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.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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.
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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.
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