Monday, October 19, 2009
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 has to be one of my favorite chapters, full of action. Bod is having a normal day when he is starting to figure about the special day that is tomorrow. He is confused about it and no one will tell him exactly what the special day is. He confronts Silas to some extent, he explains it to Bod saying it a dance for the living and dead, but Silas has never done it considering he is neither living or dead. But he does say that the dance is the Danse Macabre, the dance of death. On that day also, is also a special day because the winter flowers that bloom in the graveyard, that only bloom only every 84 years and people pick them and everyone in the town receives one. But who exactly is the lady in gray that rides in on the horse that Bod is so fascinated with and is promised by the lady to be able to ride it sometime?
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i believe the lady in grey has the job of passing over the living to the afterlife when they die. I'm pretty sure she means to tell Bod that one day he will die and she will be there for him to take him on to the dead side of the world. Nice blog Chad :)
ReplyDeletei'm with chris, i think Death is telling him that everyone will eventually die and everyone will get a turn to ride the horsey. i think it also says that death isn't necessarily bad, but it can also be a fun ride.
ReplyDeleteI most definitely think the Lady in Grey is a symbol of death. If everyone gets the chance to ride the horse, then what else could all the people in the world have in common? We all die one day.
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