ENGL 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Body Snatching
26 Feb 2017
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There is an absence of adult male role models for tom. He doesn"t have a father and his aunt is not a competent parent. His teacher - mr dobbins: the common place name for a donkey (like spot for a dog) Becky rips the book: dobbins has aspirations to be a doctor but he drinks and when. Becky rips the book it is by accident but the suggestion might be that in the anatomy book had a naked woman in it. Mr dobbins" wig gets removed: paralleled to aunt"s glasses; shows that he isn"t a t role model. Situation of opposites - romantic: the child is better that the adult. Mr dobbins not a role model: we encounter him in the graveyard where he commits a crime (body snatching), to practice dissecting. Mr. walters - the sunday school teacher: they are supposed to be studying the bible (scripture) but this church makes them recite it and get testing.
