Essay Outline

I figured I might as well post my outline on my blog just because. I gave my hard copy into murray on friday so hopefully I'll get it back tommorow (tuesday) and I'll start my essay thursday night at around 11 p.m. because it is due friday.... just joking. Im going to do a bit of work each night and hopefully get it done by wedendsay.

Essay outline
The invention of the world
Yanick Lee
Thesis: Donal Brendan Keneally’s attempt to invent the world by starting a colony(revelations colony of truth) resulted in him being blind to his own failed utopia.
Reason: In order to see the result of a failed utopia, it is first necessary to investigate Donal Keneally’s childhood in order to really understand what is behind his vision. Donal Keneally’s childhood molded him into being an unstable leader therefore a failed utopia was inevitable.
Example: He is the son of a whore and a bull and at a young age was taught too much knowledge for his own good. He is a quick learner, but a learner of the wrong things and arrogant as well as not listening to what people have to say. He used his knowledge to make people’s lives around him miserable.
Examples: 1. Son of a whore and bull “…she went out to the shed in the night to check on the girl and found her mounted by a monstrous black bull with eyes that shone like red lanterns and a scrotum that hung like a sack of turnips” (pg. 71)
2. “ The O’Sullivan family reported that they’d seen him, at the age of three, marching across their bottom field where their meanest bull was kept out of the way of mischief, to give the snorting beast a crack across his nose. And Moriarty In his bar reported less than a year later that he’d seen the boy give Jerry Quirke a good kick that set him rolling on his back. “Oh he’s a bold child, that one,” they all agreed. (pg. 79)
3. “… the boy was the easiest pupil he’d ever taught.” (pg. 80)
4. “ By the age of twelve he was able to tell everyone in Moriarty’s Bar of fifty different ways you could come at a world like “truth””. (pg.81) – had the right idea as a child but vision changed.
5. “ on another occasion he hypnotized them all(the village) into believing they were a herd of cows and sent them mooing down the road tossing their heads at flies…Quirke told him he’d gone too far and ought to be beaten like a dog.” (pg.81)
6. “… for in some matters he’s as ignorant as the next man and twice as dangerous”. (pg.82)
7. “…for Keneally with his usual capacity for not only learning all there was to teach, but also going on from there to every possible logical extreme, immediately turned himself into a pair of twins.” (pg.83)
8. “ The villagers became so angry at the boy’s nonsense that instead of complaining to Quirke as they had done in the past they came in a group to Brendan, and tried to persuade him that for the good of the whole mountain he should strangle his brother in his sleep…” (pg.85)
Reason (continuation of reason #1): Donal thought he knew everything there was to know but the truth is, he does not know how to accomplish his one goal in life: to invent the world. This causing the failed utopia.
Example: Donal had an apparatus that he claimed was god. He used this apparatus to persuade people into thinking that he had god in his pocket, making him seem greater than god. Which would lead them to believe that he could accomplish anything.
Example: 1. “Out of this pocket and that pocket and out of his sleeves he pulled wheels and rods and cylinders and boxes until he had assembled before him a large complicated machine which he told them was God…he said, but the fact was that God was a machine which he carried around in his pocket. God was hs slave too, just as all of them had become his slaves, and he would show them what he thought of God his slave.” (pg. 99).
Reason: Many people lost their lives on the trip to Vancouver island, and many lost their lives in the actual colony because of disease and lack of food and supplies. No one was ever happy, the mood was always dark and ominous and Keneally had gotten power hungry. He claimed to be the father of his followers but if he were in fact their father, he would of taken much better care of them.
Examples: 1. “ One of the first things I remember thinking when I got down into this place was what have they done to it so that I feel as if I should keep my eyes always on the ground?”(pg. 246).
2. “ You were conscious only of the earth, the dirt…the houses were all squat, dark made of logs…” (pg.247).
3. “ It was an ugly sight, that first day, that first week, in the rain. Those brown log shacks, those pale fields, everything was so dull.” (pg.247)
4. “ I saw them all through that rain, living in their cloud, going about their plodding business with their eyes hardly ever lifted off the ground in front of their feet. I imagined that they were incapable of seeing anything beyond they own bodies, their own clay.” (pg. 250)
5. “… he thought he’d provided everything on it that anyone could possibly want: a piece of land, a sense of belonging, enough work to keep you too tired to start worrying about anything…” (pg. 254)
Reason: Donal Keneally thought he had succeeded in creating his own world. This was the root of his failed utopia. He was blind to the reactions of the pioneers of his colony and therefore could not accept the fact that he had failed.
Example: Donal would give speeches on how his colony will be used as a model in future society’s yet its existence did not surpass a decade.
Example: “ And then there were the speeches just for me. About his colony and how it would be held up as a model in the future and how he was trying to get the government to come in and have a look in order to set up others like it on the island. You shouldn’t colonize a place by just inviting people onto it and letting them do what they want, he said, that way in fifty years they’ll have ruined it all, you’ll get people thinking they have the right to sell some of it to the others.” (pg. 255)