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  1. Apr 2017
    1. But lie to yourself, what you will lose is yourself.

      I really like this line. Its true. It is saying that you could lie to others, but when you are not "coming out" or if your not doing what it is that you are passionate about or ignore something that is happening to you, then you will lose yourself. You will let yourself down.

    2. was America in the forties or fifties

      I believe this line is saying that back in the day, around the 40s and 50s, it wasn't common for people to come out about being gay. Lots of families were religious and stuck to traditions.

    3. Queer

      Queer means strange or odd. Any people refer to gays as queers. This title is very straight forward to what the readers automatically think what the poem will be about. The meaning of this word and that it does get directed towards gays, shouldn't be that way. Everyone is strange and odd in their own way and shouldn't be ashamed which is what the poem is directing.

    1. Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

      In the stanza I think that Frost is saying that there is regret and realization that whatever is chosen, you could never turn back around. Whatever you do can affect your future.

    2. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler

      I believe that this stanza is talking about having to choose between two things or "roads." Although it would be great to have both, that is not how it works out in the end. You have to pick one.

    3. I shall be telling this with a sigh

      I believe that Frost is saying that the speaker may have had a sense of regret when choosing the path that was taken. "Sigh" to me referred to disappointment, unsatisfied.

  2. Mar 2017
    1. SGs gone. Totally gone (!).

      I believe with the last journal entry of Eva not understanding, I think she freed the SGs. However this is not good because the fmaily will be in debt again.

    2. At lunch, went to mall, bought four new shirts. Running joke in department vis-à-vis I have only two shirts. Not so. But have three similar blue shirts and two identical yellow shirts. Hence confusion. Do not generally buy new clothes for self.

      doesn't seem selfish with the 10,000 dollar win. Spending it on his daughter birthday and now treating himself which he should.

    3. Nine days to Lilly’s b-day. Kind of dread this. Too much pressure. Do not want to have bad party.

      maybe they are comparing it to the last party they went to ? Worried it wont be good enough

    4. Lilly: I can’t wait till my party. My party is in two weeks, right? Pam: What do you want to do for your party, sweetie? Long silence in car. Lilly, finally, sadly: Oh, I don’t know. Nothing, I guess.

      I took this as, Lilly expected a party planned for her in two weeks but when Pam asked 'what do you want to do for your party?" and there being a long pause, I took that as Lilly being upset that no one had her party planned out and says "nothing I guess." Seems like she is disappointed or sarcastic that she really does want a party.

    5. Will future people be aware of concept of “demons”? Will they find our belief in “demons” quaint? Will “windows” even exist? Interesting to future generations that even sophisticated college grad like me sometimes woke in cold sweat, thinking of demons, believing one possibly under bed? Anyway, what the heck, am not planning on writing encyclopedia, if any future person is reading this, if you want to know what a “demon” was, go look it up, in something called an encyclopedia, if you even still have those!

      As I read this section, it seemed like they are judging what the future has to offer. Believing many things will change and that future generations will lose the general knowledge of learning and resources ( like the encyclopedia for example)

  3. Feb 2017
    1. “There needed no proof,” said Georgiana, quietly. “Give me the goblet I joyfully stake all upon your word.”

      Alymer demonstrated the liquid he will give his wife in a plants soil and the "yellow botches" fade away from the plant.

      • Georgiana seems to give full trust in her husband does not wish to see a demonstration before drinking it.
    2. “it is not you that have a right to complain. You mistrust your wife; you have concealed the anxiety with which you watch the development of this experiment. Think not so unworthily of me, my husband. Tell me all the risk we run, and fear not that I shall shrink; for my share in it is far less than your own.

      Aylmer started to turn pale and was staring at the liquid Georgiana will drink. When he realizes she is there in the room, he yells at her and accusing her of not trusting him and following him into the lab. However, Georgiana fires back by addressing the fact that he is the one that does not trust her. She lets him know that she will drink whatever is needed to complete this.

      • I was confused here because Georgiana was just crying about her husbands past experiments and now is completely all for it and trust him.
    3. Much as he had accomplished, she could not but observe that his most splendid successes were almost invariably failures, if compared with the ideal at which he aimed

      Georgiana comes across her husbands journal that describes this experiments, which were mainly failures.

      • I was confused because after reading this she burst into tears. Maybe she is scared now that her husband may fail too at removing the birthmark?
    4. Her husband tenderly kissed her cheek — her right cheek — not that which bore the impress of the crimson hand.

      You could tell Aylmer really does not like that birthmark and will avoid all contact with it, for example, making sure he kisses his wife's right cheek.

    5. The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.

      Alymer seemed to be okay with his wife's passing and is ready for his "perfect future" to come because this birthmark is no longer haunting and bothering him.

    6. At the same time he heard a gross, hoarse chuckle, which he had long known as his servant Aminadab’s expression of delight.

      Why is his servant always laughing? Is he up to something or is he just happy that the birthmark is gone?

    7. “My poor Aylmer,” she repeated, with a more than human tenderness, you have aimed loftily; you have done nobly. Do not repent that with so high and pure a feeling, you have rejected the best the earth could offer. Aylmer, dearest Aylmer, I am dying!”

      After the birthmark was removed, Georgiana is now dying. This birthmark seems like it was a symbol of her life, and now that it is gone she must be gone too.

      • It gets you thinking, was this the hand of God ?
    8. Either remove this dreadful hand, or take my wretched life!

      Georgiana now wants her husband to remove it. Even if it is dangerous she does not care even if it takes her life, all she now wants is to have this removed.

      • The only reason that she wants this removed is because her husband is now disgusted by her as days go on when he sees it. It shouldn't have to be this way. Your husband should love you no matter what imperfections you may have.
    9. The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one. Aylmer now remembered his dream. He had fancied himself with his servant Aminadab, attempting an operation for the removal of the birthmark; but the deeper went the knife, the deeper sank the hand, until at length its tiny grasp appeared to have caught hold of Georgiana’s heart; whence, however, her husband was inexorably resolved to cut or wrench it away.

      Georgiana heard her husband cry out in his sleep about her birthmark and asked him to explain his dream. He had a dream that him and his servant were removing her birthmark. In his dream the deeper they cut, the deeper the hand sunk in until it reached her heart. Even when it reached her heart, her husband was still trying to remove it.

      • He really does not like her birthmark and it is haunting him so much that he would remove it.
    10. he found this one defect grow more and more intolerable with every moment of their united lives

      As time goes on Aylmer founds his wife's birthmark to bother him more and more.

    11. To tell you the truth it has been so often called a charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so

      Georgiana is saying that she has never thought to remove this birthmark because she has received complements that it is a charming feature for her.

  4. Jan 2017
    1. FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.

      Whatever I am about to tell you, I do not expect you to believe it.