In "Speech Sounds" Rye was always alone even in my mind when she was with Obsidian. She was alone for 3 years after all of her family died because of the disease which spread all over the world. When she met Obsidian she was still alone to me because of at first wanting to kill him because she found out he could read and write. When he began to touch her she did not really know how to accept it because of being by herself for so long. She had sex with him because of the fact she wanted the short term pleasure instead of worrying about the long term problems with possibly having a baby without a father. She was so fast to want him to be with her she wanted to have sex with him afterward again. Rye also wanted him to come back with her to her house so she wouldn't have to go to Pasadena.
Rye finally convinces him to go with her to her house. When they get into the car to go back to her house she wants to make sure he is her's by pinning on her pendante onto his LAPD badge. When Obsidian is killed she throws up because she is sick from all the death and loneliness she has had to deal with in her life. The reason Butler kills Obsidian so fast in my opinion is because she doesn't want Rye to have the feeling of love or not being alone. She shows that Rye must go on alone in her life because she loved once and shouldn't love again.
Kevin Ostempowski Post 1
This is a good summary of the story, but I want you to go deeper than this in your posts. As opposed to summarizing take an aspect of the story and ANALYZE it. This should be second nature to you at this point in the semester.
ReplyDeleteYour post gets interesting when you state your opinion as to why Butler kills Obsidian relatively quickly. You say that she kills him, in part, because Rye should not love again. Why is it that she can't love again? Isn't it possible that she could love the children whom she finds at the story's conclusion? Say more. I want to hear more of your opinion as opposed to you summarizing the story's major plot points.