ENGLISH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Exoticism, Hubris, List Of The Neverending Story Characters

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3F03
• Professor: Iris Bruce

Document Summary

Echoes to classical tradition, greek myth, the quest of the holy grail, king arthur. This is a very western text and a very modern one. Gmork the werewolf, represents evil, sin, temptation, just like xayide. There are different native tales about wolves about hunting etc. Concept of the dragon in chinese culture also very different. A chubby 10 or 12 year old who gets cullied. Quest for the human, bastian, who lives through atrju. All chapters begin with letters of the alphant. Several different frames: books within books, stories within stories, mr. coreander at beginning, and the end, and his father at the beginning and the end. In school and returning to it, but leaving and going outside of the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld ho(cid:373)e agai(cid:374) Bastian sees himself in the magic mirror gate (cid:862)if (cid:455)ou ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) spe(cid:374)t the (cid:449)hole afte(cid:396) (cid:449)ith (cid:271)u(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g ea(cid:396)s flash light u(cid:374)de(cid:396) a (cid:271)la(cid:374)ket (cid:863)