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Virginia Wool: "The Symbol".
I enjoyed this little story about the mountain being a symbol. I guess in away I can relate to it because where I was brought up in Mt. Wellington, Auckland there was a mountain in our backyard and the one thing that annoyed me was that you never got to see the sun actually set in the evening. Anyway I thought I would identify ten images of the ( Read more... ) -
Literature Entry: Katherine Mansfield; "The Garden Party" [1924]
I enjoyed this story because I thought it reminded me of the television series, 'Upstairs Downstairs'. I think one example of how this story approaches the question of class is at the beginning of the story when Laura is amazed by the way the workers [who are there to erect the marquee tent.], are so easy to get on with. ' His smile was so easy, so ( Read more... ) -
Literature Entry: Nathanel Hawthorne: "The Birthmark".
I thought this story was very interesting, I thought the characters stood for love, trust, sacrfice, and unity. The illustrations betweeen nature and science was by te description of Almer's job as a "Man of science". ['An eminent profeicient in every branch of natural philosophy.'] his eagerness to challenge nature through his history lesson on " ( Read more... ) -
Literature Entry: Henry Lawson: 'Drifted Back'.
If you are wondering why I have put this blog up first [last week] it is because I was given a copy of it on Thursday by Michael Griffith before the first lecture. And since it was the only one I read that week, naturally I thought I would comment on it. so ...
In my opinion...
The Plot...The stranger inquires information about particular people of ( Read more... ) -
Week 10: "Remembering Babylon" as I saw it.
Overview on “Remembering Babylon.”
Finally, I have finished reading the novel ‘Remembering Babylon’. I say “finally” not in a disrespectful way, just that when I do read a book it is usually at my own leisure. Obviously this is part of the class project. Will this make me read another Malouf novel? Yes it will and I am grateful for Michael ( Read more... ) -
"Whether this is Jerusalem or Babylon we know not."
So far, I am only at the beginning of chapter 17, yet after trying to answer the questions that Michael Griffith has given us, and listening to everyone comment during the last two weeks on this novel; "Remembering Babylon", my view is that I agree with the words that Malouf has quoted by William Blake.
When I first read the quotation I was ( Read more... ) -
Week 9: What does Gemmy bring to the community-an overview?
Gemmy brings hope to the community, but sadly the majority of that community do not see it. All they see is this pathetic white human being who stutters, an embarrassment to this superior race that are classed as more civilized than the native people, especially with their Christian values ( Read more... ) -
Week 9: Babylon IV. How might this apply to Gemmy?
Babylon: (Bab'y. lon.) meaning [confusion] the later name given to Babel.
Nimrod, who lived in the later part of the third millennium B.C.E., founded Babylon as man's first political empire. though Babylon became the capital of a political empire in the seventh and six centuries B.C.E., it was outstandingly prominent during its entire history as a ( Read more... ) -
Week 9: Impact on Babylon III
What is it that most people find so disturbing about Gemmy’s presence? Does Malouf think such a disturbance is a good thing in humanity?
I think that one of the most disturbing things about Gemmy’s presence to most people is that he is a white person presumably acting like a black. If Gemmy had turned up wearing a pair of tatty trousers and maybe a ( Read more... ) -
week 9 "Impact in Babylon's Jerusalem" II
Impact with Janet.
To answer the same question about Janet, I find her a bit more complex than her father Jock. The impact that Gemmy appears to have on her has a different inspiration than that of her father’s. “She slipped away and stared into a glass but could find no such beauty-no promise of either-in herself. She was gangly and freckled.” (Pg ( Read more... )