ENGL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Free Indirect Speech, Adele Wiseman, Handjob
17 May 2017
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The rst lines of the novel focus no the physical deformity o the parents: hunchback, blind, obese. Similar to frankenstein: even the child already has a word of judgement. There is not irony in frankenstein but there is in crackpot. Irony: discrepancy between what hoda can see or understand and what we can understand as a reader. The reader and the narrator are a few steps ahead of hoda: can make it humorous or sad. How hoda matures is that she pretends not to understand social conventions in order to say what she wants: becomes a gure who exposes social hypocrisy by pretending. Weisman resists the idea of the individual transcending his body: hoda is comfortable in her body. Crackpot: title suggests that she is open to others, in her work and with their feelings. She is able to leap into the consciousness of another being. Pg 103, 42: gro an attribute given to hoda"s physical appearance.
