"What I remember about the cruise," Fertility says, and her arm is curved to rest against the whole length of my arm. "I remember the faces of the last passengers as their lifeboats were lowered past the ballroom windows. Their orange canvas life vests sort of framed their heads, so their heads looked cut off and put on orange pillows, and they justs stared with big wide-open fish eyes at Trevor and me still inside the ship's ballroom while the ship was starting to sink."(Palahniuk, 216).
This passage gives us insight to how Fertility lives her life. Can you imagine being on a boat while it is sinking? If I was in that situation I would be crying, not dancing in a ballroom. What I get from this is that she lives for the moment, and thats a virtue many people claim to have but in all reality don't. Her story makes me curious about what else she's done in her life, and what she will do. I think this character is a brilliant creation on the part of Chuck Palahniuk because she gives the readers something they want to strive for in their life, and in that aspect she's relate able. People want to live their lives to the fullest. But at the same time, she romanticizes with death, and has said in previous chapters, that she wants to kill herself. So in a way she's representative of the two extremes of humanity. The crazy thrill seekers who do everything they want to do while living, and, in their minds, have reached the ultimate fulfillment of life by their experiences. But on the other hand she's also representative of the people who anticipate death as if the act of death itself is the ultimate fulfillment of life. (Paradox!!! Dying is living)
1) What is her back story? (More detail)
2) How will her relationship develop with Tender? (main, introverted character)
3) How will her personality affect his own?
4) Will she play a role in whether he lives or dies?
This passage gives us insight to how Fertility lives her life. Can you imagine being on a boat while it is sinking? If I was in that situation I would be crying, not dancing in a ballroom. What I get from this is that she lives for the moment, and thats a virtue many people claim to have but in all reality don't. Her story makes me curious about what else she's done in her life, and what she will do. I think this character is a brilliant creation on the part of Chuck Palahniuk because she gives the readers something they want to strive for in their life, and in that aspect she's relate able. People want to live their lives to the fullest. But at the same time, she romanticizes with death, and has said in previous chapters, that she wants to kill herself. So in a way she's representative of the two extremes of humanity. The crazy thrill seekers who do everything they want to do while living, and, in their minds, have reached the ultimate fulfillment of life by their experiences. But on the other hand she's also representative of the people who anticipate death as if the act of death itself is the ultimate fulfillment of life. (Paradox!!! Dying is living)
1) What is her back story? (More detail)
2) How will her relationship develop with Tender? (main, introverted character)
3) How will her personality affect his own?
4) Will she play a role in whether he lives or dies?
1 comment:
i understand the character-- what is it that you think i won't get? plot isn't everything, you know....
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