13w The Lawnmower Man - notes by Fredda Profesora https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0 Write your notes to your two pages here (title: pages and group members). en-us 2015-09-02 22:12:23 UTC 2025-04-24 11:11:25 UTC hello@padlet.com Pages 13-14: Hannah, Johnny, Haris og Rose https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317491 "Harold agreed, holding tightly to the frayed ends of his sanity" (p. 13)

"The sound of the insane lawnmower seemod to be growing louder and louder, drowning out everything

in the universe." (p. 13)

Sanity - Insanity

""Apt to be messy, too. Now if you was just to show me where you keep your sharpest butcher knife, we could get this sacrifice business out of the way real painless... I think the birdbath would do ..... and then "" (p. 14)

Harold - avoiding his problems.

"Harold looked around and saw the lawnmower man’s mechanized familiar advancing through the door." - Uncanny - familiar and unfamiliar.

- Crises - Right before the climax - Building up tension.

]]> 2015-09-02 22:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317491 Pages 9-10 Group 4. Astrid, Mathias, Gustav og Eva B https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317493 Summary: Page 9 begins with Harold trying to make the lawnmower man stop the mower. However the lawnmower man does not notice. The mower kills a mole, and the lawnmower man eats it, which makes Harold think of Smith’s cat. He vomits, and passes out. He wakes up believing it was all a dream. Instead he finds out, that he is still in the middle of the living nightmare. It is the lawnmower man who has awoken him. Harold is terrified by him.

Analysis

Element: It is horror, because the story shows something surreal.

Harold and Carla's relationship:

"Carla was shaking him. He hadn't done the dishes or emptied the garbage and Carla was going to be very angry but that was all right."


"...back into the normal world, nice normal Carla with her Playtex Living Girdle"

]]> 2015-09-02 22:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317493 Group 1 - Viktor, Seb, Sofie, Ahmad https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317495 Harold needs to find a new way to mowe his lawn, without him actually having to do it. He puts it off for a very long time, and the grass is becoming very tall. The boy he had to do it has gone off to university, so he eventually calls a professional. Before that, he is telling us about his neighbours bad jokes and annoying kids.Lastly, he says that it would be a pleasent suprise if it could be done before his wife and daughter returns from his mother-in-law.

"Harold shook his head in wonder and went to the refrigerator to get a beer"
This part shows us that he has not changed a bit, and might alcohol addiction?

"... Jack Castonmeyer had begun to tell extremely unfunny jokes [...]. And Don Smith's four year old daughter had taken to hiding [the grass]" He has become a very grumpy man, pushing people away. He might need to drink in order to be able to deal with his life.

"Harold hung up with a lingering feeling of unease and went back to the porch." This might be a hint of his realisation of the fact that he is not very energetic any more (low on willpower). It is more likely that this is one of the crisis, and another element of horror, terror, in the way that we do not know what it is yet, but it still results in a somewhat chilling feeling.


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- Harold is a Republican

- He remains passive while listening to a Red Sox game in the radio and reading the financial section in the paper

- HP has experienced failure

- HP becomes more active: "Harold jumped to his feet, knocking his chair over and staring around widely. "That's a lawnmower?" Harold Parkette asked the kitchen. 'My God, that's a lawnmower?"

- A van with the words "Pastoral Greenery, Inc."

- Harold sees that the lawnmower is running on its own and no one is pushing it

- The lawnmower man was naked and he was crawling along behind the mower, while eating the cut grass: "Green juice ran down his chin and dripped on to his pendulous belly

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  • These pages contain a lot of irony: "Harold sprinted across his newly cut back lawn.", "grinning grill of the chlarging lawnmower."
  • Besides the irony there is a lot of sarcasm, since Harold ends up dying because of his need for a perfect cut lawn: "the scent of newly mown grass hung in the air." This quote is also an example of grim humor since death is made into jokes and sarcasm.
  • "Where's the rest of him?" "The birdbath." This grotesque description of the incident leaves a hint of gross out.
  • Harold is lazy and it comes back around in the end becomes the end of him: "(...) but there had been too many beers, too many afternoon naps."
  • "The he looked over his shoulder and tripped over his feet." It sort of builds up tension, but is done very casually. 
  • The language is very casual and 'everyday-like' which is very grotesque since the incident is quite horrifying.
  • Humorous lines in the dialogue: "You might as well ask for footprints." "Schizo-fucking-phrenia." These lines make the police officers seem cold and cynical.
  • King is afraid of machines; Harold is killed by a grinning lawnmower.
    • ]]>     2015-09-02 22:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317498     Page 11-12: Eva K, Johnni, Ulrik, Helena https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317499 "Harold noticed the unusually deep split between the first and second toes, almost as if the feet were ....... well, cloven."

    "Well, say, buddy. I figured you must have guessed... God bless the grass and all."
    Harold shook his head carefully and the lawnmower man laughed."Pan. Pan's the boss.”

    Pan was the God of shepherds, so based on the Lawnmower Man’s behaviour and his cloven toes, we thought that he could be a sheep turned into a human. 

    "One word knelled over and over in his mind, and that word was "sacrifice”.

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  • Harold is very judgemental, on the outside he is very passive but on the inside he has a lot of opinions
    • He was fat
    • always with a spare minute ... smoke Lucky Strikes 
  • He cracked a beer 
    • He knocked over his beer getting up to answer
  • Dick Drago
  • He has let loose “I’m afraid i’ve let it go"
  • The new lawnmower man is very confident, a smartass, “charming”
  • The wife is an object
  • Circe
    • ]]>     2015-09-02 22:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317500     Summary: pages 9-10 Group 4: Astrid, Xenia, Gustav, Mathias and Beck https://padlet.com/freddagalea/6uj090j5mkx0/wish/68317501 Page 9 begins with Harold trying to make the lawnmower man stop the mower. However the lawnmower man does not notice. The mower kills a mole, and the lawnmower man eats it, which makes Harold think of Smith’s cat. He vomits, and passes out. He wakes up believing it was all a dream. Instead he finds out, he is still in the middle of the living nightmare. It is the lawnmower man who has awoken him. Harold is terrified by him. Analysis Element: It is horror, because it is something surreal. s

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