Context Activity 3 The Proletarian Novel Student Guidance In this task you will consider the literary context of the proletarian novel (AO3) and consider to what extent Call It Sleep fits this genre. You will also consider how the novel fits the bildungsroman genre (AO3). Research the term proletarian novel. What are the tropes that appear in this kind of literature? Do you of the think David’s experience is symbolic proletarian experience? Can you find quotations that you can relate to the Proletarian experience and the Immigrant experience? Research the term bildungsroman. This is another literary genre (or context AO3) that Call It Sleep fits into. Do the quotations you have used for the Proletarian and Immigrant experience, also relate to the Bildungsroman genre? Section of Call It Sleep Quotation Proletarian experience Immigrant experience Bildungsroman The Prologue of her halo were Oppressive forces deny the family are different ‘the rays David’s spikes of proletariat the fruits of the to other immigrant families darkness…’ (14) Golden Land that have travelled from Ellis Island; thanks to the Albert’s personality, term Golden Land is freighted with irony
Context Activity 3 The Proletarian Novel Student Guidance In this task you will consider the literary context of the proletarian novel (AO3) and consider to what extent Call It Sleep fits this genre. You will also consider how the novel fits the bildungsroman genre (AO3). Research the term proletarian novel. What are the tropes that appear in this kind of literature? Do you think David’s experience is symbolic of the proletarian experience? Can you find quotations that you can relate to the Proletarian experience and the Immigrant experience? Research the term bildungsroman. This is another literary genre (or context AO3) that Call It Sleep fits into. Do the quotations you have used for the Proletarian and Immigrant experience, also relate to the Bildungsroman genre? Section of Call It Sleep Quotation Proletarian experience Immigrant experience Bildungsroman The Prologue ‘the rays of her halo were spikes of darkness…’ (14) Oppressive forces deny the proletariat the fruits of the Golden Land David’s family are different to other immigrant families that have travelled from Ellis Island; thanks to Albert’s personality, the term Golden Land is freighted with irony
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