is transparent (p. 307 ff) ===== | ||
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===== Keeping up appearances (p. 322) ===== | ===== Keeping up appearances (p. 322) ===== | ||
- | * When you’re always being watched you have to fake appearances and turn to your inside world for recreation → siehe auch [[George Orwell: 1984]] | + | * When you’re always being watched you have to fake appearances and turn to your inside world for recreation → also cf. George Orwell: 1984 |
===== Private meetings (p. 335) ===== | ===== Private meetings (p. 335) ===== | ||
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===== Student measurements (p. 342 f) ===== | ===== Student measurements (p. 342 f) ===== | ||
* Illusion that complete measurement of learning will improve learning or even improve personal skills of students. | * Illusion that complete measurement of learning will improve learning or even improve personal skills of students. | ||
- | * “Where was this 20 yrs ago? My kids would have gone to Yale” | + | * “Where was this 20 years ago? My kids would have gone to Yale” |
===== Mae goes to Francis’ dorm room (p. 378) ===== | ===== Mae goes to Francis’ dorm room (p. 378) ===== | ||
- | * Francis is sorry that he recorded the sex that the two of them had, “I couldn’t believe that I was with you. And there was some part of me that assumed it would be the only time. I wanted to remember it” – Is recording something really the best way of remembering a special moment? → smart phone photos everywhere, | + | * Francis is sorry that he recorded the sex that the two of them had, “I couldn’t believe that I was with you. And there was some part of me that assumed it would be the only time. I wanted to remember it” – Is recording something really the best way of remembering a special moment? → smart phone photos everywhere, |
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+ | > „Monde und Jahre vergehen, aber ein schöner Moment leuchtet das Leben hindurch.“ | ||
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+ | > — Franz Grillparzer | ||
===== Mae learns about some people’s negative opinion and meets Annie (p. 410) ===== | ===== Mae learns about some people’s negative opinion and meets Annie (p. 410) ===== | ||
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- | #lektuere #buecher # |
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