-a complicated style -who is the speaker & thinker at times WHY? HOW?

CRITICAL THEORY: LOOK AT FREUD'S (ID, EGO & SUPEREGO) -social constraints -social science IMPRESSIONISM (artistic form of art)- references to Claude Monent's Sunrise Painting -FREUD- breakup the psyche to see how it works -instincts and personal will -can painters capture what writers put into words and vice versa STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS "HAUNTED HOUSE" is the best example of the STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS -3rd person observers or participant -we shared perspectives -1ST PERSON PERSPECTIVE IS THE HOUSE -the awakening- the traces of the everyday life LITERARY IMPRESSIONISM= the haunted house -different visions and angles in the story -multiple points of view EDITOR- the everyday life molding the past and present -memory of life IN PARAGRAPH 3- a series of expressions of the everyday life -memory of the past "here we left our treasure" -everyday life practices and how they keep it alive -how these things are happening in the present REPETITION OF PAST OCCURENCES OF THE HAPPENINGS WITHIN THE PRESENT STATE OF BEING USE OF FRAGMENTS- usages of the past -impossible tasks to know about (the people of the past) -present (the ghosts can see all about the people of the present) CONCRETE-CONTRAST celebration through the STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (FRAGMENTS) SYMBOLISM/MEANINGS: HOUSE- togetherness and love -a focal point

-fragments of the past & present come together -a place of protection -'safe, safe, safe,'- becomes the heartbeat of the house (an organism) -timeless- 'the house' doesn't change, but the people do and the habits' -the mind -doors opening and closing, as so do the windows -complicated METAPHOR of the mind -is involved with mortality (life) -closed & then is opened- similarity to a person (windows & doors) -RICH PANABEL OF HOW SHE USED THE HOUSE IN REFERENCE TO THE MIND

JAMAICA KINCAID "GIRL" - DICTION huge run-on sentences into a short-story (poor example) -female roles in gender -poetry usages then prose -important life advice but at times can be very trivial in context -importance of advice -life changing advice to trivial means of advice (mirroring effect & becoming over-whelmed) -gender role will pre-emanate throughout the girls life -regulatory of gender What is important and not within this story? -grandmothers advice on life -the message of everyday life of how one is supposed to act within a particular gender role within there community, home & culture 2INTERPRETATION INFORMATION= HUMOROUS AT ONE PERSPECTIVE = REPETITION OF HOW THE MOTHER IS PRE-DETERMINING THE GIRLS OUTCOME -gender regulations -double message about the bread & pretending to be this woman of whom the baker would allow near the bread.