Continue reading "Vertical Time" (to pg. 86) and "The Way Station" (to pg. 121. Mark 3 passages that strike you as particularly strong writing with a post it note. Save these passages for discussion later.
With a partner, discuss your reading of Fugitive Pieces through pg. 121. What is happening to Jakob? How does the death of Athos affect him? What is it like in Toronto? Please share your favorite passages ( passages that you admire as a writer) with your partner (be sure to indicate the page number when you post your comments). When you have finished your conversation with your partner, please post a comment/reader response to your readings.
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Ledibel, Jenee, and Monica
ReplyDeleteOUr favorite passages were in page 104 when he describes the hot air,dreaming about Bella's hair questioning what happened to Bella's hair.
page 107-108
Jacob talks about Athos sickness and how he fussed over him describing Athos last moments before he died.We feel as if this is such a strong passage because athos raised Jacob as if he were his own son, Jacob lost the only family he had which was Athos.
page 113 "Athos ,how big is the actual heart...
One of the best passages was the last paragraph on page 76 where he describes the driftwood as the bones of the dead as a final farewell to his parents when he left Greece.
ReplyDeleteThe second would be on page 111 when he talks about the silence and how he lives in the empty spaces in between.
The last is when he talks about the fragments of Athos' death on page 114.
Valerie & Danielle
Marissa, Shayla,Whitney
ReplyDeleteOur favorite passages in the book are on page 86- Athos and I stood togethers....... in 2 and threes, then like salt....the stars.
page 95- the numb tongue attaches itself, orphan, to any sound it can:it sticks, tongue to cold metal.
page 113 is also one of our favorites when Jakob says to Athos how big is the actual heart?
The reason we feel that these passages are strong in this book was because of her usage of metaphorical imagery that her words create.
Victoria , Tashae , Justice
ReplyDeletePage 89 In april , the thickly treed streets are flooded with samara , a green tide .
Page 75 if the blood chances to darken your memory , do not forget us .
Page 108 is like kissing a woman through a veil
Wade
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passages were:
1. Page 89, when Jakob describes Toronto.
2. Page113, when Jakob asks Athos "How big is the actual heart?" It makes you wonder if the image of the heart is bigger than your actual heart.
3. Page 121, when Jakob says that the best teacher teaches from the heart, not their knowledge. I just think that it's a powerful passage because Athos taught Jakob most of his things not from what Athos has learned, but he does it with heart, so Jakob can relate, and use it in the future.
Alex and Zach
ReplyDeleteOne of our favorite scenes was when Jakob was describing English as a "...sonar, a microscope, through which I observed things..."
Page 112
As well as the scene in which the Germans come to Jakob's house and kill his family: "The soul leaves the body instantly, as if it can hardly wait to be free: my mother's face was not her own. My father was twisted with falling. Two shapes in the flesh-heap, his hands."
Page 6
Jakob is trying to honor Athos' death wish, which was for Jakob to live his life to the fullest extent, and to "make love necessary". For Jakob, Toronto is a somewhat alien place. The longer he tries to pursue a life here, the more his memories dissipate.
Jerry Figueroa
ReplyDelete"The words stumbled out of my mouth, a whisper, then louder, until I was mumbling whatever I remembered" Page 109
"At night, lying in bed unable to sleep, my body pointed painfully towards its great ignorance" Page 110
"So I lived a breath aprt, a touch-typist who hoolds his hands above the keys slightly in the wrong place, the words coming meaningless, garbled." Page 111
I like all of page 93 when he is talking about how you cant tell if a person is good or bad by their face and when he is talking about how he cant forget the images of his family because they stay with him in his sleep. Another passage was on page 113 when Jakob asked Athos, "How big is the human heart?" Another is on page 121 when he talks about how he has to "resolve a perpetual thirst," before he can honor both Athos and Bella's lessons.
ReplyDeleteTHE PASSAGES
ReplyDeleteby Khari, Aubrey, Addie
1) Pg. 76-77
"I imagine driftwood..."
The imagery in this passage is gorgeous. It is sad, beautiful and grotesque all together.
2) Pg. 86
"'What is a man'"
This quote felt good.
3) Pg. 59-60
"On the backs of bone rattling lories..."
This quote puts images that I wouldn't normally put together in my head.
Nautica, Kennethea, Brianna:
ReplyDeleteOne of our favorite passages is on page 114. "When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass." What great imagery! Secrets are trapped "like crystals" when someone dies. How Anne Michales describes this is very obscure.
One page 109. "Translation is a kind of transubstantiation one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices details to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude." We admired this quote because Anne Michaels worded this beautifully. Her vivid description intrigued us all.
On page 111. "I took in the cold beauty of Lake Shore Cement with ot
s small gardens someone thought to plant at the foot of each massive silo. Or the delicate metal staircase, a lace ribbon, swirling around the girth of the oil reservoirs." I loved how Jakob described this particular scene. It was beautiful, and very descriptive.