"Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly." (page 1).
I think this quote is referring to the habits of women. They are being compared to men. It would seem that the narrator is conveying that men are not "go-getters," or have no ambition. By "women forget all those things they don't want to remember," I believe the narrator is thinking women can "sift through" the unimportant details of life and their goals are in view and they can accomplish tasks. I think a conflict in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" may have to do with men and women.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Quotation Repsonse 10/30
Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn pp. 197-214, then to 232
Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" p. 203
1. "After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars."
Huck is discouraged here. The journey that he and Jim just made seems for naught now. Jim was captured by an old stranger, in exchange for forty dollars. Huck is detestful of the "scoundrels" who would give away the fact that Jim is a slave. He seems to feel badly for Jim who is about to be returned to his life of servitude. Huck will most likely get him out of his predicament, though. He is proficient in coming up with plans and is sure to find a solution to this problem.
Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" p. 211
2. "-'Good gracious! anybody hurt?' 'No'm. Killed a nigger.' 'Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.'"
This is a conversation between Huck and a white woman that lives in the plantation that Jim had been sold to. Huck is thought to be the woman's nephew who had taken a ferry to the plantation and was a few days late. Huck, obviously not being the woman's kin, had to make up a story of why he was late. He fibbed that the ferry had blown a cylinder-head. You can tell, by this passage, that whites in the South didn't regard blacks as actual people, more so like property (even as Huck had done earlier on in the book when he found out that Jim had been sold). It struck me as strange that this would be so blatantly obvous, though.
Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" p. 203
1. "After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars."
Huck is discouraged here. The journey that he and Jim just made seems for naught now. Jim was captured by an old stranger, in exchange for forty dollars. Huck is detestful of the "scoundrels" who would give away the fact that Jim is a slave. He seems to feel badly for Jim who is about to be returned to his life of servitude. Huck will most likely get him out of his predicament, though. He is proficient in coming up with plans and is sure to find a solution to this problem.
Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" p. 211
2. "-'Good gracious! anybody hurt?' 'No'm. Killed a nigger.' 'Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.'"
This is a conversation between Huck and a white woman that lives in the plantation that Jim had been sold to. Huck is thought to be the woman's nephew who had taken a ferry to the plantation and was a few days late. Huck, obviously not being the woman's kin, had to make up a story of why he was late. He fibbed that the ferry had blown a cylinder-head. You can tell, by this passage, that whites in the South didn't regard blacks as actual people, more so like property (even as Huck had done earlier on in the book when he found out that Jim had been sold). It struck me as strange that this would be so blatantly obvous, though.
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