Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Tina's October 3 Group Work

Each student in the group is responsible for posting one short example. Group members are Young In, Tien and Larry.

Posted by Brad at 10/03/2007 10:45:00 AM

5 comments:

Tinali said...

Question 2
Fisher includes Farrar in the story for the comparison with gran’ther's characters. In the end, Fisher uses a metaphor “Fraid-cats” Gran’ther said about people who live in “ Half-live”, to describe that Gran’ther hates the way in which someone like Farrar lives.

October 4, 2007 at 12:19 PM
larry said...

Although Gran'ther is so old and in bad health condition,"he had now outlived six doctors who had each given him but a year to live; 'and the seventh is going downhill fast," the readers can't help smiling when they come to such kind of description. Fisher successfully creates an atmosphere of joys for whole story.

October 4, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Young In said...

Question #2……why the author has included Farrar in this story?
The reason Farrar acts as he does is the author wants to compare to grandfather’s attitude. Farrar said “I’m getting worse all the time.” This situation is similar to grandfather’s. However, their attitude toward their life is completely different. Granfather is very positive and adventurous, but Farrar is not. The author wants to give a lesson to readers through their attitude.

October 4, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Brad said...

Tien's comment:

The conflicts between Gran'ther Pendleton's
persistance, naughtiness and poor health cause a lot
of great excitement. Despite his "collapse" and then,
staring death in the face on the way home from country
fair, the next morning, surprisingly, he recovers and
insists on giving a glowing description of the fair
for one hour and a half.

October 5, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Lien said...
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October 9, 2007 at 8:09 PM

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