a huge ball of smoke rising out from beneath it, a mushroom cloud in reverse.
I would think that the smoke would compare to the 9/11 event as a whole. When i think of smoke and NY, 9/11 come to mind. p.s.: i agree with krissy about the comparison with the smoke and mushroom!
Everyone, even those who weren't looking back, had about them a certain nervous desire to look behind them, to see, to communicate to their neighbor, but this guy had no interest in anything except getting away from where he had just been. It radiated from every muscle in his body. To get away.
Imagery: the ashen guy is very very distraught and suffering from shock of what he just experienced. Tone: The author uses a very calm tone of voice. He isn't frantic and scared like at the beginning paragraph, hes more shocked and confused and surprisingly calm, just wanting to get away from what just happened to him.
There was more urgency and less mirth, more police shouting,
I feel like this shows that something big and most likely dangerous is happening. The author uses a very desperate sounding tone of voice. From reading this part i can literally picture the streets of New York going from normal to everyone running frantically trying to get out of there.
lost pain, lost iron
Is he getting over something that happened previously? These 4 words seem very deep and meaningful.
emerging woodwork image of his anger.
Whats the event? so that's why the author mentions wood multiple times.?
green lizard faces gulped, grey memories with moth 35eyes watched him from their shadows, soft
Does he have a thing with nature? What does the author mean by "grey memories"? Is this of some importance?
But he was poor and most days he was hungry.
He seems like a good guy. How did his become? Was there a certain event that happened in his life that brought him to this point?
Cold 15world of wood caught fire as he whittled: rectangle window frames, the intersecting x of fold- ing chairs, triangle trellises, the donkey box-cart in its squeaking square
the poet keeps mentioning shapes.... is this some type of symbol...
He was knock-knee’d, flat- footed and his clip clop sandals slapped across the concrete
knock-knee'd? he seems to be the type that's really awkward when around people lol
The knuckles of his hands were sil- 5vered knobs
specific meaning?
My uncle made chairs, tables, balanced doors on, dug outcoffins, smoothing the white wood out
this part kind of confused me. not the wording but the way the author went from saying what his uncle made to smoothing out white wood. maybe im reading it wrong
these brittle years of his old age we grow deeper, talk way after midnight,
so did the son turn himself around after getting closer with his dad? did he make it in life?
peeping over the rail of his hospital bed as we wash the twilight blue Chevrolet.
how is the dad washing the car with the son in a hospital bed.....? Am i just being too literal lol
walks up the stairs with the aluminum crutch to scream at the feet of black Jesus
i don't understand this...
. Years later I tell him the stories of what his brother-in-law did to me
this definitely makes them closer but maybe whatever happened to him when he was younger is why he was rebelling.
blood oozing from the soul of a son walking prodigal paths leading to gutters.
sentimental.. seems as if he's emotionally hurting
He tells me not to miss a spot, to open the hood when I'm done so he can check the oil,
lt seems as if the cars is what brings the two together and makes them closer
traveling with hoodlums to leave the books for street life, naming mentors the men who pack guns and knives
he seems to have a good dad, why is he doing these rebellious things?
my father standing at the gate, poor and proud, tall and stout, a wise man,
ok the first thing i thought of during this part was the stereotype of poor/ middle class people being more supportive, understanding and loving towards their children compared to rich people. They said nothing about rich people but....
a man troubled by a son gone missing in the head, drag racing his only car at night
the father being poor and the son going out in the middle of the night drag racing...kind of reminds me of the too fast too furious... the movie lol
when I am dancing with my tribe during the powwow at the end of the world.
First off what exactly is a powwow? Is the author trying to say that the world is coming to an and? Is that why he keeps saying "I am told by many of you that I must be forgiven"?
we Indians have gathered around the fire with that salmon who has three stories it must tell before sunrise: one story will teach us how to pray; another story will make us laugh for hours; the third story will give us reason to dance.
Is this like a Indian Tribal story because im pretty sure salmon cant literally talk.
floodwaters
Whats the connection with water and flooding (if that makes sense lol)?
I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall after
Is there something or someone that he should be forgiving? This must be important considering the fact that it is continuously said.
This is Mr. Malley's practice annotation.