Indiana Jones

8. They have to choose the correct grail because only people of true faith in Jesus and the Cristian religion can be able to pick the correct grail. People who are just looking for it for immortality are finding it for all the wrong reasons.

9. I think the grail is to remain behind the seal because if it got out then everyone would be able to get their hands on it. The quest for the grail would not exist anymore. People would rob and kill whoever possessed the grail and many would use it for personal gains. The grail ends up lost because once it left the seal the temple started to collapse. Either no one was getting out or the grail would have to remain behind. It will always be that unnobtainable object.

Small World day 4

Has Perrse completed his quest?

Persse's ending to the story is just upsetting. The fact that he ended up sleeping with Lily instead of Angelica just shows all he saw was an image. If he had gotten to know either one of them he would have had a clue on who is Angelica and who is Lily when he heard they were twins. He never really progresses throughout the story. Once he finds out that Angelica is engaged to the man he replaced for the teaching job, he decides he should go around chasing Cheryl Summerbee. He has the same train of thought through the whole story even though he is the main focus. He seems to be on a continuous quest for relations with women though he is supposed to be an educator. It seems that his life will just keep repeating the same storyline even beyond the novel.

small world day 3

Will Persse's quest to find Angelica be completed or is she just the mystery grail that can only be persued and never found?

While the story relatesto the grail quest I do not think that Angelica is a impossible character to reach. If Persse is trying this hard he is bound to come up and find her somewhere. Unlike Chretien's story David Lodge has completed his story so there has to be an ending. I think Persse will find Angelica but I dont think he is going to come up with the answers he wants to find. The grail is just an object and as far as Persse knows so is Angelica. Without getting to know her he will not really end his quest.

How do you feel about the affair between Swallow's affair with Joy?

I think the relationship between these to though real should have been put to rest along with the plane crash. All the emotions of being reunited after all this time has fueled Swallow to cheat plus being all over the world going to conferences can keep it alive. I feel he is in it for all the wrong reasons.

Small World Day 1

2. Persse is a person who thinks before he speaks and tries to be careful what he says. He reflects David Lodge and his opinions being the main character. He is the new guy he wants to fit in but he isn't just going to put himself out there he is going to get comfortable and try not to embarrass himself.



4. Angelica is the woman who every man wants to get. She is beautiful and a little flirty and a younger character. Everyone likes her based on her looks and she is like all the maidens in the medieval stories. Everyone looks at her and thinks she is the most wonderful person and Perrse even falls in 'love" with her. Her character even represents romance in the story and unlike medieval women she is allowed to be outspoken and use her speech more effectively.

Perceval day 1

1. It seems Chretien is sending us down a path of nobility and honor. He is pretty much dedicating the story to this Count Philip who can do no wrong and is a great crusader. This shows that we are about to embark on a virtuous journey for things as justice and loyalty. It doesn't really seem like a romance in a literal sense since there is no mention of a woman in this prologue. It seems just about the quest and the heroic knights of the times.

2. Perceval seems as such a naive young person the way he is always asking questions in return to a question. It shows the way that knights dress themselves and how they look but Perceval is never told about what they do. He falls in awe to how the knights look and the shields and lances and armor that he instantly wants to be a knight. He knows nothing about all the fighting and competing that comes with knighthood. I think this is because it's about a great knight who growing up never even knew what a knight was and that anyone can become a great knight.

3. Perceval's mother tried to warn him in how the life of a knight can be dangerous and how bad te times are. She tells a story of her husband and two other sons who died and she has now been living a life of grief and Perceval is all she has left. Perceval though was just too intent on being a knight and doesn't really pay his mother no mind at all. Even when he looks back and sees her lying on the ground he doesn't go back to see what is wrong or anything he just carries on to find King Arthur.

Movie Responses

1. I think the obscure object in the movie is women. I think the continuous miexed emotions of Conchita was showing how hard it is to always know what is going on with a womans mind. Women are also objects of desire to men that we pursue, playing the games, chasing them around, just in hopes to get what we want. The way Conchita appeared bipolar and how Matthieu would always take her back when she left shows that our desire increases as the game gets tougher to understand.

2. I think the background was terrorism because once Conchita came into his life it was like an attack on his way of life. Now he's handing out money and spending all his time with Oonchita or finding her when she dissapears. She manipulates him and is in a way attacking his thougts. She does damage to him and no matter how many times he fights back, she comes back to mess with his head again. As much as people would like to get rid of terrorism it never really goes away.

3. I think the two diffferent actresses represented the more lustful Conchita and the more reserved Conchita. The spanish woman came in more where she expressed her feelings more. She was the dancer in the club, she was there when Matthieu made his first move, and the one who used her as an affair type character. She also returns at the end when they get off the train togethor. These parts in the scene also make me feel that is why she is the one who gets slapped upside the face pretty well. She is also the shorter and more curvacious actress which i feel is a more desirable figure. The french girl was more of a reserved and shy like character. She was the one who was working in the restaurant and doing maidwork when she worked for Matthieu, had those weird pants on when they were in bed together. She never goes through with the sexual promises she gives him.

Celestina Day 5

Question 2. Melibea may have felt it was love but Calisto was just looking for a woman to have sex with. Being a woman she's more emotional and might actually be looking for a close relationship. Calisto was the hunter and he's chasing her around trying to get what he wants and Melibea is the one who's been evading and playing hard to get at times. I feel she was more confused about what love is and recognizing mens desires since she is still so young. I feel her suicide was genuinely over grief and maybe guilt over what happened. Though she makes it seem as though her honor was taken away she wanted to have sex with Calisto in the first place.

Question 3. Calisto and Melibea's death was like their downfall in this whole plan that was being worked out by Celestina. There is a lot of falling in this book and I think it's when people get to their lowest point. Calisto pursued Melibea so much and in the end he wasn't satisfied with what became of it. He figures he will just try and try again until it becomes the way he wants it to. Calisto's true colors show after hiding his false love so long and he is no longer the noble person he tries to be. Celestina is down emotionally and mentally after Calisto's falland she mimics this in her suicide. Celestina was really the manifest of their "love" together so when she died the love ended up dying with her.