English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Naivety, Book Works
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Essay #2: due this friday, professor"s office hours: tuesday and thursday, the sooner you hand in your essay, the sooner you will get your mark (it you would like your mark before the exam) It may be the villain who drives the plot: when there aren"t as many exciting external events in realist fiction, the focus is on the child"s own imaginative world. Eg. anne and her friends act out a scene from a tennyson poem, and anne nearly drowns. The bastable children believe this scam and when they taste it, they decide to try to sweeten it with sugar. In some ways, the children demonstrate virtues that are lacking in the adults: p. 138 they write a remorseful poem to lord tottenham after their dog attacks him. Almost all of the adults try to show they are wealthier than they are.