ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Dysfunctional Family, White Privilege
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Will lives in a comm of violence and drugs: lives in a cycle where parents leave and get drunk, eric gets high and beats him up, will escapes to the smythes. Is a regular thing: teenage angst, lives lived without white privilege, violently dysfunctional family. Must avoid brutal attns of his older bro. He himself is abused by his dad: world totally bereft of both childhood innocence and adult protection. Has a chance to get away and live with his eng teacher: rhetorical trap, stakes aren"t = cuz whether he wins or loses he stays. Presented will illusion of choice when he doesn"t have any. Traplines(title)- traps will and his father set for the martens signify the many traps in will"s life. His fight to keep himself alive only makes more traps for him to fall in. Friends will not talk to a townie. The white ppl have stereotypes about the indians.
