ENGL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bombing Of Dresden In World War Ii, Susan Sontag, Chandra Levy
15 Mar 2016
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The king dies and then the queen died. The king dies and then the queen dies of grief. I was always moving them round, trying to make connection. How are these stories connected: oskar & grandfather, dealing with loss of a loved one, lost themselves, neither can express feelings iii. Grandmother: i want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. The letter was destroyed but its final paragraph is inside of me. (79) Family (is) stories: oskar & blacks, stories of trauma & loss b. Importance of community & sharing stories: oskar can"t yet so he listens, words traumatize & wound but also heal & connect. Grandmother: writing as a gift to oskar, trying to fit in all the stories, more expressive, energy, emotion, self-revealing, haunted by sister, love is wounding, do-er. Paper airplane: are the images grounding or unsettling? a.
