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-a complicated style-who is the speaker & thinker at times WHY? HOW?

CRITICAL THEORY:LOOK AT FREUD'S (ID, EGO & SUPEREGO)-social constraints-social science

IMPRESSIONISM (artistic form of art)- references to Claude Monent's Sunrise Painting-FREUD- breakup the psyche to see how it works-instincts and personal will

-can painters capture what writers put into words and vice versa STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS"HAUNTED HOUSE" is the best example of the STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

-3rd person observers or participant-we shared perspectives

-1ST PERSON PERSPECTIVE IS THE HOUSE-the awakening- the traces of the everyday lifeLITERARY IMPRESSIONISM= the haunted house-different visions and angles in the story-multiple points of viewEDITOR- the everyday life molding the past and present-memory of life

IN PARAGRAPH 3- a series of expressions of the everyday life-memory of the past "here we left our treasure"-everyday life practices and how they keep it alive-how these things are happening in the present

REPETITION OF PAST OCCURENCES OF THE HAPPENINGS WITHIN THE PRESENT STATE OFBEING

USE OF FRAGMENTS- usages of the past

-impossible tasks to know about (the people of the past)-present (the ghosts can see all about the people of the present)

CONCRETE-CONTRAST celebration through the STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (FRAGMENTS)

SYMBOLISM/MEANINGS:HOUSE- togetherness and love-a focal point

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-fragments of the past & present come together-a place of protection-'safe, safe, safe,'- becomes the heartbeat of the house (an organism)-timeless- 'the house' doesn't change, but the people do and the habits'-the mind-doors opening and closing, as so do the windows-complicated METAPHOR of the mind

-is involved with mortality (life)-closed & then is opened- similarity to a person (windows & doors)

-RICH PANABEL OF HOW SHE USED THE HOUSE IN REFERENCE TO THE MIND

JAMAICA KINCAID "GIRL" - DICTION huge run-on sentences into a short-story (poor example)

-female roles in gender-poetry usages then prose-important life advice but at times can be very trivial in context-importance of advice-life changing advice to trivial means of advice (mirroring effect & becoming over-whelmed)-gender role will pre-emanate throughout the girls life-regulatory of gender

What is important and not within this story?-grandmothers advice on life-the message of everyday life of how one is supposed to act within a particular gender role within therecommunity, home & culture

2INTERPRETATION INFORMATION= HUMOROUS AT ONE PERSPECTIVE= REPETITION OF HOW THE MOTHER IS PRE-DETERMINING THE GIRLS OUTCOME

-gender regulations-double message about the bread & pretending to be this woman of whom the baker would allow near the

bread.