CCR199H1 Lecture 7: Hoboes, Geniuses and Immigrants: Otherness in Contemporary Culture
CCR199 Lecture 10
●What is Agent Orange? How and when was it used? What was Canada's role in the
production of Agent Orange?
○Vietnam war, Canada participated in the production of the chemical
●What were the repercussions of the use of Agent Orange on the Vietnamese people ?
Are some of these repercussions still happening today?
○Physical deformities of unborn children, cancer, miscarriages, it’s affected future
generation, the repercussions are still being seen today, still children being born
with deformities from
●What characters are affected by Agent Orange in All the Broken Things?
○Rose, Bo and his father, soldier man
●What message does the novel convey by dealing with the consequences of Agent
Orange?
○It’s something that isn’t spoken about very often, emphasizing the themes of
responsibility (factories and companies are responsible)
●In what ways does the novel All the Broken Things present Orange Blossom as an
extreme example of Otherness?
○Max exploits her, he kidnaps her and puts her into the freak show
●What characters accept Orange Blossom as different and do not view her as an Other?
○Bo, Emily, and Teacher
○Teacher gets Emily to teach Orange how to sign, Bo takes amazing care of
Orange
●Explain the concept of Oikos. Does Bo find a new oikos in Canada?
○Physical: it is a place, you can identify it as a place
○Psyche feeling that you belong psychologically, if you don’t feel you belong then
that place is not your Oikos
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Document Summary
Vietnam war, canada participated in the production of the chemical. Physical deformities of unborn children, cancer, miscarriages, it"s affected future generation, the repercussions are still being seen today, still children being born with deformities from. Rose, bo and his father, soldier man. What message does the novel convey by dealing with the consequences of agent. It"s something that isn"t spoken about very often, emphasizing the themes of responsibility (factories and companies are responsible) Max exploits her, he kidnaps her and puts her into the freak show. Teacher gets emily to teach orange how to sign, bo takes amazing care of. Physical: it is a place, you can identify it as a place.
