ENG 2131 Lecture 1: Ocean
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Ocean at the end of the of the lane: child being treated more and more like a scape goat. Would sacri cially or ceremony would have the sins or problems made on them and then would be driven out or murdered. They want to live in this imaginary world so he is scare goateed: boundaries and thresholds. The boy is a threshold for ursula. She cant exist without a host (she is vulnerable in that sense) She was woken up and had to make this place safe for her. Whose really evil - the monster or the creator- Creates a boundaries around the house or all the broken toys (112: broken toys represent artifacts that have meant something beyond what they really are. Symbolic way people have lived with them and used them: ocean is on one level a pond. (130) its as big as it needs to be - letti: ursula doesn"t want to leave.