My Delicate Heart Condition

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My Delicate Heart Condition
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Epiphany

• -  a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight
  into the reality or essential meaning of
  something, usually initiated by some simple,
  homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience
• - (suddenly recognizing the deeper meaning of
  something that does not seem important)

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Epiphany

• - a literary work or section of a work
  presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment
  of revelation and insight"My Delicate Heart
  Condidtion" is an epiphany

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Narrator Basics

• First person point of view
• Unreliable narrator because she does not
  understand the events that she is describing
• A child describing events that will teach her a
  lesson later in life

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Difficulty in Reading

• The narrator does not understand the
  importance of the events that she is describing
  therefore the reader must infer the meaning that
  Bambera is implying.

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The Fly Family

• Harriets conflict with the Fly Family is
  described to reveal her personality.
• List the characteristics that this conflict
  reveals.

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Summer Camp

• This is the incident that causes Harriet to
  change.
• Harriets change is based on a false belief.
• What is that belief?
• How does she change?

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Reality

• What is the reality behind Harriets false
  belief?
• What will happen when the narrator realizes the
  truth?

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Insight

• The readers interpretation of what will happen
  when Harriet learns the truth reveals the
  character of the reader.
• The point of this story is to help the reader
  come to terms with an aspect of self.