ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Judith Butler, Crimean War, Alice Munro
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Tuesday"s class- the glass mountain as well as andrew lang"s retelling f the fairy tale on avenue to learn web links. Alice munro referring to short stories as houses rather than journeys. Initiation story: the main character, usually a child or adolescent, undergoes an experience (or rite of passage) that prepares him or her for adulthood. Setting (place & time): huron county farm post 1945 after the second world war, house/barn, bedroom/ hallway, inside/ outside. Narrator speaks about second world war throughout the story. In the story, a complication arises early which is the mother"s unhappiness. She is unhappy that the skinning of the animals occurs in her house (as she refers to, her sphere) Jubilee is a fictional location; rather munro refers to it being in huron county, ontario. Odour of the foxes was reassuringly seasonal; according to the daughter.