Final Post-Dylan Hatzenbuhler

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A Farewell to Arms by: Ernest Hemingway

   When reading A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.  I though it was going to deal with more about how a man named Henry, who was a leader of an ambulance crew who sees things in war that a man should never see amd having to deal with the possibility of being alone.   But when reading this story it mostly consists of Henry working for his crew and recovering from a motar schell that kill two of his men.  I thought it would describe the way war went back than and what medicines they had to use.  But instead it was about Henry surviving to the last day to see Catherine  and how much he loves her at the end.  When he didn't think it was going to work out.

  At the end of the story Henry get Catherine as he wanted.  He feels the effect of war, but get to move to a home with Catherine in a wooden house on a mountain side, outside the village Montreux.  Catherine is pregnant with Henry's child.  When rushing Catherine into the hospital because she went into laborer, where some doctor gives her some gas to make her contractions happen and to get the baby out of her.   When waiting for the right time, She tells Henry "to go get something to eat."   When coming back from his lunch he finds out that Catherine went into birth and had their child.  The doctor runs out of the room looking at Henry with the child in his arms. Well Henry doesnt know whats going on; He runs into Catherines room to find out if she is alright.  When hanging out their; the nurse comes in and tells Henry and Catherine some bad news.   Well giving birth the child's imbilicol cord strangled him while prior to coming out of Catherine.  The child was prounced died after birth.

   When reading this story; I didnt think so many things could be going on in one mans mind with all the other horrible things at war he experienced.  When reading this book, I didnt think Henry would have a child when he had to take care of his own crew.   The moral of the story I got was to enjoy the things you love even when thiers a problem that comes up with the problems you already have in life.  

I wouldn't request this book to a male reader or anyone that doesn't like romance novels.  If I had to choose, I wouldn't read this book again.  It just didn't catch anything particular in my eyes that I could ressemble my life too. 

Final Blog

After finishing the book I am kind of disappointed in it. I didn’t really like the ending well I didn’t really understand the ending I guess.  While fleeing from the police and is on the run Montag ended up making it to his old friends house and his friend told Montag “I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I am doing what I should’ve done a lifetime ago.” This is awesome because we know that they made the right choice than. Even though their lives are at stake and Montag followed through with doing some bad things to his friends to run away at least they are happy now. I look at it like this as I am about to graduate from high school, I have a lot of life decisions coming up that I need to make and it scares me because I want  to make the right ones and I am sure everyone has heard it is important to pick a career that makes you happy do something that you love and I truly think that’s important because I am going to be doing it every day for the rest of my life and why do something for that amount of time when you hate it.

While Montag was running he was following railroad tracks and it was interesting to me because he said that everything is airborne now and now the tracks are just there to sit there and rust. That’s weird to me I mean what if one day trains don’t exist anymore, it would be weird. Especially since there is a railroad right behind my house and I absolutely hate it because it wakes me up in the middle of the night, but maybe I would miss it when it was gone.

While still on the run Montag ended up running into this group of five men in the forest just hanging out and they told he doesn’t have to worry he is safe here. These are guys that are just like Montag and Faber who wanted to know what is inside the books. While talking, the guys told Montag to just watch the TV and in about five minutes this chase would be all over. Montag was confused and didn’t know what they meant by it but sure enough the cops ended up shooting some random guy just out on a daily stroll. How terrible! Makes me think about though really how many people are framed and put away for something they didn’t do. Or how many people are out there still running wild and everyone thinks they are safe.

I love when Montag said “The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with firemen and the sun burnt time, that meant that everything burnt.” Isn’t that the truth I mean life is short enough the way it is and why have it go any faster. Enjoy it!

Final Blog- The Postman Always Rings Twice

I finished reading The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain last week, but I’ve finally found some time to do my final blog today. At first, I didn’t like the book that much, but once I started to feel for the characters, I enjoyed it more. I left off in my last blog where Frank had just come back from his “vacation” with Marge. Cora does find out that he was away with her because Marge stops by the restaurant and drops off a baby puma for Frank. Cora is pretty upset about it. Then, Kennedy, the man who knows about Cora’s confession to killing the Greek, comes back to blackmail them into giving him $25,000. However, Frank beats him up and burns the evidence. Later, Cora finds out she’s pregnant with Frank’s baby. They get married, but while they’re at the beach after their wedding, Cora says, “I feel funny inside,” so Frank carries her to the car as fast as he can. They rush off to the hospital, but they get stuck behind a semi going slow. There’s a car coming in the other lane, so he tries to pass the semi on the right side of the road, but he fails to see a culvert wall. They get into a crash, and Cora dies. Frank goes to prison because everyone thinks he tried to kill Cora, so he could have her estate. The book ends with Frank finding out he’s been sentenced with the death penalty. The last few sentences of the book are, “Here they come. Father McConnell says prayers help. If you’ve got this far, send up one for me, and Cora, and make it that we’re together, wherever it is.” When I read this, I finally realized how much Frank did love Cora. I think it took so long for me to know for sure because he was such a rough character who never really talked about his true emotions and feelings. He had told Cora he loved her, but I doubted it when he went away with Marge. At the end, I knew that Cora was the only woman he had ever loved. When I think about Frank and Cora’s relationship, the first word that comes to my mind is weird. That’s because they were always so fickle about each other. They couldn’t make a decision about what to do with their lives. They were always fighting, but then they would get drunk and make up. To me, that didn’t sound like love; it just sounded like lust. Maybe it was just how Cain wrote it that made it sound like that. I also thought they were very selfish for killing the Greek just so they could be together. When I thought about it though, at that time, divorce was almost unheard of, so I’m sure that’s the only solution Frank and Cora thought they had. Now that I really think about their relationship, I know that they really loved each other. There were just many obstacles in their way, so they got frustrated and fought all the time. I feel that Frank would do just about anything for Cora if it came down to it. Even though I didn’t like their relationship at first, in the end, I really just wanted them to be together. Then Cora died, and I found out that Frank was writing the story while in prison, and I was terribly sad. I felt so awful for him, but then, when he prayed for he and Cora to be together, I thought maybe it was a good thing that they were both going to be dead, then maybe they could at least be together in the next life.

Week 6 Fahrenheit 451

Dylan Schulz

               To start off I’d have to say this is probably one of my favorite books I have had to read for school. I’m not a big reader by any means unless it’s and S. E. Hinton book but this book was really legitimately good. It was not too short nor too long it was a good sized little novel and the whole concept was so creative and clever I could not get enough. The beginning and middle of the book are pretty fast moving which made an easy read. Towards the end it slowed down and simply wanting to know what happened is what kept me going.

               In the book Guy’s character changes a lot and by the end he is so so much different than at the beginning when he is Joe Bookburner, but in saying that he is also a lot of the same. Growing up in the society he did seems to have had this devastating effect on him and most characters. They can not think for themselves. This horrific truth seems to haunt Guy through out his journey. He is always somewhat uncertain about what to do in sketchy situations and people can sway him somewhat with ease because of it. Characters like Beatty, and Faber especially capitalize on this fact, it seems they can get Guy to do whatever they please in some instances.

               Guy goes through a lot of conflicts I mean his wife tried to kill herself and then later she betrays him and ratted him out for his stash of books! That you know what, that is so awful and to top it off Beatty makes him burn his own house down!! Because Guy seems to do whatever he’s told he does it then is placed under arrest. That would have devastated me if my own wife did that I would lose my mind or at least divorce her. But Guy gets even with Beatty and torches his behind just fries the mean man. This was probably one of my favorite parts I love when an underdog gets his revenge especially when it means one charred mean son of a gun.

               At this point Guy is really starting to even the score he knocks out another fireman and runs to a stash of his and uses it to frame another fireman that’s karma if ever saw it. The book slowly dies off from here after the big intense chase but it ends with a hope that Guy is doing the right thing with the Book people searching to save society one town at a time.

Now I know this is a day late but its done now sorry Mrs. Brannan.

Week 6: My Antonia

A lot has happened since the last time I have blogged. The Burden family has rented out their farm and has moved to town. While in town Jim began attended school. Shortly after the Burden family moved to town Antonia got hired at their neighbor’s house to help clean and cook. Jim absolutely loved having Antonia so close to him. He grew very fond of her; however, Antonia never showed that she felt the same way. I believe that later in the book that Antonia and Jim will end up getting married.

The summer after they moved to town a dance company came into town. Once a week everyone from town gathered together for dancing lessons. These lessons were the highlight to everyone’s week. After the dance company left, the town decided to open up their own dance studio. Everyone always wanted to dance with Antonia and her friend, Lena Lingard. This fact made Jim extremely jealous. At the same time, however, Antonia was very protective over who Jim spent time with and danced with. At this point in the story, I was confused about if they both liked each other why they never told each other.

Now I’m going to jump ahead a little ways to get to the next interesting story. C: Jim moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to attend the University. During his second year at the University Lena Lingard, who had opened a sewing shop in town, visited him at his room. When she knocked on the door Jim had absolutely no idea who stood before him. After the awkward introduction, they spent much time together during that year. Jim slowly fell in love with Lena. He had started pulling away from his studies in order to spend more time with her. Jim’s friend thought it would good for him if Jim followed him to Harvard. At first, Jim despised this idea. He decided to ask Lena if she felt the same way about Jim as he did for her. Sadly… she didn’t. Lena stated that she would never marry. The next year Jim went to study at Harvard where he finished his education.

After he was done with his education he decided to go back home to his grandparents. While he was there he heard that Antonia had a baby, but she wasn't married. The baby’s father left Antonia. It was a disgrace if a woman had a child without being married. However, Antonia never let this fact bother her. She showed off her baby! What I like most about Antonia is that she won’t let anything or anyone stop her from what she wants to do. I admire for her strength and her individuality.

This week’s reading ended with Jim trying to figure out the exact story about what happened to Antonia while he was gone. I really enjoy reading this book. I love the plot and the characters. I never want to put down the book once I pick it up. 

Week 6

I am still reading 1984. I haven't been getting a lot of time to read because of work again. I still have not found a book that I am 100% into reading yet. This book is getting more and more about the government. It is also pretty hard to read. At some points it even gets pretty confusing. Winston knows that there is something wrong with the government and I get the impression that he really does want to make a difference and make a change for the better. It is very hard to do though when you are being watched by the government all the time. I think that we all can some what relate to this book because it seems like our government is getting more and more involved in everything. I just feel like they are trying to take more and more of our freedoms away every day.

They have these bills that go to the house that try restricting seat belt laws and other dumb things that should be our choice. Winston wasn't able to express his opinion and or his emotion about what he thought of the government. I couldn't even imagine not being able to do whatever I want when I want, let alone not even being able to think about what I think it right. I am not really sure what else to write about in this blog because all this book is about it just how the government is getting crazier and crazier.

I do have a few questions though. My first question is what is going to happen in the end when they find out about him. My second one is will his legacy of trying to change the government live on?

week six, the catcher in the rye

          

After Stradlater gets home from his date he reads the composition that Holden wrote for him. He was annoyed because it had nothing to do with the assignment. Holden tore the paper up and threw it away. And then Holden smokes a cigarette in the room just to annoy Stradlater. Holden finally asked Stradlater about his date with Jane. Stradlater wouldn’t tell Holden any of the details so Holden attacks him. Stradlater tried to calm Holden down by holding him down on the floor but Holden insults Stradlater so he punches Holden and gave him a bloody nose. I don’t think it was necessary that Stradlater punched Holden. I think that he could have handled it a little more maturely. I also don’t think that Holden needed to insult Stradlater.

That night Holden tries to fall asleep but can’t stop thinking about Jane and Stradlater. Holden talks to Ackley about it but he gets annoyed so he leaves. He decided that he was going to leave for New York that night. Holden walked to the train station and caught a late train to New York. On the train he meets one of his classmate’s mom. Holden doesn’t like the boy so he lies to his mom. He tells her that his name is Rudolph Schmidt, who is actually the janitor. Holden tells her he is headed to New York for a brain tumor operation. I don’t think Holden should have lied to the lady about all this stuff, especially the brain tumor.

             When Holden gets to Penn Station he can’t think of anyone to call so he takes a cab to the Edmont Hotel. His cab driver didn’t seem interested in talking but he tried to make conversation. When he got his room he decided to call a girl named Faith Cavendish. He got her number from a boy at a party. Holden tries to make a date with her but she refuses. She tells him she needs her beauty sleep. But she did offer to meet with him the next day. Holden doesn’t want to wait that long and he hangs up without setting up a time or place to meet her. I don’t think Holden should be so selfish about not being able to see Faith. He should have set something up with her.
            Holden doesn’t ever discuss his feelings. He didn’t talk to Stradlater about how he felt when he took Jane on a date. He didn’t tell Faith that he was angry that she wouldn’t meet him that night. I think that if Holden would discuss his feelings he wouldn’t be so stressed. He seems like he tries to impress people by making them think he doesn’t have any emotion. If he told people how he felt they would understand and wouldn’t judge him. They could help him decided what to do in the situation.
            This book is getting better and better each page I read. Some chapters make me want to read till the end but others don’t interest me very much. Hopefully ill be done with it in the next two weeks. I’m not a reading kind of person.