Dec.+5+-+summary+of+PART+ONE+of+Kavalier+and+Clay+-+Skippy

Chapter 3: Who ended up saving Josepf during his failed escapist act? - Kornblum. It says in the book that kornblum saved him. Pg.37 Page 52 “the most beautiful suits I ever saw belonged to a giant” - Josef’s dad was a doctor. - He had a giant as a patient that he had - It belonged to a giant. - Take the suit, put it on the Golem - Place in coffin like a dead guy - That way, he’s wearing clothes as he’s dead he looks like he’s not jewish as jews can’t be buried with clothes. How did the golem help Joe escape? - When kornblum makes the coffin, he nails the bottom part shut, with the top part on hinges so you can open it and look at the face. Joe is hiding at the lower part and since the Golem is so tall, Joe has space. He is in there for two days. He gets out because the nails are cut short, so he just kicks open coffin. From Lithuania he heads to Japan, and from japan he goes to San Fransisco. Then he calls his aunt to wire him some money. Takes the bus and goes to Brooklyn.
 * o Josef puts himself in the bag with chains
 * o Thomas pushs him into the water
 * o Each part of the trick went wrong. Each part. Ropes got tighter
 * o Thomas gets scared and runs for help
 * o As he’s running, he decides to go back and help.
 * o In the meantime, Josef has escaped. He hears Thomas jump into the water thinking that Josef is still there.
 * o Now both Thomas and Josef are drowning
 * o Kornblum to the rescue. Saves both of them. --- He works with a price. When he escaped from the water, Thomas went in and got sick. He lost hearing in one ear and never recovered. This happens again, when he escapes from Czechoslovakia . He gets to go, but his family has to stay.

There is the Idea of being disappointed with reality quite often. An example is when Joe wants to go to the Hofzingher club. He imagines that its brilliant but its really not that great.

Page 37 - Kornblum thinks that joe is “Trapped” and needs to commit suicide to get away. Just something that we talked about in class.