A man made of scrap muscle & the steam engine’s imagination, white feathers flapping in each lobe for the skull’s migration, should the need arise.
This gives me a visual imagine of your typical intimidating stereotype. "A man made of scrap muscle" shows me he was a very stout man. "White feathers flapping in each lobe for the skull's migration" gives me an image of maybe feathers or some sort of hat that is around the ears.
Sometimes drugged & duffled (by white men) into a cockpit bound for the next adventure
Where it stated (by white men) it makes me feel there was some racism and white men were taking advantage of a colored man.
And liable to crush a fool’s face like newsprint; headlines of Hollywood blood and wincing.
This makes me picture a man who is very stout and scary. It appears to be someone who people would find intimidating.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
This gives me a visual of a soldier who is in misery about the man dying. It also gives me a visual image of the soldier that died laying on the wagon.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
"In all my dreams before my helpless sight"... based off this sentence, I believe the soldier tried to escape the visual although he couldn't for it was reality. The other soldier was drowning, and he couldn't escape that.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
This gives me a visual of men walking a dreadful / miserable path. Also, the men seemed to be very exhausted since it stated, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks"
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!
There is so much excitement with how this is written. It makes me believe something would be wrong or that the person yelling "Gas! Gas!" has something thrilling to show me.
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Since the poem was speaking of a man drowning and it stated "the blood, come gargling" makes me feel as if the writer wanted the drowning to seem very horrific. You typically wouldn't picture blood during a drowning, so I believe this was supposed to show frightment.
Sometimes there were things to watch- the pinched armor of a vanished cricket, a floating maple leaf. Other days she starred until she was assured when she closed her eyes she’d see only her own vivid blood.
This stanza gives gives me visual images as if I were setting beside the woman and visually seeing what she was. For example, the crickets disappearing.
And just what was mother doing out back with the field mice? Why, building a palace
The daughter seems to think the mother is doing something wrong from the way it expressed the sentence. "And just what was other doing out back with the field mice?" The daughter uses a tone that expresses she shouldn't have been in the field.
she would open her eyes and think of the place that was hers for an hour-where she was nothing, pure nothing, in the middle of the day….
This relates back to when the mother had her breather in the middle of the day while the child was sleeping. It also tells me that since she would go back in her mind to the break, she had had earlier, that she was still exhausted.
She wanted a little room for thinking: but she saw diapers steaming on the line, a doll slumped behind the door.
This gives me a visual image of a tired mother who wants to just set and have a breather. Parenting can be very exhausting, and she just wants to take a breathe.
I painted them hundreds of times eyes closed. These I painted blind. Some things never leave a person:
Although the father was completely blind. He was still about to paint a persimmon. And that brought the father much joy.
I sit beside him and untie three paintings by my father: Hibiscus leaf and a white flower. Two cats preening. Two persimmons, so full they want to drop from the cloth
The writer put a lot of detail into explaining the painting that the boy had found. Will this painting play an important role in the later story?
Mrs. Walker brought a persimmon to class and cut it up so everyone could taste a Chinese apple. Knowing it wasn’t ripe or sweet, I didn’t eat but watched the other faces
Since the boy got into trouble at the very beginning of the short story for not knowing the difference, it shows me based off of this paragraph that he now knew what a persimmon because he knew it was not ripe. I feel the teacher taught the child a lesson.
fight and fright, wren and yarn. Fight was what I did when I was frightened, Fright was what I felt when I was fighting. Wrens are small, plain birds, yarn is what one knits with. Wrens are soft as yarn.
This gives me an understanding of words that can have association with one another. For example, how it said "fight is what I did when I was frightened" compared to "fright was what I felt when I was fighting" rather he was frightened or fighting the two examples somehow associate with each other.
What’s your address, Mr. Kapasi?" she inquired, fishingfor something inside her straw bag."You would llke my address?""So we can send you copies," she said. "Of the pictures." She handedhim a scrap of paper which she had hastily ripped from a page of herfilm magazine
Considering Mrs. Das is asking Mr. Kapasi for his address I must wonder.... will this become a communication way for Mr. Kapasi and Mrs. Das via mail? Will they cheat on their spouses? Mr. Kapasi is already nervous around Mrs. Das, and Mrs. Das is also trying to include him in things on their family trip, such as dinner.
it flattered Mr. Kapasi that Mrs. Das was so intriguedby his job. Unlike.t’ds wife, she had reminded him of its intellectual chablenges. She had algaused the word "romantic." She did not behave in aromantic ~vay toward her husband, and yet she had used the word todescribe him. He wondered if Mn and Mrs. Das were a bad match, justas he and his wife were. Perhaps theT~5 too, had little in common apartfrom three children and a decade of their lives. The signs he recognizedfrom his own marriage were there- the bickering, the indifference, theprotracted silences. Her sudden interest in him, an interest she did notexpress in either her husband or her children, was mildly intoxicating.When Mr. Kapasi thought once again about how she had said "roman-tic," the feeling of intoxication grew.
With the distance between Mr. and Mrs. Kapasi from the accident of their son. Mr. Kapasi and his wife grew distant. In was way that Mr. and Mrs. Das had seemed. With the interest Mrs. Das showed towards Mr. Kapasi, he took a very big liking to Mrs. Das because he no longer got that attention from his wife. Will this conflict be noticed from Mr. Das? Will Mr. Kapasi and Mrs. Das grow to close?
"Tell us more about your job, Mr. Kapasi," Mrs. Das said."What would you llke to know, madame?""I don’t know," she shrugged, munching on some puffed rice and lick-ing the mustard oil from the corners of her mouth. "Tell us a typical situ-ation." She settled back in her seat, her head tilted in a patch of sun, andclosed her eyes. "I want to picture what happens."
Mrs. Das appears to be taking a liking in interpreter job that Mr. Kapasi has with the doctor. Will their communications draw the two characters close to one another, or cause conflict in the marriage?
Isn’t this an air-conditioned car?" she asked, still blowing on herhand. The window on Tina’s side was broken and could not be rolleddown."Quit complaining," Mr. Das said. "It isn’t so hot.""I told you to get a car with air-condltioning," Mrs. Das continued."Why do you do this, Raj, just to save a few stupid rupees. What are yousaving us, fifty cents?"
With the image this story is giving Mrs. Das it appears she is very high maintenace and her husband, Mr. Das, doesn't require as much. He seems to be more laid back than she. It seems that he also was the one who took care of the detail for them to have a car and cover the cost. Mrs. Das making the remark, "What are you saving us, fifty cents" seems to be really unappreciative of his wife to say, considering he was the one to get them a car in line for the trip and save them from walking.
Mr. Kapasi heard one of the shirttess men sing aphrase from a popular Hindi love song as Mrs, Das walked back to thecar, but she did not appear to understand the words of the song, for shedid not express irritation, or embarrassment, or react in any other wayto the man’s declarations
Mrs. Das may not have understood the specific language that the shirtless man was singing in, considering it stated it was a popular Hindi love song. She may not have understood the foreign language that the shirtless man was singing in.
He wondered if Mn and Mrs. Das were a bad match, justas he and his wife were. Perhaps theT~5 too, had little in common apartfrom three children and a decade of their lives. The signs he recognizedfrom his own marriage were there- the bickering, the indifference, theprotracted silences. Her sudden interest in him, an interest she did notexpress in either her husband or her children, was mildly intoxicating.When Mr. Kapasi thought once again about how she had said "roman-tic," the feeling of intoxication grew
Mr. Kapasi is comparing his marriage and Mr. & Mrs. Das' marriage. He believes there is similarities from his marriage and theirs. Based off the little intel he has witnessed; I wonder if there will be a flip in the story along the way and their marriages will be the complete opposite.
. In a way we have a lot incommon, you could say, you and I
Mrs. Das feels as if herself and Mr. Kapasi have some of the same aspects.
dutif~all
meaning: in a conscientious or obedient manner:
had teeth covered in a network of flashing silver wires
This statement is giving me a visual image of two young boys with braces.
On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First LieutenantJimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burnedMartha's letters.
Lieutenant Cross held on the not only the letters, but to the idea of Mathra for so long, that after he came to a realization that it was best for him and his force if he let her go, he done the correct thing and tried to let go of the letters and photographs. No longer having that burden, would he be able to better lead his troops in the best possible way. Considering it was the morning following Ted Lavenders death I believe the guilt helped him go along with his decision to remove Martha as a distraction. Therefore, since he took care of the distraction, could he then defend his troops?
Kneeling, watching the hole, hetried to concentrate on Lee Strunk and the war, all the dangers,but his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wantedto sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and besmothered
Lieutenant Cross was taking himself from doing his job, serving his people, for he could not get Matha out of his head. In this instance, he should have been fighting the war with his other troops, but the memory of Martha overseen his duties. If he continues to take his mind from the war, I feel there is a possibility that he may seek death.
. Oh shit, Rat Kiley said, the guy'sdead. The guy's dead, he kept saying,
I feel that Rat Kiley went into shock. Based off the wording and the way he expressed himself, constantly repeating the words, "the guy's dead" over and over. It appears to me that he couldn't process it in a quick since to overcome what he had saw and take cover from the shooter / shooters.
Jimmy Cross humped his love for Martha up the hills andthrough the swamps
Considering the story has been talking about carrying items and putting more weight on you, it makes me wonder how long Lieutenant Jimmy Cross will hold onto all the letters. Why is Matha so important to the Lieutenant? Will he later on do away with all the letters so that there is less weight on him?
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girlnamed Martha
Since the girl, Martha, is being mentioned so early in the story, I feel she will play a big role as a character. Will she hold a role through the entire story?
these were intangibles
meaning: unable to be touched or grasped; not having physical presence:
geology
meaning: the science that deals with the earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.
ragmentation
meaning: the process or state of breaking or being broken into small or separate parts
I had my annotations complete before the announcement was posted. I am very new at this so anyone who has pointers I would greatly appreciate. I will comment the link for anyone who would like access to the annotations I have made.
The woman with the tambourine, whose voice dominated the air, whose face was bright with joy, was divided by very little from the woman who stood watching her, a cigarette between her heavy, chapped lips, her hair a cuckoo's nest, her face scarred and swollen from many beatings, and her black eyes glittering like coal.
The description of both women makes them seem to be completely different.
For he also had to see that his presence, that music, which was life or death to him,
music was a part of his uncles' death. I have suspicion on how this will end.
"I'm going to be a musician,"
considering his uncle played guitar and died it makes me have suspicion on if something will happen to Sonny like it did his uncle.
malice.
meaning "the intention or desire to do evil"
"Damn it if I didn't leave all my money home. You ain't got a dollar on you, have you? Just for a couple of days, is all."
Earlier in the story it said, "I used to run into him from time to time and he'd often work around to asking me for a quarter or fifty cents." In this sentence it's providing evidence to that statement.
"They'll send him away some place and they'll try to cure him."
I'm confused.... I bought he was hung and now he's being sent to some place to be cured. Maybe it'll make since more into the story.
He was off by himself some place.
was he on drugs?
"ain't nothing you can do. Can't much help old Sonny no more, I guess."
Based off of the way the writer is spelling, as I read the story it seems to me like he may be a country boy. I would think he'd have a country accent.
denigrate.
this means "criticize unfairly; disparage"
vindictively,
this means "having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge"
I wondered what he looked like now. He had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apartment down-town, for peddling and using heroin
The writer is concerned on how the boy now looks. Based off his childhood he was a good-looking kid but ow drugs had taken over his life.
I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work.
The writer put so much detail into this sentence. The writer is being very specific to let the readers know the importance of him reading the story.