At the beginning of To Build a Fire, I was thinking that the guy was going to end up freezing to death. I feel really bad for the dog!! It must be sooooooooo cute! It was weird reading about a guy as he gets tons of frostbite. Why is he out there? Why does he not want to stop and build a fire, even if it is freezing? Thank goodness he eventualy does...and then falls into the creek. I was super mad when he started trying to kill the dog...seriously, I wanted to punch him SO BAD. I kinda started hoping he would die and that the dog would live because I REALLY HATE THIS GUY. So I was really happy when that happened...and that the dog gave the guy a little bit of greif for dying on them without building a decent fire first.
So...this week was what I call a "transition week". See, tennis ended and the Odyssey is OVER (yay) so this coming week I'm hoping to read a lot more. I always listen to music...did a lot of that while I raked the leaves on Friday. Unfortunately, they came back on Saturday. We had pizza in hobo pie makers on Sunday night...lots of cheese...really good! No new songs- wait, sorry, I lied!! A Time For Us, the love theme from Romeo and Juliet (the 1969 movie or something like that). It doesn't have lyrics, but...who cares? It's really pretty. You should listen to it sometime.
Anyways...best quote EVER... "Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." -Gandalf the Grey/ J.R.R. Tolkien
I tell my warmongering friends this and they blow me off but I think they take it into consideration sometimes because I have to believe that they can be saved. Or if I say it enough. ^^,
-Jenni
I was pretty mad when he tried to kill his dog, too. But in the end I realized that a) he was probably a little crazy at this point and b) it actually was good way to survive, it it had worked. I mean, I don' like he was going to kill the dog, but it wasn't a bad idea considering how warm the dog was staying. But he was pretty mean to that dog...
ReplyDeleteHe must have been crazy. I don't know how he stood the cold for that long - my mom occasionally puts sweaters on in June.
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