{"id":1224,"date":"2018-09-19T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:07:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T17:07:30","slug":"ship-and-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2018\/09\/19\/ship-and-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship and the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhere am I? There is nothing here I recognize. This isn\u2019t the world I know, the little ship I\u2019ve trimmed and rigged.\u201d (101)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Elgin tells the narrator about Louise\u2019s cancer everything they know is shaken, \u201cWhere am I? There is nothing here I recognize\u201d (101). A couple lines before, \u201c\u2018Louise tells me everything,\u2019 I said coldly. \u2018As I do her.\u2019\u201d (100), the narrator has this absolute certainty about their relationship with Louise, and to an extent a certainty about the world around them.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this passage the narrator returns to the metaphor of a ship on the open seas. This is not the first time this metaphor of a ship on the seas is used \u201cthe journeys they made were beyond common sense; who leaves the hearth for the open sea? especially without a compass, especially in winter, especially alone\u201d (81), but it is the first time it is used in a negative manner. For the narrator their relationship is an exploration of something new; Louise is the ocean and the narrator a ship. This metaphor is commonly used during sex, the first time the narrator begs Louise to let them \u201csail in you over the spirited waves\u201d (80).<\/p>\n

For the narrator Elgin took the map they had so carefully and painstakingly drawn and ripped it apart, \u201cthis isn\u2019t the world I know, the little ship I\u2019ve trimmed and rigged\u201d (101).<\/p>\n

This passage is about the narrator’s loss of balance and certainty in everything.\u00a0 This relates to the whole of novel \u00a0because for the first we saw the narrator passionate and in love with someone just as passionately in love with them, the first person we know of that chose them, possibly the first time the narrator truly was loved by their partner as more than a dirty little secret. And now the narrator is faced with losing this, and not just to another person but to death.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhere am I? There is nothing here I recognize. This isn\u2019t the world I know, the little ship I\u2019ve trimmed and rigged.\u201d (101) When Elgin tells the narrator about Louise\u2019s cancer everything they know is shaken, \u201cWhere am I? There is nothing here I recognize\u201d (101). A couple lines before, \u201c\u2018Louise tells me everything,\u2019 I … Continue reading Ship and the Sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[93525,1495,974,93449,88289,125368,125369],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post","tag-loss","tag-lost","tag-love","tag-map","tag-ocean","tag-ship","tag-uncertain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}