Instructions: Read each response below. Which entry would you allot the higher grade? Rank them. Provide the reasons for your decision. Use quotes and extracts to support your answer from at least three of the following responses. I look forward to reading your detailed analysis.
Student Response: Alpha
Q: What is this talk about the toothbrush? How might this change Garcin expectations? What does this seem to foreshadow and how is it related to question one?
A: As I mentioned in the first question, Garcin was behaving in a very natural manner when he first came to the hell. He acted, as he was still alive. In that point, Garcin being in hell is quite a paradox as only dead people can go to hell. Moreover, Garcin mentions “But, damn it all, they might have left me my toothbrush!”(4). However, like Valet said “Good heavens, Mr. Garcin, can’t you use your brains?” “I ask you, what would be the point of brushing your teeth?”(4), there is no need for Garcin to brush his teeth. As he is a dead man in hell, his physical metabolisms wont work properly and he won’t need any physical cares to maintain himself healthy.
Student Response: Beta
Q: Based on Garcin's interaction with the valet, what kind of person is he? What is his emotional state when he first arrives? (talk about his real and apparent state if they are different.)
A: Based on the talk between Garcin and Valet, Garcin is a kind of arrogant and prideful man, but weak in real. “Do you know who I was?”(3) Garcin considered himself something big or someone in high position, which means he is quite arrogant. Moreover, at first he arrives the hotel in the hell, he seems he is at ease and calm. However, even though his apparent state is calm, his real state isn’t. He is afraid of the situation what he faced as he keeps mentioning about the torture: “I’ll ask you to be more polite. I quite realize the position I’m in, but I won’t tolerate [it]” (4); he continues, “I’ve a good notion of what’s coming to me, so don’t you boast you’ve caught me off my guard”(5). He pretends to be calm and to be unafraid of torture, but in truth, he is much afraid of it: he just hides his mind. He is a kind of proud man, since usually a person with great self-respect pretends to be strong and to be unafraid of anything. He is a vain person.
Student Response: Gamma
Q: Where does Garcin, or at least think he is? How do you know? (Why is there all this talk of torture?)
A: Garcin thinks he is in hell and that he is going to be punished, that’s why he is looking for the instruments of torture, “GARCIN. Quite so. [Both laugh. Abruptly the laugh dies from GAR-CIN'S face.] But, I say, where are the instruments of torture?
VALET: The what?
GARCIN: The racks and red-hot pincers and all the other para-phernalia?”
Another thing that confirms me that he thinks he is in hell is his attitude towards he punishment, he is awarded that something “bad” is going to happen, because he knows that he did something wrong and he tries to face the situation,
“Garcin. . . No, I suppose you're under orders not to answer questions; and I won't insist. But don't forget, my man, I've a good notion of what's coming to me, so don't you boast you've caught me off my guard. I'm facing the situation, facing it.”
Student Response: Delta
Q: Where does Garcin, or at least think he is? how do you know? (Why is there all this talk of torture?)
A: He is in a room in hell after he died. There is fake furniture of Second Empire and he was looking for instruments of torture. Garcin wants to torture himself because make sure they actually exist and relievetheirguilty of doing wrong things.
Student Response: Epsilon
Q: Where does Garcin, or at least think he is? how do you know? (Why is there all this talk of torture?)
I think Garcin is in the hotel of the hell, or at least in the hotel of somewhere similar as hell. Firstly, from Valet’s saying which is “We cater for all sorts: Chinamen and Indians, for instance.” (3), I was able to know that Garcin is in the international place where many people from various countries, especially the hotel. In addition, as Garcin mentioned “where are the instruments of torture?”(4) , I can know that the place where Garcin is somewhere people get punishment, such as hell and prison, as “the instruments of torture” (4) which means the equipments for torture are usually shown in the prison, or hell. “The racks and red-hot pincers and all the other para-phernalia”(4) also indicates that the place is hell, as “the racks and red-hot pincers” (4) are the traditional punishment in the hell. I assume that since Garcin himself knew that he has done something wrong or bad, he predicted he would be in the hell, and this is the reason why the talk between Garcin and Valet is about the torture.
Student Response: Zeta
29. What does Inez mean when she says, "well, Mr. Garcin, now you have us in the nude alright"(29)?
When Inez says, “well, Mr. Garcin, now you have us in the nude alright” she is not being quite so literal with her statement but is rather referring to the English expression of “laying oneself bare” in front of others. As taken from context before the line was spoken both Inez and Estelle recount their gruesome and tragic tales to Mr. Garcin and thus are laying themselves bare. Since they are “now in the nude”, Inez is trying to say that Garcin can shed his inhibitions and proceed to expose to them what deed of his has truly brought him down to “hell”.
Student Response: Eta
Q: What does Sartre seem to be suggesting about the importance of sleep? (5)
A: I think Sartre seem to suggest sleeping is important because he won’t be able to rest, which will be the torture for him. Also, he kept thinking that he is a human even he has died.
Q: What is this talk about the toothbrush? How might this change Garcin expectations? What does this seem to foreshadow and how is it related to question one?
A: As I mentioned in the first question, Garcin was behaving in a very natural manner when he first came to the hell. He acted, as he was still alive. In that point, Garcin being in hell is quite a paradox as only dead people can go to hell. Moreover, Garcin mentions “But, damn it all, they might have left me my toothbrush!”(4). However, like Valet said “Good heavens, Mr. Garcin, can’t you use your brains?” “I ask you, what would be the point of brushing your teeth?”(4), there is no need for Garcin to brush his teeth. As he is a dead man in hell, his physical metabolisms wont work properly and he won’t need any physical cares to maintain himself healthy.
Student Response: Beta
Q: Based on Garcin's interaction with the valet, what kind of person is he? What is his emotional state when he first arrives? (talk about his real and apparent state if they are different.)
A: Based on the talk between Garcin and Valet, Garcin is a kind of arrogant and prideful man, but weak in real. “Do you know who I was?”(3) Garcin considered himself something big or someone in high position, which means he is quite arrogant. Moreover, at first he arrives the hotel in the hell, he seems he is at ease and calm. However, even though his apparent state is calm, his real state isn’t. He is afraid of the situation what he faced as he keeps mentioning about the torture: “I’ll ask you to be more polite. I quite realize the position I’m in, but I won’t tolerate [it]” (4); he continues, “I’ve a good notion of what’s coming to me, so don’t you boast you’ve caught me off my guard”(5). He pretends to be calm and to be unafraid of torture, but in truth, he is much afraid of it: he just hides his mind. He is a kind of proud man, since usually a person with great self-respect pretends to be strong and to be unafraid of anything. He is a vain person.
Student Response: Gamma
Q: Where does Garcin, or at least think he is? How do you know? (Why is there all this talk of torture?)
A: Garcin thinks he is in hell and that he is going to be punished, that’s why he is looking for the instruments of torture, “GARCIN. Quite so. [Both laugh. Abruptly the laugh dies from GAR-CIN'S face.] But, I say, where are the instruments of torture?
VALET: The what?
GARCIN: The racks and red-hot pincers and all the other para-phernalia?”
Another thing that confirms me that he thinks he is in hell is his attitude towards he punishment, he is awarded that something “bad” is going to happen, because he knows that he did something wrong and he tries to face the situation,
“Garcin. . . No, I suppose you're under orders not to answer questions; and I won't insist. But don't forget, my man, I've a good notion of what's coming to me, so don't you boast you've caught me off my guard. I'm facing the situation, facing it.”
Student Response: Delta
Q: Where does Garcin, or at least think he is? how do you know? (Why is there all this talk of torture?)
A: He is in a room in hell after he died. There is fake furniture of Second Empire and he was looking for instruments of torture. Garcin wants to torture himself because make sure they actually exist and relievetheirguilty of doing wrong things.
Student Response: Epsilon
Q: Where does Garcin, or at least think he is? how do you know? (Why is there all this talk of torture?)
I think Garcin is in the hotel of the hell, or at least in the hotel of somewhere similar as hell. Firstly, from Valet’s saying which is “We cater for all sorts: Chinamen and Indians, for instance.” (3), I was able to know that Garcin is in the international place where many people from various countries, especially the hotel. In addition, as Garcin mentioned “where are the instruments of torture?”(4) , I can know that the place where Garcin is somewhere people get punishment, such as hell and prison, as “the instruments of torture” (4) which means the equipments for torture are usually shown in the prison, or hell. “The racks and red-hot pincers and all the other para-phernalia”(4) also indicates that the place is hell, as “the racks and red-hot pincers” (4) are the traditional punishment in the hell. I assume that since Garcin himself knew that he has done something wrong or bad, he predicted he would be in the hell, and this is the reason why the talk between Garcin and Valet is about the torture.
Student Response: Zeta
29. What does Inez mean when she says, "well, Mr. Garcin, now you have us in the nude alright"(29)?
When Inez says, “well, Mr. Garcin, now you have us in the nude alright” she is not being quite so literal with her statement but is rather referring to the English expression of “laying oneself bare” in front of others. As taken from context before the line was spoken both Inez and Estelle recount their gruesome and tragic tales to Mr. Garcin and thus are laying themselves bare. Since they are “now in the nude”, Inez is trying to say that Garcin can shed his inhibitions and proceed to expose to them what deed of his has truly brought him down to “hell”.
Student Response: Eta
Q: What does Sartre seem to be suggesting about the importance of sleep? (5)
A: I think Sartre seem to suggest sleeping is important because he won’t be able to rest, which will be the torture for him. Also, he kept thinking that he is a human even he has died.