Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1820 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Once Upon a Time and a Very Good Time It Was"
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The idea
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man opens with a moocow coming down along the road, meeting a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. The novel begins in the vocabulary of an infant because its protagonist is one.
In practice
A moocow, and a nicens little boy.
Where people slip
The prose is the child's, not a narrator's.
Your place on the trail
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