Crying

In The Crying of Lot 49, Oedipa Maas’ development as a reader represents the historical transformation from a traditional, transparent and factual way of understanding the world (typical of the 1950s and the Cold War period) towards a reading related to the possibility of multiple meanings and the metaphor (characteristic of the 1960s). In particular, the paranoid perception of reality, questioning the appearance of the things and looking for their transcendental meaning, allows the acceptance…

confesses that he has an impulse to do “some kind of a wall-to-wall rewrite” (S.L., 3). To some extent, the ending of Gravity’s Rainbow is a rewrite of the ending of Crying of Lot 49. Although the same proliferation of options happens again at the end of Gravity’s Rainbow, the endings of these two novels are in fact drastically different. In Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon merely poses four possibilities of the nature of the predicament that Oedipa faces, which “she [does not] like any of them” (C.L.,…

Entropy and Meaning in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 In modernity, the narrative of scientific progress operates under the assumption of order and linear progress. But with the rise of postmodern theory, these assumptions begin to be called into question to provoke new scientific discourses based on indeterminacies and discontinuities. The Crying of Lot 49 poses the same questions of the possibility of scientific knowledge and the search for intrinsic meaning. Pynchon follows the…

How does Dolphus Raymond explain Dill’s crying? He says that because things haven’t caught up to Dill’s instincts yet, the boy still cries “about the simple hell people give other people – without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think…

Can Damage”, published in the Gleaner of Monday, August 8, 2016 was written by Shawna Kay Williams-Pinnock. A teacher of English, Mrs Williams- Pinnock outlines the correlation between babies crying continually and aggressive behaviour. To support her claims, the author draws evidence from an article: Crying Babies- Answering the Call of Infant Cries (Faris and McCarroll, 2010), which summarises research illustrating that “children whose brain experience an increased production of adrenaline…

Jonas Wilson, Ing. Med. How to stop a baby crying? Babies cry, because that is their primary means of communicating to their caregivers. While some babies are fussier than others, all babies cry. For the reason that babies cannot talk, it is easy for people to overlook their needs and wants. Understanding why the child is crying in the first instance may be particularly demanding for parents, especially those who are first timers. At birth, crying is a sign that a baby is alive and is at…

Infantile colic is commonly recognized as unexplained paroxysms of excessive crying often associated with marked irritability and abdominal discomfort. The “rule of three” may be used to define infantile colic: crying for more than three hours per day, for more than three days per week, and for longer than three weeks in an infant who is adequately fed and otherwise healthy (Roberts, 2004). Infantile colic develops within few weeks after birth, often peaking around six weeks of age and…

Fetal Abuse and Teratogens After reading the article about the possible legal ramifications for prenatal abuse, and teratogens in the book, I can see both sides of the argument. The concept behind DeJesus ' prosecution is often referred to as "fetal rights": the notion that unborn babies deserve the same legal protections as children (“Fetal Abuse”). Multiple women have been charged and went to jail for taking drugs while pregnant and giving birth to babies who test positive for the drug. From…

trauma (SBS/AHT). New mothers completed a questionnaire about infant crying and the frequency in which they engaged in recommended behaviors when their infants cried. The questionnaire asked about the preventative measures for SBS/AHT the mothers had been exposed to prenatally and after birth. According to exposure, the mothers were divided into three groups. Group one included women who had either viewed a DVD about infant crying and recommended actions in a prenatal class, or had received a…

into the house to check on Dillen, I hear him crying like a running stream.Walking into the room to grab him, holding him tight to try to make him stop crying . Holding him on my hip, grabbing a beer for my mom. I hear mom yelling “hurry up “.When I got outside I told her “ mom I do not know why he won’t stop crying’’.Getting very angry mom said “figure it out and give me my beer”. Giving her the beer , asked “what could I do to make him stop crying” as I talked messing up the music she was…