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Learning sm (notes from pg235)
Hungarian Revolution, Tiananmen Square, Pan-European Picnic, Hungary opens border in Sept 1989, Vigil (Attack) at Gethsemanekirche Oct 1989
Mikhail Gorbachev - USSR, philosophy was no more military force upon dissidents in occupied Eastern Europe
Egon Krenz - East leader
Günter Schabowski - “immediately without delay” wall fall
Also Kat’s side quests are a fever dream
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Hungarian Revolution, Tiananmen Square, Pan-European Picnic, Hungary opens border in Sept 1989, Vigil (Attack) at Gethsemanekirche Oct 1989
Mikhail Gorbachev - USSR, philosophy was no more military force upon dissidents in occupied Eastern Europe
Egon Krenz - East leader
Günter Schabowski - “immediately without delay” wall fall
Also Kat’s side quests are a fever dream
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Had to stop and research lit theory, this will help me appreciate the story and Erpenbeck’s unique writing style to their core.
Literary devices: leitmotifs (words and phrases treated like musical notes, used to build emotional tension), allegory (story as a metaphor), and free indirect discourse (messy boundaries between narrator and characters perspectives, no quotation marks)
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Literary devices: leitmotifs (words and phrases treated like musical notes, used to build emotional tension), allegory (story as a metaphor), and free indirect discourse (messy boundaries between narrator and characters perspectives, no quotation marks)