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A DRUGSTORE IN WINTER

Synopsis

Summary

* Cynthia Ozick, 1982

*Park View Pharmacy

*Detatched Parenting

*Progressing Literature

Evolution of

Literature

Literature

  • Fiction
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Pinocchio
  • Nonfiction
  • Jane Eyre

Author's Emotions

- False meanings

- Evolution of emotions

Literature

(Cont.)

Literature

(cont.)

*Literature is a distraction

*“I am cross-eyed, dumb, an imbecile at arithmetic…” pg 493

Rhetorical

Techniques

  • Use of language
  • Occasional similes
  • Heavy symbolism

Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis

  • “Your hair is whitening, you are a well of tears, what you meant to do (beauty and justice) you have not done, papa and mama are under the earth, you live in panic and dread, the future shrinks and darkens, stories are only vapor, your inmost craving is for nothing but an old sacred pen, and what, God knows, is that?” (Ozick 496).
  • “But after a while other ambushes begin: sorrows deaths, disappointments, subtle diseases, delays, guilt, the spite of the glamorous, the bitterness of those for whom resentment is a daily gruel, and so on and so on...” (Ozick 495).

Rhetorical Analysis

(cont.)

Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis

(cont.)

  • “Someday, when I am free of P.S. 71, I will write stories…" (Ozick 495).
  • “A writer is buffeted into being by school hurts…” (Ozick 495).
  • “I carry, weighty as a cloak, the ineradicable knowledge of my scandal - I am cross-eyed, dumb, an imbecile at arithmetic” (Ozick 493).

Rhetorical Analysis

- Fishbowl

- Spinning Bookshelf

- Glass Table

Rhetorical Analysis

(cont.)

Game Time

The One Where You Win Candy

(or get shamed)

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