ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: List Of Charmed Characters, Middle Passage, Atlantic Slave Trade
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Start by underlining what you notice (evidence) Characters and what they represent elements that aren"t people: objects, Irony sounds, setting, buildings, colours, textures, nature, weather. What does the text argue beyond the world in the text. End with a debatable thesis (answer what, how, and why?) Character and plot (jack"s fear of death, or. Recognize important literary devices: point out metaphor, diction, tone, etc. Specific (isolated upper middle class, contemporary north americans who don"t know history of slavery) Character/ plot as strategy of representation (death as lack of control in alienating contemporary life or imagining a reader willing to learn about slavery) Connect literary devices to your interpretation (unreliable narrator-criticism of what jack represents) 60 million and more: beloved and the diaspora. Accounts for individual trauma and how it also affected millions of people. Gave voice to the one and the many. Difficulty of talking about the individual story of slavery as well as overarching narrative.
