In addition to your blog on Breakfast on Pluto, don’t forget that you must post a paragraph explaining what you would like to do for your final project. You must also include some feedback pertaining to your peers’ project in your comments.
Also, don't forget if you're posting an online artifact essay this week to send it to my email, as well.
Below are questions that I hope will inspire you as we venture into the life and times of Pussy Braden. This should be quite a fun ride…
Patrick McCabe opens the novel with quite a bit of Irish history. Choose a date or event to research for this blog and explain how it might apply to the novel. You might want to research William of Orange, The Troubles, The IRA, The Orangemen, Bloody Sunday, the 1922 partition of Ireland, or the Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
Breakfast on Pluto is very much a novel about borders—both physical and mental. Explain some of the ways this book portrays the concept of borders and borderlands. What is the significance of “Pluto” in this novel? How does Pussy’s sexuality play into this idea of borders?
How would you describe the way in which this novel is narrated? What is the significance of this narration style and how is it similar and/or different to some novels we have read in the past?
Merriam-Webster defines “transgender” as “a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth.” How does the theme of transgender in this novel play into the larger political conflict between Catholics and Protestants in this novel? How might Pussy “trouble” questions of identity, particularly Irish identity, in this novel?
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