English 015 - Americans Abroad
Andrew Plowman
Opposing Forces
Category: 4E: O'Brien | Andrew Plowman
Going After Cacciato is an adventure novel about war. Tim O’Brien’s character Paul Berlin is torn between two opposing forces: the desire to please his father and the desire to achieve inner peace. Berlin jumps in and out of reality in an attempt to attain an equilibrium between the...
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Posted by aplowman on December 14, 2003 at 09:17 PM
Pursuit of Peace
Category: 08B: Going After Cacciato | Andrew Plowman
Paul Berlin believes that the road Cacciato is leading them to is a road to escape war and find a meaningful life. They are heading westward which stands for civilization and peace. This westward “country [is] far from the war, rich and peaceful country” (pp.16). Berlin, “whose only goal...
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Posted by aplowman on December 02, 2003 at 01:33 PM
Pursuit of Hedonism
Category: 3E: Bowles | Andrew Plowman
“[Kit] watched fascinated while two flies made their brief, frantic love…” (pp.240). Kit finds freedom in sex, which produces a way to escape the constant fear that haunts her travels: the man with “the most hideous human face she had ever seen,” the yellow louse on her neck, the...
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Posted by aplowman on November 25, 2003 at 03:51 PM
The Transformation
Category: 07B: The Sheltering Sky | Andrew Plowman
Paul Bowles’s novel The Sheltering Sky has many dianamic points of transformation. His character Kit plays a crucial role in outlining this transformation. Kit, for the first part of the novel, was governed by her fear and terror, which repeatedly held her back, “: the terror was always there...
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Posted by aplowman on November 13, 2003 at 02:25 PM
The Eerie Dual
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The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles reveals a array of characters with definite individual characteristics. Characters that distinctly stand apart from the others, are a creepy and terrifying dual, of a mother and her son, named the Lyles. Kit makes a reference to the son, Eric before she is...
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Posted by aplowman on November 06, 2003 at 02:23 AM
Plagued Barriers
Category: 2E: Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald | Andrew Plowman
Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited are two novels that give rise to conquered heroes. These heroes, Jake and Charlie, whose setting is anchored overseas, have distinct differences in their dwindling relationships. Charlie has Honoria, his daughter that he lost legal custody due to his irresponsible...
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Posted by aplowman on October 30, 2003 at 01:12 PM
The "boom"
Category: 05B: Babylon Revisited | Andrew Plowman
In Babylon Revisited, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paris is described as a gloomy city with very little optimism available to its inhabitants. “Outside, the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost-green signs shone smokily through the tranquil rain”(p.386). The author creates this dreary abyss type atmosphere to parallel the moods of his characters: Marion,...
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Posted by aplowman on October 23, 2003 at 01:20 PM
A Time to Shine
Category: 04B: Autobiography of ABT | Andrew Plowman
Confidence can mask even the greatest fears, or do the moments of great fear create the essence in which confidence is derived? In The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas show tremendous confidence when they enter “an entirely different Paris,”(p.168) and decide to drive a...
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Posted by aplowman on October 14, 2003 at 02:24 PM
Who’s The Hero?
Category: 03B: The Sun Also Rises | Andrew Plowman
A hero is made, not born. Jake was cursed with impotency throughout the duration of the story in book, The Sun Also Rises. This handicap restricts him from obtaining the love, which Brett is willing to give. Brett cannot have sex with Jake and this aspect stops her from...
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Posted by aplowman on October 07, 2003 at 08:27 PM
The American Stereotype
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Andrew Plowman
The American Stereotype A dazzling concept is to explore the perception of female Americans’ sexuality in foreign countries. This concept will begin with an evaluation of a foreign society’s stereotypical views on female Americans. Once this destined, promiscuous stereotype is clearly understood and proven we will evaluate rather or not...
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Posted by aplowman on October 02, 2003 at 02:20 PM
Roman Fever
Category: 02B: Roman Fever | Andrew Plowman
I believe the women visiting Italy in Roman Fever and Daisy Miller were portrayed as having low self-confidence which can only be satisfied by feeding on the misery of others. Roman Fever unexpectedly echoes Daisy Miller’s image of American behavior in Italy by reinstating the evils of lust. Mrs....
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Posted by aplowman on September 21, 2003 at 04:55 PM
Daisy Miller
Category: 01B: Daisy Miller | Andrew Plowman
Two old men are quietly observing Monet’s “Sunset in Venice.” The first man sees a beautiful masterpiece with every intricate detail exploding with life. The second man, however, sees a completely opposite scene, consisting of harsh brush strokes, inconsistencies, and an overall depressing effect. James and Twain mirror this...
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Posted by aplowman on September 15, 2003 at 08:52 PM
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Posted by aplowman on September 10, 2003 at 03:05 PM
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Posted by aplowman on September 10, 2003 at 03:05 PM