p.174-end
"It usually happens when I hear someone talking in Espanol. You see, I don't do Espanol either. I use to do Espanol, but it got me in a lot of trouble."
-This quote is rather interesting because he writes in spanish so much in the entire book and now you see that he doesn’t really like it. By saying that it got him in trouble kind of shows that the American culture over whelmed him in a way that he couldn’t speak his own language any more. The way he says it, it seems like he doesn’t care and he does it just because it’s easier.
“One quick flash of the hands. It was a mother thing. She blessed me one too many times. She crossed her tiny hands over my face so. I saw through the mountain furnace –this old road of lives and cross blossoms and unturned stones.”
-I found this quote really nice because it talks about his mother and how no matter what he does she will always love him and care about him. It also shows that he made many mistakes, but even after all of them, his mother forgave him. This quote takes place in the cemetery and he sees all the people pasted away and how they moved on to another place.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
notebooks of a chile verde smuggler
p.152-174
-"please identify tge following new fashion trend, pendojos: beef-flavored non-cholesdterol polyester campesino-print handkerchief, also comes in plaid pork and two-tone menudo."
-i love this quote a lot because it's about nothing. it doesn't mean any thing but it has a certain catch to it. as we know today, there are many fashions and most of them we know of. i belive in this quote, he makes fun of certain fashions. and maybe jsut saying any thing jsut to say that any one can start a new fashion and that it can be as rediculous as you want and that you can choose to wear what ever you want.
-"his face was glowing neon sparkles as he rolled the power ball. he had just hit a big score and was feeling good."
-i found this quote very interesting because it shows the power of gambling in one way. it is a very small/short quote but it means a lot. if you read this quote carfully, you can see that they say he has a good feeling after he hit a big score. that often happens in the gambloing world, you get a high score, think your about to win, to then get shut down a loose lots of money.
-"please identify tge following new fashion trend, pendojos: beef-flavored non-cholesdterol polyester campesino-print handkerchief, also comes in plaid pork and two-tone menudo."
-i love this quote a lot because it's about nothing. it doesn't mean any thing but it has a certain catch to it. as we know today, there are many fashions and most of them we know of. i belive in this quote, he makes fun of certain fashions. and maybe jsut saying any thing jsut to say that any one can start a new fashion and that it can be as rediculous as you want and that you can choose to wear what ever you want.
-"his face was glowing neon sparkles as he rolled the power ball. he had just hit a big score and was feeling good."
-i found this quote very interesting because it shows the power of gambling in one way. it is a very small/short quote but it means a lot. if you read this quote carfully, you can see that they say he has a good feeling after he hit a big score. that often happens in the gambloing world, you get a high score, think your about to win, to then get shut down a loose lots of money.
Monday, May 21, 2007
notebooks of a chile verde smuggler
p.131-151
-"i needed a very simplle zen quote: something like: "peanut bag with salt next to tomato juice plastic gllass marvelous." i need a zen quote that will slap my ears, say, Juan Boy! something like this & blam! i am drinking tomatoes as i write."
-i chose this quote because, to me, it doesn't make much sens. a zen quote is suppose to mean something, but then again, if you look at the quote he wrote, all it is, is what he was doing, drinking tomatoes. this quote didnt have much significance to the story it was in. he wanted to take this quote in put it into his tomato juice.
-"I aam that paper, i am those words now, the ink burns pyres in every cell. when i look out to the trees, the llong winding streets of tortilllla flats, as they shoot to the hillls and cut the ellectric rails of the muni buses to the towers and twin peaks, the fog and into the sky haze, i see your signs, i read your voice, now i do. yes."
- this quote made me think a lot. it starts off by saying that it is a sheet of paper but then it turns out to be something different. maybe it is stilll the paper, but it means a lot more then just something you write on. it knows who you are because you writer what you feell on it and it knows your voice from when you're talking and writting. i guess what this means over all, is that a sheet of paper knows you very well.
-"i needed a very simplle zen quote: something like: "peanut bag with salt next to tomato juice plastic gllass marvelous." i need a zen quote that will slap my ears, say, Juan Boy! something like this & blam! i am drinking tomatoes as i write."
-i chose this quote because, to me, it doesn't make much sens. a zen quote is suppose to mean something, but then again, if you look at the quote he wrote, all it is, is what he was doing, drinking tomatoes. this quote didnt have much significance to the story it was in. he wanted to take this quote in put it into his tomato juice.
-"I aam that paper, i am those words now, the ink burns pyres in every cell. when i look out to the trees, the llong winding streets of tortilllla flats, as they shoot to the hillls and cut the ellectric rails of the muni buses to the towers and twin peaks, the fog and into the sky haze, i see your signs, i read your voice, now i do. yes."
- this quote made me think a lot. it starts off by saying that it is a sheet of paper but then it turns out to be something different. maybe it is stilll the paper, but it means a lot more then just something you write on. it knows who you are because you writer what you feell on it and it knows your voice from when you're talking and writting. i guess what this means over all, is that a sheet of paper knows you very well.
notebooks of a chile verde smuggler
p.106-130
-"Margarita prays for her 22-year-old brother, ricky- run over, llate night, by a full truck. next to a 7/2. sometimes, froma small envellope she pulls out his broken bones, or she finds his torn fingers at the bottom of a cup of coffee."
- i found this quote rather interesting because it was very realistic, but you could easily imagine it in your head. which wasn't very pleasant. at the beginning, you can see how she must miss her brother a lot but then towards the end, she says "who are your hearoes" which means that she is happy about the death of her brother which is very unusual.
-"For years, in that shadow, she smokled and kissed a stray that crossed our window."
-in this quote, they are tallking about the mother who takes care of this cat that is always close to their house. the cat that crosses infront of the window. they say she kissed it and smoked it. it was a small quote, but it showed a lot of emotions in the paragraph and meant a lot.
-"Margarita prays for her 22-year-old brother, ricky- run over, llate night, by a full truck. next to a 7/2. sometimes, froma small envellope she pulls out his broken bones, or she finds his torn fingers at the bottom of a cup of coffee."
- i found this quote rather interesting because it was very realistic, but you could easily imagine it in your head. which wasn't very pleasant. at the beginning, you can see how she must miss her brother a lot but then towards the end, she says "who are your hearoes" which means that she is happy about the death of her brother which is very unusual.
-"For years, in that shadow, she smokled and kissed a stray that crossed our window."
-in this quote, they are tallking about the mother who takes care of this cat that is always close to their house. the cat that crosses infront of the window. they say she kissed it and smoked it. it was a small quote, but it showed a lot of emotions in the paragraph and meant a lot.
notebooks of a chile verde smuggler
p.81-105
-"My plutomobile... runs on transvaal liberation dances, runs on the skin of a woman ghana drum, runs on free on free on free on free."
- this quote describes what his "plutomobile" runs on. there are many ligns describing what it runs on and i found this rather interesting and funny. there isn't reallly a theme to all the quotes he says, but they are suppose to described the "gas" his plutomobile runs on.
-"Do you qualify? or are you unqualified? you may not belong with us?"
-this quote shows that he thinks that ot be part of a group or a gang of people, you have to qualify to get in. not any one can be one of them and not evryone is equal. that is what he is saying. personnaly, i dont agree because i think every one is equal and that everyone should be given an equal chance.
-"My plutomobile... runs on transvaal liberation dances, runs on the skin of a woman ghana drum, runs on free on free on free on free."
- this quote describes what his "plutomobile" runs on. there are many ligns describing what it runs on and i found this rather interesting and funny. there isn't reallly a theme to all the quotes he says, but they are suppose to described the "gas" his plutomobile runs on.
-"Do you qualify? or are you unqualified? you may not belong with us?"
-this quote shows that he thinks that ot be part of a group or a gang of people, you have to qualify to get in. not any one can be one of them and not evryone is equal. that is what he is saying. personnaly, i dont agree because i think every one is equal and that everyone should be given an equal chance.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
notebooks of a chile verde smuggler
p.56-80
-"get horny with the wrong images, pull weeds with my tongue out, revive lenny bruce, carve llotto numbers on soap,..."
-i chose this quote on page 61, not because i found it interesting, but more because it didn't make much sens to me. the title of this page is: things religion makes me do. i didn't understand how that had to do with what it says afterwards. i believe in this case, it doesn't talk about the normal religion that an everyday person follows but somethign out of the ordinary. towards the end, i think it's trying to show that religion is somethign that won't let you do everything you want. so its liek if you weren' free.
-"...i didn't know if she was watching for tex, the mixed dog, to eat the laundry or if she was going higher up, over the houses, the moving sky, torn clouds going west away from all the chavitos with peanut butter on their faces, far from the clap of dust, trastes, pink erasers, a kitchen table, beaten with hours, with pencils."
-this quote makes me think that all he is doing is looking outside the box. the way he wrote this, seems liek he is trying to imagine what she is seeing up in the clouds or it could simply be some random words put together. it shows that he doesn't jsut look at the obvious of the women looking out the window, but actually thinks more then that and even tries to see what she is seeing. this is a quote that doesn't end. it finishes this way and you don't know what happens which means that it lets you think what ever you want after. i personnaly think that he wonders so much about what she is looking at because he wants her to be looking at him because he likes her.
-"get horny with the wrong images, pull weeds with my tongue out, revive lenny bruce, carve llotto numbers on soap,..."
-i chose this quote on page 61, not because i found it interesting, but more because it didn't make much sens to me. the title of this page is: things religion makes me do. i didn't understand how that had to do with what it says afterwards. i believe in this case, it doesn't talk about the normal religion that an everyday person follows but somethign out of the ordinary. towards the end, i think it's trying to show that religion is somethign that won't let you do everything you want. so its liek if you weren' free.
-"...i didn't know if she was watching for tex, the mixed dog, to eat the laundry or if she was going higher up, over the houses, the moving sky, torn clouds going west away from all the chavitos with peanut butter on their faces, far from the clap of dust, trastes, pink erasers, a kitchen table, beaten with hours, with pencils."
-this quote makes me think that all he is doing is looking outside the box. the way he wrote this, seems liek he is trying to imagine what she is seeing up in the clouds or it could simply be some random words put together. it shows that he doesn't jsut look at the obvious of the women looking out the window, but actually thinks more then that and even tries to see what she is seeing. this is a quote that doesn't end. it finishes this way and you don't know what happens which means that it lets you think what ever you want after. i personnaly think that he wonders so much about what she is looking at because he wants her to be looking at him because he likes her.
Monday, May 14, 2007
paper #2
-this is my intro for my comparison paper...
The Dharma Bums and Death of Justina provide examples of the search for discovering who you are, what you want out of life, and how to know when you find it. While the characters in these books are in different places in their lives, they share a similar search for their innersole. Using journey as a metaphor, Ray and Japhy, in The Dharma Bums, and the father, in The Death of Justina, each set out, either inwardly or outwardly, in an effort to understand whom they are and rearrange their priorities. Being able to know and realize what you really want is one thing, but knowing who you are as a person contributes to ongoing happiness.
The Dharma Bums and Death of Justina provide examples of the search for discovering who you are, what you want out of life, and how to know when you find it. While the characters in these books are in different places in their lives, they share a similar search for their innersole. Using journey as a metaphor, Ray and Japhy, in The Dharma Bums, and the father, in The Death of Justina, each set out, either inwardly or outwardly, in an effort to understand whom they are and rearrange their priorities. Being able to know and realize what you really want is one thing, but knowing who you are as a person contributes to ongoing happiness.
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