Deanna Ballard<\/p>\n
Professor Kersh<\/p>\n
FYS<\/p>\n
9-10-13<\/p>\n
Reaction Paper #2<\/p>\n
\u201c…My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey- wrench into the machinery. It\u2019s all right with me, if you\u2019re sure none of the flying pieces will hurt you.\u201d The Maltese Falcon Pg 86<\/p>\n
Throughout the beginning chapters of this novel, (pages 3-60) \u00a0Sam Spade has been characterized as the typical detective; smart, smooth and very methodical – very much like a well oiled machine. However, in the latter portion of the book, (page 61 on), he has broken from his calm, composed, machine like mold and has become seemingly insane. Spade has began weaving intricate lies, playing games with people and his alliances to them.<\/p>\n
I do not think Spade has gone mad or has undergone some behavioral transformation. I believe that this \u201cwild and unpredictable monkey- wrench\u201d of a man he\u2019s become is not actually a transformation, but simply an unveiling of his real personality. Spade puts on this cool, calm, composed persona to gain trust and respect \u00a0so he can get away with being the absurd individual he truly is.<\/p>\n
This is not to say that Sam Spade is not a brilliant, well oiled machine, every move he makes is very deliberate and calculated, with a clear end goal in mind. His monkey- wrench approach to gathering information has proved to be very effective, as every \u201cflying piece\u201d that has come from his actions have been relevant and helpful to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deanna Ballard Professor Kersh FYS 9-10-13 Reaction Paper #2 \u201c…My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey- wrench into the machinery. It\u2019s all right with me, if you\u2019re sure none of the flying pieces will hurt you.\u201d The Maltese Falcon Pg 86 Throughout the beginning chapters of this novel, (pages 3-60) … Continue reading Monkey Wrenched<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fysdetective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}