ENGL 222 Lecture Notes - Bulldozer
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Need to be anonymous to beg (beggar"s garden) P. 116: experience that peter is having turns into an extended metaphor. Is this how language interfaces with city life: turning experiences into metaphor is part of our understanding. P. 118: how rotten the house looks from the outside . Constructing an understanding of home that"s independent from the way homes look. Home takes on characteristics of thickness, depth. P. 134: renovating the house and finding that the lumber has hardened. P. 127: city plows through family"s unity , place is the bulldozer itself, family has a hard time resisting the influences of city. Possibly suggests that the city kills the mother in ways that their mennonite town would never: city impacts in very visceral kinds of ways. P. 130: maybe in canada but not in our family . Father does not feel like the family is canadian. Culture is the threat in this family.