Blog # 4

The Tenth of January struck me as being a little hard to follow. At the beginning it talked so much of sand and how the sand was described as "sand-heaps and sand-hillocks and-roads; for men digging sand, for women shaking off sand, for minute boys crawling in sand; for sand in the church-slips and the gingerbread-windows, for sand in your eyes, your nose, your mouth, down your neck, up your sleeves, under your chignon, down your throat. The symbol I am going to focus on in this piece is going to be sand. I felt that the way the sand was described as being something of such a hindrance just at the beginning of the piece had to prove to introduce the mood of the story. I think that this sand could serve to be many things but what I interpreted the meaning was of power. It spoke of men being the ones digging in sand and the women shaking off the sand, therefore they are the ones getting buried by what the men are digging. I just felt that the essence of women was being drowned in this story, it seemed to give the appearance that women are hurt women cry and women learn to cover it up in order to do their duties, women often get buried.