Literature is a way for people to express their emotions towards the world around them. This is important towards helping us be more well-rounded people with the capacity to understand. TTTC is a chilling account of war and what it does to people. By studying the book, we gain a greater understanding of the emotions the author felt writing it, and thus a greater understanding of humanity as a whole.

2. How are we affected by literary texts in various ways? How are we impacted by TTTC?
One gains a greater understanding of humanity as a whole. Through stories, we can convey and express our feelings. This allows people to feel a wide range of emotions. TTTC impacts people by making them think about the impacts of war on the people that fight it. We gain a greater understanding on what a soldier thinks.

3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted in TTTC?
In TTTC, meaning is expressed through multiple short stories told by an unreliable narrator. O'Brien reiterates multiple times that a true war story is not necessarily true, but that it manages to convey feelings felt at that time. O'Brien contradicts truth with fallacies to make us feel the same way he did.

4. How does the structure of style of TTTC affect its meaning?
TTTC is told in multiple short stories. A linear story would restrict O'Brien because he'd have to have a moral and a plot, with conflict, beginning, middle, and end, etc. O'Brien doesn't wish to give a moral or a memoir, because that misses what he's trying to get across through each story, that a true story has to stick to absolute truth. His experiences can't be generalized to a 200 page narrative told beginning to end. The short stories each reveal something essential about his time in Vietnam.

Chronicle demonstrates the importance of family and honor in Columbian culture through the main plot point, the murder of Santiago Nasar. The murder of Nasar shows how important one's family is. They thought that Nasar had ruined their sister's life, so they killed him with little to no evidence in the most brutal fashion possible. It also demonstrates the extreme gender roles that men and women are assigned to in society. Women are not free to choose their husband, they must be virgins or else they will be cast away from society. Women are supposed to embody the Virgin Mary. The same expectation is not extended to men.

Structure and style affects meaning by adding suspense and irony to the story, as well as emphasizing key aspects of the text and adding expression to the work. Through Morrison's structure of the story, readers slowly uncover the story of Sethe and her children. We also gain information of her past through flashbacks, which play a key role in the present. Past, present, and future also serve a symbolic role in the story. Flashbacks to the past also provide the opportunity for motifs to appear, such as the bird or the tree. 
Time and Space

In order to interpret the novel effectively, one should have a basic level of understanding of history. This makes it easier for readers to understand the subtle references that Morrison uses throughout the book. For Morrison, an understanding of that time period helped her in understanding the multiple viewpoints of the people in that time period i.e schoolteacher. 

Morning: https://kami.app/QQq-RRb-XQE
Thirst: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yvz2U3C9tRNt19V4szk1HUSMQq-aLO-I/view?usp=sharing

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