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Symbol. Context. Memes. Read “Hills Like White Elephants”.

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  1. Symbol

  2. Context

  3. Memes

  4. Read “Hills Like White Elephants”

  5. “Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a gift of a white elephant from a monarch was simultaneously both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the animal had to be retained and could not be put to much practical use, but cost a significant amount to maintain.” • From Wikipedia

  6. Levels of story • -- • -PERCEPTION-

  7. Who provides a symbol?

  8. context

  9. What they are • Vs • What they • -Represent-

  10. Dick Prosser • ??

  11. Multiple meanings

  12. Irony

  13. -Verbal- • “You’re a regular Messiah, aren’t you?”

  14. -dramatic- • Dimmesdale

  15. -situational-

  16. Appearance • Vs • Reality • In 1974, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission had to recall 80,000 of its own lapel buttons promoting "toy safety", because the buttons had sharp edges, used lead paint, and had small clips that could be broken off and subsequently swallowed.

  17. Expectation • vs • Fulfillment • Kudzu - a vine imported to the United States in the 1930s and planted all over the South at the direction of the US Government in order to prevent soil erosion. Instead of preventing erosion, it climbs and chokes native trees and plants, thus causing even more erosion.

  18. -What is • Vs • What seems- • “Defender • Of • The Faith”

  19. Camus

  20. Existentialism • Absurdism

  21. Sisyphus

  22. Three choices: • S__ • L__ of F__ • R__

  23. Read • “The Guest”

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