Eliza's Blog

     "Sag Harbor" contains a variety of interesting and captivating scenes, though the one most memorable to me was one one with the head pat and the freezer. The analysis from the boys accompanied with the interesting and conflicting form of revenge make for a complex and challenging scene to dissect. Here I'll explain my thought process while reading it.          To start, there's the head-patting incident. If I had read that scene from an objective 3rd party lens, I don't think I would have seen much wrong with it, though clearly the boys thought otherwise. They find demeaning connotation in the gesture, and that's a very valuable perspective. While I would have read it as a father/older brother congratulating their younger counterpart in  maybe-more-affectionate-than-was-called-for way, they read more meaning into it and clearly take serious offense, and that prompts the requirement for revenge from their perspective. I don't ha...

Looking back on this book that we've all finished, I can say that there is a very specific scene that hung in my mind long af ter we had finished reading, and that's the scene with the wallet. One question kept showing up like  John Quiñones in a midwestern  café; what would you do?          When we first read it, I think we all had a similar reaction; okay fine he gave the wallet back and that's fair enough, but maybe we'd like to see some cliché justice done here, especially since the opportunity was so perfect. I thought about it afterwards and while I still agree with that, I'm not sure that Jason being Jason had any other choice in that moment.          We know that Jason isn't a bad kid. I mean that in every possible sense. I think he's generally well behaved, I think he has a working moral compass, I think he has a lot of depth as an individual. While the bullying (I hesitate to even call it bullying that stuff...