In the novel, this is achieved via storytelling and subtle intertextual references to previous fictional works. It is argued that the path towards healthy mourning (as opposed to melancholia) must have recourse to the Other.
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. majesty and power, heraldic writers add that the Falcon denotes someone eager. These connections help in the process of working through or coming to terms with trauma. Discover 7 quotes tagged as Cranes Quotations: David James Elliott: I worked with. CRANE: The word literally means long-shanks it comes from the Welsh, gar. 'A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.' While reading this line, i instantly thought how much i could relate to it and unsurprisingly it felt like it has been written for me or people like me. In this paper, the novel is analyzed in terms of its connections with “another’s word”, to echo Bakhtin: on the one hand, the narrator negotiates with the community, with different kinds of written and oral accounts, even with their own childhood memories on the other hand, the text communes intertextually with other texts. This brings about the collective narrator’s failure to master the accuracy of the past events accompanied by their urge to recount the truth about the inexplicable suicides. Its fragmented content mirrors the very structure of the dreamy narrative: after witnessing the Lisbon sisters’ mass suicide, the group of male narrators decides to tell a story truthful to their posttraumatic condition. In a period when Trauma Studies have been assuming more and more importance, Jeffrey Eugenides’s first novel, The Virgin Suicides (1993), happens to center precisely on the traumatic adolescent experiences of its protagonists. In the morning, when the chase began, Smirre Fox looked so stunning that the geese were amazed when they saw him.
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