Essays
When could you not get married in Las Vegas?
Between 12 and 1, 8 and 9, and 4 and 5
What did the third shot do?
Knocked him down, but as he fell he rose for a moment and trumpeted
Effects of this proposal?
Lessen the number of Catholics, poor people would have a valuable product, money will circulate among the poor, parents will no longer have to pay for their children after a year, more specialities for restaurant owners, could help raise marriage rates, men would treat their wives better,
Where did white go to the lake?
Maine
What did the first bullet do?
Make him look really old, but not knock him down., eventually made him fall to his knees
How are men and women taught to see their bodies differently?
Men as more of a whole, women in parts.
What are cowboys chivalrous and standoffish around women?
They have the chivalrous rules of the south, don't have the vocabulary to express the complexity of what they feel
What did he say about landlords?
They should buy the babies because they are already devouring the parents.
What does saecula saeculorum mean?
Forever and ever (century and centuries)
What did he not know about killing the elephant?
Shoot an imaginary bar from ear hole to ear hole
What did Robert Redford have?
Skin colored moles
What does swift say you can do with try carcasses?
Skin them and use it for summer boots or gloves
What happened to the inside and outside beauty now?
They split off from each other. Inner becoming important outer becoming wrong
What song plays at the weddings?
When I Fall in love it will be forever (ironic because step father is there)
What does swift say you see when walking through the city?
Begging women with too many children who will become thieves, but sold as slaves or become soldiers.
What die swift say about the number of boys and girls left?
1 boy for every girl because there are lots of affairs and not a lot of marriages in the lower class
How much does he say a baby should cost?
10 shillings
How many children does he say are born of poor parents a year?
120,000
How many people got married on the record day?
171 between 9 and midnight, 67 done by James a Brennan at 3 minutes a wedding
How many wedding chapels at the time Didion wrote?
19
When did white first go to the lake?
1904 (August)
What did white catch
2 bass, but acted like they were like mackerel (killed them by hitting them on the back of the head)
What is an elephants trainer called and what happened to the elephants?
A mahout and he went the wrong way to look and was 12 hours away
Swift essay?
A modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift (lived in Dublin), 1729
What was beauty to the Greeks?
A virtue, beauty on the outside matched beauty in the inside. (For all)
Beauty essay?
A woman's beauty: a put-down or power source?, Susan Sontag(studied in California, Harvard, Oxford, Paris(Sorbonne), in philosophy, theology and literature)(wrote 4 films and human rights activist) 1975
What does Ehlrich say a cowboy is at the core?
Androgynous (male and female)
How many dishes does he say a child will make?
At least 2 with guests.
When did the wedding industry reach its peak and why?
August 26, 1965 because you could improve your draft status in the Vietnam war by getting married
Where is beauty attributed and how?
Beauty is attributed only to women (handsome for men) but in some non-Protestant countries the word is the same for both.
Why is there more baby flesh in March?
Because many children are born nine months after lent
Why did outer beauty become wrong?
Because the Christian church judged on moral character
Why did Orwell think he had to shoot the elephant?
Because the crowd wanted him to(realized the harm of white men in the east)
What did white buy?
Brass hooks and a spinner
What do a bride and groom need in order to get married?
Bride- 18 years old or parental permission, groom- 21 years old or parental permission and 5 dollars
What did Orwell like and hate about the British and the Burmese?
British- hated how they were oppressing the Burmese and controlling them Burmese- hated how hard they made his job
Where did Sontag study?
California, Chicago(philosophy) New York (religion), Harvard, excited masters in philosophy and literature, also at Oxford and the Sorbonne in Paris
Who sets the tone in Las Vegas?
Call girls, mobsters, bathroom attendants with drug poppers
What was the lake like?
Calm, some houses, in farming country, but the banks had many trees, large, some places fun to explore , constant and trustworthy
How is a cowboy feminine?
Carrying for baby animals, massaging sick calves legs, help horse that is stuck in water drowning,
What broke the illusion if not time passing?
Cars and their motor noises, motor boats
Where is Las Vegas?
Clark County, Nevada
What debris were under the boat?
Dead hellgrammite, wisp is of moss, old hooks, blood of fish
What did the elephant do at the start of its raid?
Destroyed a bamboo hut, killed a cow, raided fruit stands, knocked over the trash van and destroyed it.
What did white like to watch his son do?
Drive a motor boat
When was once more to the lake written
EB white, 1941
Where is Didion driving?
From Los Angeles, across the Mojave desert
Shooting an elephant facts?
George Orwell(Eric Blair), 1936 in Burma
What dies white say is part of American life?
Going to the lake to escape the city heat, wondering about newcomers, wondering about enough chicken at farmhouse for Sunday dinner
Misfortunes at the lake?
Got ringworm from kittens and had to rub ponds on it, dad flipped canoe with all clothes on
Cowboy essay?
Gretel Ehrlich, About men, 1997
What did Orwell say happens to a tyrant?
He becomes pushed around like a puppet, becomes hollow, posing as a dummy, spends life trying to impress the natives,
What did the second bullet do?
He climbed with slowness to his feet and stood up
How did the elephant die?
He died half an hour later while people were skinning him.
What did white feel in the end?
He felt the cold water on his groin that his son was feeling
What were Orwell's last shots?
He fired at his heart and won his throat?
A common misconception of a cowboy?
He's not just tough but toughing it out.
What does she want to see on the subway?
Horseflesh in the Marlboro ads
Facts about writing of Didion essay?
Joan Didion, marrying absurd, written in ???
Where did Orwell aim first?
In front of the ears at its brain
What did the dead coolie look like?
Indian, almost naked, lying on stomach with arms crucified, face covered in mud, eyes wide open, teeth in grinning expression of agony, skin stripped off back
What happened the the elephant in the beggining?
It had gone "must"
What does Sontag say about power?
It is in relation to men(under them) and meant to attract them.
What did white know the first morning he was there with his son?
It would be the same as before - his sons became him and he became his father (felt it often)
What does Orwell say about the British Empire?
It's dying, but better than the empires to come.
Where does shooting an elephant place?
Moulmein, lower Burma
What does beaut encourage?
Narcissism, reinforces dependence and immaturity
Where does Ehrlich currently live?
New York
Some things he will not hear objection of until it happens?
No more murdering other groups, being honest in industry, not sell your country for nothing,
What differences did white see?
One of the tracks was gone, the waitresses washed their hair , motor sounds
What does Ehrlich say a cowboy is a mix of?
Physical vigor and maternalism
Some things the wedding chapels say that they will do?
Plenty of parking, take you to and from your motel honeymoon accommodations dressing rooms, witnesses available
What does he say about thieves and poor children?
Poor children cannot steal until they are around 6
What does he say women will do about the baby size?
See who can bring the biggest one to the market.
What is strange about the bride seen at the end of Didions essay?
She is under 18, pregnant and thought her ceremony was as nice as she dreamed it would be
What does Ehrlich do in her essay?
She turns the stereotype of a cowboy inside out.
Affects of the Burmese not liking the Europeans?
Spitting betel juice on women in the bazaar, being tripped on the football and the ref looking the other way, insults, Buddhist priests that stood on street corners and jeered at Europeans.
Misconceptions of cowboys?
Strong and silent because there is no one to talk to, rides away into the sunset because he's been working 14 hours, if he's alone, he's also on a team
What was Orwell's position in the army?
Sub-divisional police officer
What was the elephant doing when Orwell first saw him?
Tearing grass, beating them against his leg to clean them and then stuffing in his mouth.
What was Socrates lessons to the Greeks?
That he could be so ugly yet so smart.
What is the association with America?
The American friend who told him about this (because there is a lot of slavery in America at the time)
Where did a team of cowboys ride up?
The Chisholm Trail in 1880, (20 or 30 riders)
Name of some casinos in Las Vegas?
The Stardust and Caesar's Palace
What made white feel that no time had passed?
The arrival of a dragon fly on his pole, same man with the cake of soap, the Same waitresses, things were in the same place at the store
What did white remember most about the lake?
The clear mornings and the smooth lake, the bedroom smelling of lumber, smell of wet woods
What was the first affect Orwell saw of the elephant?
The dead coolie
What is the main idea in shooting an elephant?
The harmful affects of colonialism
What is so tags message?
The way that the standards of beauty have affected women and the oppression and obligation surrounding it.
What does he say about the old and diseased?
They are dying anyway, so we should just wait
What die she say about children of 13 years old?
They can only be sold for about 3 pounds.
What happened at the lake in the end?
Thunder storm
Where does white go now?
To the beach, but misses the easy tides at the lake
Why does swift make this proposal?
Too many poor children, will stop the abortions,
What does he say about the flesh of 12-14 year olds?
Tough and bad taste
EB white life
Went to cornell, lived in ny, worked at the New Yorker, wrote stuart little and charolettes web
What did white wonder about the lake?
What time would have done to all the beauty- tar roads,
Why was arriving less exciting now?
You didn't use the train station but instead your car
