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Summary Dream House
- Course
- IEB NOTES MATRIC
- Institution
- Brescia House High School
these are in depth notes on The Dream House for English IEB grade 12
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The Dream House Talk- Heart of every story - Protagonist that wants something (Patrica; Beauty)
- Antagonist that tries to stop them (Richard’ apartheid)
- A story is the journey of the protagonist overcomes obstacles
- The protagonist must change
- The reader must change
- Every story is about love – love story between an unlikely mother and son
- Patricia is the protagonist – undergoes the most shift
Dreaming of her home in Durban – nightmare house shes leaving.
Looksmart is still attached to the nightmare house – changing the house – his
wound. Destroying his homeland, he discovered himself in this house, where he was
for a while happy.
- Fishing – moment can never be taken away
- Antagonist – starts as Looksmart, then P humanity
- Looksmart – love he wants/had for P
Overcomes – loves P, outgrows R hatred. Wound healed
- Theme: memory, justice & truth, symbol & metaphor (graves, dog, mist)
- Power shifts of SA (relationship between L & P) Allegory of SA
- Regeneration & decay / heaven & hell
- Shadow of past events – remain unclear affecting present events
- P breaks free from the cycle that has confined her
- Richard is only a shadow of the man he was
- CONTEXT: where am I telling my story?
Writer? Audience?
- Lit novel: audience broad, range of ages. Complexities of what it is to be a SA,
allegory of colonism & apartheid
- Author grew up in racial divided societies
- Theatrical devices used in the novel
1. Range of perspectives
2. No central narrator
3. Dramatic irony
4. Five-act structure
- Agency in book? White & black characters
- Lives that transcend the framework of the book, capture only a part of them?
- Zulu – not translated: can’t access characters fully?
- World creating- truth can be accessed easily?
- Past & present events can’t access fully, each have our own
- Fog: limited access to each other
- Create a fictive world, that stands for the world (like a metaphor)
- Write about what they don’t know about, but what they want to know about. –
discovery
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