1) The significance of the title is shows someone being an outside. When he tries to learn Italian, he thinks it is easier but when the grammar comes along it is a lot harder. Even in rehabilitation, people think it is going to easy but when he comes to the actually rehabilitation it become harder. There are in Italy and they are all outsiders because of their injuries. They are outsiders because of their rank and how they are officers.
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 wound and a physical wound.
3) The photographs are fake and are not direct proof that these machines work. They are more of motivation things for the guys. 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 he. He goes to isolation and he is focuses elsewhere. He is focused on the suffering and lost.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Journal 17
1) The significance of the poem’s epigraph is that because no one really returns from hell, he can share he story. Being someone with no self-confindence, he doesn’t want to share he story. Though he shares his story because he thinks no one is going to read it. He describes himself because he thinks he is talking to him self.
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?
These questions have a theme about them, which is doubt, uncertainty, anxiety. These questions are questions he asks himself on a daily bases.
3) His main flawor problem is that he is a background character, comes off as foolish and dull, adviser to the prince, showing good judgement, and very cautious. He is fulled with anixey and self-doubt. His problem is low self-asteem.
4) This is called a love song because it is ironic. It ionic because he is alone and not in love. He is addressing he loneliness and how he is not inlove, which is completely different from a real love song.
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?
These questions have a theme about them, which is doubt, uncertainty, anxiety. These questions are questions he asks himself on a daily bases.
3) His main flawor problem is that he is a background character, comes off as foolish and dull, adviser to the prince, showing good judgement, and very cautious. He is fulled with anixey and self-doubt. His problem is low self-asteem.
4) This is called a love song because it is ironic. It ionic because he is alone and not in love. He is addressing he loneliness and how he is not inlove, which is completely different from a real love song.
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” Swede becomes drunk and then loses his temper. He was given the drink by Mr. Scully and then the other character start to let him and Johnny Scully. The other charcter were encouraging them 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 cold climate was mainly the reason he deid but alos because of his character. If he would have listened to others around him about going out by himself he probably could have survived.
Journal 15
The overall message is that you souldn’t pressure somebody into doing they might not want to do. It could end in a tradgy.
"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.”
The tactics Editha used are with his feelings by saying that she will not marry him unles he goes to war, she uses new reports and propaganda, and she uses God by saying God meant it to be war.
Editha did have a moment when she truly understood what she did. She now realizes that she sent her husband into war where she could lose him. Editha also realizes that she lost her pride and joy, with also losing her husband from staying home with her. Editha still thinks she did the right thing though. Editha does experience an epiphany. The epiphany occurs when she heard her husband died in war and also when she visit his mother and hears what she had to say.
"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.”
The tactics Editha used are with his feelings by saying that she will not marry him unles he goes to war, she uses new reports and propaganda, and she uses God by saying God meant it to be war.
Editha did have a moment when she truly understood what she did. She now realizes that she sent her husband into war where she could lose him. Editha also realizes that she lost her pride and joy, with also losing her husband from staying home with her. Editha still thinks she did the right thing though. Editha does experience an epiphany. The epiphany occurs when she heard her husband died in war and also when she visit his mother and hears what she had to say.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Journal 14
“Richard Cory“ (497)
He was someone who was highly praised and looked up too. Cory
was rich and had everything going for him. The people who looked up to him
where wrong because he wasn’t happy at all. 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 stpry 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” (497)
He want to live in the middle ages. He drinks because he
wished he has 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
boring life, he decides to drink to become in his fantasy life. Cheevy wants to
live his ideal life but in reality his lives in the different time period. He
doesn’t see that his lives a great life, so he wasted it away by drinking. That
it was most people do now, they waste away a good life. The meaning pf Miniver
Cheevy suggest a life full of depression. His first name Miniver even sounds
like minimal achiever.
“Mr. Flood’s Party” (498)
Mr. Flood is an alcoholic who likes to have a party for
one, himself. He sings and talks like someone is with in 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
was rich and had everything going for him. The people who looked up to him
where wrong because he wasn’t happy at all. 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 stpry 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” (497)
He want to live in the middle ages. He drinks because he
wished he has 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
boring life, he decides to drink to become in his fantasy life. Cheevy wants to
live his ideal life but in reality his lives in the different time period. He
doesn’t see that his lives a great life, so he wasted it away by drinking. That
it was most people do now, they waste away a good life. The meaning pf Miniver
Cheevy suggest a life full of depression. His first name Miniver even sounds
like minimal achiever.
“Mr. Flood’s Party” (498)
Mr. Flood is an alcoholic who likes to have a party for
one, himself. He sings and talks like someone is with in 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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