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5LSC A - ASantoro _ appunti 4/12
by ASantoro - (2019-12-04)
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  1. What is the function of the section in the economy of the novel? 
  2. What is the main theme/what are the main themes?
  3. What do you understand more about the two protagonists?
  4. What stylistic devices does the narrator exploit? 

 

Section 4 months later July 2014

Setting: Connel’s bedroom 

 Connell Is watching Football match 

The protagonists are trying to make a balance in their relationship

They feel that the first steps of their relationship where easier

There are both telling and showing

The reader has the feeling to be in their minds 

shift of the point of view

Does it help to relate to the first steps of the relationship 

space and time -> cronotopo

It is an inner setting 

something intimate and personal 

topic: the two partners are thinking about the relationship

To give access to the fictional world of the novel than a radar shows Connell watching football match

Connor is already interested in football but something has changed 

Marianne’s flow: she’s always looking for Connell’s  attention 

she seems to be too dependent 

the most important element when she expresses her boredom he proposes to driver back home during the  pause  but in the end Connell  pus off the television

Marianne does nothing to avoid being there 

she asks  him questions and expressing her jealousy

Moreover we can see that on the one side she is investigating  on the one hand the reason why he ended behaving in a certain way

At the same time she wants to know if Connor is interested to help her

( window)

Connor is reassuring Marianne about her fears (not to be so important in his interests)

Generator was the reader to understand that Marianne is concentrated inConnell’s face

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