ENGL 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Medgar Evers, Hearing Aid, Christmas Cookie
15 Sep 2016
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There is an oral storytelling tradition in this novel pg. Recurring dream: dreams she was a character in a novel, pg. 121- the announcement that the novel is about insoluble problems. What is the unsolvable problem: pg. 189- they hunger after more intricate and enduring patterns they want to understand the south in some way that hollywood is not depicting it. What is the south after 1964 rise of the modern feminist movement: the novel repeatedly stresses its attachment to the south this novel has the south at the center of its concern. 1 the characters continuously return to the south: pg 191- i tried very hard not to hate you, and i think i succeeded. 31-32: in the book all the characters are having sex. Everywhere: lynn falls for truman based, lynn joins the civil rights movement because she is sleeping with truman, meridian cant understand why lynn and truman are sleeping together.
