ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Japa, Ope, Unreliable Narrator
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Methods: pg numbers/quotes, characters (descriptions, plot summaries, thematic patterns, recurring words. Argument: media and (its) misinformation, disaster (elsewhere in the world) as protection, flipping the hierarchy. Media and (its) misinformation: pg 11, 13, 14. Middle and upper class families and disaster. Flipping the hierarchy: aka reversing privilege, pg 160- 163 (cid:894)(cid:449)he(cid:374) disaste(cid:396) o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)s i(cid:374) bla(cid:272)ks(cid:373)ith fo(cid:396) ja(cid:272)k"s fa(cid:373)il(cid:455); the(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e the helpless a(cid:374)d (cid:374)eed(cid:455) that ja(cid:272)k"s (cid:272)olleagues des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)ed a(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld (cid:894)e(cid:454). Argument: what and why (seen as) mother/ (or) sexual object: defining (her/babette) = control (over her, li(cid:373)iti(cid:374)g / (cid:374)o alte(cid:396)(cid:374)ati(cid:448)es (cid:894)although he sa(cid:455)s he"s (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g ope(cid:374) (cid:373)i(cid:374)ded ja(cid:272)k (cid:396)efuses to see. Argument: how: des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374)s of ba(cid:271)ette (cid:894)she"s (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) se(cid:454)ualized, see(cid:374) as just a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t of pleasu(cid:396)e to ja(cid:272)k. Irony and unreliable narrator (referring to jack) (cid:862)usage(cid:863) (cid:894)ke(cid:455) wo(cid:396)d, (cid:272)o(cid:373)es up (cid:373)ultiple ti(cid:373)es i(cid:374) the (cid:271)ook(cid:895) Pe(cid:396)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)ed (cid:894)it"s a (cid:396)ole (cid:449)e take o(cid:374)(cid:895) Themes (babette as) either/or: mother: pg 53, 70-72, 95 (babette as)either/or: sexual object, pg 246.
