English 2601E Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Daniel Radcliffe

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2601E
• Professor: Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi

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Not oppressed by colonial power, slaughtered by their own people. The father is proud of his children, they are his greatest accomplishments. Parents want their children to do very well. Parents fear that in immigration, their children will become corrupt, like the new country. Very immigrant quality to worry so much about their children. The best thing in his life is the fact that his kids have turned out well. In the west we always pay people for thing- therapy, babysitters. In other countries these are things you go to loved ones for. Danticat gives so much detail, its impressive for the reader. This could be because prose stimulates your imagination, films destroy your imagination. For example you cant read harry potter without picturing daniel radcliffe. Juxtaposition of her being pregnant and her father dying. We mourn for ourselves, not for the person who is dead. People who are dying often think of the living, they don"t think of themselves.