Question #1
page: 28
Said by: Tom ???
quote #1: Its a warm October day and I have nothing else to do but what I'm suppose.
Response #1: I think that this quote really shows that he doesn't really like this place at all. He's obviously board and he didn't like how his life there was. its interesting that he didn't because he's getting job. That would be a good thing at this time and everybody wants a job and make money.
I wonder why he didn't like his job?
Question #2
page: 37
Said by: Eddie Gilligan
Quote #2: There is no place to sit anywhere along the street with landladies peering and watching and there's nothing to do but wander over to a park by the East River and I wonder why America is so hard to recreate your past life.
Response #2: I think its cool how it really shows how they talked back then and its pretty interesting how this author writes. He writes as though its a rant and as you can see the quote that I picked was pretty long and its strange. I think that another reason i really like this quote is that I can really see the time that there living in, even though it wasn't that lang ago it describes. I also think that Eddie knows his way around already and its like he's gotten use to it.
Would you live in this time period?
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Mauro,
ReplyDeleteQuote #1: I am not sure you understood the text and content that surrounded this quote. I don’t remember why he was saying this but he likes life in America. It’s just not what he hoped it would be. He isn’t bored it’s just that he doesn’t like his current situation. He had a bad eye and he wanted to be like the college kids he saw at the hotel. He was yelled at and he didn’t like where he lived too much. On top of that he was kicked out of the cinema. I think you should make sure you understand the quote in its entirety before you talk about it.
Question #1: Frank didn’t like his job at the hotel because he wasn’t getting paid to well. He also wanted to be like the college students that hung around the hotel. He didn’t like his life in America and he constantly wanted it to change so he could leave the hotel job. He never said he didn’t like America he just didn’t like his new life. All of this changed when he was drafted into the army….
Quote #2: Luc, I can’t see how this quote gives you an image in your mind of the times back then. This quote could still be muttered by an immigrant in New York. Also Frank isn’t writing or saying this, it’s a quote said by another person... unless you just wrote it wrong. Personally with all of the content that is dumped upon us with a week of reading I can’t remember this.
Question #2: -Personally I would hate living in that time period; with the war and lack of much helpful medicine it would be a bad place to live. For some reason when I think about that time period I think it was in black and white, a miserable place unless you got lucky and became rich. I would like to live in that time period if I wasn’t drafted, I never got sick, and life was swell.