Okay, I know we have to read this novel and take notes on it and what not.
Mr. Bruno said something about working on here to talk with each other, so I decided to do it and we could do one of our blog posts.
What I want to know is who all is reading this book? And how far everyone has gotten?
I have only read a little bit, but I'm at the part where they are going down the road from the prison and they have been talking about this great, upcoming flood and the convicts are in a truck on this road, where the water has flooded the road on both sides. I don't understand, yet, what convicts and a flood have to do with an old man, but I don't really like how Faulkner rights. It is so informative and so southern, it just has no sustenance for me. What do you all think? How is it?
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I really haven't read much of Old Man, but we did read the other short story from Faulkner, and I have to disagree with TJ. I think that Faulkner's informative style is easy to read. It may be a little slow, but overall it doesn't take much thought to read. I guess I don't like thinking, but it's just easy on my mind. I get the who, what, where, when, why without having to reread the story. There was the twist at the end of the short story that really surprised me, and I did have to read that over a few times to make sure I had figured out what was going on, but again, easy to read.
ReplyDeleteThis seems a bit late to be posting here but I will anyways. I was in the old man group and I actually really enjoyed elements of this novel. I enjoyed the extent of the symbolism and the conflicts the the main character endures. Water is often a symbol of cleansing and rebirth but the convict has the chance to start his life over and leave jail but chooses the life that he has known for a long time. Prison became his security blanket he was afraid to leave behind what was familiar and to embrace change. The convict was sent to jail because of women, when the flood arrives he has the opportunity to leave prison (often considered a bad thing) and go back living with women (the convict considers this a bad thing) or return to prison. The woman that he rescues from the flood represents all of the women that he had known in his old life. She represents the family he left behind, the women he kidnapped, and temptation.
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