Blood Wedding Journal Three

1. Choose any two symbols from your list and discuss their significance.
Flower:

"A beautiful man, with life like a flower in his mouth, who goes out to the vineyards or to his own olive groves, because they are his, inherited..." (6)

• Flowers are symbolized as beauty. They bring joy, color, and life to the earth. Flowers are delicate. A person can destroy a flower with ease. This being said, Mother, has lost someone beautiful to her life. I am not sure as to who she was talking about since her husband and oldest son died, maybe she was talking about both, but I think that is the jist of it. The flower was described as being in the man's mouth. Does this mean his words were beautiful? Not himself, but his words? Or possibly it was both. He was a beautiful human being along with his speech.

"First, your father. To me, he smelled like carnations, and I enjoyed him  three short years." (6)

• He smelled like carnations. He had a sweet scent. I think this may reflect his personality. (?) Although the story does not say how he was as a person, I think the class may find out later. I think this is because Mother talks a lot about her loss.

Mountains:
"The killers, in prison, alive and well, gazing at the mountains." (7)

• Mother is grieving over her son and husbands loss. She is upset and possibly can not understand how her two precious family members have passed but there are people who have broken the law, possibly killed other human beings are "alive and well", while her family has been struck by death. The prisoners are "gazing at the mountains." I think this is because mountains are seen as glorious. They are large with areas for hiding. Mountains can be seen as a place to escape since there is not much civilization.

 2. Examine Lorca's use of the horse. I don't expect brilliant answers, but I do expect a good hypothesis with reasoning and possibly a couple of questions attached.

"I've been putting new shoes on that horse, and they keep coming off. He must be tearing them off on the rocks." (20)

"Thats what I said. But the horse was drowning in sweat." (21)

"(As she enters) Who is riding that horse so hard? He's stretched out down there, with his eyes rolling around, as if hes come from the ends of the earth." (22)

• These quotations are to show how the horse is definitely tired. This horse has been worked too hard and obviously needs rest, but the owner is pushing him to the end. The owner obviously doesn't care how the horse is feeling although it is obvious.

"His wounded hooves,
His frozen mane,
And in his eyes
A silver dagger." (26)

• This helps clarify my reasoning. The horse is injured. He is cold. He is being pushed to his limits. Being pushed can result in positive affects, but in this case, the horse has been pushed so much that the results are negative. The horse is angry and this can be noticed by the "silver dagger", "in his eyes."

• The Wife and Mother-In-Law keep saying the poem, (or whatever it is) about how the horse is upset. How he drinks but he does not want to. It seems to me that the horse is having a difficult time. In a way I believe I can relate. I know what is good for me, so I partake in events that "should" make me happier. But it does not. I feel like the horse is just drinking water because he knows he needs to stay alive. Although he does not want to. I feel as if this may connect to Bride. She seems to have two personalities. One personality is a "front" where people see her and she is in a delightful mood. Behind "closed doors" she definitely lashes out. She is being pushed to partake in events that she does not want to do. The difference between the horse and Bride is that the horse is trying to show that he is tired and does not want to go on while Bride does not want to show her emotions towards the subjects of her life.

3. Respond to at least two student's blogs.

Kevin:
I did not realize, or notice, that the horse was upset due to the mare in the hills. It would be lovely to know what page that was on. I would like to go back to the area you found that the horse was upset due to the mare in the hills. I enjoyed reading your post. Your ideas are well put together and easy to understand.