Lovely Literature

"I expected this reception," said the daemon. "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyong all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satuated with the blood of your remaining friends." (page 68) So Frankenstein now meets his creature again, but this time the creature can talk and basically fully function. He speaks of his misery as this ugly spawn and how he scares all of hte people he meets. His anger spawns from the fact that his creater left him immediately when he realized the horrid mistake he made. He makes a deal in this quote with Frankenstein which adds foreshadowing to the plot. As we find out later in the plot, Frankenstein is being asked by his creature if he could make another creature like him in a woman form so he may have a companion (Bride of Frankenstein maybe? :)). If Frankenstein refuses or does not follow through, the creature will destroy more of human kind, focusing on Frankenstein's family and friends. This brings foreshadowing because Victor had such a hard tim emaking the creature then stomaching it. I don't think he could make another one because he nearly died of sickness trying to make the creature which he worked for so ridiculously long on. There is no way he would be able to remain healthy and sane by making another creature. Therefore, it is going to be interesting on who the creature kills that is close to Victor. He has already killed William (I think) which then caused the death of their servant, and Victor's mom is already dead. Currently the death tole is rising for the Frankenstein family. His creature sure is a bargainer...

"So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end." (98) This quote has an element of foreshadowing to it because it brings up the point that there could be an ending to Gatsby's life within the story, which actually ends up happening! The second half of the book as we divided it up begins with Gatsby slowing unveiling his previous life before he became rich and famous in upper class America at that time. He still is able to maintain his air of mystery though because we never actually find out his exact line of work, which makes it seem like he is into or has been into some shady business. Not to mention the fact that he is good friends with Meyer Wolfsheim who is notorious for having controlled the World Series scandal in 1919. Gatsby has such an intriguing character because he is reserved and taciturn in the first half of the novel and then begins to come out of his shell more with Nick as his friend. Gatsby, in the end, is just suffering from a lost love that he never truly got back because he died before Daisy and his relationship could have been decided. He spent five years building up his wealth and his prominence to win back Daisy, when in the end, he died alone and remained alone in his mansion and at his funeral.

This story is very deceiving because the title makes it seem like it is going to be something happy or prosperous for someone, but it is just the opposite. The Lottery is an annual event that includes stoning a person chosen at random for good luck in growing crops. There are many foreshadowing events that happen early on in the story though before it is actually announced what the lottery is. The people are acting nervously with their smiles rather than laughter at jokes (page 364) which only happens when someone's mind is not in the conversation or the present. It is required that everyone must attend this lottery, which would not be the case with a lottery as I think of it, winning money. When the women are speaking about the lottery they say how it seems as if it was only last week, implying that they do no look forward to what is going to happen. Then when the reader finds out that someone dies in this process, the primitive nature of the community is revealed.

I think there is some sort of conspiracy with Mr. Summers because he is the person who is instigating the practice in that he wants a new box, meaning he wants to continue on with the barbaric tradition. He seems to have ulterior motives because he does not stay completely with the tradition that it used to be, but he changes it ever so slightly. Since Mrs. Hutchinson is late to the ceremony, It seems like there is some way that Mr. Summers chooses who is going to die. He is very unsentimental toward Mrs. Hutchinson and her family when she has been chosen. I also think that it is odd when she arrives that the narrator says "...and Mr. Summers, who had been waiting, said cheerfully, 'Thought we were going to have to get on without you, Tessie." (page 266). That really gave me the feeling that Summers knew she was going to die or someone in her family was going to die because there was no way the practice could have gone on without her. This barbaric practice of the community really freaks me out and I hope this doesn't actually happen around the world...