Wednesday, December 2, 2009

small world day 3 pt. 3

make your own question's
1) sex, while present throughout the book, has taken a literary grandstand in part three. Why do you think this is?

A) Persse was never really introduced to the world of sex and pornography, so as Persse becomes more and more familiar with the art of making little kids so does the reader. It's sort of a "pants off" coming of age.

2) many quests are introduced here to various characters, pick one. Discuss what it means to the character, to the story, and how it relates to the other texts we have discussed.

A) Persse has self proclaimed the quest of finding, and perhaps saving, his (not so) fair maiden Ms. Lilly. As in other texts he is willing to do anything to fulfill his task, even spend his thousand dollar prize in the pursuit of this maiden. It must be said that perhaps, due to the parrallels between Persse and Perseus, this story will never end. Will he ever be happy? Will he ever find his "grail"? If this maiden is truly his grail then maybe he will never find her again but will fruitlessly search the world of scholars only to find that while he may not get the girl he does gain a little something.

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