Unit 3 Four Nobel Laureates: Voices from the Empire

27 Novembro 2017, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

 Four Nobel Laureates: Voices from the Empire

Discussing 'Red Dress' by Alice Munro.

Cultural references in the short story.

Character construction: the girl, the girl's mother, Lonnie, Mary Fortune.

Discussing how the writer used the narrator to 'chronicle life in a small-town life to reveal the ambiguities and deeper truths in human reationships' (from Munro's biography.

Symbolism.

NB Reading and researching the short story was a homework assignment. Students who had not done their homework were asked to leave the class and read the short story on their own

.REMINDER: Homework assignment for Wednesday: read and research 'Through  the tunnel' by Doris Lessing.