Blog #8

Blog #8

Ross Reed

Watchmen

Interpretation of Literature

Chapter 10 really heated up the story, with Adrian acting very fishy about the worlds future and team Rorschach- Dan reliving their glory days and acting out of character. It left us hanging with such suspense to see how dan and Rorschach handle Adrian at his arctic fort. 

Quite possibly the strangest thing thats happened so far in terms of character change is with Rorschach this chapter. He seems as if he’s a new man coming out of jail. He is a lot more emotional and him and Dan have a few Bromance moments. Dan throws a little hissy fit in his ship and rather Rorschach responding with anger, he seemed actually emotionally hurt about what Dan thought. Rorschach acted as if he was going into a suicidal battle in this chapter and he even turned in his journal to the press so people could know his life story. Rorschach and the Night Owl come up with the idea of going to bars to use their typical way of extracting information out of the underworld by torturing them. During the bar raid Dan acts out of his norm and he gets physical with an innocent guy because he looks like the guy who killed his good friend, Hollis Mason. After leaving the bar they conclude that Adrian Veidt was behind all the chaos and go to visit him at his layer in Antarctica where he sits alone watching all the world news,  “just me and the world.” ( ch 10, pg.21)

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Blog #7
Ross Reed
3/23/11

     In chapter seven there seems to be a theme of a building relationship between Dan and Laurie, as well as a growing urge to break the law and be their old selves again by being masked vigilantes.

     Laurie seems to not be affected much by Jon being gone, which shows she was deprived of regular human contact and explains why she is enjoying being with Dan so much. Laurie is very curious about Dan’s equipment and she is very flirtatious towards him. She reminds me of a woman who had been married her whole life then got a divorce and lived the rest of her days like they could be her last. Its Dan that is the unsure one in this story, he is very worried about the mask murderer conspiracy because of the comedian being killed, Jon being exiled, and Adrian being shot at. He seems so concerned about the situation that when him and Laurie are about to have sex he has trouble getting hard which he seemed very embarrassed about. After the failed attempt with Laurie they go to sleep where soon after Dan is awoken by a bad dream where Laurie and him kissed and the world blew up.

     I think all the frustration with the mask murderer conspiracy and the nuclear crisis it lead up to Laurie and Dan to suit up and go out on a night on the town to release some stress. It is as if they relapsed and did what they vowed to never do again just because they felt that they should live their lives to the max and not just sit back and take every day for granted.

     After Dan and Laurie go out for a night on the town and save a building from a fire they seem much more relaxed and as a result they are now able to have sex.