Unsatisfied with Spain, Diego moved to Paris to complete his remaining two years of studying. During this time, he met and married his first wife, Angelina Belloff, a Russian émigré artist. During the next ten years, Diego and Angelina live together and pursue their art careers. In 1917, they have a child – but he eventually dies in 1918 from the influenza epidemic. Only a year later, Diego would go on to have his second son, Marika, with his mistress Marvena.
Walk the Line Mike Smithburg Rock & Roll & American Culture Mike Smithburg Rock & Roll & American Culture Film Review 5/21/12 Walk the Line: Film Review Walk the Line is a great movie documentary of the early part and heart of the late great Johnny Cash (J.R. Cash). The movie starts out on his farm in the mid forty’s when he is approximately ten years old. The main point the movie gets across about his childhood is that he has a physically and emotionally abusive father and his brother Jack dies in a sawmill accident when he is just a few years the elder of J.R. Then the film jumps straight to when J.R. is shipped to Germany with the Air Force to be a military policeman. The film soon jumps to when he is living in Memphis with his wife and baby as a unsuccessful salesman. He starts practicing with his band “Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two” and decides to bug Sam Phillips at Sun Records to let him perform for him quickly and the end up making a record that day.
Judith Guest’s novel, Ordinary People, follows a high school boy, Conrad, throughout his junior year. We learn that Conrad and his brother Buck were in a boating accident in which Buck dies. Later, Conrad attempts suicide and is hospitalized. The novel’s action begins one month after Conrad returns home from the hospital. Throughout the novel, he and his family struggle with the loss of Buck, Conrad deals with his suicide attempt, and sees a psychiatrist weekly.
Jimmy Corrigan is a graphic novel from Chris Ware that talks about a lonely, sad and pathetic man who just got a letter and an airplane ticket from his father on a Thanksgiving week, asking him to meet him for the first time. His lonesome life leads him to long for adventure and action, so he finds it in everyday objects which he manipulates with his imagination. The story goes back and forth in time to demonstrate the different Corrigan generations, and how they affect Jimmy’s emotional state in the present time after he was abandoned by his father. Throughout the story, Chris Ware emphasizes everyday objects by sometimes dedicating a whole panel to just one object. These objects may seem to slow the story down but they work as catalysts.
Our main character in this book is 17 years old Conrad Keith Jarrett. Book begins in the moment, when he wakes up on the first school day after his return home. The main event happened approximately a year before the beginning of the book. Conrad’s older brother Jordan “Buck” Jarrett drowned in lake during sailing with his brother. Later in the book, Con has flashbacks to his dark moments.
Edith Whartons novella Ethan Frome portrays the opposite of a man chasing “The American Dream.” The story is set in Starkfield, New England in the early 1900’s. Ethan, the protagonist of the novel was called back to his parent’s farm from college because his father had suffered from a head injury. That event changed the rest of Ethan’s life. The story unfolds as an anonymous narrator discovers the mystery behind the tragic situation. Throughout the novel, Ethan Frome, traditional gender roles are focused upon.
Sam Weinreb Sam Weinreb is a survivor of Auschwitz, who was born April 5, 1928, just celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday on April 5, 2013. A couple weeks before his 13th bar mitzvah, his parents, brother and sister, who was only six years old, were taken away and he never saw them again. He had to go to another country, which he was quite angry about. To accomplish this, he had to cross the border to Hungry illegally. He developed a plan to meet two men from the country he was crossing to.
was kidnapped on March 1, 1932. This shocked the world. Charles Jr. was only 20 months old. He was taken from his bedroom. Charles Jr. had a cold and the Lindbergh’s had decided that it would be better to wait until little Charles got over his cold before traveling to Anne’s parents for a visit.
The epic poem The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin, Ulysses is a man on a 20 year journey to return to his home of Ithaca, reunite with his son and reclaim his throne from his wife’s suitors. Along the way Ulysses meets monsters and must complete many quests. All the while, the gods are constantly interfering with Ulysses’ endeavors. What leads to Ulysses’ troubles are his mistakes. He often has errors in his judgement that allow adverse situations to take place.
The Odyssey by Homer, was a story that took place in Ithaca. It told the story about Odysseus and his travels trying to go back to Ithaca for ten years after fighting in Troy, the quest, to see his son, Telemachus, and his wife, Penelope, the damsel in distress. When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, told the life long journey of a young Indian boy, Thomas Blackbull, who strongly believes in the old ways, the young man from the provinces, who was born in Pagosa, but wound up traveling the country as he grew up into a rodeo star