Thursday, September 30, 2010

#1


Crow, mummified crows, shot pellets, a personal god for everything?, stones, in crow's mind there are really only two gods that are relevant to him: the one that prospers him and the one that prospers his enemies.

Selected Image to write about: the god that loves crow's enemies and gives them all the weapons.

Crow ends his thoughts with the image of two Gods, one being much bigger than the other. Bigger in the sense that the God of his enemies is much more powerful than his God. Crow is very human in his thoughts. He has fears, he has doubts, and he is lost in a world that is very dangerous to his survival, and the only way for crow to reconcile with his own existence is to find some justification for his existence. Crow finds his God. His God that loves him, communicates to him, and has crow's well being at the heart of its concerns. The God makes Crow's existence feel worthwhile even in the face of overwhelming peril. As good as Crow's God makes him feel in his head, he still can't reconcile what he sees with his eyes. As Crow thinks more and more about his God it doesn't seem to make sense to Crow that his God would let his enemies succeed against him and his fellow crows. Crow's feeling of lostness is closing in on him, he begins to doubt whether there really is a Crow God, but he comes to his own rescue and decides that maybe, just like Crow, his God is fighting against a much more powerful God, the God of his enemies.
The Crow believes that the God of his enemies gives them powerful weapons. The 'shot pellets' are a telling counter-example that his God is all loving. The author may be trying to illustrate that God, as life, is unfair. The author may write about different Gods of unequal power for creatures of unequal strength, but the underlying message is that 'some things are more equal than others.'

Rumble Grumble

I have determined that college can be a never ending vacation. In my case, Davis is a tropical island in the middle of nowhere. A paradise with great people to befriend and adventures to undertake. But as with all vacations, they need to end.