Everyone’s got a good angel and a bad angel,” she explained. “And if it’s a bad angel that picks you out”—she pointed to a craft swooping low—“there’s no escaping it. You’re done for.”
Everyone's bad angel could be the negative voice inside their head. You have the choice to let it get to you and bring you down, or ignore it and become better than it.
He wanted to augment in clean, blank places, where he was free to fully extend, unhindered. He looked down the beach as the oil streaks in the sand were overlaid now with a gleaming pavement, lined on either side by the National Guard, saluting him.
This could be referring to how people find nature and open places like the beach relaxing and mind opening. Now it seems that the beach is covered with pavement and man made things that has ruined the beauty. Goes back to the poem how man is getting ahead of itself in inventing new technology and its affecting nature.
He would be fifteen in May, almost a man! A man who could let another man know when he could be expected, and let him know in his own sweet time, when he had the inclination. He performed some rudimentary stretches and bounced up and down on the balls of his feet.
The boy still has to listen and do what his father tells him to do. He believes that when he turns 15 he will be free of order and can do whatever he pleases as a man.
Invent a man and a woman naked in a garden
Referring to Adam and Eve and the creation of all life. What happened to the meaning of life and nature since technology has evolved?
We are the characters who have invaded the moon, who cannot stop their computers.
Humans have taken technology to a new level by being able to travel to the moon. Maybe the author is suggesting that some things of the world should be left untouched. We as humans and inventors don't need to leave a mark on everything just because we are capable of doing so.
In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts.
This can possibly relate to the thought of white calvary soldiers destroying the lands of the Indians. White people maybe will try to take of the skills that Indians had acquired over times such as hunting, but they will never be able to live up to their legacy. All that will be left is the ghosts of the Indians they killed and left behind.
If the interior Indian is female, then she must be a healer, especially if she is inside a white woman
Women by nature seem to be more healing than men anyway. So perhaps the white woman can be healing and comforting to the lives that were lost while white calvary soldiers fought to destroy Indian lands.
Indian men, of course, are storms. They should destroy the lives of any white women who choose to love them
Why should Indian men destroy the life of a white woman who tries to love them? Maybe it pertains to the white soldiers wanting to destroy Indian land and reserves.
preferably from a horse culture
What is the author referring to when he says "horse culture"?
If the Indian woman loves a white man, then he has to be so white that we can see the blue veins running through his skin like rivers.
The author is saying that if a woman loves a white man that he must be so white he is translucent. Referring to maybe not having depth or past with his ancestors.
He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes, with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master – the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.
I'm very confused because in the beginning of this document, it states that all men and women are created equal. If that is the case why is this saying that women must basically act as servants to their husbands?
“Vot is cum’d to mein pelly?” roared all the boys, — “I’ve been ongry for dis hour!” “Vot is cum’d to mein kraut?” screamed all the vrows, “It has been done to rags for dis hour!” “Vot is cum’d to mein pipe?” swore all the little old gentlemen, “Donder and Blitzen! it has been smoked out for dis hour!” — and they filled them up again in a great rage, and, sinking back in their armchairs, puffed away so fast and so fiercely that the whole valley was immediately filled with impenetrable smoke.
The people of this town relied so heavily on the belfry to control the clock. The townspeople's lives revolved around the time of day and how they went about their day. When the clock was disrupted, they went crazy and didn't know how to adjust.
For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; but — I know not how or why it was — its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed.
The narrator thought that bringing this new cat into his life would somehow fill the hole he created within himself from killing his first cat. The new cat represented hope for a second chance at love. This new cat with the missing eye followed him around just like the other one. However, instead of the narrator finding comfort of love in the cat, he filled with more anger and more hatred. This could be because he is feeling guilty for his crime he has committed.
hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence;
He hung the cat because he knew that it loved him. Why couldn't he accept love anymore? What possessed him to have to much hatred and anger toward the things that loved him?
He went about the house as usual, but, as might be expected, fled in extreme terror at my approach. I had so much of my old heart left, as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me. But this feeling soon gave place to irritation. And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS.
he was feeling sorrow ad guilt for what he had done to his cat that loved him, and he soon became more mad and irritable when thinking about those thoughts.