603-101-MQ Effective Reading and Writing short story notes PDF

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Lecture notes on short stories read in 603-101-MQ Effective Reading and Writing taught by Lorne Roberts. ...

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Hockey sweater themes: ● Passion for a sport: The main character is very passionate about hockey. ● Rivalry: This is evident between the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs ● Life does not always go as planned: When the mom ordered the wrong sweater her son was upset, he was not ready for that. ● Parent-kid relationship: Relationship between mom and son. Symbolism: ● Letter the mom wrote shows she was not very smart. ● Hockey sweater is a symbol for the son growing up. Girl themes: ● Parent-kid relationship: The relationship the mother had with her daughter. ● Growing up/sexuality: Mother worries about daughter’s sexuality. The dead themes: Death: ● mother + michael ● winter (nature's dead) ● statue they see (remembrance of dead people) ● Gabe + Lily are dead inside ● Gretta doesn't feel alive since Michael's not around Love: ● triangle (Gabriel, Gretta, Michael) ● family ● Gabe doesn't get the concept Sex: ● Browne making everything sexual ● Gabriel thinking about sex all night Symbolism: ● tapping on window = death hanging around ● dress throwed on chair = ''animal love'' ● story taking place in the nighttime = darkness, death ● colour of the snow + distant noises of music = death being around Character: Gabriel: ● 40ish, Black Irish, Cold, Doesn't care about class, Dead parents, Emotionally dead, Educated, Self conscious/sensitive Red convertible themes: ● Brotherhood ● Trauma ● War Symbolism: ● Car = relationship (throws car = end of relationship/repairing the car = attempt to repair henry and their relationship) ● Red color = blood (war), anger (trauma), family (relationship) ● Bottineau = henry drowning in the river Characters: ● Brothers: Lyman has money, Henry's the older one, They both like adventures (roadtrips), Henry goes to war, Henry comes back traumatized, Brotherhood changes, they have issues, Henry's suicidal

Bullet in the brain themes: ● Life: In the last moment of his life, he does not remember his wife or daughter but that one time where someone said the wrong word. ● Death/suicide: Anders was suicidal Symbolism: ● the art on the wall at the bank right before Anders gets shot: heaven ● Anders looked up laughing: foreshadowing that he's going to die ● baseball field: Anders before he was rude and not a kind being Character: ● Anders: short tempered, loves words, rather die than stay quiet and does not fear death, book critic I hear america singing theme: ● White people represent Americans’ “entirety” ● Middle class and labor workers Symbolism: ● No actual singing ● Sound of americans working and singing of joy: happy and free I Too theme: ● Black people want to be American (no segregation) The Weary Blues Theme: ● Music is a way to bring everyone together regardless of race Powder themes: ● family ● Relationships ● jazz vs. classical ● christmas Symbolism: ● Snow: powder/cocaine ● Road: the journey of life ● Jazz: father's life being “improvised” ● Classical: mother's life being planned/ organized (not spontaneous)...