TWIST Passages for Tuesday, Nov. 4

Today in class, students completed a close reading of three passages in All the Pretty Horses, completing a TWIST for each on a page in their notebooks.

Here are the directions:

Read through all of these passages in pages 1-30, and then choose the three that you think are the most ripe for analysis. Make notes on each step of the TWIST process in your notebook for each of the three passages.

Most of the passages are a single paragraph, but there are a couple of exceptions.

“The candleflame and the image of the candleflame...” through “That was not sleeping” (3).

“As he turned to go he heard the train” through “Then he turned and went back to the house” (3-4).

“In the evening he saddled his horse and rode out west...” through “...like a grail the sum of their secular and transitory and violent lives” (5).

“There was an old horseskull in the brush...” through “and they would always be so and never be otherwise” (6).

“The room smelled of cigarsmoke” through “The clock struck eleven in the front room across the hall” (11).

“He walked down to South Concho Street” through “Yessir, he said” (14).

“She put a napkin on the table and pushed back her chair” through “those are picturebook horses and went on eating” (15-16).

“Snow was falling in the San Saba” through “The waitress set a glass of water in front of him” (19-20).

“They rode together a last time” through “that was what he sought and it would have been” (22-23).