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Please finish Raw Shark tonight and post accordingly. Please also complete one of the short creative writing assignments below (consult sheet if you can for more detailed descriptions):
1) Your own Shotai-Mu story (fighting evil with the concept of good/language)
2) Write your own ‘live’ text that is both unique yet universal.
3) Create a few dictionary entries for word viruses as you’d find them in a “real dictionary.”
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gah.
so emotionally drained.
i can’t think of anything to say.
not my favorite ending…
I agree with The 20th Emily Sullivan. The second-to-last chapter I felt was a bit of a cop out. I mean, personally I hate it whenever the line “I understood it all” is used, as it is on page 424. Now, that is not to say I didn’t think the end of chapter 32, all of 33 (pretty heartbreaking…), and the first half of chapter 34 was great. I actually couldn’t believe it when Scout was dragged under, and I give credit for that to the writing style there. Hall really uses the stream of consciousness style of Eric Sanderson’s narrative to it’s full potential, portraying the confusion of the event with short, choppy fragments among the long, wild sentences riddled with conjunctions: “Foam and spray and sheets of water. A splitting crack. The winching arm ripping from the side of the boat and crashing down har, Crashing down hard onto Dr Fidorous and both him and the arm crumpling into the cage and cables and rope and barrels and Fidorous crushed down there by the winching arm. Blood” (408-409).
I wasn’t wild about Scout basically Channeling Clio/ assuming her identity, forgiving him for everything, and that counting as Clio’s forgiveness. However, I really do like the line, “I enjoy spending time with you too” (424). I liked it back in the first light bulb fragment, and I like it now. It’s just a bit eerie that Scout’s saying the same thing that the First Eric Sanderson often said, “‘Wanker,’ she said. ‘I hate that one’” (45).
I thought the last chapter was one of the best.
At the end of that, I’m realizing how bad a joke my opening line is…
Tpaine, don’t fret, your joke is hilarious. You and I were discussing the ending today during class, specifically the article on Eric Sanderson’s death, and I would like to mention a few things that we said. At first I was confused as to why Eric was suddenly found dead… but then I re-read the article a few more times, and I found myself feeling that although Eric’s body was gone, his mind and his consciousness were intact and with Scout (“Clio”) and so it was alright that his body be lost.
But “Mr. Tegmark?” Who is he? My first reaction is that Tegmark is some sort of Mantra, or previous identity that Sanderson had adopted. Was Mr. Tegmark someone trapped inside of Eric Sanderson’s body??????
Also, the last page of the book has a picture of a man and a women sipping drinks with one another. What do you think the significance of this is? Could it be implying that a photograph is the most powerful tool to remember a memory?
I was confused about that picture at the end too. Oh and I think that Mr. Tegmark is like some sort of coded thing.
So even though I don’t want to actually believe Eric is dead I think that his body is but the concept of him is alive. Like the body that he left back in that room full of papers was found. And I can see how people would think that the whole thing was just a delusion and he is crazy but I don’t want to think that.
And finally the whole Scout is Clio thing sort of annoyed me/left a lot to be explained..
Well…I thought that the picture at the end was the backside (or frontside, however you look at it) of the post card. But that still doesn’t really explain the significance of it. But it made me really happy/sad.
Also, I usually really hate open endings, but for some reason I’m totally okay with this one. Honestly, I don’t really want to know the details, if there even are any… And I even kind of like that Scout forgave Eric as (kind of) Clio. On principle I really hate it, but reading it made me very happy, when I am usually hating on Scout.
Hahah. Someone asked me in arabic (on Demitri Skylar’s page) if I was from his wedding.
I thought the ending was just wonderful. No matter how you read the book, Eric is crazy or it all happened as written, Eric ends up forgiving himself. He lets go of the guilt he felt about “killing” Clio through Scout. Not so much because Scout is Clio reincarnate but because she provided emotional support. Though I did find it a little off about how little they cared about Fidirous’ death.
Also the last chapter with the newpaper and the postcard, I thought that was a good move as far as saying either school of thought is correct. Either Eric sentthe postcard or he died, it is up to YOU!
Nothing will ever change, if you stay the same.