David Lurie. Integrity???

In the book Disgrace, I got a little irrated with the professor David Lurie.  It was rather interesting how he was arguing with the people that are trying to help him and save his job.  The people of the committee were just trying to get him to say that he did something wrong in order to move on from his charges.  But David never fully associated himself with what he did wrong and was not sorry for it.

He told the committee that he learned something and that Melanie had impacted his life, rather than just being a mistake.  It was like he thought there was nothing wrong with a 52 almost 53 year old man going after a  20 college student.  That was in his class.  There was alsso the fact that he had made up her grades and signed her in the classes that she missed.  Talk about academic integrity.

#8. Sunday October 4

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The book does need some getting used to, because of the fact that the languages switch from English to Spanish so frequently.  A spanish course/dictionary is needed in order to figure out what some of the words mean.

While starting the book, we see that Oscar is compared to a model and is very suave with the ladies.  However, he does not have a male role model in his life. “It wasn’t just that he didn’t have no kind of father to show him the masculine ropes, he simply lacked all aggressive and martial tendencies.  (Unlike his sister, who fought boys and packs of morena girls who hated her thin nose and straightish hair)” (Diaz 15).  Why id it that Oscar’s sister knows how to fight and Oscar doesn’t?  Is there a difference in the cultural child rearing for both males and females?

I though that it was interesting when Oscar was dumped by Maritza and could only think of his pain, after he dumped Olga, and was dating both of the girls at the same time and wanted them to share.