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To Da-Duh In Memoriam By Paule Marshall
The short story “To Da-Duh in Memoriam”, written by Paule Marshall, is extremely similar and mirrors the concepts that are presented in the first chapter of Thomas Foster’s “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”. The chapter, which is titled “Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)” states that there are five conventions that a quest consists of “a quester” or someone who is going on the quest. In “To Da-Duh in Memoriam” this quester is the narrator, who is a young child from New York City. Foster also states that a quest must also have “(b) a place to go, (c) a stated reason to go there”. The narrator of the story has just landed in Barbados which is shown when she states “I was busy attending to the alien sights and sounds of Barbados,
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