English 3650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metafiction, Time Complexity, Psychological Trauma
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The parent-child relationship and the environment plays into the text like room does. Overtime they want to go into the house the boy is always concerned about it. The boy keeps asking if they are the good guys or the bad guys. Innocence of the child, especially since he wonders if they are the good guys or the bad. How silence figures into the text, and how darkness is worrisome. The point of life for its own sake. The boy asks what their long term goals are and the father can"t answer. What is significant about the reality of time, and the lack of linear time, and how times passes. They question when they can and cant have light. Innocence, darkness/silence, the monster within, the point of life, time, bildungsroman. This inverts the relationship of motherhood, and the child is the most valuable thing to the mother.
