English 1027F/G Study Guide - Alliteration, Simile, Bildungsroman
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Beginnings tend to our wanting and rage of order. (cid:224)offer us a sense of stability or certainty in a world that fails to offer that. (cid:224)humanize time (cid:224)establish atmosphere and establish setting (cid:224)arbitrary point of demarcation (cid:224)suggest there will be an end (birth/death) (cid:224)beginnings establish atmosphere, mood, tone of the story. Similarities: unreliable narrator, surreal state, water imagery, liminal space (cid:224) the bridge itself in occurrence and the bridges the mother must cross in management of grief , both have this sense of hope that is improbable. The management in grief: protagonist manages it by wanting to go back to routine, she shows up with paperwork and ways in which they can receive compensation; literally managing grief, shaila bhave has rationalized, and attempting to repress the grief, bhave has no affect; her lack of affect has been mistaken for her moving through the grief.
