I want you to find your own way through the maze of this mythic dreamscape as much as possible; however, following from our discussion on Thursday, consider some of the following ideas:
* Other colonial symbolism in the work (along the lines of the "complete gentleman")
* Elements of traditional oral epic and myth: what parts of the work seem to reach back into a prehistoric past before books and European colonization
* Addresses and asides to his audience: who IS his audience?
* Recurring imagery, especially babies, eyes, feet, etc.
* The overall moral or "quest" of the work: how might the work be a modern attempt to explain the world (much as ancient epics used myth to explain the seemingly supernatural)? How do things come together through the storyteller's art?
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