Monday, October 15, 2007
A Continuity of Parks
The surrealism of A Continuity of Parks is so strong that he, the reader gets into a split screen while reading the story.For instance he caresses the green velvet, just as the lady carresses her secret lover when he arrives. The secret lover is not so interested in her anymore and wants to get away from her somehow, just as the reader has signed over his estate to someone else due to not interested in it anymore either. The unwantedness is unbearable and the reader, as well as the secret lover, the gentleman, wants to escape somehow out of the situation they are in right now.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Winter In The Blood, part 2 summary
In part 2, the nameless narrator has an issue with the emptiness feeling that is haunting him where ever he goes. He seeks women, booze, and fights to try to fill that emptiness. Where he was raised by mostly women, loseing his father and 14 year old brother Moses, and drinking to forget memories he doesnt want to remember causes him to want to lose himself, have his shadow along with himself erased. He is a victim archetype and uses self pity on himself at times he is at his lowest inner conscious.
research question
Where archytypes are used in writing of fiction stories, how many ways are they used in the 20th Century Fiction and what are the ways that they are used?
Monday, October 8, 2007
Summary of Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov
In Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokav, he is portraying the couples son, as a victim archetype. First he wants no desires like most people. Secondly, he comes from a lower class family.Thirdly, has mental problems. Finally, trys to end his life many times to escape the real world. Some instances were as follows:
" For the fourth time in as many years they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present tdo bring a young man who was incurably deranged in his mind. He had no desires."(659).
" A nurse they knew, and did not care for, appeared at last and brightly explained that he had again attempted to take his life."(660)
"The last time he had tried to do it, his method had been, in the doctor's words, a masterpiece of inventiveness; he would have succeeded had not an envious fellow patient thought he was learning to fly- and stopped him. What he really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape." (660)
"She wore cheap black dresses." (659)
" Her husband, who in the old country had been a fairly successful businessman, was now was wholly dependent on his brother Isaac, a real American of almost forty years standing."(660)
"Four years old, in the park: moodily,shyly, with puckered forehead, looking away from a eagerly squirrel as he would from any other stranger."(661)
" Age six- that was when he drew wonderful birds with human hands feet, and suffered from insomnia like a grown- up man."(661)
His parents saw a bird under a tree and symbolized it as being their son and the way he is having to live right now.An instance would be," A few feet away, under a swaying and dripping tree, a tiny half-dead unfledged bird was helplessly twitching in the puddle."( 660).
" For the fourth time in as many years they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present tdo bring a young man who was incurably deranged in his mind. He had no desires."(659).
" A nurse they knew, and did not care for, appeared at last and brightly explained that he had again attempted to take his life."(660)
"The last time he had tried to do it, his method had been, in the doctor's words, a masterpiece of inventiveness; he would have succeeded had not an envious fellow patient thought he was learning to fly- and stopped him. What he really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape." (660)
"She wore cheap black dresses." (659)
" Her husband, who in the old country had been a fairly successful businessman, was now was wholly dependent on his brother Isaac, a real American of almost forty years standing."(660)
"Four years old, in the park: moodily,shyly, with puckered forehead, looking away from a eagerly squirrel as he would from any other stranger."(661)
" Age six- that was when he drew wonderful birds with human hands feet, and suffered from insomnia like a grown- up man."(661)
His parents saw a bird under a tree and symbolized it as being their son and the way he is having to live right now.An instance would be," A few feet away, under a swaying and dripping tree, a tiny half-dead unfledged bird was helplessly twitching in the puddle."( 660).
Thursday, October 4, 2007
summary of Winter In The Blood, part one
To begin with, it seems that the main character, who is nameless, is from a Indian reservation.
He had come home from partying at the town near by, got in a fight, and when he come home his, who everyone thought to be his wife to be, had left him and took his 30-30 gun with her. to me he seems as if he don't care about nobody but himself. For instance, "She left three days ago, just after you went to town." " It doesn't matter," I said. (3). The only one he seemed to care about was his father.An example, "But Ill tell you one thing--Ive never seen a sorrier sight when he did come back." (17). He had many hobbies and they were fishing, drinking, putting Cree women down, and hang in bars. For instance, "She was Cree not worth a damn"(33). Another example of his hobbies were, "I drained off my beer and pointed to the empty bottle. " "Barman!" (45). A final example was when he , the nameless character (narrator) said, "..... picked up my fishing gear and drove away." (45). One final note to part one, is the setting and plot is in the modern days of indians and how they live yet to this day.
He had come home from partying at the town near by, got in a fight, and when he come home his, who everyone thought to be his wife to be, had left him and took his 30-30 gun with her. to me he seems as if he don't care about nobody but himself. For instance, "She left three days ago, just after you went to town." " It doesn't matter," I said. (3). The only one he seemed to care about was his father.An example, "But Ill tell you one thing--Ive never seen a sorrier sight when he did come back." (17). He had many hobbies and they were fishing, drinking, putting Cree women down, and hang in bars. For instance, "She was Cree not worth a damn"(33). Another example of his hobbies were, "I drained off my beer and pointed to the empty bottle. " "Barman!" (45). A final example was when he , the nameless character (narrator) said, "..... picked up my fishing gear and drove away." (45). One final note to part one, is the setting and plot is in the modern days of indians and how they live yet to this day.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
An interview with Hemingway
To begin, Hemingway believes that eliminating many titles thought up while writing the story
helps decide the final title of the book.By observing you are constantly writing and sometimes you can observe consciously or unconsciously. For instance, " Surely. If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful" (990). If a writer don't know right from wrong, the writer shouldn't be writing novels at all. Hemingway in his interview said, "A writer without a sense of justice and of injustice would be better off editing the Year Book of a school for exceptional children than writing novels" ( 992). With prior experiences, observation, and knowledge of what you, the writer is writing about , it makes it easier to put things and ideas down, organize, and create a story or novel and bring the novel " alive" and can call your writing your own, no one else's.
helps decide the final title of the book.By observing you are constantly writing and sometimes you can observe consciously or unconsciously. For instance, " Surely. If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful" (990). If a writer don't know right from wrong, the writer shouldn't be writing novels at all. Hemingway in his interview said, "A writer without a sense of justice and of injustice would be better off editing the Year Book of a school for exceptional children than writing novels" ( 992). With prior experiences, observation, and knowledge of what you, the writer is writing about , it makes it easier to put things and ideas down, organize, and create a story or novel and bring the novel " alive" and can call your writing your own, no one else's.
Character analysis and archetyps in Cannery Row
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Bernadette Miner
Mr. Joyce
20TH Century Fiction
October 2, 2007
Character analysis and Archetypes in Cannery Row
In Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, he has many different characters with personalities that are unique. Archetypes can be adapted to the characteristic personalities at the same time. Everyone has a personality, whether they have one or multiple personalities. Any one character or person can be one or more archetypes. For instance: in The Grapes of Wrath also by John Steinbeck, Tom Joad had become hero archetype,the one who must tackle obstacles , the prostitute archetype who engages lessons in integrity or negotitiations in integrity or spirit due to fears of physical or financial survival or for financial gain, and the outcast archetype, who was cast out of a social group for crime(s) committed, all in one story. He had a soft, gentle heartedness, but lunging anger personality when tested. Doc, and Mack, characters in Cannery Row have multiple Archetypes, adapting their personality values.
Doc was a calm and collective Marine Biologist. He liked to travel and collect many different species of animal life who owned his own Western Biological Laboratory. “Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula” (30). He had many friends, but no female friends. If he had any female friends, the relationship didn’t last long. For
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most part he was lonely. One of Doc’s personalities was sympathy. For instance: “Doc clipped
Frankie’s hair and got rid of the lice. At Lee Chong’s he got him a new pair of overalls and a striped sweater and Frankie became his slave”(58). Doc has adapted his sympathy with his
mentor archetype, one who advises or teaches. For instance, “He wanted to work in the laboratory. He swept out everyday, but there was something a little wrong. He couldn’t get a floor quite clean. He tried to help with grading crayfish for size. There they were in a bucket, all sizes” ( 59).Frankie tried and the perspiration stood on his forehead but he couldn’t do it”, “No,” Doc would say. “Look, Frankie. Put them beside your finger like this so you’ll know which ones are this long. See? This one goes from the tip of your finger down to the same place and it will be right”(59).
He had become angry when he come home from La Jolla where he was collecting baby octopi due to his laboratory torn to pieces like a tornado went through it. The archetype that is connected to this emotion would be the victim. For instance “Doc’s eyes flamed red with anger” (129). “ Did you do this?”, “Well, I and the boys--” Doc’s small hard fist whipped out and splashed against Mack’s mouth. Doc’s eyes shone with a red animal rage” (130). An example to show the victim archetype was, “The lights blazed in the laboratory. The front door hung sideways by one hinge. The floor was littered with broken glass. Phonograph record, some broken, some only nicked, were strewn about. The plates with pieces of steak ends and coagulating grease were on the floor, on top of the bookcases, under the bed. Whiskey glasses lay sadly on their sides. Some one trying to climb the bookcases had pulled out a whole section of
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books and spilled them in broken-backed confusion on the floor” (126).
Doc had another personality value, Loneliness. It seems that he has a lot of friends and is
very friendly himself, but when it comes to lady relationships he isn’t successful. For instance, “ Henri went over the story again and the girl’s eyes sparkled” (138). “ Doc watched them go a little sourly. After all it had been his date” (138). The archetype Doc can be categorized in is
the hero. He finds out about the party and decides to do something to help out without all of the town people catching on. An example of this archetype is, “ The next day he began making his own preparations for the party. His best records he carried into the back room where they could be locked away.He moved every bit of equipment that was breakable back there too. He knew how it would be-- his guests would be hungry and they wouldn’t bring anything to eat. They would run out of liquor early, they always did. A little wearily he went up to the Thrift Market where there was a fine and understanding butcher” (170). Another site of evidence was, “Doc ordered fifteen pounds of steaks, ten pounds of tomatoes, twelve heads of lettuce, six loaves of bread, a big jar of peanut butter and one of strawberry jam, five gallons of wine and four quarts of a good substantial but not distinguished whiskey” (170- 171).
Mack, the second main character in Cannery Row also had many personality values and archetypes that adapted as well. One was Low Self Esteem. For instance, “ Mack’s head jolted but he was braced now so he wouldn’t fall. And his hands stayed at his sides, “Go ahead, Doc,”
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he said thickly through his broken lips.” “ I got it coming” (130). Another example would be, “She got out of hand,” said Mack. “ It don’t do no good to say I’m sorry. I been sorry all my life. This aint no new thing. Its always like this.” He swallowed deeply from his glass. “ I had a wife,” Mack said. “Same thing. Ever’thing I done turned sour” (131).
Mack was a concerned individual for hurt animals and any friends of his that may need help for any reason. For instance, “ Now a genuine panic came over the Palace Flophouse. Darling had come to be vastly important to them”(146). “ Hazel and Jones were chosen to call on Doc” ( 146). “ It’s Darling,” they said. “ She’s sick.” “ What’s the matter with her?” “ Mack says it’s distemper” (147).He also has a “take charge” mode as well, the common courtesy value of life for him and other people around him. He decided for saving Darlings life and ruining Doc’s laboratory, Mack wanted to do something for him. Dora suggested a party. “Well,” said Mack, “ I and the boys thought we’d ask you. You know what we think of Doc. We wanted to ask you what you thought we could do for him that would kind of show him” (150). “ She shook out a cigarette, lighted it and studied. “You gave him a party he didn’t get to. Why don’t you give him a party he does get to”(150)?
An archetype that Mack fits into would be the Child archetype, who is awaken with desire to find path of service to help others, as well as the Scapegoat archetype, who takes the blame for all that has happened. As it suggests in the following proof of evidence. “ Mack came back from the laboratory with his mouth torn and his teeth broken. As a kind of penance, he did not wash his face. He went over to his bed and pulled his blanket over his head and he didn’t get up all day. His heart was as bruised as his mouth. He went over all the bad things he had done in his life and everything he had done seemed bad. He was very sad” (139).
He is a Trickster (one who provokes and cons to get what he/she wants) archetype also. . For instance, “ I and Eddie and the rest heard you own the Abbeville place.” Lee Chong nodded
and waited. “ I and my friends thought we’d ast you if we could move in there. We’ll keep up the property.” He added quickly. “Wouldn’t let anybody break in or hurt anything. Kids might knock out the windows, you know--” Mack suggested. “Place might just burn down if somebody don’t keep an eye on it” (10). “ Good,” said Mack. “ I knew Doc could depend on you” (56). “He turned about to leave. “By the way,” he said. “ Doc’s paying us five cents a piece for those frogs. We’re going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just ’til we can get back with the frogs?” “No!” said Lee Chong”(56).
In conclusion, John Steinbeck uses multiple character analysis and archetypes in Cannery Row. He uses many characters, but Doc and Mack are the two main characters used. That isn’t to say all the characters in the story don’t play an important role and carry multiple personality values and archetypes. This book is written very well and uses many archetypes and personality values to help us understand the way of living in Monterey, California at the area of Cannery Row. Therefore Steinbeck’s’ use of archetypes through the characters, helps to portray the faces and souls of the citizens around Cannery Row. This leading to an understanding of how they each lived to survive.
Bernadette Miner
Mr. Joyce
20TH Century Fiction
October 2, 2007
Character analysis and Archetypes in Cannery Row
In Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, he has many different characters with personalities that are unique. Archetypes can be adapted to the characteristic personalities at the same time. Everyone has a personality, whether they have one or multiple personalities. Any one character or person can be one or more archetypes. For instance: in The Grapes of Wrath also by John Steinbeck, Tom Joad had become hero archetype,the one who must tackle obstacles , the prostitute archetype who engages lessons in integrity or negotitiations in integrity or spirit due to fears of physical or financial survival or for financial gain, and the outcast archetype, who was cast out of a social group for crime(s) committed, all in one story. He had a soft, gentle heartedness, but lunging anger personality when tested. Doc, and Mack, characters in Cannery Row have multiple Archetypes, adapting their personality values.
Doc was a calm and collective Marine Biologist. He liked to travel and collect many different species of animal life who owned his own Western Biological Laboratory. “Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula” (30). He had many friends, but no female friends. If he had any female friends, the relationship didn’t last long. For
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most part he was lonely. One of Doc’s personalities was sympathy. For instance: “Doc clipped
Frankie’s hair and got rid of the lice. At Lee Chong’s he got him a new pair of overalls and a striped sweater and Frankie became his slave”(58). Doc has adapted his sympathy with his
mentor archetype, one who advises or teaches. For instance, “He wanted to work in the laboratory. He swept out everyday, but there was something a little wrong. He couldn’t get a floor quite clean. He tried to help with grading crayfish for size. There they were in a bucket, all sizes” ( 59).Frankie tried and the perspiration stood on his forehead but he couldn’t do it”, “No,” Doc would say. “Look, Frankie. Put them beside your finger like this so you’ll know which ones are this long. See? This one goes from the tip of your finger down to the same place and it will be right”(59).
He had become angry when he come home from La Jolla where he was collecting baby octopi due to his laboratory torn to pieces like a tornado went through it. The archetype that is connected to this emotion would be the victim. For instance “Doc’s eyes flamed red with anger” (129). “ Did you do this?”, “Well, I and the boys--” Doc’s small hard fist whipped out and splashed against Mack’s mouth. Doc’s eyes shone with a red animal rage” (130). An example to show the victim archetype was, “The lights blazed in the laboratory. The front door hung sideways by one hinge. The floor was littered with broken glass. Phonograph record, some broken, some only nicked, were strewn about. The plates with pieces of steak ends and coagulating grease were on the floor, on top of the bookcases, under the bed. Whiskey glasses lay sadly on their sides. Some one trying to climb the bookcases had pulled out a whole section of
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books and spilled them in broken-backed confusion on the floor” (126).
Doc had another personality value, Loneliness. It seems that he has a lot of friends and is
very friendly himself, but when it comes to lady relationships he isn’t successful. For instance, “ Henri went over the story again and the girl’s eyes sparkled” (138). “ Doc watched them go a little sourly. After all it had been his date” (138). The archetype Doc can be categorized in is
the hero. He finds out about the party and decides to do something to help out without all of the town people catching on. An example of this archetype is, “ The next day he began making his own preparations for the party. His best records he carried into the back room where they could be locked away.He moved every bit of equipment that was breakable back there too. He knew how it would be-- his guests would be hungry and they wouldn’t bring anything to eat. They would run out of liquor early, they always did. A little wearily he went up to the Thrift Market where there was a fine and understanding butcher” (170). Another site of evidence was, “Doc ordered fifteen pounds of steaks, ten pounds of tomatoes, twelve heads of lettuce, six loaves of bread, a big jar of peanut butter and one of strawberry jam, five gallons of wine and four quarts of a good substantial but not distinguished whiskey” (170- 171).
Mack, the second main character in Cannery Row also had many personality values and archetypes that adapted as well. One was Low Self Esteem. For instance, “ Mack’s head jolted but he was braced now so he wouldn’t fall. And his hands stayed at his sides, “Go ahead, Doc,”
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he said thickly through his broken lips.” “ I got it coming” (130). Another example would be, “She got out of hand,” said Mack. “ It don’t do no good to say I’m sorry. I been sorry all my life. This aint no new thing. Its always like this.” He swallowed deeply from his glass. “ I had a wife,” Mack said. “Same thing. Ever’thing I done turned sour” (131).
Mack was a concerned individual for hurt animals and any friends of his that may need help for any reason. For instance, “ Now a genuine panic came over the Palace Flophouse. Darling had come to be vastly important to them”(146). “ Hazel and Jones were chosen to call on Doc” ( 146). “ It’s Darling,” they said. “ She’s sick.” “ What’s the matter with her?” “ Mack says it’s distemper” (147).He also has a “take charge” mode as well, the common courtesy value of life for him and other people around him. He decided for saving Darlings life and ruining Doc’s laboratory, Mack wanted to do something for him. Dora suggested a party. “Well,” said Mack, “ I and the boys thought we’d ask you. You know what we think of Doc. We wanted to ask you what you thought we could do for him that would kind of show him” (150). “ She shook out a cigarette, lighted it and studied. “You gave him a party he didn’t get to. Why don’t you give him a party he does get to”(150)?
An archetype that Mack fits into would be the Child archetype, who is awaken with desire to find path of service to help others, as well as the Scapegoat archetype, who takes the blame for all that has happened. As it suggests in the following proof of evidence. “ Mack came back from the laboratory with his mouth torn and his teeth broken. As a kind of penance, he did not wash his face. He went over to his bed and pulled his blanket over his head and he didn’t get up all day. His heart was as bruised as his mouth. He went over all the bad things he had done in his life and everything he had done seemed bad. He was very sad” (139).
He is a Trickster (one who provokes and cons to get what he/she wants) archetype also. . For instance, “ I and Eddie and the rest heard you own the Abbeville place.” Lee Chong nodded
and waited. “ I and my friends thought we’d ast you if we could move in there. We’ll keep up the property.” He added quickly. “Wouldn’t let anybody break in or hurt anything. Kids might knock out the windows, you know--” Mack suggested. “Place might just burn down if somebody don’t keep an eye on it” (10). “ Good,” said Mack. “ I knew Doc could depend on you” (56). “He turned about to leave. “By the way,” he said. “ Doc’s paying us five cents a piece for those frogs. We’re going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just ’til we can get back with the frogs?” “No!” said Lee Chong”(56).
In conclusion, John Steinbeck uses multiple character analysis and archetypes in Cannery Row. He uses many characters, but Doc and Mack are the two main characters used. That isn’t to say all the characters in the story don’t play an important role and carry multiple personality values and archetypes. This book is written very well and uses many archetypes and personality values to help us understand the way of living in Monterey, California at the area of Cannery Row. Therefore Steinbeck’s’ use of archetypes through the characters, helps to portray the faces and souls of the citizens around Cannery Row. This leading to an understanding of how they each lived to survive.
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