20 October 2008 Class Notes

• Begin reading Alice In Wonderland/Alice In Sunderland ---> try reading them both at the same time...
• Have "His Dark Materials" done by November 14, it will make it easier to discuss.
• DIDACTIC
• Tatology: talking in circles, it is what it is, the poem is a poem...
• Learning something but not questioning it...
• Is a child ever really a child? People argued that childhood wasn't invented until the 19th Century, children didn't exist until the 19th Century?
• Rites of passage --> boys becomeing men in tribal areas
• Cynical, satirical, ironical ---> things used in comin up with your own version of the moral to Cinderella...
• Taylor, Ashly, Rebecca, Julie and Brett read their moral to the story of Cinderella...
• Sexson read from Beauty & the Beast ---> almost identical to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
• In "Jane Eyre" she was brought up in an orphanage and somewhat by aunt. Attitude at orphanage was very adultlike, there wasn't room for the kids to act like children.
• Parody makes fun of things while respecting what it is making fun of.
• Anglea Carter's "The Tiger's Pride" ---> read it
• Eastern version of the rose was a lotus.
• This idea of committing crimes that didn't seem serious ---> eating of the apple in Adam & Eve, picking a rose from a garden, eating rapunzel