ENG215H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Postpartum Depression, Synecdoche, Sensemaking
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Sold in best seller- foregrounds the small town of mariposa (m)- sunshine, uplifted, humorous story. Ideas related to genre- while he plays with the accidents- you can get cues from tine that the disaster narrative will be a specific and unique kind of narrative. Retrospect and nostalgia- leacock creates a child"s worlds - childliness of characters and. Who is he in relation to m? is he from there or separate from town. Plays around with convention of disaster narrative. The story is also about the narrator- his struggle to tell story. How the story begins- starting with little context of place, people or event. Hyperbolic- extreme over statement- a lot of exclamation marks- narrators enthusiasm sense of anticipation this is pinnacle of all social activity. Kind of like it"s a conversation- unpolished, spontaneous, not conscious- so sort of like a dialogue what about the ? no.
