or forever hold
He knows forever. Soon she will be his property. A few more words and he will own her…lock, stock and barrel. She is a strong woman. She has three kids already. She will be able to produce for me many sons. Son we will be gone from this cursed place and get on with forever in my realm and under my conditions.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Hemingway - Soldier's Home Extra Credit
I have finally made my way back home after my two plus years of wanderings. I often wondered what my family was up to at any given time and a pain in my stomach seemed too much to handle at times when I felt nearly overcome with loneliness for them. But, here I am back home, and now I know. Somehow I feel a stranger, like a new neighbor or a misfit looking into the fishbowl of my old life. I long for sameness and yet at the same time I struggle to reinsert myself into the life I left. I want so badly to run up to my folks and tell them their child missed them but I don’t know if they still cherish me. I am held back by my own insecurity and fear. Do they want me to be a part of their lives? Have they moved on down a path which I cannot follow on? The change is the long separation and lack of sureness that I still belong or if I even want to belong. Krebs’ experiences separated him emotionally from his family because they did not experience the things that he did therefore he senses a lack of a common bond.
Friday, February 6, 2009
I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!!!
WOW! I can't believe it, I finally figured it out. I have to apologize for not participating in the blog up to this point. I could not get my posts posted and I could not figure out how to "Post" to delicious. Well I have some others to post.
Week 2 Three Girls by Joyce Carol Oates
Pam Garner
SSRJ #2 – Three Girls by Joyce Carol Oates
I thought that this piece was very good and it brought to me recollection when I was a young self absorbed young girl. The element that really stood out to me was the coming of awareness of the two girls in a world bigger than themselves.
There was a great deal of symbolism in the story as the girls were young, nerdy perhaps not very attractive college students confined to their little world. They spot Marilyn Monroe trying to remain anonymous in the bookstore and they suddenly become kindred spirits connected to their love of books. Here are these homely, awkward girls protecting this worldly, glamorous woman. All of them bound together like a book in the common love they share.
The author seems to be telling us that these young women in their love of books and lack of awareness of life around them grow up that night and form a bond that is bigger than the love of books and their common goals. All of us have that moment that we pass from our self focused youth to life beyond ourselves.
Do the girls change from their nerdy, plain selves or do they transform into a glamorous bookworm such as Marilyn Monroe?
SSRJ #2 – Three Girls by Joyce Carol Oates
I thought that this piece was very good and it brought to me recollection when I was a young self absorbed young girl. The element that really stood out to me was the coming of awareness of the two girls in a world bigger than themselves.
There was a great deal of symbolism in the story as the girls were young, nerdy perhaps not very attractive college students confined to their little world. They spot Marilyn Monroe trying to remain anonymous in the bookstore and they suddenly become kindred spirits connected to their love of books. Here are these homely, awkward girls protecting this worldly, glamorous woman. All of them bound together like a book in the common love they share.
The author seems to be telling us that these young women in their love of books and lack of awareness of life around them grow up that night and form a bond that is bigger than the love of books and their common goals. All of us have that moment that we pass from our self focused youth to life beyond ourselves.
Do the girls change from their nerdy, plain selves or do they transform into a glamorous bookworm such as Marilyn Monroe?
Week 3 SSRJ - The Cranes
Pam Garner
SSRJ #3 – The Cranes by Peter Meinke
The stories for this week were all very good. It was hard to pick one to write about. I had to go back and read them again because I enjoyed them. Each reading caused me to ponder them in ways that I had not considered in the first reading. I chose to write about “The Cranes” because it was the only one that I thought would not take up too many pages of writing.
This story really impressed me. As I read it I could sense the tenderness of the husband as he patted his wife’s back when she coughed and tenderly kissed her. He reminded me of how my own husband would behave. It seemed obvious to me that the wife is dying. The cranes represent the couple and all of the other birds represent all the people around them. I want to believe that the husband is only providing the wife with a distraction from her illness but there seems to be a nagging hint that perhaps they are committing suicide together. I got this impression when I read the last sentence in the story where the cranes fly away toward the sun. The story uses symbolism with the cranes representing the couple. Do you believe that the husband is just ministering to his wife trying to entertain and amuse her or do you believe that they are committing suicide?
SSRJ #3 – The Cranes by Peter Meinke
The stories for this week were all very good. It was hard to pick one to write about. I had to go back and read them again because I enjoyed them. Each reading caused me to ponder them in ways that I had not considered in the first reading. I chose to write about “The Cranes” because it was the only one that I thought would not take up too many pages of writing.
This story really impressed me. As I read it I could sense the tenderness of the husband as he patted his wife’s back when she coughed and tenderly kissed her. He reminded me of how my own husband would behave. It seemed obvious to me that the wife is dying. The cranes represent the couple and all of the other birds represent all the people around them. I want to believe that the husband is only providing the wife with a distraction from her illness but there seems to be a nagging hint that perhaps they are committing suicide together. I got this impression when I read the last sentence in the story where the cranes fly away toward the sun. The story uses symbolism with the cranes representing the couple. Do you believe that the husband is just ministering to his wife trying to entertain and amuse her or do you believe that they are committing suicide?
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