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In the scene of the furniture tower, Mootoo uses the tower as a metaphor to show the way that Miss Ramchadin and Tyler can act in the room, versus who they are confined to act like outside of the room. At night, the room is the only place where they can both feel the freedom to express themselves in whatever manner they please. The tower continues to get higher the more they build on it, which reflects their growing comfortability and the increase in self-expression. The tower being deconstructed is representative of them losing this sense of identity that they create at night, and the fact that they must \u201cknock down their towers\u201d so they can fit the mold of what they are \u201csupposed\u201d to be. But they have the whole night to be at the top of their towers and behind the closed door, they can build their towers as high as they want. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The tower seems like just a fun little activity, but it is so much more. Besides the fact that the reconstruction and deconstruction of the tower represent Tyler and Miss Ramchandin\u2019s behaviors, for Miss Ramchandin it also represents an aspect of control in her life, something she has not had for a long time. Additionally, she has not had the support of someone such as Tyler in what appears to be a while. The first night of the tower, Tyler \u201cwanted to take all the furniture in her room and help her build the biggest and tallest tower she needed.\u201d (Mootoo 77-78) What catches my attention is the word \u201cneeded\u201d. Building a tower out of furniture does not seem to be traditionally necessary, but Tyler sees past Miss Ramchandin\u2019s illogicality and knows that her intentions are just to give herself a little control. Her entire life she was completely robbed of control and Tyler permitting this small act gives her a firmer grasp on a little bit of control. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The re and deconstruction of the furniture tower is representative of Tyler and Miss Ramchandin\u2019s ability to express themselves in all physical, emotional, and mental ways.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the scene of the furniture tower, Mootoo uses the tower as a metaphor to show the way that Miss Ramchadin and Tyler can act in the room, versus who they are confined to act like outside of the room. At night, the room is the only place where they can both feel the … Continue reading Ikea but different<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}