Entry #12

Allusion-

"'You ought to dream,' Bill said. 'All our biggest business men have been dreamers. Look at Ford. Look at President Coolidge. Look at Rockefeller. Look at Jo Davidson'" (page 129).

Here, Bill incorporates many men from culture, including politics and history. I think this is an excellent allusion because all of these men had dreams and tried to fulfill these dreams. He is giving Jake advice on how to succeed and become well-known.

I think that when Bill is saying this he means two different things. He is telling Jake that he should dream as in when he is sleeping, but also that he should have dreams as in aspirations and goals in life. I think that so far it has not seemed like Jake has had many aspirations. He seems to live a lazy life that is headed nowhere. I think he needs to listen to Bill more often and try to live by what Bill tells him.

Entry #15

Allusion- "'Tim it's a war. The guy wasn't Heidi- he had a weapon, right? It's a tough thing, for sure, but you got to cut out that staring'" (page 120).

When O'Brien killed a man and then saw the same man he killed, he went into shock. He kept staring at the man and his buddy, Kiowa is trying to comfort him here. He throws in the allusion to Heidi in order to point out that the man wasn't an innocent bystander or a young child. The man was coming to kill O'Brien and the other men and he only did what he had to do, but the guilt is still too much for him.

This quote shows how truly difficult the war was on the men who were fighting it. They had to see the terror they were reaping on others and although some acted like it was no big deal, it was. They knew that it was at any moment they fired their weapons they were choosing a persons fate. These men were basically playing God, choosing who would die and who would live. The only difference was that if they didn't choose correctly, it was their own life at stake.