Look up the word "alienate". Alienation can take many forms and have many causes, as one can detect in chapters 18-19. The young people in these chapters all experience this special loneliness under different circumstances and to different degrees, but for each, the feeling is very real, whether self-imposed or caused by others.
How does Ruth exemplify alienation? What results from her solitude? Which of the meanings of the word alienate best fits her? Why?
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The word 'alienation' means to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed. She wears dark colors such black. Her form of alienation is indifferent.
ReplyDeleteRuth ends up taking long walks through the city, but instead of seeing the city her memories of the cornfeild or her father standing infort of shattered molding. she also goes into wearing the morning color black.
ReplyDeleteJarrett: I need more than this. How does black symbolize alienation? Where are you examples? You must comment on the Milestone blog post, too.
ReplyDeleteRuth exemplifys alienation.Ruth dresses in all black and she i very different than other people.Ruth has many fans in heaven she also wrights small parayers in her journal and the deaths of others wanted to know if Ruth had found out where they been murdered. Also, Ruth gets these images and she would brand it into her memory.
ReplyDeleteRuth's alienation started even before Susie's death but as a gifted mind in solitude. When she is touched by Susie it is a disturbed human being and she is on the verge of it becoming a positive or negative outcome. In chapter 18, "she no longer looked haunted, as she had in high school, but still, if you looked closely at her eyes you could see the skittery rabbit energy that often made people nervous. She had an expression of someone who was constantly on the lookout for something or someone that hadn't yet arrived." The outcome of her experience was positive. The alienation that she allowed herself to go through i think is defined as on dictionary.com is, "the state of being withdrawn or isolated from the objective world, as through indifference or disaffection" She did it to herself.
ReplyDeleteThe best defintion of alienation that describes Ruth is she is socially disoriented. Ruth tends to keep to herself, she doesn't have many people to talk too."I think Ruth is making friends at school...Maybe there's hope for her yet."[pg.40] Ruth being the person she is lets her see the world differently from others. By wearing black clothes and keeping to herself, people outcast Ruth as a odd person, but really she is person who cares about the dead.
ReplyDeletei agree,Also the images in her head were branded in her mind and she could feel and see things that other people cant .
ReplyDeleteAnother part that stuck out in my mind was when she smoked pot in the shed. That was another like red flag of social and self alienation.
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