Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Blog 6 pages 359-401
During this last section of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, all the events come together and all of the mysteries are solved leaving the reader feeling satisfied. Norah goes over to David's house to collect any of his belongings she wishes to keep because he sadly passed away. While looking through things he finds his photography of random women and children and she gets very upset causing her to bring them outside and burn them. While this occurs Caroline comes over to David's house and welcome's for Norah to be able to meet Phoebe so they can connect after all their years apart. As far as Paul's world go, him and Michelle are martial issues concerning having child though both of their careers are just taking off. He leaves her and goes to visit her mom and help her clean out her dads stuff. It's here that they decide to visit Caroline and meet Phoebe for the first time. In this section of the book one of the most significant quotes is, "Phoebe took hold of Caroline's hand. "This is my mother," she said" (page 387). The reason why this quote is significant is because even in the presence of her real mom Norah, Phoebe's mom that has helped her grow and become who she is today is Caroline. This deeply affects Norah and it makes her question David's decision to give her up in the beginning leading to many questions that will never be solved as a result of David's death.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Blog 4 pages 189-254
During this section in the book many important events occurred that helped shape the novel and give it more things to analyze. For example Paul grows up and decides he wants to make his own life decisions and wants to attend Julliard for his musical talents on the guitar. While back in Pittsberg, Caroline talks to Al about what will become of Phoebe's future and as to how she will manage it. A few years later Caroline goes to David's photography show where he was scheduled to show off his artwork. Him and Caroline talk and she agrees to stay after the show so they can catch up and go to dinner although she breaks his promise and he never hears from her again. One quote that is specifically important is when Caroline thinks, "She'd spent too much of her young life waiting-for recognition, for adventure, for love. It wasn't until she'd turned with Phoebe in her arms and left the home in Louisville, not until she packed up her things and moved away, that her life had really begun." This quote symbolized that she no longer needed the support of anyone but herself to live a stable life and care for Phoebe and her needs. Her life was in her own hands and no one would be able to take this from her. I feel that her life officially started with the addition of Phoebe and her challenges, which gave her something to live and care for therefore improving her life.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
BLOG 3 pages 123-188
Many important events occur in this section such as: Norah gets a job, Paul attends school, Caroline continues the fight for equal education for specially challenged children, Al asks her to marry him and after the third time she agrees AND while Norah and David are on vacation with much older Paul, they meet a man named Howard who Norah begins to fall in love with. One quote that sticks out is when Norah is explaining how see feels when she's hugging Howard, "Norah let her breath out, slowly, slowly, wondering if Howard could feel the wild rapid pulsing of her blood." The fact that Howard is making Norah's pulse increase shows that she has feelings towards him and that she feels connected to him in more ways than just a friendship. It's significant because David is not the loving affectionate guy she fell in love with oh so long ago and it shows that she wants someone else in her life. Throughout the remainder of their vacation Norah secretly sees Howard at his vacation home and they continue to get closer and closer. This leads me to wonder how far their "friendship" will last especially since Howard is in the middle of a divorce himself and Norah questions daily why she is still married to David.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
BLOG 2 pgs. 70-122
"But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try?" (page 98)
In the section titled March 1965 it begins with Caroline who ended up being a nurse for a retired doctor in Pittsberg. Doro, Leo March's daughter, was a PhD and was one of Caroline's only friends in this new town. When Phoebe ever has problem's Doro is always there to help out and cure her. The next day her friend Sandra comes over so Tim, her son, and Phoebe can play. Caroline met Sandra once while intensively studying about Down's syndrome and getting extremely frustrted in the process. Ever since they decided to have playdates and learn more about this disease to improve their children's mental health. This is nicely described in the quote above.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
BOOK REFLECTION
For outside reading I'm reading a book called The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. The main reason why I'm reading it is because it has been sitting on my book shelf for a really long time and I've always been curious about it. My mom has been recommending it for about a year but I always get sidetracked by other random novels or the novels that we have to read for school. On both the front and back covers of the book are quotes from other authors praising the book. Also, this book is extremely worn in for the amount of times my mom has read it so from the first section it's already promising to be a great read.
Outside Reading: Blog 1
For outside reading, I'm reading a book called The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. This novel is about a doctor by the name of Dr. David Henry and his wife Norah who live in the year 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky. One day during the middle of a blizzard, his wife starts to go into labor causing them to drive to his clinic that he works at to deliver their child. The doctor they called in got stuck in the snow leaving just Dr. Henry and his nurse that works for him to deliver this baby. Unknown to him, his wife had twins but one was born mentally challenged which he didn't want to have to struggle with during his life so he gave the baby to Caroline, the nurse, and told her to take it to a clinic. In the mean time he has to tell his wife that one of the twins died. She decides to have a church service for it and invite all her friends to mourn the death of the baby. When she tells her husband he replies, "You're making a mountain out of a molehill, Norah. Which, I suppose, its understandable." This quote symbolizes that Dr. Henry thinks his wife is making a big deal out of nothing when really it is totally understandable since she needs a way to overcome the death of a child.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
blog numero quince: Overcoming Odds
From personal experience, playing any type a game of any type of sport is almost impossible unless you have subs. In a soccer game, the MetroStars found themselves in this predicament when 9 of their players couldn't play. Out of these 9 players, 5 were national team call-ups and 4 on the regular roster were injured. Their opponents? The LA Galaxy with a record of (6-4-3) beating the MetroStars (4-3-4). One of the new subs was Kenny Arena, son of Bruce Arena the coach of the United States national team. He scored one of the two goals the Stars scored on the Galaxy while beating them 2-1. At halftime when reporters went up to him to chat about his goal he rushed into the locker room to sow up a scratch on his head showing that he felt it was a great honor to get to play in this game. That goal was his first ever in a professional soccer game.
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