Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Human Snowball
In the beginning it starts off like he's trying to win over a girl but then he just ends up meeting a bunch of people. Which is ironic because he starts off alone and then all of these add ons of people much like a snowball effect, drifting him from his "main" goal which was seeing his girlfriend. Throughout the story he meets an thief, a Chinese family, a 110 year old man and his great-granddaughter. This was an experience that as a reader we can tell was not part of his plans at all. They all in some way had a connection with one and other despite how diverse they really are. They all helped each other. The relationship that Davy and Vernon had reminded me much of a father and son, like he had a huge soft spot for him and he was very open with telling him his situation with Lauren and Vernon then shared a similar story with him. As for Chris, its so funny because he's doomed all of these things because he's an ex-con but he's very honest with the cop. But back to the name Human Snowball, it makes sense just because they were all together at one moment then everything happened so fast, from Davy loosing Lauren to Vernon dying.
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