In the second section of The Hotel New Hampshire a lot happens after the hotel is bought and the bates home sold, small things and big. Some of the small things include Frannie's crazy driving causing her to knock down a tree, John visiting Ronda when it rains, and john meets Juniors sister. Most of the big things that occur involve many aspects that have happened in the first section that i have not yet mentioned. As most people call it the butterfly affect I will demonstrate(write) about one of these affects. In the first section Frannie is gang raped and John gets help from the black students of their school, then she asks for Sorrow their dog but as it turns out that very same day they put him down for his offensive farting problem. Sorrow causes a lot of pain in this section, even dead. when he was alive it was just his smell. when he was dead it was the fact that he was not gone and that "Sorrow Floats". As a gift to Frannie, Frank decides to stuff Sorrow. During the process Iowa Bob their grandfather wakes from a nightmare about Sorrow getting ready to attack, then on Christmas when Frank brings Sorrow back into the hotel he hides Sorrow the ever opening closest in Iowa's room, when Iowa drops a weight it opens the closet and out lands Sorrow in an attack pose, scaring the old man to death. though Sorrows troubles do not end there. After receiving a letter from Freud(the first ever), Win sells the hotel to Fritz's circus and they all get ready to fly to Vienna where Freud has his own hotel that needs fixing up. As parents of 5 win and Mary would never be able to fly on the same plan and so win flew in the first flight with his 4 oldest children, and Mary with the youngest, Egg. as a fan of Sorrow(now in a begging pose), Egg begs to bring the stuffed dog with him on the plane. A day or two after the first part of the family arrives in Vienna they hear of the plane crash into the ocean, the deaths of Mary and Egg and how Sorrow floats.
Quote: "it was Franny who said, later, that we must all watch out for whatever form sorrow would take next; we must learn to recognize the different poses."
Reaction: In this book Sorrow the dog only brings well sorrow and he never leaves, he just keeps coming back. The only reason the government knew where the plan crashed was that they saw something floating in the water. John states here how he and his family need to find the next Sorrow before he finds them and messes their lives up farther.
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Hotel New Hampshire 1-130
In the first section of The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving the union of Win Berry and Mary Bates. The speaker and the son of these two characters, John Berry, takes us into one of the rooms of the Bates family home. He brings us into the room where Frank, Frannie, (John), Lily and Egg(respectfully in order of age), a room where their father tells a story he has told many times before, adding every time new details that contradict old ones.he tells the story of when win and Mary fell for each other.
When they fully met they were at their summer jobs where they thought nobody they new would be, where they wanted to create a new image for themselves. They were at the hotel Arbuthnot-by-the-sea, a hotel in Maine. There they became fairly closer and even closer when Freud and State O' Maine came by the hotel. Freud is a trainer and handy man, and State O' Maine is his trainee and a bear. This was a special bear. He could be controlled with just one object, his 1937 Indian(his motorcycle). He did not go anywhere with out it and it did not go anywhere without him lest someone wanted to be mauled by the bear. The bear even slept in the Indian. After an incident with the bike, the State O' Maine and an older German man, Freud fled from the hotel. Though before he left he gave Win and Mary three pieces of advice.
Quote: ""Here's number one: you(Win and Mary) get married....here's number two, you(Win) go to Harvard... we're up to number three....(Mary) forgive him, even though it will cost you."
Reaction: this is one of my favorite quotes in this book. even though they barely know Freud they listen to him. they get married, Win goes to Harvard and Mary will forgive Win, but the question is when?
When they fully met they were at their summer jobs where they thought nobody they new would be, where they wanted to create a new image for themselves. They were at the hotel Arbuthnot-by-the-sea, a hotel in Maine. There they became fairly closer and even closer when Freud and State O' Maine came by the hotel. Freud is a trainer and handy man, and State O' Maine is his trainee and a bear. This was a special bear. He could be controlled with just one object, his 1937 Indian(his motorcycle). He did not go anywhere with out it and it did not go anywhere without him lest someone wanted to be mauled by the bear. The bear even slept in the Indian. After an incident with the bike, the State O' Maine and an older German man, Freud fled from the hotel. Though before he left he gave Win and Mary three pieces of advice.
Quote: ""Here's number one: you(Win and Mary) get married....here's number two, you(Win) go to Harvard... we're up to number three....(Mary) forgive him, even though it will cost you."
Reaction: this is one of my favorite quotes in this book. even though they barely know Freud they listen to him. they get married, Win goes to Harvard and Mary will forgive Win, but the question is when?
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