The significance of his painting Claire has is that Claire looks at the painting when she is informed about the death of her son at war. It is a play on words of the Snow White fairy tale in which the Queen in Disney’s version asks “magic mirror, on the wall – who is the fairest one of all?” A word on this line: it was in the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales as “mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?” so it is both “Magic Mirror” and “Mirror Mirror.”Miró means Joan Miró, a Spanish, Surrealist artist. Claire says “Miró, Miró, on the wall, who’s the deadest of them all?”, thinking about her son who passed away. She feels uncomfortable or guilty about having the best house and neighborhood out of all of them, because it feels show-offy or pretentious. She lives in a penthouse on the Upper East Side and her house is much nicer than any of her female friends’. Thats what our character Claire experiences. I want you to think about a time when you felt guilty for your privilege- something you owned, accomplished, etc. Posted on OctoAuthor akportfolio21 Categories Blog Postings, Let the Great World Spin (Miró) 1 Comment on Blog Post 7 & 8 Miró and New Characters He would live as a poor man amongst them to immerse himself in the culture, and truly understand where they need help the most. It was surprising to see Corrigan’s actions towards these people and how empathetic he was. The bridge that was inspiring to me was the connection between Corrigan and the homeless in chapter 1. Certainly, an uncommon way to meet a lover. As time went on, the bridge connected and their relationship got stronger, the bitter feelings they had for one-another went away. The bridge that I found unsettling in this novel is how things worked out between Lara and Ciaran. However, the event is still bridged with when Tillie and Jazzlyn get arrested and then sent to trial on the same day as the tight rope walker. We, the readers had to wait almost until the end of the book to understand how this event strangely connects to the other characters and to the beginning of the book again. It is as if the prologue was unnecessary at first, since the following chapters never included anything with him again, only slight indirect references. An extraordinary event for any New Yorker to experience, yet not mentioned again for the most part of the book after the prologue, which left a question unanswered. I found it clever by the author to just start off his book with the scene where Phillipe does his tightrope walk. Thus, showing how his so called “crime” brings contrast and unity to the city. The judge had to follow some formality I signing of a sentence for Petit, yet made is a bare minimum. On the other hand, with the case of the tight rope walker, Judge Soldengberg is nearly fascinated to hear the case out. The judge just saw them as yet another group of criminals, and even assumed that Corrigan is their pimp. The judge has a negative response towards Tillie an Jazzlyn’s case, and despises these typical crimes which constantly happen in the city, causing its safety and reputability to go down. This response also symbolizes the difference between the two types of crime as discussed from Part 1. The judge, who also happens to be Claire’s husband, has very different reactions to the cases of Tillie and Jazzlyn, and Phillipe. Judge Sodernberg’s explanation of crime involves murder, vandalism and theft which is only seen as something horrible. Petit’s crime is considered as a form of self-expression and art, which essentially is from his own curiosity and not essentiality, which has the potential to unify people as was seen by people who all stopped to witness Petit walk the rope. Both Judge Sorderberg and Man on Wire describe different types of crime.
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