English 015 - Americans Abroad
Meaghan Tanguay
War Stories
Category: 4E: O'Brien | Meaghan Tanguay
War Stories “What Paul Berlin knew best was the land…He knew the dangerous places and he knew the safe places” (p250). The soldiers of the Third Squad say the land in Nam is their enemy. However, they are misled and the true enemy proves to be their fellow soldier. On...
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Posted by on December 15, 2003 at 12:55 PM
Counting
Category: 08B: Going After Cacciato | Meaghan Tanguay
At the observation post and on the road to Paris, there is an “incredible slowness with which time passed” (p45). Paul Berlin struggles with his obsession over the passage of time. At the observation post during his Middle-hour guard, which he believes to be the scariest guard time, “he tried...
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Posted by on December 02, 2003 at 01:40 PM
Arab Homes
Category: 3E: Bowles | Meaghan Tanguay
“[Port] did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next…” (p.13-14). As...
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Posted by on November 25, 2003 at 02:19 PM
Rebirth
Category: 07B: The Sheltering Sky | Meaghan Tanguay
Momentarily after Kit’s recognition of Ports death she feels “the first moments of a new existence, a strange one in which she already glimpsed the element of timelessness that would surround her” (p237). Port’s death lifts a cumbersome burden off of Kit. Kit is released into the desert without Port,...
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Posted by on November 13, 2003 at 02:16 PM
Hovering
Category: 06B: The Sheltering Sky | Meaghan Tanguay
Besides that fact that Mohammed walks in on the Lyles in bed together after Mr. Lyle claims they are son and mother, which is the creepiest moment in the book, the Lyles always travel with a cloud of creepiness stagnating over their heads. It begins when Port first meets Eric...
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Posted by on November 06, 2003 at 11:27 AM
Identity
Category: 2E: Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald | Meaghan Tanguay
The endings of Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” and Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” are analogous to each other. It is the only place in both works where reality strikes the main character. Jake’s sexual impedance and Charlie’s shortcomings as a husband and father deprive each man of the necessary confidence to...
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Posted by on October 30, 2003 at 09:17 PM
Sanctuaries
Category: 05B: Babylon Revisited | Meaghan Tanguay
“He was not really disappointed to find Paris was so empty. But the stillness in the Ritz bar was strange and portentous. It was not an American bar any more-he felt polite in it, and not as if he owned it. It had gone back into France. He felt the...
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Posted by on October 23, 2003 at 11:47 AM
Confidence
Category: 04B: Autobiography of ABT | Meaghan Tanguay
Gertrude Stein’s arrogance in her autobiography is palpable right from the beginning. She marks herself as one of three geniuses that Alice Toklas has met. In the first chapter Alice Toklas reveals, “I may say that only three times in my life have I met a genius…The three geniuses of...
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Posted by on October 14, 2003 at 01:30 PM
Real Emotion
Category: 03B: The Sun Also Rises | Meaghan Tanguay
There is no hero. However, Hemingway teases the reader by introducing courage in two characters: Cohn and Romero. They are the only two characters that represent any type of heroism in contrast to Jake, Michael, Bill and Brett-the lazy, impassionate, drunkards. It is no coincidence that both Cohn and Romero...
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Posted by on October 07, 2003 at 12:34 PM
Prisons
Category: 1E: Twain, James, Wharton | Meaghan Tanguay
English 015 Americans Abroad 1st paper, Final Draft Prisons By: Meaghan Tanguay The discovery of new sexual licenses by the women characters, Daisy Miller and Mrs. Ansley, while they are traveling abroad, is a fraud. They both enjoy many sexual adventures with European men which are new and exciting for...
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Posted by on October 02, 2003 at 01:33 PM
American Mothers
Category: 02B: Roman Fever | Meaghan Tanguay
What kind for mothers are the women in Daisy Miller and Roman Fever? The American mothers, Mrs. Ansley, Mrs. Slade, and Mrs. Miller, let their daughters run around freely at all hours while in Rome. Mrs. Ansley and Mrs. Slade do not care when their daughters get back from their...
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Posted by on September 23, 2003 at 02:11 PM
Interactions
Category: 01B: Daisy Miller | Meaghan Tanguay
The literary work of James’s Daisy Miller and Twain’s The Innocents Abroad both center on excitingly different interactions between their American characters and the foreign people they meet while abroad. Twain spends most of the time depicting the people he meets in his tour of Europe, Syrian villages, and finally...
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Posted by on September 16, 2003 at 11:11 AM
Meaghan Tanguay
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."-Helen Keller"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."-Helen Keller"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."-Helen Keller"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."-Helen Keller"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."-Helen...
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Posted by on September 10, 2003 at 04:33 PM