SOCY1097 Lecture : Interpretive Paragraph Ironweed
28 Mar 2014
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Throughout chapters one and two there is many different descriptions of death, humorous and serious alike, as well as, two major types of death discussed; physical deaths and psychological deaths. I felt it interesting that kennedy included so many different emotions whilst talking about death in the first chapter alone. Although the tone of the entire novel so far is morbid and foreboding, he switches emotions quickly when going from death to death. Both are very interesting ways to die, however; one death kennedy seems to mock while the other he sees as a tragedy. Because he killed his own son gerald, and had to watch his own father die from being hit by a train (18), francis abandoned his old life and became a bum. Living as a bum, francis is not really living anymore, just drinking heavily and getting through the day.
