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March 27, 2006
O'Conner "A Late Encounter
O'Connor, ''A Late Encounter with the Enemy'' -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"General Sash a hundred and four years old. Granddaughter 62". If it took me 20 years to finish school I would forget it. She wanted her grandfather to attend her graduation and the only thing he cared about was the attention on stage. General Sash did not want to go to the graduation because he knew before hand that it would remind him of his past and he was trying to forget it. "He felt that he was running backwards and the words were coming at him like musket fire, just escaping him but getting nearer and nearer(165). He attended her graduation and then died. O'Connor did set us up for this but it is still very disturbing that General Sash was out in the hot sun sitting. Get real someone who is a 104 years old that would just be like putting a baby in those temperatures no wonder he died. The main jist is that Mr.Sash did not want to think about the past and then at the end of his life he did face it and died.
Posted by LisaRandolph at March 27, 2006 10:35 AM
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I could not believe that It took her 20 years to finish school, more or less because she was taking care of General Sash who was 104 i could not imagine taking care of someone who is that old and stuck in his ways...we would have had it out long ago. But then he passed away, well he was old enough to die he did live a life full of many things.
Posted by: Melissa Lupari at March 27, 2006 12:50 PM
Twenty years is an unimaginable amount of time to spend in college. But I'd like to think that I would be too stubborn to give it up, because after all that time and effort (and money) I'd want to have SOMETHING to show for it. I think Sally's the same way. SHe keeps going for the degree because she can't stand to admit publicly that the twenty years were a total waste of life.
Posted by: Megan Ritter at March 30, 2006 3:20 AM