ENG215H1 Lecture : ENG215 - Lecture Notes on Squatter, Part 1.docx
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Both the stories (squatter and simple recipes) allow us to negotiate multiple entities. In squatter, this concept is introduced by its own title. Squatter: a person who unlawfully occupies or inhabits a building or unused land; a settler with no legal title to the land occupied, typically one on land not yet allotted by the gov. It prepares them for a straightforward or serious consideration of issues of assimilation and adaptation of immigration. The characters in this story experience immigration in the perspective of a squatter; they may feel that they dn rightfully inhabit the land they live on. The title is also ironic and plays into the representation of serosh who travels from bombay to. He realizes that his challenge in adapting to toronto is learning how to go to the toilet by sitting on it. There is a doubleness in the story, which helps readers to complicate the way in which the story problematizes.
