iAnna Notes

Early analysis and breaking down of the text made me think more about what really is being addressed throughout the story and what are the key elements worth noting.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand what is real.

Anna :

• Anna Richards

• Perfectly ordinary middle-class background

• English Degree

• Had a flamboyant psychotic breakdown

• Young schizophrenic woman

• middle-aged charity shop twin set

• sat erect on a plastic chair

• fluidly elegant motions with her skinny arms

• quick-bitten fingers

• as if drawing on water

Anna becomes and object observed by Dr Mutki and Dr Busner - loses touch with her human side

Dr Busen Figured out how to ‘use’ her in the end like how someone figures out how to use a new device

Interaction with Mutki:

• Pointing vigorously at Mutki, who, with ‘deft choreography’ brought his face within a foot of hers

• psychiatric tweed jacket

Interesting Quotes:

• ‘Regrouped in the corner of the treatment room…two mismatched soul doctors”

• ‘dead mouse of his herbal teabag’

• ’self-satisfied little moue’

• ‘nightmarish alacrity only witnessed in imperfectly constructed works’

• ‘a triangle of bread as white as dead’

• ‘ghastly Terylene nightdress, performing her odd arabesques’

• ‘mosh-pit of lunchtime central london’

• ‘moist amphibian lips dripped with distaste of the word’

Kiko Mizuhara

The fact that Anna is now know as iAnna suggests that Anna has lost her humane side as has now been reduced into a machine/android