Chapter 4, Section 6 continued.
62. Pavel was only pretending to be asleep. He got up, dressed, went out, walked to the railway crossing and sat down on an overturned boat.
63. He ponders his relationship with Lara and wonders about the motives each has in the marriage.
64. He tries to think his way out of this dilemma when a train rushes past going westward.
65. He has decided what to do so he returns home and goes to bed.
Section 7
66. Lara thinks his dicision to join the military is a whim that he will forget.
67. Pasha sends in his papers and is admitted to the military academy at Omsk.
68. Lara begs him to reconsider, accuses him of being jealous of Rodia and of wishing to strut around in a uniform.
69. Lara asks what has changed him.
70. Lara realizes that Pasha has misunderstood her attitude toward him. He is rebelling against her motherly feelings toward him and that such feelings were more, not less than the ordinary love of a woman for a man.
71. Lara becomes abstracted owing to Pasha's absence
72. Pasha is commissoned lieutenant and sent to the front.
73. Bursilov's forces advance and then are forced to dig in.
74. Pasha's letters stop coming.
75. At first, Lara attributes the lack of letters to enforced military silence.
76. Lara begins to worry and makes inquiries about Pasha's failure to send letters.
77. Lara had been giving a hand at the military ward at the local hospital get a leave of absence from her school job and studies to be a nurse.
78. She takes a position on military train going to Mezo-Laborch on the Hungarian Front, the place she last got a letter from Pasha.
Section 8: We meet Misha Gordon again.
79. Misha is onboard a Red Cross train taking aid to the wounded at the front Misha is in a first class coach filled with upper-crust people bringing presents to the soldiers.
80. Misha hopes to find his friend, Dr. Zhivago who was attached to the divisional hospital at a near-by village.
81. Misha get off the train to take a carriage going to the village where the divisional hospital was.
82. Owing to the spy-scare, the non-Russian driver professes his loyalty to Russia so that Misha does not engage him in conversation.
83. At the local militiary headquarters, Misha is told that the village where Dr. Zhivago is is fifteen miles distant, but it is more like fifty miles.
84. Misha hears and observes the sounds and the glow of exploding artillery shells on the horizon.
85. Misha passes ruined villages with old women digging through the ruins for valuables
86. After dark, the carriage is ordered off the main roads.
87. The driver, not knowing the back roads, drives around in circles.
88. They find a village with the right name, but unfortunately there are two villages with the same name.
89. After some time, they find the right village.
90. Misha decides to spend the day with Dr. Zhivago and return to the railway station in the evening. Circumstances; however, force him to remain more than a week.
Chapter 4, Section 9 Information on the supposed fate of Pasha
91. Galiullin, watching through field glasses, assumes that Pasha is killed while leading an attiack.
92. Sixteen inch shell from German artillery pieces burst in front of Pasha and his men.
92. Pasha has actually been taken prisoner.
93. Galiullin, who shares a dugout with Pasha takes charge of his belongings and does not know that Pasha is a prisoner.
94. Galiullin, an enlisted man, has bee promoted to lieutena is the son of Gimazetdin, the janitor of Tiverzin's apartment building. He is the Yusupka that Khudoleiev had beaten up. Now he has his promotion because of his old tormentor.
HABAI ITA SWE!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Dr. Zhivago, Chapter 4, Section 4
This is a continuation of yesterday's blog:
Section 4:
22. Lara and Pasha graduate with great grades and are offered jobs at the same town in the Ural Mountains.
23. Their friends arrange a fairwell party attended by young people; it becomes boisterous.
24. Lara had packed their things for the trip.
25. Komarovsky had been allowed to join the young peoples's party. How could Pasha allow this if Lara had confessed all?
26. Komarovsky waxes sentimental begins to sob about losing two young friends going off to a place something like the Sahara Desert.
27. Komarovsky asks permission to write to them. Lare jumps in to say that would be quite unnecessary and that Komarovsky should not even think of visiting. Does she fear falling into Komarovsky's clutches again? Why does she hurry off to the kitchen?
28. Lara looks out the window of the kitchen and in her imagination is transported to some wonderful remote village.
29. The doorbell rings. It is Nadia bringing best wishes from the people at Duplynaka.
30. Nadia gives Lara a beautiful necklace which a slightly sobered guest says is pink hyacinth and and as valuable as diamonds.
31. Nadia says the stones are yellow sapphires.
32. Lara insists that Nadia join the party. The guests who have sobered up start drinking again and get Nadia tipsy, as well.
33. While everyone is asleep in an alcoholic stupor, a burgler comes in to take advantage of the situation. Lara awakens but cannot shout so she knees Ira in the stomach. Ira yelps, the burgler drops everything and flees. Some of the men try to follow him but he escapes.
34. Lara makes coffee for all, sees them out the door, and finishes packing. Pasha and Lara make the train on time and their friends see them off.
Section 5: (Back to Yura, Yurii Andreievich)
35. The Russian army is in general retreat.
36. Yurii has brought Tonia, his wife, to the gynecological section (maternity ward) of the hospital and waits to speak to the midwife to make arrangements for them to contact each other about Tonia.
37. Discription of Yurii's impression of an autumn rain storm.
38. Moscow's hospitals are overcrowded especially after the battle of Lutsk. The overcrowing is beginning to affect the women's wards. Will this be a problem for Tonia's pregnancy?
39. The head gynecologist passes Yurii in the corridor but gives no indication on Tonia's condition.
40. The head gynecologist's assistant suggests that Yurii go home even though Tonia's pelvis is small and the baby is in occipito-posterior position.
41. When Yurii phones the next day, a hospital porter tells him she is not ready to give birth and should be taken home. Yurii keeps her in the hospital.
42. On the thrird day the labor pain begin and her water breaks.
43. When Yurii arrives at the hospital, Tonia's screams sound like those of people caught under the wheels of a moving train.
44. Yurii is not allowed to see his wife. Tonia; however, is safe and the baby boy is fine.
45. Yurii has trouble processing this information. The idea of fatherhood is not in the forefront of his thoughts as he focuses on the survival of Tonia. Is this normal for a new father? Why or Why not?
46. The head gynecologist stops Yurii from rushing into Tonia's room. He tells Yurii that she has lost a lot of blood and there is a chance of sepsis (blood poisoning) and psychological shock,
47. Yurii is allowed to look into the room through the partly open door.
48. Pasternak uses a ship metaphor to say that Tonia has brought a new soul into port
49. In the staff room, known as the Rubbish Dump, the prosector (person who prepares bodies for anatomical demonstrations) congratulates Yurii on his diagnosis on a previous case in which Yurii successfully identified the pathogen as echinococcus.
50. Just then the medical director come into the staff room, comments on the state of the Rubbish Dump, and announces that the government authorities have been reviewing the lists of exemptions for medical military service. That means there are not enough medical personnel at the war front. He indicates Yurii will be smelling gunpowder before long.
Section 6: (Back to the Antipovs, Lara and Pasha are now in Yuriatin)
51. The Antipovs do better in Yuriatin than they had expected to because the locals remember the Guishar family in a good light.
52. Lara has her hands full taking care of the house, their daughter (Katenka), and her job at the girls' gymnasium (secondary school). The maid, Marfutka, cannot get all the housework done so Lara must help her, as well.
53. Yuriatin located on the river Rynva meets the approach of winter by bringing the river boats out of the river and placing them in the yards of the homes to await the return of spring when the river is navigable once again. Such a boat was located on the grounds of the house rented by the Antivpovs. Katenka played under the upturned hull as a summer house.
54. Lara and Pavel have different attitudes toward the people of Yuriatin. She likes their dialect and their naive trustfulness, whereas Pavel turns out to be a city boy and views the locals as crude and ignorant.
55.Pavel becomes well read and even come to believe that Lara and his fellow teachers are not well-informed.
56. Pavel complains he feels stifled among his fellow teachers and feels their strong patriotism is out of tune with his own.
57.Pavel had been a classics student and now teaches Latin and ancient history, but his interest in the exact sciences is reasserting itself. He studies on his own and dreams of moving to Petersburg and taking a position in some branch of Mathematics.
58. His after-hours studying begins to impinge upon his physical health.
59. Pavel's relations with Lara become more complicated.
60. One night, after a get-together, Pavel sees their guests as complete fools; he is amazed at Lara's amiability toward them and cannot believe that she likes any of them.
61. It appears that Lara does not perceive Pavels feelings toward the locals.
Section 4:
22. Lara and Pasha graduate with great grades and are offered jobs at the same town in the Ural Mountains.
23. Their friends arrange a fairwell party attended by young people; it becomes boisterous.
24. Lara had packed their things for the trip.
25. Komarovsky had been allowed to join the young peoples's party. How could Pasha allow this if Lara had confessed all?
26. Komarovsky waxes sentimental begins to sob about losing two young friends going off to a place something like the Sahara Desert.
27. Komarovsky asks permission to write to them. Lare jumps in to say that would be quite unnecessary and that Komarovsky should not even think of visiting. Does she fear falling into Komarovsky's clutches again? Why does she hurry off to the kitchen?
28. Lara looks out the window of the kitchen and in her imagination is transported to some wonderful remote village.
29. The doorbell rings. It is Nadia bringing best wishes from the people at Duplynaka.
30. Nadia gives Lara a beautiful necklace which a slightly sobered guest says is pink hyacinth and and as valuable as diamonds.
31. Nadia says the stones are yellow sapphires.
32. Lara insists that Nadia join the party. The guests who have sobered up start drinking again and get Nadia tipsy, as well.
33. While everyone is asleep in an alcoholic stupor, a burgler comes in to take advantage of the situation. Lara awakens but cannot shout so she knees Ira in the stomach. Ira yelps, the burgler drops everything and flees. Some of the men try to follow him but he escapes.
34. Lara makes coffee for all, sees them out the door, and finishes packing. Pasha and Lara make the train on time and their friends see them off.
Section 5: (Back to Yura, Yurii Andreievich)
35. The Russian army is in general retreat.
36. Yurii has brought Tonia, his wife, to the gynecological section (maternity ward) of the hospital and waits to speak to the midwife to make arrangements for them to contact each other about Tonia.
37. Discription of Yurii's impression of an autumn rain storm.
38. Moscow's hospitals are overcrowded especially after the battle of Lutsk. The overcrowing is beginning to affect the women's wards. Will this be a problem for Tonia's pregnancy?
39. The head gynecologist passes Yurii in the corridor but gives no indication on Tonia's condition.
40. The head gynecologist's assistant suggests that Yurii go home even though Tonia's pelvis is small and the baby is in occipito-posterior position.
41. When Yurii phones the next day, a hospital porter tells him she is not ready to give birth and should be taken home. Yurii keeps her in the hospital.
42. On the thrird day the labor pain begin and her water breaks.
43. When Yurii arrives at the hospital, Tonia's screams sound like those of people caught under the wheels of a moving train.
44. Yurii is not allowed to see his wife. Tonia; however, is safe and the baby boy is fine.
45. Yurii has trouble processing this information. The idea of fatherhood is not in the forefront of his thoughts as he focuses on the survival of Tonia. Is this normal for a new father? Why or Why not?
46. The head gynecologist stops Yurii from rushing into Tonia's room. He tells Yurii that she has lost a lot of blood and there is a chance of sepsis (blood poisoning) and psychological shock,
47. Yurii is allowed to look into the room through the partly open door.
48. Pasternak uses a ship metaphor to say that Tonia has brought a new soul into port
49. In the staff room, known as the Rubbish Dump, the prosector (person who prepares bodies for anatomical demonstrations) congratulates Yurii on his diagnosis on a previous case in which Yurii successfully identified the pathogen as echinococcus.
50. Just then the medical director come into the staff room, comments on the state of the Rubbish Dump, and announces that the government authorities have been reviewing the lists of exemptions for medical military service. That means there are not enough medical personnel at the war front. He indicates Yurii will be smelling gunpowder before long.
Section 6: (Back to the Antipovs, Lara and Pasha are now in Yuriatin)
51. The Antipovs do better in Yuriatin than they had expected to because the locals remember the Guishar family in a good light.
52. Lara has her hands full taking care of the house, their daughter (Katenka), and her job at the girls' gymnasium (secondary school). The maid, Marfutka, cannot get all the housework done so Lara must help her, as well.
53. Yuriatin located on the river Rynva meets the approach of winter by bringing the river boats out of the river and placing them in the yards of the homes to await the return of spring when the river is navigable once again. Such a boat was located on the grounds of the house rented by the Antivpovs. Katenka played under the upturned hull as a summer house.
54. Lara and Pavel have different attitudes toward the people of Yuriatin. She likes their dialect and their naive trustfulness, whereas Pavel turns out to be a city boy and views the locals as crude and ignorant.
55.Pavel becomes well read and even come to believe that Lara and his fellow teachers are not well-informed.
56. Pavel complains he feels stifled among his fellow teachers and feels their strong patriotism is out of tune with his own.
57.Pavel had been a classics student and now teaches Latin and ancient history, but his interest in the exact sciences is reasserting itself. He studies on his own and dreams of moving to Petersburg and taking a position in some branch of Mathematics.
58. His after-hours studying begins to impinge upon his physical health.
59. Pavel's relations with Lara become more complicated.
60. One night, after a get-together, Pavel sees their guests as complete fools; he is amazed at Lara's amiability toward them and cannot believe that she likes any of them.
61. It appears that Lara does not perceive Pavels feelings toward the locals.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Dr. Zhivago Chapter 4
Dear students,
I shall try to preview our sessions by posting on this blog. I have used this medium in the past to communicate the talking points with the team. We have concluded that sentence by sentence exegesis is not possible with this text.
My plan is to touch on the events and character development. Please feel free to bring up topics that you feel we should discuss.
I shall identify areas of discussion by chapter and section nunber.
Chapter 4, Section 1:
1. Komarovsky, a powerful lawyer, does what is necessary to keep Lara from being prosecuted for the shooting. He places Lara in the home of Ruffina Onissimovna Voit-Voitkovsky.
2. Lara's diagnosis is brain fever. She is in a semi-conscious state. Does this equate to todoy's defense strategy of temporary insanity?.
Section 2:
3. Although Ruffina is a lady of advanced views, she takes an immediate dislike to Lara and sees her as a malingerer. Does this mean that Lara is faking it?
4. Rufina makes as much noise as she can and keeps the windows open even though it is winter.
5. As she lies in bed, she recalls her memories since her arrival in Moscow.
6. Komarovsky continues to support Lara, but does not visit.
7. Lara is pleased by Kologrivov's visit because of his vtiality.
8. Kologrivov treats Lara as a child. Why does she not react negativly to such treatmen?
9. Kologrivov tries to get her to move to the flat of a friend. He give Lara a check for 10,000 rubles.
10. When Lara recovers, she moves to the suggested flat.
Section 3:
11. Lara worries about not seeing Pasha: What can he be expected to think? Lara had tried to kill a man whom Pasha saw as merely an acquaintance of Lara's. Now that man is protecting her and allowing her to continue her studies.
12. Lara sends for Pasha to tell him she is a bad woman but cannot explain because she cannot stop crying.
13. Ruffina (Voitkovskaia) while Lara was still living with her would meet Pasha in the corridor and seeing his tear-stained face, would rush off to her room and collapse on her sofa laughing herself sick. She deems Pasha a "hero" sarcastically.
14. Lara tries to break off their relationship. Pasha suspects her of every deadly sin but loves her to distraction. To avoid going insane, they decide to marry immediately, even before graduation.
15. They were married on Whit Monday after they had passed their examinations.
16. The wedding arrangements were made by Liudmila Kapitonovna Chepurko, the mother of Lara's classmate, Tusia. Liudmila is a woman of many superstitions some of which she, herself, invented.
17. The day of the wedding was 'terribly" hot, but it was a great day for weddings and eveyone was excited.
18. The customs and traditions of Russian weddings were observed. .
19. At the wedding breakfast, the couple and the guests continued the traditions.
20. Lara confesses all in their wedding bed. Pasha's spirit hurtles down a void and his imagination could not keep up with her revelationss.
21. Lara and Pasha talk until morning. Pasha gets up in the morning almost astonished that he was still called Pasha Antipov.
I shall try to preview our sessions by posting on this blog. I have used this medium in the past to communicate the talking points with the team. We have concluded that sentence by sentence exegesis is not possible with this text.
My plan is to touch on the events and character development. Please feel free to bring up topics that you feel we should discuss.
I shall identify areas of discussion by chapter and section nunber.
Chapter 4, Section 1:
1. Komarovsky, a powerful lawyer, does what is necessary to keep Lara from being prosecuted for the shooting. He places Lara in the home of Ruffina Onissimovna Voit-Voitkovsky.
2. Lara's diagnosis is brain fever. She is in a semi-conscious state. Does this equate to todoy's defense strategy of temporary insanity?.
Section 2:
3. Although Ruffina is a lady of advanced views, she takes an immediate dislike to Lara and sees her as a malingerer. Does this mean that Lara is faking it?
4. Rufina makes as much noise as she can and keeps the windows open even though it is winter.
5. As she lies in bed, she recalls her memories since her arrival in Moscow.
6. Komarovsky continues to support Lara, but does not visit.
7. Lara is pleased by Kologrivov's visit because of his vtiality.
8. Kologrivov treats Lara as a child. Why does she not react negativly to such treatmen?
9. Kologrivov tries to get her to move to the flat of a friend. He give Lara a check for 10,000 rubles.
10. When Lara recovers, she moves to the suggested flat.
Section 3:
11. Lara worries about not seeing Pasha: What can he be expected to think? Lara had tried to kill a man whom Pasha saw as merely an acquaintance of Lara's. Now that man is protecting her and allowing her to continue her studies.
12. Lara sends for Pasha to tell him she is a bad woman but cannot explain because she cannot stop crying.
13. Ruffina (Voitkovskaia) while Lara was still living with her would meet Pasha in the corridor and seeing his tear-stained face, would rush off to her room and collapse on her sofa laughing herself sick. She deems Pasha a "hero" sarcastically.
14. Lara tries to break off their relationship. Pasha suspects her of every deadly sin but loves her to distraction. To avoid going insane, they decide to marry immediately, even before graduation.
15. They were married on Whit Monday after they had passed their examinations.
16. The wedding arrangements were made by Liudmila Kapitonovna Chepurko, the mother of Lara's classmate, Tusia. Liudmila is a woman of many superstitions some of which she, herself, invented.
17. The day of the wedding was 'terribly" hot, but it was a great day for weddings and eveyone was excited.
18. The customs and traditions of Russian weddings were observed. .
19. At the wedding breakfast, the couple and the guests continued the traditions.
20. Lara confesses all in their wedding bed. Pasha's spirit hurtles down a void and his imagination could not keep up with her revelationss.
21. Lara and Pasha talk until morning. Pasha gets up in the morning almost astonished that he was still called Pasha Antipov.
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