Beautiful Losers Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Beautiful Losers Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The History of Them All: Chapter 1-9

• The History of Them All: Chapters 1-9

• Leonard Cohen writes his novel as a stream of consciousness, where the narrator is living in a psycho-sexual hell.

• The narrator is unnamed and is a folklorist who has lost his wife and male lover.

• The novel is a story about the narrator's spiritual yearning in the orgiastic days of the mid- sixties.
• At the beginning of the novel, the narrator is suffering from constipation and depression.

• He calls to the blessed Iroquois woman, Catherine Tekakwitha, and remembers his lover, F. , who died from syphilis.

• The narrator wants to study Catherine not as a Catholic symbol, but as a human being.

• The narrator remembers his wife Edith's suicide where she was crushed and died on the elevator shaft.
• F. admits to sleeping with Edith and then comforts the narrator by performing oral sex on...

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