Post 8 - Learning from Others

                   After reading some of our classes blogs, I learned more about the plot of Packer's story that I originally posted about. In Benjamin's post: "This[The setting of the story] is important because Dina is not from Tokyo, and generally neither is the audience." I never thought of the setting being used to not only confuse the characters, but also us as readers. The author used terms that most of us would not know and without the footnotes on the page, we would be as misplaced as Dina. From Jennifer's post, I discovered that the setting was set on multiple levels. Dina moved from a big city, Baltimore, to the small country of Japan. Not only that, but she takes up residence in a tiny flat that is also crowed by her roommates. "The small apartment offers no amenities other than space to inhabit, same as Japan." All in all I feel my thoughts on the plot of "Geese" was greatly expanded by the ideas of my colleagues. 


Jennifer's Blog
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Benjamin's Blog
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