the ship has been left in disrepair and despite them using it they let it continue to rot. a ship slowly rotting to death

obsolete through age or new technological or intellectual developments.

ah

given the readings we have had so far, my brain thinks about hostages that have dark bags over their heads to block out their vision and muffle their hearing.

presumes that the ship has no supplies, he goes to bring them some.

no, just let it crash

unique, possibly odd

my eyes...cannot focus...I don't know what i just read, i just know i'm not going back over the paragraph.

habitual, pirate

literal foreshadowing?

that just leaves you open to attack. both a weakness and a strength, the strength being the ability to befriend people but opens you to attack and betrayal.

a man's overcoat of a style similar to a frock coat.

sailed off from?

always wanting to be in favor with the young ones

stroke

why are people speaking directly into his ears, do they think him deaf?

his disregard of his own house might have lead to this either way but is a way to show a passage of time through dilapidation.

indeed, almost a different town. I can't remember the word from studies in English that talked about an unfamiliarity within an otherwise familiar situation or place. un- something?

i like this word, this and sarsaparilla. reminds me of Meet the Robinsons

time passed enough that the very landscape he fell asleep to was altered

honestly after pouring the liquor into the larger containers I'd leave, given the energy that all of these people give off

i hate this. i can feel eyes on me. like Weeping Angels peering over their hands

this is just creepy

if they all look strange and carry large blades and are just hanging out in a remote part of a mountain, I'm gone. i wouldn't have stayed there had I seen the first man period.

not a great place to be meeting people you have no previous knowledge of

as you should, an animal can sense danger more easily than a human does

a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman.

too many mentions in this work that are completely disparaging of the wife. it acknowledges that he is lazy when it comes to his home life but still puts the blame almost squarely on her shoulders.

this is kinda funny

sounds boring but also like something i probably do

his people, those of idleness.

(especially of someone's face) having a ruddy complexion; high-colored.

she wouldn't have to badger him if he would just put work in at home instead of just for literally anyone else.

see, this would be fine if it weren't also affecting his family who probably rely on his working to bring in money to survive.

that's weird. then again mom friend override can happen such as wanting ketchup while in public and being too anxious to go get any but being able to get some if another nervous friend wants some.

he'll do things just to do them but not for any sort of reward to it?

a skill to be enviable of

the women like him so all blame of his family fights are on his wife.

this was what i thought it was, weather vane rooster thing

i think i've read this. he always helps out in the village to get away from his wife's nagging and to get away with doing any chores for his own increasingly less fertile land but will happily do chores for other people.

i wonder how many words have a v randomly in front of them.

have i already read this? if i have - dude goes into the mountains, gets tricked into drinking with some fae, sleeps for a few decades or so, wakes up and finds that time has passed and his child is full grown with children of his/her own and that there is a dog similar to his own dog that is kind of wild by what used to be his home. don't remember the ending.

ah a mistype/misspelling

I read this and the only thing that pops into my head is the scene from Mrs. Maisel when she talks about her firsts happening in the Catskills...i think

when you have people talking about a daughter being the replica of a deceased wife, it feels incestuous in a way, at least emotionally.

giving someone that much control over you is scary and uncomfy. you get put into a much too vulnerable position.

good point, female lead doesn't mean feminist plotline

only made me think of romeo and juliet, and now also merlin and arthur during the trial of unicorns and also westley in princess bride

disgusting

the trope of star crossed lovers is indeed very predictable and played out.

more spoilers for me. not that Grace or whoever saying that she married her cousin wasn't a spoiler. maybe it was a different cousin, a not english cousin.

I would think that she would be priced more around $40 just by being Disney, given the title assuming it was picked by Disney

given that I'm reading this before the last third of the book, spoilers.

the mention of Toys R Us is amusing given how the only store I remember of it went bankrupt and vanished

precisely

like how African Americans were treated. racism at its finest. like the little boy who may or may not have whistled and was lynched for "whistling at a white lady"

again, look at Casas's account of the atrocities that the Spaniard Christians did to the island natives

selfishness care little for the ones it affects

that is something that I vaguely thought about when I wasn't curing the constant verses and whining.

toxic

yeah, constantly calling them barbarous creatures, heathens, scourges, and beasts, puts her into the "not subtle"

yes, to the point where I had zero sympathy for this woman's actual plight

she wished to go through hardships when she was rich and without care. An ignorant thought

ptsd? just thinking back to the past?

she thinks it's weird to live in a house without any of the personal objects she used to have but thanks to generosity of the other people she knows, the house is filled with things

ah redemption as in the church forgives the sin of being surrounded by indians and living with them

goodwife as in another title for the wife of someone or like a midwife?

so her freedom was bought or is this just the price of cleaning her up and making her more presentable?

who?

okay, so they didn't rape you. they just made you work for your food

I don't trust her accounts of things given her bias against anything not christian or white. but this is like what abusive people do, whip you with one hand and then turn around and sort of gaslight and try to cajole a kindness from their victim.

did they actually say anything about heaven? or did you put your religious words into their mouths?

given the cruelty the spanish wrecked upon the tribes within Casas's recounting...stones and glass houses

makes it sound like you think they can't really mourn. as though their grief is lesser or false possibly because they aren't white.

once again, calling them a scourge....this remove is far more infuriating then the rest of them, far more dehumanizing and insulting in a condensed section.

when you truly know starvation, many things become a possible meal be it bugs or the soft inner tree that beaver and humans can eat

marrow

if you say all are gods people, that he created them and strengthened them, it isn't in your place to claim they are not in some way his, to go by your views.

because they don't feast like you did and they know how to live off the land and not how to strictly eat one singular food.

1. heathen - no
2. "our" wtf no. not your country it was theirs. those "heathens" took better care of the land around them before you inevitably brought invasive species to destroy the ecosystems

based on the readings from de vaca, the indigenous were used to periodically starving while Christians weren't. which meant they could go longer without feasting and run fairly fine with small meals during their quick travels. so i'm not surprised that they would be slow to save or hunt the indigenous when they could go slower, keep them running, and likely shun or kill the english captives. then again the whole kill and shun thing is from what i remember of The Searchers 1956

well these armies were the type to eat a lot, carry heavier equipment and probably aren't as familiar with the land altogether.

she's blaming god and then trying to sort of praise him in a way. that everything should be in gods plan

she seems very glib about this. just very sarcastically saying this

due to hunger, the English army gave up pursuit and in turn left her and her town to suffer the hunger of "ravenous beasts". once again, she dehumanizes the Indigenous by likening them to wild animals.

my brain isn't computing the words written here. is she saying, "what a shame it is that our big army didn't catch the enemy despite the enemies need for food being so great as to leave a trail to track"

is this a knock in the head as in a singular K.O or beat to death because comparing it to starvation is a bit much considering she still gets food when she does jobs for it

just as I thought, her selfishness led her to seeking more food than what she was earned. she wants and wants and takes what she can.

what a bitch. stealing food quite literally from the mouth of babes

how many of these does she go into? in previous removes she just wanders between a bunch of them.

how many masters own her niece? also, is this her niece or is this some weird bit of writing where it is her sister. probably the niece.

cannibalism?

ah, i thought this was like a child carrying cloth, so her mistress's child must be dead given the last page had her burying a papoose

does she still belong to that one couple or has she been sold off in some way by her mistress?

husband

you act like a brat and constantly look to be pitied and babied despite not being a 'freed' person

just because you've been given some leeway with things doesn't mean that you should make such complaints given that you still have a master

yes? No?

her actual husband or to a random man?

vaguely reminds me of the De Vaca writing when they talked about eating raw meat so that it wasn't stolen from them by someone who smelled the cooked meat

heat exhaustion?

? why?

her master or Philip?

bushels of what?

contrasting kindness where she expected cruelty

and the cup overfloweth

I thought the quote was, the lord giveth and the lord taketh away. or is there another one just like it?

interesting how Job is pronounced Jobe but spelled job

again, who?

not everyone is going to cater to your religious actions or views. Christians certainly haven't in the past. just because they don't follow your religion, doesn't necessarily mean they are heathens

different tastes and strengths of stomachs

she receives kindness to her weakness but also once again she wants for food that she isn't given

the other English people?

is this a kindness?

???

is Sarah the dead child?

how much freedom does she even have?

oh look, another child

ran off into the woods or was taken there by another group?

what is this? what exactly are they and what do they do that they sell off children and fight towns they were brought into?

a kindness, they could have just slung it into the woods

i thought all your kids were dead. how dramatic is this lady? "all my children are gone" and yet here is another one of your kids

who is King Philip?

which definition of "took"

what injury did it have? also why does she refer to it as "it" when she called it a girl previously.

she called it a baby like twenty times and now we get to know it's age.

maybe or maybe they could see that your child was going to die shortly and gave you some privacy for it. maybe i'm just humanizing them given how strongly you are dehumanizing them.

not everyone is good with comforting people, sometimes you just get harsh reality such as them saying the child will be put out of her misery

reminds me of a video where in a herd of horses, one foal couldn't stand so the male of the herd managed to grab it by the neck and flung it around until it died. The mare had tried in vain to get the foal standing and then protect it from the male.

so it isn't dead yet but will be put out of its misery

a dead child

she writes so much about wanting to be around Christians and now admits that she probably deserved this because of how selfish and "unchristian" she had behaved in the past.

are they actually pagan or does this lady just label everyone as pagan when not Christian?

just reminds me of De Vaca's account of the tribes going without food for a few days in a row and it just being how they are.

with every word she says I grow more weary myself with her "woe is me" attitude. I understand that she is going through an immense hardship but maybe my brain can't handle trying to be empathetic to this lady's account.

why are these called removes?

did they literally only take her and her sick/wounded child?

what wound does this child have?

they could have just left her to die, like it seems she would have preferred, instead of putting her on a horse. how steep was the decline that she fell off and how was she riding on it?

bareback riding?

how old is this child or is she putting words in the mouth of a baby?

as in she hadn't known suffering or...?

A person's name or similar to the cigarette brand?

?? will he be present later on? is this a white man? if not why was he named john?

is this saying, no one knows the true cruelty that befalls the English should they end up in the hands of the Indiginous.

dead or also separated from her?

Is she saying that 'Indians' are black of are there black people nearby? I'm not even sure what class subject I'm reading right now, everything is blurring together x_x

saddest

is this another way of saying near by or a distance away?

insulting, right away. then again, I've seen a lot of accounts where anyone who wasn't white was considered inhuman.

the bits of opinions on what an American is that I hear about just sound particularly bad most of the time. I mean we can be overly critical about the US but some people criticize just to be cruel.

I really like when someone is just unexpectedly sarcastic and critical when otherwise surrounded by dry reading with little personality.

asking questions is the way to go, to not be completely complacent and to always learn. even when the task is tedious

I remember another one of these that I was involved in and I'm pretty sure at least one of us put swears in our post. I can't remember if that was the post chosen to add to the anthology.

true enough. history is seen as static but discoveries of works and accounts from the time periods changes the view on what happened bit by bit.

Given the vastness of literature itself and how a thousand people can have a thousand different ideas, it's not a surprise. It's like the results of a survey group of 100 being applied to the entirety of the world.

the collection of ideas into a singular mold of "American literature"

which is good because when the works are so old that people have no clue about the details and what they mean within a work, it makes things irrelevant. making connections is what a lot of people like doing.

this is both funny and true

The boundaries being what makes up the United States, North America, all of the Americas? Whose experiences, those living or visiting? How far back in history? Those are the questions.

What people consider American literature is at once specific to the individual and the commonalities of the collective. Some people will include certain works and ideas while others will reject those are part of it.

...have I spent the last however long ago Red Wing and the daughters were mentioned thinking they were also giants? Are they giants or Indians/Indigenous?

Jealousy and entitlement, not exactly a good combination. gives off a "My father will hear about this" vibe

how big is he as a dog? how tall are the giants?

? As in a short journey in a derogatory sense or something else?

I'm just picturing the trolls from Harry Potter, the ones who are in ballet tutus in the painting.

I don't remember reading this but it still sounds familiar, the story on whole so far. And by not racing them all at once, he's just going to tire himself out and give them more time to set up booby traps.

why a white feather to signify a great chieftain?

hubris is often the folly of man

reminds me of wendigo legends, where wendigos were once warriors who were cut off from any food source save for their fellow people and became cannibals who over time developed and unending hunger for flesh.

Who are the giants supposed to be?

This is just a great sentence

domesticity and submission aren't something that appeals to me; it sounds disgusting to someone who can be very loud and rambles when she's passionate about something.

A terrible truth. If someone isn't aligned with what's in the spotlight, then they will likely end up being berated and abused by someone who is. An underdog story isn't always going to end up well for the underdog.

Sisterhood is extremely shaky within a state let alone an entire gender.

During the reading, I was confused as to why black lesbians were so greatly despised. It doesn't really make sense to me.

I remember reading about Lilith somewhere, it was probably a discourse on badass names to give your kids or something, it was on tumblr. I feel for Lilith though. She just felt as though she were no less than Adam and she was punished for it when she refused to bow down.

I've seen plenty of examples of a women getting a "hello beautiful" sort of message from a guy and them not seeing or responding to it for like ten minutes before the guy rushes in with something like "well, you stupid slut I was just trying to pay you a compliment. You think you're better than me."

Nice would be highly subjective. "Nice guys" aren't usually nice people, they are like alligator snapping turtles trying to lure in prey with nice words but will try and bite your head off at the slightest hint of being ignored or brushed off. Expectations do not equal reality.

What is the deal with people not having recognized Carmen Maura? Paige also wrote something about not having recognized Carmen. As far as I see she is just an actor from movies I haven't seen. Did Kathrine and Paige have someone named Carmen Maura in their class?

Volver was a good enough sort of example for Freud's uncanny repeated event with the similarities between Raimunda and Paula and the "fathers".

I didn't really think about this but that may have more to do with Paco having been explained off as having left Raimunda and the fact that Raimunda's parents were supposed to have died in a fire while Agustina's mother was explained as a frequent runaway hippy type.