ENGB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Elite, Mughal Empire, Moth Smoke
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Talk about stylistic and theme in passages. Child eyes notice the little things, the seemingly important things that the adults glance over. Always rahel"s adult sense of guilt interjects: the memory and the innocent child. She (rahel) sees foreign things and plays with it. What are you is an imitation, but the kids mock it. Feels rejected in the play of sophie. Style, you know immediately who wrote it. How things are written relate to the message. Rich, people, global elite kill people with their cars and all the time. Global elite who believe they are above the law. Structure of moth smoke reminded you it"s a book. Judging and being judged are the two roles in life. Engage with the novel a prompt to judge the grey morality. You" is very modern second-person narration rarely used impossible story-telling but it adds interesting. We can tell it"s not going anywhere good. Daru is passive, does not make plans.
