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english 118 account :D

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@f_guiza2023 #smce118 Dora seemed jealous but as if she was trying to play it off. On page 285 she pries at him to see if he has any other love interests besides her.

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@JamesC82826182 #smce118 I think it was a way for the plot to focus more on June, but Hector’s past with women makes Dora’s death more predictable for sure

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#smce118 As Hector gets more and more drunk on page 325, he seems to have flashbacks to his time in graves registration. The quote “Why was he to be the angel of ironical death?” (325) stood out to me. I don’t quite understand what Lee means by ironic.

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#smce118 “It was manipulative and cruel on June’s part, yet here was Dora beginning to smile a little… and because she felt her own strength waning June couldn’t help but keep elaborating” (298). What was this dynamic between June and Dora? Were June’s lies part of her jealousy?

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like cleanliness, strangely enough, receded” (288-289). with hector’s whole job being cleaning, it’s surprising that his own space is messy. his apartment is a reflection of his mental state — messy.

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#smce118 the bottom of page 288 describes hector’s lack of motivation to keep his own apartment clean. “the way his wounds, even the seemingly grave ones he’d suffered during the war, healed with a magical swiftness… no prior or future state — the concern for something (1/2)

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@avabaileyklugh #smce118 I think it’s both a way to escape from her reality as well as a way for her to cry for help. She was seen as a “…scholarly girl who had so quickly righted herself after such a lamentable family tragedy” (225) when in reality she was still struggling with trauma.

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@poling_colin #smce118 June survived the war, yet still dies of cancer. I think it is Lee’s way as portraying her character as going through hardships until the very end.

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#smce118 June’s doctor was forceful to go ahead with her treatment. It seems that she became dependent on the pills Dr. Koenig gave her (245). I wonder how this impacts Sylvie’s future drug addiction?

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#smce118 On page 229, Sylvie cut herself while shaving but kept hurting herself instead of cleaning up. Why did Ames propose the next day?

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#smce118 “Years later, married to Ames Tanner, she would seek out that feeling again, though it would come in the form of a vial and needle” (223). What did Jim have that Reverend Tanner did not? Was he more attentive to Sylvie’s feelings?

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@JamesC82826182 #smce118 I think that is part of it, as well as the genuine apology Tick gave him on page 91

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— stood out to me.

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#smce118 “As a soldier he’d pictured himself not a savior, or some killing machine, but rather one of countless figures on the battlefield, just like the toy soldiers he played with all through his youth” (104). This comparison of his time in the Korean war with his childhood —

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@haemi_chee #smce118 fox girl focuses more on the perspective of female teenagers and women who were forced into sex work during the war, but they both contain an american character which i find interesting

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#smce118 Why does Hector seem so unsure of whether he likes Dora or not?

“No doubt he would, whether he wished to or not. But he was quite sure he did” (96).

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#smce118 “Hector watched his own body leave him and step aside and take the man’s wrist and wrench it to an unnatural position” (89). Why does Hector have an out of body experience while fighting Tick?

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#smce118 what is the significance of the story ending with dong-ho’s mother remembering dong-ho asking to walk by blooming flowers?

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@sarahb0814 #smce118 i think dong-ho’s mother was
grasping at anything she could get her hands on to avoid “crying like all the others” (184), as that would potentially make the death feel more real. maybe she was just in denial, or having a breakdown due to her grief.

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#smce118 “the thread of life is as tough as an ox tendon, so even after i lost you, it had to go on” (191). this quote from dong-ho’s mother stood out to me. it really captures the feeling of grief; when you feel like life should pause and wait for you but it doesn’t.