Sammy and Tracy's first kiss

4/19/11

• Rosa knew Sammy was Gay
• Joe knew but did not want to considerate
• Joe is selfish
• We never really know really who Tracy Bacon is. He is mysterious
• Mysterious origins in comics- power and greatness
• Mysterious origins in real life-  messy problems

p.352

• sammy works at observation deck in the night shift to be somewhat involved in the military
tone of moment of sammy and tracys first kiss:

• electricity- figuratively and literally
• on top of the world
• romantic
• naive
• surprising
• epic and cinematic- like super hero
• symbol for sparks
• homosexuality in the dark so secretive on top of the world. closeted at this time- night
• cigarette- gemstone of heat. make it precious just like the moment
• not threatening- warm and interesting like rosa and joe

p.353

• sparks last sentence
• manly and powerful
• movie its
• “hot” literally
• sparks symbolicly romance

p.380

middle paragraph to the end
tone:
on top of the world, closed off world
the motif of heat is there again- flame
optimistic- own world, future
natural- different intensity
fantasy vs. reality
undertone that they are in the dark

Shooting an Elephant and Invisible Man Prologue

In class we discussed Shooting an Elephant and the prologue of Invisible Man. We talked about the transformative moment, themes, and whether George Orwell was trying to be implicit or explicit. On p. 515   there is a transformative moment when he realizes he is going to shoot the elephant when he wasn't going to be before, he is forcing himself to do it. "And it was at this moment, as I stood there with a rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man’s in the East.” (515) He knew he couldn't let the elephant kill him so he felt his only alternative was to kill the elephant. Then on p. 517 there is a transformative moment in tone and mood when he starts to regret is decision.

WOW Moment of class--Jake Carroll, 10:29am 9/15/10--When discussing the theme of "Shooting an Elephant":

When you oppress others you are oppressing yourself.

Then we talked about the prologue of Invisible Man. The symbol of invisible in the text is about race, class and society. Groups of people aren’t recognized because they do not have the ability and they have no voice. We also talked about the persona of the invisible man and how crazy he is. He lives in the ground and puts lights all over the ceiling and ground. But he does not think he is crazy and has an altered perspective.


AND THE NEXT SCRIBE IS... NOAH!!