a.
Structure: Bolded sections (8 total). Different
versions of the ‘no man’s land.’
b.
Techniques: Uses a book, her past and present
interpretations (fiction!). Personal encounters turned to scenes. Insights
thrown in from herself and her husband.
c.
Images: At the beginning of ‘On the Border,’ she
does nothing but paint an image of her Chicago and then harshly contrasts it to
Evanston.
d.
Phrases: “This is what white people do to each
other, they cultivate each others’ fear.” 93% of murders are by men is “mass
pathology.” “These are the murders that allow us to be afraid of who we want to
be afraid of.”
e.
Themes: Fear (and its infusion in our lives as
violent to others); water (used as a symbol of freedom and openness, but also
of fear of the unknown and being limited); Race (the divisions of race in Chicago,
but in Rodger’s park not. The idea of pioneering overtop of the black citizens.
Being afraid of them, which hurts them and us.).
f.
Questions: Why Little House on the Prairie? Was
saying “This land belongs to God” an attempt to generalize and tie up loose
ends? It seems a little too easy that way.
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