ENCW 202 Spring 2020
Posted in Desire on Feb 5th, 2020
In “Stop Your Women’s Ears With Wax,” a band is followed by teenage fan girls that seem to cause destruction everywhere the band goes. However, it seems as though the girls are not the only entities who cause destruction. The story is about a girl band and the odd hype they are receiving; it seems […]
Julia Armfield’s “Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax” turns the idea of the obsessive teenaged fangirl on its head; instead of lusting after boy bands, the girls in this story obsessively and savagely follow an all-female band. By doing so, Armfield essentially gives power to the women in her story, letting them take full control […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2020
In “Stop Your Women’s Ears with Wax,” Julia Armfield wants to tell one what it’s like to be working as a member of the crew touring with a female band. Many people don’t think about what it is like to work with a band. She wants to show that behind the scenes people are always […]
Posted in The Unconscious on Feb 4th, 2020
The use of the fantastic in “The Great Awake” is quite literally transcending planes from the unconscious to the conscious, where whole cities take to insomnia incarnated. “People slept until their Sleeps stepped out of them, then they went on living awake.” (32) The author does not explain the Sleeps, although the story attempts to […]
Posted in Mystery on Feb 4th, 2020
In “The Great Awake,” it is the narrator that is the most interesting. The reader never gets a clear picture of who Janey is except in small moments. The majority of the story is her narration of what is happening to the other people in the city, to her brother, or to Leonie. Janey […]
Posted in Desperation, Loneliness, Longing for Answers, Obsession on Feb 3rd, 2020
Salt Slow, in its entirety, can be summed up as the body betraying the narrator. First the transformation in “Mantis,” then people’s Sleeps leaving their bodies in “The Great Awake,” and finally, in “The Collectibles,” a woman collects men’s body parts to supposedly build a better boy. There are concepts in this story that we […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2020
“The Great Awake” by Julia Armfield uses satire to talk about the problem of insomnia, which in this story, has become widespread in cities. The Sleeps, which just separate themselves from their human bodies, are always “tall and slender, but beyond that there were few common traits.” (pg.19) Life has changed for those that have […]