The book this week was quite a change a pace compared to the other reads in this course. The narration from the child’s perspective is quite a unique one compared to other books with a youthful and innocent narrator; there are a lot of nice stylistic touches that reminded me of my own childhood as … Continue reading →
This week’s reading, Papi, by Rita Indiana felt like the lightest read of the course so far. this is likely due to the very successfully achieved child-like tone of the narrator. One of the aspects I thought contributed to this and is essential to the novel is that the narrator is a girl rather than a …
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I loved this book. The narration from a child’s perspective really made the story stand out, and had me hooked from the beginning. There’s just something about viewing the world from a child’s perspective that keeps you captivated with whatever story they have to tell. Thinking back to the other novels we have read, I […]
This week we read Papi by Rita Indiana. This book is one of my favourites so far. I was always interested throughout the book and was intrigued by this complex father-daughter relationship. Some themes I want to discuss from the book are childlik…
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This week we read Papi by Rita Indiana. This book is one of my favourites so far. I was always interested throughout the book and was intrigued by this complex father-daughter relationship. Some themes I want to discuss from the book are childlik…
Rita Indiana’s Papi was a thought-provoking read. In terms of difficulty, it was one of the ‘lighter’ reads—comparably bigger fonts, very colloquial narration, and manageable length. However, this book made me reflect on my relationship with my father and family in general. “Papi’s there, around any corner. But you can’t sit down and wait for […]
This week we read “Papi” by Indiana. I really enjoyed this story and found the full storyline and approach to the book really interesting. More specifically, one aspect of the story that I found was really well depicted in this story was the approach of using a child narrator. I interact with a lot of […]
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This week’s novel felt like perhaps the most personal we have read so far this term. It is about a girl and her father, among a litany of other children, and a bunch of other people who see him as a sort of father figure. While reading it, I thou…
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This week’s novel felt like perhaps the most personal we have read so far this term. It is about a girl and her father, among a litany of other children, and a bunch of other people who see him as a sort of father figure. While reading it, I thou…
Well, this week’s reading was certainly interesting. Most of the time I felt as if I was questioning whether or not the unnamed narrator was dreaming or not, and by the end, I was wondering if Jesus could have been some sort of first-century version of Tony Soprano or Avon Barksdale. Dr.Beasley-Murray aptly described the […]
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