Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The past few chapters have been extremely interesting from an analytical standpoint. Sal states that he must leave San Francisco or else he will go crazy. What I picked up on was that by this comment Sal made it showed that his constant movement becomes somewhat of a tactic of survival for him. It seems as though Sal craves the movement and feeds off of it. Stylistically I have also noticed that the sentences and paragraphs are a lot shorter in the Mill City section. They are more narrative and less descriptive, which I found made it a lot easier to read.
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I agree with that too, it also seems that Sal is maturing a bit. In these past few chapters I didn't think he was abusing alcohol and relationships with people as much. He seemed more concentrated on surviving and making enough money to get by and enabling himself to keep moving. The sentence patterns seem to be more normal now too and easier to read. the punctuation does not seem as awkward as the first few chapters in this book
ReplyDeleteI couldn't figure out how to post so I'm just doing mine here.. I thought these chapters were very interesting and they revealed so much about Sal's character. In particular, the quote, "I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief" (72), exemplifies Sal's outlook on his country and on life in general.
ReplyDeleteI thought that it was interesting that Sal notices that everyone is on the run from something, but does not included himself in this everyone (page 65) and I was really lugubrious (Sal uses it a lot, so I tried to include it) about Remi's stepfather, and Terry. Finally, the "je suis haut" thing was funny because its défoncé...
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of tonight's reading was the scene in which Sal met "the cutest little Mexican girl," or Terry (81). There was a certain energy that came with the formation and growth of their new relationship in such a short period of time.
ReplyDeleteI think this section shows a lot about the character of Dean. When Dean and Sal are alone talking, they start a conversation about God. I thought it was interesting how Dean's belief in god reflects his lifestyle. He says"troubles, you see, is in the generalization-word for what god exists in, and he also says You see what I mean?God exists without qualms"(120-121). By saying this he believes that God is ok with some people having problems, or a kid chucking rocks at cars. This is reflected in Dean's character because he is pretty laid back, and doesn't really know what he is doing, and doesn't care if he is in trouble. He is just living life. Also Sal is incredibly contradictory. He says that he wants to find love and marriage, but he randomly says that he necked with a girl he just met. Also when he talks about Lucille, he just says he actually wanted wanted to marry he. Yet he goes on to talk about everything that is great about marriage and not her.
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