Monday, March 31, 2014
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I went into the last section of Foe under the impression that the narrator was going to be consistent from the rest of the book. You can understand my exceptional confusion in this last part. The change of narration is not the only part of this 5 paged section that overwhelmed me. I had a very difficult time following the sequence of events throughout this section. Yet despite my agitation, I appreciated the ending of Foe on a whole. I found it fitting that Friday was the focus of the last several paragraphs. A man of no words surrounded by many. Friday has always been a curious character, and one who intrigued Barton a great deal. As Coetzee finishes his book with Friday's mouth open, I was left wondering the fate of Friday. This last section of the book left me fairly perplexed, confused and frustrated by what I just read and how it affects the rest of the story that I had already read.
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I felt the same way when I read the last section of the book. The change in narration and interesting sequence of events threw me off, and kind of confused me. When we went through the last 5 pages, essentially sentence by sentence, I did gain a much better understanding of what the author was trying to accomplish with the last section. I agree; I like how the author ended explaining that Friday's voice is the voice of the island, and how we never will know his story. But I was also left confused about the author's intentions with the last section of the book.
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