In this reading is Atlas Shrugged, Dagny gets back to work and no one is there to help her. She is trying to get people to help her but no one wants to.
Hank discovered that Dangy and Francisco were past lovers. This hurt him deeply, but him and Dagny made up which, I feel, this makes their relationship stronger.
Daniels quit on Dagny and I thought that at this point Dagny was going to lose it completely. He was getting onto something with the motor and he just decided to leave. The destroyer had definitely gotten to him and she was scared of who he was going to get to next.
The ending of the second part the action was rising very quickly. She she was on the train it suddenly stopped and the crew had abandoned the train. Dagny, of course, took action and tried to straightened everything out. She found that Kellogg was also on the train, and just as he was when he was her employee he was loyal to her. He walked with her miles until they reached the service phone. While they were there, Kellogg offered her a cigarette, and on that cigarette there was a dollar sign. When this happened I got excited because Akston had the same cigarettes. He told her that she would sell her them for gold coins. This was strange to me because the pirate offered Hank gold. I wondered if they were related in any way because I have not seen any references to gold in the book. What was also strange to me in this part was that Dagny was following Daniels in the airplane. I did not think that it was possible for someone to follow another on an airplane. A) it's dangerous B) I feel like that would just be difficult. When she lost the plane in the clouds, she crashes the airplane, but does not die.
In the beginning of the third part everything seemed very magical to me. I thought that the man laying next to Dagny was Hank, by the way Rand was describing him. But it ended up being John Galt! I don't know why but I got a little too excited when he showed up. Everything was majestic because all the people that had vanished kept popping up. Everyone was there and everyone had jobs that they actually wanted to do. What annoyed me was that all of these people had discovered things that could help the people and they were not going to share it. They did not want to share it because it was their research and they did it for themselves.
I think I had the same reaction during the scene where Dagny is chasing after the destroyer in the plane. It just didn't seem realistic. Just the fact that she already knew how to fly the plane made me automatically role my eyes. When exactly did she find the time to learn how to fly a plane in her incredibly busy schedule of trying to save the entire country? It’s just not plausible.
ReplyDeleteBut even though it very wasn’t realistic, I think that there’s a lot of significance behind the scene. It was her most desperate attempt at trying to save the world, and it’s one of the most dramatic scenes in the entire novel. Time is moving a lot quicker then in the other parts of the book. It’s like the scenes in the movies where the girl is running after the guy she loves, but who's leaving to move to L.A. She leaves the house, gets through security at the airport, and to the gate in ten seconds flat and the entire time your heart is racing. Very dramatic and reminds me of the Dagny plane chase scene.