English 2308E Lecture 19: In Our Time pt. 1
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Does he ever come to terms with death in the book. Why does he add in a long sentence? etc. Heavily influenced by his career as a journalist. Look for a change in his rhythm. The lost generation: the order and life before the war has abandoned them, rather than them abandoning it. Writing about things that are (cid:494)so awful that you cannot comprehend them(cid:495), so, he. He wants you to struggle to comprehend what is going on or what things writes in the same way mean. Goes along with his famous iceberg theory. Reading it as a collection of short stories rather than a novel. We have become very used to reading novels and reading in this mindset. There are themes that carry through all of them. He wants to be the teacher of marjorie. What has happened prior to this to make him act like this? wants him to be in charge of her.