Corregidora

Comparison to Lolita

In Lolita it is dressed up. The flowery language. From the attacker’s perspective.

Corregidora – All dialog, almost no description. Short and punctuated. Fast paced. Repetition of “I still wanna fuck you.” Preformative language.

The comparison between dialog and description. Dialog seems to be more honest, but in fact its through her memory, so it might be her speaking for him.

Roll of Euphemisms. Very prevalent in Lolita, but still present in Corregidora. Even Mutt does it: “I want to get in your ally.”

One sided conversation is a dialogic equivalent of rape.

Often times when she speaks it isn’t in quotes, but rather her telling us she said it.

What gives language its vulgarity? the word choice or the persistence? Parallel structure of “Pussy” and “Prosperous”

Tadpole and Mut are parallel characters. Alot of men start off nice, but end up bad. Mother suiter. Trope

While Ursa and Kat, say all sorts of vulgar words, homosexuality is a taboo subject.

As I Lay Dying Part 4

Writing:

Essay revolves around an argument (ie. Thesis). Before it, you stick in a hook. Don’t be too broad (only Hawking talks about the beginning of Time). Not a personal opinion. Making a case (legal).

Don’t do the whole book, just a part of it. Just pick one thing and stick to it.

Each paragraph should support your thesis. Each paragraph should also sum up into a supporting point.

Becareful with abstract pronouns. “This concept is important to…” Its completely unnecessary. We know its important.

Go through and just cross out every: is, was, to be.

Back to As I Lay Dying

Scene with the 3 black men:

Sorting out the social heirarchy: Town, Country, Blackmen

As I lay Dying Part 3

Everyone is prideful.

Anse: religious justifications. Considered lazy. Commitment to Addie. Hast. Allegory to Job (suffered the most). Apparently you can call him selfish, but you shouldn’t write about it (I don’t know how much I buy this, basically I see him as being repressed by Addie and now that she’s gone…).

Cash: percise. Thinks in power point. Records exact distance of fall.  Answers Darls thoughts (and vice versa).

Dewey Dell: She spends alot of time suspecting people. She thinks Darl knows, she suspect other people too. Refuses to bury her mom before time. Starts to go crazy. Evident by mixing of italics. On outside she seems to be observant and in control, but we see its chaos.

Darl: Prescient. Gets Verdemen.  Is he rewriting scenes as they happen?  Spends alot of time watching Jewel. What is the importance of the time he spends on the water?  They might lose the mom, so why does he care what it looks like?  He thinks this is the edge of the world.

Tull: gets the creeps with anything she can’t explain

As I lay Dying part 2

The Bundrends

Anse (dad) -> lazy, doesn’t want to sweat (Genesis 3 -> sweat is punishment for sin)

Addie (mom) -> dead
Sons:

• Cash -> broke his leg falling off the church roof
• Darl -> Nerd, slow (concern to other people)
• Jewel -> “not care-kin” (doesn’t care as much as everyone else)
• Dewey Dell (girl) -> Knocked up
• Vardamen -> Mom’s dead

Live in country on a hill (not town people).

Other Characters

• Cora + Vernon Tull
• Dr. Peabody -> fat
• Kate
• Eula -> thing for Darl
• Lafe -> Dewey Dell’s Baby daddy

Epistemology -> study of how we know what we know. Sound and Furry -> One story told again and again.

Darl wants the $3.

Cora thinks Jewel is Addie’s fav, and that he isn’t returning her affection. Maybe Darl and Addie have the closer relationship. She’s got these different opinions of Darl and Jewel from the others. She says Darl didn’t talk before leaving. Dewy Dell says Darl did (but is it non verbal communication which Dewy Dell talks about). Cora also questions if Addie is going to heaven. She has this sort of arrogance (more pious). “If other people have views of honestly (dishonest), thats ok, I’ll leave that to god.” Cora is very gossipy. Cora doubts everyone, except Darl (who in actuality is the wise fool).

Jewel thinks people are Buzzards: waiting for her to die. Cash is making a coffin, Dewy Dell is blowing too much air for her to breath. Imagines him and Addie rolling rocks down on the others (essp. Teeth).

Question of Credibility->Epistemology

Questions of Gender

Cultural and Economic Divide -> Town.

As I lay Dying Part 1

Essay due 4/16, rough draft due 4/9 (Attached: Essay Assignment)

WW1->1930s: Modernism

Cinema: The Fall of the House of Usher

• Dream imagery
• Artistic
• Psychological
• Emphasis on effects over plot

Writers: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, (Conrad), Woolf, (Chopin), F. M. Ford, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, Stein

• Psychological Struggle
• Psychoanalysis (Freud style)
• Questioning the world around
• critique of “reality” (response to ww1)
• Dialects, how to represent how people talk instead of what they’re saying (immigration)
• Idioms

The purple flower

• Questioning society (why do we keep working of working isn’t getting us anywhere) -> WW1
• Folktale/fable/allegory

Above and below the skin of civilization.  Things below mimic that which is above.  Some times people fall through.  Think of it is like conscious and subconscious of society.  Blow is dirty, bones.  Ontop is the hill (usses trying to get up to the purple flower).  Still primitive near the bottom.

As I Lay Dying

Cotten house between road and their house.