Strange Pilgrims Solo Presentation
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At least 10 minutes long
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Examine the 4 most prominent elements of magical realism in Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen
Explain how an element of magical realism is present in your story, how it advances certain events, and how it helps the main message of the story
Title slide for Powerpoint
Each body slide needs a title. (Ex. “The dead girl in The Saint is dislocated: she does not belong among the living”).
Each slide should have one quote or additional research regarding the story. (Ex. Research: What is the Habit of Saint Francis?)
You many only have 3-4 slides with the same title/subject.
No more than seven short line quotes.
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Style: relaxed and informal
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen:
Main character: Señora Prudencia Linero
4 elements of magical realism: religious critique, dislocation, marginalized characters, and symbols.
Quotes of religious critique:
“She observed that he had disgraceful hands with broken, dirty nails, and an onion breath so persistent it seemed more like a character trait. But he was in the service of God” (127)
“The holy father does not hear confessions,” said the priest, somewhat scandalized, “except for those of kings of course”. (129)
“Even god goes on vacation in August” (121)
Quotes of dislocation:
“The social spirit human warmth that permitted her to survive her first homesickness in the stifling heat of the tropics had disappeared.” (118)
“Every voyage must be like this, she thought, suffering for the first time in her life the sharp pain of being a foreigner,...” (118)
“Thought the problem lay not in the hearts of others but in her own, since she was the only one going in a crowd that was returning” (118)
Quotes of marginalized characters:
“...he seemed an ordinary man with no vestige of God’s indulgence, and she observed that he had disgraceful hands with broken, dirty nails, and an onion breath so persistent it seemed more like a character trait.” (127)
“They had to move her trunk several times in order not to wet it, but she changed places without changing expression, without interrupting her prayers until they took her out of the recreation rooms and left her sitting in the full sun among the lifeboats” (121).
“... but she also thought that a man who talked so much, and with so much passion, could not have time to harm a poor solitary woman who had risked the dangers of the ocean to see the Pope” (122).
Quotes of symbolism:
“...wearing a beggars overcoat and an inconsolable expression pulled from a profusion of tiny chicks from his pockets with both hands. In an instant, they covered the entire pier, crazed and cheeping and it was only because they were magic that many survived and kept running after being stepped on by the crowd that was oblivious to the miracle” (120)
“Shoved by the gangs of porters who came to blows over the baggage, she felt threatened by the same inglorious death that menaced the little chicks.” (120)
“Señora Prudencia Linero felt that she was in a chicken cage rising slowly through the center of an echoing marble staircase” (122)