Comments on: Period 3- Abbey Stefanides- Post 3 http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/2009/02/27/period-3-abbey-stefanides-post-3/ Shanks for Bloggin! Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:46:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: war_of_the_worlds http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/2009/02/27/period-3-abbey-stefanides-post-3/comment-page-1/#comment-400 war_of_the_worlds Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:58:15 +0000 http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/?p=415#comment-400 Yea I have to agree with Shaun too. H.G. Wells is the only one who could tell us how the wife would act. But if I had to guess, I think she would want to survive in order to protect her husband. He loves her a lot, and I think we can infer that that love is returned. She obviously cares about him. The night the Martians first come, she waits up for him when he comes home late, and in the beginning of the book the narrator mentions how he and his wife took walks hand in hand. I think if the roles were switched, the wife would fight just as hard as the narrator is to survive and get back to her husband. -Paula Yea I have to agree with Shaun too. H.G. Wells is the only one who could tell us how the wife would act. But if I had to guess, I think she would want to survive in order to protect her husband. He loves her a lot, and I think we can infer that that love is returned. She obviously cares about him. The night the Martians first come, she waits up for him when he comes home late, and in the beginning of the book the narrator mentions how he and his wife took walks hand in hand. I think if the roles were switched, the wife would fight just as hard as the narrator is to survive and get back to her husband.

-Paula

]]> By: war_of_the_worlds http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/2009/02/27/period-3-abbey-stefanides-post-3/comment-page-1/#comment-365 war_of_the_worlds Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:51:53 +0000 http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/?p=415#comment-365 I have to agree with Shaun that it is impossible to know what would have happened if the roles would have been switched. But i believe that yes the wife would of had the same drive as her husband to survive. If he would love her that much to kill a man to stay alive, to be with her again. Kody I have to agree with Shaun that it is impossible to know what would have happened if the roles would have been switched. But i believe that yes the wife would of had the same drive as her husband to survive. If he would love her that much to kill a man to stay alive, to be with her again.

Kody

]]> By: war_of_the_worlds http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/2009/02/27/period-3-abbey-stefanides-post-3/comment-page-1/#comment-349 war_of_the_worlds Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:09:40 +0000 http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/?p=415#comment-349 I somewhat agree with you Shaun, but I think to have a full understanding of a novel you have to ask 'what if's. Mr. Risser has us ask 'what if' questions to have us look all the possibilites and to help us realize how significant things acually are. It helps us to see and say, "Wow, WHAT IF this hadn't accualy happened. All of history would have changed." I think that it is the same thing as the book. I think that becuase the wife would be the narrator the book would have been different. It would have had the same story line, I do agree with you there. But, maybe her husband wouldn't have been her drive to stay alive. There are a whole bunch of posibilities. Abbey Stefanides I somewhat agree with you Shaun, but I think to have a full understanding of a novel you have to ask ‘what if’s. Mr. Risser has us ask ‘what if’ questions to have us look all the possibilites and to help us realize how significant things acually are. It helps us to see and say, “Wow, WHAT IF this hadn’t accualy happened. All of history would have changed.”

I think that it is the same thing as the book. I think that becuase the wife would be the narrator the book would have been different. It would have had the same story line, I do agree with you there. But, maybe her husband wouldn’t have been her drive to stay alive. There are a whole bunch of posibilities.

Abbey Stefanides

]]> By: war_of_the_worlds http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/2009/02/27/period-3-abbey-stefanides-post-3/comment-page-1/#comment-331 war_of_the_worlds Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:34:16 +0000 http://journaling.clsd.net/mr_shank/?p=415#comment-331 I believe that to find the true answer to this question you would have to ask the author. It is impossible to say because we know so little about his wife. H.G. Wells wrote the story based on the husband being the narrator. He could have easily made the wife the narrator, put her in her husband's position, and gave her the same traits as him. We should not be asking 'what if' questions, but instead focus on what is actually happening in the novel. The only significance of the narrators wife is that she is the driving force behind him. Without her, perhaps, the narrator might have given up at some point. -Ditz I believe that to find the true answer to this question you would have to ask the author. It is impossible to say because we know so little about his wife. H.G. Wells wrote the story based on the husband being the narrator. He could have easily made the wife the narrator, put her in her husband’s position, and gave her the same traits as him.

We should not be asking ‘what if’ questions, but instead focus on what is actually happening in the novel. The only significance of the narrators wife is that she is the driving force behind him. Without her, perhaps, the narrator might have given up at some point.

-Ditz

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