![]() ![]() ![]() Why, for instance, does this chapter begin and end with the excerpts from Dickens? Are there direct parallels between the childhood of Philip Pirrip and the narrator's childhood? Or is the relation more broad, drawing upon the place of Great Expectations within the canon of coming-of-age novels? What is the dramatic effect of Acker's decision to change the names slightly in the opening reference to Dickens, and of her sudden return to Dickens's novel at the chapter's conclusion?Ģ. What explanations are provided-or can be inferred-about the relationship between these different narrative lines? ![]() "I Recall My Childhood" is composed of several different narrative lines: the echoes of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations that open and close the chapter, the memories of the narrator's childhood, the wartime scene, and the intervening material told from the present by the narrator as an adult. Text Kathy Acker, "I Recall My Childhood," from Great Expectationsġ. ![]()
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