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"Or Else, the Lightning God"
Lim, Singapore Read paper! MP: Motifs: money, religion |
- Mother-in-law spends $ on incense, temple medium
- Margaret likes spending $ on luxury items - Margaret thinks joss sticks, etc. = stupid - Mother in law claims she gets no food - Mother in law's younger son can't make living - Margaret making herself sick - Mother in law doesn't originally want to take curse off -its all in the mind |
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"The One Who Goes Farthest Away" - Min, Korea / United States
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- Narrator goes back to Korea b/c he wants to die there - Friends tease him for American accent * Since taking up English, he feels like he lost something; not sure where he belongs - His children = Americanized - Wife loves to drink - Issue of gender = different - Students are acting too American, too Western - Korea: Women = more traditional role - Goes back to America |
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"Aghwee the Sky Monster" - Oe Kenzaburo
MP : We're all mad here |
- MC talks about having a black patch over his eye
- MC hired to work for banker to serve as companion for son - Son = D = young composer of avant-garde music, had a dead infant child, divorced - D had delusions of a fat baby in a white cotton nightgown as big as a kangaroo (Aghwee the sky monster) - D composes music that sounds like a zoo / works in a studio like a kindergarten - Nurse takes care of D to prevent him from getting violent - D's delusion only comes out when he's outside; MC is supposed to act dumb whenever D sees Aghwee - D = "not living in present time anymore" ; "musn't do anything here in this world that might remain or leave an imprint." - MC goes up to D's former wife's apartment to get a package for D while D waits in a coffee shop - Wife says that baby = her baby; Aghwee is the only word it said before it died - Doc diagnosed baby w/ brain hernia; killed it to escape scandal by feeding it sugar water - Hernia = benign tumor even though D was told baby would be vegetable - Wife was in coma w/ high fever when this happened; said D fled from real world into world of phantoms - Package = brass key - Key unlocked D's music; D burned music - D made MC go to concert halls where he'd performed, his old schools, places where he'd enjoyed himself; went all the way there but would turn back before he went inside - D sent MC to mistress w/ memorized msg- D can't see her anymore b/c he's not in present time - D had been in bed w/ mistress when baby was born - Mistress said D had stopped making new memories so it could be like he died; calls baby down to earths to create new memories for baby - Mistress tries to get MC to rape her - MC saw 10+ Doberman dogs chasing after the two of them, pulled by man in overalls - MC thought D would die sacrificing his life by defending Aghwee vs. the dogs (sign that MC has probs lost his mind) - Delusions = storehouse for someone you've lost - MC lost cat - D stepped onto curb in busy intersection, tried to rescue baby from trucks by throwing himself intro traffic - Was the MC hired just so D could commit suicide? Was Aghwee a cover up? MC said he was about to believe in Aghwee. - Children threw rocks, rock struck MC's eye; he lost sight - He lost his eye, so he was able to see beings in the sky |
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"The Street Sweeping Gang" - Feng
MPs: leaders don't really do anything other than pose for pictures (pseudo events) |
- National Cleanup Week; Communist Era
- Top city admin., public figures: Street Sweeping at 2 PM, Central Square - Mayor says, "Only a leader could think of everything. This was where true leadership ability came into play." (This is ironic because the secretary is the one doing all the scheduling, etc.) - Secretary Zhao = MC - People sweeping: office workers, shop clerks, students, housewives, retirees - Add in the the top admin. - The mayor wants to look like he's a part of the impact on society, but in actuality doesn't want to be a part of it -Uniformed policeman standing guard at all times - "Majestic, broom-carrying procession" + "marshal police escort" + "retinue of shutter-clicking photographers" = people in "presence of no ordinary mortals" - Pavement was already clean, so the people had to brush the little bit of dust back and forth - Told his grandson that the show wasn't worth watching |
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"The Prophet's Hair" - Rushdie, India/England MP: Divinity v. Mythological (Prophet's Hair) v. (King of Thieves) - Attack on fundamentalism- you can't embrace fundamentalist views without things breaking down. Motif: Socioeconomic statuses, "It was a timely chance" = repeated |
- Is the prophet's hair a force of good or a force of evil?
- Son looks for burglar to steal prophet's hair - Vial stolen - Father expels impurities before he becomes ultra-religious (lashes out at family: son = stupid, admits to having affair, etc.) - King of Thieves can transform into a bird - K of T uses his kids in a financial way; sees abuse of sons as way of making lifestyle - Makes people question whether or not this was actually chance or divine intervention: Are these coincidences or something else? - Was it divine intervention (Muhammad) that made sure that the Thief King couldn't steal it back? - Good things happen when the vial goes back - Thief dies; mythological falls to the divine- is that a good thing? |
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"The Daily Woman" -Zaman, Bangladesh
MP: Difference in values between cultures What is beautiful to some people is not to others Motifs: Views on: stereotypes, interactions, beauty, values |
- Socioeconomic difference between people (poor/rich) : soap, chicken feet / skin, rich woman stops eating carbs to diet / throws parties
- Poor woman must choose between 2 kids * Can only bring 1 to work, 1 mouth to feed -Serves the food / manual labor -Boy child = more $, more likely to take care of mother, looks stronger - Girl child = looks weaker, referred to as "old lady" - White woman doesn't look like a nurturer - Use of (brass) bangles = condescending; if they were gold, the woman could live off of them for 10 years - Either way, decision = worthless |
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"Another Holiday for the Prince" - Jolley, England / Australia
MP = Motifs = Marmalade, butter = adolescence/escapism |
- First few lines = incorrect sentence structure / grammar
- Stream of consciousness - Naming of characters creates images of them - Prince = Brother - Mrs. Lady = neighbor who mother stole from - Author likes to play with gender - Thought jumps from 1 idea to the next - Mother babies prince - Boy = secluded in room; smokes / drinks - MC = little girl |
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"Her First Ball" - Mansfield, New Zealand/England
MP: Every movement leading people away from what they already know Motif: |
- Personification: figurative language / interesting word choice
- Girl from countryside goes to ball - Objects = being personified - Girl (naive/innocent) from country went to boarding school - Goes to city - Has epiphany after the dance with the old man (beginning of everything) - Talks about himself: he's supposed to be up on the stage with the wallflowers, but wants to be on the dance floor with the young people - Old man thinks: "I know you don't want to dance with me but eventually you will be one of those old women." - Mirrors "Half a day" - Playing w. ritual v. pneumonic(?) time - At the end: girl didn't recognize the old man again - Accept dance, moves on - Alliteration makes piece flow; time flows |
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"Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes" - Kasaipwalova, Papua New Guinea
Motifs: Non-Standard English MP: racial tension, racism, etc. |
-People judge when others speak in NSE
- University students are eating Betel Nuts: officers accuse them of violating laws because they would create physical harm to the train tracks - Betel nut = stimulant (drug) - Blacks who follow whites = "black puppy dogs" - University students get arrested; nothing comes of it - Nobody wins in the end; nothing comes out of it - Symbol that nothing changes- everyone just goes through the motions & it happens all over again; all of it just keeps building |
