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[junglebeats]

I realize that my mind's made up.
Maybe it's coffee that corrupts me into thinking that you're motivated,
You're clear-headed.
But I'm ready for the next leg of the trek.
I'm falling towards the target
Even if the bullseye is a bullet or a carwreckBut I'm not dust yet and I'm not fog

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[lepounder]

yeah mosquito coast is a little bitch.
i think the main things we have to talk about are how allie's insistance on escaping american society eventually leads to him creating his own outpost of american values in Honduras. He exports the ex-colonial american society to Honduras and creates a poor reflection of many of it's values. you can then ramble on about the colonialist symbolism, such as fat boy becoming a religious idol because the 'native' are too ignorant to understand that it is really science yadda yadda...

[junglebeats]

no honduras is the ex-colonial culture, america is the post-colonial culture

mm it is about being unable to escape your local even if you reject it like allie does
but the thing I was reading said explicitly that if we only talk about allie
and not allie representing american imperialism- it wanted a link between Allie's failure to transplant his values into Honduras and America's failure to establish liberal democracies in central america

and that's not even the scariest thing
that's that we're meant to be able to "argue how these various features of the texts reflect and/or challenge the dominant ways of thinking during the historical period"

I am pretty sure I have not done that at all.

:S.

[lepounder]

i would have thought honduras is post colonial as the spanish influence on south america influenced the native people, whereas american was a colony of british people who decided they didnt want to pay taxes to someone who really had no involvement with them. How can it be post colonial if they are really british themselves?

[junglebeats]

not post-colonial as in formerly a colony
colonial as in informed by postmodernist theory about colonisation- from a position of questioning the grand narrative idea of westerners improving native cultures by colonising them, and in a role as economic rather than imperial colonisers
and ex-colonial as in formerly a colony