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.

Heart of Darkness pg 31-38

Marlow is lying on the deck of his broken down ship and the manager and his uncle walk by and are talking about how Kurtz is sick and gunning for the manager job.  This might be far fetch but I think that Kurtz didn't just get sick on naturally but got a poisoned by the manager. Kurtz also wrote a letter asking that they stop sending him people that didn't know what they are doing. I think that management are sending him these people because they want to make him look bad.  Marlow starts to travel up the river at the end of the section.  He starts to notice the native patterns of life such as the drumming on the river bank.

Heart of Darkness End of Part One

Marlow takes off on a french steamer towards the Congo River is switched to another steamer to go up the river. I thought that this was a Belgium Company so why is he on a french boat.  When he is on the second boat he is told about another man that just hung himself on the boat, I think that this is symbol of what life working in the Congo is going to be like, like sucking the life out of him and not wanting to be part of such an awful thing.  Marlow discovers what the Congo is really like and tries to feed on of the native people.  He then meets the account and tells him to pass a note on to Mr. Kutz. Is this note that he is passing on a note about the awful treatments of the native people. When Marlow arrives at the central station to get his boat he found that it has sunken.  Marlow discovers the boat was sunk on purpose. I think that this happen to not allow Marlow to get to Mr. Kurtz.  Marlow gets his boat out of the water and has to wait for equipment to fix it.  A market place burns down and the native people dance.  Why do they dance? Do they dance because this might force out the non-natives?

Heart of Darkness pg 1-13

The men on the ship anchor right outside of the river waiting for high tide.  Marlow starts to tell his story of a dark time in the very same spot. Is this dark time when Congo people were being attacked? Marlow then tells a story about how he was stabbed by one of the village people and left there to die. Was this in the Congo? He says he got the job as the captain from his aunt. His aunt was friends with the people that ran the shipping company.  I found this entire section very confusing I did not understand the people knitting, was that some kind of symbol, also how his aunt was involved in the entire thing.  I think that maybe as the book progress I will start to understand it better, but I don't care for author writing style how the quotes are these long paragraphs that all marge together.

WSS End of Part Two

When Rochester wakes up after sleeping with Antoinette he feels that he is being suffocated. I think that this suffocation is a symbol for their relationship they were both forced into the marriage and can't get out of it and they are suffocating and wanting their own space and live their own lives. Rochester takes the last straw with Antoinette by sleeping with Amelie, Antoinette heard everything that was going on between the two of them.  Rochester realizes he made a mistake and must send her away and told to never say a word by paying her off. Antionette fleas the house and goes to visit Christophine. When she returns she gets drunk and smash the bottles of rum.  She tries to kill Rochester like her mother tried to kill Mr. Mason.  This was the last straw for Rochester, he kicks Chrisophine out of the house and takes Antionette to the main island. I think he does this because if he gets her to mentally ill he will be free from her and get to keep all the money he made from the deal. Rochester writes his father telling him his plan to lock her up and a place. I think that the only way that Rochester was to feel better about himself for cheating was to proved that it wasn't his fault that he cheated it was Antionette's because she didn't give him the chance and she was crazy.

WSS pg. 98-114

Word: Love
Question: Is everything Daniel Cosway saying true?

pages 59-86

Mr. Rochester comes to marry Antoinette, but for him to come and marry her his is paid 30,000 pounds. I think Rochester agrees to marry this girl for the money and because in one of his letters he told his father that he will not be useless and beg for money anymore. So I believe he agreed to marry someone he has never meet to proved to his father and brother he is not useless. Did Mr. Mason offer so much money to Mr. Rochester because he knew that if he didn't pay someone to marry his step-daughter no one would marry her. The day before the wedding when going to the house to it starts to rain and Antoinette sees an old friend. Was this an old friend or was it one of the slaves that burnt down the house? When they arrived at the house four servants are there to greet them. This four people came from the old plantation, did they not uprise and take part in the plan to burn down the house or did they and claim they didn't so they weren't out of a job? On the day of the wedding Antoinette refused to marry; I believe that she refused to marry because she found out that Mr. Rochester was being paid to marry her and did not want to give him the money. Mr. Rochester also took note on how she never wanted to get out of bed and her moods changed at night. I believe that this is foreshadowing how she is going to go crazy and this is the start.

Wide Sargasso Sea pg. 17-33

Overall I think that this will be an interesting book to read. I thought the book started out slow, which caused me to be confused. I didn’t understand at first that the mother was Jamaican and the father that past away was white.  I found the friendship between the girl and Tia to be an interesting one. Did they meet by walking past each other everyday or were they introduced? I found the scene when Tia stole the dress and took the pennies to really show how poor she was and that she would take anything that she could get.  I think that the mother remarried to have someone to fix up the house and bring an income into the home so her and her two kids didn’t have to struggle through life. The ending part where the mother is asking to leave, I believe she wants to leave to get away from the people that killed her horse and the fact that she believes that she is cursed. I have a few questions: How old is the narrator? Is the sun mentally handicapped that is why he can’t talk and walk?  How did the father fall in love with a slave daughter? And can they not own slaves anymore because the US outlawed slavery?