ENG215H1 Lecture : Trapline
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Will lives in a community of violence and drugs. He has the chance to get away, to live with his english teacher. Town kids > village kids more economically stable. If the wind blows strong enough, they snap and fall on the powerline. Although snow is beautiful, when trees get a lot of it, it snaps off. Will experiences headaches all day, he copes with it internally, so it doesn"t show outside. Will"s life is far from any kind of pretty, postcard picture, whereas mrs. smythes" life is like a postcard. Will is figured as a kind of animal pursued and trapped: eric chasing him, locking in the basement, or locking out of the house. Immediate connection to how you trap and animal, to will and how he"s trapped in the house: will grabs food before he runs away, that need for food.
