• Blog – What is Joe’s situation? Why does he compare it to drowning?
The first few chapters tell us about Joe. Joe has recently gone deaf and he constantly hears a ringing noise in his head, which annoys him. This could be because of the war he was in and all of the explosions, which made him, go deaf. He has memories of his father dying. Later in chapter iii Joe becomes conscious again and relates it to drowning. “he’d been rising and sinking for days weeks months who could tell? (Pg. 25) He said that every time he would come back into conscious he would “resurface.” He ends up getting his arm amputated. He didn’t want this to happen and he didn’t want to live with both of his most important appendages gone. Another big reason he didn’t want to have his arms amputated was because of Kareen. Before he always used to hold her in his arms, which he now doesn’t have. So it is a real letdown, losing his arms, and being deaf.
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I agree with you Michael, having all of your limbs and losing sense is a major letdown. I thought that it was good of you to include citations from the book. Good job!
I enjoyed reading you well-detailed blog post. Joe lost both of his arms and that is a pain to him because the doctor, he said, should have fixed them instead of amputation. The other thing that was bad was that he had a ring on one of his arms which a girl gave to him. He wonders where the doctor puts his arms after he has amputated them.
i agree with all of you i think it would be terrible to loose your sense of hearing, and an arm. i think michael wrote a good blog. i also agree with o.g. again because i was impressed with your quotes.
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