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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You know what to do...post your analysis about the story Eyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel Garcia Marquez by 10 pm
Eyes of a Blue Dog, was quite difficult to understand. But the whole story is based inside a dream about both a man and a woman that are in love with each other in their dream states. But when awakened the man forgets about this dream, while the woman tries to look for him in reality. Marquez is trying to explain that your true lover is found through his true identity, which is their eyes. And is seen spiritually, not physically. They both fell in love with each through a spiritual dimension, and are in a quest to look for each other. Eyes of Blue Dog, fits as the title because no one has seen a blue dog's eyes but one can only imagine what they look like. Exactly the same with the story, both people haven't seen each other in reality, but they imagine each other in their dreams.
Eyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was an interesting story. It was basically about two lovers in a dream and the only place they find each other is in that dream. When they wake up the man forgets the dream completely and the woman searches for him in reality but can never find him. Whenever they're in the dream there seems to be a border line between them. They can't touch each other because then the dream ends. Every night they have this same dream. Marquez was trying to tell us that sometimes we find what we are looking for in our dreams. We find the things we want, the things we can't have in reality. Sometimes we come to believe that our dreams are reality, but Marquez is reminding us that's it's just a dream. It's okay to love our dreams, but don't become obsessed with them.
"We find the things we want, the things we can't have in reality." Why do you say that the things we want, we can't get? Are you saying we can't achieve our goals and "dreams" ? Hundreds of stories and especially pretty much every Disney movie teaches otherwise. I'm not saying Disney has everything right, but I'm wondering if that's what you really think.
Well, we can get the things we want but there's a difference between our dreams and reality. In our dreams we can get it right away but in reality don't you have to work at it?
Well this little story certainly rustled my jimmies. I think of it as an entry in an Elementary School writing competition for the most random story. A 7 year old Gabriel Garcia Marquez decided to enter the competition just to win and become popular. He had no inspiration, so he took some LSD strips and let thoughts flow through his mind and out a writing stick. He was probably thinking "OMG LOLOLolol BLUE DOGS Soooooooooo RAndum XD!!!" If there is actually a message or theme, or some deep meaning through symbology, I will never be able to get it or somehow see what I want to see by conjuring up some nonsense after reading what might possibly may be symbolism. This is because the story goes nowhere and is completely unable to capture my attention. I lose interest after about every 5 words. Reading this was like a vigorous chore. I felt like I was taking bites out of a giant meatball, hoping that eventually, despite every single bite tasting absolutely atrocious, resembling a festering dung ball mid-July, I'll find it tasty. I did not.
I found this post a little funny. I kept losing interest in reading it, too. Mainly because i don't understand, and i kept getting so annoyed about what Eyes of a Blue Dog really means.
I hadn't even thought of the title but when I read your post I started thinking about. I came up with that there is no possibility that they are going to meet because there is no such thing as a blue dog. When have you ever heard that you met your lover in a dream? Yeah, only in sleeping beauty. So, that's what I came up for how they connect.
I also lost interest in it too considering it was a lot of confusing dialogue that i wasnt sure wat it ment. By the way i like your post it was amusingly funny.
Jorelle, my Tyrellies were constantly tingled by the story as well but I think it's best if we keep in mind that perhaps the style in which the story is written is intentional. Meaning, maybe he wanted the flow of the story to be incredibly odd and confusing as a way of masking the true meaning of his work, for those willing to take the effort to dissect his writing. I'm sure that he wouldn't just write something stupid and have people think it's something great and meaningful, but I do agree with your rant on a smaller scale.
Exactly, I see it as trying Marquez trying toooooooo hard to rustle evryone's Johnnies. Sure maybe as the writer he formed an endless web of connecting symbols that only he gets. It's like free form jazz with odd time signatures all over the place and key changes all over the place recorded under water then re-recorded with a cell phone recorder. Maybe the composer understands its beauty, but to the average listener, it's simply too much all over the place to appreciate it. I see it as trying too hard to be unique, original, or pretty much whatever you want to call it.
In “Eyes of a Blue Dog” Gabriel Garcia Marquez talks about many encounters between two people. They have never met in what we call “reality”, but in their dreams they always carry out conversations. I think that this author wanted to challenge the idea of what we think dreams are. In everybody’s head dreams are not real, but in this story Marquez contradicts this and actually makes to people meet in their dreams. Now we can get the idea that dreams can be real and not only images made up by our mind. What if the true reality is when we sleep and when we are awake we are dreaming?? This is what I interpret from reading “Eyes of a Blue Dog”.
I thought the story took place in a dream. However, it was difficult to tell. I also wondered whether or not the man and the woman were in the same time. It was possible that the man was living in one time period while the woman was living in another. This could be why they could not find each other. The man and the woman were not able to touch each other in the dream. This gives the feeling of loneliness.
Although the people seem to want to find each other in their real lives, I think they may want to keep their relationship in the dream. As long as the relationship is only in the dream then nothing can come between them. If they are not together in the real world then they do not have to deal with all of the problems that could break off their relationship. The two people can not touch in the dream, however, the woman fears that if they touch each other everything will be ruined.
I found this final line of the story to be very interesting. It implies that the man in the story is the only man that can not remember what he has dream. The woman is criticizing him for this. However, this is ironic because the woman can not remember where she wrote the phrase "eyes of a blue dog."
This story Eyes of a Blue Dog was weird and confusing. I didn't really get what Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted us to get out of it. It seems to be taking place in dreams a man has and can't remember of after waking up. I think the dreams are trying to symbolize something to the man about viewing things in life. He's able to see the woman when he's got his back to her which was crazy. The last sentence "You're the only man who doesn't remember anything of what he's dreamed after he wakes up." shows how we can't all be the same because there's always a difference in us.
Eyes of a Blue Dog is a pretty trippy story. The story is a narrative about a dream. During this dream the person acquires unconscious and unique contradictions creating a relationship with man and women. The two people are really in love with each other but unable to meet each other in real life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez tried to pull off the theme loneliness. Its loneliness because two people from two different places connect with each other, and the narrator cannot even remember the woman when he wakes, and the woman is unsure whether she has merely dreamed her agonizing search for him.
After reading a few other stories from Marquez, I've noticed a common theme one being dreams. Particularly in this story, Marquez is making a clear distinction to reality and dreams. In this case, these two people only see and know each other in their dreams, but as soon as they wake up, poof, it's erased. I think that Marquez did this to tell of how real our dreams can really be. Its like your dreaming, but at the same time, you can't really tell whether it's reality or not. As I was reading this story, I immediately thought of the movie Inception.
Eyes of a Blue Dog is talking about the dreams of the the woman and the man. They see each other in person, but in their dreams, it's what they want each other to be, it's what they picture them to be, but they don't recall ever thinking about it. The eyes of a blue dog being written everywhere kept making me wonder what that really meant, and i still don't know. I think it's the way they see each other. Or, maybe it was a way for them to find each other in the past and the future?
In this story, it seems that it takes place in dream where a man and woman meet each other. Both of them love each other but they only see each other in their dreams. The man also forgets his dreams when he wakes up. They both try to find each other in reality, but they can never find each other. The woman doesn't wish to be touched by man because the dream will end. I think the story shows us how dreams may seem like reality but it's all just a dream. It feels as if the dream is real. We don't want it to disappear but all dreams soon end and we wake up to reality.
Actually, I really don't understand how the title connects with the story. Well, since blue dogs don't exist maybe it shows the difference between reality and dreams, but I could be wrong.
Eyes of a Blue Dog is a story about the dreams of two people that are in love. They both meet in their dreams. They recognize themselves there but when they wake up the one that forgets everything is the man. The man suffers from some type of amnesia as soon as he wakes up and the woman goes crazy in pursuit of looking for him. The phrase she remembers is "Eyes of a Blue Dog". She writes it everywhere she goes hoping that one day her lover will see it and will remember and this will be bring them closer.
He wanted to tell us readers that while dreams seems very close to reality they aren't. Like I said in reply to Jorelle's post that there is no possibility that they are going to meet because there is no such thing as a blue dog. When have you ever heard that you met your lover in a dream? Yeah, only in sleeping beauty. Dreams are meant for when you're sleeping, but i dont mean dreams as in goals. Those are excluded here.
This story was really weird. It is about two lovers and every time the man dreams he can find his lover. In the dream they both talk to eachother. Every time he wakes up he forgets everything he dreamed about. Even his lover says, "yet you won't remember anything during the day." the lover of the man can remember the dream and try's to find him but she never does. She try's to find him by saying "eyes of a blue dog." Many people think shes crazey. I didn't really understand the symbolic meaning of the story. Perhaps what the author is trying to say is how our dreams can really mean a lot even though many people just say its just a dream.
Eyes of a blue dog, was sort of difficult to understand considering that most of the setting was in the guys dreams speaking to a woman. What i understood about this story is two people( a man and a woman) feel an affection for each other but in their dreams and in real life the male does not remember any of their encounters. So the woman uses the key code " Eyes of a blue dog" to try to get him to remember. Even in dream world they cannot touch each other, so this story portrays the difficulties of relationships. At the end Garcia ends the story with the woman stating"You're the only man who doesn't remember anything of what he dreams after he wakes up. so it is pretty ironic that the man she has a strong affection for doesn't even remember her.
Even at this point going back to read it over and over again, I cannot make up my mind on what Gabriel is implying in his story. I don't have much to say about it, but I'll simply put in my 2 cents. Upon first glance I thought the title "Eyes of a Blue Dog" meant the dog is both of the individuals in the story, and the dog is blue because of the melancholy created by their situation of dream and reality and inablity to figure out the distinction, and the eyes being the passage in which they both know that that's what it is. However, in attempting to connect that with the story I could not do a very good job.
I agree this story was hard & i also reread, but then noticed time was running out & 'put in my 2cents' also. I agree it is about dreams & reality & their distinction on both.
In this story, I think it was like a dream, a single dream, in which two people were in. Where two met each other, and as soon one would awake, the man would somehow forget about his dream. It was like, they knew each other through dreams, and when one would wake up, one would forget the other. I think the man was dead, and his spirit would come and make the women dream about him, because that was the only way they were able to meet again. So when the mans spirit would leave, the women would go crazy, and would always repeat herself, saying , " eyes of a blue dog" I was confused, about, what eyes of a blue dog meant, and why the women would always say that phrase. I really didn't understand the message, that the author was trying to give us, because I was a little confused.
"Eyes of a Blue Dog" was difficult to understand. My analysis on it is that it's all about dreams & reality. The lady uses her senses when she dreams & wakes up remembering what she had dreamed while the man doesn't. She feels like metal at times and that someone is watching her because someone is probably dreaming of her. That somebody might be the man from the beginning.She is always near a lamp because she is cold and senses someone watching her or in my interpretation dreaming about her. Because she uses all her senses, she remembers her dreams detail by detail. One of her dreams was about a man who said "Eyes of a Blue Dog" she then finds out who in reality said that to her & warns him not to leave because she is dreaming again. The story confused me a bit but this is my understanding of it.
Eyes of a Blue Dog, was quite difficult to understand. But the whole story is based inside a dream about both a man and a woman that are in love with each other in their dream states. But when awakened the man forgets about this dream, while the woman tries to look for him in reality. Marquez is trying to explain that your true lover is found through his true identity, which is their eyes. And is seen spiritually, not physically. They both fell in love with each through a spiritual dimension, and are in a quest to look for each other. Eyes of Blue Dog, fits as the title because no one has seen a blue dog's eyes but one can only imagine what they look like. Exactly the same with the story, both people haven't seen each other in reality, but they imagine each other in their dreams.
ReplyDeleteI have seen a dog with blue eyes. So what does that mean?
DeleteIt's a blue dog's eyes, not a dog's blue eyes, Abigail.
DeleteI think it's supposed to be a blue dog's eyes, not a dog's blue eyes, Abigail.
DeleteIt's a dog, that of which is blue, with eyes. Not a dog with eyes that are blue.
DeleteEyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was an interesting story. It was basically about two lovers in a dream and the only place they find each other is in that dream. When they wake up the man forgets the dream completely and the woman searches for him in reality but can never find him. Whenever they're in the dream there seems to be a border line between them. They can't touch each other because then the dream ends. Every night they have this same dream. Marquez was trying to tell us that sometimes we find what we are looking for in our dreams. We find the things we want, the things we can't have in reality. Sometimes we come to believe that our dreams are reality, but Marquez is reminding us that's it's just a dream. It's okay to love our dreams, but don't become obsessed with them.
ReplyDelete"We find the things we want, the things we can't have in reality." Why do you say that the things we want, we can't get? Are you saying we can't achieve our goals and "dreams" ? Hundreds of stories and especially pretty much every Disney movie teaches otherwise. I'm not saying Disney has everything right, but I'm wondering if that's what you really think.
DeleteI agree we could love our dreams but not become obsessed with them because they will come true at the right time.
DeleteWell, we can get the things we want but there's a difference between our dreams and reality. In our dreams we can get it right away but in reality don't you have to work at it?
DeleteYes, in reality we do have to work hard for our dreams to come true because how else will they happen?
DeleteI didn't say we don't have to work for them.
DeleteWell this little story certainly rustled my jimmies. I think of it as an entry in an Elementary School writing competition for the most random story. A 7 year old Gabriel Garcia Marquez decided to enter the competition just to win and become popular. He had no inspiration, so he took some LSD strips and let thoughts flow through his mind and out a writing stick. He was probably thinking "OMG LOLOLolol BLUE DOGS Soooooooooo RAndum XD!!!" If there is actually a message or theme, or some deep meaning through symbology, I will never be able to get it or somehow see what I want to see by conjuring up some nonsense after reading what might possibly may be symbolism. This is because the story goes nowhere and is completely unable to capture my attention. I lose interest after about every 5 words. Reading this was like a vigorous chore. I felt like I was taking bites out of a giant meatball, hoping that eventually, despite every single bite tasting absolutely atrocious, resembling a festering dung ball mid-July, I'll find it tasty. I did not.
ReplyDeleteI found this post a little funny. I kept losing interest in reading it, too. Mainly because i don't understand, and i kept getting so annoyed about what Eyes of a Blue Dog really means.
DeleteI would really like to know what your analysis on the story is.
DeleteI also lost interest as I read the story. The story was kind of boring to me.
DeleteI hadn't even thought of the title but when I read your post I started thinking about. I came up with that there is no possibility that they are going to meet because there is no such thing as a blue dog. When have you ever heard that you met your lover in a dream? Yeah, only in sleeping beauty. So, that's what I came up for how they connect.
DeleteJorelle, your analysis is about atrocious as your meatball analogy... you can do better!
DeleteI also lost interest in it too considering it was a lot of confusing dialogue that i wasnt sure wat it ment. By the way i like your post it was amusingly funny.
DeleteJorelle, my Tyrellies were constantly tingled by the story as well but I think it's best if we keep in mind that perhaps the style in which the story is written is intentional. Meaning, maybe he wanted the flow of the story to be incredibly odd and confusing as a way of masking the true meaning of his work, for those willing to take the effort to dissect his writing. I'm sure that he wouldn't just write something stupid and have people think it's something great and meaningful, but I do agree with your rant on a smaller scale.
DeleteExactly, I see it as trying Marquez trying toooooooo hard to rustle evryone's Johnnies. Sure maybe as the writer he formed an endless web of connecting symbols that only he gets. It's like free form jazz with odd time signatures all over the place and key changes all over the place recorded under water then re-recorded with a cell phone recorder. Maybe the composer understands its beauty, but to the average listener, it's simply too much all over the place to appreciate it. I see it as trying too hard to be unique, original, or pretty much whatever you want to call it.
DeleteIn “Eyes of a Blue Dog” Gabriel Garcia Marquez talks about many encounters between two people. They have never met in what we call “reality”, but in their dreams they always carry out conversations. I think that this author wanted to challenge the idea of what we think dreams are. In everybody’s head dreams are not real, but in this story Marquez contradicts this and actually makes to people meet in their dreams. Now we can get the idea that dreams can be real and not only images made up by our mind. What if the true reality is when we sleep and when we are awake we are dreaming?? This is what I interpret from reading “Eyes of a Blue Dog”.
ReplyDeleteHow are dreams not real if we in reality experience them?
DeleteI see your point there about dreams being something else and I agree with you on that, but how does the title of the story connect with the story?
DeleteI thought the story took place in a dream. However, it was difficult to tell. I also wondered whether or not the man and the woman were in the same time. It was possible that the man was living in one time period while the woman was living in another. This could be why they could not find each other. The man and the woman were not able to touch each other in the dream. This gives the feeling of loneliness.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the people seem to want to find each other in their real lives, I think they may want to keep their relationship in the dream. As long as the relationship is only in the dream then nothing can come between them. If they are not together in the real world then they do not have to deal with all of the problems that could break off their relationship. The two people can not touch in the dream, however, the woman fears that if they touch each other everything will be ruined.
I found this final line of the story to be very interesting. It implies that the man in the story is the only man that can not remember what he has dream. The woman is criticizing him for this. However, this is ironic because the woman can not remember where she wrote the phrase "eyes of a blue dog."
Were you confused reading portions of the story? Wasn't it quite hard to understand?
DeleteOverall, hard analysis right?
Deletedeja vu? Maybe? Does dreaming cause deja vu?
DeleteThis story Eyes of a Blue Dog was weird and confusing. I didn't really get what Gabriel Garcia Marquez wanted us to get out of it. It seems to be taking place in dreams a man has and can't remember of after waking up. I think the dreams are trying to symbolize something to the man about viewing things in life. He's able to see the woman when he's got his back to her which was crazy. The last sentence "You're the only man who doesn't remember anything of what he's dreamed after he wakes up." shows how we can't all be the same because there's always a difference in us.
ReplyDeleteEyes of a Blue Dog is a pretty trippy story. The story is a narrative about a dream. During this dream the person acquires unconscious and unique contradictions creating a relationship with man and women. The two people are really in love with each other but unable to meet each other in real life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez tried to pull off the theme loneliness. Its loneliness because two people from two different places connect with each other, and the narrator cannot even remember the woman when he wakes, and the woman is unsure whether she has merely dreamed her agonizing search for him.
ReplyDeleteCan you give me a specific example supporting your thoughts on the theme loneliness.
DeleteDont forget the fact that they cannot touch each other in drem world>
DeleteAfter reading a few other stories from Marquez, I've noticed a common theme one being dreams. Particularly in this story, Marquez is making a clear distinction to reality and dreams. In this case, these two people only see and know each other in their dreams, but as soon as they wake up, poof, it's erased. I think that Marquez did this to tell of how real our dreams can really be. Its like your dreaming, but at the same time, you can't really tell whether it's reality or not. As I was reading this story, I immediately thought of the movie Inception.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah this story does kinda remind me of Inception
DeleteYes, I agree with you. What is reality?
DeleteEyes of a Blue Dog is talking about the dreams of the the woman and the man. They see each other in person, but in their dreams, it's what they want each other to be, it's what they picture them to be, but they don't recall ever thinking about it. The eyes of a blue dog being written everywhere kept making me wonder what that really meant, and i still don't know. I think it's the way they see each other. Or, maybe it was a way for them to find each other in the past and the future?
ReplyDeleteDon't summarize! I am still waiting for your analysis!
DeleteIn this story, it seems that it takes place in dream where a man and woman meet each other. Both of them love each other but they only see each other in their dreams. The man also forgets his dreams when he wakes up. They both try to find each other in reality, but they can never find each other. The woman doesn't wish to be touched by man because the dream will end. I think the story shows us how dreams may seem like reality but it's all just a dream. It feels as if the dream is real. We don't want it to disappear but all dreams soon end and we wake up to reality.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have to say about the dreams, but how does the story connect with the title he put for it???
DeleteActually, I really don't understand how the title connects with the story. Well, since blue dogs don't exist maybe it shows the difference between reality and dreams, but I could be wrong.
DeleteWhen you say, that both try to find each other in reality, why do you think that, if you say the man forgets about his dream ?
DeleteEyes of a Blue Dog is a story about the dreams of two people that are in love. They both meet in their dreams. They recognize themselves there but when they wake up the one that forgets everything is the man. The man suffers from some type of amnesia as soon as he wakes up and the woman goes crazy in pursuit of looking for him. The phrase she remembers is "Eyes of a Blue Dog". She writes it everywhere she goes hoping that one day her lover will see it and will remember and this will be bring them closer.
ReplyDeleteSo then what did Marquez want to say by this story. Remember that summarizing is not analyzing.
DeleteYou think he wants to apply this to a relationship in real life how a man is usually the one who ruins it??
DeleteHe wanted to tell us readers that while dreams seems very close to reality they aren't. Like I said in reply to Jorelle's post that there is no possibility that they are going to meet because there is no such thing as a blue dog. When have you ever heard that you met your lover in a dream? Yeah, only in sleeping beauty. Dreams are meant for when you're sleeping, but i dont mean dreams as in goals. Those are excluded here.
DeleteI see what you're trying to say. The phrase now makes sense to me.
DeleteThis story was really weird. It is about two lovers and every time the man dreams he can find his lover. In the dream they both talk to eachother. Every time he wakes up he forgets everything he dreamed about. Even his lover says, "yet you won't remember anything during the day." the lover of the man can remember the dream and try's to find him but she never does. She try's to find him by saying "eyes of a blue dog." Many people think shes crazey. I didn't really understand the symbolic meaning of the story. Perhaps what the author is trying to say is how our dreams can really mean a lot even though many people just say its just a dream.
ReplyDeleteEyes of a blue dog, was sort of difficult to understand considering that most of the setting was in the guys dreams speaking to a woman. What i understood about this story is two people( a man and a woman) feel an affection for each other but in their dreams and in real life the male does not remember any of their encounters. So the woman uses the key code " Eyes of a blue dog" to try to get him to remember. Even in dream world they cannot touch each other, so this story portrays the difficulties of relationships. At the end Garcia ends the story with the woman stating"You're the only man who doesn't remember anything of what he dreams after he wakes up. so it is pretty ironic that the man she has a strong affection for doesn't even remember her.
ReplyDeleteEven at this point going back to read it over and over again, I cannot make up my mind on what Gabriel is implying in his story. I don't have much to say about it, but I'll simply put in my 2 cents. Upon first glance I thought the title "Eyes of a Blue Dog" meant the dog is both of the individuals in the story, and the dog is blue because of the melancholy created by their situation of dream and reality and inablity to figure out the distinction, and the eyes being the passage in which they both know that that's what it is. However, in attempting to connect that with the story I could not do a very good job.
ReplyDeletethis is a hard one, but wait until we read Borges!
DeleteI agree this story was hard & i also reread, but then noticed time was running out & 'put in my 2cents' also. I agree it is about dreams & reality & their distinction on both.
DeleteIn this story, I think it was like a dream, a single dream, in which two people were in. Where two met each other, and as soon one would awake, the man would somehow forget about his dream. It was like, they knew each other through dreams, and when one would wake up, one would forget the other. I think the man was dead, and his spirit would come and make the women dream about him, because that was the only way they were able to meet again. So when the mans spirit would leave, the women would go crazy, and would always repeat herself, saying , " eyes of a blue dog" I was confused, about, what eyes of a blue dog meant, and why the women would always say that phrase. I really didn't understand the message, that the author was trying to give us, because I was a little confused.
ReplyDelete"Eyes of a Blue Dog" was difficult to understand. My analysis on it is that it's all about dreams & reality. The lady uses her senses when she dreams & wakes up remembering what she had dreamed while the man doesn't. She feels like metal at times and that someone is watching her because someone is probably dreaming of her. That somebody might be the man from the beginning.She is always near a lamp because she is cold and senses someone watching her or in my interpretation dreaming about her. Because she uses all her senses, she remembers her dreams detail by detail. One of her dreams was about a man who said "Eyes of a Blue Dog" she then finds out who in reality said that to her & warns him not to leave because she is dreaming again. The story confused me a bit but this is my understanding of it.
ReplyDeleteRight on time! Good job!
DeleteHaha I was sooo caught up on rereading it lol.
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