Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Nobility
While reading, one line really stuck out to me. On page 53, it says "For a moment our century was noble again." This rose many questions, what made it not noble? When was it lost? What causes people to be noble? Personally, I've witnessed nobleness generally after a sad event. Due to sorrow and sympathy for the subject of the sad event, people tend to work to much to seem noble to them. The neighborhood being noble is just their act of sympathy more than them being noble. Because of the lack of nobility, this can be the cause of the death and sorrow.
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When I was reading that part I saw a parallel between the description the narrator gave and the Vietnam war. I could be totally wrong here, but I thought I saw that connection. They talk about being "arm in arm in the trench, with our mothers bringing out orange Kool-aid" (51). The orange Kool-aid kind of reminded me of agent orange and it talks about the trenches. I know this is kind of un-related to what you were writing, but maybe it has something to do with the idea of nobility.
ReplyDeleteGreat points from both Nick and Talia here. Nick, you are right on point when you recognize something false (or at least temporary) in the nobility after the sadness. And your questions are perfect-o. Why is the century no longer "noble"? The word "Again" implies that it had been but is no longer? What is nobility? Who is responsible for the nobility, those who served as the catalyst for it to happen (the girls) or those who employ it in a time of grief? Why is it temporary? And Talia, the trenches are indeed a war image, with the mothers serving their troops a refreshing drink. What is the war they are fighting? Why can't the mothers do anything but serve drinks? Why would the mothers, healers and nurses, bring something that connotes death?
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