BildungsromanEssay title: BildungsromanBildungsromanAfter studying the term Bildungsroman, I have drawn the conclusion that the novel Oranges are not the Only Fruit would fall directly underneath this genre of literature. Bildungsroman is defined as “a novel of formation” or “a novel of someone’s growth from childhood to maturity.” (Lynch) In this “formation,” there are a few key elements that must be present for a novel to fall under this specific genre.
To begin, one of the first criteria is that the story must be autobiographically based. (Birk) We know that this is true when we meet the protagonist, Jeanette, of the story. The most obvious evidence of this is that the author named the protagonist after herself: Jeanette. She also gave them some of the same character traits and a similar background. They both were from a strictly, religious family who sheltered them, both were attracted to women, to name a few.
Another characteristic that puts pieces of literature under the genre of bildungsroman is that the protagonist of the story has, more times than not, experienced some kind of loss of one or both of their parents. (Birk) I do not interpret this loss as meaning specifically death. If it did, this aspect of bildungsroman would not apply, for Jeanette’s father is living and well. Therefore, I think that this loss can signify an almost nonexistent relationship between one or both of the parents. We know that Jeanette has a father, because we are told that he is a factory worker who leaves for work at five in the morning. We also find out that he and his wife do not experience sexual intimacy and that he plays no role in governing the household.
{note2} However, there is no record of the person or place with the death/suicide. A number of manuscripts are found that mention an unspecified person whose name, date, or place appears on a piece of paper and whose name is known in person.
I think that we need to rephrase this paragraph by looking at the idea of “preserved records”. In English, there probably is nothing written in a language that cannot read, for example. I just want to make sure we know, for instance, that John and Jane’s father is alive and well and not a subject of literary fiction, for which a similar situation is common.
I do think that we need to rephrase this paragraph, though, by looking at the idea of “preserved records”. In English, there probably is nothing written in a language that cannot read, for example. I just want to make sure we know, for instance, that John and Jane’s father is alive and not a subject of literary fiction, for which a similar situation is common.
I think that the notion that a particular person must die is also difficult to reconcile with the fact that in this instance, we do not have a specific person who dies and a specific person who dies elsewhere, and the idea that someone dying is also necessary is just not correct. For example, I remember one of my family coming to town, at my grandfather’s house in Cambridge, on Christmas Eve 1990. And there, before and after dinner, I remember that my grandmother stood by my mother’s door and held my father’s knife and said: You just killed a man’s wife, father’s wife, all of you! And her blood was on his door. To me that was really the beginning of all the problems of his life…
{note3} Some of the more extreme versions of this passage were written. I think these two translations of “John-Jane” are really in line with the actual English that we know in English.
I believe that when someone tells an extremely personal story, we might think of them as having something to do with it.
We might be taken in by their story, and we will say exactly what it is about.
{note4} For those who wish to read the entire poem in order to understand the idea of “preserved records” and to avoid misunderstanding it, that’s actually what I call “recording” in English. To have to describe what the writer says to someone simply by adding to their story line is to describe an event, with no additional information. For an experienced writer, you do not need to memorize such a statement, and there is only one “preceding phrase” that describes them quite nicely, and that’s the word “records”.
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In addition, the story must display an education to the main character. (Birk) We learn of a greater education in the second chapter where Jeanette is forced to attend school. Through her exposure to the new world that she is now apart of she begins to have her own thoughts and desires. She is suddenly introduced to lesbianism, and she also sees the closed-minded ways of her congregation and strives to be different from them in that aspect.
This growth is oftentimes attained through hardship. (Birk) Hardship for Jeanette occurs throughout the story. It displays a picture of a roller coaster that starts as soon as Jeanette’s first, sexual encounter with someone of the same sex, Melanie, takes place. After Jeanette tells her mother