Monday, March 7, 2011
My reflection upon the reading of the 2nd Chap. (House Made of Dawn)
It was so awful to imagine poor Abel walking around disoriented with broken bones all over his body. The description of the broken fingers and the black blood on his hands were horrifying. I thought it was creative of the author to give us Abel's thoughts while he was passed out and then go back to the present. It seem like he really loved Milly because her name was repeated in the book numerous times. I am still wondering why Abel is all messed up with broken bones all over and next to the beach. My opinion is that he was in a bar fight and was dropped off in the beach to get rid of him. Milly is a woman to admire because she went through a lot of struggle such as going out to school by herself, loosing a husband, and loosing a baby. Even through all this she still manages to keep on living. Another thing that I am confused about is why the priest is part of the story. I am trying to wonder if Abel use to attend the masses of the priest's.
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I also liked Milly in this story.(But I think Ben liked her, I'm not quite certain of Abel...)
ReplyDeleteI thought she represented a strong woman in the way that she was still able to show patience, love and compassion to both Ben and Abel--taking them out, buying groceries, checking up on them (even though part of this was her job...) after all the hardships she dealt with in her own life.
But at the same time it is kind of sad, if you think about why she may be doing this:
because she misses her baby and perhaps her husband, she may be trying to fill that emptiness and void left in her.
The section where Abel is in the ditch by the beach is a pretty gruesome scene. I think this may represent the fact that he is really at a very low point in his life and he barely "alive". I also think it was interesting how he was remembering such events while he was passed out. This shows that these things are in his memory for a reason, they are key aspects to his life that he is trying to keep out of his life. I feel that at the end of the novel where he is running, he has progressed to inviting back these key aspects into his life.
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