ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Close Reading
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Short story: the ones who walk away from omelas. This short story can be described as a meta ction, a text that calls upon itself as an act of ction. (comments on its own ctionality) This narrative is trying to describe an imaginary word, also could be scribed as a. The ones who walk away, are the ones who can"t accept. Meta ction: a story about the creation of the ction itself, which comments upon its own. The real plot of the story don"t really happen with omega itself, or the story world itself. The series of events are the narrator struggling with her own art. The narrator does not have much control over what she is doing. We say she" because it coincides with le guin, no proof really if its a she". There are events, but they are not connected.
