EN286 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Art Therapy, Papyrus 46
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**changes in due dates for proposals & due dates for assigned readings (will be posted in mls) As a character - cannot speak to other characters - what does it say about her that she cannot speak until much later? o. Something she cannot talk about, it created a suspense cause we wonder what happened. So melinda cannot speak serves as two interrelated and separate function - as a narrator and a character. Definition - novels/stories manifesting a playful awareness of their own status as fictions. Drawing our attention that it is a fiction. o. It is not the kind of connection we are expecting in melinda"s story - in this situation, instead of being an author"s story is melinda"s story, the author is rachel. The message is - even though speaking up doesn"t get what you want, but you should still do it.
