The Child at the Brook Side
“She had flung it into infinite space! -… here again was the scarlet misery, glittering on the old spot…her beauty, her warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed, like fading sunshine; and a grey shadow seemed to fall across her” (Hawthorne 166).
Analysis- Before Hester called Pearl to see the minister, she removed the scarlet letter from her bosom and the sun that used to hide from her once came upon her which signifies/suggests that nature (God) has forgiven. But she puts on the letter and the sun (nature- God) departs from her again because she has associated herself with sin (scarlet letter). On the other hand, pearl does not go back to her mother because she does not see the scarlet letter in her bosom, she is skeptical of why the letter is no more there. Pearl’s refusal to return to her mother suggests that sin, the scarlet letter, is a part of her mother’s identity and cannot just be thrown away, it can’t be run from. It ties to the puritan’s belief of predestination which means that your destiny is already foreordained by God. Hester cannot just throw away the scarlet letter because she once embraced it and it is now part of her. The only way that she can be free of it is if she explains to Hester why she is wearing the letter. Pearl is parallel with nature, they welcomed honesty and this is what Hester needs to do with pearl, she needs to be honest with her and that is how she is going to be free from the letter.
The Minister in a Maze
“Then flinging the already written pages of the election sermon into the fire, he forthwith began another, which he wrote with such impulsive flow of thought and emotion” (Hawthorne 176).
Analysis- in previous chapter, Minister Dimmesdale did not have a peace of mind, such can be seen where he punishes himself physically and emotionally because of his hidden seen, but not anymore. The meeting with Hester in the woods has changed him. The motion of him throwing away the old sermon that was written and begins to write a new one reveals that and his life, anew. This is similar the saying in the New Testament, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come” (2 Corinthians). Dimmesdale is enlighten with his encounter with Hester and pearl and feels like he has being born again, like he has become a new creature. His only prayer is that Heaven accepts him, but still he is a hypocrite because he has refuse to join hand with the mother and daughter in public and he is still preaching as a sinner to a congregation.
The New England Holiday
“ But at that instant she beheld old Roger Chillingworth himself, standing in the remotest comer of the market-place and smiling on her; a smile which--across the wide and bustling square, and through all the talk and laughter, and various thoughts, moods, and interests of the crowd--conveyed secret and fearful meaning” (Hawthorne 183).
Analysis--- Chillingworth is at the climax of his revenge. Context clue provides the reader that Chillingworth already knows that the Minister knows about his secret and is about to reveal the secret of the Minister. This is very Ironic because as he reveals Dimmesdale secret, he will also reveal the secret of him being Hester’s former husband. This is what happens when the two biggest sinners in the community lives together, their sin feeds on each other. Chillingworth has been devoured by hate and the need for revenge (preyed on the soul of the minister because he blames him for his current predicament, but Hawthorne lets us know that Roger Chillingworth and Hester never had a reasonable connection as husband and wife). He is no longer what the puritans define as human. His secrets and lies in the service of righteous revenge have made him worse than Miss Hibbins who is a servant of the black man
The Procession
“They say, child, thou are the art of the linage of the prince of the air” (Hawthorne 189).
Analysis--- This has a lot of interpretation. First When pearl was born, she was conceived by the sin her mother, Hester did which was adultery and has been an outcast of the puritan society. In previous chapters, she has been associated by the devil ( the demon offspring/ the elf child) which was why the minister Wilson almost took her away from Hester, the fact that she is not accepted in the puritans society links her to the devil which is miss Hibbins tell her that her father is the prince of the air. Another interpretation would be that since Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale are sinners, and the puritan’s belief of predestination condemns them, there are not servants of the devil which her father will be the prince of the air. The prince can also be Dimmesdale because he is committing a bi(gger sin by not confessing his sin, but further more going to preach to the people of God. Miss Hibbins says she can always tell a servant of the Black Man, and that both Hester and Dimmesdale are such servants.
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
“A spell was broken ... her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman towards it. Towards her mother, too, Pearl's errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled” (Hawthorne 198).
Analysis--- The revelation of Dimmesdale sin and the scarlet letter does not only free him from the prison that he built for himself and the destruction that was to come from Chillingworth, at the same time, Chillingworth also losses his chance for revenge. Dimmesdale confession also frees Pearl from the chains of the scarlet letter that once bound her from society. She was once called the child of sin (adultery and lust and ignominy), but she is now the child of passion and love. Dimmesdale confession couldn’t save his life, but it does save Pearl. It connects her to humanity (Puritans). The reader can infer that pearl is going to have a better life that they thought at the beginning of the book.
Conclusion
“All his strength and energy—all his vital and intellectual force— seemed at once to desert him…This unhappy man had made the very principle of his life to consist in the pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge; and when by "its completes! Triumph and consummation, that evil principle was left with no further material to support it, when, in short, there was no more Devil's work on earth for him to do” (Hawthorne 202).
Analysis--- The audience can now understand why Roger Chillingworth was called the black man and the leech. First he was called the black man because she acted and looked like him. Revenge is a sin and Chillingworth was driven by the sin that it became his food, his motives and action depended on the thought of revenge. His physical transformation also depicts why he is called the black man. The fact that Dimmesdale continued to get worse with Chillingworth by his side puts him in the position .The other reason that he is called the leech is because leeches feed on blood and the blood that he used to feed o (literary) was that of Reverend Dimmesdale and now that the man is dead, he does not have any one to feed off on so he (being the leech) dies. Roger Chillingworth depended on Dimmesdale sin to live and now that the sin has been confessed and he did not get his revenge, there is not work left to be done but to die. Chillingworth can be compare to the devil in John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy”. Chillingworth came to destroy Dimmesdale, his plan was part of the reason that Dimmesdale died.
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Scarlet Letter Analysis 2
The Governor’s Hall
“On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother’s soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path. If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than Hester Prynne’s ” (Hawthorne 81).
Analysis— after puritans have judged and humiliate her, they are now consigned about the warfare of Hester and Pearl. This is an act of Puritan hypocrisy. It also tells of their life style. They believe that they can purify people’s life and make it better so that God can find favor in the sight of the person. Pearl is being condemned because they know that her mother is the sinner, but will still condemn her if they find out that she is the daughter of a religious man. In this chapter, Hawthorne talks about the hypocrisies of the Puritan society.
The Elf Child and the Minister
“I must tarry at home keep watch over my little Pearl, had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest and signed my name in the Black Man’s book” (Hawthorne 93).
Analysis- Here again the black man’s book refers to the book of the devil and Prynne has being asked to join the club that Mistress Hibbins has associated with herself. Prynne declines the offer saying that she has to take care of Pearl means that Pearl has saved her mother from another of the black man’s temptation, The first being the sin of adultery. An Anomaly seen in this text also is that, the society abandons Hester Prynne after they learnt of her sin and almost took her daughter away from her saying she was a demon, but yet the Miss Hibbins is being protected by the law even when it is publicly known that she goes to a witch gathering. Hawthorns imply that the ranking of one’s statue or the family in which they come from matters in the society of the puritans.
The Leech
“This purpose once effected, new interests would immediately spring up, and likewise a new purpose; dark, it is true, if not guilty, but of force enough to engage the full strength of his faculties” (Hawthorne 95).
“Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had not previously noticed, and which grew still the more obvious to sight, the oftener they looked upon him… the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; …his visage was getting sooty with the smoke” (Hawthorne 101).
Analysis- Hawthorne reveals that Mr. Dimmesdale hides a secret and it is causing him pain by which he holds his chest, just as Prynne chest is marked with the letter A. Roger Chillingworth is up for revenge which is a sin hence his changing from good to bad as seen by the public. They both are keeping secrets; they both suffer inner and physical pain. In keeping secrets to hide their sins and conform to social pressure, they cause their bodies, their natures, to wither and die. Chillingworth’s motive is not to help the minister but to divulge his deepest secret; his motive is disastrous and he has already committed two sins which are planning evil thoughts and lying. The devil wants to destroy and kill so does Chillingworth towards Mr. Dimmesdale linking to being called the Black Man. What is really interesting is that at this scene Hawthorne puts the two worst sinners in the same room, sin feeding on sin and as a result, instead of being heal, one is dying and the other is being linked to the devil.
The Leech and his Patient
“Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, mother, or he will catch you! But he cannot catch little Pearl!” (Hawthorne 107).
Analysis- Once again Chillingworth is being referred to as the black man who publicizes his motive. Pearl also is seen to be in favor with God as she said that the Black Man can not touch her but it can touch her mother, she has again protected her mother the devil’s harm’s way. In the other hand, Chillingworth had gotten hold of the minister and will make him suffer. This can be tried back to when Chillingworth visited Hester in her cell. She asked him if he hath come for her soul and he said no, but for another’s soul which would be the heart of his maliciousness. He now fulfills this evil promise towards the reverend: even the townspeople now regard him as the Devil come to tempt and torment their righteous reverend.
The Interior of a Heart
“I, who have laid the hand of baptism upon your children,—I, who have breathed the parting prayer over your dying friends, to whom the Amen sounded faintly from a world which they had quitted,—I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!” (Hawthorne 114).
Analysis- Mr. Dimmesdale had become confused in cycle of abomination (sin of adultery and lying). He is a hypocrite because preaches to his congregation about sin as yet he has not confess his own sin, but let Hester continue to take the blame. As he preaches about sin, the puritans are fast to condemn a sinner, but they cannot identify one. Mr. Dimmesdale does not have the heart to confess what he has done and the only want for him to let it out is to preach about it in the church. He constantly punishes himself physically and emotionally, meaning that he has let his secret bring him down spiritually and physically. This has also led him to doubts and self- hatred (whipping and punishing himself). The secret that he kept from everyone to conserve his reputation is weaken him and making him a false preacher, it is also tormenting him.
The Minister’s Virgil
“the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there was the appearance of an immense letter,-- the letter A—marked out in line of dull red light” “come good sir my friend, I pray you, let me lead you home” (Hawthorne 123-124).
Analysis- It is clear that both Hester and Mr. Dimmesdale share the same sin because he goes to confess his sin privately where Hester has being humiliated publicly. Hawthorne use of nature (God) revealing the letter A and red light out of the sky in enough to gather evidence that Mr. Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl and has also committed the sin of adultery. This scene can be linked to the bible when John the Baptist Baptized Jesus, then there was a light that shined upon him and the dove which came from heaven. God was celebrating his son in that scene. Therefore, in this scene, nature is telling Mr. Dimmesdale to celebrate the scarlet letter just as Hester Prynne did earlier; she was proud (on the outside) and embraced it because it was her fault, but instead he decided to follow the man who has being linked as the Black man. Mr. Dimmesdale has therefore accepted and chosen sin over repentance, and the truth.
Another View of Hester
“It was due in part to all these causes, but still more to something else, that there seemed to be no longer anything in Hester’s face for Love to dwell upon; nothing in Hester’s form, though majestic and statue-like, that Passion would ever dream of clasping in its embrace; nothing in Hester’s bosom, to make it ever again the pillow of Affection” (Hawthorne 128).
Analysis- The public cannot accept Hester even though she had change because of their belief in predestination, she will always be a sinner and that was her identity. By withholding forgiveness, Puritanism makes it pointless for sinners to stop sinning. Also she is strike by Mr. Dimmesdale oddly behavior, should she help the man who caused her the burden of caring the letter and break the promise that she made to Chillingworth. She does not see the value of living if she cannot change he corrupt way in society.
“On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother’s soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path. If the child, on the other hand, were really capable of moral and religious growth, and possessed the elements of ultimate salvation, then, surely, it would enjoy all the fairer prospect of these advantages by being transferred to wiser and better guardianship than Hester Prynne’s ” (Hawthorne 81).
Analysis— after puritans have judged and humiliate her, they are now consigned about the warfare of Hester and Pearl. This is an act of Puritan hypocrisy. It also tells of their life style. They believe that they can purify people’s life and make it better so that God can find favor in the sight of the person. Pearl is being condemned because they know that her mother is the sinner, but will still condemn her if they find out that she is the daughter of a religious man. In this chapter, Hawthorne talks about the hypocrisies of the Puritan society.
The Elf Child and the Minister
“I must tarry at home keep watch over my little Pearl, had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest and signed my name in the Black Man’s book” (Hawthorne 93).
Analysis- Here again the black man’s book refers to the book of the devil and Prynne has being asked to join the club that Mistress Hibbins has associated with herself. Prynne declines the offer saying that she has to take care of Pearl means that Pearl has saved her mother from another of the black man’s temptation, The first being the sin of adultery. An Anomaly seen in this text also is that, the society abandons Hester Prynne after they learnt of her sin and almost took her daughter away from her saying she was a demon, but yet the Miss Hibbins is being protected by the law even when it is publicly known that she goes to a witch gathering. Hawthorns imply that the ranking of one’s statue or the family in which they come from matters in the society of the puritans.
The Leech
“This purpose once effected, new interests would immediately spring up, and likewise a new purpose; dark, it is true, if not guilty, but of force enough to engage the full strength of his faculties” (Hawthorne 95).
“Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face, which they had not previously noticed, and which grew still the more obvious to sight, the oftener they looked upon him… the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; …his visage was getting sooty with the smoke” (Hawthorne 101).
Analysis- Hawthorne reveals that Mr. Dimmesdale hides a secret and it is causing him pain by which he holds his chest, just as Prynne chest is marked with the letter A. Roger Chillingworth is up for revenge which is a sin hence his changing from good to bad as seen by the public. They both are keeping secrets; they both suffer inner and physical pain. In keeping secrets to hide their sins and conform to social pressure, they cause their bodies, their natures, to wither and die. Chillingworth’s motive is not to help the minister but to divulge his deepest secret; his motive is disastrous and he has already committed two sins which are planning evil thoughts and lying. The devil wants to destroy and kill so does Chillingworth towards Mr. Dimmesdale linking to being called the Black Man. What is really interesting is that at this scene Hawthorne puts the two worst sinners in the same room, sin feeding on sin and as a result, instead of being heal, one is dying and the other is being linked to the devil.
The Leech and his Patient
“Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, mother, or he will catch you! But he cannot catch little Pearl!” (Hawthorne 107).
Analysis- Once again Chillingworth is being referred to as the black man who publicizes his motive. Pearl also is seen to be in favor with God as she said that the Black Man can not touch her but it can touch her mother, she has again protected her mother the devil’s harm’s way. In the other hand, Chillingworth had gotten hold of the minister and will make him suffer. This can be tried back to when Chillingworth visited Hester in her cell. She asked him if he hath come for her soul and he said no, but for another’s soul which would be the heart of his maliciousness. He now fulfills this evil promise towards the reverend: even the townspeople now regard him as the Devil come to tempt and torment their righteous reverend.
The Interior of a Heart
“I, who have laid the hand of baptism upon your children,—I, who have breathed the parting prayer over your dying friends, to whom the Amen sounded faintly from a world which they had quitted,—I, your pastor, whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!” (Hawthorne 114).
Analysis- Mr. Dimmesdale had become confused in cycle of abomination (sin of adultery and lying). He is a hypocrite because preaches to his congregation about sin as yet he has not confess his own sin, but let Hester continue to take the blame. As he preaches about sin, the puritans are fast to condemn a sinner, but they cannot identify one. Mr. Dimmesdale does not have the heart to confess what he has done and the only want for him to let it out is to preach about it in the church. He constantly punishes himself physically and emotionally, meaning that he has let his secret bring him down spiritually and physically. This has also led him to doubts and self- hatred (whipping and punishing himself). The secret that he kept from everyone to conserve his reputation is weaken him and making him a false preacher, it is also tormenting him.
The Minister’s Virgil
“the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there was the appearance of an immense letter,-- the letter A—marked out in line of dull red light” “come good sir my friend, I pray you, let me lead you home” (Hawthorne 123-124).
Analysis- It is clear that both Hester and Mr. Dimmesdale share the same sin because he goes to confess his sin privately where Hester has being humiliated publicly. Hawthorne use of nature (God) revealing the letter A and red light out of the sky in enough to gather evidence that Mr. Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl and has also committed the sin of adultery. This scene can be linked to the bible when John the Baptist Baptized Jesus, then there was a light that shined upon him and the dove which came from heaven. God was celebrating his son in that scene. Therefore, in this scene, nature is telling Mr. Dimmesdale to celebrate the scarlet letter just as Hester Prynne did earlier; she was proud (on the outside) and embraced it because it was her fault, but instead he decided to follow the man who has being linked as the Black man. Mr. Dimmesdale has therefore accepted and chosen sin over repentance, and the truth.
Another View of Hester
“It was due in part to all these causes, but still more to something else, that there seemed to be no longer anything in Hester’s face for Love to dwell upon; nothing in Hester’s form, though majestic and statue-like, that Passion would ever dream of clasping in its embrace; nothing in Hester’s bosom, to make it ever again the pillow of Affection” (Hawthorne 128).
Analysis- The public cannot accept Hester even though she had change because of their belief in predestination, she will always be a sinner and that was her identity. By withholding forgiveness, Puritanism makes it pointless for sinners to stop sinning. Also she is strike by Mr. Dimmesdale oddly behavior, should she help the man who caused her the burden of caring the letter and break the promise that she made to Chillingworth. She does not see the value of living if she cannot change he corrupt way in society.
Scarlet Letter Analysis
The Prison Door
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness the might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison” (Hawthorne 41).
Analysis— Hawthorne lays out the main mission of the puritans in colony, to create a Utopia society that excluded sin. Puritans came from England because they wanted to purify the church, they came to New England to have a better society and be away from sin. They believe that people are born sinners and in the “Utopia” that they want to create, the puritans built a prison and a cemetery because they know that people are capable of committing sin and bad behavior. This way they are able to keep those who will stop them from purifying the community and getting in closer to God away from the “righteous” people. According to Hawthorns description of the jailhouse and people, in the puritan’s society, sin created a stain on the most divine trait of the human life. People who committed sin make the society a dark place. Sin links to cemetery which is associated with death.
The Market Place
“She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes!—these were her realities,—all else had vanished” (Hawthorne 50).
Analysis— the letter A stands for adulterer which (foreshadowing) is the sin that Hester Prynne has committed. The fact that she touches the baby and the letter afterwards lets the reader know that Prynne is surrounded by the symbols of sin and in question she asks herself if this is going to be her life. The baby, Pearl is the result of her being an adulterer and the scarlet letter puts her on the spot as a sinner. Reader can infer that the theme of this particular quote is sin because after she thinks about the life (past, present and future), Hawthorne directs her focus back to the symbols that are used to judge her, and in this case, it is the baby and the letter. Pearl is far the most important sin right now, but the townspeople are focus on the letter which leads to the failure of them to see the main consequences of Prynne’s action which is the baby because this child was conceived in sin.
The Recognition
“Speak, woman!” said another voice, coldly and sternly, proceeding from the crowd about the scaffold. “Speak; and give your child a father!” “And my child must seek a heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!” (Hawthorne 57).
Analysis— there are two reason why would not talk about the father of the baby. First from the way Hawthorne describes Mr. Dimmesdale expression, he is highly suspect of being the father of the baby and Prynne does not want him to suffer the kind of prejudice that she is having right now and another reason is that she is scared just like the Kingston’s aunt from “No Name woman”. The puritans have a patriarchal society. Hester Prynne said that her child will seek heavenly father because she knows that even men that are associated with high statue in religion can fall to sin such as Mr. Dimmesdale who might be the father and Governor Bellingham. This way Hawthorne lets the reader know that Pearl instead of being a bad symbol in the community, she will blossom like the rose from chapter one since she is associated with heaven. Puritans, like the prison, are supposed to hate sin, but seem to thrive on it. All they want to do is watch sinners get punished and even executed which is the main reason they want her to divulge who the father of the baby is.
The interview
“Why dost thou smile so at me?” inquired Hester, troubled at the expression of his eyes. “Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?” ((Hawthorne 63)
Analysis— before this scene Chillingworth has forced Prynne not to reveal who he is and not to tell the mystery man about his presence, by doing this he has forced Hester to become the keeper of everyone’s secrets. Unlike Bellingham and Wilson, who are ignorant Chillingworth, seeks revenge and destruction, the way of the devil in John 10:10. His physical deformity mirrors his spiritual deformity. As Hester suggests, he is like the “Black Man,” because he lures others into sin. Hawthorne uses dramatic irony to let the reader know what the motives of Chillingworth are. Strangely the book describes him as an intelligent man, but also links him to the devil, it therefore emphases that knowledge without love is the greatest evil. The devil does not have compassion and so is Chillingworth who smiles at Prynne in her darkest moment and have already began to plot evil in his mind. This is the sin of deceit and envy.
Hester at her needle
“but it is not recorded that, in a single instance, her skill was called in aid to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride. The exception indicated the ever relentless vigor with which society frowned upon her sin” (Hawthorne 68).
Analysis— Hester chooses to live near the woods, on the border between forest and the town, is a metaphor that puts her somewhere between being a person or morality and immorality. She makes clothes for people, even dead people, but she can’t make clothes for marriage ceremony because she does show the example of being a married woman. The community did not want other women to emulate the actions of Hester so that the utopia community can survive. This action also lets the readers know that the society as a whole condemns her. She is not allowed to associate with beggars.
Pearl
“the talk of the neighboring townspeople; who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child’s paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring (Hawthorne 79).
Analysis— Hester has passed on her own defiant “sinful” spirit to her daughter. The Puritans condemn Pearl, an innocent child. Each time she interacts with Pearl, Hester is forced to reconsider the life she has chosen for herself. Pearl is both the sign of Hester’s shame and her greatest treasure. They have condemned pearl because she is the daughter of an adulterer, she was brought into this world be accident. But pearl is also linked as having a heavenly father which means that though she is rejected by the society, she is not rejected by God which means that a good will come from her. Jesus Christ came to redeem the people from sin and was rejected by his people, but him having a heaven father made him have an earthly propose that helped people. Pearl’s existence also suggests that out of sin comes treasure. This idea is reinforced by Hester’s needlework: out of necessity born of shame, luxury and beauty are crafted.
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness the might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison” (Hawthorne 41).
Analysis— Hawthorne lays out the main mission of the puritans in colony, to create a Utopia society that excluded sin. Puritans came from England because they wanted to purify the church, they came to New England to have a better society and be away from sin. They believe that people are born sinners and in the “Utopia” that they want to create, the puritans built a prison and a cemetery because they know that people are capable of committing sin and bad behavior. This way they are able to keep those who will stop them from purifying the community and getting in closer to God away from the “righteous” people. According to Hawthorns description of the jailhouse and people, in the puritan’s society, sin created a stain on the most divine trait of the human life. People who committed sin make the society a dark place. Sin links to cemetery which is associated with death.
The Market Place
“She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast, that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes!—these were her realities,—all else had vanished” (Hawthorne 50).
Analysis— the letter A stands for adulterer which (foreshadowing) is the sin that Hester Prynne has committed. The fact that she touches the baby and the letter afterwards lets the reader know that Prynne is surrounded by the symbols of sin and in question she asks herself if this is going to be her life. The baby, Pearl is the result of her being an adulterer and the scarlet letter puts her on the spot as a sinner. Reader can infer that the theme of this particular quote is sin because after she thinks about the life (past, present and future), Hawthorne directs her focus back to the symbols that are used to judge her, and in this case, it is the baby and the letter. Pearl is far the most important sin right now, but the townspeople are focus on the letter which leads to the failure of them to see the main consequences of Prynne’s action which is the baby because this child was conceived in sin.
The Recognition
“Speak, woman!” said another voice, coldly and sternly, proceeding from the crowd about the scaffold. “Speak; and give your child a father!” “And my child must seek a heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!” (Hawthorne 57).
Analysis— there are two reason why would not talk about the father of the baby. First from the way Hawthorne describes Mr. Dimmesdale expression, he is highly suspect of being the father of the baby and Prynne does not want him to suffer the kind of prejudice that she is having right now and another reason is that she is scared just like the Kingston’s aunt from “No Name woman”. The puritans have a patriarchal society. Hester Prynne said that her child will seek heavenly father because she knows that even men that are associated with high statue in religion can fall to sin such as Mr. Dimmesdale who might be the father and Governor Bellingham. This way Hawthorne lets the reader know that Pearl instead of being a bad symbol in the community, she will blossom like the rose from chapter one since she is associated with heaven. Puritans, like the prison, are supposed to hate sin, but seem to thrive on it. All they want to do is watch sinners get punished and even executed which is the main reason they want her to divulge who the father of the baby is.
The interview
“Why dost thou smile so at me?” inquired Hester, troubled at the expression of his eyes. “Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us? Hast thou enticed me into a bond that will prove the ruin of my soul?” ((Hawthorne 63)
Analysis— before this scene Chillingworth has forced Prynne not to reveal who he is and not to tell the mystery man about his presence, by doing this he has forced Hester to become the keeper of everyone’s secrets. Unlike Bellingham and Wilson, who are ignorant Chillingworth, seeks revenge and destruction, the way of the devil in John 10:10. His physical deformity mirrors his spiritual deformity. As Hester suggests, he is like the “Black Man,” because he lures others into sin. Hawthorne uses dramatic irony to let the reader know what the motives of Chillingworth are. Strangely the book describes him as an intelligent man, but also links him to the devil, it therefore emphases that knowledge without love is the greatest evil. The devil does not have compassion and so is Chillingworth who smiles at Prynne in her darkest moment and have already began to plot evil in his mind. This is the sin of deceit and envy.
Hester at her needle
“but it is not recorded that, in a single instance, her skill was called in aid to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride. The exception indicated the ever relentless vigor with which society frowned upon her sin” (Hawthorne 68).
Analysis— Hester chooses to live near the woods, on the border between forest and the town, is a metaphor that puts her somewhere between being a person or morality and immorality. She makes clothes for people, even dead people, but she can’t make clothes for marriage ceremony because she does show the example of being a married woman. The community did not want other women to emulate the actions of Hester so that the utopia community can survive. This action also lets the readers know that the society as a whole condemns her. She is not allowed to associate with beggars.
Pearl
“the talk of the neighboring townspeople; who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child’s paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring (Hawthorne 79).
Analysis— Hester has passed on her own defiant “sinful” spirit to her daughter. The Puritans condemn Pearl, an innocent child. Each time she interacts with Pearl, Hester is forced to reconsider the life she has chosen for herself. Pearl is both the sign of Hester’s shame and her greatest treasure. They have condemned pearl because she is the daughter of an adulterer, she was brought into this world be accident. But pearl is also linked as having a heavenly father which means that though she is rejected by the society, she is not rejected by God which means that a good will come from her. Jesus Christ came to redeem the people from sin and was rejected by his people, but him having a heaven father made him have an earthly propose that helped people. Pearl’s existence also suggests that out of sin comes treasure. This idea is reinforced by Hester’s needlework: out of necessity born of shame, luxury and beauty are crafted.
Monday, June 13, 2011
The The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) Pgs 39-68 end of book.
Part 2
Gregor has vowed that he will do everything he can so that his new condition does not become a burden to his family. He begins to adapt to his new condition and yet still worries about his family’s financial problem. Gregor slowly adapts to his new life. He begins to enjoy scurrying around his room and climbing on a chair to look out the window. Though Grete continues to look after Gregor, he notices that she cannot stand the sight of him, and he hides behind a sheet draped over the sofa when she enters the room. The parents avoid coming in, though they seem curious about his state. The mother in particular is eager to see him, but Grete and the father urge her not to.
Grete sees that Gregor enjoys climbing up the walls and across the ceiling, so she decides to remove the furniture from the room to give him more space. While the father is out, Grete and the mother start taking out furniture. Gregor hides as usual, but he grows anxious as he hears his mother worry that she and Grete might be doing him a disservice by stripping the room of his possessions. Grete, however, considers herself the expert on Gregor and overrules the mother’s objections. While Grete and the mother talk in the living room, Gregor panicked at the thought of losing all the remnants of his human life, climbs the wall and covers the picture of the woman in furs to prevent it from being taken away.
The mother spots Gregor on the wall, goes into a panic, and passes out. Grete yells at Gregor as he lets go of the picture and scurries into the living room. Grete rushes out, grabs medicine, and returns to Gregor’s room, shutting the door behind her. The father returns and Grete tells him that Gregor broke out. He misunderstands Grete and thinks Gregor attacked the mother, so he starts chasing Gregor around the room. Gregor notices that his father has become a new man since getting a job as a bank attendant—he stands straighter and looks cleaner and healthier. The father throws fruit at Gregor, and eventually hits him with an apple that becomes lodged in Gregor’s back. The mother bursts from the bedroom and Gregor rushes for the door, hearing his mother beg his father to stop.
Part 3
After the incident with his father, the apple left Gregor injured in his back. He stops eating as he worries about his family who at this time of their lives find him to be a bondage to them. Grete does not take care of Gregor as she usually does and gets angry when her mother decides that it is the mother’s duty to take care of Gregor. A new maid has been hired to clean the room, and she tends to disturb Gregor a lot, once he almost attacked her, but he resisted after she almost hit him with a chair. The family takes three boarders into the apartment. They moved most of their furniture into Gregor room because the borders hate disorder. Meanwhile Gregor enjoys crawling through the clutter, though doing so leaves him exhausted.
While Grete was playing her violin for the borders, they became bored with the song, but Gregor was moved by the song and came out of his room. The 3 borders saw him and screamed. Grete tells her parents that they have to stop believing that the bug is Gregor and says they must find a way to get rid of it. The father wishes they could explain to Gregor why they need him to leave, but Grete says that if he could understand them, he would have left long ago to spare them any more pain. Gregor, feeling terrible, He remains motionless through the night, thinking to himself all the while that he must go away to relieve them of their suffering. As dawn breaks, he stabs himself.
The maid tell the family that Gregor is dead, but they show no regards, instead they talk about Grete’s body and the fact that she is maturing and they want to start to search for a husband for her.
Themes
The main theme in the book is existentialism which is a philosophy about one’s self. Gregor wakes up one day and he is a bug, instead of trying to figure out a way to solve his problem and what the society will think of him, he was worried about his family and their financial problem and the family does not even want him anymore. They only needed him for money and now he is no longer useful to them. Evens when he died they did not seem to care at all.
Metamorphosis is also a theme. Gregor transforms into a bug, his sister matures into an adult. The family, who at the beginning of the book appeared hopeless and static, owing to the difficulties resulting from Gregor’s transformation became reinvigorated. They are now able to provide for themselves.
Quote
“He must go,” cried Gregor’s sister, “that’s the only solution, Father. You must just try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor. The fact that we’ve believed it for so long is the root of all our trouble.” (Kafka 62).
Reaction
This quote is very important because it shows that the family is fed up with Gregor’s transformation. They see his as a burden and they want to move on. Grete has gradually lost faith that any humanity remains in the bug at all, and she indicates that she no longer thinks of it as Gregor. The family has lost sympathy for the bug as they have become less certain that anything of Gregor remains and as the bug has become a greater burden to them. Shows the idea of existentialism, instead of Gregor to find a solution to his problem, he accepts it and is worried about his family that does not want him any more.
Gregor has vowed that he will do everything he can so that his new condition does not become a burden to his family. He begins to adapt to his new condition and yet still worries about his family’s financial problem. Gregor slowly adapts to his new life. He begins to enjoy scurrying around his room and climbing on a chair to look out the window. Though Grete continues to look after Gregor, he notices that she cannot stand the sight of him, and he hides behind a sheet draped over the sofa when she enters the room. The parents avoid coming in, though they seem curious about his state. The mother in particular is eager to see him, but Grete and the father urge her not to.
Grete sees that Gregor enjoys climbing up the walls and across the ceiling, so she decides to remove the furniture from the room to give him more space. While the father is out, Grete and the mother start taking out furniture. Gregor hides as usual, but he grows anxious as he hears his mother worry that she and Grete might be doing him a disservice by stripping the room of his possessions. Grete, however, considers herself the expert on Gregor and overrules the mother’s objections. While Grete and the mother talk in the living room, Gregor panicked at the thought of losing all the remnants of his human life, climbs the wall and covers the picture of the woman in furs to prevent it from being taken away.
The mother spots Gregor on the wall, goes into a panic, and passes out. Grete yells at Gregor as he lets go of the picture and scurries into the living room. Grete rushes out, grabs medicine, and returns to Gregor’s room, shutting the door behind her. The father returns and Grete tells him that Gregor broke out. He misunderstands Grete and thinks Gregor attacked the mother, so he starts chasing Gregor around the room. Gregor notices that his father has become a new man since getting a job as a bank attendant—he stands straighter and looks cleaner and healthier. The father throws fruit at Gregor, and eventually hits him with an apple that becomes lodged in Gregor’s back. The mother bursts from the bedroom and Gregor rushes for the door, hearing his mother beg his father to stop.
Part 3
After the incident with his father, the apple left Gregor injured in his back. He stops eating as he worries about his family who at this time of their lives find him to be a bondage to them. Grete does not take care of Gregor as she usually does and gets angry when her mother decides that it is the mother’s duty to take care of Gregor. A new maid has been hired to clean the room, and she tends to disturb Gregor a lot, once he almost attacked her, but he resisted after she almost hit him with a chair. The family takes three boarders into the apartment. They moved most of their furniture into Gregor room because the borders hate disorder. Meanwhile Gregor enjoys crawling through the clutter, though doing so leaves him exhausted.
While Grete was playing her violin for the borders, they became bored with the song, but Gregor was moved by the song and came out of his room. The 3 borders saw him and screamed. Grete tells her parents that they have to stop believing that the bug is Gregor and says they must find a way to get rid of it. The father wishes they could explain to Gregor why they need him to leave, but Grete says that if he could understand them, he would have left long ago to spare them any more pain. Gregor, feeling terrible, He remains motionless through the night, thinking to himself all the while that he must go away to relieve them of their suffering. As dawn breaks, he stabs himself.
The maid tell the family that Gregor is dead, but they show no regards, instead they talk about Grete’s body and the fact that she is maturing and they want to start to search for a husband for her.
Themes
The main theme in the book is existentialism which is a philosophy about one’s self. Gregor wakes up one day and he is a bug, instead of trying to figure out a way to solve his problem and what the society will think of him, he was worried about his family and their financial problem and the family does not even want him anymore. They only needed him for money and now he is no longer useful to them. Evens when he died they did not seem to care at all.
Metamorphosis is also a theme. Gregor transforms into a bug, his sister matures into an adult. The family, who at the beginning of the book appeared hopeless and static, owing to the difficulties resulting from Gregor’s transformation became reinvigorated. They are now able to provide for themselves.
Quote
“He must go,” cried Gregor’s sister, “that’s the only solution, Father. You must just try to get rid of the idea that this is Gregor. The fact that we’ve believed it for so long is the root of all our trouble.” (Kafka 62).
Reaction
This quote is very important because it shows that the family is fed up with Gregor’s transformation. They see his as a burden and they want to move on. Grete has gradually lost faith that any humanity remains in the bug at all, and she indicates that she no longer thinks of it as Gregor. The family has lost sympathy for the bug as they have become less certain that anything of Gregor remains and as the bug has become a greater burden to them. Shows the idea of existentialism, instead of Gregor to find a solution to his problem, he accepts it and is worried about his family that does not want him any more.
Monday, May 30, 2011
The Metamorphosis 13-39
Part 1 of The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes up in the morning to find out that he has been transformed into a giant cockroach, the beginning of the book talks about his life particularly, he is a sales man and his job involves him traveling and this result in lack of lasting friendship. He does not like his job and only does it because his parent own debt to his boss. This story is mostly about how Gregor tries to fit into society. First he thought that he was dreaming but then found it a struggle to get out of bed. Gregor first thought upon waking up as a creature are not related to his physical form, but the state of affair in his life. This quote talks about how much he despises his work. “Oh God he thought, what a strenuous occupation I’ve chosen” (Kafka 14). His family tries to get him out of bird because they depend on the money that he makes from his work. Gregor is still trying to adjust to the fact that he does not know if he would be accepted into the society again. Later on, an attorney comes to the house to get Gregor out of his room, but when he talks to them, they don’t understand his language. So they decided to break down the door so that they (family) would figure out while Gregor would not go to work as usual.
While his family tries to open the door, Gregor finally gives in and reaches for the door, turns the lock with his mouth, he slowly pulls open the door. Seeing that Gregor is now a giant insect, the terrified office manager backs away, the mother passes out, and the father cries. Gregor delivers a long speech asking the office manager to put in a good word for him at work, since traveling salesmen often become the subjects of negative gossip, but the office manager continues to back out of the apartment. Gregor unsuccessfully tries to catch him as he flees and discovers how easily he can crawl on his new legs. The father then picks up a newspaper and the office manager’s cane and drives Gregor back into his bedroom. Gregor injures himself when he becomes stuck in the doorway, but the father shoves him through and slams the door.
His office manager concludes that Gregor has been lazy at work and that he might have stolen some money. Gregor is unable to talk to human. The relationship with his families is seen as a rocky relationship, they plead with the attorney so that Gregor can keep his job.
Half of Part 2
Gregor Samsa wakes up and discovered that someone already brought his favorite drink, Milk to his room, but to his dismay, it tasted disgusting. Later on his sister, Grete brought rotten food to his room to see if he will eat it and he did. As a Vermin, he prefers rotten food to regular food. His sister develops a pattern of bringing him food when his parents are sleeping. He hears his family speaking about how they need to find employment since Gregor can’t work anymore. Gregor feels embarrassed when he hears them discuss this topic, as the father has become out of shape and clumsy and the mother has asthma, so neither seems very capable of working.
Quote
“One morning, upon awakening from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.” (Kafka 13)
Reaction
This quote is the beginning of the book and it is important because it is said in the tone of a third person but also because it introduces the subject matter of The Metamorphosis and indicates how that subject matter will be treated throughout the story. The opening line which is narrated in the third person reflects Gregor’s own attitude toward his change. Gregor never attempts to determine why or how he transformed into a bug. Instead, he appears to accept the change as an unfortunate incident, like an accident or illness, and doesn’t get particularly upset about it. In fact, after his transformation he continues to think about relatively normal subjects, like his family’s financial situation and his own physical comfort. Consequently, Gregor himself embodies this absurdist point of view exemplified in the opening line. He is the victim of an evidently purposeless and random metamorphosis, which he treats as though it were not completely unusual; suggesting he at least somewhat expects the world he lives in to be an irrational and chaotic place.
By turning Gregor into a vermin, Kafka evokes pathos on his audience. The readers feel sorry for Gregor despise his disgusting nature.
Gregor Samsa wakes up in the morning to find out that he has been transformed into a giant cockroach, the beginning of the book talks about his life particularly, he is a sales man and his job involves him traveling and this result in lack of lasting friendship. He does not like his job and only does it because his parent own debt to his boss. This story is mostly about how Gregor tries to fit into society. First he thought that he was dreaming but then found it a struggle to get out of bed. Gregor first thought upon waking up as a creature are not related to his physical form, but the state of affair in his life. This quote talks about how much he despises his work. “Oh God he thought, what a strenuous occupation I’ve chosen” (Kafka 14). His family tries to get him out of bird because they depend on the money that he makes from his work. Gregor is still trying to adjust to the fact that he does not know if he would be accepted into the society again. Later on, an attorney comes to the house to get Gregor out of his room, but when he talks to them, they don’t understand his language. So they decided to break down the door so that they (family) would figure out while Gregor would not go to work as usual.
While his family tries to open the door, Gregor finally gives in and reaches for the door, turns the lock with his mouth, he slowly pulls open the door. Seeing that Gregor is now a giant insect, the terrified office manager backs away, the mother passes out, and the father cries. Gregor delivers a long speech asking the office manager to put in a good word for him at work, since traveling salesmen often become the subjects of negative gossip, but the office manager continues to back out of the apartment. Gregor unsuccessfully tries to catch him as he flees and discovers how easily he can crawl on his new legs. The father then picks up a newspaper and the office manager’s cane and drives Gregor back into his bedroom. Gregor injures himself when he becomes stuck in the doorway, but the father shoves him through and slams the door.
His office manager concludes that Gregor has been lazy at work and that he might have stolen some money. Gregor is unable to talk to human. The relationship with his families is seen as a rocky relationship, they plead with the attorney so that Gregor can keep his job.
Half of Part 2
Gregor Samsa wakes up and discovered that someone already brought his favorite drink, Milk to his room, but to his dismay, it tasted disgusting. Later on his sister, Grete brought rotten food to his room to see if he will eat it and he did. As a Vermin, he prefers rotten food to regular food. His sister develops a pattern of bringing him food when his parents are sleeping. He hears his family speaking about how they need to find employment since Gregor can’t work anymore. Gregor feels embarrassed when he hears them discuss this topic, as the father has become out of shape and clumsy and the mother has asthma, so neither seems very capable of working.
Quote
“One morning, upon awakening from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.” (Kafka 13)
Reaction
This quote is the beginning of the book and it is important because it is said in the tone of a third person but also because it introduces the subject matter of The Metamorphosis and indicates how that subject matter will be treated throughout the story. The opening line which is narrated in the third person reflects Gregor’s own attitude toward his change. Gregor never attempts to determine why or how he transformed into a bug. Instead, he appears to accept the change as an unfortunate incident, like an accident or illness, and doesn’t get particularly upset about it. In fact, after his transformation he continues to think about relatively normal subjects, like his family’s financial situation and his own physical comfort. Consequently, Gregor himself embodies this absurdist point of view exemplified in the opening line. He is the victim of an evidently purposeless and random metamorphosis, which he treats as though it were not completely unusual; suggesting he at least somewhat expects the world he lives in to be an irrational and chaotic place.
By turning Gregor into a vermin, Kafka evokes pathos on his audience. The readers feel sorry for Gregor despise his disgusting nature.
Friday, April 22, 2011
In the wake of the Plague (184-220)
Heritage of the African Rifts
In the early 1960s-70s, Paleontologist made discovery near the borders of Kenya and Tanzania. Grant Johannsen found the skeleton of the earliest human being that was 2.5 million years old. They gave her the name Lucy because the song that was playing at the moment of her discovery was the Beatle’s song called “Lucy in the Diamond”. Human species spread from African over the rest of the world. Historians have concluded that the Nile River remained the avenue in later times for the spread of the anti-humanoid epidemic, from medieval plague to modern AIDS. Lucy’s homeland is the starting point of human society and the starting point of disease that threatens the existence of humanity. The West Nile virus that threatened New York City and Long Island in the summer of 1999 and 2000 originated in East African and in the West Nile district of Uganda. Theses disease originated in Easy African because there was more living organism (Lucy’s type) located there than anywhere in the world.
The most deadly pandemics are smallpox, Gonorrhea and bubonic plague. Smallpox wiped 9 million Native Americans in México. Historians believe that it originated from the black hole in Central Asia or East Africa. Gonorrhea is the first sexual transmitted disease. It drifted from Central Asia or East Africa. It generated in Roman Empire which tolerated any kind of sexual intercourse including copulation with animals.
The After Math
Motifs have been used to describe the life style during the Black Death. In metaphorical construction the Black Death stands as the moon of the cold darkness, it also was the onset of harsh bared-tree autumn passing into winter. The Dance of Death in which skeletons are dancing from musky graveyard was a favorite motif of art and literature, projected the ideological anxiety of the society during the Black Death. Dance of Death exhibited pessimism, lassitude and loss of confidence. Most Historians believe that the Black Death made it possible for the renaissance and proto-modern world by breaking out old culture. “Black death was the trauma that liberated the new” (cantor 214). Black Death accelerated the decline of the serfdom; improvement demonstrated how we went from using earthenware to metal cooking pots. Black Death was good for surviving women of gentry’s class.
Religiously, the Black Death helped shift the focus on the body of Christ. It inspired the elaboration of the Corpus Christi festival. It help inspired the Christian to take the holy communion more often than once a year. The Black Death weakened the faith in traditional medieval catholic spirituality and set off a quest of human psychology and behavior and the expression of a more personal sensibility. (Inspired the Italian Renaissance), the catastrophe of the Black Death weakened the foundations of the medieval kingship.
Quote
“Black death was the trauma that liberated the new” (cantor 214).
Reaction
When most people think about the epidemic, they think about the lives that was loss, the reason that the plague started and how it is going to end. When it ends, people talk about how they can restore the civilization back to it normal state like the disaster in Japan and Haiti, buy I don’t think that it make the world a better place. It is fascinating to know that the Italian renaissance was inspired after the Black Death; it made a new civilization that became more interested in art and human than religion. This can be connected to why Shakespeare’s work can seen in human psychology.
In the early 1960s-70s, Paleontologist made discovery near the borders of Kenya and Tanzania. Grant Johannsen found the skeleton of the earliest human being that was 2.5 million years old. They gave her the name Lucy because the song that was playing at the moment of her discovery was the Beatle’s song called “Lucy in the Diamond”. Human species spread from African over the rest of the world. Historians have concluded that the Nile River remained the avenue in later times for the spread of the anti-humanoid epidemic, from medieval plague to modern AIDS. Lucy’s homeland is the starting point of human society and the starting point of disease that threatens the existence of humanity. The West Nile virus that threatened New York City and Long Island in the summer of 1999 and 2000 originated in East African and in the West Nile district of Uganda. Theses disease originated in Easy African because there was more living organism (Lucy’s type) located there than anywhere in the world.
The most deadly pandemics are smallpox, Gonorrhea and bubonic plague. Smallpox wiped 9 million Native Americans in México. Historians believe that it originated from the black hole in Central Asia or East Africa. Gonorrhea is the first sexual transmitted disease. It drifted from Central Asia or East Africa. It generated in Roman Empire which tolerated any kind of sexual intercourse including copulation with animals.
The After Math
Motifs have been used to describe the life style during the Black Death. In metaphorical construction the Black Death stands as the moon of the cold darkness, it also was the onset of harsh bared-tree autumn passing into winter. The Dance of Death in which skeletons are dancing from musky graveyard was a favorite motif of art and literature, projected the ideological anxiety of the society during the Black Death. Dance of Death exhibited pessimism, lassitude and loss of confidence. Most Historians believe that the Black Death made it possible for the renaissance and proto-modern world by breaking out old culture. “Black death was the trauma that liberated the new” (cantor 214). Black Death accelerated the decline of the serfdom; improvement demonstrated how we went from using earthenware to metal cooking pots. Black Death was good for surviving women of gentry’s class.
Religiously, the Black Death helped shift the focus on the body of Christ. It inspired the elaboration of the Corpus Christi festival. It help inspired the Christian to take the holy communion more often than once a year. The Black Death weakened the faith in traditional medieval catholic spirituality and set off a quest of human psychology and behavior and the expression of a more personal sensibility. (Inspired the Italian Renaissance), the catastrophe of the Black Death weakened the foundations of the medieval kingship.
Quote
“Black death was the trauma that liberated the new” (cantor 214).
Reaction
When most people think about the epidemic, they think about the lives that was loss, the reason that the plague started and how it is going to end. When it ends, people talk about how they can restore the civilization back to it normal state like the disaster in Japan and Haiti, buy I don’t think that it make the world a better place. It is fascinating to know that the Italian renaissance was inspired after the Black Death; it made a new civilization that became more interested in art and human than religion. This can be connected to why Shakespeare’s work can seen in human psychology.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
In the Wake of the Plague (148-184)
Jewish Conspiracy
On October 30th 1348 at chattel near Geneva, a Jews named Agiment was put to torture and later he made the confession that he poisoned the wells of the Germans. He said that on his way to Venice to buy silk, he met another rabbi that gave his the poison made from the skin of the basilisk and reptiles (spiders, frogs and snakes). The Germans also concluded that the poison was made from the heart of the Christian and fragment of the host (poison was made from the Holy- Communion). This Jewish man confessed that he poisoned the public fountain of Toulouse and the wells near the Mediterranean Sea. Because of this confession, Jews who lived from the city close to the sea to those who live in Germany were burnt alive or were killed. 3 cities did not believe that the Jews committed these crimes so they did not punish the Jewish that lives these 3 cities. The city of Strasbourg, Freiburg and Basil did not punish their Jews yet.
The citizens of these cities marched and protested that the Jews should not be allowed into the cities for the next 200 years. There was a conference held because of the protest and the authorities of these cities gave in. The Jews in these cities were burnt alive or they were expelled. If the peasants saw them, they would stab them to death or drown them. The city council of Strasbourg that wanted to save its Jews was removed from power and the council began to arrest the Jews on February the 13th. This is why February the 13th is seen as a bad day.
The people believed that the Jews started the Black Death because of their study of the Kabbalah. The Germans and other Christians believed that the Kabbalah intensified mystical and astrological content over time. They conceived that the Kabbalah which holds recipes for magic, poison and spells constituted a kind of black magic. Witchcraft in the England was connected to the Kabbalah somehow. After the death of the Jews, archbishops and clergies would take the properties of the Jews. Another belief that the Jews were responsible for the Black Death was because their population of Jews killed by the Death was the lowest in Europe.
Serpent and Cosmic Dust
Historian believed that the Black Death was caused by the bubonic Plague spread by parasites. Another infectious disease was Anthrax from cattle (Cows). The Medieval explanation of the Death was reptiles. Snakes were believed to be the cause of the poison. Study showed how England suffered 3 days of calamities, it terrified the country. This includes the rain of frogs, serpents, lizards and scorpion. Also the rain of fire and reptiles released from below the ground after earthquake. Peregrine Horden commented that in the medieval minds, mythical serpents and dragons are to a large extent interchangeable and that dragons are characterize by poisonous, pestilential breath. Also there is a story recounted by Bishop Gregory of Tours that said that a great school, of water snakes swan down the rivers to the sea in their midst was a tremendous dragon as big as a tree trunk, but the monster were drowned in the sea and their body were washed up the shore. There then followed a plague epidemic in the city. Snakes were to blame for the Black Death.
Another theory of the origin of the Black Death is from outer space. According to Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe that materials resembling organic grains falls from space resulting in an immense # of bacteria and viruses that fall each year into animals and plants. They argue that the generalized spread of Black Death with exceptionally gaps is entirely consistent with a fall of pathogens from space. “There is no marching army of plague stricken rats. The rats died in places they were” (Hoyle 181).
Quote
“Christians might well suspects that among…of the Kabbalah were arcane recipes for magic and poison and spells, that the Kabbalah constituted a king of Black Magic” (Cantor 151).
Reaction
I believe that the Jews were attact because Religiously they are chosen as God’s people and other people are trying to make them suffer. I also think that the Jewish guy was force to say what he said about the poison because in the reading not only him had confessed to the crime. The archbishops just wanted the wealth of the Jews and killing them was an easy way to take over their properties. Hitler also used this to accuse the Jews before he ordered them to the crematories.
I don’t understand how matters would fall from space unto animals and cause a plague that would wipe out a lot of people. There is not water in space so how do materials resemble organic matters able to survive up there.
I thought that it was fascinating to know that there had been conspiracy towards the Jews before the Holocaust and how both can be linked together, because of their faith and religion
On October 30th 1348 at chattel near Geneva, a Jews named Agiment was put to torture and later he made the confession that he poisoned the wells of the Germans. He said that on his way to Venice to buy silk, he met another rabbi that gave his the poison made from the skin of the basilisk and reptiles (spiders, frogs and snakes). The Germans also concluded that the poison was made from the heart of the Christian and fragment of the host (poison was made from the Holy- Communion). This Jewish man confessed that he poisoned the public fountain of Toulouse and the wells near the Mediterranean Sea. Because of this confession, Jews who lived from the city close to the sea to those who live in Germany were burnt alive or were killed. 3 cities did not believe that the Jews committed these crimes so they did not punish the Jewish that lives these 3 cities. The city of Strasbourg, Freiburg and Basil did not punish their Jews yet.
The citizens of these cities marched and protested that the Jews should not be allowed into the cities for the next 200 years. There was a conference held because of the protest and the authorities of these cities gave in. The Jews in these cities were burnt alive or they were expelled. If the peasants saw them, they would stab them to death or drown them. The city council of Strasbourg that wanted to save its Jews was removed from power and the council began to arrest the Jews on February the 13th. This is why February the 13th is seen as a bad day.
The people believed that the Jews started the Black Death because of their study of the Kabbalah. The Germans and other Christians believed that the Kabbalah intensified mystical and astrological content over time. They conceived that the Kabbalah which holds recipes for magic, poison and spells constituted a kind of black magic. Witchcraft in the England was connected to the Kabbalah somehow. After the death of the Jews, archbishops and clergies would take the properties of the Jews. Another belief that the Jews were responsible for the Black Death was because their population of Jews killed by the Death was the lowest in Europe.
Serpent and Cosmic Dust
Historian believed that the Black Death was caused by the bubonic Plague spread by parasites. Another infectious disease was Anthrax from cattle (Cows). The Medieval explanation of the Death was reptiles. Snakes were believed to be the cause of the poison. Study showed how England suffered 3 days of calamities, it terrified the country. This includes the rain of frogs, serpents, lizards and scorpion. Also the rain of fire and reptiles released from below the ground after earthquake. Peregrine Horden commented that in the medieval minds, mythical serpents and dragons are to a large extent interchangeable and that dragons are characterize by poisonous, pestilential breath. Also there is a story recounted by Bishop Gregory of Tours that said that a great school, of water snakes swan down the rivers to the sea in their midst was a tremendous dragon as big as a tree trunk, but the monster were drowned in the sea and their body were washed up the shore. There then followed a plague epidemic in the city. Snakes were to blame for the Black Death.
Another theory of the origin of the Black Death is from outer space. According to Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe that materials resembling organic grains falls from space resulting in an immense # of bacteria and viruses that fall each year into animals and plants. They argue that the generalized spread of Black Death with exceptionally gaps is entirely consistent with a fall of pathogens from space. “There is no marching army of plague stricken rats. The rats died in places they were” (Hoyle 181).
Quote
“Christians might well suspects that among…of the Kabbalah were arcane recipes for magic and poison and spells, that the Kabbalah constituted a king of Black Magic” (Cantor 151).
Reaction
I believe that the Jews were attact because Religiously they are chosen as God’s people and other people are trying to make them suffer. I also think that the Jewish guy was force to say what he said about the poison because in the reading not only him had confessed to the crime. The archbishops just wanted the wealth of the Jews and killing them was an easy way to take over their properties. Hitler also used this to accuse the Jews before he ordered them to the crematories.
I don’t understand how matters would fall from space unto animals and cause a plague that would wipe out a lot of people. There is not water in space so how do materials resemble organic matters able to survive up there.
I thought that it was fascinating to know that there had been conspiracy towards the Jews before the Holocaust and how both can be linked together, because of their faith and religion
Monday, April 18, 2011
In the wake of the plague (101- 146)
Death comes to the archbishops
Even thought ranking mattered in the medieval times the Black Death still attacked the rich people to the people, even the archbishops were victims of the Black Death. “Cleanliness is next to holiness to Godliness” did not work in this time. England was in war with France and needed strong spiritual leadership so the king appointed and called for his archbishop, John offord. Not long after he entered office the archbishop died of the plague on May 2nd 1349. His decaying body was unable to with stand pestilence. The next guy appointed to be the archbishop was Thomas Bardwardine, the morning after he arrived at his destination in Rochester, he got the high fever, and the buboes began to appear around his armpits and groins, he lingered for 5 days, and he later died of the plague. The Death of both archbishops was a blow to the royal family, the Black Death was not sparing the royal family nor England’s leading intellectuals and religious figures. Religion relating to the plague was the ninth biblical plague cattle disease and perhaps the origin of the Black Plague. The burning of the Germans Jews accused of poisoning wells and causing the Black Death. In the city of Strasbourg in 1492; Jews were because they were suspected to be responsible for the Black Death.
Women and Men of Property
90% of England’s wealth was in land, owners of these lands often go with titles like “Duke”, “Earl” or “Lord”. 30% of the lands are also owned by ecclesiastical offices and corporation. The gentry were the poorest of the class during the middle ages most of them were Knights in England. Before the Black Death, the population of the gentry was half a million and after the plague it was half it original size. The only two groups that succeeded from the Black Death were the common lawyers and the women. The Common lawyers made their money protecting, expanding and defending the gentry’s estates. Their fees were high, but no gentry’ family could not endure without their services. For common lawyers, it was not enough to know the law; they had to be expert at drawing complicating documents in a highly specialized language. The other beneficiaries were the women of the gentry’s class. The common lawyer had to protect the widows. Lords would try to take their lands because their husbands were no more and because they did not have male heir so the law stepped in and make sure that the women were properly taken care of. The Black Death resulted either from bubonic plague or anthrax. The male of the gentry would have a higher mortality rate because they worked on the farm which cattle and other animals would be infested by fleas.
Quote
"Cleanliness is next to Holiness next to Godliness" (Acts 9:32).
"The Plague was not sparing the royal family nor England's leading intellectual and religious figures"(Cantor 107).
Reaction
The The first quotes I find to be very true and yet funny because God is seen as a clean and having no sin which is why he is holy but this is untrue of the archbishops in England at this time. The religious people are also dying in this plague and yet they are seen as the only ones during the middle ages, closer to the Pope. Also ranking seems to be important, but the plague did not see any of that, it continued to kill those in its part which I thought was very interesting.
Even thought ranking mattered in the medieval times the Black Death still attacked the rich people to the people, even the archbishops were victims of the Black Death. “Cleanliness is next to holiness to Godliness” did not work in this time. England was in war with France and needed strong spiritual leadership so the king appointed and called for his archbishop, John offord. Not long after he entered office the archbishop died of the plague on May 2nd 1349. His decaying body was unable to with stand pestilence. The next guy appointed to be the archbishop was Thomas Bardwardine, the morning after he arrived at his destination in Rochester, he got the high fever, and the buboes began to appear around his armpits and groins, he lingered for 5 days, and he later died of the plague. The Death of both archbishops was a blow to the royal family, the Black Death was not sparing the royal family nor England’s leading intellectuals and religious figures. Religion relating to the plague was the ninth biblical plague cattle disease and perhaps the origin of the Black Plague. The burning of the Germans Jews accused of poisoning wells and causing the Black Death. In the city of Strasbourg in 1492; Jews were because they were suspected to be responsible for the Black Death.
Women and Men of Property
90% of England’s wealth was in land, owners of these lands often go with titles like “Duke”, “Earl” or “Lord”. 30% of the lands are also owned by ecclesiastical offices and corporation. The gentry were the poorest of the class during the middle ages most of them were Knights in England. Before the Black Death, the population of the gentry was half a million and after the plague it was half it original size. The only two groups that succeeded from the Black Death were the common lawyers and the women. The Common lawyers made their money protecting, expanding and defending the gentry’s estates. Their fees were high, but no gentry’ family could not endure without their services. For common lawyers, it was not enough to know the law; they had to be expert at drawing complicating documents in a highly specialized language. The other beneficiaries were the women of the gentry’s class. The common lawyer had to protect the widows. Lords would try to take their lands because their husbands were no more and because they did not have male heir so the law stepped in and make sure that the women were properly taken care of. The Black Death resulted either from bubonic plague or anthrax. The male of the gentry would have a higher mortality rate because they worked on the farm which cattle and other animals would be infested by fleas.
Quote
"Cleanliness is next to Holiness next to Godliness" (Acts 9:32).
"The Plague was not sparing the royal family nor England's leading intellectual and religious figures"(Cantor 107).
Reaction
The The first quotes I find to be very true and yet funny because God is seen as a clean and having no sin which is why he is holy but this is untrue of the archbishops in England at this time. The religious people are also dying in this plague and yet they are seen as the only ones during the middle ages, closer to the Pope. Also ranking seems to be important, but the plague did not see any of that, it continued to kill those in its part which I thought was very interesting.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
In the wake of the plague #62-100
Lords and Peasants
Previously chapter explained that the plague struck various countries in the Middle East during the pandemic, leading to serious depopulation and permanent change in both economic and social structures. 14th century doctors never identified the emergency of the anthrax epidemic about human because the first stage of the bubonic plague and anthrax were identical; they thought that the anthrax attack on human was familiar and this lad to the dead of a lot of people. History statistics showed that the Black Death estimated to have killed about 30% – 60% of Europe's population.
The Lords of England would hire serfs (slaves but not treated as badly as the American slaves), they would work on their land and would have some reward them with food. The rich would consume a lot of red meat which was bad; also people began to diet and ate wheat and oat which would cause malnutrition. In the summer of 1316 – 1317, the sun did not shine, the crops failed to grow causing starvation and food shortage; there was famine and this resulted in death. Historian believes that the famine and war and bad war contributed to the Black Death. The lack of food made the immune system weak. Undernourished bodies were more easily to prey to the Black Death. Dead bodies were usually stacked upon each body and this would produce an unwanted stench and making people to cover up and not come out. The Black Death represented a crisis that imposed an additional burden on the business men. The business went under pressure.
During and after the plague, landlords put up the price of their land and peasants were trying to improve their position in a labor market favorable to themselves. This resulted in the great medieval working class rebellion, the revolt of 1381. The loosening of the bonds and bound of rural society caused by the Black Death and resulting to the revolt of 1381 led to the working class takeover of the government and a socialist state.
The main social consequence of the Black Death was not the moving up of the peasants, but the further progress along the road to class ramification in the capitalist economy. The wealthiest peasants took advantage of the poorer peasants. Their misery kept piling up. The plague turned the civilization of England into a world that people struggled to get food. It became a fearful world in which natural things threaten people and people lived in constant fear of starvation, devastation and death. Violence, drunkenness and physical accidents were common.
If the lords were struck badly by the great plague, the peasants were struck more and badly, this led the society to grief and caused anxiety and confusion. The peasants who lived during this time felt the displacement in their bones.
Quotes
A poem from the book
Pearls
“Drawn heavenward by divine accord I had seen and heard mysteries yet; but always men would have and hoard and again the more, the more they get. So banished I was, by cares besets from realms eternal untimely sent. How badly, lord they strive and fret whose acts accord not with your consents” (Borroff 98)
Reaction
I think that this quote is very important because it reflects how the Black Death took thing away from people; this includes family member, friend and livestock. This quote talks about a girl who is the subject of the poem she was expressed as a pearl by the author. The motif that I saw in this poem was death because the last two lines talk about the people dying and I think that the young girl was killed by the Black Death.
Previously chapter explained that the plague struck various countries in the Middle East during the pandemic, leading to serious depopulation and permanent change in both economic and social structures. 14th century doctors never identified the emergency of the anthrax epidemic about human because the first stage of the bubonic plague and anthrax were identical; they thought that the anthrax attack on human was familiar and this lad to the dead of a lot of people. History statistics showed that the Black Death estimated to have killed about 30% – 60% of Europe's population.
The Lords of England would hire serfs (slaves but not treated as badly as the American slaves), they would work on their land and would have some reward them with food. The rich would consume a lot of red meat which was bad; also people began to diet and ate wheat and oat which would cause malnutrition. In the summer of 1316 – 1317, the sun did not shine, the crops failed to grow causing starvation and food shortage; there was famine and this resulted in death. Historian believes that the famine and war and bad war contributed to the Black Death. The lack of food made the immune system weak. Undernourished bodies were more easily to prey to the Black Death. Dead bodies were usually stacked upon each body and this would produce an unwanted stench and making people to cover up and not come out. The Black Death represented a crisis that imposed an additional burden on the business men. The business went under pressure.
During and after the plague, landlords put up the price of their land and peasants were trying to improve their position in a labor market favorable to themselves. This resulted in the great medieval working class rebellion, the revolt of 1381. The loosening of the bonds and bound of rural society caused by the Black Death and resulting to the revolt of 1381 led to the working class takeover of the government and a socialist state.
The main social consequence of the Black Death was not the moving up of the peasants, but the further progress along the road to class ramification in the capitalist economy. The wealthiest peasants took advantage of the poorer peasants. Their misery kept piling up. The plague turned the civilization of England into a world that people struggled to get food. It became a fearful world in which natural things threaten people and people lived in constant fear of starvation, devastation and death. Violence, drunkenness and physical accidents were common.
If the lords were struck badly by the great plague, the peasants were struck more and badly, this led the society to grief and caused anxiety and confusion. The peasants who lived during this time felt the displacement in their bones.
Quotes
A poem from the book
Pearls
“Drawn heavenward by divine accord I had seen and heard mysteries yet; but always men would have and hoard and again the more, the more they get. So banished I was, by cares besets from realms eternal untimely sent. How badly, lord they strive and fret whose acts accord not with your consents” (Borroff 98)
Reaction
I think that this quote is very important because it reflects how the Black Death took thing away from people; this includes family member, friend and livestock. This quote talks about a girl who is the subject of the poem she was expressed as a pearl by the author. The motif that I saw in this poem was death because the last two lines talk about the people dying and I think that the young girl was killed by the Black Death.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
In the wake of the Plauge #1-62
Summary
Chapter one talks about the various diseases that plagued the earth. According to cantor, Infectious disease was the leading cause death worldwide and the third leading cause in the United States, but it already started in Europe and was the reason of the citizen reduction in England particularly. In England the kids sang a song that related that related to the Black Death, called “Ring around the Rosie” the origin the song describes what the disease did to people such as discoloring and the flulike symptoms. The Song was used to reflect of adult anxiety and effort on concerning devastation events. Although the Spanish influenza epidemic killed 50 million people and the pestilence disease killed 20 million, they were nothing compared to the Black Death.
The black death of 1348-49 was the greatest biomedical disaster in Europe and worldwide. “Devastated nations and caused population to vanish…swallowed up many good things of the civilization and wiped them out of the entire inhabited world” (Khaldun 6). Many historian of medicine have been able to determine the Black Death was at least been caused by Bubonic Plague, a disease carried by parasites on the back of rodents (Black Rats). Might have been disseminated by shipping in international trade, when human contact this disease there are 4 out of 5 probabilities that they would die in 2 weeks. Scientist also believed that anthrax murrain (cattle disease) was a possible explanatory of the Black. This is cause by eating tainted meat from sick herds and just as eating chimpanzees is believed to have started AIDS in East African.
The first stage of the Black Plague was the flulike symptoms, then accompanied by high fever. The second stage involved buboes. Black welts and bulges appear in the groin or near the armpits. The buboes grow dark on the skin and are extremely painful. The victim begins to vomit and have diarrhea. The third and as scientists say the fatal stage is being infected by pneumonia. People were told not to bath and it became dangerous to do so. Europe entered the pungent no bath era. Even Napoleon Bonaparte did not bathe.
The Black Death was also seen in the luxurious France city Bordeaux, the water on the town was infected to badly that it began to stink. Princess Joan dead of the disease on the visit to France, Most rich people ignored the mayor’s warning and continues to use the water.
In the years of the Black Death, England was still an intensely rural society. Red meat was eaten by the rich social class. They ate this from morning to night. According to Cantor, animals raised under crowed conditions were prone to cattle epidemics of which had anthrax in them. ‘
As part of the human genetics development, researchers discovered that a genetic mutant that has occurred before gives human carrier of CCR5 immunity against HIV and AIDS. If a Caucasian ancestor survived the plague, then the generations are completely immune from HIV/AIDS
Quote
"So nature killed many thought corruption, death came driving after her and dashed all the dust, kings and knights and empower and popes; he left no man standing, whether ignorant or learned, whatever he hits stirred and never afterward. Many a lovely lady and their lover-knights swooned and died in sorrow of death's blows...." (Wenzel 6)
"Ring around the Rosie"
"Ring around the rosies,
A pocketful of posies
Ashes Ashes
We all fall down." (Cantor 5).
Reaction
The first quote describes how the Black Death would come and kill any in its way. You did not have to be rich or poor to be killed the death, many who thought of having a peaceful life and enjoying their wealth were killed by a mysterious disease that was not yet known to be cured. Where he said “Death came driving after her and dashed all the dust” is a very strong image because it lets the audience know what the Plague did and how it destroy many civilization. Reading this book is very interesting because it makes me appreciate the technology we have and how we have improve on being a modern society that specializes in math and science.
The other quote is the song that the children would sing of the plague. It makes me think about how life is beautiful but at the same time it can be short. It makes me think about how reality can be unbearably horrible
Chapter one talks about the various diseases that plagued the earth. According to cantor, Infectious disease was the leading cause death worldwide and the third leading cause in the United States, but it already started in Europe and was the reason of the citizen reduction in England particularly. In England the kids sang a song that related that related to the Black Death, called “Ring around the Rosie” the origin the song describes what the disease did to people such as discoloring and the flulike symptoms. The Song was used to reflect of adult anxiety and effort on concerning devastation events. Although the Spanish influenza epidemic killed 50 million people and the pestilence disease killed 20 million, they were nothing compared to the Black Death.
The black death of 1348-49 was the greatest biomedical disaster in Europe and worldwide. “Devastated nations and caused population to vanish…swallowed up many good things of the civilization and wiped them out of the entire inhabited world” (Khaldun 6). Many historian of medicine have been able to determine the Black Death was at least been caused by Bubonic Plague, a disease carried by parasites on the back of rodents (Black Rats). Might have been disseminated by shipping in international trade, when human contact this disease there are 4 out of 5 probabilities that they would die in 2 weeks. Scientist also believed that anthrax murrain (cattle disease) was a possible explanatory of the Black. This is cause by eating tainted meat from sick herds and just as eating chimpanzees is believed to have started AIDS in East African.
The first stage of the Black Plague was the flulike symptoms, then accompanied by high fever. The second stage involved buboes. Black welts and bulges appear in the groin or near the armpits. The buboes grow dark on the skin and are extremely painful. The victim begins to vomit and have diarrhea. The third and as scientists say the fatal stage is being infected by pneumonia. People were told not to bath and it became dangerous to do so. Europe entered the pungent no bath era. Even Napoleon Bonaparte did not bathe.
The Black Death was also seen in the luxurious France city Bordeaux, the water on the town was infected to badly that it began to stink. Princess Joan dead of the disease on the visit to France, Most rich people ignored the mayor’s warning and continues to use the water.
In the years of the Black Death, England was still an intensely rural society. Red meat was eaten by the rich social class. They ate this from morning to night. According to Cantor, animals raised under crowed conditions were prone to cattle epidemics of which had anthrax in them. ‘
As part of the human genetics development, researchers discovered that a genetic mutant that has occurred before gives human carrier of CCR5 immunity against HIV and AIDS. If a Caucasian ancestor survived the plague, then the generations are completely immune from HIV/AIDS
Quote
"So nature killed many thought corruption, death came driving after her and dashed all the dust, kings and knights and empower and popes; he left no man standing, whether ignorant or learned, whatever he hits stirred and never afterward. Many a lovely lady and their lover-knights swooned and died in sorrow of death's blows...." (Wenzel 6)
"Ring around the Rosie"
"Ring around the rosies,
A pocketful of posies
Ashes Ashes
We all fall down." (Cantor 5).
Reaction
The first quote describes how the Black Death would come and kill any in its way. You did not have to be rich or poor to be killed the death, many who thought of having a peaceful life and enjoying their wealth were killed by a mysterious disease that was not yet known to be cured. Where he said “Death came driving after her and dashed all the dust” is a very strong image because it lets the audience know what the Plague did and how it destroy many civilization. Reading this book is very interesting because it makes me appreciate the technology we have and how we have improve on being a modern society that specializes in math and science.
The other quote is the song that the children would sing of the plague. It makes me think about how life is beautiful but at the same time it can be short. It makes me think about how reality can be unbearably horrible
Friday, February 25, 2011
My Review and the Critics Reveiw of The Lovely Bones
A. O. SCOTT "Movie Review – the lovely bones- FILM IN REVIEW; 'The Lovely Bones -NYTimes.com." Movie Reviews, Showtimes and Trailers - Movies - New York Times - The New York Times. 25 Jan. 2002. Web. 24 Feb. 2011. <.http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/movies/11lovelybones.html>
Hornaday, Ann “Movie Review”- The Lovely Bones- Film Review; “The Lovely Bones- Washington post.” Movie Reviews, Showtimes and Trailers-movies-Washington post. 15 Jan. 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2011
Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
“It's a ghastly, even hateful moment, and considering the wild shifts and switchbacks that have gone before, completely unearned.”The Lovely Bones" wants you to think that it's deep, but it's as shallow as the shoals where those ships in their bottles fetch up. The whole movie feels like a juggernaut of literary pretension and cinematic overreach, run fatally aground” (Washington Post).
The Lovely Bones is technically a beautiful film, the acting, music, cinematography and production design are excellent, it could be a emotional film to get swept up in but there lies the problem, there's just too much going on to keep your attention on, is it about the afterlife?, a serial killer?, a crime story? A family drama? It's all of them and more!” (NYTimes).
I totally agreed with the first critic. The movies was not as good as I expected it, the book was a lot more descriptive than the movies, although the movie had a good special effect the plot was not very interesting. I know that making a movies requires a lot of money, but I felt like the directors took out the best parts of the movies and it was I taking bits of a papers and taping them up together. I thought that the movies lacked a lot of details when it came to what it wanted the audience to think. There was lot going on according to the second critics.
Hornaday, Ann “Movie Review”- The Lovely Bones- Film Review; “The Lovely Bones- Washington post.” Movie Reviews, Showtimes and Trailers-movies-Washington post. 15 Jan. 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2011
Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
“It's a ghastly, even hateful moment, and considering the wild shifts and switchbacks that have gone before, completely unearned.”The Lovely Bones" wants you to think that it's deep, but it's as shallow as the shoals where those ships in their bottles fetch up. The whole movie feels like a juggernaut of literary pretension and cinematic overreach, run fatally aground” (Washington Post).
The Lovely Bones is technically a beautiful film, the acting, music, cinematography and production design are excellent, it could be a emotional film to get swept up in but there lies the problem, there's just too much going on to keep your attention on, is it about the afterlife?, a serial killer?, a crime story? A family drama? It's all of them and more!” (NYTimes).
I totally agreed with the first critic. The movies was not as good as I expected it, the book was a lot more descriptive than the movies, although the movie had a good special effect the plot was not very interesting. I know that making a movies requires a lot of money, but I felt like the directors took out the best parts of the movies and it was I taking bits of a papers and taping them up together. I thought that the movies lacked a lot of details when it came to what it wanted the audience to think. There was lot going on according to the second critics.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
The Flim trem of the Lovely Bones
The lovely bone was directed by Peter Jackson, a four time academy film winner.
The beginning of the movie started with a cheesy country song to show how peaceful and happy the Salmon family used to be before the death of Susie. There was a landscape shot to show the countryside of Philadelphia, the state in which the movie took place. After that there was a long shot to the corn field, this then they show Susie’s house. It was used to show a connection between the Salmons house and the cornfield in which Susie was killed. There were lots of close up and reaction shots in the movie to how the characters were suppose to act or for the audience to infer what the next action is going to be. There was a low angle shot at when Susie was taking picture Mr. Harvey’s house, this implies that at the spot where that camera was facing down, something would be hidden there. When Susie would daydream about Ray Singh, the director ordered to use a medium to long shot this emphasizes that Ray was significant to Susie. Before Mr. Harvey killed Susie, he would stare at her. Once the film makers used a frame within a frame shot to show Mr. Harvey spying on Susie as she goes to school, this creates suspense that Susie would be his next victim. An ominous song was played when Susie mother handed her the hat she knitted, well the hat was what was found after Susie was murdered.
There was a dissolve the show the place where Susie soul goes to it was mixed with cloud, the sun rising, a park and the ocean, this pictures were used to represent loneliness that for coming happiness. There was a snapshot on Susie’s bracelet, and when Mr. Harvey threw the bracelet into the ocean and the ocean took the bracelet away, Susie was running in a field and the field began to turn into water and she later drown in it. Light and life effect was used to show life living Susie. There was a long shot of Susie in her tree house, show lowliness, only her and tree and nothing else. Mr. Harvey begins to look for another victim and when Lindsey, Susie’s younger sister ran by his house, an ominous song played and this showed that she was the next victim if Harvey has a chance. There was a time different in the movie; it keeps going to the pass, form when Susie was younger to older. Also they showed how she died and the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed. There was a dolly shot used as Lindsey search Mr. Harvey’s room for clues to link him to Susie’s killing. The effects in the movie were good.
My reaction, I did not like it, the movie skipped some of the most important t and funny scenes that the book had. The book was a lot descriptive that the movie.
The beginning of the movie started with a cheesy country song to show how peaceful and happy the Salmon family used to be before the death of Susie. There was a landscape shot to show the countryside of Philadelphia, the state in which the movie took place. After that there was a long shot to the corn field, this then they show Susie’s house. It was used to show a connection between the Salmons house and the cornfield in which Susie was killed. There were lots of close up and reaction shots in the movie to how the characters were suppose to act or for the audience to infer what the next action is going to be. There was a low angle shot at when Susie was taking picture Mr. Harvey’s house, this implies that at the spot where that camera was facing down, something would be hidden there. When Susie would daydream about Ray Singh, the director ordered to use a medium to long shot this emphasizes that Ray was significant to Susie. Before Mr. Harvey killed Susie, he would stare at her. Once the film makers used a frame within a frame shot to show Mr. Harvey spying on Susie as she goes to school, this creates suspense that Susie would be his next victim. An ominous song was played when Susie mother handed her the hat she knitted, well the hat was what was found after Susie was murdered.
There was a dissolve the show the place where Susie soul goes to it was mixed with cloud, the sun rising, a park and the ocean, this pictures were used to represent loneliness that for coming happiness. There was a snapshot on Susie’s bracelet, and when Mr. Harvey threw the bracelet into the ocean and the ocean took the bracelet away, Susie was running in a field and the field began to turn into water and she later drown in it. Light and life effect was used to show life living Susie. There was a long shot of Susie in her tree house, show lowliness, only her and tree and nothing else. Mr. Harvey begins to look for another victim and when Lindsey, Susie’s younger sister ran by his house, an ominous song played and this showed that she was the next victim if Harvey has a chance. There was a time different in the movie; it keeps going to the pass, form when Susie was younger to older. Also they showed how she died and the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed. There was a dolly shot used as Lindsey search Mr. Harvey’s room for clues to link him to Susie’s killing. The effects in the movie were good.
My reaction, I did not like it, the movie skipped some of the most important t and funny scenes that the book had. The book was a lot descriptive that the movie.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The Lovely Bones (275-372) The end
Summary
Susie is in heaven and she got to meet the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed: Jackie Meyer, she was 13 year old. Flora Hernandez; she was 8 years old. Leah Fox was13 years old when she was murdered. Sophie Cichetti was 49 years old and other. He goes around telling people that Sophie was his wife before she died of cancer, although he is a bachelor.
After Lindsey stole the drawings, she gave them to her father who gave it to the police as evidence. Later on the same day, two policemen were sent to Mr. Harvey’s house for inspection. Abigail who denies to her mother that she is not having an affair commits adultery with policeman Len Fenerman in the basement of the mall. Mr. Harvey keeps getting flash back of his childhood and they seem to hurt him.
Ruth Conner and Ray Singh hang out because they were the only people close Susie before she died. Susie’s talks to Ruth and tries to tell them but they don’t believe her. When Lindsey tries to tell Abigail about Susie’s dead she does not want to hear anything about the daughter’s dead. She does not want anything with the family. Lindsey goes to the police station to see what they were doing with the drawing that her father gave to them and instead she found her mother’s scarf in Len’s office. When she asked him what it was doing there he could not answer, then she knew that something between them had happen and it is the reason of her mother‘s behavior.
Everyone on the neighborhood is talking about Mr. Harvey killing Susie. He was afraid that he might get caught so he leaves for Connecticut. After he left, Len began to blame himself for not solving the case involving Susie. He now believes that it was Mr. Harvey but he could not prove it. A hunter later on found Susie’s bracelet when he was hunting. Abigail leaves her family and heads for California.
Mr. Harvey moved to boston because he was being question by the police lately,also Lindsey has prove that he might have kill her sister. The dective called the police and the bones were matched to susie's body. Hal,Sam's older brother is on the invsetigation to look for Mr. Harvey,the dective told Hal that the killer loved to builddoll house and this was linked to Mr.Harvey.
Lindsey just graduated from college and she is 21 years old. she graduated from Temple University. Samuel proposed toher and she said yes. Buckley still sees Susie'swhenever he closes his eyes. Later,all of a suddenly Jack got a cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital.Grandma Lynn flew from her home to meet the kids and Abigail also left california to see Jack in the hospital.Buckley hates his mother because she left the family when he was a child and now she is back.The police decided to give the salmon the bracklet that they found. Len the policeman was sent to give it to them and when Abigail saw him she was angry and demaned that he leave because he almost tore up the family.
Susie enter Ruth Body and begins to talk to Ray. They talk about life and how he has being coping but he does not know that it is susie inside the body.Grandma Lynn dies and get buried.Lindsey gives birth to a girl and named her Suzanna Abigial.Mr. harvey was killed by an icicle when trying to hit on a teenage but was never found because he was buried by the snow. Not the end that I expected.
Quote
“Don’t you want anything” (Sebold 334).
Reaction
This quote is very important because the book is about Susie getting murder and what she wants is for Mr. Harvey to be caught and that her family to come together as before. She wants them to move on with their lives and she want to be alive. It was very awkward when Ruth asked her this question and she did not respond back to her. Maybe it is one of the rules that the dead cannot speak to the living or it was because she did not want to interrupt the future.
Question?
1) Why did the author choose to tell who the killer of Susie was at the beginning of the book?
2) Why did she put Mr.Harvey's dead as a mystery?
Susie is in heaven and she got to meet the other people that Mr. Harvey had killed: Jackie Meyer, she was 13 year old. Flora Hernandez; she was 8 years old. Leah Fox was13 years old when she was murdered. Sophie Cichetti was 49 years old and other. He goes around telling people that Sophie was his wife before she died of cancer, although he is a bachelor.
After Lindsey stole the drawings, she gave them to her father who gave it to the police as evidence. Later on the same day, two policemen were sent to Mr. Harvey’s house for inspection. Abigail who denies to her mother that she is not having an affair commits adultery with policeman Len Fenerman in the basement of the mall. Mr. Harvey keeps getting flash back of his childhood and they seem to hurt him.
Ruth Conner and Ray Singh hang out because they were the only people close Susie before she died. Susie’s talks to Ruth and tries to tell them but they don’t believe her. When Lindsey tries to tell Abigail about Susie’s dead she does not want to hear anything about the daughter’s dead. She does not want anything with the family. Lindsey goes to the police station to see what they were doing with the drawing that her father gave to them and instead she found her mother’s scarf in Len’s office. When she asked him what it was doing there he could not answer, then she knew that something between them had happen and it is the reason of her mother‘s behavior.
Everyone on the neighborhood is talking about Mr. Harvey killing Susie. He was afraid that he might get caught so he leaves for Connecticut. After he left, Len began to blame himself for not solving the case involving Susie. He now believes that it was Mr. Harvey but he could not prove it. A hunter later on found Susie’s bracelet when he was hunting. Abigail leaves her family and heads for California.
Mr. Harvey moved to boston because he was being question by the police lately,also Lindsey has prove that he might have kill her sister. The dective called the police and the bones were matched to susie's body. Hal,Sam's older brother is on the invsetigation to look for Mr. Harvey,the dective told Hal that the killer loved to builddoll house and this was linked to Mr.Harvey.
Lindsey just graduated from college and she is 21 years old. she graduated from Temple University. Samuel proposed toher and she said yes. Buckley still sees Susie'swhenever he closes his eyes. Later,all of a suddenly Jack got a cardiac arrest and was rushed to the hospital.Grandma Lynn flew from her home to meet the kids and Abigail also left california to see Jack in the hospital.Buckley hates his mother because she left the family when he was a child and now she is back.The police decided to give the salmon the bracklet that they found. Len the policeman was sent to give it to them and when Abigail saw him she was angry and demaned that he leave because he almost tore up the family.
Susie enter Ruth Body and begins to talk to Ray. They talk about life and how he has being coping but he does not know that it is susie inside the body.Grandma Lynn dies and get buried.Lindsey gives birth to a girl and named her Suzanna Abigial.Mr. harvey was killed by an icicle when trying to hit on a teenage but was never found because he was buried by the snow. Not the end that I expected.
Quote
“Don’t you want anything” (Sebold 334).
Reaction
This quote is very important because the book is about Susie getting murder and what she wants is for Mr. Harvey to be caught and that her family to come together as before. She wants them to move on with their lives and she want to be alive. It was very awkward when Ruth asked her this question and she did not respond back to her. Maybe it is one of the rules that the dead cannot speak to the living or it was because she did not want to interrupt the future.
Question?
1) Why did the author choose to tell who the killer of Susie was at the beginning of the book?
2) Why did she put Mr.Harvey's dead as a mystery?
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The lovely Bones (150-275)
So far Susie is dead and the murder is George Harvey and no one else does. They are trying to solve the mystery.
Summary
Buckley is Susie’s younger brother who has a friend named Nate. Buckley later on tells Nate that he sees Susie whenever he looks up to heaven. Mr. Harvey had a bad childhood when he was a kid, his mother who he had a close relationship with left the family and he was alone with his father. It is time for Susie’s funeral. Grandma Lynn is with the family and she teaches the Lindsey how to wear make-up since she is the only one that Lindsey wants to talk to, later on Lindsey tells her that she has a boyfriend. Mr. Harvey attends the funeral but he leaves unnoticed. Ruth Conner, the poet is the only person that Susie talks to; she said that she can feel Susie around which is true. Lindsey finally admits to Ruth that she misses Susie, “More than anyone will ever know” (Sebold 137).
Susie is not the only one that Mr. Harvey had murdered. There was a young girl named Claire and he tried to kill her before but she kept on crying and people came to her rescue. Mr. Harvey used to kill animals, and then he began to kill humans. He tried to stop but couldn’t. In Lindsey’s school there used to be a competition every year and this year it was changed to “How to Commit the Perfect Murder” and Lindsey is not happy with it. Len the Policeman stopped the investigation on the killing of Susie but Jack still think that it is Mr. Harvey who is the killer. Abigail seems interested in Len. Jack goes out to the cornfield to kill Mr. Harvey, he takes a bat as a weapon and he hits Clarissa and boyfriend who then called the police on him. In the Hospital Abigail and Len the policeman began to flirt and kiss. The book later on tells that Abigail needed someone to let out her dead daughter out and Len was the person she chose.
Grandma Lynn comes home and She notices Abigail Strangeness, although Jack does not pay attention to Abigail which many people would conclude was the reason that she later went on to commit adultery. Lynn noticed her behavior and they went for a walk together. While walking, Lynn tells her daughter to stop having an affair and Abigail denies it. Also Grandma Lynn believes that Harvey is the killer.
Jack believing that his theory about Mr. Harvey killing his daughter, he does not give up and when Lindsey asked him who he taught the killer was he told her. The next day, while jogging with the boy’s soccer team, Lindsey skipped practice and broke into Mr. Harvey’s house and stole one of his drawings. He saw her but it was too late before he could do anything.
Quotes
“Lonely I though on earth as it is in heaven” (Sebold 140).
“My humor buried my acceptance” (Sebold 191).
Reaction
The first quote is Susie’s though while she is in heaven. She misses her friends and family and feels alone in heaven. The heaven that she is in is not what she expected. It is not bad but at the same time she is not comfortable. It’s like her soul is not at peace. She is watching down on her family and they are depressed and so is she. The other quote was made by Grandma Lynn when she noticed that Abigail was having an affair with someone. She begins to tell her about her own life. Her husband also cheated oh her and she use her humor not to show that she is worried. These are good quotes because it explains what is going in the book. The quotes give you a foundation of the summary of the book.
Summary
Buckley is Susie’s younger brother who has a friend named Nate. Buckley later on tells Nate that he sees Susie whenever he looks up to heaven. Mr. Harvey had a bad childhood when he was a kid, his mother who he had a close relationship with left the family and he was alone with his father. It is time for Susie’s funeral. Grandma Lynn is with the family and she teaches the Lindsey how to wear make-up since she is the only one that Lindsey wants to talk to, later on Lindsey tells her that she has a boyfriend. Mr. Harvey attends the funeral but he leaves unnoticed. Ruth Conner, the poet is the only person that Susie talks to; she said that she can feel Susie around which is true. Lindsey finally admits to Ruth that she misses Susie, “More than anyone will ever know” (Sebold 137).
Susie is not the only one that Mr. Harvey had murdered. There was a young girl named Claire and he tried to kill her before but she kept on crying and people came to her rescue. Mr. Harvey used to kill animals, and then he began to kill humans. He tried to stop but couldn’t. In Lindsey’s school there used to be a competition every year and this year it was changed to “How to Commit the Perfect Murder” and Lindsey is not happy with it. Len the Policeman stopped the investigation on the killing of Susie but Jack still think that it is Mr. Harvey who is the killer. Abigail seems interested in Len. Jack goes out to the cornfield to kill Mr. Harvey, he takes a bat as a weapon and he hits Clarissa and boyfriend who then called the police on him. In the Hospital Abigail and Len the policeman began to flirt and kiss. The book later on tells that Abigail needed someone to let out her dead daughter out and Len was the person she chose.
Grandma Lynn comes home and She notices Abigail Strangeness, although Jack does not pay attention to Abigail which many people would conclude was the reason that she later went on to commit adultery. Lynn noticed her behavior and they went for a walk together. While walking, Lynn tells her daughter to stop having an affair and Abigail denies it. Also Grandma Lynn believes that Harvey is the killer.
Jack believing that his theory about Mr. Harvey killing his daughter, he does not give up and when Lindsey asked him who he taught the killer was he told her. The next day, while jogging with the boy’s soccer team, Lindsey skipped practice and broke into Mr. Harvey’s house and stole one of his drawings. He saw her but it was too late before he could do anything.
Quotes
“Lonely I though on earth as it is in heaven” (Sebold 140).
“My humor buried my acceptance” (Sebold 191).
Reaction
The first quote is Susie’s though while she is in heaven. She misses her friends and family and feels alone in heaven. The heaven that she is in is not what she expected. It is not bad but at the same time she is not comfortable. It’s like her soul is not at peace. She is watching down on her family and they are depressed and so is she. The other quote was made by Grandma Lynn when she noticed that Abigail was having an affair with someone. She begins to tell her about her own life. Her husband also cheated oh her and she use her humor not to show that she is worried. These are good quotes because it explains what is going in the book. The quotes give you a foundation of the summary of the book.
The lovely Bones (1- 150)
Plot and Setting.
Susie lived in Philadelphia and was killed on December 6, 1973,
Main Character
Susie Salmon- 14 years old who got killed by her neighbor
Jack and Abigail Salmon- Susie’s Father and Mother.
Buckley and Lindsey salmon- Susie’s Brother and Sister
Grandma Lynn- Susie’s grandmother
George Harvey- The Salmon neighbor who killed Susie.
Summary
So far Susie was coming back from home when Mr. Harvey asked her to come into his doll house there he rapes her and killed her. This story is a narration and the main character Susie is the narrator. "Tell me you love me" (Se-bold 16). Hr Harvey tells Susie to say these words before he killed her. Len is the policeman working on the case. He has been gathering up evidence but her parent does not want to accept the fact that their daughter is dead. They found her bone of the elbow. Susie describes heaven as a different dream. Everyone’s heaven is different and it is better than her reality school. Instead of reading regular books they read vogue and glamour and seventeen. In Heaven she befriends a girl named Holly. Ray Singh is a boy that had a crush on Susie and he is the first suspect but her parents don’t believe that he is the one that killed her. Lindsey on the other hand is the true blond of the family; she is the opposite of her sister, Susie. Once she was asked to play on the soccer team she responded saying “I’d say it would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field where it's approximately 20 feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered" (Se-bold 36). Jack feels guilty that he was not there when his daughter needed him.
Susie said that she was not the first that Mr. Harvey and killed. this book gives evidence that he had killed other children by this following details "he knew to remove my body from the field, he knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light from heavy precipitation because he had rob the police out of evidence" (Se-bold 57). Mr. Harvey buried the remaining of Susie's body by dumping it into a sink hole that Susie used to adore. Susie had a bracelet that she wore on the day of her murder and Mr. Harvey throws the bracelet into the lake. While in Heaven Susie wishes for one thing; for Mr. Harvey to be dead and she to be alive but it is impossible. She wanted revenge on Mr. Harvey.
Abigail does not like to be a mother; by the way the book describes her it feels like the kids got in her way of achieving her dreams. Mr. Salmon helps Mr. Harvey to build a tent; he does not realize that he is helping the murderer of his daughter. Afterward, Jack begins to suspect George Harvey is the killer. Abigail and Jack seem to grow distance from each other.
Quote
“You were not there when your daughter needed you” (Se-bold 65).
“There was a window of time during which physical evidence was usually found; that window grew smaller everyday” (Se-bold 69).
Reaction
Jack Salmon feels guilty about the death of Susie because he was not there for her. The quote shows the father is worried and he misses his daughter he is trying to find the person that killed Susie and he think that the killer is Mr. Harvey. This quote came to him while he was lying down on the couch crying about where Susie is? The other quote tells gives us a foreshadowing that the murderer might not be caught. The window getting smaller means that the chance of them finding the murderer might not happen because there is no solid evidence.
Question
1). Why does Susie mother seem too depressed before the death of her daughter?
2). Why doesn’t Lindsey say how she feels about the death of Susie?
3). why does Mr. Harvey like to kill people?
Susie lived in Philadelphia and was killed on December 6, 1973,
Main Character
Susie Salmon- 14 years old who got killed by her neighbor
Jack and Abigail Salmon- Susie’s Father and Mother.
Buckley and Lindsey salmon- Susie’s Brother and Sister
Grandma Lynn- Susie’s grandmother
George Harvey- The Salmon neighbor who killed Susie.
Summary
So far Susie was coming back from home when Mr. Harvey asked her to come into his doll house there he rapes her and killed her. This story is a narration and the main character Susie is the narrator. "Tell me you love me" (Se-bold 16). Hr Harvey tells Susie to say these words before he killed her. Len is the policeman working on the case. He has been gathering up evidence but her parent does not want to accept the fact that their daughter is dead. They found her bone of the elbow. Susie describes heaven as a different dream. Everyone’s heaven is different and it is better than her reality school. Instead of reading regular books they read vogue and glamour and seventeen. In Heaven she befriends a girl named Holly. Ray Singh is a boy that had a crush on Susie and he is the first suspect but her parents don’t believe that he is the one that killed her. Lindsey on the other hand is the true blond of the family; she is the opposite of her sister, Susie. Once she was asked to play on the soccer team she responded saying “I’d say it would be pretty hard to play soccer on the soccer field where it's approximately 20 feet from where my sister was supposedly murdered" (Se-bold 36). Jack feels guilty that he was not there when his daughter needed him.
Susie said that she was not the first that Mr. Harvey and killed. this book gives evidence that he had killed other children by this following details "he knew to remove my body from the field, he knew to watch the weather and to kill during an arc of light from heavy precipitation because he had rob the police out of evidence" (Se-bold 57). Mr. Harvey buried the remaining of Susie's body by dumping it into a sink hole that Susie used to adore. Susie had a bracelet that she wore on the day of her murder and Mr. Harvey throws the bracelet into the lake. While in Heaven Susie wishes for one thing; for Mr. Harvey to be dead and she to be alive but it is impossible. She wanted revenge on Mr. Harvey.
Abigail does not like to be a mother; by the way the book describes her it feels like the kids got in her way of achieving her dreams. Mr. Salmon helps Mr. Harvey to build a tent; he does not realize that he is helping the murderer of his daughter. Afterward, Jack begins to suspect George Harvey is the killer. Abigail and Jack seem to grow distance from each other.
Quote
“You were not there when your daughter needed you” (Se-bold 65).
“There was a window of time during which physical evidence was usually found; that window grew smaller everyday” (Se-bold 69).
Reaction
Jack Salmon feels guilty about the death of Susie because he was not there for her. The quote shows the father is worried and he misses his daughter he is trying to find the person that killed Susie and he think that the killer is Mr. Harvey. This quote came to him while he was lying down on the couch crying about where Susie is? The other quote tells gives us a foreshadowing that the murderer might not be caught. The window getting smaller means that the chance of them finding the murderer might not happen because there is no solid evidence.
Question
1). Why does Susie mother seem too depressed before the death of her daughter?
2). Why doesn’t Lindsey say how she feels about the death of Susie?
3). why does Mr. Harvey like to kill people?
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