ENGL 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coracle, Israel Hands, Masculinity
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Tradeoffs in a community you have to fit in to be safe. Billy bones attractive and repulsive paradox. Adventure stories are meant for people who are ordinary to see what it would be like where manners and social norms are out the window, no real social structure live vicariously. A fantasy about giving up community can"t always rely on community (ch. 4 when neighbors aren"t willing to help jim and his mom) Jim relatively young, still under care of parents. When jim"s dad dies, he had to continue on doing his chores even though he was sad, but when. As college students, we are in between the civilized and uncivilized relates to the story. Giving up real parents and having metaphoric, symbolic parents (coaches, ras, professors, etc. ) 1 - 15 plot involves embellishing or condensing certain details can add or exclude certain details from the plot.
