ENGLISH 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Taste, Sharecropping
1 May 2015
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Fiona has her own order within her home, sense of comfort, slips away as her health deteriorates: author uses time jumps quite frequently, point of view: 3rd person, limited omniscience, filtered largely through grant"s feelings/thoughts, structure/plot: episodic a plot that stretches over weeks or even longer periods and thus consists of isolated scenes connected by a thin tissue of transitional devices (14, peripety (plot reversal) (15, plot goes from past to present frequently, fiona struggles with past, forsaken feeling. Happy endings margaret atwood: flash fiction/ meta fiction (fiction drawing attention to the fact that this piece of writing is fiction, plot: 6 different plots, deliberate and witty play on the general definition of a plot, the story is told, broken up, and put back together (288, emphasizes the role of the reader in constructing the plot, class structure: story a) upper class, living american dream, shorter story.
