Comments by Sean Reeder Most recent public comments by Sean Reeder https://nowcomment.com/users/13072 Could her most wonderful dream been her planned suicide? https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=331360 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=331360 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:55 -0500 The bizarreness of these small, thoughtful actions seems to illustrate the difficulties of going through mental illness. https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=331359 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25279?scroll_to=331359 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:49:07 -0400 The sentence could simply read "Her parents were in China most of the time" and still convey the same information, but it would feel very different. The use of posing a rhetorical question that is followed by its answer subtly shakes things up. https://nowcomment.com/documents/25280?scroll_to=327340 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25280?scroll_to=327340 The reader most likely has this question already posed from the start and its appearance here, as a question, feels familiar and natural. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:46 -0500 After reading the entire piece, the use of quotation marks around "remembering" seems to be due to Sontag's natural inclination to dramatize. Her remembrance of the event might be tinged with fiction as it was her nature to be imaginative. https://nowcomment.com/documents/25280?scroll_to=327336 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25280?scroll_to=327336 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:45 -0500 This really exemplifies the tongue-in-cheek, dry humor the British are famous for and the Americans do not always understand. https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323533 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323533 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:41 -0500 Asking the reader to "use their imagination" allows one to draw their own conclusions and personalize the imagery versus having everything described. In a sense, it allows the imagery to almost be more vivid. https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323532 https://nowcomment.com/documents/25283?scroll_to=323532 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:40 -0500 To me, it feels as though Ishmael is looking for meaning in life. He feels purposeless and as someone else said, bored. The sea might not have the answers he seeks, but at least it gives him solace. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321550 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30622?scroll_to=321550 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:33 -0500