The PowerBook: What the?
Reflection over the PowerBook’s first 2 chapters (3/11)
The prompt asked to ask a thoughtful question. Well Oskar (from ELIC) has already came up with one for me: What the? This works because i had absolutely no idea what was going on the first time I read those two chapters. How does a tulip and phallus correlate? They are only alike in the biological sense that both are anatomically reproductive organs of their owner. The phallus to a human and the flower to a plant. Now looking back, I can see that Jeanette Winterson is embodying the tulip because they are more beautiful, and because the story is just so ridiculously out there. But I liked the book. In my paper, I wrote about how love is portrayed in the book. In the first two chapters, Winterson poses the ultimate question: what is freedom for one night? This is the driving force behind the action of the book. The innertexuality is demonstrated between the writer in the outer frame creating love stories that make up the inner frame. At many times these stories bleed together. The stories that the writer creates aren’t just stories, but are actually her attempt to find what true love really is. I think Winterson’s style was the most unique I had ever read. It was fun, challenging, and refreshing. I really enjoyed this book even though it confused the hell out of me, especially the first two chapters.
