This book has been confusing because I dont get the ´´humor´´ you talk about. What I have understand is that Candide is a bastard child and he has a tutor. He likes Lady Cunegonde and then he kisses her after seeing the ´´best´´ tutor kissing her ´´mothers waiting-woman´´(21) and then she kisses Candide because she wanted to try what she saw. Then Candide is taken to Waldberghoff'-trarbk-dikdoff where he is kidnapped. He is almos killed but he is saved by the King ´´ The king of the Bulgars passed by at the moment and asked what crime the culprit had committed. Since the king was a man of great insight, he recognized from what he was told about Candide that here was a young philosopher utterly ignorant of the ways of the world, and granted him a pardon´´(24)
I am really confused of what is happening but that is what I have understand until know
Active to passive
1.Joanne was delayed by a client when she was leaving the office.
2. A meeting was being held by the tennis club at 6.30.
3. Sheba,the dog,blocked the doorway.
4. Sheba had to be taken to the vet.
5. The vet was worried by her condition.
6. The vet treated the dog while Joanne went home.
7. Joanne was told to get out of the house.
8. Joanne was confused by the telephone call.
9. The burglar was captured by the police.
10. His fingers had been bitten off by the dog.
1. Those bottles cannot be easily opened by children.
2. A road was built right outside her front door by the government.
3. The antique vase was broken by Mr. Ross as he walked through the store.
4. The changes amazed her when she arrived.
5. Street repairs are being made by the construction workers all month long.
6. His retirement will be celebrated by the party.
7. His oral exam was being discussed by his professors in front of him.
8. The homemade cookies were eaten by my son.
9. The hull of the ship was damaged by corrosion.
10. While I was there the old homestead were being visited by some children.
Nice guys finish first
This chapter is mostly about the way you will act if you are in a complicated situation in the one you can gain completly of loss it all. We did various examples of this inclass, about prisones, games, boyfriends, drugdealers and other more. The chapter starts giving an example of Prisoner's Dilemma. ''There is a banker who adjudicates and pays out winnings to the two players. Suppose that I am playing against you. There are only two cards...COOPERATE DEFECT...'' In conclusion is about the way in which you can do things without communicationg with the other person you are playing or the threat is putten to se hoew much you can think wisely to win in all ways. In my opinion as shown in the difffrent examples, people think mostly in themselves all the time and are selfish and do as possible to win more. In some occations the both players have to think for the both to win, but the inmediate question of everyone is always getting the best for them, in a selfish way, and them think in the rest. Later, the chapter talks about the way that a computer programm ''plays'' the game and finds a way in which yu can always win, lose, or just not gaining anything.
The person that wins is the person which thinks the most and thinks in the wise way not be selfish and thinking the right way to always win something.
The person that wins is the person which thinks the most and thinks in the wise way not be selfish and thinking the right way to always win something.
Immortal Coils
Reading this chapter I got a little confused and the scince became top much to me because I did not understant many of the words. This has been the hardest chapter untill know. In class we discussed some and the understanding was better
Alles: Two or more genes that are rival fot the same slot in a chromosome. One is dominant and the other receive.
Meiosis: Division of a cell into a new cell, but only occurs in the sex cells the sperm and egg
Mitosis: Is the process by which cells divided or replicated into new cells each one reaciving a copy of 46 chromosomes.
Start symbol: Is a sequence of nuclear tides coding for the start of the protein chain.
End symbol_ Is a sequence of nuclear tides coding the end of the protein chain
Point mutation: Is an error that is misinterpretated in a nuclear typu sequence.
This chapter is all about the DNA, reproduction, sex and about science. It was kind of confusing
Alles: Two or more genes that are rival fot the same slot in a chromosome. One is dominant and the other receive.
Meiosis: Division of a cell into a new cell, but only occurs in the sex cells the sperm and egg
Mitosis: Is the process by which cells divided or replicated into new cells each one reaciving a copy of 46 chromosomes.
Start symbol: Is a sequence of nuclear tides coding for the start of the protein chain.
End symbol_ Is a sequence of nuclear tides coding the end of the protein chain
Point mutation: Is an error that is misinterpretated in a nuclear typu sequence.
This chapter is all about the DNA, reproduction, sex and about science. It was kind of confusing
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene - Meet the author
I think this video is not really specific. I am reading the book but I do not understand what it has to do with Ortodox but the only thing I understood was the alturism and the selfish genes that we talked about that before. I did not know the book was so old and it is really confusing to me, and most of all that he would write it the same way after so many years and so much new science appearing in the world.
The replicators
In this chapter Daewkins stars talking about the way that Darwins explained the theory of evolution. ''Shows us a way in which simplicity couls change into complexity, how uorderes atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patters until they ended up manufacturing people''(12) He says that the theory of Darwin of ''survival of the fittesr'' is more ''survival of the stable'' He says the universe is populated by stable things. '' A stable thing is a collection of atoms that is permamnent enough or common enough to ddeserce a name''(12) He starts giving examples such as: soap bubbles, salt crystals, hydrogen atoms and haemoglobin molecules. '' Haemoglobin is a modern molecule, used to illustrate the princuple that atoms tend to fall into stable patters''(13)
Later, he gets to the point of the Peplicator. '' Remarkable molecule was formed by accident''(14) He also says it may not be the biggerst or more complex molecule '' extraordinary property of being able to create copies of itself''(15) He says the way that when improbable things happen in the lives of a human they aree considered as impossible. He starts talking about the replicatos and then it says that it can act as a template not for an identical copy but a negative. '' re- make an exact copy of the original ''positive'' ''(16)
This book is being complicated, but in a way its getting interesting and a way of learning.
Later, he gets to the point of the Peplicator. '' Remarkable molecule was formed by accident''(14) He also says it may not be the biggerst or more complex molecule '' extraordinary property of being able to create copies of itself''(15) He says the way that when improbable things happen in the lives of a human they aree considered as impossible. He starts talking about the replicatos and then it says that it can act as a template not for an identical copy but a negative. '' re- make an exact copy of the original ''positive'' ''(16)
This book is being complicated, but in a way its getting interesting and a way of learning.
The selfish gene
Im not a person who really aprreiates reading about science and evoluntion and trhe way Richard Dawkins is going to talk about his book. He talks about alturism which is a word i haven't hear before but later it was explained in class and we also saw `` Alturism act is one that looks superficially, as if it mist tend to make the alturist more likely to die, and the recipient more likely to survive''(4) He begins talking about the evolution and Darwinism and the survival of the fittest but Dawkins changes that term to the survival of the gene. Being alturisc is doing good thing foor the community and other people and not being selfish. I think everyone is selfish in some point or in some way. Poepple are selfish many times and that is a natural thing in humans. '' The word selfish may seem an understatement for sucj extreme cases as cannibalism''(5) He gives an example in which there are humans an in the sea they are seals, they want to get into the see but they are really selfish and are wainting for someone else to risk their lives because they ar enot risking themselves. '' Naturally nobody wants to be the guinea pig, so they wait, and sometimes even try to push each other in''(5)
I think everyone is selfish in some point, sometimes you are alturism because you think in others but not always, and most of the time you think only in you survival and in your own good.
I think everyone is selfish in some point, sometimes you are alturism because you think in others but not always, and most of the time you think only in you survival and in your own good.
Sources
Instructions:
1. Think about what you want to write your topic and see if the article you are reading works.
2.See if you will have good sources for your topic.
3. Primary, secondary or terciary source
4. Determine if the information is the source you are using is a fact, opinion or propaganda.
5.Check hhow old is your source for the information you are going to need. Is it useful?
EBSCO:
1.IS IT TOO EASY TO GET A GUN IN AMERICA? By: Edelman, Marian Wright; Craig, Larry. New York Times Upfront, 9/3/2007, Vol. 140 Issue 1, p28-28, 1p; (AN 27136089)
2.Virginia's Gun Market. New York Times, 8/22/2007, Vol. 156 Issue 54044, pA18-A18, 1/8p; (AN 26547045
3.The Campus Killings Spur States to Act to Protect Students. By: Lewis, Lyndsey. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/27/2007, Vol. 53 Issue 47, p13-13, 1p; (AN 25941041)
4.Report Claims Guns More Plentiful at Schools. By: Portner, Jessica. Education Week, 09/27/2000, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p3, 1/2p, 1c; (AN 3729999)
5.'Gun-Free Zones.'. By: Kopel, David B.. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition, 4/18/2007, Vol. 249 Issue 90, pA17, 00p; (AN 24811922)
1. Think about what you want to write your topic and see if the article you are reading works.
2.See if you will have good sources for your topic.
3. Primary, secondary or terciary source
4. Determine if the information is the source you are using is a fact, opinion or propaganda.
5.Check hhow old is your source for the information you are going to need. Is it useful?
EBSCO:
1.IS IT TOO EASY TO GET A GUN IN AMERICA? By: Edelman, Marian Wright; Craig, Larry. New York Times Upfront, 9/3/2007, Vol. 140 Issue 1, p28-28, 1p; (AN 27136089)
2.Virginia's Gun Market. New York Times, 8/22/2007, Vol. 156 Issue 54044, pA18-A18, 1/8p; (AN 26547045
3.The Campus Killings Spur States to Act to Protect Students. By: Lewis, Lyndsey. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/27/2007, Vol. 53 Issue 47, p13-13, 1p; (AN 25941041)
4.Report Claims Guns More Plentiful at Schools. By: Portner, Jessica. Education Week, 09/27/2000, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p3, 1/2p, 1c; (AN 3729999)
5.'Gun-Free Zones.'. By: Kopel, David B.. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition, 4/18/2007, Vol. 249 Issue 90, pA17, 00p; (AN 24811922)
Paraphrasing, quotation and summary
P: Roger Sipher concludes his essay talking about the education that students are having and the lack of effort they put into their classes because of being there without wanting. He talks about the way he thinks that schools have failed in putting order to the students and making the education productive.
S: Roger Sipher makes of point of what he thinks about education and it being completly managed in the wrong way. He talks about students going to school and not having any interest that they do not make the school and learning advance in a positive way. He says that the thinking that students have is that they pass from grade to grade but many times they know they dont make an advance in thei lifes until they quit. He talks about the way people see school as a fun place and useless. He ends his essay talkingt about the way schools should be for learning not for a social tme of a chilling passing the day time. Poeple should take school seriously and that advantage of the oportunity of learning.
Q: ´´First, it would alert everyone that school is a serious place where one goes to learn. Schools are neither day-care centers nor indoor street corners. Young people who resist learning should stay away; indeed, an end to compulsory schooling would require them to stay away.´´ (Sipher)This is a point that Roger Sipher makes about the way people take school and how not serious thay think about it.
S: Roger Sipher makes of point of what he thinks about education and it being completly managed in the wrong way. He talks about students going to school and not having any interest that they do not make the school and learning advance in a positive way. He says that the thinking that students have is that they pass from grade to grade but many times they know they dont make an advance in thei lifes until they quit. He talks about the way people see school as a fun place and useless. He ends his essay talkingt about the way schools should be for learning not for a social tme of a chilling passing the day time. Poeple should take school seriously and that advantage of the oportunity of learning.
Q: ´´First, it would alert everyone that school is a serious place where one goes to learn. Schools are neither day-care centers nor indoor street corners. Young people who resist learning should stay away; indeed, an end to compulsory schooling would require them to stay away.´´ (Sipher)This is a point that Roger Sipher makes about the way people take school and how not serious thay think about it.
Part 3 (161-202)
In this three chapters a lot of things happen. He arrives to a town where he settles with Mr Lehr and Miss Lehr. They are brothers and they recive him in a really good attitude knowing he is a priest, but they are not catholic. '' Oh, they won't bother me. But you had better be careful. You know offcourse, that it's against the law.''(164) This impresses me because they wont bother them but they are still risking themselves because something could happen. '' We don't hold with your Church, father. Too much luxury, it seems to me, while people starve.''(162) This at first impresses me but further on it is also shown that the leiutenant says the same thing so that is a feeling that people have towards our religion. The priest goes with Mr Lehr to take a bath and they start talking about church and religion and the priest tries to bring hium to his religion.
It impresses me that the people of the village are like the people has been during the whole book, everytime they see a priest they do anything to hear a mass or get their babies batized because they haven't seen a priest in years. '' There are so many of us father...there are many children to be baptized. There has not been a priest for three years''(166) I don't like the way he takes money out of them, I know he needed money but at the same time those people were very poor and he was doing something so people would get closer to God thats his job, not to take money out of poor people. After this, he starts talking to a man called Pedro, he offers him whiskey and they start talking about a lot of things and how he wanted to get to Las Casas. Later he says to him ''Drunkennes, adultery, uncleannes: he sat there tasting the brandy all the while, sitting on a rocking chair in a horse-box, not looking at the face of the one who knelt at his side.''(171) He does not care about anything anymore he does all the things mention before and he does not care whch I think that he is not a good priest anymore. ''Mortal sin...danger...self-control, as if those words meant anything at all.''(172)
Later, he starts talking with Mr Lehr and he is going to go and do the mass to the poeple in the village and he invites her'' I've sometimies wished that I could go tio church...Mr lehr wouldn't like it. He's very strict.''(175) I think it is weird the way that catholic religion is prohibided but still a lot of people practice it in secret and help themselves between each other, but it is also weird the way that Mr lehr acts and the interest toward the prohibed religion, which it makes sense because humans have the interest of things that are prohibed. Then the man that walked with him and was his companion for some time with the mule and then got sick he appeared. He was looking for the priest and told him there was a man that was really sick and that needded his help. '' The yankee, the one the police wanted... he robbed a bank..''(278) The priest decided to help him because I guess that something came to him and it was a way to get the way he wanted and with someone with him but he never trusted him because police knew that this man was with the priest before so it could be a tramp. '' Why do you think me such a fool? I know why you've come. You're the only one they've got who can recognize me...''(178) They got to the place where the yankee was, and the priest started to suspect that he was in some kind of tramp. He went in to se the Yankee for his confession but he was really mad. '' That bastard..what sort of a confession is this? I make a five hours' journey...and all I get out of you are evil words.''(187) Then he discovered that he was really in a tram. The leiutenant appeared and then he was reaslly confused because he remembered he had seen the priest before a couple of times and he confessed him that he lied. They started talking and in a way I think they started to meat things about the other. ''There are good priest and bad priests. It is just I am a bad priest.''(191) It is really good for him to accept that he was a bad priest because he made many sins, but in a way I think he was a good priest because he keept his reaigion until the end. The lieutenant talked to the priest and explained to him why they are doing all the do. ''The church was poor , the priest was poor, therefore everyone should sell all and give to the church...You're danger. That's why we kill you. I have nothing against you understand, as a man''(193) This impresses me because it is really weird him saying that so it confuses me , they are doing it for their people, for them being abused by the church in a way. They kept talking and each one showd they kind way. The lieutenant started blaming the priest for killing to inocent men because he did not want that, and the priest started telling him why thing became that way and why he became corrupt. They had a connection.
It impresses me that the people of the village are like the people has been during the whole book, everytime they see a priest they do anything to hear a mass or get their babies batized because they haven't seen a priest in years. '' There are so many of us father...there are many children to be baptized. There has not been a priest for three years''(166) I don't like the way he takes money out of them, I know he needed money but at the same time those people were very poor and he was doing something so people would get closer to God thats his job, not to take money out of poor people. After this, he starts talking to a man called Pedro, he offers him whiskey and they start talking about a lot of things and how he wanted to get to Las Casas. Later he says to him ''Drunkennes, adultery, uncleannes: he sat there tasting the brandy all the while, sitting on a rocking chair in a horse-box, not looking at the face of the one who knelt at his side.''(171) He does not care about anything anymore he does all the things mention before and he does not care whch I think that he is not a good priest anymore. ''Mortal sin...danger...self-control, as if those words meant anything at all.''(172)
Later, he starts talking with Mr Lehr and he is going to go and do the mass to the poeple in the village and he invites her'' I've sometimies wished that I could go tio church...Mr lehr wouldn't like it. He's very strict.''(175) I think it is weird the way that catholic religion is prohibided but still a lot of people practice it in secret and help themselves between each other, but it is also weird the way that Mr lehr acts and the interest toward the prohibed religion, which it makes sense because humans have the interest of things that are prohibed. Then the man that walked with him and was his companion for some time with the mule and then got sick he appeared. He was looking for the priest and told him there was a man that was really sick and that needded his help. '' The yankee, the one the police wanted... he robbed a bank..''(278) The priest decided to help him because I guess that something came to him and it was a way to get the way he wanted and with someone with him but he never trusted him because police knew that this man was with the priest before so it could be a tramp. '' Why do you think me such a fool? I know why you've come. You're the only one they've got who can recognize me...''(178) They got to the place where the yankee was, and the priest started to suspect that he was in some kind of tramp. He went in to se the Yankee for his confession but he was really mad. '' That bastard..what sort of a confession is this? I make a five hours' journey...and all I get out of you are evil words.''(187) Then he discovered that he was really in a tram. The leiutenant appeared and then he was reaslly confused because he remembered he had seen the priest before a couple of times and he confessed him that he lied. They started talking and in a way I think they started to meat things about the other. ''There are good priest and bad priests. It is just I am a bad priest.''(191) It is really good for him to accept that he was a bad priest because he made many sins, but in a way I think he was a good priest because he keept his reaigion until the end. The lieutenant talked to the priest and explained to him why they are doing all the do. ''The church was poor , the priest was poor, therefore everyone should sell all and give to the church...You're danger. That's why we kill you. I have nothing against you understand, as a man''(193) This impresses me because it is really weird him saying that so it confuses me , they are doing it for their people, for them being abused by the church in a way. They kept talking and each one showd they kind way. The lieutenant started blaming the priest for killing to inocent men because he did not want that, and the priest started telling him why thing became that way and why he became corrupt. They had a connection.
Prison!
Chapter two starts really weird because I got confused with the characters. Some person finds a beggar in the street and tells him he wants wine and the beggar tells him he will help him if he gives him money. This confuses me a little because at first I thought that the it was the priest, but I got confused because he was asking for wine not for brandy. ''You see I want to spend them on a drink, what sort of drink?...You mean spirits? Yes-and wine''(104) Then after this the beggar takes this person to a place to drink and other people get there. After that happens the priest is walking in the streets and he sees that they are following him so he starts running. ''Mother of God! He was a red shitr!''(115)In the way he sees Padre Jose. He was not really nice, his identity as a priest he changed it so nothing would happen to him and he had a wife. ''I'll shout if you don0t go''(118) In my opinion I think padre jose acted really bad because insted of helping him because in that moment they thought they were following him because of being a priest he made him go.Finally they caught him. He spend the night in jail with other people and confessed to them he was a priest. They all told him that they were not interested in giving him in and having the money they were giving the only thing was that they wanted to get out. He spend the night with those people and some wanted to confess. The next day he woke upo and they made him clean the cells and then they asked about him and he said he was ''Montez'' and they let him go because he was sent to jail because of the brandy and a crucifix. I think this is really ridiculous as I said before because people are in a point they are completly against religion and they want to destroy christianity completly.
Part 2 Chapter 1 (59-102)
Part two talks all the time of the priest. It starts talking about a man being in a mule and getting to a place he has not been in a really long time. What is first noticed is that this person is scaping from the police so it immediately gives us the idea that it is the whisky priest or the gringo. Some people receive him really well but with fear. ´´They are taking hostages now- from all villages where they think you’ve been. And if people don’t tell…somebody is shot… and then they take another hostage…’’(63) I think this is amazing the way that they want to excecute religion that they get to the point to look for this priest everywhere until they find him but in the same time killing a lot of people. People start discussing if they receive him or not because they could be risking their lives, but then they decide they will receive him. He is taken to Maria’s house, she is the one that accept’s him in her home and takes the risk. ‘’And Brigitta… is she ….well?’’(65) At first I thought this really suspicious because he asked a lot about her and Maria starts questioning him of why he did not recognize her and that she was standing there with everyone. She comes to him and he starts talking to her with some love and a nice way so that’s when I thought it was her daughter. At first I was not sure if that was the same priest- whiskey pries- or Padre Jose with that but my because I am getting confused with them but my doubts were cleared when Maria offered him a brandy. ‘’Tightening his grip upon the brandy bottle…’’(66) It’s weird the way that there are many priests that don’t keep the church rules or beliefs. This priest was Marias lover and that’s when they had Brigitta, but what impresses me the most is ‘’She was proud of having been the priest’s woman’’(68) That night passes and the next day , really early, he gives a mass to that people. When he is giving mass someone goes in there and tells him that the police are coming. He acts in a really natural way and prefers to finish the mas while the first thing that I would of done was run away. He does not have enough time to escape and Maria gives him something to eat so the breath of wine goes away. The lieutenant arrives, ‘’They filed sulley up and he questioned them, What’s your name? What do you do? Married? Which is your wife? Have you heard of this priest?’’(75) In my opinion they all act really natural and hide the lie. Marie tells to the lieutenant that that man (the priest) is his husband so they don’t suspect of him. He starts treathing them and telling them that if they don’t tell him anything they will take someone away. What I saw is they defend themselves a lot between them and they risk their life for someone only because they are against the things that were happening in the country in that moment. What I think that is good is that Marie knows that the priest is sinful and is not the perfect priest as the others think as she says, shes not that ignorant. Finally the lieutenant leaves and takes some kid called Miguel with him. No one has any reaction about it and he just leaves with him mule. Before that he talks to his daughter. ‘’ Everyone has a father… who works… you’re a priest’’(81) I don’t know if with this they have such a normal reaction of priest having daughters and sleeping with women or she acts natural because it’s her father. He leaves and wants to go to Carmen. In the way a man follows him and tells him it’s better going with company. The priest does not trust him at all, and all the time he is really trustful with him and tells him he knows that he is the priest but he wont give him away. ‘’ Won’t you say a prayer, father, before sleep?.. Why do you call me that?’’(90) They keep being a long way together, they stop to rest and the mestizo gets really sick. Finally he accepts to him he is a priest and they get closer and he trusts more in him. ‘’ The path divided- one way Carmen, the other to the west.’’(102) He separated their ways so that he could get to Carmen and get helped because of telling he saw the priest, and he went another path also for his security. What impresses me at the end is that I thought that he really wanted to help the priest and did not want the money but at the end of this chapter what is said is ‘’ Of course , he had every reason to be angry: he had lost seven hundred pesos.’’(103) I think this chapter was long, but at the same time it was good because it gives more detailed information about the priest, his personal life, and what he feels.
Demostrative, forensic or declamative
PHOENIX, Oct. 4 — In the aftermath of Carol Anne Gotbaum’s death in police custody at the airport here, her family has hired a high-powered Phoenix lawyer who has gone after police wrongdoing in the past, a nationally renowned forensic pathologist and a former journalist turned private investigator, all of whom are helping in an attack on the official police account of the events leading to the death of a woman who married into the powerful New York family.
Yesterday as Mrs. Gotbaum’s husband, Noah, came here to collect his wife’s body from a mortuary, the family’s attorney, Michael C. Manning, stayed on the attack, contradicting pivotal points in the police’s version of last Friday’s incident, including new details about an account by a witness who he says claimed that Mrs. Gotbaum may have been unconscious before she even got to a police holding area.
“She was listless, unconscious to nearly unconscious,” Mr. Manning said, recalling what he was told by an airline employee whose name he was still withholding but planned to eventually release to the police. Once the employee is ready to be identified, Manning said: “I want Phoenix police to interview this witness. This is important.”
The Phoenix police have fired right back yesterday, holding a press conference to clarify information released Wednesday in a detailed e-mail to the news media. That e-mail maintained the department’s original story that Mrs. Gotbaum struggled with officers all the way to the detention facility and was later found dead in the holding room with the chain of her shackle across her neck.
The account also gave details of a harrowing attempt by police to resuscitate Mrs. Gotbaum, saying that she vomited into the mouth of an officer who was giving her mouth-to-mouth, and that the officer then vomited himself, but continued attempting to save her life.
“The purpose of this update is to address some incorrect, inaccurate and false information that has been given to the media and reported to the public,” said the e-mail, which was signed by Sgt. Andy Hill.
Sergeant Hill said the police planned to release a copy of the surveillance tape that he said would verify the police account.
“We certainly want to see the evidence behind those statements,” Mr. Manning said, referring to Sergeant Hill’s account. “The version does differ in some important respects from what independent witnesses have told us.”
The Gotbaums have hired Cyril H. Wecht, who performed an autopsy Tuesday that was independent of the one performed by the Maricopa County medical examiner a day earlier. Dr. Wecht, a well-known forensic pathologist based in the Pittsburgh, has worked a number of high-profile cases. He has performed autopsies on Vincent W. Foster Jr., the White House lawyer who killed himself in 1993, and the Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel.
In the continuing battle with the Phoenix authorities, Mr. Manning expressed disappointment yesterday that the medical examiner’s offices withheld Mrs. Gotbaum’s brain, throat and heart from Mr. Wecht.
The Gotbaums are also receiving help from Howard Rubenstein, a Manhattan public relations expert who has represented the likes of the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and who is a friend of extended members of the Gotbaum family, Mr. Manning said. Mr. Rubenstein made several statements to news media outlets in support of the Gotbaums though he is not acting in an official capacity.
Yesterday, Noah Gotbaum, flanked by a lawyer and family friends, whisked past several television cameras and reporters, and into a mortuary here, where his wife’s body was being held. Mr. Gotbaum curled his lips and fought back tears after he hopped out of a gray sport-utility vehicle and walked through the front door.
Judd Slivka, an investigator brought on by Mr. Manning, briefly stepped outside to hand reporters a statement that the family was asking for privacy. Mr. Gotbaum and his companions left a short time later without comment.
He was on his way back to New York for Sunday’s memorial service for his wife. It appears that he is leaving the battling, and talking, up to his high-profile representatives.
“We want to see more evidence before we’re satisfied nothing took place here that was inappropriate,” Mr. Manning said.
In my opinion
what I understood in class as Mr Gunther explained to us because you left, was that demostrative is that demostrates something which is the part in blue, but he other things are forensic because it relates to death and the whole article talks about that.
Yesterday as Mrs. Gotbaum’s husband, Noah, came here to collect his wife’s body from a mortuary, the family’s attorney, Michael C. Manning, stayed on the attack, contradicting pivotal points in the police’s version of last Friday’s incident, including new details about an account by a witness who he says claimed that Mrs. Gotbaum may have been unconscious before she even got to a police holding area.
“She was listless, unconscious to nearly unconscious,” Mr. Manning said, recalling what he was told by an airline employee whose name he was still withholding but planned to eventually release to the police. Once the employee is ready to be identified, Manning said: “I want Phoenix police to interview this witness. This is important.”
The Phoenix police have fired right back yesterday, holding a press conference to clarify information released Wednesday in a detailed e-mail to the news media. That e-mail maintained the department’s original story that Mrs. Gotbaum struggled with officers all the way to the detention facility and was later found dead in the holding room with the chain of her shackle across her neck.
The account also gave details of a harrowing attempt by police to resuscitate Mrs. Gotbaum, saying that she vomited into the mouth of an officer who was giving her mouth-to-mouth, and that the officer then vomited himself, but continued attempting to save her life.
“The purpose of this update is to address some incorrect, inaccurate and false information that has been given to the media and reported to the public,” said the e-mail, which was signed by Sgt. Andy Hill.
Sergeant Hill said the police planned to release a copy of the surveillance tape that he said would verify the police account.
“We certainly want to see the evidence behind those statements,” Mr. Manning said, referring to Sergeant Hill’s account. “The version does differ in some important respects from what independent witnesses have told us.”
The Gotbaums have hired Cyril H. Wecht, who performed an autopsy Tuesday that was independent of the one performed by the Maricopa County medical examiner a day earlier. Dr. Wecht, a well-known forensic pathologist based in the Pittsburgh, has worked a number of high-profile cases. He has performed autopsies on Vincent W. Foster Jr., the White House lawyer who killed himself in 1993, and the Anna Nicole Smith’s son, Daniel.
In the continuing battle with the Phoenix authorities, Mr. Manning expressed disappointment yesterday that the medical examiner’s offices withheld Mrs. Gotbaum’s brain, throat and heart from Mr. Wecht.
The Gotbaums are also receiving help from Howard Rubenstein, a Manhattan public relations expert who has represented the likes of the Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and who is a friend of extended members of the Gotbaum family, Mr. Manning said. Mr. Rubenstein made several statements to news media outlets in support of the Gotbaums though he is not acting in an official capacity.
Yesterday, Noah Gotbaum, flanked by a lawyer and family friends, whisked past several television cameras and reporters, and into a mortuary here, where his wife’s body was being held. Mr. Gotbaum curled his lips and fought back tears after he hopped out of a gray sport-utility vehicle and walked through the front door.
Judd Slivka, an investigator brought on by Mr. Manning, briefly stepped outside to hand reporters a statement that the family was asking for privacy. Mr. Gotbaum and his companions left a short time later without comment.
He was on his way back to New York for Sunday’s memorial service for his wife. It appears that he is leaving the battling, and talking, up to his high-profile representatives.
“We want to see more evidence before we’re satisfied nothing took place here that was inappropriate,” Mr. Manning said.
In my opinion
what I understood in class as Mr Gunther explained to us because you left, was that demostrative is that demostrates something which is the part in blue, but he other things are forensic because it relates to death and the whole article talks about that.
The Bystanders
The fourth chapter starts talking about Mr Tench and him writting a letter to him mom. I thinks is amazing the way Mr Tench let himself out of the world completly when he went to live to Mexico...'' But she had probably forgotten his handwritting by this time''(46) This quote also gives us and idea that he has a bad relationship with his mom and she does not now he is still alive. As I said before in a blog, Mr Tench can't leave Mexico because of the peso problem. ''He had meant to leave six years ago, but the peso dropped with a revolution, and so he had come south.''(46) Then it changes to a completly diffrent scene. As I said before, people in this book avoid religion, do not belive in it anymore or they are just corrupt. It starts talking about Padre Jose being in the cementary, which makes me confuses because I am not sure Padre Jose is the same as the whiskey priest. When Padre Jose was in the cementary , there was a family at the same time buring a child, and they asked him to give a prayer but he rejected. “Leave me alone” He said. “I´m unworthy. Can´t you see?-I am a coward”(P.49) Then after this there is a mom reading the Bible to his kids. They ask her Mother” the child said, “do you believe there´s a God?” The question scared Mrs.Fellows.”(53) This is what I've been saying before that impresses me the reaction of people towards religion. There is also another part that impresses me that is the lieutanant having permission to kill a priest. This is and example of what I gave in the video. Christian people and proests where being killed in Turkey because of their religion. He is stopped by a kid and this kid attacks him because he thinks that he is a gringo and I could see it as he thought he was the priest. It also impresses me the way that after the kid throws a bottle the lieuranant starts giving him lessons that he should not because he is really small.. He gives him his gun and tells him is okay if he holds it. In my opinion this is really bad because he is just a kid and they are giving him the impression that carrying a gun a killing is really normal and natural.
Situation vs. religion
I added this video because it relates to The Power and Glory. This book talks about how people are againts christianity or just don't belive anymore in God because of the situation they are living. The video talks about living in Turkey and priests being killed and christian community trying to survive. This example is shown in the book as well because they are against the priest. ''Altogether they have shot about five priests- two or three had escaped.''(25)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJs97daH068
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJs97daH068
The River
Throughout the book things have been confusing. The third chapter starts talking about Captain Fellow getting home from work realle happy and in a good attitude. When he gets home his wife is there and he starts asking about his daugther. His wife tells him she is with the police, a diffrent police that got to the town and spend the night at their place. What I first thought was that the priest (person wanted in the US) was Captain Fellow because of the way his wife reacted everythime he was near her.''Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear...''(33) Later, Coral, his daughter got home and said the lieutenant wanted to talk to him. ''I'm looking for a man, He has been reported in this district...He is a priest. I trust yoy will report at once if he is seen...we expect you to makje a proper return for our hospitality''(35) As the quote before shows Captain Fellow and his family are not Mexican, which made me think he was the priest undercover, but at the same time in the chapter before he talked about his family and not seeing it in many years. After lieutenant had the talk with Captain Fellow, his daughter took him to the big barn. There was a man hiding, he was an talked english and he asked for '' A little brandy''(38) With this man saying this, it concludes imediatly that he is the priest, and he is hiding. What really amazes me is the way in which Coral helpes him and later talkes him food and tells him she will help him with everything he wants and he can came everytime he needs. Coral gave him a code so if he came back she knew it was him. It impresses me the way that Captain Fellow and Coral (more Coral than her father) act in a way in which they do not report this person which is wanted in all Central America and they just keep him in their barn hiding him from the authorities and telling hiom when he should leave. Another thing that amazes me as I said before is the way people have lost their faith in God and they do not belive in him as Coral told the priest when he told him to pray for him.
After this things happen, it changes to another scene, where some priest gets to some place and they let him stay there for the night and lets all these people confesse. It is really weird because I thought it was the pries that is wanted because of the things he was saying. '' And confession, father will you hear our confesions? Yes, but let me sleep first...(44) But after thinking that, the old man that was talking to him said..''The other priest, Padre Jose...''(44) and supposely this priest was Padre Jose, so I'm am getting confused with this chapter.
After this things happen, it changes to another scene, where some priest gets to some place and they let him stay there for the night and lets all these people confesse. It is really weird because I thought it was the pries that is wanted because of the things he was saying. '' And confession, father will you hear our confesions? Yes, but let me sleep first...(44) But after thinking that, the old man that was talking to him said..''The other priest, Padre Jose...''(44) and supposely this priest was Padre Jose, so I'm am getting confused with this chapter.
Mr Tench.. criminal?
The second chapter took me a little to understand it well. We talked about it in class and it was easier to understand. This second chapter, starts talking about a completly diffrent thing as the one before. There are some lieutenant and other people talking about someone called James Calver. ''Wanted in the United States for bank robbery and homocide: a tough uneven face taken at two angles: description circulated to every station in Central America''(21) First I was confused, I thought that thi man was the stranger and that was why he came to Mexico“He tried to get away last week to Vera Cruz... Oh, they missed him, of course. It was just luck the he didn’t catch the boat. He can pass as a gringo. He spent six years at some American seminary.” (22) This description completly matched with the stranger and what he was doing. Later talking in the class it turned out to be Mr Tench who went to mexico and changed his identify from a priest to a fake dentist. There is a part that I think it is really funny because that happens in many parts of the world. '' They all look alike to me''(22) what the lieutenant is saying here in this part is that he may not distinguish the ''gringo'' it he gets to their town because they are all the same. Thatis really curious because that happens to many people that see all colombians the same , all mexicans, all asian, chinese etc. Later, the lieutenant though '' it infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in loving and merciful God''(24) As I said in the blog before this one, I think that these people are thinking this way becasue they have losen hope and they are not living in such a good economical of political situation. In the same time, I think that if he does not feel this way, which I later kept reading and it seems as he does't I think is amazing how he lowers Gods importance. ''Altogether they havd shot abput five priests- two or three had escaped.''(25)
It changes from this to a family. Its a women with her husband and kids. They start talking about ''Padre Jose or Padre whisky'' and the mother gets really furious because as it seems he is Mr Tench and he was a really bad example of a priest. '' About a poor woman who took to him her son to be baptized. She wanted him called Pedro- but he was drunk that he took no notice at all and baptized the boy Brigitta''(28) Later they starttalking about the priest and the way he was not a priest anymore and took the path to sins and doing everything he wanted. He was a wife or women calling him to bed and that is not acceptable in priests.
It changes from this to a family. Its a women with her husband and kids. They start talking about ''Padre Jose or Padre whisky'' and the mother gets really furious because as it seems he is Mr Tench and he was a really bad example of a priest. '' About a poor woman who took to him her son to be baptized. She wanted him called Pedro- but he was drunk that he took no notice at all and baptized the boy Brigitta''(28) Later they starttalking about the priest and the way he was not a priest anymore and took the path to sins and doing everything he wanted. He was a wife or women calling him to bed and that is not acceptable in priests.
Power and the Glory
For what I've read of this book, I have a mistery and a though of what is going to happen. It starts talking about someone called Mr. Tench. This man , I living in Mexico, where things are really bad and the only thing there is to dring is water and beer, but beer is too expensive. For what is said, he is the dentist in this town, and the best one. He is in this town, and he meets some guy who he calls ''the stranger''. He starts talking to him because he realizes that he speakes english also. ''You don't happen, do you, to have a drink in that case of yours?''( pg.10) This shows a necesity and the way they are living that they do not have a lot of things, the first things he said to him was this. Mr Tench feels really happy with this stanger because he tells him ''It gets lonely here. It's good to talk english''(pg.14) He must be living in a misery and really alone. He invites this stranger to his house so they can drink the brandy he has, he talks to him about his life and his kid which he does not see years ago. He came to Mexico, but when he wanted to leave the pesos was really high for each dollar so he could not affort it. The drink brandy and then one kids gets to his door and tells him about his mom that is really sick and he needs a doctor. Mr Tench gets a really weird attitude towards that and he tells him '' if shes dying, theres no point in a doctor seeing her''(pg16) I think this is a relly cruel thing to say , because the doctor (the stranger) could help him but Mr Tench shows no feelings at all.
For what I could see in this firsts chapter in Mr Tench is trapped, he is not really happy in Mexico, but he also has feelings about thhings but they also may be because the misery is so big he does not have any hope.
For what I could see in this firsts chapter in Mr Tench is trapped, he is not really happy in Mexico, but he also has feelings about thhings but they also may be because the misery is so big he does not have any hope.
The Emperor
Reading the Emperor I could see so many things alike as the Soccer War. Both of the authors talk as first person. The Emperor is really short, but it is really descriptive as The Soccer War. This author shoes most of all materialism. “Wine and caviar were flowing in from Europe especially for the occasion. At a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars, Miram Makeba was brought from Hollywood to serenade the leaders with Zulu songs after the feast” I have read two book is Spanish that I can asimilate. They are Papa Goriot and Madame BovarY. What is shown here is that materialisim and the high class are the most important as it is shown in the two books I have read. They talk about luxuries and money and important people and what is seen behind that as shown in The Emperor. The difference between The Emperor and The Soccer War, is that the Soccer War talks more about serious problems and serious wars, while the other one talks about society and an important party.
Apart from luxuries and rich people there is also shown a part of poverty and people starving while these other people waste usefully. “The dishwashers working in the building threw leftovers to them. I watched the crowd devour the scraps, bones, and fish heads with laborious concentration.” They ate as animals and it is amazing how it shows the other part of the country in which some are rich but do not care about the porr starving out there.
Kapusinski is interesting because he does not write only about one thing. In my opinion he wrtoe The Emperor after living so much war and misery to show the world what other people are living out there while the rest of the world is inginuine and people are in misery.
Apart from luxuries and rich people there is also shown a part of poverty and people starving while these other people waste usefully. “The dishwashers working in the building threw leftovers to them. I watched the crowd devour the scraps, bones, and fish heads with laborious concentration.” They ate as animals and it is amazing how it shows the other part of the country in which some are rich but do not care about the porr starving out there.
Kapusinski is interesting because he does not write only about one thing. In my opinion he wrtoe The Emperor after living so much war and misery to show the world what other people are living out there while the rest of the world is inginuine and people are in misery.
The Passanger
Reading your article made my opinion the same as yours in some way. Kapuscinski is an author that shoes his reality and what he is living in a way in which he makes himself a character. ‘’ He is everywhere, behind and between the front lines, and yet no one ever seems to notice him. At a recent tribute to Kapuscinski's life and work, held as part of a PEN literary festival, Salman Rushdie repeated the journalist's maxim for survival:’’ This part is true, he is everywhere and in my opinion he does his job really well done and passes as someone normal. ‘’ Kapuscinski describes, he evokes, but for all the unquestionable beauty of his words, he doesn't produce actionable intelligence.’’ Im not sure what you meant saying this, but what is seems is that he did not do the things intelligent enough. I think that this is something no one should say because he didi a good job, he risked his life and reported as much as he could. In a part that you say, I think that is Kapusinski would of written in The Soccer War more political facts, it would not be a ‘’novel’’ but it would be more like a political report and not something so interesting to read.
In another part, I don’t mind Kapusinski not being in Colombia an just being in some parts of Latin Americda. Sometimes he did talk about places he was not there with so much property that he did not know what he was talking about because he did not live it. Apart from what I am saying I cannot say much because this is the only book I have read about him.
In another part, I don’t mind Kapusinski not being in Colombia an just being in some parts of Latin Americda. Sometimes he did talk about places he was not there with so much property that he did not know what he was talking about because he did not live it. Apart from what I am saying I cannot say much because this is the only book I have read about him.
ny times
Pathos: emotion ethos:character logos:logic
The authorities provided new details yesterday of the ordeal and a possible motive in the case of the 20-year old West Virginia woman who they say was raped and tortured at a ramshackle trailer about 30 miles south of Charleston.
In an interview with the police at the hospital after her rescue on Sept. 8, the victim said she believed that Bobby Ray Brewster, 24, with whom she had a romantic relationship, thought that she had led the police to seek an arrest warrant for his mother, Frankie Lee Brewster, 49.
“He said I had put a warrant out on his mom,” the victim told the police, who then asked what type of warrant Mr. Brewster believed had been issued. “Attempted murder,” the victim said, adding that she had not, in fact, gone to the police.
Mr. Brewster and his mother are among six people charged in the case.
The victim, who was in court on Tuesday to face charges of writing bad checks, described in the police interview being tied up with duct tape in a shed, being forced to eat animal and human feces and being guarded and kept away from the telephone to prevent her from calling for help.
“He was drinking a fifth of liquor that he stole from 7-Eleven,” the victim said, describing one of Mr. Brewster’s fits of rage, during which he reached onto the trailer’s roof and grabbed a butcher knife.
“I tried to get away but he charged at me,” she said, adding that she passed out while Mr. Brewster kicked her in the head. When she woke up, she had five stab wounds in her leg and was lying in a pool of blood on the trailer’s bathroom floor, she said. Mr. Brewster then came into the bathroom and forced her to lick her blood, she said.
In a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, a Logan County deputy sheriff, J. S. Robinette, said investigators now believed that the victim went to the remote trailer willingly on Aug. 2. At some point after Aug. 2, although the police are not clear when, the victim began being held against her will and was threatened with death if she tried to leave, the deputy said.
Aug. 2 was the day Mr. Brewster was released from jail after being arrested on July 18 on charges of domestic battery in an incident also involving the kidnapping victim, the police said.
The Logan County prosecutor, Brian Abraham, said he was not sure what role, if any, Mr. Brewster had on Aug. 2 when two people picked up the victim in Charleston and took her to the trailer.
But as a result of new testimony and evidence, Mr. Abraham said, he was upgrading the charges against the defendants. All six now face charges of first-degree sexual assault and kidnapping, which carry maximum terms of 35 years and life in prison, among other charges.
In a statement taken by the police soon after she was arrested, Ms. Brewster said that she had seen a defendant, Danny Jay Combs, 20, sexually assault the victim in the bathroom while holding a knife to her throat.
He then pointed the knife at Ms. Brewster, and told her it was none of her business, and, “to get gone or he was going to kill me,” Ms. Brewster’s statement said.
The six defendants are white and although the victim told the police that her captors said they were torturing her because she is black, the federal authorities decided not to press charges of hate crimes.
In a separate courtroom, the victim appeared at her own hearing. Seated with her parents and her sister, a sling on her arm and clutching a stuffed bear, the victim faced charges of writing bad checks in three counties.
She was released on $8,000 bond.
Chris Stratton contributed reporting.
The authorities provided new details yesterday of the ordeal and a possible motive in the case of the 20-year old West Virginia woman who they say was raped and tortured at a ramshackle trailer about 30 miles south of Charleston.
In an interview with the police at the hospital after her rescue on Sept. 8, the victim said she believed that Bobby Ray Brewster, 24, with whom she had a romantic relationship, thought that she had led the police to seek an arrest warrant for his mother, Frankie Lee Brewster, 49.
“He said I had put a warrant out on his mom,” the victim told the police, who then asked what type of warrant Mr. Brewster believed had been issued. “Attempted murder,” the victim said, adding that she had not, in fact, gone to the police.
Mr. Brewster and his mother are among six people charged in the case.
The victim, who was in court on Tuesday to face charges of writing bad checks, described in the police interview being tied up with duct tape in a shed, being forced to eat animal and human feces and being guarded and kept away from the telephone to prevent her from calling for help.
“He was drinking a fifth of liquor that he stole from 7-Eleven,” the victim said, describing one of Mr. Brewster’s fits of rage, during which he reached onto the trailer’s roof and grabbed a butcher knife.
“I tried to get away but he charged at me,” she said, adding that she passed out while Mr. Brewster kicked her in the head. When she woke up, she had five stab wounds in her leg and was lying in a pool of blood on the trailer’s bathroom floor, she said. Mr. Brewster then came into the bathroom and forced her to lick her blood, she said.
In a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, a Logan County deputy sheriff, J. S. Robinette, said investigators now believed that the victim went to the remote trailer willingly on Aug. 2. At some point after Aug. 2, although the police are not clear when, the victim began being held against her will and was threatened with death if she tried to leave, the deputy said.
Aug. 2 was the day Mr. Brewster was released from jail after being arrested on July 18 on charges of domestic battery in an incident also involving the kidnapping victim, the police said.
The Logan County prosecutor, Brian Abraham, said he was not sure what role, if any, Mr. Brewster had on Aug. 2 when two people picked up the victim in Charleston and took her to the trailer.
But as a result of new testimony and evidence, Mr. Abraham said, he was upgrading the charges against the defendants. All six now face charges of first-degree sexual assault and kidnapping, which carry maximum terms of 35 years and life in prison, among other charges.
In a statement taken by the police soon after she was arrested, Ms. Brewster said that she had seen a defendant, Danny Jay Combs, 20, sexually assault the victim in the bathroom while holding a knife to her throat.
He then pointed the knife at Ms. Brewster, and told her it was none of her business, and, “to get gone or he was going to kill me,” Ms. Brewster’s statement said.
The six defendants are white and although the victim told the police that her captors said they were torturing her because she is black, the federal authorities decided not to press charges of hate crimes.
In a separate courtroom, the victim appeared at her own hearing. Seated with her parents and her sister, a sling on her arm and clutching a stuffed bear, the victim faced charges of writing bad checks in three counties.
She was released on $8,000 bond.
Chris Stratton contributed reporting.
The soccer war 234..
After living a really impressing experience and seeing peeople in a big misery he gets to Ogagen. He gets bit by a spider, and he cannot turn his light. '' The commandant is ordering us to cut down light so that we don't give away the position of our camp''(217) Being bit by a scorpion is really dangerous and what is written in the reports is showing a really calm attitude that I would never have in that situation. After that happened he flew with Marcos to Gode. Police came near them to check them but he did not have papers. ''I had flown from Addis Ababa at the last moment, without any certainty that I would reach Ogaden''(218) In my opinion I think this is really risky, how can ge go somewhere with any papers or any certification of anything, and most of all in a moment where the war is in his face. '' In a polace where the Ethiopian goverment was organizing camps for the starving and the thirsty''(220)He starts talking about Getahun. He is the commandant and Kapuscinski has to deal with him. This commandant '' Every morning went to the camp to urge the people to go out into the desert. we'll dig a canal, he would say, the water will flow, the corn will grow. ''(220) What I see in this, is that Getahum is a really powerfull and manipulative person. He goes to these people that are starving to death and tries to manipulate them to get his benefits while what they want is camels, meat and milk.
Then, they took him to Mogadishu. They drove for five long days and only drank camels milk. He talked again with other people and they said a little about their culture. These Somali people said '' the year consists of the rainy season called gu, and the dry season jilal''(224) I thinks its interesting when e writes this because it lets other people ''learn'' other things.
It jumps to another chapter where he is with some poeple, talking about where he is from and they talk about the snow and how wonderfull it is. ''Poland. They did not know of any such country.''(230) Its really weird seeing how some people dont know where other contries are , but this happens to not so much civilizzed people opf with poverty and wars. ''The Nana recived us. There is a Nana in every village, because Nana means boss, head man, a sort of mayor but with more authority''(229) I think this facts are really interesting and its a good idea of his to add this facts. They started to talk about his country and he started saying some things that I think that were good because he was sharing about his country and how it was.
I think the soccer was was a really good book. Its not only a book but its full f reports of Kapuscinski. He has had a really amazing live, meat new things, a lot of places, and learned new things. Thanks to all the things he has writted, and we've read some, we have learned a little more about wars and other contries situations. Everyone suffers, wars have always excisted and injustices. Kapuscinski lets us see the side of the countries we never new and he talks about it so personally and deeply that we feel it. This was a really good book.
Then, they took him to Mogadishu. They drove for five long days and only drank camels milk. He talked again with other people and they said a little about their culture. These Somali people said '' the year consists of the rainy season called gu, and the dry season jilal''(224) I thinks its interesting when e writes this because it lets other people ''learn'' other things.
It jumps to another chapter where he is with some poeple, talking about where he is from and they talk about the snow and how wonderfull it is. ''Poland. They did not know of any such country.''(230) Its really weird seeing how some people dont know where other contries are , but this happens to not so much civilizzed people opf with poverty and wars. ''The Nana recived us. There is a Nana in every village, because Nana means boss, head man, a sort of mayor but with more authority''(229) I think this facts are really interesting and its a good idea of his to add this facts. They started to talk about his country and he started saying some things that I think that were good because he was sharing about his country and how it was.
I think the soccer was was a really good book. Its not only a book but its full f reports of Kapuscinski. He has had a really amazing live, meat new things, a lot of places, and learned new things. Thanks to all the things he has writted, and we've read some, we have learned a little more about wars and other contries situations. Everyone suffers, wars have always excisted and injustices. Kapuscinski lets us see the side of the countries we never new and he talks about it so personally and deeply that we feel it. This was a really good book.
There will be no paradise
Kapuscinski is really risky. He starts talking about how he was pulled on a car, and did not not anyone or where he was going. His first trip was to Cyprus. He got to a place that was full of tents and of people with poverty and misery because of the war. Some people got him and put him on a platform telling him to make a speach to the thousands of people that were there. If I would of been him I would be really nervous and would have no idea of what to say to these people so things would sound right. Im my opinion he did a erally good job. He started saying a lot of things that where really from his heart and what he thought and also he said '' When will you recover your homes?.... I did not come here to promise anything.''(pg208) I think this is a really honest way to talk things, because being in the situation he was he could easily mess up and tell things that werent right, but he said the truth and was honest to these people. He starts talking to some women that invited him to their tent and they start talking about their lives which I thinks they have been through really difficult situations and ended living as they are living for the war which should not involve them. There were somethings that they told him and happend that impressed me. This would be the way that women are still being controlled by men and in a ''machismo'' that when he went into some of the womens tents they would not sit until he told them too. The other thing would be when these women started talking to him about them and told them '' At dusk the beautiful girls come out for their walk.... they cannot walk alone... they cannot look around because that is bad taste''(pg.212) I think its incredible the way women have been controlled by men and they thoughts for such a long time.Later he start talking about the war ''Nicosia, night ten minutes after midnight.... Three shots from the Turkish side next from the greeks ten and a cannon from the greeks... and a heavier from the Turks...''(pg.213) A really interesting thing he says is '' What a waste of human energy, I think, an abasement of dignity. The peasants on the outskirts of Lima an Bogota.... a billion people capable of work with nothing or almost nothing fo the duration of their lives. ''(206) I like what he says because he makes a point that there are a lot of people willing to work but because of the poverty and wars and situations in these countries energy of these people is wasted, and i like him mentioning Bogota. He is really brave to live everything he is living and having the guts to be in such dangerous places. I think its incredible the way that people get ''kicked out of their homes for a war that has nothing to do with them and they take their kids, kill their hysbands of violate their daughters. War has always been terrible and really impacting. A lot of people die and lose their jobs and the way they live so they end in tents like these people.
WARS and thoughts...
In the next pages, Kapuscinski talks about silence, black, locked up, fortress, life and hierarchy. It shows the way that people make silence and how silence has been made through history. ''Silence is a signal of unhappiness and, often, of crime.'' (Pg.189) He gives the example of how people kept silence in the Inquisition and how dictators make their state to keep silence but they are trying to violate it. This is so true, people keeps silence and hide things but how can people be so silent while they see evrything that is heppening and the corruption and wars that surround the world '' What if you could calculate the number of people working in the silence industry?''(pg.190) He talks about the Kimbangist and the way youy enter and how things are seen. He uses the expression ''Negro'' which are the way churches are called. ''The Kimbangist believed that Jesus ca,e into the world as a Negro''(Pg.191) I think that this is a really interesting fact, because we can see the way diffrent people think about religion or the way Jesus was born. '' Kimbangu was born among the Bakong tribe at the end of the last century''(Pg.191) (Important fact because I would not know what this was, he is a prophet called Simon Kimbangu) '' He said that he had been sent by God...''(Pg.191) In my opinion this is impressing because I really do not believe in this prophetst that say they were sent by God. I have my own religion and believes, but I still respect the way people have their own believes. Later on Kapuscinski talkes of how he was sentenced to death and the persecution of the Kimbangists started. This prophet changes the faces of all the saints in his church in the jungle to black, the first revolutionary action in Congo.
Spirits in Africa... '' In first place, no one has ever seen a bullet in a flight, so how can i t be proved that someone died because somebody else fired''(Pg 192) Its amazing how people have their own rituals and ways of thinbking why things happen. '' There is no cruelty in this- for someone who is forced to fight against dangerous and omnipresent world of spirits''(pg.193) Hierarchy ''is a system of ranking and organizing things or people, where each element of the system (except for the top element) is a subordinate to a single other element.'' (Wikipedia) ''In Accra, in the buildings of the ministries, the hierarchy of position corresponds to the hierarchy of floors...''(Pg193) He describes that way people are organized.
Kapuscinski has his own believes of why people are kidnapt and mostly diplomats ''The answer is in the context of Latin American political prisoners situation. Namely: Whoever protests or fights against the regime is locked up in prison ''(pg. 193) This is a thinking that is true in someway or not. Today people get kidnapped all the time for no reason. Kapuscinski talkes about the situation of these people which I agree in and has not changed in so many years, the diffrence could be that ways of torturing. After commenting about all the words with their meaning the way the authors sees them , their is and explanation about life. What he wanted to do was to write a dictionary book, but '' whenever I start, taking a deep breath and crossing myself as if getting ready to jump into deep water''(pg197) I think he gives this explanation because its his way of explaining that each time that he tries to write a word with a shot meaning he just can't because he has so much to tell about everything.
Lter.. He talks about a man that met him in Damascus, he was a commander of the fedayeen groups that were fighting on Mount Hermon. I think that its really interesting the way that they show an act of ''friendship'' they give a fruit. ''During the elevator ride, he reaches into his bag and hands me an apple.''(pg.199) What impresses me , is, the commander asked him what he thought about the war they were having, and he said he had never seen something similar and that the war they had was diffrent. He describes this war and it is really violent. He says something trhat malkes me think : '' A person who lived through a great war is diffrent from someone who never lived through a war''(pg.200) This is weird because this is kind of obvious so it makes me think that maybe he put in in a diffrent meaning. '' Anyone who says that you can achive a lasting vistory without great losses, that you can have a war without cementaries, does not know what he is talking about.''(pg201) In the rest of this chapter, he talks about diffrent wars and what he thinks. Why some countries have won and other lose and I like the way he thinks about this and the oppinions he has about all the things that are happening.
Spirits in Africa... '' In first place, no one has ever seen a bullet in a flight, so how can i t be proved that someone died because somebody else fired''(Pg 192) Its amazing how people have their own rituals and ways of thinbking why things happen. '' There is no cruelty in this- for someone who is forced to fight against dangerous and omnipresent world of spirits''(pg.193) Hierarchy ''is a system of ranking and organizing things or people, where each element of the system (except for the top element) is a subordinate to a single other element.'' (Wikipedia) ''In Accra, in the buildings of the ministries, the hierarchy of position corresponds to the hierarchy of floors...''(Pg193) He describes that way people are organized.
Kapuscinski has his own believes of why people are kidnapt and mostly diplomats ''The answer is in the context of Latin American political prisoners situation. Namely: Whoever protests or fights against the regime is locked up in prison ''(pg. 193) This is a thinking that is true in someway or not. Today people get kidnapped all the time for no reason. Kapuscinski talkes about the situation of these people which I agree in and has not changed in so many years, the diffrence could be that ways of torturing. After commenting about all the words with their meaning the way the authors sees them , their is and explanation about life. What he wanted to do was to write a dictionary book, but '' whenever I start, taking a deep breath and crossing myself as if getting ready to jump into deep water''(pg197) I think he gives this explanation because its his way of explaining that each time that he tries to write a word with a shot meaning he just can't because he has so much to tell about everything.
Lter.. He talks about a man that met him in Damascus, he was a commander of the fedayeen groups that were fighting on Mount Hermon. I think that its really interesting the way that they show an act of ''friendship'' they give a fruit. ''During the elevator ride, he reaches into his bag and hands me an apple.''(pg.199) What impresses me , is, the commander asked him what he thought about the war they were having, and he said he had never seen something similar and that the war they had was diffrent. He describes this war and it is really violent. He says something trhat malkes me think : '' A person who lived through a great war is diffrent from someone who never lived through a war''(pg.200) This is weird because this is kind of obvious so it makes me think that maybe he put in in a diffrent meaning. '' Anyone who says that you can achive a lasting vistory without great losses, that you can have a war without cementaries, does not know what he is talking about.''(pg201) In the rest of this chapter, he talks about diffrent wars and what he thinks. Why some countries have won and other lose and I like the way he thinks about this and the oppinions he has about all the things that are happening.
The soccer war 157-187 (2 blogs)
While reading the book, I really did not understand why the book was called the soccer war. In the last pages read Kapuscinski is till in Latin America. He starts commenting about he beliving in a man named Luis and everything he said. '' In his time he had predicted the fall of Goulart in Brazil, the fall of Bosch in the Dominican Republic....''(pg157) I think this is interesting, because you should not really trust those things but they contributed to his reports. He also starts talking about the two countries playing a soccer game and the one that won had the right to play in the World Cup in Mexico 1970. He helps us understand thata soccer in this times in Latin American countries was just not soccer, it was as important as politics. The two countries are Hounduras and Salvador. When one of the teams gets to the other country, a rivality starts in a really agressive way. '' Eighteen-year-old Amelia Bolanios was sitting in front of the television in El Salvados when the Honduran striker Roberto Cardona scored the winning goal in the final minute. She got up and ran to the desk which contained her father's pistol...then she hot herself''(Pg. 158) I think that is really horrifying killing yourself for a soccer game, and this shows us the importance that is had on peoples ilfes.
He also talks about other games like the Mexico and Peru. ''An embittered Mexican fan shouted in an ironic tone, 'Viva Mexico!' A moment later he was dead''(Pg.160) This is the most redicoulus things that happen in my opinion , but that not only happened in those years, it happens in thwe stadiums a lot. People are really agressive while soccer is involved. It is unbelieveable to live all the things he lived, because eventhough crimes and injustices happen everyday, we do not live them so close. Kapuscinski risks his life all the time. He wanted to send a telex message to Warsaw. He got himself to the post officewith some firemen and then he went out there alone and it was so dark he could not see his hands. That is really dangerous because they were at war because of everything that was happening, but he did everything tro let the information through. After that, he takes risk once and againg, and goes to the border of two countries that where in war also. He talks about the soilders and the way the fight without actually knowing why. In reality a soldier sees no further than his own nose, has his eyes full of sand or sweat, shoots at random and clings to the ground like a mole" (page 180). He was so amazed of evrething that was happening that at the end he said ''let them watch , let them think'' (pG.187)
He also talks about other games like the Mexico and Peru. ''An embittered Mexican fan shouted in an ironic tone, 'Viva Mexico!' A moment later he was dead''(Pg.160) This is the most redicoulus things that happen in my opinion , but that not only happened in those years, it happens in thwe stadiums a lot. People are really agressive while soccer is involved. It is unbelieveable to live all the things he lived, because eventhough crimes and injustices happen everyday, we do not live them so close. Kapuscinski risks his life all the time. He wanted to send a telex message to Warsaw. He got himself to the post officewith some firemen and then he went out there alone and it was so dark he could not see his hands. That is really dangerous because they were at war because of everything that was happening, but he did everything tro let the information through. After that, he takes risk once and againg, and goes to the border of two countries that where in war also. He talks about the soilders and the way the fight without actually knowing why. In reality a soldier sees no further than his own nose, has his eyes full of sand or sweat, shoots at random and clings to the ground like a mole" (page 180). He was so amazed of evrething that was happening that at the end he said ''let them watch , let them think'' (pG.187)
Kapuscinski 3
Know that we are commenting about Kapuscinski's reports I thought it would be interesting to talk a little about him. He was born the 4th of March in 1932 Varsovia, and died on January 23, 2007. He was a reporter, writer and journalist. He wrote in one of the most important newspapers world wide, and he also won two important prices.
In the start of this chapter, he talkes about how he is feeling while he is in Lagos and he comprares himself with Lazaro. ''It is some kind of sort of tropical infection. blood poisining or a reaction to an aunknown venom...''(Pg137) He describes how he is feeling and the difficulty that it takes to take care of yourself in sickness. In my opinion he is really strong, he had a hard time in Africa and he still kept figting. When he got back things where really hard, he was not used of being in an office or working the way they expected himto work. '' I have never had a desk, and I have never joined in meetings where people shout... ''(Pg.146) This is completly understandable because he is not used of living the way he was in that moment after being in Africa.
After talking about his difficulties, he jumps straight to .. ''After returning from Central Asia'' (pg.149) He starts talking about Central America, his first stop is Santiago de Chile. He talks about the city and things he saw and impressed him. He talks about the andes, the Pampas and the Amazon. I thinks its really cool he is mentioning a river in Colombia. He talks about the diffrent cultures '' Indian, Anglo Saxon, Spanish, French... ''(pg151)
In this pages simple thingsa happen, he gets sick goes back to work, and stars visiting latin america. I thing this is really amazing so he can see diffrent cultures and ways of life.
In the start of this chapter, he talkes about how he is feeling while he is in Lagos and he comprares himself with Lazaro. ''It is some kind of sort of tropical infection. blood poisining or a reaction to an aunknown venom...''(Pg137) He describes how he is feeling and the difficulty that it takes to take care of yourself in sickness. In my opinion he is really strong, he had a hard time in Africa and he still kept figting. When he got back things where really hard, he was not used of being in an office or working the way they expected himto work. '' I have never had a desk, and I have never joined in meetings where people shout... ''(Pg.146) This is completly understandable because he is not used of living the way he was in that moment after being in Africa.
After talking about his difficulties, he jumps straight to .. ''After returning from Central Asia'' (pg.149) He starts talking about Central America, his first stop is Santiago de Chile. He talks about the city and things he saw and impressed him. He talks about the andes, the Pampas and the Amazon. I thinks its really cool he is mentioning a river in Colombia. He talks about the diffrent cultures '' Indian, Anglo Saxon, Spanish, French... ''(pg151)
In this pages simple thingsa happen, he gets sick goes back to work, and stars visiting latin america. I thing this is really amazing so he can see diffrent cultures and ways of life.
The soccer war 2
When Kapuscinski left Algeria, things did not get any better, he got into Africa and faced the problems that they were having. Through the pages read Kapuscinski has a way of writting his reports and what he lives in a way that it becomes personal to us. He has shown the experiences and the wars between UPGA and NNPD in Nigeria. When I read the book, I can see everything so clearly that I fell in the time period. He talks about an uncovered conspiracy against the republic and an attempt on Sekpu Tourè's life. With his writting we can see the way that country was controlled and full of militaries and policemen. There was a lot of security In Accara, and that has not changed much in todays world. '' Will you swear that this pencil will not fire?'' (Pg.121) This would be a perfect example of what happens today after the attempt of September 11. The reports of this author are really straight to the point, he shows details, explains and makes us fell what he is feeling but he is straight. ''I had driven through fice countries. In four of them, there were states of emergency. In one, the president had just been overthrouwn, in a second the president had saved himself only by chance; in a third the head of the goverment was affraid to leave his house...'' (Pg 127) This shows us that the world has always been in war, and that things have not change and things are as insecure as they were before. "Everywhere there was an atmosphere of tension, everywhere the smell of gunpowder" (page 127). This wars have become a desaster and a huge problem in Africa. Kapuscinski shows the horrifing situation that he lives and how crueld the world has always been.
Algeria Hides his face
As seen, the author Kapuscinski, uses the book The Soccer War as talking about his experiences that he has had in life. As you said in class, this author is a reported and he used this book as a way of showing and talking about what he has lived. He starts talking about Ben Bella the president of Algeria. In everything said about his by this author is really premise and specific. The are two things in this book that can be similar to the Stranger. The first thing would be him being in prison ‘’From his prison he developed a pelicular habit of relaxation; he could sit for hours without moving’’ (pg.96) This is a perfect example of how Monsieur Mersault is, he was in prison and there is no attitude over it, its just so natural. The other thing similar, this author is really specific about everything he says, its really detailed. It talks for a while about this president,. Who trusted completely in one of his guards and he made him a terrorist act. He had pelicular attitudes and ways of talking acting and eating. We can also see in this report that Algeria has been affected by the continuation of wars. "Algeria lay closest to its colonial metropolis. Today it takes two hours to fly from Algiers to Paris, two hours that are not only a fact of communication but also a symbol of the bond between France and Algeria." (99) The French fought a lot with the Algerians millions of people where killed and a lot of damages were caused. ‘’The war ended in defeat for France. But Algeria paid a high price for their victory…One tenth of the Algerian population died’’ (Pg.101) This is a great examples of what happens a lot in the actual life, people have wars and a lot of innocent people die many because they are fighting for their rights. What happened in this war was terrible, a lot of people had to go and live somewhere else, no homes and no jobs. ‘’This had never been a homogeneous society….mix of ethnic groups…social classes, tribes and clans: rich and complex mosaic’’ (pg.102) Do to this social classes and a homogeneous society the war was divided in the French and in the ones who fought within the country and who fought outside the b orders. Ben Bella was a president not such a good one. First of all being in jail is not a good example for anyone in my opinion and then being the president of a country, and also he promised a lot of things to people and did not pay attention then and a lot of injustice happened. This I can compare it to a movie called The Interpreter that the president promises a lot of thing and at the end lots of people die and everyone hates him. "He talked with each faction and made promises to each. In the morning he met with the leftists and made promises he could not keep; in the afternoon he met with the right wing and made more promises that he could not keep."(112) Ben Bella lied to the press and said that in their country they were very unite and that was not true. The country was in serious needs of money and it was being wasted irrationally. What the author wants to show is that it’s a disaster, out there things are really bad and they are not being seen. There are presidents that are really corrupt and bad for the country , he was becoming a dictatorship and this reported talked about the horrifying moments that were happening in the country at that moment.
REGRETMENT?
Things were not getting any better. Monsieur Meursault did not show any good attitute toward things and he just showed a bored attitude and just not caring. I think it increadible being in such a critique situation and not caring at all, he is just so natural about it that just thinks about going to bed or being hot because of the sun. He just does not understan what is happening, he is really upset because he cannot talk in his jury , but that will not be a help at all for what his attitude has been all the time. Another thing that is beaing a problem is that they are not basing so much in the gravity of the cas but in his past actions so they are judging him for that ''The prosecutos and my lawyer, there was a lot said about me, maybe more about me than about my crime'' (Pg.99). He still felt as if everything was a joke and everything is a game because e does not care at all for what is happening. Nothing mucha happens, he starts day dreaming while he is in the court, starts thinking about Marie annd her dresses and laugh. When the judge asks Meursalt why he kills the arab he says ''because of the sun'' (Pg.103). He does not even know what he is saying he acts in suck a ridicoulous way that everytime he opend his mouth to say something things got worse.Then '' the judge told me in bizzare language that I was to have my head off in a public square'' (Pg. 107) After that happend he started to think about things, things that maybe mattered more than the things he usually thought about. He remember Maman telling him that his dad went once to watchg a murder being excecuted. '' I remember feeling a little disgusted by him at that time. But now I understood, it was perfectly normal( Pg.110) He preffers to be an espector than the one being executed. Eventhough his attitude has not changes a lot he is thinking a little more about reality and about what is happening. ''i would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head'' (Pg. 113) In this part is when he starts realizing more that things are bad. ''That is why I ended up sleeping only a little bit...the hardest time was he uncertain hour when I knew they they usually set to work''(pg.113) When he starts thinking about his life, which I think is good because he starts thinking about the meaning and things that would of cared before to him but he only puts attention to it in the most unespected moment. '' I would always begin by assuming the worst: my appeal was denied''(pg.114) But he takes also a wrong attitute, because he thinks that people are going to realize that life is not worth living which is not true, you should manage your life to make it worth. ''Since we're all going to die, it is obvious that when and how do not matter''(Pg.114) He no longer cared about his life, and he didn’t think about the people that cared about him. Then in almost the end of the book, the chaplain comes in and he try to do everything sdo he starts beliving in good but he refuses. ‘’I did not believe in God’’ (pg.116) He does not change his attitude, he is a man that shows no feelings. “ I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone.”(123). He does not care about anything and the mos absurd thing is that everything that he is going trow he does not realize and he does not understand his punishment. "And I felt ready to live it all again too. As of that blind rage has washed me clean, rid of me of hope; for the first tiem, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifferece of the world. Finding it so much like myself, so like a brother, really, I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again."(Pg.122-123.)
At the end he realizes he has been a complete stranger to everything around him, and eventhough its in the moment that he cannot do anything about it, better late than ever
At the end he realizes he has been a complete stranger to everything around him, and eventhough its in the moment that he cannot do anything about it, better late than ever
Freedom?
In the last pages I read not a lot of things happend. Monsieur Meursault was taken to court so his care would be examinated. When he gets there, he talks a lot of what he sees and how people are staring at him and his acts. At first when I started reading this chapter it impacted me because he acted so natural and suprise about everything. It seems to me that eventhough he has been a few months in prison he has not realize yet what has happend to him and the problem he got into for doing thing without thinking and that had nothing to do with him. He has taken a really relaxed attitude about anything and lookes on the ´´bright´´ side of everything and just does not learn his lesson. For me he just keeps having no sense of anything and shows no feelings at all. When he gets to the court he is just like ¨ I think first I hadn´t realize that all those people were crowding in to see me¨ (Pg.83) Just like I said before I think that he takes thing in suck a natural and relax way that is suprising because things are not as easy for him in that moment. He noticed that a lot of the people that he knew were there to be witnesses. The first one´s that testified where Monsieur Perez, the director and the caretaker. Actually none of them said anything good about thing or anything to help him things be better for his case. The director talked about Mamas complains about Monsieur Meursault ¨Whether he used to reproch me for having put her in the home, and the director said yes...said I hadn´t cried once...¨(pg.89), the caretaker talked about him not wanting to see the body and his actings and attitudes that day ( he was blamed for drinking coffe and smoking a cigarette which later he was embarassed because he saw he smoked too and offered the coffe) and for las Monsieur Perez talked about not seeing him crying and only seeing him once in his life. After they passed thing didn´t get any better, but then Marie passed and things got worse because she talked about the day they met and what they did and it got to conclusions about him not caring about his mother because it was the same day they met as the mothers funeral. After that Raymond, Masson and Celeste passed but no one really cared about what they said because things were really bad all ready. In the court things didn´t finish so good, people had the wrong impressions of things. What I also saw in what I read is he keeps being the same, he does not care about anything and things keep being really detaild. He talks a lot of what he sees and in a detailed way. Fro know that is what happend, and things are note getting better.
Killing an Arab and prison
After walking in the beach, having lunch, getting in the water and meeting the Arabs things start to get bad. Monsieur Meursault made a huge mistake. After one Arab attacke Raymond after a while they went to meet with them again! Monsieur Meursault hold the gun so Raymond wouldn't mess up, but things got even worse. '' I squeezed my hand around the revolver..The trigger gave...I'd been happy'' (pg.59) So, he kills the Arab ust for an inpulse , and he doesnt feel anything no guilt nothing. I never thought he would get involve but maybe his emptyness of feelings is just an anger and a diffrent person with stronger , much stronger actions. They send him to jail and an atourney went to talk to him to try to solve his case, but things get worse beacuse he feels he cant help him. The atourney asks him if he felt sad in Mamans death and he is okay with it '' the same as anyone''(pg.67) and and for killing the guy he is also okay with it `` More than sorry I felt kind of annoyed'' (pg.70). He has no feelings he has no reactions he does not act in anyway that helps him get easier out of jail in anyway. He takes everything as a joke, he is not serious; he is in jail and does not care at all everything he sees it as a game he fells ``one of the family''(pg.70) Marie went to visit him one day and he was happy but in a moment he just though ''I`d have liked to leave''(pg.75) How can he act that way about her and not even care about her if he spends every weekend with her, but she is not the first women in his mind. ``My desire for a woman...I never thought specifically about Marie'' (pg. 77) He just doesnt care about anything. He killed a man , he goes to jauil, his case is taking a long time and he cannot see Marie because she is not his wife, things are hard but he doesnt care, he does not learn any lesson about anything and just keeps living in this world full of nothing in side and un thoughtfull feelings and thoughs full of nothing. His attitude impresses me, it never expresses anything at all.
The Stranger 3
After the things happening before,this new pages talk about a little more things. Monsieur Meursault is called by his boss, and he tellshim he is going to open a new work in Paris and that he would like him to be working for him. Before that happened when he was first called he thought that he was going to get punished or be judged in a way which happens a lot to him. Raymond also calledhim because he wantes to invite him and Marie to the beach on Sunday which he sounds excited. Marie lateron askes himtom arry him, but he actually doesnt care at all and just says yes but he also tells her hedoesnt love him and he would mary any other women being in the same situation. ´´She just wanted to know if I would have accepted the same proposal from another woman, with whom I was involved in the sameway. I said sure´´(pg.42) In myopinion Ithinks thats avery cruel answer and very empty answer because eventhough he is being sincere at the same time its to harsh. After this happend he spend sometimewith Marie and then when he got homehe found Salamano on his door and he came in and started talking about his lost dog and telling him why he bought it and how he was before he had the disease.He was really deporesses and in this part Monsieur Meursault sounds a little more interested and with more feelings about whats happening. At the next day they go to the beach to Raymonds friend. Before that they see some Arabs standing infront of the building waiting for Raymond because they were there because of the inconvenient with his exmitress. They get to the beach and go into the water and is sometimes really specific about things and really descriptive. I thinks sometimes he is really secxual in a way of how he talks and expresses about things like ´´I felt her legs wrapped around mine and I wanted her´´(pg.51) They ate lunch and then went fora walk with Raymond and Masson (Raymond friend) and in the way they find the two Arabs walking slowly towards them but no feeling is showed by Monsier Mensault which shows no interest of no feeling of impact of scared. This pages I read had happen more things as in the first pages but inm the same time his feelings and emotions are not showed at all.
Insensitive
On this second twenty pages more things happen. He finishes with everything that he had to do with his mothers funeral and he goes to the beach. He goes to the movies with some women hes always liked and gets distracted but at the same time is like nothing happen with his mother. He goes to his place with her and go to his house, then at the next day she just leaves and he doesnt care at all. Through the pages I have read, he is the narrator, but he talks only in the way he sees things. I also saw that he is a very observative person and he likes to watch people and see how they vanish and how they act and what they do. He talks about his two neighbors, one that has a dog and has been eight years with the dog and as it seems he doesnt treat the dog very well and the other one that likes to talk to him. Their names are Raymond and Salamano. With both of them he showes no feeling of anything. In a part Raymond invites him to his place and tells him about his ex girlfiend who cheated on him. He tells him how he is going to get revenge and how he beats her up, which is really horrifying and he doesnt show any suprise of anything at all. He just doesnt care and agrees and helps him write her a note which is impressing such a natural attitude. As I said in the last blog, hes just really unique in his way of maniging things.
Feelings
Monsieur Meursault , seems to be a man how is tired of his life. When he starts talking about his mothers death he shows no feelings and he feels inside guilty about it, but at the same time he wants people to know that its not his fault his mother is dead. He goes to his boss to ask permission to go to his mother funeral and he feels his boss is going to judge him and the pnly things he says is its not my fault. He doesnt show any kind of feeling when he gets there, he doesnt want to see her and doesnt talk to much. All the time he feels people look at him in a critique way which is not true in my opinion because he couldnt affort having his mom where he lived so he sent her to a better place. What I can see in the firts twenty pages is he is really empty inside and he doesnt care about anything at all, he doesnt talk to much and seems to care abouth anything.
Its not about what we read
As I step into my twelveth Grade English class, I will be enjoying reading, laughing, arguing, and commenting about the novels I read. Hopefully, you will get to interact with what I write and comment about the previous said.
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