Monday, May 24, 2010

Seora-Asking 3 insightful questions

Assignment 5 Seora - asking 3 insightful questions
1. Fire
If you keep on reading, you'll easily see that the boy thinks carrying the fire means that they are the "good people". We have talked about this during class time, but it didn't really come to me. In the Greek myth, there is a God of fire named Prometheus. He is the one who stole the "fire", which was only possessed by Gods, and gave it to the people. He was punished by being tied up to a mountain and being eaten his liver alive by an eagle every day for doing so. In this myth, we can see that the fire means power and by giving the fire to the people, they could become civilized and differentiated from animals. I‘m not really sure, but I think that carrying the fire to the boy and the man means that whenever they reach the South, they could hand down fire to them, and might have a chance to live a different life than now.
2. Music
In the part before this, I'm sure you remember that the man carved the boy a flute out of wood. It's not big, but worth questioning out of all the other toys that he could have built him, why a flute? Also, in this part we saw that the man said the brass was the first thing he'd seen in a long time that stirred him. We can easily feel the connection between the music and the man. I'm not quite sure what discussion I'm trying to convey out of music, but I have a strong feeling that the music is a big part of the man's life even before the apocalypse and after the apocalypse.
3. Ending
Thanks to my friend, I already know what will happen to the man eventually, but I don't know the process to it. But mostly my feeling is that it won't be a happy ending where the man and the boy lives without the fear of the bad guys who eats human flesh, or suddenly the world becomes like the situation before the apocalypse and everything turns back to normal again. Okay... well., I'm sorry but the man dies in the end. I'm trying to write about the ending and I can't write my feelings down without the fact of the man dying. For those who read this, I'm really truly sorry, but for those who didn't, good for you. I know the man dies, but I don't know why or how he dies, and I don't know if the boy dies too. They might encounter some bad guys in between and they kill the man. Or, since he has been very sick, he might die of illness. However, as we read in this part of the book, the boy was also very sick, so they might both die of sickness(but that would be very depressing as if the whole book wasn't depressing enough). So we know that it wouldn't be a happy ending because the man dies, but even if he dies, it could still be a fairly happy ending for the boy. He might meet other good guys and they might take care of him, or , it just came to me. After his father died, he might have felt so much sorrow that he became one of the bad guys and started eating human flesh.(This would also not be a good ending though.)
It's late,, very late and I have to get up at 6 tomorrow(well it's not even tomorrow, it's today)and I'm really worried how I'm going to do that, but I'm really sorry. I thought the due date was 11 p.m by Sunday, and I thought I was only a couple of hours late but I wasn't.... I'm sorry. Seeu tomorrow~..ㅠ

4 comments:

  1. It's a good thing I know the ending of this story or I would have been quite annoyed! I was really amazed at some of the things you thought of, cuz they seem to be very deep. Music! I didn't even think deeply about the brass, and I am really, really impressed that you connected those things together.

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  2. Your analyze about the ending, I didn't read it because it must have been a spoiler. So I just read your analyzes about fire and music. Well I can see that you approached these subjects in a very creative way. I also agree that the man perhaps has sth to do with music.

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  3. Sorrrry Seora! ㅠ ㅠ It was a catastrophy for me to open on the exact page where the 'ajdfl;ahdfljadlf'(no more spoiler) happens...

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  4. I think the ending will be easier to process after you've read it... so don't worry too much about that for now.

    I like the suggestion that the fire might be something about hope or maybe legacy--to pass on when they achieve their goal. Also, your insights about music are good, but the brass on the ship was a navigation device, not an instrument (sorry!) but perhaps if you expanded your ideas to "art" which includes both, you could still look at it in this way.

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