Questions for a second reading: Henry Adams

Well i can see that our very blank blog-space is actively exciting! Whoo! ed-posse rules! Seriously though its thursday and by now one of us should have attempted to read something and then post about it. Anyway I'm done griping, so lets get started.

Question number one brings about an imprtant note to me. It is important to remember that Henry Adams is indeed writing about himself. I think it strange that one person can find it in his own mind to write about himslef, often, in the third person. I know it can be confusing. Lets look for examples.

There's one in the very first sentence. "One day in June, 1854, young Adams, walked...." You see what's happening here? Henry Adams is calling himself Young Adams so that the reader will have the seperation between the Henry Adams that is writing this essay, and the Henry Adams that he is writing about.

Lets get some more examples!