Flashback: recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations. Ellie has flashbacks of her and Anne after they fight on the phone. She remembers Anne seeing a black man coming towards them and thought he was a mugger when he turned out to be just a jogger on page 69. Ellie has this flashback because she doesn't understand how Anne someone who would know what it's like to be different because she has a girlfriend not support Ellie liking Jeremiah just because he's black. She is remembering that day to understand why Anne changed over the phone after Ellie had told her the guy she liked was not white. Ellie remembers her reaction the way she screamed and grabbed Ellie from a guy who was only jogging. From that description, I think because he was black Anne felt like he was more likely to attack them than someone white. Even Ellie thinks to herself "would Anne have reacted that way if the guy had been white?"
If You Come Softly Poem
. If you come as softly
As the wind within the trees
You may hear what I hear
See what sorrow sees.
If you come as lightly
As threading dew
I will take you gladly
Nor ask more of you.
You may sit beside me
Silent as a breath
Only those who stay dead
Shall remember death.
And if you come I will be silent
Nor speak harsh words to you.
I will not ask you why now.
Or how, or what you do.
We shall sit here, softly
Beneath two different years
And the rich between us
Shall drink our tears.
.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment