Monday, April 16, 2007

Dharma Bums p.150-170

"There just isn't any kind of night's sleep in the world that can compare with the night's sleep you get in the desert winter night, providing you're good and warm in a duck-down bag.”

When I read this quote, I reflected about Ray at the beginning of the novel. He was only starting to live in peace with nature and he was actually very afraid of it. I also thought about the mountain climb that he did with Japhy were he was terrorized by the size. He learned by experience and that is the major element I wanted to get out of this blog.

For this second blog..I don’t really have a quote. I just want to point out that in this part of the novel, Ray seems a lot stronger and way more convinced of his opinions. He doesn’t follow Gatsby anymore like he did at the beginning of the novel. He has his own belief and is perfectly peaceful with them.

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