ENG140Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Orangutan, Magic Realism, Laurea
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Part a short answers (3/6 10 marks each) formalist questions related to terminology and aspects of form. Part b passage analysis (close reading) 8 passages do 4 of the 8 (10 marks each) Part c short essay (1 topic worth 30 marks) No matter how far we read, we won"t get chronologically further than the end of the story. Part 1 is marked by shift in narrative voices going back and forth. Moral imperative to tell the story right to make the listener understand. Reader is set up to make that leap of narrative faith. Tension between biological fact of large tiger, and melancholy at beginning, tiger leaves. Isaic laurea: allow space of creation of the world. Life he makes after the event is shaped by the experience of the event. Just because he did all those things doesn"t mean hes living a grand heroic life. Throw pi in the lifeboat, but there is a hyena in there.
