After our discussion of the pig slaughterhouse metaphor in On the Rainy River, I thought this clip from Grey’s Anatomy might be an interesting way to show a metaphor gone wrong.
Don’t forget that the “Both Sides of an Issue” presentations must be ready for Tuesday, April 3rd.
Today, in reading On the Rainy River, a short story in Tim O’Brien’s book of short stories about Vietnam, we discussed the job that he has during the summer he was drafted. He worked at a pig butcher plant hosing out pig carcasses. We also discussed that it was a metaphor.
A few days ago we [...]
In the story we finished today, Spin, O’Brien ends with the following paragraph:
Forty-three years old, and the war occured half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That’s what stories are for. Stories are for joininig the past to the [...]
