Friday, July 24, 2009

terror of Mr. White

Mr. White upon seeing Jacques for the first time, whom come to find out is a leaper, experiences a great amount of terror. Mr. White isn't just afraid of what he sees when he see's the ghostly white figure of Jacques but also smells him (the smell of death as Little White claims). Upon this dreadful sight and the fact that his mind cannot comprehend at the moment that the man is leaper although he Jacques has all human qualities of the living, little White is so baffled by what he sees that he mind cannot rationaliaze. So his imagination goes wild and despite rationality he call him a ghost and is terrified. It is funny to so little white try to convince himself rationally that the figure he sees is human but to no avail will his rational mind at the moment accept or understand that but instead continues to truly believe Jacques is a ghosts.

3 comments:

  1. While at first Little White may have imagined Jacques to be a ghost, by the time he left Poquelin house, he understood what he saw. We can tell that he comprehended that Jacques was a leaper in the way that he defends Jean instead of continuing to side with the rest of the towns folk and discriminate and hate him.

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  2. I agree that Little White was initially terrified by what he saw and smelled. After a while he connected the smell and appearance to conclude that Jacques was a leper. When Little White goes back to the company and tells them that he saw a ghost it was just a way to keep them guessing. He originally says that he won't help them make a case against Jean and then tells them he saw a ghost. That makes me think it was just a way of getting them to move on.

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  3. I know I never understood when little White actually knew Jacques was a leaper because he was so scared when he saw him outside. I guess your right he was just so confused because Jacques was rotting away and smelled terrible and everyone had said there was a ghost that he just couldn't comprehend at that moment.

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