ENGL124 Lecture : English 124 Lecture January 15.docx
8 Jul 2014
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Is science or rationale a function for penny, with her occupation as a psychologist: metafiction = a story within a story, stories function as a response to trauma gaining control over the uncontrollable, the idea of containment is prevalent in the book under the glass case, the forest also suggests containment the thing never escapes, mall is contained by crystal glass, monsters are a construct that we create subjectively and through narrative, Relation between thing and the old man: both in great pain sorrowful and suffering, both have human characteristics, caged/confined, an element of the unknown constructed and portrayed in an indeterminate manner, both subject to multiple interpretations, mixture of familiar and unfamiliar (hybrid structure, old man is half human but also supernatural, both arose during times of struggle/trauma.
