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Borges was highly knowledgeable about the Western perception of Eastern culture, and I’m pretty sure that this was done on purpose to appeal to an American audience of the time, who currently thought of any Southeastern Asian person of German person as tricky, evil, or untrustworthy because of the war and the recent laws.
This creates a very effective opposite other for a Western Audience to side against and makes the East that much more mystical with its natural references and garden and Buddhist references to infinite choices and a connection to karma, etc. Talk about Buddhism in relation to Christianity as a part of the binary.
Talk about how foreign elements create a sense of unknown in relation to the factual information which actually makes it scarier because it makes the reader trust the research and the date more if its foreign to them
Whether or not the author intended to do so he created a great piece of propaganda work for the west, depicting the Asian man as the tricky spy. Borges was Argentinian and pretty much completely separate from all this war stuff that was going on between the US and the Japanese and the Germans in 1941. But he had a great understanding of how it worked.
What words from the story could you use for textual analysis?
Try to pick out something that display the mystical east: you should look that up in your old notes or online so that you can be sure you know exactly what you’re talking about. And then make a great comparison
Deconstruction requires you to BREAK DOWN THE BINARY
So keep digging at the binary until you find the end of the string.
ASIAN EAST AMERICAN WEST
Magical Logical
Nature Civilization
Wild Tame
Growth Stasis
Chaos Consistency
Unintelligble Understandable
Unintelligent Intelligent
Young Adult
Childish Responsible
Saved Savior
Savage Civilian
Conquered Conqueror
Colonized Colonizer
Small big
Short tall
Feminine Masculine
Weak Strong
Stupid smart
Backward forward
Try to relate some of those to the things you can find in the story and then finish up your paper!
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