4. Review of “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” PDF

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수업 자료 + 강의 내용 필기자료 및 교재 리딩본 요약 정리 본 + 시험 대비 정리 자료, 강의 필기 및 딕테이션 모음집...

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2018190050 – Lucie Soyeon Lee Amy Ahn Freshman Writing Intensive Seminar 04 September 27, 2018 Assignment #4: Review of “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” Julio Cortazar, in his piece “Letter to a young Lady in Paris”, meticulously illustrates an agonizing and burdening duty that a creator has toward creations. Cortazar develops his theme through demonstrating a protagonist who suffers from an inexplicable disease that makes him vomit up tiny rabbits each month. The peculiar disease haunts him even when he moves to the house of the young lady in Paris, the intended audience of the letter, as part of a precedent plan. Here, regardless of his will, the protagonist continues to vomit rabbits and ends up “giving birth” to ten additional rabbits. He tries his very best day and night to take care of the little creatures as he had done in the previous home: feeding them, letting them out of the closet at night to run around, and fixing furniture they broke. These tasks he performs evidently resemble a responsibility that a parent or god bears toward her child. However, the story ends with a quick twist in the plot at the end in which the protagonist states that he cannot keep up with taking care of these rabbits anymore and implies that he will kill himself with the rabbits before he gives life to another rabbit. The letter therefore turns out to be a suicide note explicating why the protagonist had to make such an unfortunate choice at the lady’s house despite his effort. Considering that the story shows a tragic demise of an amateur, helpless creator, the author successfully achieves conveying the theme of burdening, painful duty that a creator has to endure....