is for Xenophon.
Group Presentations Cont.:
ERIN H:
- negative capability and uncertainties in Pullman
- strive for wisdom, yet uncertain
- the more you know, the less you know
- religion: do good, not evil
- growing up: Lyra and Alice going through puberty
- find themselves and save the world
- meet strange creatures that they don't question
- lack of love in Alice (man-love)
- adults oppress the children to keep them from getting expereinces
- 'tabula rosa' blank slate theory
- 'falling' starts a journey towards knowledge
- storytelling in 'Australia' film
- and in His Dark Materials
- "To be a person, is to have a story to tell"
- story about crazy relative
- 'fairytale' song by sarah bareilles
- women rely on men ridiculously
- Dorothy and Alice break the FT role and are curious, which leads them to accomplish things
- research project about FTs
- ages 18-51
- 51 yr old man: Dr. Seuss 'Cat in the Hat'
- 20 yr old man: hates a damsel in distress, but loves Rumplestiltskin
- boys were uncomfortable, women loved to talk about their favs
- chess game in Alice
- along with Alice's journey (dream)
- didacticism: journey of the dream, only move forward, become the queen and travel around
- separation, initiation, and return in chess
- different types of dreams in stories
- Pullman's themes of nature and man
- Mary and Molefa
- Pullman thinks harshly of man because of their effect on nature
- attempt at a mutual relationship is too late because to much damage is already done
- Alice and time
- children's perception of time
- growing up: child and adult difference is time (broad vs specific)
- white rabbit: adult; alice: child
- mad hatter: both child and adult, which explains this conflict w/ time
- 6 degrees of separation between herself and Obama
- child, portals, adulthood
- Alice, Dorothy, Lyra=> adulthood
- reversals
- backwardness
- postmodern understandings are humorous
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