short stories Flashcards
Names of Snow’s characters?
Sister Zoe and Yolanda
In show what are the two sets of words she’s learns at school
American - cornflake laundromat subway snow
New American - nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter
The themes in Snow?
Meaning of language, language gives insight, humanity, life, loss of innocence
Happy Endings author ?
Margret Atwood
Why H.E a meta fiction ? what’s wrong with story A?
Acknowledges it’s a story n how to format a story. Everyone dies and A is boring because it is comedic in @challenging and stimulating
What is the important part of happy endings? what are the scenarios?
The middle, the plot as Aristotle believes mimesis of life means emphasis on plot scenarios are also metaphors and ironic ?
Themes of happy endings?
storytelling, life and death, human spirit, satire , sarcasm
Cathedral Author?
Raymond carver
Describe the narrator in cathedral
unnamed jealous ignorant annoying lacks insight though not blind (Oedipus)
describe Robert and who’s his dead wife in cathedral?
Robert is compassionate, insightful, and listens to the things around him. wife was Beulah
cathedral wife and ex husband?
the wife used to be married to an army man, reads to Robert and cares for him. she writes bad poetry and her husband and her don’t get along that well
Themes in cathedral?
versions of reality, language, sight blindness, transformations , real memesiso of characters.
you don’t need vision to communicate drawing gives insight also the cathedral is unity and spirituality like Oedipus
Swimming lessons author?
Rohinton mistry
Characters in swimming lessons?
Kersi - bombey to Toronto immigrant compares memories from home to here. the people and experiences
Bertha - resident keener
In swimming lessons what is the significance of water?
at home they were too poor to afford swimming lessons and the sea was unswimable. but was involved in aspects of his life
what are themes in swimming lessons?
culture shock/ home sickness claustrophobic and privacy religion sex life and death racism human spirit
What happens to Kersi at swimming lessons?
Boys in locker are racist. he buys new trunks. sexually fantiszes about the women , doesn’t swim well in the deep end
How does swimming lessons end?
Old neighbour dies nameless to him, acts as a warning . his dad in firozsha bag writes him a letter
Snow author?
Julia Alvarez
