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- Discuss at least one significant event from the day’s reading.
All Quiet On The Western Front
Chapter 3
Recruits arrive to the front and the main characters mess with them. Food is scarce but Kat, one of the characters, finds them some bread and it is even warm. They don’t know how he ever finds it but they don’t care as they are able to eat.
Dracula Pages 191-220
We see in this part Van Helsing putting the blame of the wounded children on Lucy and the doctor is appaled by this. But they come to find similar marks that were on the child’s neck that was on Lucy. They do not want to believe Lucy was responsible and after they found the child they believe that she has done nothing because she is still lying in her coffin
The important part here is Lucy being blamed for the wrong doing and they come to find nothing so it creates suspense
The Divine Comedy
126-146
Dante sees a wolf and it symbolizes greed. It talks about a French King who was very money and power driven but later in life decided to give it up. They meet a new poet on the way and they start being buddies climbing up the mountain and the mountain stars to rumble this means that a new spirit wants to make the trek to make the reach to Heaven.
The most important thing I´ve seen is the mountain rumbling everytime someone tries to reach Heaven. It´s important because it means someone trying to reach Heaven its a big deal and people wanna make it known which is great. People wanna see this person reach heaven and get to the promise land
The stranger
60-67
Meursault is arrested and questioned by a few different people in a few different places (police station, examining magistrate, etc..). He reacts as if it is not a big deal that he killed the dude. his first week in prison a lawyer showed up to represent him and get some statements and background info on Meursault. In the interview the lawyer brings up how insensitive Meursault was at his mothers funeral and asks if he held back any feelings but Meursault says no. Meursault continues to disprove the lawyers only way of helping him and ends up making the lawyer annoyed and upset before he leaves. Shortly after that he is interviewed by the examining magistrate again and like always Meursault seems to not take it seriously and focusing on things other than the task at hand.
Significant event- Meursault keeps disproving his lawyers only hope to win the case and sort of backs himself in a corner.
Title: Jane Eyre
Pages: 259-289
Summary: Jane’s aunt, Mrs. Reed, had a stroke. she requests to see Jane before she passes. Jane travels to see her. Jane sees her cousins, who are no longer as mean to Jane when she goes there. As Jane is talking to her aunt, she says that she will not forgive Jane for her behavior. She also lied to Jane’s uncle about her death as revenge. Jane however forgives her aunt for treating her the way she did. When Jane comes home to Thornfield she sees Rochester. She says she feels at home with him. She then starts talking to him and the marriage with Ingram seems to not be happening.
60-90
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
Arthur and Ford are found on the ship and are taken to the captain. He reads the third worst poetry in the Galaxy, that he wrote, as punishment for sneaking on the ship. After they try to lie about the quality of the poetry to the captain he orders the guards to bring them to the air lock. They are thrown out and picked up by the Heart of Gold and learn about the infinite Improbability drive.
1984
pg 117-136
Winston after he and Julia separated went back to work but winston was having troubles cause he wanted to see her. He gets an apartment where she visits him, an the two start too hatch a plan.
Significant event; Winston says “we are the dead’. To me that is heavy symbolism to how there way of life is. pg135
All quite on the western front
Chapter 10
Paul, Tjaden, Müller, Kropp, Detering, and Kat have to guard a supply dump in an abandoned village. They sleep and have a grand dinner. The enemy sees the smoke and attacks. The men fall back into the bucket with the food where they hold out for 3 weeks. When they move and are evacuating a village, Paul and kropp are injured by a falling shell. They are taken to the hospital. They pull off the a catholic hospital once Kropp got a fever. Paul heals well. Kropp is ok but not in the greatest shape. Paul is on leave so he can heal. When it’s time to go back. It’s harder for Paul because his mom is more ill than before
a clockwork orange chapter 4 part 2
alex is given injections and vitamins daily. they strapped him to a chair, his eyes were pulled up so he could not shut them, and had wires attached to his head. he watched multiple films of people getting tortured. his eyes pulled open and trying to move them he could only see the film and the volume was up really high. he felt sick the whole time but they did not stop the films.
title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
pages: 113-147 (chapters X-XI-XII)
Summary: Dorian hides the picture in an old room. In the library he finds a yellow book given to him by Lord Henry, it is a strange book that tells the story of a young Parisian. Dorian is really interested in this book and for many years he lives under the book’s influence and therefore having all kinds of experiences in search of pure pleasure. Dorian is always young and handsome, meanwhile in London, in clubs, rumors about him begin. On his thirty-eighth birthday he goes home from dinner and meets Basil, whom he has not seen for many years. Basil tells him that he has heard various rumors about him and that he is worried about him. Basil insists that Dorian deny all the rumors. Dorian replies that he wants to show him his soul. In fact, she decides to show him the portrait, and in this way give him the answer he wants.
Significant event: Dorian wants to show Basil the portrait.
A Clockwork Orange
126-135
Alex opens the chapter by describing the awful conditions and feelings he faces during his treatment. During one of the violent films he is being shown, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is being played in the background. Alex feels disgusted by this and tells the doctors that they shouldn’t use Beethoven’s music like that, as he didn’t ever hurt anyone. The doctors explain to Alex that they are treating him through a method called association, and lead him to find out that the injections he is receiving make him feel sick. One day Alex knocks the doctor giving him an injection away, but multiple strong men came in to hold him down to receive the injection. After a few days, they forgo giving Alex the injection and let him walk freely to the films. He still feels sick from watching even though he was never given an injection that day. Later in the night, he attempts to plan an escape by attacking a doctor, but as he raised his fists to attack he is overcome with nausea and goes back to sleep.
Significant Event: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is played during one of Alex’s treatments, which might associate feeling sick with listening to music.