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.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
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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