Answer to one of my classmates Question

Running After Antelope: 1963

Question #2

Gabriela  http://sunshine4409.blogspot.com/

What is the significance of the kids running after reptiles at night instead of in the day?

            The significance of the kids running after reptiles at night instead of in the day is that they want to see the animals at night since that is when they usually come out to eat in the darkness. In the quote “Some animals sleep in the daytime and go out at night to eat. If we hurry we can catch them before they go back in the ground” Carrier uses imagery for the reader to have an idea of what is going on and since its common sense just for the reader not to fall behind. Carrier also uses symbolism to have a clue were the setting is and what surrounds it like the animals and the book is called Running After Antelope so this books is going to be of animals. For example, his brother growing up, going to college and studying the respiratory system of animals compared to us humans. Do they breathe as we do while running? I like this story 1963 because it reminds me of little kids being out goers wanting to make trouble just to investigate or make trouble just because.

10 Questions

Running After Antelope: Carpenter
1. What does the name of the story symbolize? Why Carpenter?
2.What is the significance of "When you see a thing happen once, it's an accident; when you see it happen twice it's a coincidence; and when you see it three or more times its a science, and science demands theories?" (Carrier, 49)
3.Is their a connection between Jesus and the carpenter partners?
4. Why does he feel a slave of the rich man? Can you think of someone's life you can parrallel it to or how does imagery fit in this question.
5.Why did the main character resent working on another man's house?
6. Why are the carpenter partner's so weird?
7. Why are these men so into their religion?
8. Do you agree in that everyone gets what one deserves like it says in "The righteous will be happy forever, while the 'bastards' 'the assholes' [...] will burn in hell?" (Carrier, 49)
9.Throughout the story was their anything ambiguous about the carpenters?
10. How come the mistake of the building of the architects home didn't fustrate his brother but him it did? Do you think his brother was a good man and it was just an acidently mistake which was going to csot him money out of his pocket? Why did he buy himself a new pair of boots what do they symbolize?

Creative Nonfiction

Calendar

By Sarah Baughman

February 12, 2012

http://www.literarymama.com/creativenonfiction/

For my anthology I will be using this creative nonfiction to show how love is something that brings worries and loneliness when one is not next to the person one loves and cares about. Like in the “Calender” the mother made a calendar for the 2yr old kid to put stickers on for the days his father wasn’t there with them because he went on a fall hunting trip but the mother was worried that he wasn’t back the day he was supposed to be back. This is a quote that mentions how the mother was and why she made the calendar “My own potential for loss--the raw missing, the empty gape forever--paled as I considered my child, whose innocence made the threat of loss even crueler”. She thought that probably the plane had crashed and he will never be back with the family again. The child would lament for his father and his consolation was placing the stickers on the calendar and at last he had resignation that his father was dead, since the days went by and his father would not be home yet. Finally, then another week came and on the end of a week the husband came in the house safe and whole that the kid started crying of how he didn’t believe his father was alive I guess he thought about it as a dream came true but it was actual life his father was alive.

The Full Moon

I’m at CSUB seeing my boyfriend’s soccer game under the light of the full moon as I observe the game I observe the moon too. In the moon I see his German shepherd looking at his game also. It’s a cold winter day and tonight I came to see my boyfriend’s team win. This is an intense game it’s the semi-final. As he scores in the first half I get happy, then the second half begins with a tie score. After fighting for the ball against the defense, he takes it away and scores again and I applaud and get happy. I take a look at the moon and its shinning of happiness too because “Lobo” his German shepherd saw his goals also. The game is over and the team is happy because they advance to the final. They say goodbye and we head home and on the way home I see the moon following us and I think of it as his German shepherd guarding us home. I get home shower and go to bed and as I see the full moon outside my window, I say “Goodnight Lobo.”