World Lit Exam 3- Menon

Same phrase repeated in both stories

"After all the weather was ideal" -where you start to see similarities, stories merge

Tonight I Can Write Theme

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long" The time he has in his relationship is just a small fraction compared to the drawn out time of him getting her out of his thoughts and being able to move on

Violent/aggressive descriptions for tomato

"invades kitchens" "takes over lunches" "a knife plunges into its living pulp" -it must enter so tomato can reproduce

Sensory imagery

-"my sight searches" -"My heart looks" -"to touch her hearing"

Characters

-Senator Onesimo Sanchez: main protagonist who is given a diagnosis with only six months and eleven days to live but finds the love of his life -Laura Farina: 18 year old girl Sanchez's in love with -Nelson Farina: Laura's dad; makes her go visit the senator

Symbol of the tomato

-female life giving principle of the world which is to reproduce -Color red: blood, light, vigor, vitality, love -a color that celebrates fertility/farming/harvesting

Theme

-magic realism -Time and possibilities it offers

"the filial essence of the olive tree"

-parents giving their blessing for the wedding

The idea of class

-people don't explicitly tell you not to hang out with a certain group of people but its implied

Symbol of mirror/reflected image

-the act of trembling represents not being yourself; its her reflected image that's trembling -shattered mirror reflects her place in society -according to the world, she's a cohesive successful woman but to herself she's not -she needs to be in control

Symbols

1. Rose: symbol of love that he's stored in his heart for a long time; He wasn't able to give his rose until he met Laura 2. Paper butterfly: False illusions; motionless Sanchez

3 labyrinths in text

1. The actual labyrinth/wall 2. Literary labyrinth of Ts'ui Pen----- Text within text 3. The formal labyrinth of Borges

Theme

1. Working class vs. the economic elites (leisure society) in deeply unequal society/divided -The working class' labor grants elites leisure time -The laborers and Sheridan's depend on each other 2. Childhood, family, and independence (coming of age)

Signs of unreliable narrator

1. the ellipses represent an incomplete thought 2. "I loved her, sometimes she loved me too", "maybe I love her" he's unsure/uncertain about their honest feelings

Summary

About a 40 year old brother and sister living in a house that's been in their family for years. Neither are married so they choose to live together. Their routine is cleaning which is what keeps them from marrying. Irene knits and he reads. Then the house is taken over. At first, it begins mundanely with noises. The siblings refuse to go in the parts of the house where the noises originate from. The siblings even abandon their possessions in parts of the house taken over by 'them.' Eventually the siblings are completely driven out of their house when the mysterious entity takes over the last section. The siblings leave their ancestral home at the end of the story rather than confront whoever or whatever has taken over their house.

Summary

After Sanchez knows he has a deadline to live he finds Laura the love of his life. As senator he attempts to continue his political duties and gives a re-election speech. Then Senator Sanchez runs into a man named Nelson Farina and his daughter, Laura. Seeing that the senator is attracted to Laura, Nelson offers to let him have sex with her if he takes care of some legal troubles he is experiencing. The senator agrees, but before he can sleep with Laura, he dies in bed with her, causing a scandal and disgracing his family.

The Garden of Forking Paths

Author: Jorge Luis Borges genre: short story (spy fiction)

True love

He finds the meaning of life after living behind a facade

Characters

Irene: sister Brother: nameless

Summary

Its about Maria Quiteria, a woman who lives her days at home being drunk alone. She drinks to escape her reality. She doesn't really love her husband and has a negative view towards her children. She fails to take responsibility for things and she has poor self esteem issues based on her pessimistic self talk. We see her insecurities shown at the dinner party when she compares herself to the rich flat chest lady in a fancy hat. At the end, she comes to terms with her sad life and accepts that she'll just clean the house and do what her husband says.

Connection to "This Life is Weary"

Josie, the sister, was reading the story "This Life is Weary"

Theme

Kids watching garden party as if its a show -b/c its more interesting than their own life -we enjoy watching to associate yourself with a character or to connect to something bigger than yourself

Theme of TIME

Siblings have lost the opportunity to get married -If you want to create a thing of art to the best of your ability you will need TIME.

The poet's dilemma in the poem

The poet is caught b/t his first time love for a woman that he's lost (natural feeling) and his artistic curiosity about how to write of that love

L'ecriture Feminine

The theory, which unpacks the relationship between the cultural and psychological inscription of the female body and female difference in language and text

Summary

The wealthy Sheridan family decides to throw an elaborate garden party just for the sake of throwing a party. When Laura tells the working men where to set up the marque she imitates her mother's voice, then suddenly catches herself and realizes that's not who she wants to be. She wants to befriend these nice men. Before their party they get news that their working-class neighbor Mr. Scott had died leaving behind a wife and children. Laura wants to call off the party but her family thinks that's preposterous. After the party Mrs. Sheridan tells Laura to take the leftovers to their house. She sees the sad widow and Mr. Scott's corpse. She now sees both life and death in a different way.

Meaning of title

The workers are weary and jealous of the wealthy's luxurious, carefree lifestyle

bourgeois

These people have leisure time unlike working class. Under Juan Peron Populist rule, the bourgeois had no societal value. Siblings are an allegorization of this. Cortazar is criticizing working class that takes over the house

Summary

This story focuses on the working class family. Specifically the family that includes, Jack Scott (Dadda), Em (Mam), Celia, Margaret, and Thomas. The kids find entertainment by watching the Sheridan family and taking notes in their notebooks. Its their idea of theater and they treat the members of the family as characters in a story. Their favorite "character" was Laura b/c she was the most similar to them. On the day of the garden party they dress up fancy, pack a lunch, and arrive on a makeshift carriage made by Dadda. Their day is so wonderful until they come home to tragedy. They find out their father had died. The story ends with Celia telling her deceased Dadda the garden party was lovely.

Question of the story

What happened to them in the house? It was a supernatural occurrence that seemed oddly normal and familiar to them at the beginning but eventually drove them out of their own house.

Summary

Yu Tsun gives document to court and goes missing. His identity of a journalist has been blown. As he escapes captain Madden, he complete his mission by delivering the location of a secret cache of British weapons to his boss in Germany. He gets off the train and visits Stephen Albert. Dr. Albert tells Tsun the story of his ancestor, Ts'ui Pen, a former governor who abandoned his political position to write a novel and build a labyrinth, or maze. In the opinion of his descendents, Ts'ui Pen had failed on both accounts - the novel made no chronological sense, and the labyrinth was never found. Dr. Albert took Pen's scrapes and turns them into works of literature because that was Pen's intention. The maze and book are one in the same and represent the idea of splitting of time. Tsun shoots Dr. Albert to send a message to the Chief and then Madden arrests him.

Characters

Yu Tsun: German spy trying to find weapons in England. Of Chinese origins. Professor of English. He experiences internal trauma as he has to execute his plan of action Dr. Stephen Albert: the man Yu Tsun has to kill, Chinese scholar (sinolosist) of Literature Ts'ui Pen: wrote a novel called Garden of Forking Paths. Retired from his life to build a labyrinth; he left behind "scrapes" of text ****Ts'ui Pen is Yu Tsun's great ancestor****

***Magic realism***

______________ __________________ punctuates objective reality to reveal the mysteries and poetic qualities that include daily lives of people, exposing political corruption and oppression, condition of the common man and effects of the power of money

Feminine writing

a fluid, lyrical style that explores the relationship of immediate bodily experience to language

Brother and sister represent....

a means of production

Symbol of the house

acts as a reservoir of all their memories

The Daydreams of a Drunken Woman

author: Clarice Lispector genre: short story (feminism); a performative text

Death Constant By Love

author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez genre: short story, magic realism, allegory, tall tale of wonder

The House Taken Over

author: Julio Cortazar genre: short story; magic realism; political allegory

The Garden Party

author: Katherine Mansfield genre: short story

Tonight I Can Write

author: Pablo Neruda genre: poem

The Ode to the Tomato

author: Pablo Neruda genre: poem

This Life is Weary

author: Witi Ihimaera genre: short story

Theme

contrast between dreamlike experiences and everyday reality; solitude, love, and death

Motif

how time occurs in the story

Peronism

political and economic social principals associated with Peron and his regime and usually regard as Fascist

Tone of morbidity

the abrupt opening statement where we see how senators days are numbered

The salad represents...

union and marriage of various culture -ingredients are mixed together but their individuality and flavors remain