Read the following stories for next week:
* B. Wordsworth
* The Pyrotechnicist
* The Mechanical Genius
* Hat
* How I Left Miguel Street
ALSO: I'll be posting the Rough Paper #1 assignment along with a video at the end of this week--so stayed tuned!
Answer 2 of the following:
Q1: Why is the Narrator so fascinated with people like Popo (from "The Thing Without a Name"), B.Wordsworth, and Bhacku? What makes them all similar in his mind? Similarly, how does the street 'break' each one during the course of their story? In a way, why can't people like this exist on Miguel Street for long?
Q2: Writing about Morgan and his 'jokes,' the narrator admits that "I felt the joke was somehow terribly and frightening" (86). Why is Morgan such a terror to his children, yet such an incredible buffoon to everyone on the street? Why can't he be "one of the boys" like Hat and Bogart?
Q3: How does the narrator (and by extension, Naipaul) feel about the casual misogyny and outright brutality of the street? Is the Narrator aware of and critical of it? Or does Naipaul make the Narrator accept and even applaud it at times? An example of either one?
Q4: At the end of "Hat," the narrator remarks, "When Hat went to jail, part of me had died" (214). What changed? And how does this lead to the Narrator's fateful departure from Miguel Street (something that not even Elias could manage to do?).
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