ENG234H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Euripides, Consumerism
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Absolutely true diary: when you draw a picture, everyone can understand it (5, i draw because i feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation. I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats (6: taking seriously how these cartoons work by incorporating art. Idea of land is here underneath the story even if junior doesn"t talk about it too much. It never really vanishes from the story, it"s part of the context. Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. Euripides: what greater grief than the loss of one"s native land? . I read that and thought, well, of course, man. We lost our native land, we lost our languages, we lost our songs and dances. We only know how to lose and be lost. alexie, sherman.
