1. by DAVID LODGE THINKS… CHAPTER 6

2. Denotative Analysis Ralph Messenger is in his office testing his new elaborate software which recgnizes your voice while you’re speaking he’s talking about his private thoughts trying to recall an experience distant in time first memory: the loss of his virginity with a married older woman GOAL: find out how our mind recomposes memories after many years

3. – Ralph Messenger – The Richmonds (Marianne) – Carrie Messenger – Martha Beard – Tom Beard – Helen Reed Characters

4. TIME - Sunday, the 2nd of March, 8.45 a.m. - Messenger at the age of seventeen SPACE - Messenger’s office at University of Glouchester - a ship farm in the Dales Setting

5. Lodge uses once againthe stream of consciousness as a first person narration to tell about Messenger’s thoughts he uses lots of dots so that the text is free from connectors or linkers and he can easily move from one topic to the other Narrative Technique

6. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO RECALL MEMORIES old details remind us of something new and move our mind from one thought to another can we reconstruct our older memories when our mind is vulnerable to thoughts more recent? YES From the Reader’s Point of View

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