-this article concens the further analysis of disgrace
With all the new developments from the book, im left wondering where Birdie thinks she is going now that she has left home. She takes off in the middle of the night drunk walking suddenly leaving everything she knew behind her. Her mother is an idiot, I dont really blame Birdie for actions her crazy mother has gone too far deciding that she now deserves to tells someone but Birdie still can’t. I was so glad the Birdie finally accused her mother of making everything up. Although her mother avoided saying the answer, it still made Birdie’s thoughts and feelings known. Although the teenage years can be hard, the difficulty concerning Birdie’s circumstances certainly allow her to feel what she feels. She is surrounded by everything her family told her hate and now that her mother is a hypocrit in every possible way all I can do is feel for Birdie. Her mother betrayed her.
After reading this past weeks assignment I can only feel for poot birdie, oh wait I mean Jess! Her mother irritates that crap out of me and I’m sure some other people as well. Whats up with her and this sketchy guy that she met at a bar! I don’t understand how how mother comes up with the thoughts she has. She has taken so much from birdie already, how can her selfishness continue? Birdie is adjusting to her mothers crazy ways and finding how to hide from them by riding horses and adapting to her neighbors little family. Their boarding school is fasinated by birdie. Each time they are together the lines of intimacy are crosses slowly inch by inch. I’m unsure how far it will go, but somthing is going to happen. The relationships around and involving birdie are becoming more and more climatic. If something big does not happen i am going to be so mad, because the tension just keeps rising im dying to read the breaking point. Somthing has to come from the actions of these characters. Also what is going on with chole beinging in Brazil? It has been years at this point, are they ever coming back to the story or is that little family going to remain a phantom throughout the book? Too many questions I need more answers!
Ok so the reading up to page 131 was kind of intense. Redbone is the sketchiest character thus far in this book. He just keeps popping up, is he the reason why the family is now split up and on the run? And what the hell?! Birdie’s crazy ass mother is user her kid as her somewhat disguise? I highly doubt that changing their names and suddenly Birdie is letting out her inner jewishness is going to cover up her mother’s trail and her shanangains. Anyways, what was she keeping in her creepy basement anyway? Guns or something, and her mother seemed half the time out of her fricken mind, so what makes Birdie think she isnt now and that maybe nobody is actually after them. What is her mom is just insaine and needs a straight jacket? The only person that I think she should worry about is Redbone, after all he took a picture of Birdie, so if she thinks all she has to do is hide behind her kid she better have a plan B cause if that picture gets around and the FED”S are looking for them, she is screwed. And yes this is a random flashback but, what was the deal with the old people in the park telling a cop that Bidie wasn’t this guys kid, I mean she was skipping and doing cartwheels and running if she was in any danger she would have probably kept running or something. What about the family photo he had to?! He showed it to them and they just brushed it aside? Hmmm very strange…
The homework assignment to watch the Incredibles movie is that does show the effect that outside forces can have on a family. Although this is a disney movie, so the happy ending contrasts to our book Disgrace and perhaps things are a bit unreal in comparison to the book. But the topic is outside forces, so anyways their are multiple circumstances that effected the lives of the superhero family. The enforcement of the identity changes and denial of power recognition effected how the family instilled values. Also the whole dad sneaking out to relive the hero days created a division of family. It was not until the society that they lived in allowed them to once again be excepted that they could unite together and live happily with themselves and eachother. The rejection pushed on them from society made it to difficult to handle. Their children could not do other things that normal children could do, like play sports and be active. The daughter of the family covered her face slightly implying the seclusion the family actually lived in society and by the end of the movie her hair was pulled back. Did anybody else get that idea?
After looking at the online description and the brainstorming that my group did, I have several thoughts that I was considering analyzing for my paper. My paper is going to be based on the book Disgrace alone. One of the ideas that
I have considered doing is a paper based the idea of the the constant changing of roles in the book. The Opera and the switching of the roles of byron and the other characters between David, Lucy and Mealanie. I would also go into the reversal of roles in terms of predator and prey, considering david went from the agressor to the victim. And the switching of the roles from the parent becoming the child and the child becoming the parent throughout the book. I would use specific passages from the book to back up each of the role reversals I am arguing.
Another idea I am considering is how important events in a book have the ability to bring characters together and at the same time drive them apart. An example of this is how David retreated to Lucy after his dismissal at the school, but because of what happened to Lucy the incident involving Mealanie and David made Lucy see a whole other side of her father. The incident at the farm that they both went through (not physically the same however) together does drive a stake into the relationship between them changing them as characters in the remainder of the book. Specific pages, passages and quotes would be used to back up my argument as evidence.
The end of the book was very interesting, I kind of upst how it just leaves off the ending. I mean Lucy is pregnant from a man that has raped her and the actual father could possibley be the boy that lives on her land. How sick and twisted is that?! I love that Laurie finally beat the living crap out that kid, he was peeping at Lucy and he was an intruder to her home, raping her and he gets away with it all. I did believe that Lucy was pregnant, so I was ot surprised when this was revealed. This book is based on real life situations, the heroine doesnt always win and the lovers dont always run into the sunset together that’s just the way of the real world. The author successfully makes this clear, not all things end the way we want them to. Petrus is awful character, allowing this kid to stay on Lucy’s land and be apart of his family is insaine! This kid might be blood but I mean come literally no justice for these poor characters. And what about this weird thing going on with Bev and Laurie? They are not lovers anymore, so does Laurie just stay in that town working for Bev till his money is gone? What about his house being broken into? I think it was melainie’s boyfriend, but I could be wrong? And that meeting in the parking lot…. weird. OH! What about the chick he picked up on the street? He is getting with girls like 10 years younger than Lucy, that just makes my stomach turn. This ending was not what I expected in the least, but perhaps that is what the author was looking for.
So David decided to get it on with Bev Shaw…. WHAT WAS THAT?! I mean come on saying he is doing he duty making him seem like the cream of the crop, but then makes fun of the way he looks. This guy is a walking contradiction sometimes, he talked about Bev like she was a tub? A flat-chested tub mind you, so obviously there was nothing their, so why on earth would he go along with it. He’s not dumb he knew why he was going over on a Monday (when they are closed) to meet her. He has serious issues, especially when it comes to doing the dirty with Bev (on the clinic floor… ew). Another thing, when he was at the party and he saw the kid, he should not have said one thing, just simply grab him drag him out back and beat the hell out of him. As far aa Petrus goes, if he was a decent person he would have spoken to the boy or something but he is a very fishy character. Most things in life are not black and white, but in this case it is. He either knew about what happened to lucy before the event took place and did nothing or worse, help the guys that did it, or he was totally unaware (which I doubt) about the inccedent. David needs to grow a pair and just ask Petrus straight up, where you apart of it or not? Did you know about it or not? Cause all this light footing around the subject is pointless.
Ok, so after finishing the reading I could help but be shocked about what happened to David and his daughter. In the beginning of the book I really disliked the main character, but now I can help but feel the injustice he has suffered in this section of reading. He and his daughter were attacked by two men and a child! Its so sad that his daughter got raped and he was lit on fire. Then those guys shot all the dogs in the pens, that part was hard to read because of the descriptiveness that is spoken about the dogs. What happened to the bulldog “Bitch”? I cant recall if she was shot, but the main character and the dog seemed to have fit together well. Considering that they were both outcasted from the society they lived in. His daughter is far more emtionally full of strength than her father, she isolates him after the inncident and will not even look at him.
It’s a very sad situation because David is unable to help and that is what he wants to do. Hopefully after all thats happened he will treat Bev and her other daughters friends better, after all they did take him in snf care for him.
On a happier note I love that his daughter is nothing like him. She gives such range to the book being so different from him, in terms of lifestyle, it will be very interesting what happenes next, I hope her character sticks around.
So I missed class today but man oh man, the reading was CRAZY!! Has this guy lost his dag gone pickin mind?! So our main character has serious issues from the beginning until the end of the reading. First off an escort service, for our character thats really a sad and he just straight to pathetic after she leaves her…. proffession and he begins to track her down. Very stalkerish I must say, then he makes it worse by getting with his student. You can tell he has kind of lost it when he makes up the elaborate story about how she must have been ro into pressing charges against him through the university. He goes further saying something along the lines of her being a helpless bird or something that he needs to take care of. He needs someone to just yell at him and say WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU! He sort of gets it from his ex-wife, but she is mostly concerned with its an embarassment. He really has no idea that his stalkerish tendencies has shifted from one woman to another. The one thing I didn’t like was how the “boyfriend” of this girl takes pleasure in bringing this professor down, I would have liked him to be a more caring and focused on the girlfriend. I do like that the dad went to the professor and called him out for his actions in public, If I was the father I would have done a hell of alot worse, people would have to pull me off that guy cause i would be beating the crap out him.
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