DIsgrace Chapters 18-21

David starts to become concerned about what Lucy is going to do with herself when she is all alone of the farm. He ask if Petrus will take over the farm for a year and he says no.  I think David really wants to get his daughter out of a dangerous place and hoping that if she was to leave for a long period that maybe she would never return to the farm, using his parenting instinct to protect his child.  I feel that David true motives of going to the Issac's was to check on Melanie, but she was not there and he was deep down happy that she returned to school.  I think that Mr. Issac was so inviting to David because he wanted to hear David apologize, because once he did he went off on David.  Is the Issac family very religious is that way they didn't drink and tell David about how he doesn't have a god?  When David returns home he finds his entire home destroyed and empty.  He goes to the story to buy food and is behind the head of his old department, I think David should of told that women off and stand up for himself.  Is the ophera he is writing based off of himself and his life?  David goes to to Melanie play, I think he does this because he is in love with Melanie she was just not one of his play mates.  I think David sleeps with a bunch of women because he is trying to fill a void in his life and the only way he knows how to do it is by sleeping with a bunch of women.

Disgrace Chapters 15-17

Word: Party
Question: Why would Lucy not want to call the police when she sees one of her attackers at the party; is it because she does not want the entire party to find out about how she was attacked or does she want to pretend that it never happened?

Disgrace chapters 10-14

At the start of the reading I thought that David was going to leave Lucy and return to the city for a faster pace life.  When David was working at the clinic it didn't seem as he was much help to Bev. When David returns home he finds Lucy on the phone and starts to ponder her love life.  When David and Lucy go on a walk they pass three creepy men that just keep going when they return to the house they are at the dog cage and create a story about why they need to use the phone.  Did these three men know that Lucy lived alone and she would be an easy target, but they had to handle David?  I think the goat from the clinic foreshadowing what was going to happen to David.  The next day David is taken to the hospital  to have his wounds check out and they are much better then I assumed they would be from being set on fire.  David keeps pushing Lucy for answers about what happen to her and why she won't tell the police about the rape.  She says it is about a private knowledge in Women in America private knowledge is only between women and whats goes on in the family, is this the same concept?  Also does Petrius have anything to do with the attack because he won't fess up about his location.

Disgrace chapters1-5

David Lurie starts to "hang out" with one of his students.  At first I thought that relationship was not going to go anywhere because she was a student and he was her teacher, but I was wrong.  When they first make love it seems weird how she won't look at him and tried to avoid all meaning actions. I thought that the relationship was going to be over when she would not respond to him and didn't come to class and I was wrong again.  He goes to her apartment and the book describes this love session to be more like willing rape because she wouldn't fight back, but allowed it to happen.  She goes to stay at his home, is this because the boy that shows up in the office, her boyfriend, threatens her if she is to return.  I think that her boyfriend is abusive and is afraid to leave him and that he rapes her all of the time.

Heart of Darkness pg 54-63

Word: Native
Question: If the natives were treated differently would that effect the way the man look at Kutz and his behavior towards them such has not putting head on sticks and threatening  to kill them?

Heart of Darkness to end of part 2

Marlow throws the body of the dead helmsman overboard. Many people on the boat are upset about this because he didn't get a proper burial and the cannibals loss out on a meal. Marlow blames the helmsman for his own death because if he didn't fire they wont of shot him.  I thought that the death was foreshadowing the future and some other death like Kurtz.  Marlow and his crew thinks that the station has been completely destroyed and the trip was useless, but they discovered the station and it was only slightly dilapidated.  I think the station is a representation of the journey, the journey still went on but it had its bad times.  When Marlow meets the person in charge he discovers his notebook is not in code but in Russian.  I was confused did someone end up reading the notebook to Marlow or not?

Heart of Darkness pg. 38-47

This section starts out with Marlow being very upset about the fact that he cant travel on for the last eight miles of the trip. The manager doesn't think it is a good idea since they saw the sign.  The crew of the ship is given copper to stop at the villages to buy food but the men are carnivorous and eat human meat.  Is this a normal thing for people in Africa to eat human?  When the fog finale lifts they start head up the river.  When they start to be under attack by the native people. Were they shooting arrows or were they unsharpen sticks? Also what caused the large smoke to appear in front of them?   The man that steers the ship gets hit and dies at the feet of Marlow.  I think Marlow didn't react to the fact that someone is dead at his feet because he was to busy trying to save the lives of the other men on the ship.