For this blog response, select one sentence from Chapter 4 that you would consider your favorite line from the reading.
Post the sentence and the page number.
There is a challenge....
If someone has posted your sentence of choice, you cannot post the same sentence. You must go back to the text to find another sentence for the post! Happy Reading!
"The beach shed its deadness and became a spectral gray-white, then more white than gray, and finally it was totally white and stainless, as pure as the shores of eden." (50)
ReplyDelete"From behind us the last long rays of light played across the campus, accenting every slight undulation of the land, emphasizing the separateness of each bush." (59)
ReplyDelete"Phineas, still asleep on his dune, made me think of lazarus, brought back to life by the touch of god." page 50
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"Bright high lights shone on the tips of the waves, and beneath it's grey surface I could see lurking a deep midnight green." page 49-50
ReplyDelete"I grinned at him. "Oh no, i wouldn't do that," that was the most false thing, the biggest lie," page 71
ReplyDeleteSorry i meant to post this comment the one above is from the wrong chapter.
ReplyDelete"With unthinkable sureness i moved out on the limb and jumped into the river,every trace of my fear of this forgotten," page 60.
Chris Morris
"It was hard to remember in the heady and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.” (Page 55)
ReplyDelete"The ocean perked up a little from the reflection of these colored sliver in the sky. " (Page 49) Olivia M
ReplyDelete"There was a swift chain of explosions in my brain, one certainty after another blasted--up like a detonation went the idea of any best friend, up went affection and partnership and sticking by someone and relying on someone absolutely in the jungle of a boys' school, up went the hope that there was anyone in this school--in this world--whom I could trust." (Page 53)
ReplyDelete"we kid around a lot and everything, but you have to be serious sometime, about something. If you're really good at something, I mean if there's nobody, or hardly anybody, who's as good as you are, then you've got to be serious about that." (page 58)
ReplyDelete"I found a single sustaining thought. The thought was, You and Phineas are even already. You are even in enmity." pg 41
ReplyDelete"It seemed that he had made some kind of parallel between my studies and his sports. He probably thought anything you were good at came without effort. He didn't know yet that he was unique." page 58
ReplyDelete"...I didn't want Finny to understand me as I understood him" (56).
ReplyDelete"then a second realization broke as clearly and bleakly as dawn at the beach. finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies."
ReplyDeleteIt began not as a gorgeous fanfare over the ocean I had expected, but ass a strange gray thing,like sun-shine seen through burlap.
ReplyDelete(Pg 49)
Laura McKinsey