December 7, 2008

the diving bell and the butterfly questions 5

1. A place that i know by smell is my aunts house. the smell is something thta i cannot describe by telling someone the smell, i can only tell them that it is something that they need to smell for themself. i would think that Bauby's condition is more horrific becuase there is no cure for it, while Jean-Paul K is not perminately disformed and he could still move around rather than being confined to remain in one spot.

2. I dont think that Bauby is fond of these torturers because they annoy him

3. I think that Bauby admires Oliver because he is never a bore. he is always coming up with a new story. the connection between emotion and memory is that certain memories make us react differently than others.

4. i think that Bauby likes the song "a day in the life" because it lets him place his life in the song. i think tha humans always wait for life's crescendo because it is seen as what our life was for. i think that he places this chapter at the end of the book instead of the beginning because i think he wants us not to really know how this event happened without us first knowing him after the event.

5. Bauby savors the last week in august because it is the last of vacations. eventhough this does not affect him, he know that it affects other people, and he knows that. i think that we can learn from him that we are creatures of habit because no matter what condition we are in, we recognize vacations ending and begining, as well as holidays and years.

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