So you may be wondering why my blog is titled this...well there isn't one specific reason why. First, I think it's a great quote from the movie Forrest Gump. Also, I like the message it teaches. Life is unexpected, and no one knows what lies before them. We have to take the chance and go see for ourselves if we ever want to accomplish something. This is also a lot like reading. We start out reading a book not knowing where it will take us. The ending is unknown until we reach it; sometimes it ends good and sometimes it ends bad. However, we will never know how it turns out in the end if we do not keep going.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Jake Something (?)

In chapter three, we finally learn the name of the story's narrator. Before this point he had just been referred to as Jake. We now know his name is not Jake Something; it is actually Jacob Barnes. This chapter shows us what a basic day was like for Jacob in Paris. It seems like he lives a fairly slow and average life during the post-World War I generation. He wanders around Paris and meets a few friends. One of the new characters introduced in this chapter is a woman named Brett. We do not find out much about her in this chapter, but I think we will later based on the last line of the chapter, "Oh, darling, I've been so miserable" (page 32). From that I would guess they have some sort of history together...I suppose we will find out later in the book if my guess is right or not.
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