Sunday, November 10, 2013
#1 What is Arnold's greiving ceremony? What connection do you see between this and the picture on 166?
Arnold has a very complex grieving ceremony that begins with the death of his beloved grandmother when she is hit by a drunk driver. Arnold's first instinct in this incident is anger and hatred towards the man that hit his grandmother, but then at the wake all of that anger turns into immense sadness. The strangest part of his grieving ceremony is when everyone at the wake starts to laugh, they laugh as his grandmother's body is lowered and as they walk home, this is only a cover over their sadness, as shown in the picture on page 166. And after the laughing the news comes in the Eugene is shot in the face by a drunk man and the anger bubbles to the top of arnold again, "I felt helpless and stupid... And I drew and drew and drew cartoons. I was mad at god; I was mad at Jesus. They were mocking me, so I mocked them." (Alexie 171) Arnold is furious with god, and his anger only turns to a cloud of sadness when he goes back to school, and the opposite side of the picture on 166 comes out.
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I really like the connection between the ceremony and the picture. One of the things I would add is when you state Arnold is mad towards the drunk driver. There should be some sort of connection on why he is not mad anymore towards the drunk driver. Another thing is why does he feel helpless and stupid. What makes him feel that? Overall I think this was a well thought out blog post.
ReplyDeleteI also want to add that Junior said,"Laughing and Crying are the same thing." This means that Junior and his family(everyone on the rez)are showing their feelings in a different way than we normally would. His family has grieving steps showed above in the post and laughing is just one of them.(Chloe)
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