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Part I:
In Alistair MacLeod’s “The Boat” he uses intertexuality to support the idea of the symbol that the sea is death.
“His hands were shredded as were his feet which had lost their boots to the suction of the sea, like the grass on graves, upon the purple, bloated mass that was his face. There was not much left of my father, physically, as he lay there with the brass chains on his wrists and the seaweed on his hair.”
In this story the sea is what brings death to the father, and what is his living death through out his life. It is the thing that takes the light out of him, and he is truly alive when he is home and reading his books on his bed. This idea of the sea being death is supported throughout the story by making references to David Copperfield, Moby Dick and other works in which the sea has brought on death.
Part II:
Metafiction is when a work of fiction deliberately draws attention to the fact that it is fiction. Austin Powers: Goldmember uses this often in addresses to the audience for comedic effect, or in the scene where Fat Bastard points out the wires he is using for his stunt. It shocks the reader out of the drone of the movie either to make them laugh, or to surprise them.
In Alistair MacLeod’s “The Boat” he uses intertexuality to support the idea of the symbol that the sea is death.
“His hands were shredded as were his feet which had lost their boots to the suction of the sea, like the grass on graves, upon the purple, bloated mass that was his face. There was not much left of my father, physically, as he lay there with the brass chains on his wrists and the seaweed on his hair.”
In this story the sea is what brings death to the father, and what is his living death through out his life. It is the thing that takes the light out of him, and he is truly alive when he is home and reading his books on his bed. This idea of the sea being death is supported throughout the story by making references to David Copperfield, Moby Dick and other works in which the sea has brought on death.
Part II:
Metafiction is when a work of fiction deliberately draws attention to the fact that it is fiction. Austin Powers: Goldmember uses this often in addresses to the audience for comedic effect, or in the scene where Fat Bastard points out the wires he is using for his stunt. It shocks the reader out of the drone of the movie either to make them laugh, or to surprise them.
