1. What is the significance of the story’s title?
The significance of the title “In Another Country” shows isolation. The main character attempts to learn Italian language, but is not able to understand the grammar fully. He realizes that everything is not as easy as it seems on the outside. Being American in another country isolates him, along with being injured. He is not able to participate with the rest of the troops.
2. Which character do you think best represents the “Hemingway hero”? Why?
Hemingway’s hero can be described as someone who suffers with grace and dignity and their sense of defeat is inevitable, but they still fight hard until the end. The major is considered to be the “Hemingway Hero” because he has suffered the most with the loss of his wife and his hand, but he still continues to live his life.
3. What can you infer about the photographs the doctor hangs up? What is the significance of the major’s reaction?
You can infer that the pictures the doctor hangs up are fake. They are used as a motivational tool for the people who will be working on them. The reactions of the characters help the reader to infer this. The characters are shocked by these pictures because they are the first people to use these machines. The major does not acknowledge these pictures, but rather looks out the window because he is no longer hopeful that he will get better.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Journal 17: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Journal 17 - “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T.S. Eliot (p.775)
1. What is the significance of the poem’s epigraph? How does it relate to Prufrock?
Prufrock and the author of the epigraph both are the same, they do not put their feelings and thoughts out for the public. Both keep things to themselves and are self-conscience.
I think that the poem is significant because it relates back to the speaker. It is described as if it was meant for Prufrock’s ideal listener. The epigraph describes one who is lost but will never betray to the world the secrets of Prufrock, although nothing like that exists, and one is left to silent reflection.
2. Make a list of questions that Prufrock asks. Do you see a pattern/theme to these questions or are they random?
a. "What is it?"
a. "Do I dare?"
b. "Do I dare Disturb the universe?"
c. "So how should I presume?"
d. "To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?"
e. "And how should I presume?"
f. "is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress?"
g. "And should I then presume?"
h. "And how should I begin?"
i. "Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?"
j. "Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
k. "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?"
These questions form a pattern that may be focusing on Prufrock’s compulsiveness, lack of self-esteem, and isolation.
3. What do you think is Prufrock’s main flaw/problem?
I think Prufrock faces many flaws/problems, one being his lack of self-confidence, anxiety, indecisive, and he comments made up in his mind. Another flaw/problem Prufrock faces is his motivation to peruse something. Instead he talks himself out of a situation, thinking of all the negative instead of the positive. Overall, Prufrock is unable to further relationships because he is emotionally distance from the rest of the world.
4. Why do you think this is called a love song? In what way is it a love song?
I think that it is called a love song as an irony. Prufrock is not in love and does not have relationships with other people. It is ironic because he is lonely, not in love.
1. What is the significance of the poem’s epigraph? How does it relate to Prufrock?
Prufrock and the author of the epigraph both are the same, they do not put their feelings and thoughts out for the public. Both keep things to themselves and are self-conscience.
I think that the poem is significant because it relates back to the speaker. It is described as if it was meant for Prufrock’s ideal listener. The epigraph describes one who is lost but will never betray to the world the secrets of Prufrock, although nothing like that exists, and one is left to silent reflection.
2. Make a list of questions that Prufrock asks. Do you see a pattern/theme to these questions or are they random?
a. "What is it?"
a. "Do I dare?"
b. "Do I dare Disturb the universe?"
c. "So how should I presume?"
d. "To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?"
e. "And how should I presume?"
f. "is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress?"
g. "And should I then presume?"
h. "And how should I begin?"
i. "Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?"
j. "Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
k. "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?"
These questions form a pattern that may be focusing on Prufrock’s compulsiveness, lack of self-esteem, and isolation.
3. What do you think is Prufrock’s main flaw/problem?
I think Prufrock faces many flaws/problems, one being his lack of self-confidence, anxiety, indecisive, and he comments made up in his mind. Another flaw/problem Prufrock faces is his motivation to peruse something. Instead he talks himself out of a situation, thinking of all the negative instead of the positive. Overall, Prufrock is unable to further relationships because he is emotionally distance from the rest of the world.
4. Why do you think this is called a love song? In what way is it a love song?
I think that it is called a love song as an irony. Prufrock is not in love and does not have relationships with other people. It is ironic because he is lonely, not in love.
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