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Cynthia Ozick's

A Drugstore in Winter

By: Claire, Scout, Louisa, and Caroline

Theme

The theme is to illustrate the hardships of her life and how she can no longer escape from them as she could as a child. If she could find happiness in her real life and relationships she would not need the escape of books.

Now a sad game

Because there was no way to make this sad piece into a fun game

Overarching Themes

Overarching Devices used

-Nostalgia

-Intertextual Allusion

-Perspective

-Bildungsroman

-Imagery

-Repetition of 'sitting at a glass table'

Discourse Analysis

Identities

This can be seen by the changes that Ozick goes through in her tone.

A change follows a small event or relization.

Relationships

Ozick and her Father

Ozick and her Mother

Ozick and the reader/her memior

-Included Ozick and her books

Significance

Cynthia Ozick uses language in a way that draws attention away from reality

  • "The Park View Phamacy is dismantled, turned into a Hallmark card shop. It doesn't matter!"
  • Survival depends on things she doesn't care about
  • Only remembers negative details of childhood as an adult
  • Mother is suffering
  • Perception of world changes

Connections

The golden leaf

Ozick's short stories and tidbits

Current feelings

Politics

Social Goods

  • Financial stability

Social Goods to Ozick as a child

  • Books/Becoming a Writer

As a Young Adult

  • Making money

As an old woman

  • Happiness

Activites

  • Role of main Character
  • "I am Jo in her 'vortex'; not Jo exactly, but some Jo-of-the-future
  • Understandable with minimal context
  • Parents
  • Finances
  • Responsible figures/Tied to reality

Dead Poet's Society

Memes

This is the most fun part of the presentation that is still kind of sad but now in a hip and comical way.

Memes

Meme #1

Meme #2

Meme #3

Meme #4

The end

thanks.

Conclusion

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