ENG234H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Maurice Sendak
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Two thousands indians laughed at the same time. It was the most glorious noise i"d ever heard. And i realized that, sure, indians were drunk and sad and displaced and crazy and mean, but, dang, we knew how to laugh. When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said good-bye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses. --alexie, sherman. Inviting readers to understand their culture, presenting a culture and writing out of it. You mean weird people like me, i said.
