Repossessed. Analysys of some aspects of the book.

1. TALLER DE PRÁCTICAS
DOCENTES III
IFDC – 2012
TEACHERS: ANDREA
PUCHMÜLLER, LUCÍA QUIROGA
STUDENTS: ADELA PEREZ DEL
VISO, MARCELA CLARK

2.  What
is fate?

1- the development of
events outside a person´s
control, regarded as
predetermined by a
supernatural power

2- the outcome of a situation
for someone or something

 What
is free will?

the power of acting
without the constraint of
necessity or fate; the
ability to act at one´s
own discretion

Implies choice
3- the unescapable death of a
person
WordReference.com

3.  “The
actual hijacking of the body took place
about one second before the guy was about to
step out from behind a parked SUV into the
street and get iced, as they say, by a speeding
cement mixer”
Kiriel (p.3)

4. 
“Shaun would not have been here, whether I
had taken his body or not.” Kiriel p.43
 “Shaun
would have died whether I´d stepped in
or not. Those last moments I took from him
would have been filled with either pain or
nothingness” p.86

5. 
“Sometimes... People like to feel that any good
fortune they have is due to their own wise choices.
That´s true sometimes, but a lot of the time it just
comes down to random chance” K. (p.160)

“Maybe I never had to be in Hell, not for a single
moment.” Kiriel.(p.175)

“You have interrupted the trajectory of his existence”
... “The man who was supposed to hit Shaun didn´t,
so his trajectory has to be remade as well”
Hanael. (p.213)

6. HANAEL & KIRIEL:
 “You
must leave Shaun´s body in the same
manner in which you took it”
 “Are you saying I´ve got to step in front of
a truck?”
 “Just so.”
(p.213)

7.  1-
ARMED RESISTANCE TO AN
ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENT OR
RULER
 2-
DEFIANCE OF AUTHORITY OR
CONTROL
To be out To brake
of place
rules.
To defy
CONSEQUENCES.

8. “I wanted to do more
than appreciate, exalt,
and honor (God); I
wanted to take an
active hand in the
creation of the cosmos,
to have an influence
that was all my own.
The Rebellion was not a
physical act, it was a
SPIRITUAL UPRISING,
AN UNAUTHORIZED
OUTPOURING OF
ZEAL” P.37.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them into hell and committed “The Boss led the Rebellion, the
them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept
whopper of revolts, the
until the judgment;
insurrection.” P. 172

9. FALLEN ANGEL--“The Fallen, wondered, questioned, confronted,
eventually demanded, and in general pushed the
edges of the envelope till the envelope burst. “
Kiriel, in
Repossessed.
P. 9
OUT OF PLACE. A PLACE NOT ALLOWED.
“I was out of my sphere, ou of my
designated place in the scheme of
the universe. What I was doing
WASN`T ALLOWED.
Kiriel, in
Repossessed.
P. 35

10.  BREAKING
RULES:
“You`re breaking about
a million rules right
now”. “You´re
supposed to oversee
the torment of souls”.
ANIUS, Hell Manager, overseer of the
overseers. (P. 171).

11.  DEFIANCE
“Of all the beings to send for me, they`d
picked the one who annoyed me the most.
The one I couldn`t stand to listen to.
“Wah, Wah, Wah”, I said…”
“Go back to Hell, I`m on vacation”.
(Kyriel, P. 171).

12. CONSEQUENCES OF REBELLION AND AUTONOMY:
FEAR.
“I`d done that which shouldn´t be done. Would I
now end up in my own domain, this time
undergoing the same interminable torments I´d
always supervised?? (P.-36).

13.  Is
it a young-adult-exclusive theme?
FATE AND
FREE WILL.
It is not an
exclusive topic
of young-adults.
It is a huge
topic that
worries
everyone.
REBELLION
It is typical of
adolescents.
But Adults also try to defy rules.
Mostly when they think rules
are unfair, and nobody is seeing
them.

14. FATE AND FREE WILL
REBELLION
YES. Different views.
Yes, it is debatible.
PHYLOSOPHY// TEOLOGY.
It has to do with: RULES/ LAW/ THE
UNFAIR/ JUSTICE.

15.  www.wordreference.com
 JENKINS,
A.M., Repossessed, Harper
Collins, New York, 2009.
 www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/real/freewill
.htm.
 The painting: “Satan before the
Lord.”Around 1750. Oil on canvas, 88 x
117 cm-Corrado Giaquinto.