Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 102 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Blue Angel
As I was reading the second portion of the reading assignment for Blue Angel, I had a thought. You see Swenson isn't working on a third novel, he seems to be more focused on helping students with their creative writing assignments. However, during the course of the book you can see Swenson focus more and more on Angela, and it hit me, maybe he thinks of Angela as a younger version of him, just in a female form. Now I haven't finished reading the second reading assignment, but it is interesting to think that perhaps Swenson isn't trying to have a relation with angela, but is jsut focused on her so much because he views her as a continuation of himself. Just a thought to think about, perhaps once I finish reading the novel, this might not at all be what he is trying to do, but maybe it is, and the author doesn't directly make that known to the reader.
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Andrew, I think this is a really good theory. I think you've hit on something. Swenson is middle-aged, he thinks he's washed up, he can't write his third novel. And then here comes this young person who has a passion for writing and is actually good. The fact that she's a woman may just complicate this.
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