Strange Pilgrims Solo Presentation
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At least 10 minutes long
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Examine the 4 most prominent elements of magical realism in Seventeen Poisoned EnglishmenĀ
Explain how an element of magical realism is present in your story, how it advances certain events, and how it helps the main message of the story
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Each body slide needs a title. (Ex.Ā āThe dead girl in The Saint is dislocated: she does not belong among the livingā).
Each slide should have one quote or additional research regarding the story. (Ex. Research: What is the Habit of Saint Francis?)
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No more than seven short line quotes.
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Style: relaxed and informal
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen:
Main character: SeƱoraĀ Prudencia Linero
4 elements of magical realism: religious critique, dislocation, marginalized characters, and symbols.
Quotes of religious critique:Ā
āShe observed that he had disgraceful hands with broken, dirty nails, and an onion breath so persistent it seemed more like a character trait. But he was in the service of Godā (127)Ā
āThe holy father does not hear confessions,ā said the priest, somewhat scandalized, āexcept for those of kings of courseā.Ā (129)Ā Ā
āEven god goes on vacation in Augustā (121)Ā Ā
Quotes of dislocation:
āThe social spirit human warmth that permitted her to survive her first homesickness in the stifling heat of the tropics had disappeared.ā (118)
āEvery voyage must be like this, she thought, suffering for the first time in her life the sharp pain of being a foreigner,...ā (118)
āThought the problem lay not in the hearts of others but in her own, since she was the only one going in a crowd that was returningā (118)
Quotes of marginalized characters:
ā...he seemed an ordinary man with no vestige of Godās indulgence, and she observed that he had disgraceful hands with broken, dirty nails, and an onion breath so persistent it seemed more like a character trait.ā (127)
āThey had to move her trunk several times in order not to wet it, but she changed places without changing expression, without interrupting her prayers until they took her out of the recreation rooms and left her sitting in the full sun among the lifeboatsā (121).
ā... but she also thought that a man who talked so much, and with so much passion, could not have time to harm a poor solitary woman who had risked the dangers of the ocean to see the Popeā (122).
Quotes of symbolism:
ā...wearing a beggars overcoat and an inconsolable expression pulled from a profusion of tiny chicks from his pockets with both hands. In an instant, they covered the entire pier, crazed and cheeping and it was only because they were magic that many survived and kept running after being stepped on by the crowd that was oblivious to the miracleā (120)Ā
āShoved by the gangs of porters who came to blows over the baggage, she felt threatened by the same inglorious death that menaced the little chicks.ā (120)
āSeƱora Prudencia Linero felt that she was in a chicken cage rising slowly through the center of an echoing marble staircaseā (122)
