SSRJ #1
Initial Personal Reaction: Out of the four short stories I had read so far, the one that hit me the most was Soldier’s Home by Hemingway because I fall in the same process but in a different situation toward my family. The element that stood out as particularly interest me was “… here at home it was all too complicated…” (Hemingway 189) and how nobody care about him that makes him feel so mad. I mean I would too because its like you’re invisible. It hurts to be alone. Now that I am far away from home, I miss home even though there‘s nothing to do. As for me, I can’t ever go out and I did for my first time. I went to eat at a restaurant with my aunt, because of that I got kick out of the house. Four days pass, I came back the whole family ignored me and say I change so much every since I came back. I lied that I didn’t, but which I did because I felt weird. I feel like they don’t even care about me, I‘m invisible. But, oh will.
Literary Element/Thematic Analysis: It’s understandable how Hemingway puts together a short story of the Soldier’s people welcoming home. So Hemingway in showing the literary element by starting of how Kerbs having difficulty of the town ignoring him. The outside of his mother still cooking and how him and his father doesn’t have a good relationship with one another, how the girls are all grown up; which that is all what he can think of coming back home. So he started on his new routine by trying to not make him feel complicated: sleeping late, walking to the library to pick up some books to read, go back home and eat lunch, sitting down on the front porch and go back out to play pool that was fun for him and other than that, that’s his routine for the every day.
Questions/Comments: I don’t understand why Kerbs mother pray for him when he tries to tell his story to her and she always out bored it? I wonder what is her pray for Kerbs?
Monday, January 30, 2012
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