Mr_Shank

Hey guys, I really do not know if we need to blog, but whatever.

    I think Norah is becoming very jealous of her sister, Bree, and is becoming extremely bored with her marriage. This quote supports my theory. Its not really a quote per say. Its extremely short. After that wierd guy appears at the beach David says quote ” I like that guy” after some stuff Norah says “So do I”. This may not seem interesting at all to you BUT I think that when she said “So do I” I think there was a under message. I think that Norah actually “like likes ” this guy. I think Norah is soo bored she might go as far as to enter an affiar. This would further seperate the marriage which would make sense becuase that is all this book is about. Do you think that Norah could stoop so low to do this? What do you think she meant by this??? Please actully read some of this so you know what your talking about! Thanks

Thats means you Derrick. I dont think Heather will blog!! bummer

The third chapter of this book is a very gloomy one and a bad time for John Grady and Rawlins.  They are thrown into jail and undergo many hardships while imprisoned there, and when they are freed Rawlins decides to leave Grady and go back home.  But despite all the troubles these two went through in this section,  i would like to focus on the one who did not make it: Jimmy Blevins.  Blevins was captured earlier in the book while attempting to steal back his pistol.  The three met up again when they were being taken to jail.  Unfortunately, Blevins was executed along the way.

“John Grady watched the small ragged figure vanish limping among the trees with his keepers.  There seemed insufficient substance to him for him to be the object of men’s wrath.  There seemed nothing about him sufficient to fuel any enterprise at all.”

These are John Grady’s thoughts as his friend Blevins is being taken into the woods to be killed.  I chose this section because it shows that Grady is not feeling remorse or sadness or even any guilt at Blevins death, just amazement in the cruelty of other men.  I am not saying that he is a bad person for this; in fact, John Grady is a very righteous person at heart.  Why do you think that Grady is not feeling any sympathy towards Blevins after his adventures with him?

“They caint just walk him out there and shoot him, he [Rawlins] said.  Hell fire.  Just walk him out there and shoot him.

John Grady looked at him. As he did so the pistol shot come from beyond the ebony trees.  Not loud. Just a flat sort of pop.  Then another.”

This is the description of Blevins death.  There is very little suspense leading up to it, and his execution is extremely anticlimactic.  Why do you think McCarthy doesn’t add a little excitement to this scene?  Is Blevins life not important to the story?  I believe that the death of this boy shows how fragile and meaningless lives can be.  The only friend that Grady and Rawlins had was just executed, and they, mostly Rawlins, are only concerned about getting on their way.  The lack of build up and suspense in this part just shows me that the author is intending to show how meaningless and short life can be for people like John Grady and Lacey Rawlins.  What would have done if you were forced to sit idly by as your friend was killed?  Would you try to be a hero and save him, even if the odds were not in your favor?  Or would you be more concerned about keeping yourself alive?  Be honest.

-Ditz

First off since we didn’t have a chance to really discuss how much we were going to read I think we should make a decision.  The last chapter I read was chapter 10.  If you think we should read a different amount just let me know.

In this last section of few things have changed in the Time Traveler.  The frenzy which we saw growing in the previous section has grown into some new things.  One thing that has occurred is a strong fear of the night.  This is instilled in him after he has his first big interaction with the Marlocks. The character says,  “I will confess I was horribly frightened.  I determined to strike another match and escape under its glare…  That upward climb seemed unending.  While I still had the last twenty or thirty feet of it above me, a deadly nausea came upon me.  I had the greatest difficulty in keeping my hold.”  After this incident the Time Traveler no longer feels safe so he searches out a safe refuge for him and Weena to live in at night.  He decides to look at the green, porcelain palace that he saw before.

Another change we see is that the Morlocks have caused him to hold a great anger against them.  He gets even as far as wanting to injur or kill them.  This we see is mainly because he cannot picture Weena as a meal for them.  While he was down in the well-like place he saw that they ate the Eloi.  He cares for Weena and he does not want to see her become a meal.  He thinks to himself, “I longed very much to kill a Morlock or so.  Very inhuman, you may think, to want to go killing one’s own descendants, but it was impossible somehow to feel any humanity in the things.”  After he says this he searches the museum (the green palace) and finds more matches, used to scare them away, and a crow bar, which could easily kill their fragile bodies.

Another thing noticeable about the Time Traveler is that he has become  very close to Weena, almost as if he loves her.  This seems like a rather unorthodox, and an incredibly long distance relationship (to say the least), yet he does not seem to mind.  His plan is to bring Weena with him back to the present.

So my questions to you are:

1.  Do you think that you would be afraid of the Morlocks, why or why not, and do you see the Time Travelers reasoning for being frightened of them?

2.  Do you believe that the Time Traveler will ever have the courage to kill any of the Morlocks? Why or Why not?

3.  Would you have the courage that the Time Traveler had to go down into well-like place?  How would you respond differently to the situation then he did?

4.  Obviously Weena does not come back with the Time Traveler, or else we would have met her at the beginning of the book.  What do you think caused the change of plans to bring her with him back to the present?

~Erin Campbell =]

In the third chapter of the novel I am again going to look at John Grady.  In this chapter John Grady and Rawlins are both hurt by a man who slashes both of their stomachs.  John Grady then kills the man, he feels remorse which Rawlins scolds him for when they are both released from prison.  When they are released Rawlins decided to go back to Texas, but John Grady decides he is going to stay in Mexico and go back to the ranch to retrieve the horses and try and win Alejandra.  This brings me to my first question which is:  Do you think that John Grady is making the right decision or should he go back to Texas with Rawlins?

My next question is who do you think hired the man to kill Rawlins and John Grady?  John Grady knew that the man was a proffesional killer and that someone hired him to kill them.  Do you think it was Alejandra’s aunt or maybe her father?  Why do you think they wanted to take such extreme measures to get rid of the two.  I mean they were already in jail weren’t they?

-Kody

After Behrani takes Kathy into his home after her suicide attempt, his wife cares for Kathy and blames all of this happening to them on him. His wife leaves Kathy in the bathroom to take a shower before they all eat. After a period of time, they check to see if Kathy is okay and find her in the bathtub unconsious. Kathy has taken pills and this is her second suicide attempt.

Lester finally goes back to the camp to find Kathy missing. He drives around trying to find her, when he sees her car packed at Behrani’s house. He then breaks into the house. He take sout his gun and orders Behrani and his family to get away from Kathy. He takes Kathy into the bedroom and then calls the hospital. He is told that Kathy will be okay.

Behrani and his family are now prisoners in their own home by Lester. Lester locks them in the bathroom and they attempt to make the best of it in there. Lester orders Behrani that tomorrow, he is going to sell the house back to the county.

Kathy wakes up to find Lester in the house. He shows her the note he left her earlier and she is shocked that he has locked Behrani’s family in the bathroom. He lets them out after Behrani bangs on the door ordering that they have food. Behrani then makes the call to the office about the selling of the house back to the county. At the end of this third part, Lester has ordered Behrani and his son to come with him somewhere.

Words:

Heechee-nothing (in Farsi) Behrani keeps using this word as a put down on his family and himself. Saying that they have nothing and people should pity them because they have nothing.  

Patronize-to behave in an offensively condenscending manner toward someone  I didn’t exactly remember what this word meant so I thought it would be a good refresher for people who know it and good for the people who don’t.

False imprisonment-when a person who is intentionally confined without legal authority  This I thought was a good word to define because this is a charge that Behrani could file agaisnt Lester, among others.

Inconsequential-of little or no importance  Another word I did not exactly remember the definiton for.

~Sarah L.