Cion Blog # 4

I find that these two chapters are very weird. Something about them is just different than the rest of the book. But when I say that they were weird, I don’t mean that in a bad way. The way that Orpah was so into “Ruth’s African” was very odd. She went from not liking him to almost in some aspects being in love. I find that Orpah is very odd, between her drawings, the stories that she tells her dad and the way that she pouts, is very childish and I find it to be somewhat annoying that she would act this way. I also think that the way Toloki behaves to be something that if he acted this way today he would be picked on a lot for. He does not hunt, he loves to sew and would rather spend time talking then he would doing ‘manly things’. The way that everyone is acting in these two chapters is very childish and seems like they all forgot that they were adults.

Chapters 7 and 8

This chapter cleared up a lot of my questions, but the number one being: What sort of scandalous activities might Mr. Quigley and Orpah engage in the after hours of the night? The way Toloki describes the events lead me to believe that there is role playing incest between the father and daughter. If so how could the community of Kivlert knowingly accept the atrocious actions. However, it turns out that the father is essentially entertaining Orpah by dressing up in costumes and remembering forgotten stories and tales of the Abyssinian queen and their lineage. Pheww. I think it's really cool how Orpah had a chance to perform at a Bluegrass Festival, and her dedication to the sitar welcomed other musicians to join her onstage and improvise a song that resulted in approval by the entire audience. Obed has come to fancy Beth Eddy and is persistent on establishing a casino that he even goes to Connecticut to talk to a man about starting a casino. Toloki takes up quilting and begins to become skillful, but tensions at the house arise after he sleeps with Orpah that he ends up living in an RV in the parking lot of the Center. I think it's funny how everyone treats his moving out like he's going to be far away when he's really only a few minutes away from where the Quigley's live. Everyone secretly misses Toloki moving out that the children at least constantly visit him. Ruth and Mahlon feel like Toloki was devil sent and took away their children.

Chapter 5 and 6

These chapters shed some light on several things that I had been wondering about earlier in the book. In these chapters, you begin to see some negative characteristics to characters like Ruth, who treats Orpah terribly. Also, Mda gets into the topic of slavery a little deeper by talking about white slavery and enhanced breeding methods that were used on the women.

I really enjoyed chapter 5. I felt that the conversation's that were going on about the different relationships between the characters got very interesting. At the beginning of chapter 5, I thought that it was a little slow, but after Ruth started getting mad at Oprah for her art, I really got involved in the reading. I agreed that Ruth was being unreasonable throughout this chapter, it made me change my mind about Ruth. Usually I felt Ruth was a really reasonable woman and treated everyone fairly, but after this chapter Ruth seems to me to just be self centered and not very considerate of Oprah's feelings in particular.

Chapters 5 and 6

these two chapters where really interesting to me. It allowed the reader to get more in depth on the Quigly family and to see ruth and oprahs problems. Some of the things mentioned in this chapter were kind of weird and disturbing. It was cool to learn that oprah does art in spare time and it sad that her mother does not agree with it. The reader gets to learn about the community center and how the family functions on a daily basis. In chapter 6 it flashes to when The quigly in the old days lived. He was an irishman who came to america on a boat. When we got here he was very sneaky and tried to make money as much as possible by selling women and fake potions. He had to pay the price though when he became a slave on the Fairfeild farm. The chapter ends with him making a life for himself in kilvert.

Chapter 5 and 6

Chapters 5 and 6 are helping the book come together and start to answer questions that I've had. Ruth's story never matched up with Obed's or his with hers, but the mourning of the first Quigley helped straighten out a few kinks. I did not expect to read about Orpah's and Mahlon's midnight adventures through the discovery of Toloki while playing with himself behind bushes. I feel that answers are yet to be given about how the community feels about their games. I thought it was interesting to read how the first Quigley goes from slave owner to slave. However, I thought the twist came when he met up with Abednego and together tracked Tobias. These two chapters were the most un-expecting.

chap 5&6

I think that it is interestng how ruth seems to not be satidfied with her children. she is eithe mad at orpah for not carrying on the traditional quilt designs or mad at obed for his wrongdoings. i think that its harder for people that are in their position to be satisfied. Their whole life they have seemed to be looked down apon. when i was a kid and young adult i was never looked down apon. i think that their cultrue is different than ours though. i still am having a hard time fallowing this book. it jumps around alot and i still dont like it very much.