The I is Never Alone — Jack's Thoughts

• Tragic, hey?
• Examining national identity + colonialism
• So, what's up with the birds?
  • Birds taken on human behaviors
  • Similar to Wild Animal Imprinting!!

Thoughts on the composition of the text…

• Crappy stuff happening to Siriak – but very often at dawn or dusk… #why?
  • "Died together before sunset"
  • "At down he set food on the isle"
• Shift in tone and pride:
  • "Condemned" => Walking about
    • (Also, Condemned used a lot!)
    • Perhaps a demonstration of the involuntary nature of events?
  • "Stared at + pronounced" => Proclaimed
• "Bones mixed with the sand on the beach"
  • So, he became part of the island?
  • Assimilation or giving in?
• "The outcome was everything Siriak might have hoped for, if not forseen" — so, in some ways, is Siriak loosing track of his larger "mission"
• Symbolism of mirrors
  • That one wants to "see" themselves changing the area
  • But, obviously, it does not really work, for it decomposes with him
  • Mirrors="The (non-actual) Way Out"?
  • Simply creating an image of control