2: Pattern and Individual Stories, Obsession and Release

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??(2) Pattern and Individual Stories,
Obsession and Release
Lived City (3) Love and Desire on Cities
Margins

• in a citys heterotopia

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Outline

• Starting Questions
• Patterns
• New Park Community
• The Legend of ?? and ??
• Individual Stories
• ??s search for father
• ?? and ??
• ?? between older and younger brothers

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Starting Questions

• What gets to be repeated in Book IV?
• How do the individual characters survive, confirm
  values of their existence and deviates from the
  general patterns?
• Anything else you wanted to say about the novel?

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New Park Community

• Bk IV sec 2 pp. 381-
• Repetition
• ??s attitude p. 381
• ??? ? ???
• ???s position, ?? and his four kids
  ????????????? (385)
• ??s good will to those around him History
  confirmed p. 385 ??s party
• Variation
• ???s story-telling
• ???
• Master-disciple relationship maintained but
  actually changed.

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The Legend of ?? and ??

• ?? -- first account (his loss of self pp. 34- )
• Outsiders account
• 1. ?? sadness -- p. 87 2. ?s fate -- p. 90
  217 (????)
• 2. ?? as an individual an orphan p. 352
• 3. ??s final account p. 388 ? understood by ??

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??s search for father

• Sadness mixed with strong abilities and skills to
  survive
• Survival Avoid being raped hard work small
  living space
• Sadness ????,????,????????????,????????????????,
  ??????????????????????????,??????????gay
  bar?(379)

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??s search for father

• Sense of Values
• not go to Mr. Lin
• Still nice to his mother p. 380
• Dream of Sakura (cherry blossom)
• His search revenge p. 379

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?? and ??

• ?? ????
• ??--???? --
• The teacher and the social worker not able to
  understand or help.
• ??s survival and sense of self-value
• play dead in front of the hoodlums
• ???????
• Care about his ???
• Vocational training

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?? between older and younger brothers

• Images of blood and guilt
• Blood
• violence and wildness ?? ?? 212 ?????? p.
  121
• ?? ?? ??367 ?? to express his guilt feelings
• ?? Guilt p. 322
• Move beyond his sense of guilt ? ???/????,
  ??????? ???
• Repetition of Military training at the end?