Hemingway makes the Indians seem very stereotypical in the way they are acting and living. The way it starts out when Nick and his father are going to the camp as they see the Indians in the boats gave me an image that came straight out of Pocahontas. That is basically the most cliche Indian story too and yet that is how he portrays them. At certain points the three of them (Nick, father and uncle) treat the Indians like they are savages, as if they do not matter. An example of this behavior is when Nick’s father is with the woman that is giving birth and she is screaming bloody murder and he seems unfazed by this. He even tells Nick that they do not matter and that his main concern is the baby. Also when the woman bites the uncle and he yells calling her a name even though a blind person could tell she’s suffering. He treats her with complete and utter disrespect he seems to not have a care about her pain just that she stop screaming. In fact this seems to be a pattern among the men…to get this poor woman to stop yelling. The father attempts to teach his son about scienceand the field of medicine, but in the process he completely alienates the way Nick feels about it.

The ending has both a victory and a defeat. A victory because she completely loses her mind and therefore breaks free from the hold that her husband wants to keep over her. She no longer has to just be placed in the attic she can roam free within herself, which unfortunately is also the defeat. Maybe if her husband hadn’t kept such a tight hold on her, let her be free to do what she wanted and be happy maybe then she would not have lost herself. Yet, her husband stood firm with his condescending attitude in which he be little her as a person so at some point her melting point where she literally could not deal anymore was inevitable. Both the defeat and the victory are intertwined and there really is no happy ending to the story or kind of true peace for either character.

Whitman’s problem in this poem is that he cannot connect to nature in I vs. the tide or the people around him in I vs. the crowd. He begins to feel separated and disconnected from everything and out there alone and on his own. Through the poem he begins to feel that he has more and more in common with his surroundings and the people in it. He discovers that they actually have similarities and have gone through some of the same things. This poem demonstrates a really good example of isolation and how easily one can find them self alone without an ally in the world and in this day and age with all the technology that is becoming easier and easier. Just something I noticed.

Emerson stressed the importance of knowledge and the idea of being your own person, whether that be through your learning or what you create for yourself. I think that he means that at some point there will be no more original ideas or thoughts. This is because at some point in the past someone else already thought of it so it just becomes a second thought or copying. Even now inventions and innovative ideas are created, but really they aren’t exactly original or brand new. In fact most are just going off of something that has already been created or thought of. In this day in age it’s all about making things faster or easier so inventions often have one of the two incorporated into it. Sad, but true and itwill continue to be this way from now unto the rest of the future. Even in a fake reality things are still being copied and nothing is really original because all story lines have all ready been written in past histories. How many times can  a TVshow talk about the same problems that people have been dealing with the past million years??? Sorry, but I think on some level everything has already been thought of and people are just stuck in the same cycle using and doing things that people have past generations have invented for the rest of us.

Pollution is something that people think is avoidable, but in hind sight it really is inevitable. There will always be people that don’t care about the environment around them and therefore let it deteriorate with time. Even if there were not those people in the world there are still unforeseen forces that destroy things within the world. There are also different types of ways of polluting your body and mind. Whether that be with the use of drugs, alcohol or even with what you consume. Either way there is something that you are doing to yourself that you may or may not know is bad for you.

The pollution of the mind that begins the second you are born. You come into the world with brand new everything, but somehow you just start to deteriorate from there on out. When you leave the world you are the most polluted of your life because the ideas, thoughts, way you live your life, everything has just brought you down. There is absolutely no way to preserve yourself and it’s really sad, but true. Parents are always saying that they will protect there children from everything, but that is never how it works out. Even the way they are raised pollutes them into how they will raise their own kids. That’s just how people work because once stuff starts affecting them people are determined to do  things on their own terms and not let what happened to them happen gain, or to someone else, or to their own kids. Its pollution of choices and the way you live your life.

Since pollution is inevitable you might as well live life to the fullest with as little regret as possible.

Loyalty is a tricky thing. It goes hand in hand with trust and in this case Eddie had a hard time trusting anyone he didn’t know directly. I think that loyalty is so important to the blue collar community because it and their family is really all they had. They weren’t like the rich community who had their money and reputation to fall back on and all that comes along with it. Eddie had his wife, niece and a couple friends and they had earned his trust. He had to adjust to these two new guys coming in and disrupting his way of life and some of the certain people in it… Of course the relationship between Catherine and Rodolpho would upset him, he was in love with someone that was in many ways unattainable.

Eddie is the kind of guy that likes the same things and doesn’t necessarily respond well to change. Marco and Rodolpho were different from him in many ways and this confused and frustrated Eddie. He also wanted them to be grateful for all that he was doing for them. They were, but they just didn’t show it in the ways that Eddie expected. Which leads to another downfall for Eddie, he had these expectations of people that were in his life or that enter into it that just don’t seem to measure up. He expects his wife to always be on his side and Catherine to want to stay in the house and not want to leave his home. When he starts to see her drift away from him he doesn’t understand and he gets visibly upset, which leads to a couple confrontations. Unfortunately for Eddie the hold that he thinks he has over Catherine ultimately ends up being his demise. During this time communism was the big issue that came along with McCarthyism and the red scare. The idea of being loyal to someone wasn’t really a priority unless it was to the United States. People were out for themselves and those close to them, but to some even those people were disposable.

Looking at the galleries were amazing. It was very hard not feel that wave of creativity brush over you and fight the feeling to start painting as well. One of the galleries I looked was B of American paintings and sculptures. All of course were outstandingly, beautifully, magnificent in their own way but, one that stood out to me was The Unveiling of Dawn by Chester Beach. The sculpture itself is this amazing formed and shaped piece of artwork that really could be seen as abstract in a sense because it has so many different ways of interpretation to it. At first it looks like the body of a man, but then you are taken aback by what you see when you reach the next plane of it.

 Another out of this gallery that I found to be heartening was Fairy Stories by Elmer MacRae. The painting features a woman gracefully sitting in this black iron like chair and around her are these three little girls. Most likely her daughters, either way it’s a very warm view on female bonding. It gives off a sense of home and love from how the woman wants to entertain the girls and watch out for them.

When looking at gallery F I saw the Paeony Garden by D. Putnam Brinley. This gallery in particular had artists that who displayed the influence of impressionism, but nonetheless the painting has some of the most beautiful imagery. The difference of colors gives the painting contrast by the way it has all of these different objective views. First is the actual paeony garden , which has all different colors and shapes that lead up to this little country house and along the way are these trees that look as if their is some sort of wind that keeps them blowing in the wind. Above that are these clouds that can take any shape that they want. This painting is an American classic type of artwork with the way the image displays itself.

After looking at some of the American galleries compared to the European ones there are some visible differences between the artists and their work. Aside from just being different, but possibly because these artists are from different cultures and have different views. When looking at gallery J there are some pieces of art that in the time period of 1913 you probably would not see from an American artist. To me the American artists were more reserved and more focused on scenery and what America was all about. That did not involve the human form or anything to risque. Most of the drawings from the French collection though exquisite are of all nude individuals and have very different shapes, forms and colors to them. Some of the shadings on the French drawings are very dramatic and have a very unique meaning to them. Though they are all different in their own work, all are amazing in their own right. The Armory show is spectacular and will live on in history as well as through art books, archives and museums forever…

What is it specifically that attracts the narrator to the man? Is it some similarity that the reader isn’t aware of? Could it be that he feels some type of responsibility or connection to this random stranger? The narrator in the story has just gotten over being ill and seems to have a brand new out look on life. I believe it is this piece of information that he gives us that is a hint as to why he would sit in an unnamed coffee shop people watching. It could be that he has this new respect for life and wants to see how others waste theirs away. When it comes to the man it really could be a million different things that are forcing him to be so fixated on this complete stranger.

As the narrator describes it the man had an “absolute idiosyncrasy of its expression” that absorbed his whole attention. This is obviously what caught the narrator’s curiosity, but what made him follow a total stranger? There is something about him that the narrator feels that he must find out like some kind of secret that he is the only one that can solve it. Then again the man is an inquisitive case in his own right. Now a days if someone aimlessly wanders around the city for the entire night its not really a big deal (its not safe or recommended by any means, but its not still not that big of a deal). The time in which this story takes place is so different and it almost defined who this man was in the sense that he was walking around all through the night because that was something that was just not done at all. This could just be one of the many contributing factors as to why the narrator follows him.

There is still the question of did this man have some kind of connection with this man. We don’t really know, but I kind of like to believe that the narrator was a different person before he got over whatever illness infected him. That he was not the type of man that would spend his day sitting in the coffee shop looking at the other people that shared the same oxygen that he did. He might not have been a good man or maybe he reversed roles and he wandered around contemplating the existence of life or whatever was bothering him enough to walk around that late at night. I guess we’ll never know the whole truth behind it and I gotta say I like it that way. The mystery behind has me intrigued myself to the point that next time I just can’t take it anymore that I might wander around the city and figure out the meaning of life myself. . .

The story of a man being scared or frightened of marriage is just one of those timeless scenarios that people can relate to. Even back then people were interested in the fact that some men just cannot be tied down or have the old ball and chain because he is just too much of a man. Hawthorne illustrates this same type of commitment phobia that almost all men feel when they are either about to get married or just have. In the story the newlyweds are on the platform of beginning their lives together, but before they do the husband decides that he just has to leave his new bride to go fulfill a promise that he made prior to their wedding. I’m not saying that he did it so he could get away from Faith, but I think that the way his attitude changes over the time they are apart is classic. I believe that the time that he is away from her is a metaphor that as time goes on and the longer you are with your other half the more you find out about each other (things you probably wish you hadn’t). By the time he comes back he most likely wishes that he hadn’t gotten married at all because he is a completely different person. when you marry someone you are with them forever and through time you both change, which is obvious because you cannot be the same person for the rest of your life, but many do not realize this. In this case He changed by going through this trial of separation from his wife while in the mean time being with this devilish type creature, which only changed him more. I think this story had some idealistic themes that are touched on in a lot of classic stories and it was enjoyable.

I’m Alison, but you can call me Ally. Not really sure what to say  since this is for class so I’ll just introduce myself. I’m from San Diego and I’m an English creative writing major, which is why I took this class. I hope this class will be fun and educational, but hey it’s school so you never know. Well I think that’s enough about me so what about you guys? Can’t wait to see what you guys wrote. See you guys tomorrow!

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