1) The significance of the title is shows someone being an outsider. It is a WWII survivor who is injured in Italy. They do not know the language and it is extremely hard for them to learn it. They were all alienated.
2) The character who represents “Hemingway Hero” is the major because he has a hard life. His hand was injured and he lost his wife. He deals with the most suffering and about his
anger and resentment. He realizes his hand isn’t going to get better and even
though losing his wife was hard, he is trying to fight hard to get over it. The
major’s injury is a result of fighting and the narrator’s injury wasn’t all that
big because he was hurt because he was American. The major has an emotional
and physical wound.
3) The photographs are fake and are not direct
proof that these machines work. They are more of a motivation tactic. The major’s reaction he that he looks at the window instead of the photos. He doesn’t have any hope and he doesn’t really focus on what the doctors gives him. He goes to isolation and he is focuses elsewhere. He is focused on the suffering and lost.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Journal 17
1) The poems epigraph is from Dante's Inferno and he comes back from hell and shares his story. Prufrock shares his story to but its very self conscience and obviously not meant for a large crowd of peopel to hear about.
Do I dare disturb the universe?
How should I presume?
How should I begin?
Shall I part my hair behind?
Do I dare eat a peach?
This shows his doubt, uncertainty, anxiety and hesitation. These questions are questions he asks himself on a daily bases and show is in-security.
3) His main flaw or problem is that he worries about everything and doesnt just live. He can never make a desicion and is very nervous and self conscience about even the little things that anyone can decide.
4) This is called a love song because it is ironic. Its ionic because there is no love in it what so ever. It is about someone who has no love for himself and is very alone and self conscience. In this he is addressing his loniless.
2)Do I?
Shall I?Do I dare disturb the universe?
How should I presume?
How should I begin?
Shall I part my hair behind?
Do I dare eat a peach?
This shows his doubt, uncertainty, anxiety and hesitation. These questions are questions he asks himself on a daily bases and show is in-security.
3) His main flaw or problem is that he worries about everything and doesnt just live. He can never make a desicion and is very nervous and self conscience about even the little things that anyone can decide.
4) This is called a love song because it is ironic. Its ionic because there is no love in it what so ever. It is about someone who has no love for himself and is very alone and self conscience. In this he is addressing his loniless.
Journal 16
This quote relates to both Swede in “The Blue Hotel” and the hiker in “To Build
a Fire” because both are effected by outside forces and also with their own
traits. In “The Blue Hotel” the Swede becomes drunk and then loses his temper and his control. He was given a drink by Mr. Scully and then he begins to cause trouble with the other guests. The other guests encouraged the Swede and Mr. Scully's son to fight. In the end Swede gets killed. If it weren’t for the outside forces, Swede’s traits, and the weather, which brought them together none of that would of happened. The hiker’s death in “To Build a Fire” was brought on because of nature and his own traits. The extremely cold climate was mainly the reason he died but also because of his body, he was not meant to be out in the cold for that long. If he would have listened to the people that told him not to go out by himself he probably could have survived.
a Fire” because both are effected by outside forces and also with their own
traits. In “The Blue Hotel” the Swede becomes drunk and then loses his temper and his control. He was given a drink by Mr. Scully and then he begins to cause trouble with the other guests. The other guests encouraged the Swede and Mr. Scully's son to fight. In the end Swede gets killed. If it weren’t for the outside forces, Swede’s traits, and the weather, which brought them together none of that would of happened. The hiker’s death in “To Build a Fire” was brought on because of nature and his own traits. The extremely cold climate was mainly the reason he died but also because of his body, he was not meant to be out in the cold for that long. If he would have listened to the people that told him not to go out by himself he probably could have survived.
Journal 15
The overall message is that you shouldn’t make someone do something to help benefit your needs or desires and also it could end up really bad.
"But don't you see, dearest," she said, "that it wouldn't have come to this if it hadn't been in the order of Providence? And I call any war glorious that is for the liberation of people
who have been struggling for years against the cruelest oppression.”
"But now it doesn't matter about the how or why. Since the war has come, all that is
gone. There are no two sides any more. There is nothing now but our
country."
“But I think we had better emphasize your meaning that if we cannot
be one in everything we had better be one in nothing. So I am sending these
things for your keeping till you have made up your mind.”
Editha threatens him by saying she will not marry him unless he goes to fight for his country and that God made this to be war. She now realizes that she sent her husband into war and he may not come back, that he might die. Editha still thinks what she did was just. Editha talks to his mother and experiences an epiphany
"But don't you see, dearest," she said, "that it wouldn't have come to this if it hadn't been in the order of Providence? And I call any war glorious that is for the liberation of people
who have been struggling for years against the cruelest oppression.”
"But now it doesn't matter about the how or why. Since the war has come, all that is
gone. There are no two sides any more. There is nothing now but our
country."
“But I think we had better emphasize your meaning that if we cannot
be one in everything we had better be one in nothing. So I am sending these
things for your keeping till you have made up your mind.”
Editha threatens him by saying she will not marry him unless he goes to fight for his country and that God made this to be war. She now realizes that she sent her husband into war and he may not come back, that he might die. Editha still thinks what she did was just. Editha talks to his mother and experiences an epiphany
Journal 14
“Richard Cory“
He was someone who was highly praised and looked up too. Cory had it all, he was rich and had everything going for him. The people who looked up to him where wrong because he wasn’t happy at all. One night he went back to his house and killed himself he was so unhappy. The thing that didn’t make his happy was that people judge him based on his money. Irony: apparence vs. reality. This “real” vs. “ideal” becaue if it was an ideal story he would be happy and the apparent and the reality would match. The people see having a perfect life but the reality is something different.
“Miniver Cheevy”
He wants to live in the middle ages but is living in the current world. He drinks because
he wishes he had a different life. He believes he was born in the wrong century because all his dreams and hopes belong to the middle ages. So to escape the real life, he decides to drink to become in his fantasy world. The meaning of Miniver Cheevy suggest a life full of depression and no success thats why his name sounds like minimal achiever.
“Mr. Flood’s Party”
Mr. Flood is an alcoholic. He sings and talks like someone is with him but in relilty he is all
alone. It is ironic because Mr.Flood’s Party sounds like he is having an
actual party. He drinks because he wants to fill the emptiness in him. He
drinks to have an ideal life, but in reality he has no one. He remembers the
past when he is drunk and that is when he was not alone and was happy. He
doesn’t look to the future and that is what people tend to do in their life.
He was someone who was highly praised and looked up too. Cory had it all, he was rich and had everything going for him. The people who looked up to him where wrong because he wasn’t happy at all. One night he went back to his house and killed himself he was so unhappy. The thing that didn’t make his happy was that people judge him based on his money. Irony: apparence vs. reality. This “real” vs. “ideal” becaue if it was an ideal story he would be happy and the apparent and the reality would match. The people see having a perfect life but the reality is something different.
“Miniver Cheevy”
He wants to live in the middle ages but is living in the current world. He drinks because
he wishes he had a different life. He believes he was born in the wrong century because all his dreams and hopes belong to the middle ages. So to escape the real life, he decides to drink to become in his fantasy world. The meaning of Miniver Cheevy suggest a life full of depression and no success thats why his name sounds like minimal achiever.
“Mr. Flood’s Party”
Mr. Flood is an alcoholic. He sings and talks like someone is with him but in relilty he is all
alone. It is ironic because Mr.Flood’s Party sounds like he is having an
actual party. He drinks because he wants to fill the emptiness in him. He
drinks to have an ideal life, but in reality he has no one. He remembers the
past when he is drunk and that is when he was not alone and was happy. He
doesn’t look to the future and that is what people tend to do in their life.
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