Please read 98 - 131 respond to the following prompts or questions. Use quotes when stipulated.
1. How does the reader see poverty through simple details on pg. 98? Cite 3
2. Whose memories does Veronica steal on pg. 99?
3. How does the reader know Veronica and the kids have gone to Ada's before? (100)
4. Give the names of three horses on pg. 108. Where are they? What are they doing?
5. "...every choice is fatal" (110). Why is this so true?
6. We get an example of kitsch vs. reality on pg. 111. Cite and explain.
7. Cite an example of interesting syntax on pg. 114.
8. "...false intensities" are mentioned on 120. Have you ever experienced a false intensity? I've never heard the expression but it says so much about so many of our experiences.
9. On 121 we see Liam never finding a home. Find a quote to support this idea.
10. Why do Liam and Veronica's paths diverge? Think of lifestyle. (123)
11. How is Liam summed up on pg. 124?
12. How is our narrator like St. Veronica?
13. What was St. Dympna the saint of? Why? (128)
14. There are some excellent bits of Ireland and Irish Language. Please look up the following:
a. "drab days of Lent" (105)
b. Guiness (107)
c. "happy as Larry" (113)
d. "biro" (114)
e. "red lemonade" (116)
f. "chunter" (125)
1. How does the reader see poverty through simple details on pg. 98? Cite 3
2. Whose memories does Veronica steal on pg. 99?
3. How does the reader know Veronica and the kids have gone to Ada's before? (100)
4. Give the names of three horses on pg. 108. Where are they? What are they doing?
5. "...every choice is fatal" (110). Why is this so true?
6. We get an example of kitsch vs. reality on pg. 111. Cite and explain.
7. Cite an example of interesting syntax on pg. 114.
8. "...false intensities" are mentioned on 120. Have you ever experienced a false intensity? I've never heard the expression but it says so much about so many of our experiences.
9. On 121 we see Liam never finding a home. Find a quote to support this idea.
10. Why do Liam and Veronica's paths diverge? Think of lifestyle. (123)
11. How is Liam summed up on pg. 124?
12. How is our narrator like St. Veronica?
13. What was St. Dympna the saint of? Why? (128)
14. There are some excellent bits of Ireland and Irish Language. Please look up the following:
a. "drab days of Lent" (105)
b. Guiness (107)
c. "happy as Larry" (113)
d. "biro" (114)
e. "red lemonade" (116)
f. "chunter" (125)
1. The readers see poverty through the simple description of the house that Veronica and her family lived in. “We slept in the back of the house” (Enrigh 98). Even though their houses were big, they had a huge family, so they didn’t have much space for each individual to have a room. “We had two beds between the three of us” (Enright 98). This tells us that her family was poor, and that they couldn’t afford the money to buy beds for each members of the family. “There was a horizontal mouth cut out fo the letterbox, a long slit for the knocker, and a little round hole for the bell” (Enright 98). The family had a hand made interior because they didn’t have the money to buy them. Like the letterbox, they simply cut a horizontal mouth on the door.
ReplyDelete2. Veronica steals her little sister, Kitty’s memory. Veronica loved Kitty, but she felt some jealousy toward her because her family adored her, which made Veronica steal her memory for her own.
3. The readers know that Veronica and the kids have gone to Ada’s before, because she mentioned that, “The second time we stayed at Ada’s our father drove us across town on a traffic” (Enright 100).
4. The names of the horses are Street Singer, Con Amore, and Daisy’s Boss. Ada, Charlie and Nugent are at a horse racing, and they are betting.
5. This is true because all the choices we make can affect our life or someone else’s life. Even though we think that some choices in our life is very small and a simple one, it can affect and change our future.
6. “One day, Ada packed a basket and took us to the seaside on the train. Or, I should say, she wrapped a few sandwiches in the waxed paper from the sliced pan, and she put them into her string shopping bag” (Orwell 111). The first sentence explains the situation in a splendid way, so this is the kitsch. But the second sentence, says that she actually just wrapped sandwich and putted in her shopping bag, which represents the reality side.
7. I am not really sure, but I think the syntax in this page is, “He twists his hand at the wrist, as the hunched shoulder comes down, and the stick might waver a little before he switches to the other” (Enright 114).
8. I am not sure if I experienced false intensity in my life, but it seems that simple actions are related to false intensity. “The fights over stolen cornflakes” (Enright 120). This occurs to me some times, when I notice my favorite snack is eaten by someone else. So I guess everyone experiences false intensities in their life.
9. “Liam was always mysteriously elsewhere: this perhaps one of the effects of our stay at Ada’s, that if he made a home, it was only ever to leave it” (Enright 121). This quote talks about how Liam is never able to find a home. Even though he finds one, it was meant for leaving.
10. Liam and Veronica’s paths diverge because they both have a completely different life. Liam lives a life where he lived freely, and was called a messer. On the other hand, Veronica wanted to live a life where she was able to make love with meaning, and she wanted to grant all her hopes and wishes. This time, Veronica is not going to go look after Liam, and I think this is because she want to live her own life now.
11. Liam is summed up that he have many small problems, rather than big ones. Liam once picked up a wet lighter on the street, because he did not have a lighter to light his cigarette. He tried to dry it up by putting it in a oven. Veronica was astounded by that because she thought that he will burn down the whole house.
ReplyDelete12. Our narrator is like St. Veronica because she feels like she is linked to her, and she will become a photographer. St. Veronica wiped the face of Christ with a tea towel. And Veronica imagined herself becoming a wiper of something.
13. St. Dympna was the saint of the insane because her father was insane to want to marry her.
14.
drab days of Lent- An annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation of Easter. Lent usually connotes drab days
Guiness- Popular Irish dry stout (dark beer) that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness
happy as Larry- Very happy.
biro- A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer or ink to paper
red lemonade- A popular soft drink in Ireland.
chunter- to talk in a low articulate way
1. We see hints of poverty through simple details such as Ada’s house being “flat against the street. There was no garden or path up to it so people passed by, very close, without ever coming in” (Enright 98). Also, the house’s door had a “horizontal mouth cut out for the letterbox, a long slit for the knocker, and a little round hole for the bell” which shows that they simply added those things to a simple door so as not to spend money on a proper mailbox, a knocker and a bell. As well as this, the children needed to sleep at the back of the house where there were only “two beds between the three of us, a wide one for the girls and a narrow one for Liam” (Enright 98).
ReplyDelete2. Veronica steals Kitty’s memories about eating Ada’s flower patterned shower cap.
3. The reader knows that Veronica and the kids have gone to Ada’s before because the book says that “The second time we stayed at Ada’s” which indicates that they had gone to Ada’s house once before (Enright 100).
4. Some of the names of the horses were Myrellson, Coolcannon, and Knocknageena. They are at a horse racing game and are betting money on the horses and trying to earn some money. (競馬）
5. I think this is true because Ada probably ended up regretting not choosing Nugent over Charlie. Therefore, although she thought that she was making the right choice about choosing a person she likes, it ended up affecting her whole life. This tells us that every choice we make is important and should not be dealt with lightly.
6. I think the whole first paragraph shows an example of kitsch v.s. reality. The first sentence says “One day Ada packed a basket and took us to the seaside on the train, or, I should say, se wrapped a few sandwiches in the waxed paper from the sliced pan” (Enright 111). This sentence begins with a very kitsch feel to it. We can picture the classic family picnic on the seaside, and we understand the happiness and warmth of the situation. However, at the ending of the sentence, we get reality crashing in, destroying the image of flawlessness.
7. “Hunch twist waver step. Hunch twist hobble step. There is nothing wrong with his legs, as far as I can see, except that they are slow, and the road is very long. Hunch, twist, yaw, step. Shoulder, hand, and maybe, yes, leg” (Enright 114).
8. I’m not really sure what the author means by “false intensities”. However, I sometimes do get caught up in things and burn with intense love for that thing. After a few weeks or days though, suddenly I realize that the initial passion has disappeared and that it really wasn’t that important to me. I remember being REALLY into Egyptian myths at one point that I did nothing else but research about them. However, after a few weeks, I suddenly realized that they didn’t interest me anymore.
ReplyDelete9. “Liam was always mysteriously elsewhere: this perhaps one of the effects of our stay at Ada’s, that if he made a home, it was only ever to leave it” (Enright 121).
10. Liam and Veronica’s paths diverge because Veronica “wanted to be a girl. I wanted to have sex that meant something. I wanted a 2:1 in my arts degree. There was a path, I thought- I really thought that there must be a path- and Liam had wandered off it” (Enright 123). She wanted something more from life other than becoming drunk etc. like Liam.
11. Liam is summed up as the brother with millions of small problems instead of one big problem.
12. She is attracted people who suffer (e.g. Tom, Liam, and Lamb Nugent) and considers herself to be the “wiper of things” since St. Veronica wiped blood off Jesus’ face.
13. St. Dympna was the saint of insanity because her father had turned insane when he decided that he wanted to marry her.
14.
a. "drab days of Lent" (105)- Time of fasting before Lent (considered very dull and drab)
b. Guiness (107)- popular Irish dry stout (dark beer made using roasted malt or roasted barley)
c. "happy as Larry" (113)- to be very happy
d. "biro" (114)- ball-point pen
e. "red lemonade" (116)- Irish lemonade colored with natural food coloring, giving it a slightly sweeter taste
f. "chunter" (125)- to speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter