Melanie Helgerson
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
In the beginning of the book, when we first met Peter, he mentioned how his father, Mr. Stillman used to “talk a lot about God.” Peter said how his father wanted to know if God had a language, and wondered if a baby might speak if the baby saw no people. Immediately after reading this it got me thinking about the gift of tongues, and I jotted it down in the side lines of the page. Last year I wrote a paper on Pentecostalism and in doing so I learned a lot about speaking in tongues as one of the seven gift of God. This idea especially interested me when Peter said “I still like to be in the dark…I speak God’s language and no one can hear me,” (pg. 21). I wonder if at some point while he was living in captivity, the holy spirit came over him and he received the gift of tongues. Especially when Mr. Stillman began referring to the Tower of Babel, and the history of languages, it became even more apparent that this story goes far beyond its limits into a much deeper narrative than we had expected it to.
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
In the beginning of the book, when we first met Peter, he mentioned how his father, Mr. Stillman used to “talk a lot about God.” Peter said how his father wanted to know if God had a language, and wondered if a baby might speak if the baby saw no people. Immediately after reading this it got me thinking about the gift of tongues, and I jotted it down in the side lines of the page. Last year I wrote a paper on Pentecostalism and in doing so I learned a lot about speaking in tongues as one of the seven gift of God. This idea especially interested me when Peter said “I still like to be in the dark…I speak God’s language and no one can hear me,” (pg. 21). I wonder if at some point while he was living in captivity, the holy spirit came over him and he received the gift of tongues. Especially when Mr. Stillman began referring to the Tower of Babel, and the history of languages, it became even more apparent that this story goes far beyond its limits into a much deeper narrative than we had expected it to.
1 comment:
More good work, Melanie. Auster and tongue-speaking. Cool! In the future, remember to augment your excellent personal observations with points about the theoretical perspective under consideration, which is metafiction in this case. Paul
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