Skip to main content

Educated 67%

Have gone from likely this moderately to liking it greatly.
  Events:  Sibling (Sean) abuse.  This is a topic that is not discussed much, but is a big deal. I remember having a student (Ryan) who had a mean older brother who made his life hell.  A parent would have been arrested; an older sibling--nothing . . . yet. 
  BYU
  Lack of knowledge of basics:  Napoleon, the holocaust, hygiene, blue books, study .  .  . a tough start.
  Trips back to Idaho  . . . the junkyard, more brutality at the hands of Sean . . . self-loathing (a boy touches her hand, and she thinks she's a whore)
  Back to BYU
Father burnt badly in accident at junkyard
  more success . . . new boyfriend, but she can't bring herself to tell him (Nick) anything of her family.
  Academic success . . . summer in Cambridge . . . encouragement to go to grad school . . . world expanding . . . doesn't want to be just a Mormon mom choir director . . . Rebellion from the church . . . polygamy, specifically . . .
  Graduation . . . parents angry because she doesn't attribute her winning of a Gates grant to study in England to the great home schooling education they gave her . . . father nervous about her going to England. . . He's still expecting the end of the world.  If she's anywhere in the USA, he can drive to get her (1000 gallons of fuel stored)  If she's across the Atlantic, he can't save her.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Oppenheimer . . . film

 Solid opening 30 minutes (we're treating this like a mini-series).  O's involvement with left-wing causes . . . rift with Einstein (O thinks of him as over-the-hill and Einstein knows it.)  First splitting of atom.  Lawrence Lab in Berkeley--Lawrence practical applied physics . . . not O's strength.  Main actor is from Peaky Blinders.
Post a Comment
Read more

The Master Chapter 2

February 1895 (Alice died in 1892) Money problems, jealousy of Wilde; time spent with Lord Wolseley1; off to Ireland to lick his wounds; Irish unrest--Irish landlords boycott all social events; much time spent with manservant Hammond (homosexual attraction again); fancy dress ball, appalling to James, who is only happy in company of Hammond, though Hammond remains a servant and no more; little girl alone on the grounds--inspiration for Turn of the Screw?; conflict with Webster who alludes to Wilde's successful play and HJ's failure; Wolseley was an  Anglo-Irish  officer in the  British Army . He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa, and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British Army in promoting efficiency. He served in Burma, the  Crimean War , the  Indian Mutiny , China, Canada and widely throughout Africa—including his  Ashanti  campaign (1873–1874) and the  Nile Exp
Post a Comment
Read more