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.

Monday, February 14, 2011

"The Glass Menagerie" p. 1119 #6

The various theatrical components of the sets help to reinforce the meanings and contribute to the emotional effects of the play. The picture of the father is always grinning from the living room wall. "It is the face of a very handsome young man in a dough-boy's First World War cap. He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say, 'I will be smiling forever'" (scene 1, page 1234). Throughout the play, this picture is the only presence of the father. However, it is symbolic of his constant influence on the family. After Tom returns from the theatre, he tells Laura of Malvolio the Magician. His trick was to escape from a nailed-up coffin without removing one nail. The stage direction that follows is for the father's grinning photograph to light up. The irony of this question is made apparent through the stage directions. Without all the theatrical components of this play, much of the meaning and irony would be lost.

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