South by Southwest Analysis

Part I: Please complete the following chart on your blog. 

South by Southwest

LITERAL MEANING:  WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE PASSAGE? A man decides to go on a nonviolent killing spree to the south to discover love. On the way he picks up an indian man and the story revolves around their experiences self discovery.

LANGUAGE CHOICE : HOW does the author talk about it? Figurative Language? CONNOTATIONS? TONE? The author talks about it by dialogue and flashback. The narrator will show a flashback and that explains why he wants to find true love. He uses a optimistic tone in to show his need to find that love that he has been searching for. A connotation could be a crisis that every person goes through where he or she struggles to find himself and his purpose in life. His meaning of existence.

CONNECTIONS : How can this passage CONNECT to any outside sources? This story can be connected to the first story assimilation because Mary Lynn the protagonist goes through the same problem. They approach the subject in different ways. Mary Lynn by having sex with an indian man and the Protagonist in South by Southwest by finding and experiencing love.

OPINIONS/REFLECTION/PREDICTIONS: HOW did it make you feel? What did it make you think? This story made me feel very nostalgic  because i know that one day I will go through the same process of discovering myself as an individual. It made me think that many people try to find the answer to existence by living life to the fullest in whatever way they want. It can be by either doing dangerous life treating activities or finding love. Every person is different and they approach life in different ways.

 Part II: Answer the following question in a paragraph that includes both evidence and analysis from the chart completed. 

The story South by Southwest is about a man that tries to discover himself by going on a spree to find love. At first the protagonist is by himself but his emptiness pushes him on this journey. When he meets the indian man he just wants company and in a way find love or experience new feeling. This is a journey of discovery where he meets and analyses different situations. He sees when he meets the old woman that love can really affect a person and he wants that too. It doesn't have to be physical, he just needs a connection with someone. In the end he felt so free that he does not analyse that the police has caught him, he is so happy about his new life that he barely notices that is going to end.