Thursday, December 12, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Pursuit of Happiness
At
the point of the novel: Strength in What Remains by: Tracy Kidder, where
I’m at, we can clearly see what type of person Deo is. We already knew he was
an incredibly smart guy, since he had been a top of the class medical student, at
a collage in Belgium. Now we can also see what a nice and genuine person he is.
For example the way he tries to greet everyone even when he doesn’t know them,
and besides the fact that all these people give him horrible looks. Also, in a
way, he is a really cute guy, I mean, his way of being and the way he tries to
communicate with people. Probably it’s the way the author tells Deo’s story
really using ethos that make me feel that way. I’m sure it’s not only because I’m
a female, I think every kind of audience will feel the same way toward a
character like Deo.
There’s
a point where Deo talks about how he feels he is starting to become a New
Yorker, and what a New Yorker is. Since he starts feeling more confortable and
familiar with certain places, he didn’t before. But in the point of the novel I
got, Deo changes his mind, and is rather sad. Not because he has given up, but
because the condition he is in that makes him feel that way. “This pace made
you feel like you where simply not a human being. How could you be a human
being like everyone else, if your circumstances were this different?” (Pg. 33)
At this point Deo was homeless, sleeping in Central park every night, had a
crappy pay for his job with almost no tips, and was awfully thin (which for him
was a big deal because where he came from being chubby meant one was wealthy).
This
is why I decided to title this post “Pursuit of Happiness”. Deo reminds me of
the main character, Chris Gardener of the movie Pursuit of Happiness. Mainly because of what horrible conditions
they were both in. The part of the novel where Deo sleeps in a grassy portion
of the park that was being taken care of policemen, and has the need to run as
soon a Deo spots the police in the morning, remind me of the scene of the movie
where Chris and his son have to sleep in a public bathroom at a subway, and are
woken up by workers trying to get inside the bathroom. Both being horrible and
touching scenes are really impacting even ones to cry for. But with such great
qualities Deo has, such as Chris had in the movie, I am sure he will somehow
miraculously get out of such horrible situation and rise up. And I am sure of
it, not only because I read the back part of the book where it might mentions
something like that, but because the type of person that Kidder has introduced
Deo to be.
Vocabulary
Fringe (n): not part of the mainstream;
unconventional, peripheral, or extreme.
Reluctant (adj.): unwilling and hesitant;
disinclined.
Haggie: An emptied out haggis, resulting in a moist, warm
hollowed out sheep stomach.
Gist (n): the substance or essence of a speech
or text.
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