Friday April 27

Individual Presentations 2:

Emily Lewis:

• muses and herself
• Terpsichore, the dance muse
• from the Homeric Hymns

Daniel Prill:

• Daedalus and Icarus
• redemptive powers of art
• the labyrinth and flight
• 'carry on our wayward sons' a Canvas song based on Daedalus and Icarus

Jared Porter:

• Calvin and Hobbes and the 5 conflicts in Antigone
• men and women: Susy Jerkin
• old and young: he always fights with his parents
• individual and society: he feels forced to go to school and learn
• man and god: he has no strong faith, but he has a personal relationship to God because he pretends that he is god
• living and the dead: the raccoon incident showed how sensitive he really is. Was very upset when it got sick and died

John Orsi:

• Metamorphoses and daily life
• Perseus, Andromeda and Atlas
• didn't need Atlas because his love for Andromeda was enough
• search for something that they had to have (ex- Pilgrims and the Indians)
• when they find true love, they stop searching

John Nay:

• Metamorphoses of Holden Coffer from Catcher in the Rye
• also 5 conflicts:
• individual and society: goes against 'phonies'
• living and the dead: brother passed away and haunts him
• old and young: he hates the world and the old ways, wants to save the children
• men and women: summer hookup makes him crazy
• man and god: his loss of faith and the way he holds onto his idealistic outlook of what the world could be

Will Mezharich:

• immortality and storytelling
• classic authors are still alive today because of their stories
• "the story is immortalized, and the author is riding the coat tails'
• told a story about how the way to immortality is to tell a story

Mick Leslie:

• sequence of events based on the past, showed him that the past effects the present
• 'Walkabout' by James Vance Marshal
• a 'walkabout' is a walk to gain knowledge
• coincidence is actually providence
• 'Songlines' by Bruce Chatmin talks about 'walkabouts' "I'm singing up the land boss"