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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? By Jeanette Winterson STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS Desirèe Mosca VA LITERARY GENRE Memoir focus on emotions, feelings unfold of the writer’s emotional life along her telling ? literature as finding place association of ideas, without respecting chronology pursuit of authenticity ? A Memoir is not an Autobiography! EXPECTATIONS FROM THE TITLE Why? ? question ? start from a problem, doubt Be/Could ? undefined subject ? question for anyone Happy ? aim of all human-beings Normal ? standardization, suppression of individualism, acceptance The reader expects the novel to be about choices and their implications: the influence of people’s opinion, the pursuit of the aim, the meaning of the choice… DEDICATION To my three mothers: C. Winterson ? adoptive mother (upbrought Jeanette) R. Rendell ? literary mother (helped Jeanette with the re-discovery of her past story) A. S. ? biological mother (object of Jeanette’s search) Even if quite different from each other, they were all fundamental figures for Jeanette TRIBUTES Thanks to friends, editors, supporters, who believed in Jeanette and supported her STRUCTURE Fifteen chapters and a Coda STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTERS TITLE: how does it introduce the content of the paragraph? CONTENT: how is each chapter linked to the previous one? c) CHARACTERIZATION: Jeanette vs Mrs. Winterson FIRST CHAPTER The Wrong Crib Wrong: idea of mistake, inadequacy, issue ? introduction of the main topic of the novel: adoption and life as an adopted child SECOND CHAPTER My Advice To Anybody Is: Get Born Advice to Anybody: literature as instrument for everybody Get Born: “origin” as fundamental part of people’s story and identity pursuing of happiness as objective for life Development of the main topic introduced in the previous par