Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 221 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Conclusions from "The Big Cat" and "Moving On"

I think on the story of "Moving On" showed that the narrator did not move on at all. She was placed on the shelter for a reason and that was to move on after her husband's death. She tried to fool herself that she did move on after telling herself how she will be talking to her new husband and by how she will describe him. Somehow she still ended up giving hints about what she wished she could have done with her husband to the new husband that she has now. So instead of moving on from this issue that has been create upon her, she's stuck with it until who knows. I think she will always have this problem because she has no one really to talk it out with.

In "The Big Cat" story, there was one slight problem in the narrator's relationship and that was that his wife snored too loud. He always believed that the divorce had to happen because of other issues but deep inside it could have been his wife's snores that leaded to the divorce. The narrator was trying to escape the this problem by having more piece and quite at night and then eventually marrying someone new. But that brought more conflicts when he had to still meet up with his ex wife which made it unbearably hard to ignore the love he still had for her. He broke a second women's heart, and got back together with his ex wife to hear her snore very loud every night again. So the problems of this story was never solved. It was only avoided temporarily.

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