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This is the book of our reading assignment. So far we just finish reading Chapter 4.
For the Homework Assignment this weekend (of at least 500 words), respond to the following prompt by analyzing one or two passages from Tono-Bungay that support your answer to the prompt. Due before class on Tuesday, 4/7.
Prompt: Last week, I mentioned that the original subtitle for this book was “A Romance of Commerce.” In several points throughout the text that we have read so far, George the narrator justifies his method of storytelling or his omission of certain details by emphasizing that he is writing a novel rather than some other genre of writing. Thus we have competing ways of viewing this text: on the one hand, both the title and our narrator insist that this is a work of fiction. On the other hand, the text is structured much like a memoir or an autobiography. How do these competing genres affect your attitude toward narrator-George and his perspective on his life, business, and English society? Are there points where George seems to make his text more romantic or more autobiographical? What might be the advantage for George in embracing both of these genres for the text he is writing?