Othello: Act. 1 Scene 3

Quote: " Thus do I ever make my fool my purse. For I mine own gained knowledge should profane If I would time expend with such a snipe But for my sport and profit" (1.3.374-377).


Significance: Through this quote we clearly see that Iago has nothing better to do than play with everyone's minds and wants to screw them over. He wanst to make everyone else's lives miserable, Othello and Roderigo in particular, just so he can gain things for himself in the end. He is not someone Othello or Roderigo should trust with anything.


Question: Will either Othello or Roderigo ever realize that he is using both of them or will this joke continue throughout the play?

ASP- Ch.13

Quote: "You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment." (199)

Significance: This quote is a a symbol for some things that happened in the past. This describes some of the choices that Gene made in the book that had these guidelines. When Gene "intentionally" made Finny fall of the tree, almost enlisting, and getting into fights that changed his outlook son things, are some of the things that seemed to be the right thing at the time for Gene, but in the end turned out to be things that he would regret for the rest of his life.


Question: Will Gene realize that without Finny, he will be a totally different person?

ASP- Ch.12

Quote: "I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case."

Significance: Through this passage we see that Gene has lost his separate peace. Finny, being his best friend, was a part of him and his right-hand-man. When Finny died, Gene lost a piece of himself that made him happy, courageous and determined. Finny was Gene's the light that brightened up his sky on a cloudy day.

Quote: Will Gene become better friends with Brinker now that he lost Finny?

ASP- Chapter 11

Quote: " I don't intend to implicate myself. I'm no fool, you know. I'm not going to tell you everything and then have it used against me later. You always did take me for a fool, didn't you? But I'm no fool any more. I know when I have information that might be dangerous. Why should I tell you! Just because it happens to suit you!"

Significance:Wow, we finally see Leper standing up for himself in the book. Instead of being quiet he isn't going to let himself be seen as a fool. Instead of basically telling the truth about what happened and getting Gene scared, he says that he "can't remember. Good thing for Gene or that would have been the end of him.

Question: Will Gene up going into the war?

ASP- Chapter 10

Quote: " So journeys through unknown parts of America became my chief war memory, and I think of the first of them as this nighttime trip to Leper's." (139)

Significance: Through this passage we see that when Gene went to go see Leper, he knew that it would be a war there. Talking about the war with Leper made Gene really realize that the war was something to be taken very seriously and that there are many sacrifices that he had to make.

Question: Will talking to Leper make Gene more interested int he war than he already is?