ENGC02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Miscarriage, Petroleum Product, Unreliable Narrator
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Readers have to decode along with the novel. Story follows canadian copywriter from calgary named laura. Laura is an editor who is oversensitive to patterns and mistakes. She lives in a mall and is reclusive. Classmates associated calgary with cows, beef, and oil. Laura"s father who is a retired calgary school teacher dies & his death is rules a suicide. There are a 2nd set of car tires at the scene. Computer shows him falling into a nigerian internet scam. 3 young nigerians are integrated into the text. Officer says sorry for your loss but laura"s thoughts are shown in italics saying something along the lines of, no, you"re not. Without traffic accidents, you won"t have a job. Aspects of story are presented ahead of their time (nigerian words are introduced) You"re a sweet canadian only in your geographic space and not looking into the past. Week 9- thursday, november 6, 2014: focalizer, character:
