04 novembre 2008

Chapter 2 Literature

So Here is chapter 2. If you being the ignorant sod you are, have not read the previous chapters. Please please return back to the start and red from chapter 1. 
Anyway presenting chapter 2 

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Nice to eat with you: Acts of communion 

Sometimes a meal is not just a meal 
However more often than not, it is not 
Whenever people eat or drink together, it is communion 
Communion- an act of charing and peace 
The very act of eating or ingesting is personal 
It is often difficult for a writer to write an interesting meal scene 
For example : Tom Hones by Henry Fielding uses meals to represent sexual union 
communion as you can see does not even need to be holy or decent 
There is bound to be commonalities with the person one eats with 
Smoking can also be a sort of communion 
Something which is ritualistic 
When a dinner turns ugly or does not happen at all
It often means a bad sign 
For example if 2 people eat and a person interrupts them and the 2 stop eating we pretty know what they think towards the intruder 
sharing food with a dog often shows companionship and kinship 
Lets say 2 people are eating but one is planning the demise of the other 
we find this meal scene revolting and also to the act of murder 
Food can also be like armies, drawn up with tension 
The reader can also be part of the communion 
perhaps to understand the feelings of the other characters at the table, Awkwardness etc.
A communion is often about life and very seldom about death. 

Yup that is the end of chapter 2. I guess I am pretty faithful to do this up everyday. 
So Signing off 
Mr Botti 

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