NOTES OF THE DAY 21^th NOVEMBER 2019

ORAL TEST

TOPIC: Normal People

• why did Connel decide to go to psychologist? Because one of his friends suggested it

   

• he was looking for answer about his future / he is afraid of his future / he doesn't have any defined idea

• what makes his future hopeless? After Marianne departures he lost his point of reference

• what kind of character is Helen in compare with what Connel is looking for?

• What makes somebody jealous?

• How do you express your jealousy? I words? I body language? Do you play irony?

• Different gender always express feelings in different way ---> men are very weak in compare to women

• is there a specific way in which Connel expresses his feelings?

• How does the narrator underline Connel's behavior with Marianne and with Helen?

• Frequent use of telling in the sequence

• how do you know that Helen's behavior annoyed Connel?

• Place in the section that allows reader to understand clearly Connel's behavior (page 203)

• through body language we understand how he really feels ---> body language is always interesting when you analyze a male character ---> men don't like to speak

• feature of modern novel: which aspect is visible here? This is an example of how the novelist makes use of a non-linear concept of time but a SIMULTANEOUS concept of time (past + present + future)

• time is in man's mind

• how does the reader understand that there's something that doesn't work in linear time here?

• How does the reader makes sense of disconnection of time? The reader has to fill in the missing writing

• is Connel an altruist character or an egoist one? He doesn't give anything to people. He is egoist

• he doesn't feel interested in other people lives but Marianne

• who is Yvonne? How does he relate to her? (page 206)

• once you have lost something you understand its significance

• what is the objective of this chapter? What does the novelist want the reader to understand out of this section?

• Communication is a very important point in every relationship ---> relationships are difficult for our difficult in communication

• not always people are ready to listen

• it isn't enough body in a relationship

• Freud and Jung discussed some aspects of human nature

• Connel's consciousness is at the center of this chapter ---> consciousness is at the center of literary investigation