viernes, 9 de agosto de 2013

Alcoholic Memoirs

1st Part:

A. Sympathy; B. Seasoned; C. Stagger; D. Dipsomaniac; E. Numbly; F. Vision; G. Babble
H. Universe; I. Pathway; J. Clear


2nd part:

(a) Jack London is writing about a kind of drinker with strange characteristics, called John Barleycorn.

(b) The word is excessivist

(c) Like a stupid and unimaginative man, with a numbly walk, who falls frequently, who sees strange things, such as pink elephants, when he is totally drunken.

(d) He is different in the way that the imaginative drinker is drunken, but only his brain, not his body. Then, the imaginative one does not fall, does not bubble and does not stagger.

(e) The only truth for him is death, he only knows he will dead.

(f) It is written in that way to put enphasis in the idea.

(g) That he is mortal, he knows he is going to die.

(h) Bad days, with pessimistics ideas on his mind.

(i) The price for the imaginative drinker is hard to him. He sees a cruel side of life, with a dark sight and a depressed mind. Its ideas are bad when they must be good, for him, life is a cheat. However, it is not all, also he seems to only take in the worst sides of people. Finally and the most important thing, the imaginative drinker pays his price in the way that he knows and realices that he may anticipate the day of his dead.

(j) Meagreness.