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.
The Illustrated Man: Entry 5
Quote:
"But perhaps a Martian sin might inform the subconscious of its evil, telepathically, leaving the conscious mind of man free to act, seemingly without malice!"
Pg. 76
Comments:
(E) In this short story in the book, there are two priest talking to each other about Martian and their sin. I find this part of the book really interesting because if aliens were real, would they be able to have sin? Would they be treated as humans or animals biblically? Humans get punished for the things they do but animals don't really get punished like we would see it. Aliens wouldn't be necessarily human, so they probably couldn't get the same punishment as a human...but this is just biblically.
"But perhaps a Martian sin might inform the subconscious of its evil, telepathically, leaving the conscious mind of man free to act, seemingly without malice!"
Pg. 76
Comments:
(E) In this short story in the book, there are two priest talking to each other about Martian and their sin. I find this part of the book really interesting because if aliens were real, would they be able to have sin? Would they be treated as humans or animals biblically? Humans get punished for the things they do but animals don't really get punished like we would see it. Aliens wouldn't be necessarily human, so they probably couldn't get the same punishment as a human...but this is just biblically.
Friday, February 1, 2013
The Illustrated Man: Entry 4
Quote:
"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains."
Pg. 53
Comments:
(E) This story in the book is about a group of army men. Their plane/shuttle/ship/whatever you want to call it crashes on Venus where it never stops raining. They are one their way to a place called the Sun Doom, I guess that that's a place wear it never rains. The thing I like about this quote is how the author presents the rain pouring in different ways. It gives the beginning of the story more zest. It could've been boring with just "it was raining". This quote also shows that the rain was very heavy.
"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains."
Pg. 53
Comments:
(E) This story in the book is about a group of army men. Their plane/shuttle/ship/whatever you want to call it crashes on Venus where it never stops raining. They are one their way to a place called the Sun Doom, I guess that that's a place wear it never rains. The thing I like about this quote is how the author presents the rain pouring in different ways. It gives the beginning of the story more zest. It could've been boring with just "it was raining". This quote also shows that the rain was very heavy.
The Illustrated Man: Entry 3
Quote:
"Hernando stood waiting for the rain to cease so he might take the wooden plow into the field again...His wife spoke. "Something is wrong, Hernando?" "Sí. The road. Something big has happened. Something big to make the road so empty this way."
Pg. 39
Comments:
(E) In this part of the book, there is a couple that seems to be waiting on the rain to stop, well at least the husband is. The thing that made me use this quote and part of the book was that the couple is Latino. I really wasn't expecting that; I thought it would've only been Caucasians and African Americans, because that is usually how it is in most books, unless it is announced as a more diverse or predominately Latino book. The presence of the Latinos add more diversity to this book. Also, this might be a Mexico or a Central or South American setting. I'm not trying to be racist; it's just a guess.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The Illustrated Man: Entry 2
Quote:
"He may have got into the machinery and fixed something."
"Peter doesn't know machinery."
"He's a wise one for ten. That I.Q. of his---"
Pg. 12
Comment:
(E) In this part of the book, the parents of the Hadley household are trying to figure out why the 'Nursery' won't change from the veldtand to anything else. They have to wait until there children come back from a fair. As they wait, the mother, Lydia, thinks that Peter changed the room settings. But the father, George, thinks it's impossible for him to do that. Lydia insists that it's possible because Peter is very smart for his age. Now that I think about it, it's kind of interesting of how his mother thinks he's above average but his father doesn't.
"He may have got into the machinery and fixed something."
"Peter doesn't know machinery."
"He's a wise one for ten. That I.Q. of his---"
Pg. 12
Comment:
(E) In this part of the book, the parents of the Hadley household are trying to figure out why the 'Nursery' won't change from the veldtand to anything else. They have to wait until there children come back from a fair. As they wait, the mother, Lydia, thinks that Peter changed the room settings. But the father, George, thinks it's impossible for him to do that. Lydia insists that it's possible because Peter is very smart for his age. Now that I think about it, it's kind of interesting of how his mother thinks he's above average but his father doesn't.
The Illustrated Man: Entry 1
Quote:
"The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures. A shadow passed through the sky."
Pg. 8
Comment:
(Imagery) This quote is obviously in the beginning of the book, where the author paints a picture of a room in a family's house. The house is a smart house; it does everything for them. This particular room displayed in the beginning of the book is a somewhat four dimensional and mostly three dimensional type room called the 'Nursey'. The quote above describes the realistic smell, sounds, and sights of the room as a veldtland in Africa. The room is very detailed and imaginative.
"The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures. A shadow passed through the sky."
Pg. 8
Comment:
(Imagery) This quote is obviously in the beginning of the book, where the author paints a picture of a room in a family's house. The house is a smart house; it does everything for them. This particular room displayed in the beginning of the book is a somewhat four dimensional and mostly three dimensional type room called the 'Nursey'. The quote above describes the realistic smell, sounds, and sights of the room as a veldtland in Africa. The room is very detailed and imaginative.
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