Text Connections
While reading this book I immediately made a text-to-text connection to The Catcher In the Rye especially when reading Jewel’s character. Jewel like Holden has a pent up temper and contempt for those around him, especially the family that he’s only half related to. Although Jewel struggles to connect with his family he never betrays them. When his father Anse sold Jewel’s horse without asking him, Jewel rode off and met up with his family a day later without his horse. Though his family gave away one of his favourite companions Jewel still gave his horse and returned back to his family. Holden as well had a sever disconnect with his mother and father but still took care and loved his older brother and especially his younger sister Phoebe. I also made a text-to-self connection in watching the Bundren family suffer one bad break after another. As Anse put it, “There’s no stopping bad luck once it gets going”(172). Not that I’ve had anything as dramatic happen to myself that cursed the Bundren family, but I can appreciate the unfortunate situation of being drowned in chaos and how suffocating that can be. I think though the Bundren’s situation is a unique one, the human reactions brought out of each character holds a sort of connection to many that has made this book a classic.
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Ginny,
ReplyDeleteHmmm...Catcher in the Rye? Very interesting. I did not fully acknowledge the apparent fact that Jewel had pent-up anger(?). But it was obvious that he was disconnected from his family- or his lack thereof. I see the connection with Holden, however I did not think Jewel cared for anyone like Holden so deeply cared for Phoebe and his dead brother. And it totally sucked that his horse was taken away. Following a different tangent, I had the back luck quote from Anse highlighted in my book! I thought bad luck was a constant theme that seems to prevail through the novel, plaguing the family right and left. I made a text to world connection with that, seeing as all people find themselves in a spot of trouble due to bad luck.
-Elizabeth
haha awesome! yeah i liked the line alot!And I think that since addie died Jewel really didnt care for anyone else but the fact that he kept going back to his horridly dysfunctional family made me think that something stronger than hate was pulling him back. Weather it was love or not im not really sure but something powerful must have.
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