Practice IOC outline- The moons of Jupiter.

This passage is from the Moons of Jupiter and is part of Alice Munro's collection of. This was published in her career in 2004, and this passage is significant as it sets the scene and situation of the passage and overarching meaning of the text, which is how the father holds the gravitational pull on his family members, which are the moons of Jupiter and how they orbit around him because he is in a near death experience. This title is very significant to this notion of a Jupiter orbit. This is not a chronological plot and narration, and characterises the father. Its literary features mostly encompass' Janet's emotion in stressful situations the sentences don't flow and are exaggerated. I will be conducting this in a Sequential Order. 

First Chunk

• Starts off which the hospital scenery and the wires stitched to the father's chest. Immediately tone is set within line 2.Portraying own personal narrative.
• Line 3 is a metaphor about Janet's emotions, which Munro uses to exaggerate the meaning of the text.
• This is calm and optimistic shows the relationship between the Father's relationship between Janet and her father. 

Second Chunk: Characterization

• This shows characterisation because It shows the relationship between the Janet's father a
• Also how Janet describes the author in the magazine shows the Father's characterisation. As he describes how Janet does not appreciated how her father often compares his daughter to others and is never satisfied. 

Third Chunk

• This is not a chronological narrative, because the narrator now goes back to Janets drive to Dalgleish and to get him back to Toronto. This is characterisation of Janet because she overlooks things, including the message from the experience. 
• Munro's uses figurative language is reflected in this final passage of in its sequential structure. Many metaphor's are used. Janet's emotional state acting calm shows the relationship between her father and her and how at a time like this, the father acts as a gravitational pull of Jupiter towards its moon.

Munro uses characterisation and the literary features to consider the full implication of this time during her career, showing structural embodiment within the passage. Overall, this situates the passage situation and Janets emotion within the story, through the Narrative, which is why it is symbolic within the text.  

Family Furnishings Practice IOC

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Alfrida’s—she must have married. And I couldn’t recall Alfrida’s ever mentioning any of her half family by their first names. 

I asked how Alfrida was, and the woman said her own eyesight was so bad that she was legally blind. And she had a serious kidney problem, which meant that she had to be on dialysis twice a week.

“Other than that—?” she said, and laughed. I thought, yes, a sister,because I could hear something of Alfrida in that reckless, tossed laugh.

“So she doesn’t travel too good,” she said. “Or else I would’ve brought her. She still gets the paper from here and I read it to her sometimes. That’s where I saw about your dad.”

I wondered out loud, impulsively, if I should go to visit, at the nursing home. The emotions of the funeral—all the warm and relieved and reconciled feelings opened up in me by the death of my father at a reasonable age—prompted this suggestion. It would have been hard to carry out. My husband—my second husband— and I had only two days here before we were flying to Europe on an already delayed holiday.

“I don’t know if you’d get so much out of it,” the woman said. “She has her good days. Then she has her bad days. You never know. Sometimes I think she ’s putting it on. Like, she ’ll sit there all day and whatever anybody says to her, she’ll just say the same thing. Fit as a fiddle and ready for love. That’s what she’ll say all day long. Fit-as-a-fiddle-and-ready-for-love.  She’ll drive you crazy. Then other days she can answer all right.”

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Again, her voice and laugh—this time half submerged— reminded me of Alfrida, and I said, “You know I must have met you, I remember once when Alfrida’s stepmother and her father dropped in, or maybe it was only her father and some of the children—”

“Oh, that’s not who I am,” the woman said. “You thought I was Alfrida’s sister? Glory. I must be looking my age.”

I started to say that I could not see her very well, and it was true. In October the afternoon sun was low, and it was coming straight into my eyes. The woman was standing against the light, so that it was hard to make out her features or her expression.

She twitched her shoulders nervously and importantly. She said, “Alfrida was my birth mom.”

Mawm. Mother.

David Foster Wallace Theory and Alice Munro.

In what ways could Wallace’s theory about education be applicable to the writing of Alice Munro? Justify your conclusion. 

   

David Wallace Foster addresses that true freedom is acquired through education in the ability to be adjusted, conscious and sympathetic in his literary piece this is water. "Control over how and what you think.”

This is achieved by our choice on the different perspectives of the world that we ignore because of our default mode during a typical day out. Wallace expressed through This is water that we can control our thinking and show our freedom instead of letting the thoughts set out for you crosses that experience out of your mind.

Achieving freedom through consciousness is determined by the ability to experience different perspectives of the world, through the example Wallace has provided in the grocery store on a “typical day out.”

Wallace also provides the important of fictitious thoughts as they strengthen your mind with experiences. Wallace explains this through the check out at the grocery store and imagining the lives or situations that the people nearby him are in, Of course, none of this is likely, but it's also not impossible — it just depends on what you want to consider.” This makes us sympathetic as human beings and adjusted which Wallace has also considered. Our ego is one of our many flaws as we constantly center ourselves without even doing it intentionally. There is no experience you've had that you were not at the absolute center of.

Wallace’s theory about education fits in to Munro’s writing as in all her stories I’ve read, she creates character and human development. Showing the human sympathy such as the example Alfrida. It was only revealed at the end about who she really was. And it shows us as readers the capacity to see beyond popular fiction. It encourages her readers to be more compassionate of the characters within the story, getting different perspectives. Her stories evoke emotional intelligence through developing empathy through the lives of not just the main character but through several characters of the story, such as the moons of Jupiter. Perhaps another reason for Munro to constantly keep her reader conscious through the  story through emotional intelligence is the ability to physically understand the role of the character within the short story as Munro cleverly places the reader within the characters mind through the narration. Overall, the ability of emotional intelligence according to Wallace’s Theory is that of being able to emphasize the emotional sympathy of the lives of multiple characters within a story.