• Blog – Explain the dream with Christ.
Joe is seeing a collection off images in his mind. One of those images is of the women looking for her son at the train station. He sees that her son is Christ when he is coming up through the desert. The image goes on to when Christ goes to the railway station to play blackjack/cards with Joe and others. As the game progresses, the men strike up a conversation about war. One of the men states that, “…what the hell is this other guy doing here he ain’t going to die.” (Pg. 192) This is directed towards Joe because he will not actually die in the war. However, after Joe explains what happens to him instead of dying, the men agree that his fate is worse than theirs. After they bored the train, Joe goes out and searches for Christ, wanting him to aid his suffering. Joe in this image wants to have died rather then being in the state he is in now.
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Nice blog Hershey. You make some good points. One thing I saw was you said "bored" instead of boarded, but thats ok it just humored me. I also agree that it would be a terrible thing to suffer, I would definitely would rather be dead. I think the vision of Joe jumping out of the train window and in the desert with Christ would be interesting to see in my opinion.
oh yes i totally agree with both of you it would be horrible to just lay there and not be able to do anything. this is rather random but i just thought after reading your blog and batu's comment that other than obvious reasons the image of christ and his many other odd dreams would make this book soo hard to make into a movie.
Nice blog Michael, you hit all the bases here. I think that it is odd that Christ says he can do anything he wants but then he loses at blackjack. In my blog I wrote that even Christ may be vulnerable to the 'luck' and 'fate' involved with blackjack. I also wrote that when ANYONE gambles, they always may have a chance of losing.
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