ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Places In Harry Potter, Red Riding, William Safire
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Miss trunchbull s face was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy forever. First line of one of one of keats poems. Supposed to make the reader feel very clever for catching it. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on oldern-day sailing ships with joseph conrad. She went to africa with ernest hemingway and to india with rudyard kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an english village. The boys stories are truly the ones that matilda loves. A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. There is a strange sort of gender discourse in the book: there s the grotesque (miss trunchbull) who are beyond femininity, there s matilda, who is declared to be useless by her father because she is just a girl.
