ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infant Mortality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1AA3
• Professor: Roger Hyman

Document Summary

Ironizaion of the biblical story indian children will not make it to the promised land. In order to survive sophie has to sell parts of her heritage and selling future. Connecion between the idea that the future is at risk vs. sophie"s survival is based on selling tribal artwork. Emily"s answer: i have no money for baskets economic moive which is a part of a capitalist model where people will not survive if the product is not bought. Oten when you learn a new language you forget the old (breaks in tradiion) You keep now, bymby pay (55), frank school english (57) Sophie speaks pigeon english which is simpliied language infanilized language. Sophie is forced to speak a language that is not hers when she is competent in her own language o o. She is reduced to a child-like status when she is forced to speaks english. Sophie is limited by the structures which are imposed on her.