Sunday, March 1, 2009
Characters
In "Out Stealing Horses," the main character is a 67 year old man named Trond Sander. Trond is a reserved man who enjoys spending time alone. When he was younger he always longed to be alone: "I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence." He now lives only with his dog in a small house in eastern Norway and it's exactly how he imagined it. One night he wakes up to the sound of his neighbor,Lars Haug, looking for his dog and gets up to help him. This is the first time he and his neighbor officialy meet eachother. While they are looking for the dog they stand in silence, and Lars soon begins to tell him a story about when he was younger. The next chapter starts as a flashback from when Trond was a boy. He thinks about the adventures he and his friend Jon would go on. Even back then Trond seemed to be very laid-back. He would always follow what Jon told him to do and not really make his own choices. I think that Trond was wise, but he doesn't make his own decisions, he would rather just follow what someone else tells him to do.
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Caitlin, I think that it is great that you included the quote about how he has always wanted to be alone. I seem to have forgotten this because as a reader I started to think more about Trond as a teenager and how he was always with a friend so it doesn't seem like he was always that reserved.
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree with Kali about how you forget that Trond is actually an old man who is just having a flashback. I also think it is weird how that was the first time Trond had met his neighbor, you would think neighbors would meet on the first day one of them moves in? I also found it weird how they ignited a conversation so easily having been total strangers up to that point.
ReplyDeleteCaitlin, I agree with you when you wrote that he is a wise man, but simply didn't want to make his own decisions. He is very wise in that he is able to take small details in every situation and come to a conclusion about something. For example when he saw the way Jon looked when he smushed the bird nest. He knew that something was severly wrong, but he didn't take action because he is not a leader.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Trond is wise. I would be worried if he wasn't wise. After all he is 67 years old, at that age you should know quite a few things about the world. As Drew said I also think it is strange that he has never met his neighbors before now.
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