I’ve decided to complete Short Assignment #4, for this week’s reading, The Garden of Forking Paths. I feel that the New Historicism Analysis would work well because it analyzes the cultural, historical, and social aspects of our reading.
1. This work illustrates its cultural context through the writer’s personal point of view as an undercover Chinese spy working for Germans during World War II. The Chinese spy leaves his post once he is discovered to pursue a mission where he must communicate the name of a city where the British have a concealed artillery unit to Germany. As the author recalls his endeavor and execution of Albert, he expresses that he didn’t do it for Germany or even for his own country; He did it to prove to his Chief that
1. This work illustrates its cultural context through the writer’s personal point of view as an undercover Chinese spy working for Germans during World War II. The Chinese spy leaves his post once he is discovered to pursue a mission where he must communicate the name of a city where the British have a concealed artillery unit to Germany. As the author recalls his endeavor and execution of Albert, he expresses that he didn’t do it for Germany or even for his own country; He did it to prove to his Chief that