The Lazarus Project

Rora's photographs were a main theme in this section of the book. Brik is talking about how him and Mary used to look at pictures together early on in their marriage. Rora always has his camera on him and is always snapping pictures, especially of Brik and Mary. Brik used to look at the pictures as hope into the future, but now he says "Now I didn't care about the future in which I would be looking at Rora's photos. The pictures would offer no revelations; I would have seen all that mattered already, because I was present at the moment of their creation"(228). Now that Brik watches Rora take these pictures and make such beautiful art, he doesn't feel the need to go back and look at them. He is no longer intrigued by them. I think the pictures are a good representation of Brik and Rora's journey. Obviously the whole thing is documented, but it is a representation of how Rora feels about parts of the journey. I think that you can capture emotion in a lot of pictures and whatever emotion he is conveying in his photos are meaningful to their journey.

Pogrom-an organized massacre, especially of Jews.

The Bridegroom

This article was very interesting to me because it displayed how the tolerance of homosexuality has chanced throughout time.  In the story, the officials think that homosexuality is equivalent to syphilis.  They lacked understanding and because of their ignorance they mistreated the men who were apart of this “men’s club”.  It was sad how Boawen said that he was only there for emotional reasons, but admitted to wanting a more sexual relationship with one of the men.  I never thought about how for homosexual men before the level of acceptance for this lifestyle rose.  It seemed to me that Beina and Boawen’s mother were the only supportive ones.