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Harwood Notes- Father and Child
Father and Child | * Formative experience * Opens with simple frank story- narrative used to inform her growth/development * Father is a link to the Violets= father missing out on pursuing authorities’ side as he is asleep * Story of chils in the process into adult life | I Barn Owl | * Kills birds= reflects relationship- reflects domestic world and lack of empowerment-recognize birds and flowering trees are when temporal life is reduced=importance of relationships- realization love/memory * Knowledge of death * Barn=old * Owl= father/knowledge * Narrative story | Daybreak: the household slept. I rose, blessed by the sun. A horny fiend, I crept out with my father's gun. Let him dream of a child obedient, angel-mind- | * “Daybreak”-Day starting of life, symbolize new beginning, symbolic meaning embodied * “Daybreak”- adult awareness and loss of innocence * “:” Elaborates- significant moment for memories as it leads to an epiphany and if a form of definition that suggests the crime she is about to commit is organized and is strategic, this also develops the concept of narrative growth and the development of an attitude * “The household slept”- scene set * Potential for good/evil * “The household slept”-scene is set and she takes over the power as is planned and she is confident and controlled and gains power for taking her fathers gun * Oppose/objects/resists and challenges boundaries of her father * “Blessed by the sun”-personification, religious singled out * “Let him dream of a child”- juxtaposition of power of child and imagining view of father- conflict between father and child challanged * Taking of fathers gun= step into adult life, male/female= patriarchal constructs- she wants to challenge the social constructs that suggest males have more power and she wants to deliberately take that power in an act to assert independence * “Rose”= thorns symbolize danger yet beauty * “Blessed by the sun”- Jesus

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