How do the authors use that awareness? How does this affect the story? What do we gain from it? Why would an author choose to do this?

Nimona and Postmodernism

You must have received feedback from your tutor marker and a fellow student in your class on the outline you submitted. Use the feedback to complete essay 2.

For your second essay we would like you to develop a paper on ONE of the remaining texts, Anne of Green Gables, NW, Essex County, or Nimona. Use MLA formatting and do not plagiarize. You will be marked on the cogency of your argument and the clarity of your structure. You should make sure you use close reading. No outside research will be required, but you can do it if you want—just make sure to properly cite your sources.

Develop an argument about one of our remaining texts’ use of metacommentary. A lot of our later texts are deliberately self-aware. How do the authors use that awareness? How does this affect the story? What do we gain from it? Why would an author choose to do this?

Consider the bildungsroman format. How has one of our later authors used and played with this form? Why? What does playing with this format add to the text? What is the author trying to say about the format?