Blog 4 Love is an interesting emotion

I found the expression of Love to be quite interesting as I compared the stories "The Horse Dealers Daughter" by D.H. Lawrence and "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekov. Each story has an unusual way of finding love, for instance in Checkov's story the character Gurov as a man married with children, he is described as being a ladies man who had very little regard for women. "In the society of men he was board, not himself, with them he was cold and uncommunicative; but with women he felt free ..... He know there was some force that drew women to him (p5). This guy is very impressed with himself, until he meets Anna, who he proceeds to fall in love with.  I felt as though the author was leaning in the direction of love but It was surprising the way it unfolds.  In the beginning he was just using her for his own comfort with the intention of moving onto the next woman, however his obsession continues to deepen and he becomes more smitten over time on the other hand Lawrence's story took me by surprise, his style of writing is such that there is no sign of love until the doctor catches a glimpse of her in the grave yard and cannot turn away from her gaze "she lifted her eyes, feeling him looking, their eyes met....her face seemed to mesmerize him, their was heavy power in her eyes which laid hold of his whole being, as if he had drunk some powerful drug. He had been feeling weak before now the life came back into him, he felt delivered from his own fretted daily self " (p105). This example of love is one that will strengthen each individual, they each have needs and they are ready to allow themselves to fulfill them for each other unlike the first story where they are both married to other people and cannot full fill the needs they have to form a true long term  relationship with each other.

Blog#3 -- Five Kids In a Boat

In the Story "The Found Boat" by Alice Munro we experience some time in the lives of kids that are clearly poor and in need for some adventure. Their experience grabs the reader and I found myself joining them. When Munro describes their activity in the beginning of the story she states ""Eva and Carol took off their shoes and socks and waded in. The water was so cold it sent pain up their legs." (p6) I could actually feel this feeling having experienced this feeling myself. These kids are clearly poor, they are floating on a log and as they are floating she states "they steered the log around a row of trees, avoiding barbed wire..."(p14) the body of water they float on for recreation is not well kept if there is barbed wire in it. Also the boys take the boat with complete excitement even though its broken. They work hard using tar and finding pieces of wood to repair the boat which also indicates that no lumber is just laying around. When they float to the abandoned building this shows that the times were tough for business. The economy was not good in their town so this business was just a vacant building. "Does it leak? it don't leak." were words spoken about the boat and that also references kids whose parents use a lot of slang and we see this in poor economic times. After jumping in the water when Eva stood up and Clayton shot water out his mount at her breasts she says "lets hide in the bushes, we hate them anyway... dont we Carol..." This indicates that even though Eva did not hide from this incident and rather enjoyed it she is still wanting to keep the facade that she doesn't. The attitude of these was established by Munro and their characters did exactly what was expected of them.