COMP-LIT 141 Lecture 4: White Castle Pt. 2

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Comparative Literature
• Course: COMP-LIT 141
• Professor: Hande Gurses

Document Summary

Comp lit 141: good and evil; east and west. The narrator in the beginning talked of how ambitious he was. By the end of the book, the narrator has gotten fat and lazy. Story was published in turkish wasn"t made for a western audience. The orient/easterner has to fight for their education (hoja) whereas the. When the characters trade places, there is no distinguish between the. Easterner and the westerner all human: the ending. No distinction between truth and false the point was to have a good story. No interest for the truth: hoja was interested in the truth interrogated people in his search for the truth and only ended up frustrated because all he could get were stories there is no truth. The ending is supposed to be confusing and it doesn"t matter that it is: why am i what i am? . Self identity is chaotic in this book.