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Select an entry from your poems (a collection is 1-5 poems), short stories (up to 3,000words), flash fiction, essays, plays, etc. that you would like to submit and upload it. Deadline is December 4th! Do not submit until you have proofread it thoroughly! Do not put your name on the submission--only the title! Follow the instructions, look at examples.
Reader Response to A Prayer for the Dying:
Select a passage from your reading in Prayer for the Dying that strikes you, as a reader, as being very strong. Post a comment including the page number of the passage and a quote from it.
Complete poetry cycles for Wednesday.
Create an account with Scholastic.
http://www.artandwriting.org/
Select an entry from your poems (a collection is 1-5 poems), short stories (up to 3,000words), flash fiction, essays, plays, etc. that you would like to submit and upload it. Deadline is December 4th! Do not submit until you have proofread it thoroughly! Do not put your name on the submission--only the title! Follow the instructions, look at examples.
Reader Response to A Prayer for the Dying:
Select a passage from your reading in Prayer for the Dying that strikes you, as a reader, as being very strong. Post a comment including the page number of the passage and a quote from it.
Complete poetry cycles for Wednesday.
The passage that struck me the most was very strong for me was on page 14, saying, "Now there was evil." In my opinion, this foreshadowed to things that were going to be much worse than what the people in the town are already seeing. It's the inevitable glaring right over the characters' shoulders.
ReplyDeleteA passage that strikes me is the last paragraph in chapter 2. "You raise the barrel, sigh on her eye, the blat dot a target. A breeze floats through and the shadows dance across her face. Just one shot. you don't feel it now, but later you know you'll see this as merciful. Now you're not so sure. Why agonize? It's a responsibility, not a choice. But you do. More for yourself, you think; this hesitation's a luxury in the face of another's pain. You shrug the thought off, still clinging to some dream of innocence, blamelessness, even as you release it. You turn back to this world. You do what's right" (O'nan 49).
ReplyDelete*sight on her eye, the black dot a target
DeleteI find this passage particularly powerful because of the powerful ideas behind it, which are propelled by powerful imagery. One idea I find particularly interesting is that "hesitation's a luxury in the face of another's pain," because it's unique to think of time being used as a weapon. I also like how O'nan includes "later you know you'll see this as merciful" because it takes the present character and has them step into their future self and reflect back on their present situation, something I find myself doing.
The passage that strikes me the most was page 19, when the woman was saying that heaven is full of babies. It shows significance towards the biblical belief that when those who are worthy go to heaven, become babies again. It also strikes me because for her to have seen that means that she would have to had died, and I get a vibe that she's going mentally insane. "Heaven's full of babies....It is" (page 19).
ReplyDeleteA passage that struck me as interesting is the last sentence of page 94, "What is the best way to die?" I find this interesting because everyone has a different opinion on that. Some think drowning, some think sickness, some think of wounds. I personally think a peaceful death in my sleep is the best way to die. It is a very opinionated question.
ReplyDeleteI selected, "Like you, he needs to save everyone, takes his loses hard. There's no sense telling him he did his best; he knows that" (O'Nan 59) because I can personally relate to this statement. It has significance to the people who criticize and self-analyze themselves far too much, much like me. It also correlates to people who empathize a lot and carry around guilt about the smallest of issues.
ReplyDeleteA passage within the novel that strikes me as important is the ending of the first chapter where they diagnose this lady with Diphtheria and sort of infer of this epidemic and how it will affect Friendship. I figured this would be a bit of foreshadowing to the overall plot of the story making it important. It's the first sign of death in a book about dying.
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ReplyDeleteThis passage seemed to me the most powerful in that the perspective in that it forces you to face death. To feel guilt and remorse for a character you hardly know. But also to separate yourself from the scene as an officer.
The end of the first chapter. The lady gets diagnosed with a bacterial infection that could possibly cause death. The title of the book is a prayer for the dying, and of course when a sickness gets worse or goes to long untreated the idea of death comes to play. That's important to the novel.
ReplyDeleteThe passage that struck me the most, on page 94 was, "What is the best way to die?" People all have different opinions on pain, death, and the afterlife. Everyone's answer to this will be different based on the audience. This specific line in the novel provokes thought amongst the readers.
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ReplyDeleteThere is a paragraph on page 21 about an individual's appreciation toward God for his creation of the world. The narrator is glad for everything presented to him, "even the heat, the dust, the tears of this mad woman" (O'Nan 22). This shows that the narrator is very reserved in world thinking and they do not believe in materialistic values. God's presence exists in everything that interacts in their life, and therefore they must be happy for the simplest thing. The inclusiveness of God in their everyday life sounds towering and refreshing for this speaker, which comes off as very powerful.
ReplyDeletewow i'm so dumb i meant on page 20 for the first sentence and my parenthetical citation
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