Magic Man
From the movie Prestige, magic requires this thing.
What is sacrifice?
Often thought of as a subject, but really is a shaping force
What is geography?
How the other is called in "Coming Across It"?
What is "otter"?
The first scene in the movie Frankenstein is reminiscent of this story we read in class.
What is the Tempest?
The way technology works against the five steps of entering a local geography.
What is prevents us from being present and sensing the world around us?
The reason animals are "magical" for Lopez.
What is that they are different from us, and they can do things we cannot?
topic is not nature, but the evolving structure of communities from which nature has been removed, often as a consequence of modern economic development.
What is nature writing?
The name the cottagers give to the person who helps them
What is the "good spirit of the forest"?
The storytelling device used when the Frankenstein movie cuts to Geneva.
What is flashback?
According to Wendell Berry, this is the way of the machine.
What is industrialism?
The type of magic Victor is doing in Frankenstein.
What is creating life from death?
The purpose of this thing is to gain intimacy and to rid oneself of assumption.
What is attentiveness?
The city dwellers ultimately want to do this thing to the otter.
What is "kill it"?
At the end of Frankenstein, Walton decides to go to this place.
What is back home?
According to Berry, Agrarians accept this thing that Industrialists think they can ignore with enough technology and know how.
What are limits?
The magic that companies are racing to develop today.
What is artificial intelligence or AI?
To Barry Lopez, animals and language both are forms of this thing.
What is "magic"?
A giggling girl put this on top of the Bull Moose's head, and it is an allusion to this person.
What is a purple cap of thistles and who is Jesus?
"Like a tribe, we huddle here" reveals that "Coming Across It" is in this POINT OF VIEW.
What is first person plural?
The thing that both Tesla in the Prestige and Victor in Frankenstein use to bring life
What is electricity?
The reason why the "magical man" or creature in Frankenstein is rejected and not accepted.
What is he is ugly and malformed?
Paying attention, having a storied relationship with a place, and living in ethical unity with a place are the fundamental defenses against this
What is loneliness?
Three occurrences that help justify why the Creature turns violent toward Victor and his family.
What are 1) the creature is shunned by the villagers, 2) he is rejected by the cottagers, 3) he is rejected by his creator?
Three story levels in Frankenstein
What are 1) Walton's story, 2) Victor's story, 3) the Creature's story?
What Walton asks, "Who are you?" to the creature, the creature responds with this statement.
What is "He never gave me a name"?