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Post by Mr. Thomas on Dec 10, 2013 11:33:58 GMT -5
"Compensations"
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Post by hankmichels on Dec 10, 2013 18:05:43 GMT -5
E. I think the second part of the story was a lot easier to follow and understand. After the craziness from last night, I now know what is going on and what to expect. There is no more thinking a nd thinking and trying to figure out the story. So this time when the story picked up I was able to follow. Plus it think that that was where the author wanted us to stop thinking and finally get into the climax of the story.
C. Why did the story end like that? I thought it started out and had the potential to be really good. First Staley gives Paula one of the objects and she has nightmares, so he decides that the only way to get rid of the objects is to give them to the Family memberes of the dead coleagues. But then it just ends after the narrator saying “Ill find the rest tomorrow and give them their objects.” But how do we know that everything turns out all right? For all we know, the family could get nightmares to. Maybe these objects bring no good at all. But I guess we will never find out.
I. I agree with what was said in class today about the main characters story just being sad. I personally don’t like the Main guy, but I do feel for him. what he must be going through is horrible. He still may be going crazy, but he has no friends and his life is almost worthless.
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Post by richteri16 on Dec 10, 2013 18:17:31 GMT -5
C. What exactly happened to Paula the night she held onto the steel penny for Scott? did she have a vision of sorts? She retold the ordeal of Roland in terrifying detail. His hair was on fire as he tried to hide under his desk. He realized that his life dreams were not coming true and he won’t live. This is incredibly morbid and is something that someone doesn’t make up. You can also tell by the physical appearance of Paula that she has seen something. She looks as if she hasn’t slept for days and she has been biting he nails. Did Roland come to he in a dream and tell her what happened? Did she actually see him die in some kind of vision?
D. I think Stephen King really nailed it when Paula came to Scott’s door and gave him back the penny. The way he described her condition made it seem like she really had just gone through something traumatizing. Then when King describes how Roland dies I was seriously disturbed. He basically burned under his desk while crying about what his life could have been. This is horribly depressing. The response question asks if I enjoyed the section I am describing. Of course I don’t enjoy reading about people die but I enjoyed how King wrote it. He really captured the sadness and scariness of Roland’s final moments.
E. While reading about Roland’s final moments of life I realized that he died in an actual event. Thus there were people who died the same way he did. There were people who huddled under their desks and waited to die. This is a real eye opener considering how close to home this hits.
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Post by rozzayhill007 on Dec 10, 2013 18:36:27 GMT -5
Jackson Hill
C. Something that I am confused about is why Ms. Robeson, still thinks that he wants to like go out on a date with her when he has specifically made it clear that he doesn't want to, and also realizes that she is married. I am also confused on why he would have survivors guilt. I get the fact that he is mourning over the lost of his friends, but he shouldn't feel guilty for his friends dying, because it's not like it is his fault, It's not like he could have done much to save them from this travesty.
D. Lines that I like are on page 39 at the beginning of the first full paragraph. They say, " I told her about looking out my apartment window and seeing the seven A.M. sky was perfectly cloudless, the sort of blue so deep you can almost see right through it to the stars beyond." The reason why I like this quote is because, I can kind of picture in a movie a man who has lost his ways, and has gone through a traumatic experience, just staring out of his window, on a clear day.
E. I really like what Stephen King is writing about. Besides the fact that there are some disturbing images that come to our minds, he is speaking about his everyday life and what happens. Some of us can relate to some of what he says in this particular writing.
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Post by hessd16 on Dec 10, 2013 20:37:15 GMT -5
(Dakota Hess)
i. I agree with Hank “E. I think the second part of the story was a lot easier to follow and understand. After the craziness from last night, I now know what is going on and what to expect. There is no more thinking a nd thinking and trying to figure out the story. So this time when the story picked up I was able to follow. Plus it think that that was where the author wanted us to stop thinking and finally get into the climax of the story.” This was a much more understandable part of the book, the only confusing part was about exactly what the whole ‘Mr. Yow, Git Down’ thing was.
C. this story was going well, I really liked where this was going until it ended. I wanted him to mend that relationship he had with Paula. They actually started hitting it off in my opinion. I was thinking that the story would go on to tell how he returned the items and maybe once that was done get Paula, considering he saw a very likeable side to her. I guess that the happily ending archetype is so prevalent in many books and movies that I am used to it.
D. I like the development of Scott as a character. At first he was a bit creepy considering that story about almost getting caught, and is just going crazy. Now, he is still crazy, but we can understand his pain better. He is no longer lost about his purpose in being one of the only survivors of his office.
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Post by youssefj16 on Dec 10, 2013 21:09:54 GMT -5
E. In my opinion, the second part of this story was much easier to sort out. A lot of it has to do with us going over what's going on in class but I think the major reason why it's so much easier to read is because the author decided not to drag on about things that made reading the story hard. I feel like he just jot on with the plot and it definitely caught my attention and got me excited.
C. I'm sure a lot of people have this question and are wondering this but why did the story end so weakly? I was getting hooked at the part where Paula starts to have nightmares when she possesses the objects and I thought the idea of giving them to the families to the people who dies was a good one but why does it just end there? I wish we had more info about the objects and if there cursed or something. Really upset about the ending!
G. If I was Scott, I would have gave the objects he found to the family members in the first place. I would have never kept them. Obviusly, he was going crazy with them around and I feel like if the weren't around, he wouldn't be thinking about all these people that died and have guilt.
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Post by idelfonsoe16 on Dec 10, 2013 21:56:04 GMT -5
E. This part 2 was gold. Everything was pieced together perfectly! Now I really do feel bad for Scott. His survivor’s guilt really hit him hard after 9/11. The fact that he gave Paula the steel penny, and she had nightmares, was mind blowing. The details of how the guy died, and what he was feeling during his final hour, was just heart crushing. This story has that “dark” potential, meaning like it seems bad at first, but once the small details come together, you can see why everything is so dark. Scott has no friends, nobody to talk to, even after trying to be friends with Paula! Scott’s story is just sad.
C. Why would Paula give up on Scott like that? She obtained a vivid nightmare on the red haired guy that died on 9/11, and she seemed like she went crazy… She could’ve stayed in Scott’s life and helped him out, but no….. I don’t blame Scott for having a destroyed mentality; I say this because of the way life and the people around him treat him. He really can’t relate to anyone!
I. I agree with Ian’s E response. Realizing that hundreds of people died the same way Roland died is very heart breaking. This also opens the readers eyes into telling us WHY Scott seems so dark and “untouched with reality”. Heck, if I were in Scott’s shoes, I’d feel the same way about life, absolutely pointless! Even now with Scott returning the objects to their ‘homes’ is a tear jerker.
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Post by michaelgenco on Dec 10, 2013 22:25:52 GMT -5
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“Lying in bed and thinking of this stuff- remembering the crash of the surf at Jones Beach and the Frisbees flying under the sky- filled me with an awful sadness that finally emptied in tears. But I have to admit it was a learning experience. That was the night I came to understand that things- even little ones, like a penny in a Lucite cube- can get heavier as time passes. But because it’s a weight of the mind, there’s no mathematical formula for it, like the ones you can find in an insurance company’s Blue Books.” I think this quote, found on page 31, was very relatable to me and many people because this happens to everyone. If it is a bad test grade or something to do with friendships, everyone has that feeling of disappointment bottled up in them getting larger and larger until it explodes. I’ve had this done to myself actually, in the first quarter of this year I wasn’t doing so well in Geometry, and I never really told my mother. After getting a ‘B’ on my progress report she soon realized I was doing my best. Emotions that deal with sadness has to be expressed, or over time it will gradually build up and up and up until you can’t take it no longer and you go crazy.
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“My mother once told me that if a man wiped his ass and saw blood on the toilet tissue, his response would be to ship in the dark for the next thirty days and hope for the best.” Um ok that was really weird. I hope that was some kind of joke.
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I agree with dakota Hess, I really enjoyed the development of Scott as a character.
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Post by jotirmoykundu on Dec 10, 2013 23:18:43 GMT -5
C. One thing that confused me about in this story is some of the things that Stephen King says, basically some of the language that is used. Some particular lines that confused me were, "And I remembered smiling at what she asked me: Are you safe? It reminded me of that movie, not Lolita (thinking about Lolita, sometimes at two in the morning, came later) but the one where Laurence Oliver does the imprompt dental work on Dustin Hoffman, asking him over and over again, Is it safe?" What confused me with this story was what these lines were saying and the relevance to the story.
B. The line that I feel is important is “I reasoned that if you don’t have a friend you can talk to, the next-best thing would be to rent one. I could certainly afford a little therapy, and it seemed to me that a few sessions on some psychiatrist’s couch would be enough for me to explain what happened and to articulate how it made me feel.” I thought that this was very important to the story because it shows how sad society is and that you have to pay people to talk to them in this day and age.
D. I really like what Stephen King is writing about. Besides the fact that there are some disturbing images and his use of dark humor that come to our minds, he is speaking about his everyday life and what happens so we connect to it . Some of us can relate to some of what he says in this particular writing.
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Post by stephanoscocoves on Dec 11, 2013 0:36:23 GMT -5
E. The second part of the story was a lot easier to follow and made a lot more sense. You could really follow the character's emotions and internal thinking. C. This is what I hate with some stories. They are really good up until the end where the ending was not a full one. I was confused about why paula gives up on scott. I wanted theyre relationship to develop. I. I agree with richteri16 this really opened my eyes. |
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Post by bakerm16 on Dec 11, 2013 7:00:43 GMT -5
E. I liked this half of the story for three main reasons. The first reason thatI like this half is because it was a lot easier to read. The first half was very confusing and hard to follow. The second reason this half of the story is better is because it is more of a story. By this i. Mean the first part lacked a storyline. Reading it reminded me of reading a diary entry. The third and final reason that this half of the story was better was that there were more characters introduced into it. The first balf wewereonly introduced to Scott.
I. I agree with Dakota hess on his letter D response. When we first were introduced to Scotts character we probably all were like, "this guys a freakin weirdo". His jokes were so odd they weren't something that you could laugh at. But now we realize he has a purpose for being the only person to survive in the office. He was out that day for a reason, and now we are realizing that and i for one liked Scott this half of the book as oppose to the last half.
A. Scott and my mom have a huge similarity. My mom worked in the Wrold Trade Center. During 9/11 she was out for that day for a doctors appointment. I still think it is crazy how of all days she chose to have a doctors appointment she made it that day. What was interesting though was that a lot of people in her office were out that day.
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Post by zaysofly on Dec 16, 2013 19:27:43 GMT -5
I: I agree with Hank on the fact that it was easier to read. It starts to jump right into immense detail that you can actually relate to and that is relevant to the story. Also he stops cutting off so much like he was doing in the beginning. Also, hank said that he didn’t like the main guy but feels sorry for him. While reading the story I was thinking kind of like when we read the Odyssey and we were talking about Odysseus being too hard on Telemachus and not feeling sorry for him. I don’t know, I guess it’s a dispute on how sympathetic you can be towards one person. I don’t like his personality and attitude much either, but yes his story is traumatic.
D: I really liked the descriptive language used in this passage “That night I woke up at 2 in the morning listening to the voices whisper. I hadn’t had any dreams or visions of the people who owned the objects, hadn’t seen anyone with their hair on fire or jumping from the windows to escape the burning jet fuel…” It really seems deep. He can’t sleep nor can he dream, and he can hear the dead people trying to communicate with him, This is pretty creepy to me.
C: I don’t understand what Paula says”You can start giving the rest of the things away… I guess it all depends on how stubborn yourself conscious wants to be”
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Post by Cameron Smith on Jan 5, 2014 17:04:12 GMT -5
E. I really like what Stephen King is writing about. Besides the fact that there are some disturbing images that come to our minds, he really is speaking about his life and what happens every day. Some of us can relate to some of what he says in this particular writing.
I. I agree with Hank E. I think the second part of the story was a lot easier to understand. After the craziness from last night, I now know what is going on and what to expect. There isn’t any more trying to figure out the story. So this time when the story picked up I was able to follow. This was a much more understandable part of the book, the only confusing part was about exactly what the whole ‘Mr. Yow, Git Down’ thing was.
D. I really liked the descriptive language used in this passage “That night I woke up at 2 in the morning listening to the voices whisper. I hadn’t had any dreams or visions of the people who owned the objects, hadn’t seen anyone with their hair on fire or jumping from the windows to escape the burning jet fuel…” It really seems deep. He can’t sleep and can’t he dream, and he can hear the dead people trying to communicate with him, this is truly creepy to me.
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