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.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Time for the Next Book...(Exposition)

The second book is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Interesting title...not quite sure what it means yet, but hopefully after reading this book I will figure that out.
After reading the first chapter, I think it is mostly exposition. The chapter introduces a few characters and tells a little bit of a backstory on them.
  • Robert Cohn was a previous middleweight boxing champion; however, we learn that his only reason for fighting was "to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton" (page 1).
  • Spider Kelly was Cohn's boxing coach. I would guess that he is probably not going to be a major character judging by the brief mentioning of him in this chapter.
  • Braddocks was Cohn's literary friend during his traveling in Europe.
  • Frances was the lady who Cohn believed he was in love with. However, she seems to be the opposite of Cohn; Frances is forceful while Cohn is shy.
  • Jake was Cohn's tennis friend during his traveling in Europe. He is also the narrator of the story.
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