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 * 1/26/12 Scribe Post **


 * Today in Class we discussed Chapter V of Kavalier and Clay **
 * Dog Town is a tunnel **


 * Confusions **
 * In the Antarctic **
 * . They built tunnels, and the dogs were in the tunnels. Joe sleeps with the dogs, and everyone else sleeps up in the bunks. They have a nice stove, and the stove gets frozen over and it will not open. [|Carbon Monoxide] (odorless) begins to build up and it begins to kill everyone in the waldalf then slowly makes its way down into dog town. All the dogs die, but Oyster does’nt. **


 * Shannon House was in the Hanger. Hanger has its own seperate ventilation system. **
 * Reason why Joe went to Antartica **
 * Liv: He goes to Antarctica to try and forget about Rosa and the death of his brother. **
 * Mr.Neal: The irony about Joes experience in he tries to escape all his problems at home, but **
 * ends up alone in Antarctica when all everyone dies. **
 * Eddie: (Chabon 37) Joe is trapped inside something mentally, but he can not escape it. **
 * (Chabon 467-468) **
 * Chabons use of __Point of View__ **
 * - Third person omission for K&C - outside intelligence telling the story, but able to see everything **
 * going on during the story. Aside the person is able to go inside everyone’s head. **
 * New point of view coming from a German Meteorologist. **
 *  - Irony: He goes in the army to kill himself and ends up in Antarctica. He realizes when he is **
 * about **
 * In line with text | Fixed position **


 * Shannon House was in the Hanger. Hanger has its own seperate ventilation system. **


 * -Joe is on Morphine:a broken ankle and has been shot. **
 * - __Shooting up Morphine as a new form of escape for Joe__ **
 * August 19, 1977 **
 * - Germans were not in Antarctica during world war II, tries to make fantasy things that never really happened seem that they are true. **


 * Symbol: Houdini symbol reminds him of Thomas. **
 * Joes leaves the picture that Thoms gave him in Antartica. Why? **


 * Leah: May be a sign of Closer. **
 * Peter: Realizes that Thomas is not coming back, and he needs to move on. **
 * Alexia: Hurts to much to keep the picture: **
 * Annalin: Is the end of his wild optimism. **


 * Why did he end the chapter with this symbolism? **


 * Eddie: We see history in such limited lenses. **
 * Peter: High light the passage of time. There is this amazing history that can be preserved. **
 * Mr.Neal: There is so much that we see, but we dont understand **


 * (Chabon 465) **


 * “In seeking revenge, he allied himself with the Ice.....) **


 * Comparison between Antarctica's Landscape and Death. **
 * It crushes Joe because he know realizes that he has aligned himself with death. **


 * Every human life is important and wonderful. **


 * Peter: Joe has aligned himself with the Holocaust **


 * Eddie makes comparison to Harry Potter **


 * (Chabon 464) **


 * “A gregarious man, had nearly died of solitude in the last month and now a boy had fallen out of the sky....) **


 * Irony **


 * Quinn: Joe undergoes and epiphany once he shoots the German. **
 * Karen: They both could have been friends. **


 * “A chine tuned to C-sharp sounded in his ear...” **


 * Mr.Neal: This is an anti -climatic moment. The irony is that the gunshot is nothing but a little note, and this big moment of revenge is not nearly as epic as it should have been.” **


 * ( Chabon 454) **
 * Joe has been unable to sleep. **


 * “Presently he felt himself slipping towards sleep...” **


 * .Although he does not know he as a baby, something deep inside Joes subconscience that wont allow him to sleep. **


 * Joe has been trying to escape his family but he cannot. **


 * ( Chabon 430) **


 * “Just before he pitched foward, he experienced a strange vision. He saw his old magic teacher, Bernard Kornblum...” **


 * - A symbol for Kornblum, magic, and escapism. **


 * - Joes thinks he is seeing Kornblum but he saw Shannonhouse **


 * “Reserve you anxieties not for what your escaping from, but from what your escaping too” **


 * NEXT Scribe: KYLE FOX **