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BUILDING CONTEXT chapter 4
You could take this opportunity to intro-
Y ou could take this opportunity to intr o-
olstoy
duce your students to T
, if they ar
e
duce your students to Tolstoy, if they are
unfamiliar with him. He was a Russian
unfamiliar with him. He was a Russian
author but was not fr
author but was not from Ukraine. What
om Ukraine. What
impressions does the statue make? You
essions does the statue make? Y
ou
impr
e T
s atti-
olstoy’
might have students explor
might have students explore Tolstoy’s atti-
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It’s easy to see the size tudes towar d war and peace (or if they’r e
tudes toward war and peace (or if they’re
of the 1967 monument of
ambitious, they could read War and
Leo Tolstoy that stands in ambitious, they could r ead
Other Voices / Ilya Kaminsky
Peace!). He denounced many Russian wars
Odessa’s Tolstoy Square Peace
by looking at the building of his time.
of his time.
in the background. Use
your imagination to add
Kaminsky and his friends
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cleaning Tolstoy’s ears, DIFFERENTIATION
DIFFERENTIA
TION
Serge Krynytsia (Haidamac) plus his mother imitating Collaborative Learning
the marching soldiers.
Collaborative Learning
How does Kaminsky’s
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AP
AP Teaching Tip. Although the structure
depiction of cleaning
the statue align with the
and line of reasoning of Kaminsky’s essay s essay
and line of r
easoning of Kaminsky’
mood of the statue
are complex, you could simplify it and dis-e complex, you could simplify it and dis-
ar
itself?
cuss it as a form of narration. Accor
cuss it as a form of narration. According to ding to
the AP Language CED, REO-1.I, “When
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developing ideas through narration, writers ough narration, writers
developing ideas thr
offer details about real-life experiences and eal-life experiences and
Without adding a single word, the fat man act of a fool who touches the skin of time and of fer details about r
offer reflections and insights on the signifi-eflections and insights on the signifi-
walks away, with the child and the woman. He walks through it, toward childhood — touches of fer r
cance of those experiences.” You could ou could
makes sure they step in front of him. The neigh- the sidewalks of the streets he once touched cance of those experiences.” Y
shar
bors never see him again. But this story lives on, as a 15-year-old deaf boy. How much the share that statement with your students, e that statement with your students,
and my father, the child he saved, the child who present moment means to those who have and ask them to discuss how it applies to and ask them to discuss how it applies to
Kaminsky’s essay. In small groups, they oups, they
never again sees this fat man, keeps repeating nothing more. Kaminsky’ s essay . In small gr
ee or mor
could find thr
this story to his own deaf son. When trams pass, the walls vibrate, as do could find three or more examples that fit e examples that fit
that definition of narration as an effective fective
• remembered scraps of stories. Naïve to think that definition of narration as an ef
rhetorical choice.rhetorical choice.
this. Naïve to think that Odessa, which is a part
If my cousins and uncles met me in the street, of my father’s consciousness, is mine again. I
it would be scandalous. I send holiday emails and turn off my hearing aids and am again in the
occasional gifts. The man in his 40s who comes silence around which people’s lips move.
back to this city is not me, not the American rela- •
tive they know of. Why am I back here in this
country that betrayed my family? For years, every- My father is a foundling. The year he is born his 20
one I know will ask me why I came back here to own father, Ilya, is arrested and shot as “an enemy
these streets. What is it I am trying to recall? of the people.” The year he is born his mother,
I turn off my hearing aids and walk up to Julianna, is “sent away” to Siberia. He remembers
walls, touch them with my fingers. This is the none of this. His memory starts four years later.
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CLOSE READING
The opening paragraph of the fourth section
(par. 17) contains some ambiguities that merit
exploration. You could ask students to exam-
ine the meaning of the word “scandalous,”
what Kaminsky means by “The man in his
40s who comes back to this city is not me,”
and the function of the question “What is it
I am trying to recall?” as central to the essay
as a whole.
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