Foreshadowing occurs in chapter 13 on page 137 when Sydney Carton is pacing the streets. "His feet became animated by and intention..." just like Dr. Mannette's feet when he paces his office with Lucie after she catches him making shoes again. The doctor's need for pacing shows he was in a state of darkness so when Carton "...vaguely and unhappily..." wanders the dark streets for "many a night" it symbolises darkness coming into or exsisting in his life and foreshadows his dowfall. Also, just like Dr. Mannete's sanity is wholely based on his and Lucie's relationship, Carton is also in a dark depression because of the type of relationship he'll never have with Lucie and he goes to her for "comfort" to tell her his feelings so they die with him.
Carton also foreshadows his death in the same chapter on page 139. He says he is "...nothing, doing no service, idly burning away...Let me carry through the rest of my misdirected life, the remembrance that I opened my heart to you, last of all the world...I draw fast to an end...my last avowal of myself was made to you"
More symbolism and foreshadowing is displayed why Young Jerry discovers that his father is a Resurrection-Man. He was "...so terrified...that he made off, with his hair as stiff as his father's."Then, the next day when they're both heading off to work fro the bank Young Jerry exclaimed that he "...should so like to be a Resurrection-Man when [he's] quite growed up."
Monday, January 28, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Tale of Two Cities 2
Doctor Manette has begun to recieve patients "as his old reputation" and has recovered his "scientific knowledge, and his vigilance and skill in conductin gingenious experiments." Also, "in a corner [of his room], stood the disused shoemaker's bench and tray of tools." This shows the doctor's improvement back into having a normal life. Except the nightmares he has certain nights and the unnerving pacing that he does late at night. But, like always, his daughter is there to give him the comfort he needs to calm down, proving my forshadow from my last blog is still liable.
There is foreshadowing in the sixth paragraph on page 89. It states "that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach. Not only would the echoes die away, as though the stops had gone...However, father and daughter did at last appear..." It seems that the doctor is comfortable with his life right now; he's gotten through the roughest pieces of getting used to a normal lifestyle again, but may that's just an illusion both he and Dickens gives the reader. His nightmares prove there is still something going wrong in his head and he hasn't settled yet. So this passage could foreshadow an even greater darkness "the father and daughter" are heading into and it seems as if they wont make it out alive, but in the end they survive.
More foreshadowing on page 93 when the group in the doctor's house is talking about the echoing footsteps but the window when it begins to rain. Miss Manette is describing how she will "[sit] alone [there]...listening, until [she has] made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the foorsteps that are coming by-and-by into [thier] lives." She is talking about the rabelion that is soon to come from all the "poor" societies and the other characters in the book that they will come in contact with eventually. Then Mr. Darney responds by saying "There is a great crowd coming one day into out lives.." He says it sarcastically ("in his moody way") but it still accompanies the foreshadow that Lucie just described.
There is foreshadowing in the sixth paragraph on page 89. It states "that as Mr. Lorry stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach. Not only would the echoes die away, as though the stops had gone...However, father and daughter did at last appear..." It seems that the doctor is comfortable with his life right now; he's gotten through the roughest pieces of getting used to a normal lifestyle again, but may that's just an illusion both he and Dickens gives the reader. His nightmares prove there is still something going wrong in his head and he hasn't settled yet. So this passage could foreshadow an even greater darkness "the father and daughter" are heading into and it seems as if they wont make it out alive, but in the end they survive.
More foreshadowing on page 93 when the group in the doctor's house is talking about the echoing footsteps but the window when it begins to rain. Miss Manette is describing how she will "[sit] alone [there]...listening, until [she has] made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the foorsteps that are coming by-and-by into [thier] lives." She is talking about the rabelion that is soon to come from all the "poor" societies and the other characters in the book that they will come in contact with eventually. Then Mr. Darney responds by saying "There is a great crowd coming one day into out lives.." He says it sarcastically ("in his moody way") but it still accompanies the foreshadow that Lucie just described.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Tale of Two Cities 1
The "LARGE cask of whine" having been broken on the street sent the poor citizens scrambling for the taste of it. The whine left stains of their face, hands, and feet and was described to look like "blood". This scene could foreshadow all the peoples' secrets being exposed and them feeding off of eachother, not very literally. Or it could foreshadow the poorer citizen's revolt against the more wealthy. Then when the whine store keeper, Mr. Defarge, returns to his store he has a conversation with three other men and they all greeted eachother with the same name, Jacques. That name has to have some sort of hidden meaning that only that group of people understand.
Mr. Manette's name is no longer his own; instead it is his prison cell number and location, On Hundred Five North Tower. After 18 years of being imprisoned I can understand why he would eventually go by that name. Think of the situation like someone being adopted after already being named, but the new parents call you something else so, of course, after 18 years of being called by that name you would prefer it over your first name. Like in Mr. Manette's situation, the person may even forget their first name.
In the tower cell where Mr. Manette is kept for his own comfort, there is one thing that he's kept locked up in his mind and hasn't forgotten. "...he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scarp of folded rag attached to it. He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one of two long golden hairs..." These strands of hair perfectly matched those of his daughter's. Another thing that might be meant for Miss Manette is the shoe her father is working on. He says "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe." Maybe he was thinking of his wife or daughter when he bagan making this pair.
"She nestled down with him, that his head might lie upon her arm; and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light...The darkness deepened and deepened, as they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall." This foreshadows the experience that the father and daughter will encounter together. Ms. Manette is going to walk patiently by her father's side and gradually lead him to the light but in order to begin she has to build from the ground up. So she starts with where he is now, in the darkness. Ms. Manette lowers herself down to the cold, cement ground where her father is lying and eventually "...light [will gleam] through the...wall" Mr. Manette has built up. Maybe he'll begin to remember his past once again!
Mr. Manette's name is no longer his own; instead it is his prison cell number and location, On Hundred Five North Tower. After 18 years of being imprisoned I can understand why he would eventually go by that name. Think of the situation like someone being adopted after already being named, but the new parents call you something else so, of course, after 18 years of being called by that name you would prefer it over your first name. Like in Mr. Manette's situation, the person may even forget their first name.
In the tower cell where Mr. Manette is kept for his own comfort, there is one thing that he's kept locked up in his mind and hasn't forgotten. "...he laid down his work, put his hand to his neck, and took off a blackened string with a scarp of folded rag attached to it. He opened this, carefully, on his knee, and it contained a very little quantity of hair: not more than one of two long golden hairs..." These strands of hair perfectly matched those of his daughter's. Another thing that might be meant for Miss Manette is the shoe her father is working on. He says "It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe." Maybe he was thinking of his wife or daughter when he bagan making this pair.
"She nestled down with him, that his head might lie upon her arm; and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light...The darkness deepened and deepened, as they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall." This foreshadows the experience that the father and daughter will encounter together. Ms. Manette is going to walk patiently by her father's side and gradually lead him to the light but in order to begin she has to build from the ground up. So she starts with where he is now, in the darkness. Ms. Manette lowers herself down to the cold, cement ground where her father is lying and eventually "...light [will gleam] through the...wall" Mr. Manette has built up. Maybe he'll begin to remember his past once again!
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Thousand Splendid Suns 7
Turns out Laila was right from the beginning: Rasheed knew about Aziza being Tariq's baby. Laila was arguing with him, complaining that he had lied to her about Tariq dying and how “’…that man [sat] across from [her] and…[Rasheed] knew [Laila] would leave if [she] thought he was alive.’ ‘AND YOU DIDN’T LIE TO ME?...You think I didn’t figure it out? About your harami? You take me for a fool, you whore?’” Why did Rasheed just now bring up what Laila hoped was still her secret?
When Mariam or Laila’s secrets get out or they have a reason, or not, to be beaten, that is the only time one of them sees Rasheed’s “face soften,” But only if they fight back. When Rasheed has got a hold on Laila’s throat and was waiting for her death Mariam goes insane and begins fighting her husband. “She hit him across the temple…he looked at the blood on his fingertips, then at Mariam. She thought she saw his face soften…that maybe quite literally knocked some understanding into his head….was that respect she saw in his eyes? Regret?” That line makes the reader wonder if Rasheed really did have a glimpse of respect for Mariam at that point. Would he change? Or would he not? “…it occurred to her that this was the first time that SHE was deciding the course of her own life.”
I disagree with that occurrence right there because I think another time where Mariam decided her course of life would be when she was a little girl that had never left her yard before and crossed the river. But she decided that one day to cross the river and go after her father when he didn’t show up that day. That altered her entire life! Her mother killed herself, she had to move in with her father and his wives, and then she was given away to Rasheed.
In the next chapter, Laila is curled up on Mariam’s lap and Mariam is telling her all about the things they’re going to see and where they’ll soon live. “Somewhere with trees…lots of trees. They would live in a small house on the edge of some town they’d never heard of, Mariam said, or in a remote village…Maybe there would be a path to take, a path that led to a grass field where the children could play, or maybe a gravel road that would take them to a clear blue lake (river) where trout swam and reeds poked though the surface. They would raise sheep and chickens, and they would make bread together…they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.” Mariam is talking about her home from when she was a little girl living with her mother and daydreaming about Jalil visiting her and the dirt road he would come on and the river they would fish in.
Before her execution Mariam thinks “…of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lonely village, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.” Then when Laila is in Mariam’s old house she notices that “the floor is carpeted now with dry-edged leaves, broken bottles, discarded chewing gum wrappers, wild mushrooms…but mostly with weeds, some stunted, some springing impudently halfway up the walls.” Impudently means showing a lack of respect and excessive boldness: the reason Mariam was killed in the first place! She showed a lack of respect by obviously beating the crap out of her husband and seconds later he died and the excessive amount of boldness appeared in between holding the shovel and forcing contact between that and Rasheed’s skull. In the end, “One last time, Mariam did as she was told.” She kneeled down and bowed her head
When Mariam or Laila’s secrets get out or they have a reason, or not, to be beaten, that is the only time one of them sees Rasheed’s “face soften,” But only if they fight back. When Rasheed has got a hold on Laila’s throat and was waiting for her death Mariam goes insane and begins fighting her husband. “She hit him across the temple…he looked at the blood on his fingertips, then at Mariam. She thought she saw his face soften…that maybe quite literally knocked some understanding into his head….was that respect she saw in his eyes? Regret?” That line makes the reader wonder if Rasheed really did have a glimpse of respect for Mariam at that point. Would he change? Or would he not? “…it occurred to her that this was the first time that SHE was deciding the course of her own life.”
I disagree with that occurrence right there because I think another time where Mariam decided her course of life would be when she was a little girl that had never left her yard before and crossed the river. But she decided that one day to cross the river and go after her father when he didn’t show up that day. That altered her entire life! Her mother killed herself, she had to move in with her father and his wives, and then she was given away to Rasheed.
In the next chapter, Laila is curled up on Mariam’s lap and Mariam is telling her all about the things they’re going to see and where they’ll soon live. “Somewhere with trees…lots of trees. They would live in a small house on the edge of some town they’d never heard of, Mariam said, or in a remote village…Maybe there would be a path to take, a path that led to a grass field where the children could play, or maybe a gravel road that would take them to a clear blue lake (river) where trout swam and reeds poked though the surface. They would raise sheep and chickens, and they would make bread together…they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.” Mariam is talking about her home from when she was a little girl living with her mother and daydreaming about Jalil visiting her and the dirt road he would come on and the river they would fish in.
Before her execution Mariam thinks “…of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lonely village, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.” Then when Laila is in Mariam’s old house she notices that “the floor is carpeted now with dry-edged leaves, broken bottles, discarded chewing gum wrappers, wild mushrooms…but mostly with weeds, some stunted, some springing impudently halfway up the walls.” Impudently means showing a lack of respect and excessive boldness: the reason Mariam was killed in the first place! She showed a lack of respect by obviously beating the crap out of her husband and seconds later he died and the excessive amount of boldness appeared in between holding the shovel and forcing contact between that and Rasheed’s skull. In the end, “One last time, Mariam did as she was told.” She kneeled down and bowed her head
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Thousand Splendid Suns 6
Laila, Mariam, and Aziza make their escape but they’re paranoid about getting caught. “Everywhere [Laila] looked, [she] saw Rasheed.” It was as if he was omnipresent and tormenting her thoughts. A sour attitude is created when she sees him “…coming out of barbershops with windows the color of coal dust…from battered, open fronted stores packed with old tires...” but her mood soon switches when she is closer to freedom at the train station. She feels “…the warmth of the morning sun, [and feels] giddy and bold…”when she’s looking for the perfect looking man to trust.”False face must hide what the false heart doth know” is one thing Laila must have never learned all the years her father taught her. Maybe the author of Macbeth should have written it sooner because the kind eyed man that agrees to help them turns them in and they get sent home to the torture of a lifetime.
The new rules of Afghanistan had Rasheed’s approval written all over it! Anything a woman or man did wrong was punishable by a beating or loosing of a limb. Laila even agrees with me when Rasheed says he could get rid of Aziza any time he wanted. “Laila shot him a disgusted look. ‘I’m making a point,’ he said. ‘You’re just like them.’”
There is symbolism when Laila should be giving birth but the baby refuses to come out even though it’s time is past due. Just like how her wedding ring was too small, the pen didn’t work to sign the contract, and now they had to literally cut Rasheed’s son out of her womb. Rasheed isn’t the one she should be with; Laila should be with Tariq! It’s always been Tariq, even when she thought him dead. They were friends from the beginning, known by everyone (except themselves at first) that they had feelings for each other, expected to be married, easily and without much thought of the consequences- they had sex, and Laila gave birth to a beautiful baby girl that came out with no fault. Now Tariq is miraculously alive! This story better straighten itself up and have a RIGHT ending!
Monday, November 26, 2012
Thousand Splendid Suns 5
Rasheed treats Laila the same as Mariam when she had her first pregnancy but when they came home with a baby girl Mariam says Laila did worse by giving birth to a girl then having a miscarriage. "Laila passed that winter of 1992 sweepign the house, scrubbign the pumpkin-colored walls of the bedroom she shared with Rasheed..." Why would Rasheed straight out tell Mariam that he's customed to having his own room and give her her own room, yet not even mention that statement to Laila when she moves in?
is it ironic that Aziza (a herami herself) is the one who brought Mariam and Laila together? Ofcourse Laila rescued Mariam from Rasheed when he tried to beat her, but the connection between Mariam and Aziza warms both of their hearts. The night when the two first connect Laila convinces Mariam to have a cup of tea with her. "One cup. They sat on folding chairs outside and ate halwa with their fingers from a common bowl. They had a second cup, and when Laila asked her if she wanted a third Mariam said she did." This shows a well built friendship is in the making. Laila was the main contributer in trying to work things out betweent he two of them, but now Mariam is wanting a friend just as much as Laila.
is it ironic that Aziza (a herami herself) is the one who brought Mariam and Laila together? Ofcourse Laila rescued Mariam from Rasheed when he tried to beat her, but the connection between Mariam and Aziza warms both of their hearts. The night when the two first connect Laila convinces Mariam to have a cup of tea with her. "One cup. They sat on folding chairs outside and ate halwa with their fingers from a common bowl. They had a second cup, and when Laila asked her if she wanted a third Mariam said she did." This shows a well built friendship is in the making. Laila was the main contributer in trying to work things out betweent he two of them, but now Mariam is wanting a friend just as much as Laila.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Thousand Splendid Suns 4
When Tariq and Laila were at the movie talking about how none of them were ever going to get married Tariq states "they'll have to make room for three on teh wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head." Technically those two were "married" or joined as one when they had sex and later Tariq was bombed and soon after died because of it. Comparing Laila and Tariq to the story of Romeo and Juliet also set their fate as having a relationship that fails and they all eventually die of a broken heart. Laila's road to death has changed though because she dodged it by not being in the house when it was bombed. Also she has Tariq's baby developing in her tummy. Anything and everything bad could happen to Laila and the baby though if someone finds out its not Rasheed's baby. Mariam is more than likely going to have some reaction to Laila giving rasheed a baby when seh wasn't able to. Mariam is already treated like a worthless slave without Rasheed knowing Laila's pregnant, how will seh be treated when he does find out?
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