Reflect on the impact of setting on the characters and plot in "Christmas 1910". (Use quote(s) to back up your claims.)
The story's setting is a rural area in 1910. The narrator of the story seems as if she is living on a farm with her family. "...my saddle horse, go up on his back and ride off a ways..." and "...from Nebraska when Papa got our homestead." Both quotes reveal exactly where she may live (the type of living area).
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Short Story Blog Question
To what extent do concepts of honor and tradition to influence the action in "A Rose for Emily"?
Honor and tradition influence the action in the story because Emily has a motive to keep her the black man with her. The honor influenced people to look up to her and respect her to a certain level. The tradition influenced her to want to keep the man by her side even if it meant killing him. I guess she felt like she couldn't by lonely at all, or die lonely.
Honor and tradition influence the action in the story because Emily has a motive to keep her the black man with her. The honor influenced people to look up to her and respect her to a certain level. The tradition influenced her to want to keep the man by her side even if it meant killing him. I guess she felt like she couldn't by lonely at all, or die lonely.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Illustrated Man: Entry 10
Quote:
"...married to a woman who overdoes it. I mean, after all, when you've been married ten years, you don't expect a woman to sit on your lap for two hours every evening, call you at work twelve times a day and talk baby talk. And it seems to me that in the last month she's gotten worse."
Pg. 157
Comment:
(E) This short story starts with two men talking to each other about their wives. This guy tells the other guy that his wife is annoying with her lovey dovey stuff. To me, the lady probably does need to slow down on that. Her husband might be in the mood to be all lovey dovey and stuff. He might just need to relax...he needs to tell her.
"...married to a woman who overdoes it. I mean, after all, when you've been married ten years, you don't expect a woman to sit on your lap for two hours every evening, call you at work twelve times a day and talk baby talk. And it seems to me that in the last month she's gotten worse."
Pg. 157
Comment:
(E) This short story starts with two men talking to each other about their wives. This guy tells the other guy that his wife is annoying with her lovey dovey stuff. To me, the lady probably does need to slow down on that. Her husband might be in the mood to be all lovey dovey and stuff. He might just need to relax...he needs to tell her.
The Illustrated Man: Entry 9
Quote:
"Outside, a banging, crashing boom, a surge of brass, a drum, a cry, marching feet, pennants and songs. Through the stone streets the army, fire weapons to shoulder, stamped. Children skipped after. Old women waved dirty flags."
Pg. 139
Comment:
(E) This short story is about a particular person named Ettil in Mars. I like this part of the book because it sounds like patriotism, but it also sounds like an uprising. All of the elements in this quote/excerpts, contribute to my assumption.
"Outside, a banging, crashing boom, a surge of brass, a drum, a cry, marching feet, pennants and songs. Through the stone streets the army, fire weapons to shoulder, stamped. Children skipped after. Old women waved dirty flags."
Pg. 139
Comment:
(E) This short story is about a particular person named Ettil in Mars. I like this part of the book because it sounds like patriotism, but it also sounds like an uprising. All of the elements in this quote/excerpts, contribute to my assumption.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Illustrated Man: Entry 8
Quote:
"My name is Ann Kristen; my husband's name is Roger. We were born in the year 2155 A.D. And we lived in a world that was evil. A world that was like a great black ship pulling away from the shore of sanity and civilization, roaring its black horn in the night, taking two billion people with it, whether they wanted to go or not, to death, to fall over the edge of the earth and the sea into radioactive flame and madness."
Pg. 116
Comment:
(E) This short story is about a couple who escaped the year 2155 through time travel. They are now in 1938 in Mexico partying. The couple are M.I.A. and are trying to be tracked down by, I want to say, agents from 2155. I really like this quote because it shows that entertainment (books, television, etc.) really do make the future seem so horrid. What if all of this stuff, in this excerpt, really happens in the future, besides the time traveling??? We wouldn't be able to handle that at all. It sounds really scary.
"My name is Ann Kristen; my husband's name is Roger. We were born in the year 2155 A.D. And we lived in a world that was evil. A world that was like a great black ship pulling away from the shore of sanity and civilization, roaring its black horn in the night, taking two billion people with it, whether they wanted to go or not, to death, to fall over the edge of the earth and the sea into radioactive flame and madness."
Pg. 116
Comment:
(E) This short story is about a couple who escaped the year 2155 through time travel. They are now in 1938 in Mexico partying. The couple are M.I.A. and are trying to be tracked down by, I want to say, agents from 2155. I really like this quote because it shows that entertainment (books, television, etc.) really do make the future seem so horrid. What if all of this stuff, in this excerpt, really happens in the future, besides the time traveling??? We wouldn't be able to handle that at all. It sounds really scary.
The Illustrated Man: Entry 7
Quote:
"A billion miles from where?" said Hitchcock.
"It all depends," said Clemens..."A billion miles from home, you might say."
"Then say it."
"Home. Earth. New York. Chicago. Wherever you were from."
"I don't even remember," said Hitchcock. "I don't even believe there is an Earth now, do you?"
"Yes," said Clemens. "I dreamt about it this morning."
"There is no morning in space."
"During the night then."
"It's always night," said Hitchcock quietly. "Which night do you mean?"
"Shut up," said Clemens irritably. "Let me finish."
Pg. 106
Comments:
(E) This short story in the book displays two men having a conversation in outer space. The reason why I like this dialogue is because I could probably have the same conversation but as Hitchcock. I love getting on people's nerves like that, it's funny to me. If I was in Hitchcock's position, I probably wouldn't change the dialogue at all.
"A billion miles from where?" said Hitchcock.
"It all depends," said Clemens..."A billion miles from home, you might say."
"Then say it."
"Home. Earth. New York. Chicago. Wherever you were from."
"I don't even remember," said Hitchcock. "I don't even believe there is an Earth now, do you?"
"Yes," said Clemens. "I dreamt about it this morning."
"There is no morning in space."
"During the night then."
"It's always night," said Hitchcock quietly. "Which night do you mean?"
"Shut up," said Clemens irritably. "Let me finish."
Pg. 106
Comments:
(E) This short story in the book displays two men having a conversation in outer space. The reason why I like this dialogue is because I could probably have the same conversation but as Hitchcock. I love getting on people's nerves like that, it's funny to me. If I was in Hitchcock's position, I probably wouldn't change the dialogue at all.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
The Illustrated Man: Entry 6
Quote:
"And they all had dreamed?"
"All of them. The same dream, with no difference."
"Do you believe in it?"
"Yes. I've never been more certain."
"And when will it stop? The world, I mean."
"Sometime during the night for us, and then as the night goes on around the world, that'll go too. It'll take twenty-four hours for it all to go."
Pg. 92
Comment:
(E) In this dialogue of a short story, a married couple is talking about how the world is going to end. I really liked this story because it was mysterious and cute (at the end), but it was also a cliff-hanger. I don't know if the world really did end or not. This dialogue shows that many people had the same dream as the husband of the world ending. It's really phenomenal how one person can have the same dream as many others. That'd be interesting if that actually happened, the dream thing not the world ending.
"And they all had dreamed?"
"All of them. The same dream, with no difference."
"Do you believe in it?"
"Yes. I've never been more certain."
"And when will it stop? The world, I mean."
"Sometime during the night for us, and then as the night goes on around the world, that'll go too. It'll take twenty-four hours for it all to go."
Pg. 92
Comment:
(E) In this dialogue of a short story, a married couple is talking about how the world is going to end. I really liked this story because it was mysterious and cute (at the end), but it was also a cliff-hanger. I don't know if the world really did end or not. This dialogue shows that many people had the same dream as the husband of the world ending. It's really phenomenal how one person can have the same dream as many others. That'd be interesting if that actually happened, the dream thing not the world ending.
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