Summary
As Ivan dying slowly his family , nor wife care at all and it does bother him. His state of being is getting to him as he only feels comftorble with Gernaism, who is assiting him with alot of help. He is noticing how he needs all the help but refuses it at times. As he is dying is realizing alot about his life and how he is standing alone. He sees his past before him as he notices the big gap in his life, and how he didnt live his lfie as he should of. He is realizling that his life is the way it is because he failed in his way of living. He only cared about certain things and unfourtunately now as he is getting worse, less and less show affection to him . As ivan gets worse near the end he sees how his family will suffer less without him. He begins to try and apologize but he is so weak , he could barely say a word correctly. He then at this point knows his time has come and he is not scared as he dies out of nowhere.
Quotation
"I'll get back to work;after all, that was my life"(Tolstoy 37).
Reaction
My reaction when reading this part at the begining of my second section made me think to myself for a minute. I belive that Ian should have been a less work addict, and taken time for himself and his wife.Ivan is one of those mans who may loose evberything ibn life by only focusiing on work, which is not a bad thing but it is not your life. He in fact knows his health issues and still manages to go to work and pay less attention to it. Health always comes before anything, and trust me ; I've been there. He should prioritize his time as much as he can since it is already known that he will die. Ivan I believe dies and is one of those mans who put their all into work but not into the other important things in life. Me, personally being in a position as ivan besides the whole death part learned that I need to prioritize. Before I use to do many things that I gave up, spending alot of time with friends, and figured out what's important in my life. I changed because i knew that the way I was makign desicions was not the best way and it will just hurt me more if i was to continue. * Tolstoy putting those words in Ivan's mouth made me imagine the type of characted he tried to build in Ivan.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
2nd post
Summary
Now after reading section 6 , I somewhat understand a little better then i did before. Now The book is seventeen years later , as the book talks more about Ivan. I assume the book is about finding out how Ivan died since its getting pretty intense as they talk about how Ivan is begining to get sick. As reading i can say I donot think Ivan is such a good person since to be he seems greedy and thinks he knows it all. I dont believe his wife is so nice as she begings to talk about him and wish him to die, One thing can be if you start to dislike him, but the consideration of him being a dead man is something way diffrent. Then I come to see more how Ivan is all about his job, and playing bridge for the most part. Ivan doesnt take manythings as serious as he should, and that is dangerous. A normal person would be aggravated with diffrent results of doctors and be worried, but that is not ivan. He instead sets his mind that he will be ok, without knowing exacly what is going on in reality.
* Prediction: Ivan is going to die, and it will probably be from a illness, he doesnt become aware of, because of his lack of care. Him and his wife will have some sort of dispute and hate eachother even more, since they are already on that path.
Quotation
This quote really made me have a self connection since I understand what Ivan Ilyich is going threw."Well who knows,"he said. "Maybe it really is nothing much"(Tolstoy 28).
Reaction
My reaction to this quote is ismply a " i knoe what you mean" face. I am the type of person who can get sick and think it is nothing big without actually knowing. To be more specific, recently I wasnt feeling good, and a trip to the doctors made me be aware that it wasnt just a stomach ace, and headaces all along. I realized it was more serious that it made me get ill very oftenly. I still don't believe it may be as far of a situation as my doctor says but I am still not sure of what is going on. I usually never think anything is a big deal since I have alot going on in my life, like Ivan. That can probably be why Ivan doesn think anything big is going on with him, since he is more worried obn other important things, as he says,Therefor, I understand Ivan and I can connect to why he thinks it isnt a big deal.
Now after reading section 6 , I somewhat understand a little better then i did before. Now The book is seventeen years later , as the book talks more about Ivan. I assume the book is about finding out how Ivan died since its getting pretty intense as they talk about how Ivan is begining to get sick. As reading i can say I donot think Ivan is such a good person since to be he seems greedy and thinks he knows it all. I dont believe his wife is so nice as she begings to talk about him and wish him to die, One thing can be if you start to dislike him, but the consideration of him being a dead man is something way diffrent. Then I come to see more how Ivan is all about his job, and playing bridge for the most part. Ivan doesnt take manythings as serious as he should, and that is dangerous. A normal person would be aggravated with diffrent results of doctors and be worried, but that is not ivan. He instead sets his mind that he will be ok, without knowing exacly what is going on in reality.
* Prediction: Ivan is going to die, and it will probably be from a illness, he doesnt become aware of, because of his lack of care. Him and his wife will have some sort of dispute and hate eachother even more, since they are already on that path.
Quotation
This quote really made me have a self connection since I understand what Ivan Ilyich is going threw."Well who knows,"he said. "Maybe it really is nothing much"(Tolstoy 28).
Reaction
My reaction to this quote is ismply a " i knoe what you mean" face. I am the type of person who can get sick and think it is nothing big without actually knowing. To be more specific, recently I wasnt feeling good, and a trip to the doctors made me be aware that it wasnt just a stomach ace, and headaces all along. I realized it was more serious that it made me get ill very oftenly. I still don't believe it may be as far of a situation as my doctor says but I am still not sure of what is going on. I usually never think anything is a big deal since I have alot going on in my life, like Ivan. That can probably be why Ivan doesn think anything big is going on with him, since he is more worried obn other important things, as he says,Therefor, I understand Ivan and I can connect to why he thinks it isnt a big deal.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
roar post 1
Summary
The book I began to read now is The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a story that has me askign many questions. The book stares in imidiece race as it starts at the end, I believe. The book is pretty much backwards as it starts by stating the death of Ivan Ilyich , who was very well known. He was admired by many and was a very good man. He had a very close friend who is Peter. Peter in the book is in the just as everyone is sort of talking about the death, the outcome, and what will be done in the future. As this is happening his wife was introduced, Praskovya Fedorovna who is now a widow. Through out the church service she talks to him alone as she tries to get money for the funeral. Then also thought the second section the book talked about the life of Ivan Ilyich. He was a very hardworking man who only wanted the best for his family. Like most people at that time period, he was part of the justice people in court, he was son of a civil war sergeant and his family was pretty successful. Two of his children lived a good life as they had a good future except one who was a failure, and therefor they pretended he was dead. The book in my opinion began really strong, and it is a little confusing to understand. I predict that the book is going ot be an entire case on how Ivan Ilyich died, and what caused hsi death.
What type of last name is Iylich ?
Quotation
"Gentlemen!" he said," Ivan Ilyich is dead"(Tolstoy).
Reaction
My reaction to this was" OMG , hes dead?" . I reacted really shocked because I was nto expecting the book to start off in saying that someone had already died. Then as I read this I tried to kinda figure out what was the point the author was trying to make, or how the book was going to be written. I automatically assumed that the book was going to be all about telling the story in flashback mode since it started with no background. But then I thought of how I was going to have a big role as a reader to figure out whats going on. Specially in this book how the authors writtign style is a little more complex to seem that I am use to.
The book I began to read now is The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a story that has me askign many questions. The book stares in imidiece race as it starts at the end, I believe. The book is pretty much backwards as it starts by stating the death of Ivan Ilyich , who was very well known. He was admired by many and was a very good man. He had a very close friend who is Peter. Peter in the book is in the just as everyone is sort of talking about the death, the outcome, and what will be done in the future. As this is happening his wife was introduced, Praskovya Fedorovna who is now a widow. Through out the church service she talks to him alone as she tries to get money for the funeral. Then also thought the second section the book talked about the life of Ivan Ilyich. He was a very hardworking man who only wanted the best for his family. Like most people at that time period, he was part of the justice people in court, he was son of a civil war sergeant and his family was pretty successful. Two of his children lived a good life as they had a good future except one who was a failure, and therefor they pretended he was dead. The book in my opinion began really strong, and it is a little confusing to understand. I predict that the book is going ot be an entire case on how Ivan Ilyich died, and what caused hsi death.
What type of last name is Iylich ?
Quotation
"Gentlemen!" he said," Ivan Ilyich is dead"(Tolstoy).
Reaction
My reaction to this was" OMG , hes dead?" . I reacted really shocked because I was nto expecting the book to start off in saying that someone had already died. Then as I read this I tried to kinda figure out what was the point the author was trying to make, or how the book was going to be written. I automatically assumed that the book was going to be all about telling the story in flashback mode since it started with no background. But then I thought of how I was going to have a big role as a reader to figure out whats going on. Specially in this book how the authors writtign style is a little more complex to seem that I am use to.
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