Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Notes on Horses of the Night
Chris the boy in the ML short storyââ¬âfaced adversity, the no money for school -depression years that Just got worseâ⬠¦ This combined with the love of learning and ambition to be an engineerâ⬠¦ Drove him to study and workâ⬠¦ First when he was away at HAS. â⬠¦ Then when somehow he couldn't afford? To go to Univac In Winnipegâ⬠¦ It drove him to rebel against going home to the farm(north of Waken)â⬠¦ He cashed in his ticket and ran away to Winnipeg. James Eriksson: He tried to work to make money to go to College to succeed In his dream. He got sales Jobsâ⬠¦ So he wasn't paid money he worked on commissionâ⬠¦ OnlyIf he got someone to buy what he was selling did he make moneyâ⬠¦ Let was the depression and the depression got worse. You studied this Is Socialâ⬠¦. Keynes people even If they did have money did not buy thingsâ⬠¦. The psychology of uncertainty kept them from spending money because they needed what little they had Just In case thin gs got worse and some emergency came upâ⬠¦ The war cameâ⬠¦ Soldiers got paid a salaryâ⬠¦ Chris enlisted (joined the army). He could afford to go to school to be an engineer if he saved the money from being a soldier. Sometime in the horror of war Chris gave up ââ¬Ëhope' of ever succeeding in being an engineer.As a result of ââ¬Ëlosing hope' Chris lost his ââ¬Ëmental health'.. To put it another wayâ⬠¦ As long as Chris had something to ââ¬Ëlive for'(dream to be an engineerâ⬠¦ Unrealistic or not) he could cope and deal with any adversity that came his way. Once he lost hope he became mentally paralyses: ââ¬Å"He is so passiveâ⬠. IMO as long as Chris had hopeâ⬠¦ He had something to work forâ⬠¦ He had meaning in life. Without hope he had no meaningâ⬠¦ Nothing to live forâ⬠¦ Without anything to live for Chris had a nervous breakdown and ended up spending the lest of his life in the mental hospital.
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