Note: Have you picked your independent reading yet? Any questions on the assignment? (It is your final grade!)
Tonight, Read Book 2, Chapter 1
Journal 26
In the Apuleius myth, Psyche had four tasks or labors. Since the god of the mountain told Orual "you also shall be Psyche," Orual must undertake some version of the tasks. The following chart may help in keeping them straight.
Apuleius
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sort a huge pile of seeds
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separate motives (the seeds of actions) from pretext (p.256)
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gather wool from killer rams
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golden rams leave wool on thorn bushes (p.283)
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fetch water from inaccessible mountain river
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fetch water from river of death for Ungit (p.286)
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bring Venus a box containing beauty from the underworld
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go to the deadlands and get beauty in a casket for Ungit (p.301)
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1. Time is running out for Orual. She has no time to rewrite her book so she adds to it. What is her reason for wanting to add or clarify material? How might writing change the way a person sees things?2. What does Ansit understand about love that Orual does not?
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