Final Quarter 2 Post

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a great book. I didn't have enough time to finish it over the course of the quarter, however, what with the holidays and basketball and finals. So, I'll tell about what I read. Joe is exhausted and worn out from working on the comics. He is doing the bulk of the work for Empire Comics because of crappy writers (i.e., Jules and his brother and his brother's friends). Joe loves the satisfaction of finishing a comic book, but it has lasted less and less lately, due to his increasingly shrinking hope in getting his family out of Nazi Prague. Every week, he makes an appointment with Herr Milde, and every week, he tells Joe that there is very little possibility that he will get his family exit visas. The week that Joe goes after finishing his latest issue, he arrives at the consulate only to find that his father died. He meets with Sam afterwards, and tells him of his shocking resolution. Joe plans to enlist in the Canadian Royal Air Force. But, halfway there, he decides to turn back and keep trying to win his family free passage into America without stepping into battle. That night, however, Joe found Sam, went to a bar, and got stinking drunk. Like, majorly, totally, uncontrollably drunk. He was crying about how his mother had to live without him and his father, how his brother had to be the man of the family, and how he was without them in their time of need. When they leave the bar, Joe accidentally spits on a man's shoe, and doesn't immediately apologize, and got in a fight with a heavyweight boxer. Big mistake. It certainly made a good story though. It was interesting to see such a pitiful side of Joe in these chapters. He really is made out to be pathetic and hopeless. It's sad.