What is the slice of pizza on pages 42-43?
The slice of pizza proves to be a significant part of this story because it symbolizes that the lady has a mental illness. When Carrier is interviewing this woman he looks around the room and "two feet away from the light, near the television, a slice of pizza is lying upside down in the carpet" (42). While interviewing her, she does not show any signs that she may be harboring any mental instabilities. This one slice of pizza is the only sign to continue on and ask the questions from the test. Any mentally stable person would haves picked up the spilled food up immediately. By noticing this slice of pizza, Carrier is able to uncover that the women is harboring extreme mental illness, because she tells him she is sleeping with Archangels.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
10 Questions on "Test" from Running After The Antelope by Scott Carrier.
1. Why does Carrier use the grotesque to convey that the patients and his self have possibly mental disabilities?
2.How does Carrier use irony to show that he, himself, may harbor some mental instabilities?
3. How does the use of imagery help convince the reader that the patient has some case of a mental disability?
4. What does the pizza symbolize? how is it significant?
5.What is the significance of the woman having a sexual relation with archangel Gabriel and Michael?
6. Why was the prostitute seeing zombies and and smelling dead boys behind the hospital? is this a bigger connection to her mental illness, possibly death itself?
7. What is the significance of Carrier's wife and kids leaving him?
8. Do all of the patients cases have a symbolic link to Carrier's own life?
9. What is the man trying to see through his crystal? could this be his coping mechanism to his mental disabilities?
10. Why does Carrier feel that the Navajo teen is trying to torture him?
2.How does Carrier use irony to show that he, himself, may harbor some mental instabilities?
3. How does the use of imagery help convince the reader that the patient has some case of a mental disability?
4. What does the pizza symbolize? how is it significant?
5.What is the significance of the woman having a sexual relation with archangel Gabriel and Michael?
6. Why was the prostitute seeing zombies and and smelling dead boys behind the hospital? is this a bigger connection to her mental illness, possibly death itself?
7. What is the significance of Carrier's wife and kids leaving him?
8. Do all of the patients cases have a symbolic link to Carrier's own life?
9. What is the man trying to see through his crystal? could this be his coping mechanism to his mental disabilities?
10. Why does Carrier feel that the Navajo teen is trying to torture him?
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Full Moon
as i stand in my front lawn gazing at the moon, i see the face, and i see the lights of the stars. and i start to contemplate on how the moon and stars would be brighter if i was in a more rural and less polluted area. as i am thinking of different locations that i wish i was, i see a moving light, a shooting star! then i notice the red and blue blinking lights and remember i live right by the airport...oh sometimes the irony of industrialization. haha!
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