Response to my blog

       I’m glad that we are able to comment on our own blog because I post my blog and I have many questions about the reading.  There are times when I feel I have posted so far off the topic of what the story is about and then when we are in class having a discussion I feel a little better but now know how to answer my questions or would like to elaborate on my blog. 

        After class I can now say that I do believe the grasshoppers represent people.  Scott asks do I see any connection between the way the hoppers are used in the story and how an infantry man in WWI might feel?  I do, I would say the back grasshoppers represent the time when he is in the war.  It is not the same, things have changed and now he is in a war filled with destruction and change, just like the grasshoppers.  When he gets to his camping spot the river is beautiful and the view is amazing.  Nick says, “They were good grasshoppers.”  Is he saying the men he served with were good as well or are the grasshoppers that were black, represent the time when he was in the war and the green ones are like his present life? 

          I could be way off but when Nick finds hundreds of hoppers by a log is that a reminder when the troops were under attack and there was nothing they could do?    

          There is a time when Nick takes the grasshoppers and uses them for fishing and it is very descriptive about how he gets them on the hook.   Again is this talking about the war, after the war, or his life now?  I said earlier that I believe the green grasshoppers represent his life in the land of beauty but as they are talked about more in the story I believe them to have more to do with the war more and more.  I believe they are him and the people he served with while in the war and just like the grasshoppers life was not always easy and death was all around.