Blogs Week 3
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serenity57Part 1:
"The Boat" uses intertextuality in order to foreshadow the similar events that would eventually happen in both the main story and the texts that were referenced. There is a similar theme that there are deaths of drowning from every story and there are also similarities between each character's life. The character Eustacia Vye is used to be compared to the narrator's mother in the story. They were both smart and beautiful women who failed to lead the life they wanted although they knew exactly what they wanted from their husband and family. Knowing that they could never find happiness, the women also was not able to escape their fate. The narrator's mother from The Boat is unhappy with the fact that her husband is an untidy sailor and she also hates that her daughters started reading and became waitresses instead of being the traditional housewife like she is. Eustacia, similarly, was never happy with her husband because he couldn't take her places like she wanted to and in the end blame her for the death of his mother.Also in "David Copperfield", the character Ham Peggoty can be compared to the narrator's father in "The Boat" because they share similar death, although the narrator's death was caused by an accident and Ham Peggoty died because he heroicly wanted to save the lives of stranded people. The sea in these stories symbolizes the ending of many character's lives.
Part 2:
By the way the author "bracket" beginning and ending of the story with peaceful images filled in the reader's mind, his point of view enhances the expressing of forgiveness towards his father because even though he experienced everything negative his father has to offer growing up, he never understood the real reason why his father has acted like that ever since he came back from the war. Like mentioned in the story " Cy didn't answer for a moment and then he said: 'Dieppe'. I didn't understand. I thought it was a new disease." It can be argued that the narrator forgives his father by the fact that, maybe he was too young to understand what was going on, but he never really blamed his father for the things that he did. Another example would be that the narrator completed his father's last wish by spreading his ashes in Dieppe among his father's fallen comrades thinking that they have also forgiven him.
"The Boat" uses intertextuality in order to foreshadow the similar events that would eventually happen in both the main story and the texts that were referenced. There is a similar theme that there are deaths of drowning from every story and there are also similarities between each character's life. The character Eustacia Vye is used to be compared to the narrator's mother in the story. They were both smart and beautiful women who failed to lead the life they wanted although they knew exactly what they wanted from their husband and family. Knowing that they could never find happiness, the women also was not able to escape their fate. The narrator's mother from The Boat is unhappy with the fact that her husband is an untidy sailor and she also hates that her daughters started reading and became waitresses instead of being the traditional housewife like she is. Eustacia, similarly, was never happy with her husband because he couldn't take her places like she wanted to and in the end blame her for the death of his mother.Also in "David Copperfield", the character Ham Peggoty can be compared to the narrator's father in "The Boat" because they share similar death, although the narrator's death was caused by an accident and Ham Peggoty died because he heroicly wanted to save the lives of stranded people. The sea in these stories symbolizes the ending of many character's lives.
Part 2:
By the way the author "bracket" beginning and ending of the story with peaceful images filled in the reader's mind, his point of view enhances the expressing of forgiveness towards his father because even though he experienced everything negative his father has to offer growing up, he never understood the real reason why his father has acted like that ever since he came back from the war. Like mentioned in the story " Cy didn't answer for a moment and then he said: 'Dieppe'. I didn't understand. I thought it was a new disease." It can be argued that the narrator forgives his father by the fact that, maybe he was too young to understand what was going on, but he never really blamed his father for the things that he did. Another example would be that the narrator completed his father's last wish by spreading his ashes in Dieppe among his father's fallen comrades thinking that they have also forgiven him.
