Romulus

The fact that it is a memoir allows for reflection and reminiscent tone and an understanding of events. It allows Gaita to look back on memories from his childhood and see htem in a new light, the text could most definatly be considered sometimes romanticised. It's written in retrospect - eulogy, this purpose is clearly exposed in the Gaita clearly makes the book about his father with little information about his personal life later, all/most events involve Romulus. The book focuses on events that illustrate his fathers temperament and allows an evaluation of Romulus and Gaitas' bond It has a certain lyrical quality, which is evident in his lush landscape imagery. The lack of dialogue and direct quotes allow the responder to feel more included within the text The simplistic/ precise and effective language/ description and the fact that Gaita does not embellish events to much which makes the book an easy, simple and beutiful read communicating the main ideas a lot clearer. Symbolism and motifs present through out the book - mental illness, setting, connection with animals and land, family Central irony - the memoir allows Gaita to attempt to search for his own identitym autobiographical analytical and rather detached - philosophical, Gaitas personal context (a main contributer to ones sense of belonging) influences his approach to writing the novel. - Gaitas level of education is evident and conversations rarely border on colloquial Bees are suicide bombers. They take down a bunch of people in the process of taking themselves down. This is paralleled to Mitru and Christina, also suicide bombers. They fuck up Raimond's upbringing and Hora + Romulus' cashflow and then kill themselves. Harsh but true. • Bees are hard workers. Romulus and maybe Hora are hard workers. They both work all day with very strict regime/morals. Raimond is the queen bee. He is spoiled eg Hora's oranges, which Christina goes and eats, which is pretty funny. Romulus and Hora practicly live only to attend to Raimond's needs, similar to bees and the queen. • Bees are black and yellow, and a fact that not many people know is that Raimond's favourite shirt was yellow and black striped. Little people know this. You cannot simply Google it. You must take my word. I dare you to put this in an essay. I dare you. Do it and I will give you a shiny dollar.