Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 175-186
1) “Today Dr. Espanto noticed that his Van Gogh screen saver was jittery, the mouse pad upside down – there definitely was something wrong. His Virgen de Guadalupe frame was turned backward. (178)”
This to me he feels like he is upside down. Everything is upside down to him because he is so out of it. He wasn’t with his situation. There is a lot happening around him and he can’t concentrate right. Everything is going crazy and can’t do everything. He needs to take to time to relax.
2) “Bobo: I am awake, I’ve been awake since day one.”
Bobo is saying that he is very alert and he always noticing what’s going on. This quote just stood out me because some people don’t notice things and they think they are, like zoning out. The person that is interviewing him is also trying to make him look bad and just saying and asking him random stuff. Making fun of Americans.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 152 – 174
1) “Wanna B.: A grand prize of one hundred kilos of PRI cigars made of the finest blend of Zapatista tobacco leaves and a round trip for two to the Mayan rain forest in Chiapas – where you’ll stay at the luxurious PEMEX (Please Exit Mildly Except for Xenophobic) Motel” (156).
I thought that the people are making fun of how American game shows by advertising things where people don’t really want to go unless if they are desperate. I do not understand why this is in the book because it is a script from a television show. It do not have anything that relates to him or apart of his life.
2)
Wanna B.:[firecrackers, wheel spin] Here we go: “A self-taught Republican correspondence course for correcting over-reaching tongue action in the face of capital gains
Costestant: [crunch] What is Hisp-my-lips!
This also makes me feel like he is making fun of Americans or they people are making fun of American because they do not put American in a good way. They are amused by how America is and act. I guess he is using this to show that America maybe powerful, not everyone likes them and will respect them.
1) “Wanna B.: A grand prize of one hundred kilos of PRI cigars made of the finest blend of Zapatista tobacco leaves and a round trip for two to the Mayan rain forest in Chiapas – where you’ll stay at the luxurious PEMEX (Please Exit Mildly Except for Xenophobic) Motel” (156).
I thought that the people are making fun of how American game shows by advertising things where people don’t really want to go unless if they are desperate. I do not understand why this is in the book because it is a script from a television show. It do not have anything that relates to him or apart of his life.
2)
Wanna B.:[firecrackers, wheel spin] Here we go: “A self-taught Republican correspondence course for correcting over-reaching tongue action in the face of capital gains
Costestant: [crunch] What is Hisp-my-lips!
This also makes me feel like he is making fun of Americans or they people are making fun of American because they do not put American in a good way. They are amused by how America is and act. I guess he is using this to show that America maybe powerful, not everyone likes them and will respect them.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Yoga Interview with Liz Forkel
• When did you first start practicing yoga as student?
o 1997 - generally for all types of little exercises prescribed yoga such as stretches from aerobics stretches
• Why did you start?
o Started because of the demand for it for her company because her clients wanted it.
o She had found the vinyasa / power yoga became a hard workout and it had fit her
• How has yoga personally helped you?
o She was a hard-core person and she need to mend her injuries, since she gets injured a lot from over use and she had to slow down.
o It had helped her prevent injuries because of becoming more flexible.
• What type of yoga are you practicing that is different from when you first began?
o She is practicing Vinyasa / Power yoga but when she first started it was fast pace and she had to slow it down in order for her clients to keep up and also to prevent injuries for her and others
• What does yoga offer besides physical benefits?
o It helps clients to work out mental issues.
o They can make their bodies shut down and relax.
o They can be able to feel better about themselves
o Relax and meditate
o Open their body
o Wash out their problems / “kinks”
o Able to center themselves
o They can leave the world behind and shut down everything behind them
o Digestive Better
o Increase blood pressure
o Able to receive all benefits
o Live longer
o Do it anywhere
o Achieve results without breaking them
• How does yoga help you spiritually?
o She believes yoga calms the mind and slows the world around a little more
o Teaches to be a happier person and being calm
o Makes people look forward to change practice as the environment changes
• What kind do you practice?
o Body Flow
o Vinyasa
• Do you include meditation?
o She meditates after class and makes it comfortable and silent
o Empties the mind by being alone in the body and let go everything around them
• How is yoga counter cultural?
o At one point it was but not anymore
o Today it’s more of a physical exercise all around us
o From old hippie to Urban set
o Moving into sports
o Any age can do yoga and “not changing anytime soon”
o She believes that its popular because she is in the think of it and sees it all the time and can’t get away from it
• How does it help to fill the void or emptiness caused by suburban living?
o Spiritual
o Able to help the community by slowing down
o Organize
o Have a lot thought about what’s around you – once you think about it is worth less and you can let it go
• Today Yoga is more popular, do you think it has taken on a more commercial sort of “fitness industry” approach or do you feel that the roots of the practice have been maintained. What do you notice about this shift over the years?
o Commercialized very
o Not only US is changing yoga but India is also changing to make yoga different and fit different people
o She worries about the safety of yoga as in doing poses safely but people will not benefit them
o “Try out and be open to many forms and hopefully will find what works for you.”
o 1997 - generally for all types of little exercises prescribed yoga such as stretches from aerobics stretches
• Why did you start?
o Started because of the demand for it for her company because her clients wanted it.
o She had found the vinyasa / power yoga became a hard workout and it had fit her
• How has yoga personally helped you?
o She was a hard-core person and she need to mend her injuries, since she gets injured a lot from over use and she had to slow down.
o It had helped her prevent injuries because of becoming more flexible.
• What type of yoga are you practicing that is different from when you first began?
o She is practicing Vinyasa / Power yoga but when she first started it was fast pace and she had to slow it down in order for her clients to keep up and also to prevent injuries for her and others
• What does yoga offer besides physical benefits?
o It helps clients to work out mental issues.
o They can make their bodies shut down and relax.
o They can be able to feel better about themselves
o Relax and meditate
o Open their body
o Wash out their problems / “kinks”
o Able to center themselves
o They can leave the world behind and shut down everything behind them
o Digestive Better
o Increase blood pressure
o Able to receive all benefits
o Live longer
o Do it anywhere
o Achieve results without breaking them
• How does yoga help you spiritually?
o She believes yoga calms the mind and slows the world around a little more
o Teaches to be a happier person and being calm
o Makes people look forward to change practice as the environment changes
• What kind do you practice?
o Body Flow
o Vinyasa
• Do you include meditation?
o She meditates after class and makes it comfortable and silent
o Empties the mind by being alone in the body and let go everything around them
• How is yoga counter cultural?
o At one point it was but not anymore
o Today it’s more of a physical exercise all around us
o From old hippie to Urban set
o Moving into sports
o Any age can do yoga and “not changing anytime soon”
o She believes that its popular because she is in the think of it and sees it all the time and can’t get away from it
• How does it help to fill the void or emptiness caused by suburban living?
o Spiritual
o Able to help the community by slowing down
o Organize
o Have a lot thought about what’s around you – once you think about it is worth less and you can let it go
• Today Yoga is more popular, do you think it has taken on a more commercial sort of “fitness industry” approach or do you feel that the roots of the practice have been maintained. What do you notice about this shift over the years?
o Commercialized very
o Not only US is changing yoga but India is also changing to make yoga different and fit different people
o She worries about the safety of yoga as in doing poses safely but people will not benefit them
o “Try out and be open to many forms and hopefully will find what works for you.”
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg 131- 151
1) “We are on a dual road now. One leads to the top, the pyramid that is, the convex-shaped tower of corporate letters, “the system” as we used to put it, the other eggs us on, let us slide down the tortuous path to self-knowledge and self-immolation, it is as id all the fiery poems, essays, stories, and novels we have written are now running back and breaking out of their printed half-lives and are tackling up, punishing us for giving them form and voice and exposure” (136).
This quote makes me feel like the person is at two different pathways that lead to heaven and hell. It also means that no matter what you choose in life, it is either choosing the path of heaven or the path to hell. Everyday you choose from the different paths. If you choose heaven, you life will be peaceful and simple but if you choose hell then you would live more complex confusing and not a happy life. Make your choices wisely.
2) “I have no commandments, no books, no way, no rule, you must touch, but it is not me I am really speaking of, you must swim into another with every leaf and wave and wind, the wind itself, the fire itself, the waters raging in the blue eyelash of the heavens, look up, now, you, look up, it is all unraveling, above and below, there is nowhere to stand, nothing to say, or write or act to be” (137).
This quote tells about how he writes. He has no format of teaching people what he knows but just uses putting in random thoughts that sometimes will make sense but other times it will not. He wants people to get know what he is telling them by trying to describe his experiences. It will make them understanf where he is coming from.
1) “We are on a dual road now. One leads to the top, the pyramid that is, the convex-shaped tower of corporate letters, “the system” as we used to put it, the other eggs us on, let us slide down the tortuous path to self-knowledge and self-immolation, it is as id all the fiery poems, essays, stories, and novels we have written are now running back and breaking out of their printed half-lives and are tackling up, punishing us for giving them form and voice and exposure” (136).
This quote makes me feel like the person is at two different pathways that lead to heaven and hell. It also means that no matter what you choose in life, it is either choosing the path of heaven or the path to hell. Everyday you choose from the different paths. If you choose heaven, you life will be peaceful and simple but if you choose hell then you would live more complex confusing and not a happy life. Make your choices wisely.
2) “I have no commandments, no books, no way, no rule, you must touch, but it is not me I am really speaking of, you must swim into another with every leaf and wave and wind, the wind itself, the fire itself, the waters raging in the blue eyelash of the heavens, look up, now, you, look up, it is all unraveling, above and below, there is nowhere to stand, nothing to say, or write or act to be” (137).
This quote tells about how he writes. He has no format of teaching people what he knows but just uses putting in random thoughts that sometimes will make sense but other times it will not. He wants people to get know what he is telling them by trying to describe his experiences. It will make them understanf where he is coming from.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 106-130
1) “How to make velas take your wishes to the universe” (110)
This to me means that he wants his wishes to last forever and there will never be an end to wishes, since the universe is huge and no end. Not only him, that wants to know but other people in the Chicana and Chicano Intervention so they too can live happily. The amount of wishes that you have at your birthday will last forever and it will go on forever. Knowing how to do that, would be nice because it would keep everyone alive more.
2) “This was my beginning” (117)
His mom had died and they are her funeral and talking about her and he feels grief and this is his beginning of innocence. His life is just on step closer to be mature. He is also the beginning of his life of people close to him die and he has to accepts that too. People die and others are born, life is a cycle. He will remember his mom forever although he had lost her physically, but mentally he has her inside of her.
1) “How to make velas take your wishes to the universe” (110)
This to me means that he wants his wishes to last forever and there will never be an end to wishes, since the universe is huge and no end. Not only him, that wants to know but other people in the Chicana and Chicano Intervention so they too can live happily. The amount of wishes that you have at your birthday will last forever and it will go on forever. Knowing how to do that, would be nice because it would keep everyone alive more.
2) “This was my beginning” (117)
His mom had died and they are her funeral and talking about her and he feels grief and this is his beginning of innocence. His life is just on step closer to be mature. He is also the beginning of his life of people close to him die and he has to accepts that too. People die and others are born, life is a cycle. He will remember his mom forever although he had lost her physically, but mentally he has her inside of her.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 81-105
1) “My Plutomobile” (87)
The Plutomobile runs on things that people can run on but, some of the things he says does not make sense with other things. As people themselves that can run on it or they live by it on some of them. He says “Runs on free on free on free on free” which means on nothing. People can run on nothing but I don’t know how far they can get. They run on things that human beings can run on, it can be their type of fuel.
2) “No matter how many piercing, tattoos, hollers, mosh pits we may deive into, we have the nasty habit of bounding back into our current miasma of meaninglessness, pretty frames of violence from all directions.”
Everywhere is a type of violence, no matter where you look or what people say or do. Anyone can take things in a violence way depending the tone of the voice, their acts, and their appearance. No one can get rid of violence because violence is everything of a teenager because that is how a teenager lives.
1) “My Plutomobile” (87)
The Plutomobile runs on things that people can run on but, some of the things he says does not make sense with other things. As people themselves that can run on it or they live by it on some of them. He says “Runs on free on free on free on free” which means on nothing. People can run on nothing but I don’t know how far they can get. They run on things that human beings can run on, it can be their type of fuel.
2) “No matter how many piercing, tattoos, hollers, mosh pits we may deive into, we have the nasty habit of bounding back into our current miasma of meaninglessness, pretty frames of violence from all directions.”
Everywhere is a type of violence, no matter where you look or what people say or do. Anyone can take things in a violence way depending the tone of the voice, their acts, and their appearance. No one can get rid of violence because violence is everything of a teenager because that is how a teenager lives.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 56-80
1) “I am worried about my luggage—one piece with underwear and ironed blue shirt and pants for the big fandango in NYC.” (59)
From what I got from this quotes was sarcasm about his suitcase because he only has only few of things. It seems like he is making fun of people who have almost all of their things in their bags and they are traveling with it. Like how he thinks it’s funny how he can get by with three pieces of clothing while people bring extra clothes for ‘just in case” situations. It shows that he does not take a lot of things when he travels.
2) “La noche was all around me, expect for the tiny light da la tiendita.” (71)
He has been in the dark for a long time and being freezing outside and waiting for the time when he can go inside. It means that the light is the only way he can be free from the darkness that surrounds him. He wants get out of the darkness and be in a place where it’ warm. The light is where he wants to be, which means he is achieving his goal by reaching to the light. Inorder to reach his goal he needs to keep moving foward.
1) “I am worried about my luggage—one piece with underwear and ironed blue shirt and pants for the big fandango in NYC.” (59)
From what I got from this quotes was sarcasm about his suitcase because he only has only few of things. It seems like he is making fun of people who have almost all of their things in their bags and they are traveling with it. Like how he thinks it’s funny how he can get by with three pieces of clothing while people bring extra clothes for ‘just in case” situations. It shows that he does not take a lot of things when he travels.
2) “La noche was all around me, expect for the tiny light da la tiendita.” (71)
He has been in the dark for a long time and being freezing outside and waiting for the time when he can go inside. It means that the light is the only way he can be free from the darkness that surrounds him. He wants get out of the darkness and be in a place where it’ warm. The light is where he wants to be, which means he is achieving his goal by reaching to the light. Inorder to reach his goal he needs to keep moving foward.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 30-55
1) “Consider getting stoned on potato pancakes” (47)
This quote to me, means like it’s physically impossible to get stoned on potato pancakes just like other “consider…” remarks on this entry. They are all impossible and it doesn’t make sense to people like me although it may make sense to other people. When I found out this author was under the influence of frijol juice, epazote and raw eggs combination it made more sense how this non sense kind of made sense. When he says consider getting stoned on potato pancakes, it would be different interesting to see how that would turn out.
2) “Graceland drifts near Luzon…Los Angles rubbing against Cabo San Lucas” (48)
This is from “The Event and Found Objects after the Blast” he realizes the earth is moving and the lands are all going to be moved together in some sort of way in the future and the lands are going to combined. So this also could mean that the culture of each country would merge into that other countries or cities. He makes a couple of remarks and to me it seems like he thinks that is was is going to happen sometime in the future. He also is saying this because he is stoned.
1) “Consider getting stoned on potato pancakes” (47)
This quote to me, means like it’s physically impossible to get stoned on potato pancakes just like other “consider…” remarks on this entry. They are all impossible and it doesn’t make sense to people like me although it may make sense to other people. When I found out this author was under the influence of frijol juice, epazote and raw eggs combination it made more sense how this non sense kind of made sense. When he says consider getting stoned on potato pancakes, it would be different interesting to see how that would turn out.
2) “Graceland drifts near Luzon…Los Angles rubbing against Cabo San Lucas” (48)
This is from “The Event and Found Objects after the Blast” he realizes the earth is moving and the lands are all going to be moved together in some sort of way in the future and the lands are going to combined. So this also could mean that the culture of each country would merge into that other countries or cities. He makes a couple of remarks and to me it seems like he thinks that is was is going to happen sometime in the future. He also is saying this because he is stoned.
Comparison Paper
Like people today, in the “White Heron” and Huckleberry Finn, nature offers solace to Sylvia and Huck as they face moral dixlemmas placed upon them by society when Sylvia has to choose between nature and monetary reward and Huck chooses between his relationship with Jim in the wild and the expectation’s society places on him during the time of slavery. Sylvia lives with her grandmother on a farm next to the woods and they do not own a lot of money, but she does not need that because she feels nature is the place where she belongs. Huck travels with a slave, Jim, on the river to get away from society. People today choose to live the way Huck experiences the love of nature because he can escape to nature from society to feel peace and relaxation.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 5-29
1) “yo’ bad boy lover pill-popin’ games
an’ most of all your fast talkin’ total whack
communicating genius girl self out the door!” (9)
This quote caught me. I think is means that the guy is taking pills and the girl is also taking pills. The pills make them unaware of what they are doing and they do not use their brains as much. They do not know what is coming up next but they don’t care because they are too high to think about it. They make nonsense and they become crazy.
2) “I worry about people who say, “Don’t worry, Baby.” (29)
I feel like I can relate to this quote because from all the small things to the bigger things, I worry about. I also worry about things that may never happen or already has happened. People tell me, don’t worry about it, but I feel like I need to worry about it because other people are not worrying about it. It makes me freak out. Life just makes me freak-out because of so little time and so much to do. Reading this whole part from Don’t worry baby, made me feel like this person really knows how I feel.
1) “yo’ bad boy lover pill-popin’ games
an’ most of all your fast talkin’ total whack
communicating genius girl self out the door!” (9)
This quote caught me. I think is means that the guy is taking pills and the girl is also taking pills. The pills make them unaware of what they are doing and they do not use their brains as much. They do not know what is coming up next but they don’t care because they are too high to think about it. They make nonsense and they become crazy.
2) “I worry about people who say, “Don’t worry, Baby.” (29)
I feel like I can relate to this quote because from all the small things to the bigger things, I worry about. I also worry about things that may never happen or already has happened. People tell me, don’t worry about it, but I feel like I need to worry about it because other people are not worrying about it. It makes me freak out. Life just makes me freak-out because of so little time and so much to do. Reading this whole part from Don’t worry baby, made me feel like this person really knows how I feel.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
CCC project Questions
Yoga Questions that I am asking my interviewers Liz and Nancy Scholsser:
• When did you first start practicing yoga as student?
• Why did you start?
• How has yoga personally helped you?
• When did you decide to teach yoga and what factors influenced your decision to teach as opposed to being a student?
• What type of yoga are you practicing that is different from when you first began
o Why have you modified your practice?
• What does yoga offer besides physical benefits?
• How does yoga help you spiritually?
• What purpose do you serve?
o Why do you continue to practice yoga?
• What kind do you practice?
• Do you include meditation?
o Why?
• Why did you choose this type of yoga to practice?
• How is yoga counter cultural?
• How does it help to fill the void or emptiness caused by suburban living?
• What changes have you noticed among your clients since they started practicing yoga?
• Today Yoga is more popular, do you think it has taken on a more commercial sort of “fitness industry” approach or do you feel that the roots of the practice have been maintained. What do you notice about this shift over the years?
• When did you first start practicing yoga as student?
• Why did you start?
• How has yoga personally helped you?
• When did you decide to teach yoga and what factors influenced your decision to teach as opposed to being a student?
• What type of yoga are you practicing that is different from when you first began
o Why have you modified your practice?
• What does yoga offer besides physical benefits?
• How does yoga help you spiritually?
• What purpose do you serve?
o Why do you continue to practice yoga?
• What kind do you practice?
• Do you include meditation?
o Why?
• Why did you choose this type of yoga to practice?
• How is yoga counter cultural?
• How does it help to fill the void or emptiness caused by suburban living?
• What changes have you noticed among your clients since they started practicing yoga?
• Today Yoga is more popular, do you think it has taken on a more commercial sort of “fitness industry” approach or do you feel that the roots of the practice have been maintained. What do you notice about this shift over the years?
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Monday, May 7, 2007
Sandra Cisnoeros – The House on Mango Street (From the Green book)
pg. 746 – 748
1) “The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make noise and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get. (747)”
The little child is so happy to have a house of her own because she has never had a house where it seems to be constricted and cannot do what ever she wants. She loves having a house of her own because she feels free of everything. She and her family can do whatever they want and not have to pay anyone any money and have to ask someone to fix something for them but not do it. The house on Mango Street is all hers and her families where they can enjoy and have fun.
2) “There. I had to look where she pointed—the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had to nailed on the windows se we wouldn’t fall out. You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. (748)
The child felt that her house on Mango Street was not special anymore since someone pointed out that she lived in a house where it was falling apart. It made her feel like “nothing” and she wanted to move to a nice place. Having her own house is not exciting anymore. She wants a house where it’s pretty and also her own house so she can say it is her house. She realizes how other people look at her house are not pleased because they do not know where she is coming from an apartment which did not feel like a place to stay but a place where people nag to them all the time. She realizes all the bad things about the house and she wishes her family would move to a nicer hosue.
1) “The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody, or share the yard with the people downstairs, or be careful not to make noise and there isn’t a landlord banging on the ceiling with a broom. But even so, it’s not the house we’d thought we’d get. (747)”
The little child is so happy to have a house of her own because she has never had a house where it seems to be constricted and cannot do what ever she wants. She loves having a house of her own because she feels free of everything. She and her family can do whatever they want and not have to pay anyone any money and have to ask someone to fix something for them but not do it. The house on Mango Street is all hers and her families where they can enjoy and have fun.
2) “There. I had to look where she pointed—the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had to nailed on the windows se we wouldn’t fall out. You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. (748)
The child felt that her house on Mango Street was not special anymore since someone pointed out that she lived in a house where it was falling apart. It made her feel like “nothing” and she wanted to move to a nice place. Having her own house is not exciting anymore. She wants a house where it’s pretty and also her own house so she can say it is her house. She realizes how other people look at her house are not pleased because they do not know where she is coming from an apartment which did not feel like a place to stay but a place where people nag to them all the time. She realizes all the bad things about the house and she wishes her family would move to a nicer hosue.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Annie Dillard – “Seeing”
pg. 700-706
1) “Form and distance, and size were so many meaningless syllables. (700)”
This was saying that seeing is important to people because then people have no depth, shape, and volume of things. So people who can see have an advantage but it gives them advantages for their other senses. Seeing is important to most people those who are not they can do without it because they know they can rely on other senses. People take advantage of things that they have and that others don’t. They will never know unless it is taken away from them.
2). “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. (704)”
When people use their eyes, most people know what they are thinking about because the eyes tell a lot about people’s thoughts. If someone role’s their eyes people know that he doesn’t like what they are talking about. When people’s eyes are big, people know that he is surprised or amazed and so on. Eyes can be silent words that people have to figure out about the person. The eyes also can be part of the person’s personality depending on what they mostly do.
1) “Form and distance, and size were so many meaningless syllables. (700)”
This was saying that seeing is important to people because then people have no depth, shape, and volume of things. So people who can see have an advantage but it gives them advantages for their other senses. Seeing is important to most people those who are not they can do without it because they know they can rely on other senses. People take advantage of things that they have and that others don’t. They will never know unless it is taken away from them.
2). “Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. (704)”
When people use their eyes, most people know what they are thinking about because the eyes tell a lot about people’s thoughts. If someone role’s their eyes people know that he doesn’t like what they are talking about. When people’s eyes are big, people know that he is surprised or amazed and so on. Eyes can be silent words that people have to figure out about the person. The eyes also can be part of the person’s personality depending on what they mostly do.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Annie Dillard – “Seeing”
Pg. 693-700
1) “In flat country I watch every sunset in hopes of seeing the green ray. The green ray is a seldom-seen streak in light that rises form the sun like a spurting fountain a the moment of sunset…” (695)
This person loves to see with her eyes and she notices what happening around her. She likes to see with her eyes because she knows it’s beneficial to her. She wants to see the sunset because it would just be a memory that she would never forget and she would get to capture it with her very own eyes. She likes to notice everything and see everything because she feels like she is missing out.
2) “I’m blind as a bat, sensing only from every direction the echo of my own thin cries.” (700)
She is in the dark and she feels like she can’t use her eyes the way she uses them in the light. She feels better when her eyes are able to see things instead of not knowing where she is and stumbling everywhere. She wants to see what’s around her and so she feels helpless because she can’t see anything that is happening and she doesn’t want to miss out on anything.
1) “In flat country I watch every sunset in hopes of seeing the green ray. The green ray is a seldom-seen streak in light that rises form the sun like a spurting fountain a the moment of sunset…” (695)
This person loves to see with her eyes and she notices what happening around her. She likes to see with her eyes because she knows it’s beneficial to her. She wants to see the sunset because it would just be a memory that she would never forget and she would get to capture it with her very own eyes. She likes to notice everything and see everything because she feels like she is missing out.
2) “I’m blind as a bat, sensing only from every direction the echo of my own thin cries.” (700)
She is in the dark and she feels like she can’t use her eyes the way she uses them in the light. She feels better when her eyes are able to see things instead of not knowing where she is and stumbling everywhere. She wants to see what’s around her and so she feels helpless because she can’t see anything that is happening and she doesn’t want to miss out on anything.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
pg 223 – 244
1) “Boy you shoulda put a couple of quarts of brandy in your grocery list, you’re gonna need it up there in the cold. (228)”
Happy was telling Ray to bring brandy because he knew it was going to get boring because of the weather coming up. Brandy would make the situation better, but Ray didn’t want to. Later Ray regretted not bringing it because it would have made his situation better. Happy was bugging him about not having brandy on him because it would have made them in better moods and also because they like to drink.
2) “I thought and wished Japhy were there to see me doing everything he wanted me to do. (229)”
Ray was proud of himself for doing what he is doing because Japhy had inspired him on doing what is doing. He had wish Japhy was there with him to show him what he has learned from him and make him proud. Japhy had great inspiration on Ray because Ray liked how Japhy thought of things and it made Ray to be him. Every where Ray went he would thinl of Japhy because being out in the mountains is what Japhy loves to be.
1) “Boy you shoulda put a couple of quarts of brandy in your grocery list, you’re gonna need it up there in the cold. (228)”
Happy was telling Ray to bring brandy because he knew it was going to get boring because of the weather coming up. Brandy would make the situation better, but Ray didn’t want to. Later Ray regretted not bringing it because it would have made his situation better. Happy was bugging him about not having brandy on him because it would have made them in better moods and also because they like to drink.
2) “I thought and wished Japhy were there to see me doing everything he wanted me to do. (229)”
Ray was proud of himself for doing what he is doing because Japhy had inspired him on doing what is doing. He had wish Japhy was there with him to show him what he has learned from him and make him proud. Japhy had great inspiration on Ray because Ray liked how Japhy thought of things and it made Ray to be him. Every where Ray went he would thinl of Japhy because being out in the mountains is what Japhy loves to be.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
pg 200-223
1) “Japhy was all talk this morning. He was like a little kid again now that he was out on the trail. (204)”
In order for Japhy to become himself he has to be in a place where he is comfortable which is on the trail. When he isn’t in a place that he is not used to and he gets quite and starts to make poems inside his head to make himself feel better. The trail, for Japhy is like home to him because it is a place where he can do anything he wants and talk about anything he wants.
2) “Suddenly I felt so free I began to walk on the wrong side of the road and sticking out my thumb from that side, hiking like Chinese Saint to Nowhere for no reason, going to my mountain to rejoice. (218)”
Ray felt free of everything that was wanted to walk on the other side of the road. He didn’t care what people’s thoughts were just as long he was happy. When he stuck his thumb out he had got more offers for a ride because he wasn’t on the right side of the road, it was different. He does his own thing and does not care what other people think of him.
1) “Japhy was all talk this morning. He was like a little kid again now that he was out on the trail. (204)”
In order for Japhy to become himself he has to be in a place where he is comfortable which is on the trail. When he isn’t in a place that he is not used to and he gets quite and starts to make poems inside his head to make himself feel better. The trail, for Japhy is like home to him because it is a place where he can do anything he wants and talk about anything he wants.
2) “Suddenly I felt so free I began to walk on the wrong side of the road and sticking out my thumb from that side, hiking like Chinese Saint to Nowhere for no reason, going to my mountain to rejoice. (218)”
Ray felt free of everything that was wanted to walk on the other side of the road. He didn’t care what people’s thoughts were just as long he was happy. When he stuck his thumb out he had got more offers for a ride because he wasn’t on the right side of the road, it was different. He does his own thing and does not care what other people think of him.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
The Dharma Bums Intro
In The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac shows Ray’s life as being free of his own life and society. Ray’s goal is to travel to visit places and experience the meaning of living by himself. As he moves to different places he sees and experience different things and people by hitchhiking, using public transportation or even walking. As he meets people he talks about his religion, Buddhism, explaining what he does in life but, some people do not agree with his beliefs and it does not affect his ways. He believes what he believes and nothing can change that. Even though his goals may seem too extreme, he knows what he is doing, becoming free of everything around him and experiencing it all.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
pg. 171 - 199
1) “For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood. (186)”
Ray feels alone and he wants a woman to be with just like everyone else in the room but, he just lays in his sleeping bag alone while the others are having a good time. Everything to him is just blah and not exciting compared to if he had someone to share the moments with. At one point he tried blocking the couples out but Sean and Joe came in and disturbed him of his meditation, which did not make his situation and better.
2) “There is wisdom in the wine, goddamn it! (190)”
Ray was told that he drinks wine too much but he tries to make it as if it was a good thing, but his friends think that he is becoming worst and they realize that it he really needs to stop. Ray thinks that all the drinking is making him better but its actually making him worst because Japhy points out that how could Ray become a good bhikku if he is drunk, but Ray just totally blow that off.
1) “For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood. (186)”
Ray feels alone and he wants a woman to be with just like everyone else in the room but, he just lays in his sleeping bag alone while the others are having a good time. Everything to him is just blah and not exciting compared to if he had someone to share the moments with. At one point he tried blocking the couples out but Sean and Joe came in and disturbed him of his meditation, which did not make his situation and better.
2) “There is wisdom in the wine, goddamn it! (190)”
Ray was told that he drinks wine too much but he tries to make it as if it was a good thing, but his friends think that he is becoming worst and they realize that it he really needs to stop. Ray thinks that all the drinking is making him better but its actually making him worst because Japhy points out that how could Ray become a good bhikku if he is drunk, but Ray just totally blow that off.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
pg 150-171
1) “I’m suddenly in hell again! (151)”
Ray has been walking in Greenville, South Carolina in the sun and he just feels like roasting under the sun. He started walking for 3 miles and he had realized that he had been walk for nothing. He had felt that under the burning sun he was in hell again. He wanted to be somewhere else than where he is comfortable in. He had been in hell before which he didn’t want to feeling like. He wanted to be in his happy place.
2) “With a with a wife like that Sean, working only desultorily at carpentry, had managed to put a few thousand dollars in the bank. (162)”
Christine took care of Ray very well while Sean and Japhy were working. He was amazed at how Christine had done things at home that Sean doesn’t have to worry about anything. He can just come home and relax and also Christine doesn’t take up a lot of money. She and Sean are both kind and thoughtful of others and they like to please people by having as many people in their house for drinks or anything.
1) “I’m suddenly in hell again! (151)”
Ray has been walking in Greenville, South Carolina in the sun and he just feels like roasting under the sun. He started walking for 3 miles and he had realized that he had been walk for nothing. He had felt that under the burning sun he was in hell again. He wanted to be somewhere else than where he is comfortable in. He had been in hell before which he didn’t want to feeling like. He wanted to be in his happy place.
2) “With a with a wife like that Sean, working only desultorily at carpentry, had managed to put a few thousand dollars in the bank. (162)”
Christine took care of Ray very well while Sean and Japhy were working. He was amazed at how Christine had done things at home that Sean doesn’t have to worry about anything. He can just come home and relax and also Christine doesn’t take up a lot of money. She and Sean are both kind and thoughtful of others and they like to please people by having as many people in their house for drinks or anything.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
pg 120-149
1) “He didn’t really believe it but I did it. (128)”
Ray told the truck driver, who is giving him a ride, that he could cook a T-bone when they stop at a desert and he would start a fire and cook it. The guy didn’t believe that Ray could do it but it turned out to be the best meat he has ever had. People don’t usually think that people can just pull to the side of the road and cook something and have it taste really good. They are just not used to it, but it’s amazing how people can do things without using what they think they need, a stove, inside, and extra equipment.
2) “’What the matter with him anyway?’ and I’d hear them argue about the futility of my ‘Buddhism’… (142)”
Ray likes being a hobo or a Dharma Bum, because he can do what he ever he wants. He also feels free, freedom of society and he his life is free. He does things that typically most will not do and he thinks of as up lifting such as sleeping outside instead of inside. His family doesn’t understand why he does and why he always has to be on his own. They also ask him questions about his beliefs to have an understand of it but, it makes them all frustrated because its aggravating how the other side doesn’t see it or they don’t want to see it.
1) “He didn’t really believe it but I did it. (128)”
Ray told the truck driver, who is giving him a ride, that he could cook a T-bone when they stop at a desert and he would start a fire and cook it. The guy didn’t believe that Ray could do it but it turned out to be the best meat he has ever had. People don’t usually think that people can just pull to the side of the road and cook something and have it taste really good. They are just not used to it, but it’s amazing how people can do things without using what they think they need, a stove, inside, and extra equipment.
2) “’What the matter with him anyway?’ and I’d hear them argue about the futility of my ‘Buddhism’… (142)”
Ray likes being a hobo or a Dharma Bum, because he can do what he ever he wants. He also feels free, freedom of society and he his life is free. He does things that typically most will not do and he thinks of as up lifting such as sleeping outside instead of inside. His family doesn’t understand why he does and why he always has to be on his own. They also ask him questions about his beliefs to have an understand of it but, it makes them all frustrated because its aggravating how the other side doesn’t see it or they don’t want to see it.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
pg. 94-120
1) “Mind is the Make, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall. (99)”
Japhy tells to the rest of the group about his words of wisdom and talking about life. He is saying that the mind makes peoples choices in people’s lives. The choices have no purpose because there really isn’t any point to it when you look at it from a distance. People are choosing to worry about stuff that they shouldn’t be worrying about because later in life their worries will not exist and forgotten about.
2) “I am now on the road to Heaven. (113)”
Ray wants to move on because he has had enough with the group that he has been with. After Rosie had committed suicide, it’s like a point where he has been there way too long. He knows that Rosie is in Heaven and will be happy there. He is says that he is on the road to heaven which means that he is making wiser and appropriate choices for the rest of his life. He feels awful that Rosie had to end her life the way she had and he knows that he could do better and he had learned that there is more to life than what’s in front him; he has to move on.
1) “Mind is the Make, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall. (99)”
Japhy tells to the rest of the group about his words of wisdom and talking about life. He is saying that the mind makes peoples choices in people’s lives. The choices have no purpose because there really isn’t any point to it when you look at it from a distance. People are choosing to worry about stuff that they shouldn’t be worrying about because later in life their worries will not exist and forgotten about.
2) “I am now on the road to Heaven. (113)”
Ray wants to move on because he has had enough with the group that he has been with. After Rosie had committed suicide, it’s like a point where he has been there way too long. He knows that Rosie is in Heaven and will be happy there. He is says that he is on the road to heaven which means that he is making wiser and appropriate choices for the rest of his life. He feels awful that Rosie had to end her life the way she had and he knows that he could do better and he had learned that there is more to life than what’s in front him; he has to move on.
Contemporary Counter Cultural Presentations
Embracing spirituality through contemplative practices such as yoga and meditation.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
pg 72 – 94
1) “What would I say to the boys in The Place if I came all this way only to give up at the last minute. (81)”
All of the poets stopped on the mountain to decided if they wanted to go up further to make to the top of Matterhorn because they were almost there. Japhy wanted to make the trip so he could say that he had done it and he was really in to it. Ray said he would just to go and also to say that he did it and not do climb part of the mountain for nothing. Morley couldn’t go because he believed that his body would not allow him so he would wait. After starting on the hike up, Ray wanted to stop because he felt like he couldn’t make it any further because he was afraid of falling off the mountain. He didn’t make it to the top but he was pretty close. Japhy made it and was proud that he did.
2) “Those things aren’t made to be heard by the people below. (86)”
Ray wanted to let everyone hear what Japhy was saying when he had got to the top of the mountain. Japhy believed if people wanted to hear it then they should have been there with him. Instead of having someone share the experience that both of them had on their trip further to the top. People should experience the same thing instead of having it to be told to them because it’s not the same feeling. The two guys have more feeling and, also they have the feeling of being proud of what they had accomplished, wouldn’t be as exciting if someone told them what it was like or their reaction was, it wouldn’t be the same.
1) “What would I say to the boys in The Place if I came all this way only to give up at the last minute. (81)”
All of the poets stopped on the mountain to decided if they wanted to go up further to make to the top of Matterhorn because they were almost there. Japhy wanted to make the trip so he could say that he had done it and he was really in to it. Ray said he would just to go and also to say that he did it and not do climb part of the mountain for nothing. Morley couldn’t go because he believed that his body would not allow him so he would wait. After starting on the hike up, Ray wanted to stop because he felt like he couldn’t make it any further because he was afraid of falling off the mountain. He didn’t make it to the top but he was pretty close. Japhy made it and was proud that he did.
2) “Those things aren’t made to be heard by the people below. (86)”
Ray wanted to let everyone hear what Japhy was saying when he had got to the top of the mountain. Japhy believed if people wanted to hear it then they should have been there with him. Instead of having someone share the experience that both of them had on their trip further to the top. People should experience the same thing instead of having it to be told to them because it’s not the same feeling. The two guys have more feeling and, also they have the feeling of being proud of what they had accomplished, wouldn’t be as exciting if someone told them what it was like or their reaction was, it wouldn’t be the same.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
pg. 49 – 72
1) “…I realize this (in spite of my swollen foot veins) would do me a lot of good and get me away from drinking and maybe make me appreciate perhaps a whole new way of living. (55)”
Ray thought about what he had said before about walking up a mountain that than being at ‘The Place’ and having a good old time drinking and having fun just hanging out with the three of them. Japhy told him it doesn’t matter where you are its all the same and plus comparing things just makes things worst. It’s better to look at them form one way and look at another thing the other way. Ray realized what he, himself had said was wrong and listening to Japhy made him realize he could be a better person but also stop drinking.
2) “Think of the patience, hundred of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like prying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin. (67)”
Ray and Japhy were commenting about how the mountains are so silent. Japhy said that the mountain, to him, is Buddha because they just sit there and watch and are relaxed about everything. They want living things to stop with their worries and just relax and sit peacefully with them. Unlike living creatures they move and they need to get things done and can’t just stay and one place and look around them and notice what is going on with every little moving thing is doing. Ray and Japhy still move on with what they were doing.
1) “…I realize this (in spite of my swollen foot veins) would do me a lot of good and get me away from drinking and maybe make me appreciate perhaps a whole new way of living. (55)”
Ray thought about what he had said before about walking up a mountain that than being at ‘The Place’ and having a good old time drinking and having fun just hanging out with the three of them. Japhy told him it doesn’t matter where you are its all the same and plus comparing things just makes things worst. It’s better to look at them form one way and look at another thing the other way. Ray realized what he, himself had said was wrong and listening to Japhy made him realize he could be a better person but also stop drinking.
2) “Think of the patience, hundred of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like prying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin. (67)”
Ray and Japhy were commenting about how the mountains are so silent. Japhy said that the mountain, to him, is Buddha because they just sit there and watch and are relaxed about everything. They want living things to stop with their worries and just relax and sit peacefully with them. Unlike living creatures they move and they need to get things done and can’t just stay and one place and look around them and notice what is going on with every little moving thing is doing. Ray and Japhy still move on with what they were doing.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums pg. 24-49
1) “And the absence of active lust in me had also given me a new peaceful life that I was enjoying a great deal. (29)”
Ray felt uncomfortable taking off his clothes in front of other guys because he only likes one other person in the room and prefers females. When the other two guys, Alvah and Japhy took off their clothes right away to be intimate to with a girl who was practically a child to them. He had felt bad that she was young but she did not refuse. When Japhy first showed up with a random girl with him it was weird that she was there just to have sex with them, and he believed it was wrong. The other three were trying to convince him that its all perfectly fine to do and there wasn’t anything to worry about.
2) “By the time I went to bed I wasn’t taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody’s disapproval and I felt glad and slept well. (35)”
Ray and Alvah had got into an argument about all of them and Princess. Alvah did not understand why Ray had a problem with all of them doing what they were doing. He believed it was perfectly fine and it wasn’t a big deal. Alvah accused of Ray’s religion of Buddhism the way he is such as being mean about the whole thing and afraid of taking off his clothes in front of people. Once Ray went to bed he made the whole thing as a bad dream it was all over and he didn’t have to worry about it anymore. He had forgotten about everything about his argument with Alvah when he had went to bed.
Ray felt uncomfortable taking off his clothes in front of other guys because he only likes one other person in the room and prefers females. When the other two guys, Alvah and Japhy took off their clothes right away to be intimate to with a girl who was practically a child to them. He had felt bad that she was young but she did not refuse. When Japhy first showed up with a random girl with him it was weird that she was there just to have sex with them, and he believed it was wrong. The other three were trying to convince him that its all perfectly fine to do and there wasn’t anything to worry about.
2) “By the time I went to bed I wasn’t taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody’s disapproval and I felt glad and slept well. (35)”
Ray and Alvah had got into an argument about all of them and Princess. Alvah did not understand why Ray had a problem with all of them doing what they were doing. He believed it was perfectly fine and it wasn’t a big deal. Alvah accused of Ray’s religion of Buddhism the way he is such as being mean about the whole thing and afraid of taking off his clothes in front of people. Once Ray went to bed he made the whole thing as a bad dream it was all over and he didn’t have to worry about it anymore. He had forgotten about everything about his argument with Alvah when he had went to bed.
Friday, April 6, 2007
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums pg. 3-24
1) "And he had his tender lyrical lines, like the ones about bears eatting berries, showing his love of animals...(14)"
There are two guys who are sitting around reading poetry and Japhy reads about animals and how they act and he reads it with kindness and emotion to everyone else, as if he was the one that wrote about caring for the animals. Reading that part of the poem it made him realize that there is more to life and there are other things around humans than humans. There are other animals in the world and not everything revavals around humans. People just have to look at different creatures and understand that they do what they do to survive and not look at it as in a place to argue about. Its just the way it is and Japhy loves the way the animals act.
2) "And he was a man of solitude who could take off by himself and live purely and true to himself. (22)"
Ray and Japhy are talking about a man, Han Shan, who Japhy admires but, they both tell eachother that they are like him. Both of them could be independant and live the way that want without having a lot of personal things. They also can be true to himself which means that he is true to the world. They are people who are calm and mellow about anything and doing anything that can. They are out in the world on their own and travelling to places to go see around and visit thats there.
There are two guys who are sitting around reading poetry and Japhy reads about animals and how they act and he reads it with kindness and emotion to everyone else, as if he was the one that wrote about caring for the animals. Reading that part of the poem it made him realize that there is more to life and there are other things around humans than humans. There are other animals in the world and not everything revavals around humans. People just have to look at different creatures and understand that they do what they do to survive and not look at it as in a place to argue about. Its just the way it is and Japhy loves the way the animals act.
2) "And he was a man of solitude who could take off by himself and live purely and true to himself. (22)"
Ray and Japhy are talking about a man, Han Shan, who Japhy admires but, they both tell eachother that they are like him. Both of them could be independant and live the way that want without having a lot of personal things. They also can be true to himself which means that he is true to the world. They are people who are calm and mellow about anything and doing anything that can. They are out in the world on their own and travelling to places to go see around and visit thats there.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Extra Credit Reading Response
I agree with Curtis White of what he says that our jobs are our homes. No matter what we are surrounded and we have to go back to our homes in order to get anywhere in life. Its on our minds most of the time. Literally, our jobs could be our "home" and our actuall homes could be our vacation away from our "home". We need our job because we need to be able to have a place to sleep, eat, and also be able to get through life with money. Money in humans is the key to life and jobs help us get the money. Humans also have to give back to the community that they live in to make us feel good and also feel better about ourselves. We also have the need to "save the world" but, actually, we are the ones that are destroying it. Nothing can be right or happy in life. We all have to suffer through it and never will learn.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Raymond Carver – “Are There Actual Miles?”
pg 583-590
1) “I have to do without when I was a kid. These kids are not going to do without. (586)”
Toni wants to give her kids the right opportunity that she didn’t have, so they would not end up in the same situation as her and her husband. She has learned from her mistake by making sure her kids will not go through the same mistake. She wants to her kids to have more opportunities that she didn’t have when she was a child, which may have caused her become in her present situation. It would make their lives easier to do anything they wanted.
2) “They are like roads, and he traces them in her flesh. (590)”
Leo and Toni sold their convertible to a man. Leo went through a lot of nervousness waiting to find out if his wife had a deal with someone. He thinks about his life and her life being together and what they have gone through together with kids, which is like a road. It has whinny roads and bumps when you don’t expect it. After awhile it all becomes better, straight, and smooth. He sees what Toni has done and thinks about the memories of the beautiful weather and good conditions on the road, the good times.
1) “I have to do without when I was a kid. These kids are not going to do without. (586)”
Toni wants to give her kids the right opportunity that she didn’t have, so they would not end up in the same situation as her and her husband. She has learned from her mistake by making sure her kids will not go through the same mistake. She wants to her kids to have more opportunities that she didn’t have when she was a child, which may have caused her become in her present situation. It would make their lives easier to do anything they wanted.
2) “They are like roads, and he traces them in her flesh. (590)”
Leo and Toni sold their convertible to a man. Leo went through a lot of nervousness waiting to find out if his wife had a deal with someone. He thinks about his life and her life being together and what they have gone through together with kids, which is like a road. It has whinny roads and bumps when you don’t expect it. After awhile it all becomes better, straight, and smooth. He sees what Toni has done and thinks about the memories of the beautiful weather and good conditions on the road, the good times.
Friday, March 30, 2007
John Updike – “The Persistence of Desire”
pg. 560-570
1) “When he saw who it was, though every cell his body had been replaced since he had last seen her, his hands jerked in his lap and blood bounded against his skin. (561)”
Clyde Behn sees his past love, Janet, in a doctors office and when she see her, his whole body rushes everywhere and he can’t control his feelings. His feelings right there and then he wants to get close to her although they are no longer together. He wants to get into her head and wandering how she is doing without him. He asks questions such as “…are you happy? (567)”, hoping she would say that she misses him or that she is not happy with her relationship with another man. When he is with her makes him want her no matter in what state they are both in.
2) “I thought you were successful. I thought you had beautiful children. Aren’t you happy? (568)”
Janet towards the end was being sucked into Clyde’s desire but realizes what he and she were getting into was wrong. She had stopped it before anything else would happen. She asks him if he is happy and he replies that he is “but happiness isn’t everything. (568)” He is saying that he isn’t happy with everything he has; he wants something more, her. His feelings that he had for her came back to him. He realizes at that she doesn’t want to go back to the past and just wants to move on and that gives him the closer of his feelings, knowing that they ended well.
1) “When he saw who it was, though every cell his body had been replaced since he had last seen her, his hands jerked in his lap and blood bounded against his skin. (561)”
Clyde Behn sees his past love, Janet, in a doctors office and when she see her, his whole body rushes everywhere and he can’t control his feelings. His feelings right there and then he wants to get close to her although they are no longer together. He wants to get into her head and wandering how she is doing without him. He asks questions such as “…are you happy? (567)”, hoping she would say that she misses him or that she is not happy with her relationship with another man. When he is with her makes him want her no matter in what state they are both in.
2) “I thought you were successful. I thought you had beautiful children. Aren’t you happy? (568)”
Janet towards the end was being sucked into Clyde’s desire but realizes what he and she were getting into was wrong. She had stopped it before anything else would happen. She asks him if he is happy and he replies that he is “but happiness isn’t everything. (568)” He is saying that he isn’t happy with everything he has; he wants something more, her. His feelings that he had for her came back to him. He realizes at that she doesn’t want to go back to the past and just wants to move on and that gives him the closer of his feelings, knowing that they ended well.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
John Cheever – “The Swimmer”
pg. 1488-1497
1) “ ‘I’m swimming across the county’. (1494)”
Neddy Merrill decided to swim home because it was a way he could escape and he was determined to do it. He had to urge to swim across the county, which is equivalent of the Lucinda River. He had gone through different people’s pool in order to get home and he had experienced through different reactions of different people. People who had like him and people who did not like him.
2) “Why, we heard that you’d sold your house and that your poor children….(1494)”
Ned was determined to swim the whole way and did not care what others thought of him when he had passed them. Him, swimming to his house was the most important thing on his mind, even if it he was putting his life in danger. Since he hasn’t seen his family, he did not know that his family had left him, so he still thinks that they are home.
1) “ ‘I’m swimming across the county’. (1494)”
Neddy Merrill decided to swim home because it was a way he could escape and he was determined to do it. He had to urge to swim across the county, which is equivalent of the Lucinda River. He had gone through different people’s pool in order to get home and he had experienced through different reactions of different people. People who had like him and people who did not like him.
2) “Why, we heard that you’d sold your house and that your poor children….(1494)”
Ned was determined to swim the whole way and did not care what others thought of him when he had passed them. Him, swimming to his house was the most important thing on his mind, even if it he was putting his life in danger. Since he hasn’t seen his family, he did not know that his family had left him, so he still thinks that they are home.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
John Cheever "The Death of Justina"
pg 541 – 551
1) “Listen to me,” I said. “You give me an exception and you give it to me now or I’m going home and dig a hole in my garden and bury Justina myself. (548)”
Moses did not care that him burring someone in town was against the town’s policy, he just wanted to Justina the right burial. The mayor said that he felt sympathy but he won’t break a law just for him. Moses finally was fed up with the major and he didn’t care what others thought, he wanted to have Justina barried no matter where but it just had to be soon. The mayor finally let Moses burry Justina.
1) “Listen to me,” I said. “You give me an exception and you give it to me now or I’m going home and dig a hole in my garden and bury Justina myself. (548)”
Moses did not care that him burring someone in town was against the town’s policy, he just wanted to Justina the right burial. The mayor said that he felt sympathy but he won’t break a law just for him. Moses finally was fed up with the major and he didn’t care what others thought, he wanted to have Justina barried no matter where but it just had to be soon. The mayor finally let Moses burry Justina.
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