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__**Middlesex: The Obscure Object, Tiresias in Love, Flesh and Blood, and The Gun on the Wall**__ __7. Term or Theory__ __3. Ask Questions__
 * Silence
 * 320 after Ch. 11 leaves there is silence, there is silence because everyone is shocked at how much he changed and how easily he renounced his family. this is so shocking because until not family was everything
 * 322 "hormones manifesting themselves silently inside me"
 * 327 "when she finished there was silence" the first time the Object speaks, everyone is in awe of her
 * 339 Maxine and everyone is silent when she dies on stage. this drives the Object to Callie
 * 357 silence when Callie and the Object have a moment after the party
 * 364 silence when Father Mike and Tessie have a moment after Milton renounces Greece
 * 375 silence after Callie sleeps with Jerome
 * at night when Callie and the Object are together
 * 396 "absolutely no sound at all" when the nurse and doctor in the ER learn about Callie
 * Greek vs American
 * 363 Milton renounces Greek
 * circles
 * 375 guilty of "unnatural desires" is a parallel to Lefty and Desdemona
 * 396-7 silk reference
 * Callie
 * what attracted you to the Object as opposed to the other girls?
 * what exactly drives you to the basement? just feeling different?
 * were you sure you were different or was this everyday adolescent insecurities? if you suspected why did you not want to go to the doctor to see what was wrong?
 * what were you thinking going out into the woods with random boys and getting drunk/high!? How could you let yourself go and get raped?! 371**
 * did you truly think that the Object was sleeping? what caused you to become so emboldened?
 * what drove you to attack Jerome? love or testosterone?
 * if you said you knew what you were after jerome slept with you then why where you so oblivious and confused when you got home/with your parents? was it just that you did not know what the big deal was? 375, 388
 * The Object
 * what made you and Callie become such good friends despite you different friend groups? were you friends in school as well, i know not at first but later?
 * were you attracted to Callie?
 * did you even like Rex Reese or were you distracting yourself from your feelings for Callie like she did with your brother?
 * what does describing your face as a "death mask" mean? 374
 * shouldn't you be mad at your brother for taking advantage of your friend instead of the other way around and thinking she' a slut?
 * why did you act like you were sleeping when you and Callie fooled around? what made you switch to being so open and awake?
 * in general
 * what is the significance of the play Antigone? of Callie being Tiresias?
 * should we blame Callie's parents for not noticing?
 * what was going on with Father Mike and Tessie?
 * what is the significance of the Oracle of Delphi reference?
 * what is the significance of the gun metaphor?
 * why is tehre a silkworm reference at the end of the book? just to complete the circle

__The Light in the Forest 322__ this is the novel that the other class at Callie's school reads. It is about a white boy who is adopted into an indian tribe, then returns to his colonist family but feels too different, so escapes back to the indians, who he then betrays by warning white men of their ambush, and is thus rejected by his indian adoptive father. this boy is in a liminal state, like Cal, and cannot decide who his allegiance is too, as Cal is torn between male and female. there is also two families who expect the boy to side with them, and cal feels pressure to be a girl, especially seen in the later chapters with Dr. Luce. in the end the boy is left isolated because he cannot be truly a part of either, as i suspect Cal will always feel different and in between, he says no one has ever seen the true/full him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_in_the_Forest

__Crocus 329-330__ a crocus is a special species of flowers. they are extremely varied and bloom at many different times. Eugenides could be showing that genitalia itself is very diverse and by comparing Cal's to a flower highlight that it is natural and not abnormal. it is an interesting metaphor and i cannot decide if it is masculine and scientific or feminine and fruity. i think that demonstrates the duality in Cal/Callie's thinking. calling his penis by another name also shows how uncomfortable Callie/Cal is in her/his skin and how much she/he avoids admitting the truth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus