Journal #18

1. What is the significance of the story’s title?

The title of the story “In Another country” is significant because literally, the narrator in the story is actually in another country. But it also goes for the mental state of some of the people, because they are in a different place because of their injuries. With their injury’s, the hurt people now stand out more than other people, and make them outsiders from the rest of society.

2. Which character do you think best represents the “Hemingway hero”? Why?

The Major represents the hero because of his hand. His injury is more significant than the others because not only is he a solider, but he was a professional fencer, which he needs his hand for. Also the Major represents the hero because of the emotional stress that he is coping with because of the sudden death of his wife. He tries his best to put on a strong face and deal with the mental pain, but you can tell that he is dying on the inside.

3. What can you infer about the photographs the doctor hangs up? What is the significance of the major’s reaction?

The photographs hanging up on the wall were pictures of injured people who were able to rehabilitate their injured body part successfully. When seeing the images, the narrator thought he and others were the first people who used them, and that the pictures of the people are not real because the machines where not actually used in the healing those people, and he is skeptical that the people were actually healed from the machines. The reaction that the major had was looking out the window, and this was significant because it shows that his thoughts are elsewhere. This is significant because it gets back to the idea of being in another country.

Journal # 17

1. What is the significance of the poem’s epigraph? How does it relate to Prufrock?

The significance was that it talks about the idea of “shame and discrase.” This is because he would feel these because we are looking into his mind, but they are feelings that he would never confesses to the world himself. He is full of self doubt, and he is not someone who would put himself out there and let the world see him for who he is.

2. Make a list of questions that Prufrock asks. Do you see a pattern/theme to these questions or are they random?

Most of his questions that he askes throught the poem start with “Shall I? or Do I?” They are not really random questions, mainly just insignificant questions about what he should do about daily thigs such as combing his hair. These questions reveal that he is self conscience about himself and also very uncertain.

3. What do you think is Prufrock’s main flaw/problem?

Prufrock’s has many flaws that make him fade into the background instead of shining like a main character. Some of these flaws may include the fact that he is self-conscience about himself. Also he has no confidence in himself or the choices that he makes, and has many anxiety problems. These cause him to become more of an “extra” instead of the star character.

4. Why do you think this is called a love song? In what way is it a love song?

It seems as though that he has had a recent heart break. He talks constantly of women’s perfume and how the women come and go and they don’t notice him. This relates to a love song because he wants love for himself, but is not confident enough to go out there and get it. This is irony because the poem pretty much shows how he is to scared to solve his love problems.