ENGB05H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cockroach
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Topic sentence: the protagonist of the novel plays with his own humanity and the vulnerability that him and his fellow immigrants share. The protagonist of the novel does not adopt an affective recognition of his fellow immigrants. Supporting detail: speaks about the narrator"s goals, past and current state. Example 1: the narrator is sent by the state to a mental asylum and then to a therapist after his recent suicide attempt. Supporting detail 2: kit dobson elaborates about his sister"s death and her sister"s thuggish husband, Supporting detail 3: the novel follows his movements through montreal. Including his instances of taking advantage of na ve locals, threatening fellow immigrants, sneaking into houses and seducing women. Topic sentence: the protagonist"s boundary between himself and the cockroaches in his apartment, the giant cockroach and his episodes of morphing into a cockroach. Supporting detail: the fixation on cockroaches derives from his deceased sister calling him a cockroach when he was younger.
