ENGC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Call It Sleep, Cheder
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David is attracted to the idea of the word of god, and the idea of isaiah being cleansed with a coal. Remember david draws links between different things - he relates god to hating the dirty, and that access to that story in their holy book could possibly make him clean. Fear & desire vs. obliteration & transcendence. David wants a divine power to match his father"s physical power. David is in search of epiphanies and getting in touch with the divine. 247-8: modernist epiphany; david sees the sun shining on the water, and he feels closer to. The modern unconscious - the immigrant experience isn"t what david thinks about. He thinks about religion or family, but there are self-conscious scenes about the immigrant condition. We as readers see these scenes, but david does not; call it sleep is an allegory of the human condition.
