Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 204 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

"Oranges are Not the Only Fruit"



I haven't finished it yet, I am on my way! There this whole part where Jeannette was hallucinating seeing demons of different color including orange... I didn't quite get that. Was she inventing those things as a way to cope with what was happening to her or did they drug her? I mean they mention that they offered her a beverage when the pastor was home telling what the mother should do so she can repent herself. This novel definitely has a different style or approach comparatively to Gaddis' novel. Jeanette missed the occasion to see her biological mother. It's only by reading more pages that we can see her disappointment when she found the adoption papers. At first I thought Jeanette didn't really care by her way of making humor only saying she would not play card since looking for the cards made her found the papers. I was expecting a direct confrontation with her adoptive mother but there wasn't at that moment. Winterson cut the pieces of the story and reveled later on the intensity of her discomfort knowing that she has been adopted and it starts to draw our curiosity to know how it happened if her mother is still alive and wants her back.  

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