Class notes
Parade is a story about a young woman who has been away from home for a while and her family misses
a sad story about a young woman who accepted her family’s invitation to come back home to be a part of their town’s parade. “…‘Please come for the carnival’ Auntie’s letter had said”(85). She has been away for quite some time and finally went back home to be with her family. And yet I knew this was not something new and strange, but only that during my time away from here my vision and understanding had expanded” (88).Being a part of the parade opened her eyes and made her realize that her family was parading the tourists in town” “(). she’s her people came back home to her town and
What are main actions
Return home
The letter
Doing this in mountains
Preparing for what?
Map out stuff before during and after parade
Grace patricia Parade
You and just close reading for the midterm
What kind of relationship to land( land landscape) is depicted in “Parade”?
Would u sy that theres two radical view or relation to nature in the story?
Yes it seems
Tracing the protagonist
Where i live
Property
Grace a
Butcher
Sausage descript
Relationship to land
Two contra ways of
Verb tense used phrases
What conception of time is ther
Interesting metaphor in museum
What happens in a museum to time
Past & present collide
Canoes
Sea
“I felt older than any of them” (89)
What happens to Time?
Outside people were buying and selling
Litegimate ground
Hunter vs hunted
Explore how one is shape by
Opp arent just opp
Trace & follow the tension
Attention to how it affects the other and complicate them
Didnt you see us
Expand it to other moments
What happening
Culture reference
Can u find itherparrallel analogues in the siry
Look for patterns
Significance becomes a mere toy but the story begins when the flax was a plant
Outsiders
What is she trying develop or complicate in this story?
A close reading of last 3 paragraphs
***truck
To a monster****
Epiphany
Its on you to show who we really are
Seashore beach
On the hybrid moment
Seac living breathing
Sand land
Part of your growth
Idea of a threshold
Its liminal spaces
An interesting place that’s in-between
Land at the market place her
Sea her culture or outsides eyes
Sea is the sight
Acknowledge place of sea
Canoes
Singin both at the parade nd at the end
Ancestors came in the canoes and it becomes a historacal
