Week 2 blog
A. Reflection
When the narrator describes the father's work area, it comes across as the most exciting place to be. She refers to the "downstairs world" as being warm, safe, and brightly lit in contrast to the stale, cold air looming upstairs. She describes the smell of blood and animal fat as being "reassuringly seasonal, like the smell of oranges and pine needles" even though the nature of his work is anything but pleasant. Her mother's work area is described as the "hot, dark kitchen" with flypaper, a wavy mirror, and bumpy linoleum and says working in there was dreary and depressing. The bedroom was her space that she could sing, be alone, and let her imagination run wild. All of these places are stereotypical of a man, woman, and child but the narrator doesn't see it that way in the beginning of the story and slowly realizes this as her father (who she greatly admires) pushes the role of "girl" onto her. There are many binaries in the descriptions she uses for these work areas, some seeing the bigger picture (male vs female) and some more specific (dark and dreary kitchen vs the brightly lit downstairs).
B. Reading Ahead
The similarities between Eustacia Vye and the narrator's mother in "The Boat" were mainly physical, the mother as being "tall and dark", and Eustacia Vye as a "raven-haired young beauty". Eustacia is also described as "the raw material of a divinity" whose "celestial imperiousness, love, wrath, and fervor had proved to be somewhat thrown away on netherward Egdon."
Moby Dick is a story about a whaler who lost his leg to the infamous whale named Moby Dick and seeks vengeance even though there is said to be doom for anyone who threatens it. Many die during this mission and the whale is never caught.
Ham Peggotty lives in Dover, SE England. He loses his life while attempting to rescue a sailor, who happens to be Steerforth, from a shipwreck.
When the narrator describes the father's work area, it comes across as the most exciting place to be. She refers to the "downstairs world" as being warm, safe, and brightly lit in contrast to the stale, cold air looming upstairs. She describes the smell of blood and animal fat as being "reassuringly seasonal, like the smell of oranges and pine needles" even though the nature of his work is anything but pleasant. Her mother's work area is described as the "hot, dark kitchen" with flypaper, a wavy mirror, and bumpy linoleum and says working in there was dreary and depressing. The bedroom was her space that she could sing, be alone, and let her imagination run wild. All of these places are stereotypical of a man, woman, and child but the narrator doesn't see it that way in the beginning of the story and slowly realizes this as her father (who she greatly admires) pushes the role of "girl" onto her. There are many binaries in the descriptions she uses for these work areas, some seeing the bigger picture (male vs female) and some more specific (dark and dreary kitchen vs the brightly lit downstairs).
B. Reading Ahead
The similarities between Eustacia Vye and the narrator's mother in "The Boat" were mainly physical, the mother as being "tall and dark", and Eustacia Vye as a "raven-haired young beauty". Eustacia is also described as "the raw material of a divinity" whose "celestial imperiousness, love, wrath, and fervor had proved to be somewhat thrown away on netherward Egdon."
Moby Dick is a story about a whaler who lost his leg to the infamous whale named Moby Dick and seeks vengeance even though there is said to be doom for anyone who threatens it. Many die during this mission and the whale is never caught.
Ham Peggotty lives in Dover, SE England. He loses his life while attempting to rescue a sailor, who happens to be Steerforth, from a shipwreck.