ENGD80H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Synecdoche
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Female roles in the novel: why a female perspective, feel more sympathetic, speaking to a different readership, will speak to other women resonate, adopting a perspective in order to speak to a women, politics in history. Ignore diverse opinions in the book: childs perspective confusion of what is going on. Letter comes to the grandmother written in a language she can understand. Who is using language to what purpose and to what end and who is using silence. My kids wont be able to handle it. How can we both be enemies and canadians: synecdoche of impact of the japanese and how they dealt with this evil and the traumatic. To pass on to the next generation. Under what conditions are silence a benevolent strategy. Demand that people speak and keep info in their mouth. Na ve belief that once you speak you are healed when it is for many people a re-traumatization.
