Brooklyn (NY) ← Eilis →Ireland
Week 6
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•  “ambi”: two, or both
Prefix of the day
•  “ambi”: two, or both •  Ambidextrous – dexterity (skill) •  What part of your body do you use most to display your skills?
Prefix of the day
•  “ambi”: two, or both •  Ambidextrous – dexterity (skill) •  What part of your body do you use most to display your skills? •  Hands and feet. •  Ambidextrous? On ambivalence
•  “ambi”: two, or both •  Ambivalence: •  Valence: how we value a thing. On ambivalence
•  “ambi”: two, or both •  Ambivalence: •  Valence: how we value a thing either posiVvely (+) or negaVvely (-­‐). On ambivalence
•  “ambi”: two, or both •  Ambivalence: to see both the posiVve and the negaVve of a situaVon. •  You can be ambivalent about your feelings. •  You can be ambivalent about what you want. •  You can be ambivalent about your goals. •  You can be ambivalent about your relaVonships. On ambivalence
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Ambivalence over your feelings. Ambivalence over you desires. Ambivalence over your goals. Ambivalence over your relaVonships. •  “ambi-­‐” (2)
•  Ambiguity/ambiguous: to have two meanings at once. •  Ambiguity/ambiguous: to have two meanings at once. •  To have a meaning that could be: a.  (+) I like you. b.  (-­‐) I like you. •  Ambiguity/ambiguous: to have two meanings at once. •  To have a meaning that could be: a.  (+) I like you. b.  (-­‐) I like you. •  Ambiguity/ambiguous: to have two meanings at once. •  To have a meaning that could be: a.  (+) I like you. (I really like you). b.  (-­‐) I like you. (…but I don’t want to be your partner) Eilis in Brooklyn
•  PosiVve side: •  NegaVve side: Eilis in Brooklyn
•  PosiVve side: –  EducaVon –  Romance –  Private space –  PossibiliVes (lifestyle, social status) –  A “newer” life Eilis in Brooklyn
•  NegaVve side: –  No family –  No sense of customs –  “Home”? –  Alone? –  How to grow old? Tony in Brooklyn
•  PosiVve side: –  Family (Italian immigrants) –  Brothers and work –  Romance (with Other?) –  PossibiliVes (lifestyle, social status) –  A “be_er” life Tony in Brooklyn
•  PosiVve side: –  What is be_er for Tony? –  EducaVon for children –  Be_er housing (out of apartment and houses) –  Be_er district (as in, Long Island) –  Familiar customs (baseball) Tony in Brooklyn
•  NegaVve side: –  Doesn’t want to marry his own “kind” (Italian-­‐
American). –  Work could be be_er. –  Maybe no plumbing, but building houses (in Long Island). (P69: …a part of America that doesn’t even exist yet) •  Very few negaVves Brooklyn
Long Island
Tony and Long Island
Tony is from Brooklyn
•  Brooklyn •  Leaving Brooklyn and moving to Long Island (only an hour away) only because there are be_er opportuniVes (spaces) nearby. Eilis is from Ireland
•  Ireland •  Leaving Ireland and moving to the U.S. (weeks away) only because there is no opportunity in Ireland. Living in Ireland (beginning of film)
•  PosiVve side: –  Almost none •  NegaVve side: –  She doesn’t like the other “men”. –  She doesn’t have a (good) job. –  There are no possibiliVes of work. –  No educaVon. Returning to Ireland (last part of film)
•  PosiVve side: –  ?? •  NegaVve side: –  ??