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Sebastian Lee and Annie Lu<\/p>\n
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We created a PowerPoint presentation with our personal questions regarding Homage to Catalonia<\/em> to facilitate the class discussion.<\/p>\n We divided the questions\/quotes into general categories, sharing and discussing the topics with the class in approximately the following order:<\/p>\n -The purpose, style and tone of the book<\/strong> (How was the book written? Why so?)<\/p>\n Point Of View<\/p>\n What was Orwell trying to achieve?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -The setting of the book<\/strong> (What kind of atmosphere did it create?)<\/p>\n Also: \u201cSpanish\u201d qualities, and their take on the war (\u201cMa\u00f1ana\u201d)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n Subtopics:<\/p>\n War vs Revolution (What\u2019s the difference?) \u2013 simplifying to \u201cFascism vs Democracy\u201d<\/p>\n Motivations of the War (foreign interests, interparty skirmishes etc\u2026)<\/p>\n The USSR\u2019s effect on Spain<\/p>\n Anarchist and Egalitarian societies: how would they work?<\/p>\n Motivations of international fighters in Spain (e.g. Bob Smillie)<\/p>\n Skirmish of the Telephone Exchange: could it have been avoided?<\/p>\n The POUM microcosm: why was the class system unable to be abolished?<\/p>\n What happened to Georges Kopp?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n –Miscellaneous<\/strong>: events of the book (Orwell getting shot in the neck, Rats, rats, rats! Weapons distribution to the public\u2026)<\/p>\n -Religion: <\/strong>changing roles of the church<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sebastian Lee and Annie Lu We created a PowerPoint presentation with our personal questions regarding Homage to Catalonia to facilitate the class discussion. We divided the questions\/quotes into general categories, sharing and discussing the topics with the class in approximately the following order: -The purpose, style and tone of the book (How was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sebastianrlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}