Cotton Candy
Transcript: Chronological Themes (contd.) Themes "Woo at the Zoo" The San Francisco Zoo’s annual Valentine’s event offers the original Annual Sex Tour/Woo at the Zoo with Jane Tollini. The slide show presentation is full of wild animal factoids, new positions, kinky information… literally the ins and out, and ups and downs of animal mating, all animals A to Z . “Woo at the Zoo” also features a brunch or dinner. Reservations are required as this “sense”-ational event sells out each year. Symbols Visual: Cotton Candy by Dora Alonso Valentine's Day @ SF Zoo Butterflies Vivid detail and imagery "sighing under a steady rain of winged corpses" pg 13 Kinesthetic: Structure Always reflecting and illustrating her thoughts and emotions of her past life and current life. Usually the thoughts always have to do with sex, or past. The animals seemed to always bring up these feelings. "The forgotten dizziness of her youth returned with the strength of a llama, who mounts his female for a very long time, hurting her." (pg. 16) "It would fly down, lighting on a radiant morning glory; gather its wings, making them vibrate with delicious quiver, and at the same time, move its light legs over the wine-colored petals." (pg.12) Hand Mirror A woman desperate for love Race Barriers Definitions Finding Youth Butterflies named after her first loves "The constant tightening and loosening of dreams and realities were gradually deforming the young woman" p.14 Lola (Dolores)- "Sorrows" "A big woman with a thick waist and straight, fat, pianolike legs, arms with hanging flesh, and feet that walked twisted like a wild parrot." (pg. 15) Lust/Love 15 years old to about 50 or older, "nothing but wrinkles and bags" pg 15 Contemplative & Reflective Zoo Animals Alonso uses a combination of imagery to paint a descriptive, vivid world... "Relationship was established on the basis of the respectability of the loose woman who employed manners and words of an exaggerated refinement, and on feigned ignorance. (pg. 13) "Grey hair, wrinkles, big woman -- thick waist and straight, fat, pianolike legs, arms with hanging flesh, and feet that walked twisted like a wild parrot." (pg. 15) "Smooth face, his teeth intact, sparkling eyes, muscular neck, without jowls or wrinkles." (pg. 17) Ex: Ligers/Tiglons represents the mixed races Cuba is a nation of mostly mixed race Imagery Lola works a cotton candy machine at the zoo. Julian -"Youthful" "From the polished moon surface the girl from Minas smiled at her" P.18 Tone Descriptive spinster: occult: a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying secret, hidden from view, of or pertaining to magic... pyre: a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material Character Development Lola