Blogs Week 2
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serenity57Part 1:
The girl and her brother Liard were not fond of their “bedroom” at all. Normally, children usually feel the safest when in the room and their beds should be quite sentimental. However, in “Boys and Girls”, both children feared their room and described their beds as “narrow life rafts”. The children had to play a game in order to distract them from the corner furniture they believed to be a danger, even sing to drown out the deathly silence. Their beds, were not considered to be a safe haven or described as a “plane” or “ship”, instead it was just a “raft”, barely keeping them afloat, barely keeping them alive in vast ocean of darkness.On the other hand, when the girl described her father and where he worked, she described with such detail. Although, her father worked in the “cellar”, she described how her father with such pride. She also had to help her father work outside, the opposite of where girls were supposed to spend their days. Whether it was helping her father make sure the foxes were fed to cutting the “long grass”, she told of every step, again with pride, as if she wanted recognition for doing a “man’s” job, and she did. She emphasized how “helpful” she was by pointing out how her younger brother, the heir to house always ran away and never accomplishing any tasks with her. Despite the fact she knew her father recognized her hard work, this bothered her, whether because she wanted help or because maybe deep down she knew she wasn’t supposed to be doing hard labor is unclear. Nevertheless, her happiest moment as if given a golden trophy, was when her father called her a “new hired hand”, showing how much she respected and adored working beside her father unlike with her mother. When it comes to describing her mother and what she did, she wrote with an annoyed tone. On the occasions where she had to help her mom with any kind of housework, she would “run out the house” as soon as she was done. In fact, throughout the story, she didn’t mention the house much, believing all the house work is “endless, dreary, and peculiarly depressing”. All three examples are in fact binaries. Her brother and herself were quite opposites in personality and working attitudes. The tasks that she rather complete are considered to be of a “man’s” job, not for a girl like her. She doesn’t want to stay home with her mom nor appreciate the importance of house work, all opposites of what a “girl” was expected to do during that time period.
Part 2:
In the story “The Return of The Native”, Eustacia Vye is understood as the anti-heroine in the story, for she is a woman who townspeople referred to as a “witch”. She longs to escape her current confined life to wander off to find great adventures. She persuades herself to fall in love with a man who may ultimately give her the life she wanted until he suddenly fell blind and wasn’t able to do so. Soon after he turns blind, his mother dies. He then accuses Eustacia of murdering his mother, causing her drown herself due to misery of all the accusations. The characters in Moby Dick were sailors who were killed while at sea. Ham Peggotty is a character in David Copperfield. He is also a fisherman and his father drowned when he was a child. Ham died trying to save peoples’ lives that were stranded on a boat. The characters from these three stories all have a connection where they all drowned or killed and died in water.
The girl and her brother Liard were not fond of their “bedroom” at all. Normally, children usually feel the safest when in the room and their beds should be quite sentimental. However, in “Boys and Girls”, both children feared their room and described their beds as “narrow life rafts”. The children had to play a game in order to distract them from the corner furniture they believed to be a danger, even sing to drown out the deathly silence. Their beds, were not considered to be a safe haven or described as a “plane” or “ship”, instead it was just a “raft”, barely keeping them afloat, barely keeping them alive in vast ocean of darkness.On the other hand, when the girl described her father and where he worked, she described with such detail. Although, her father worked in the “cellar”, she described how her father with such pride. She also had to help her father work outside, the opposite of where girls were supposed to spend their days. Whether it was helping her father make sure the foxes were fed to cutting the “long grass”, she told of every step, again with pride, as if she wanted recognition for doing a “man’s” job, and she did. She emphasized how “helpful” she was by pointing out how her younger brother, the heir to house always ran away and never accomplishing any tasks with her. Despite the fact she knew her father recognized her hard work, this bothered her, whether because she wanted help or because maybe deep down she knew she wasn’t supposed to be doing hard labor is unclear. Nevertheless, her happiest moment as if given a golden trophy, was when her father called her a “new hired hand”, showing how much she respected and adored working beside her father unlike with her mother. When it comes to describing her mother and what she did, she wrote with an annoyed tone. On the occasions where she had to help her mom with any kind of housework, she would “run out the house” as soon as she was done. In fact, throughout the story, she didn’t mention the house much, believing all the house work is “endless, dreary, and peculiarly depressing”. All three examples are in fact binaries. Her brother and herself were quite opposites in personality and working attitudes. The tasks that she rather complete are considered to be of a “man’s” job, not for a girl like her. She doesn’t want to stay home with her mom nor appreciate the importance of house work, all opposites of what a “girl” was expected to do during that time period.
Part 2:
In the story “The Return of The Native”, Eustacia Vye is understood as the anti-heroine in the story, for she is a woman who townspeople referred to as a “witch”. She longs to escape her current confined life to wander off to find great adventures. She persuades herself to fall in love with a man who may ultimately give her the life she wanted until he suddenly fell blind and wasn’t able to do so. Soon after he turns blind, his mother dies. He then accuses Eustacia of murdering his mother, causing her drown herself due to misery of all the accusations. The characters in Moby Dick were sailors who were killed while at sea. Ham Peggotty is a character in David Copperfield. He is also a fisherman and his father drowned when he was a child. Ham died trying to save peoples’ lives that were stranded on a boat. The characters from these three stories all have a connection where they all drowned or killed and died in water.
