ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hallmark Cards, Gift Economy
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7 questions about the 7 books --- treasure island, hunger games. Part c -- e. g. anne of green gables - term romantic should be used. Will be based on issues/themes mentioned in class. Signficiance of the sorting of harry to gryfindor ] Hunger games - words that are recurring. Lack of interest in contrasting gender (christie) - worried that boys don"t read books by female authors - educational weight placed on this series to get books to read. Heromine - proves she"s a gryfindor by identifying her bookishness and research - what identifies her to a certain extent is her interest in books. We know that harry and ron are better than she is. Girls historically are associated with emotional and sensitivity and not with books and rationality. Hermonine contests that in this book and she undermines that. Schoefer -- troll scene where she gets rescued by harry and ron -- hunger reverses that peter rescued by katniss.
