Week 7, Analysis, Lummis

       For week 7, I am going to write a close reading post about the story called Charles Fletcher Lummis and the section of this story I am going to talk about is on page 343, third paragraph on the page. This section talks about how Lummis was sitting in his office writing, when all of a sudden he heard two explosions. When these explosions happened, Lummis jumped straight to the conclusion that the LA Times had been dynamited and he was correct. The very next morning, he got a 4 page article at his door step explaining that the Times had been destroyed.
       It is obvious that the LA Times had some issues in the beginning of the text leading up to the explosion, but even after knowing those issues I did not think they would get dynamited. However, to Lummis it seemed like no surprise and looked like he had been preparing for this day to happen for years, and it finally did. I think this hit him hard because of the long time he worked with the Times, fought with them, and defended them in many different instances. That was his job, and his second home and it had been blown up and killed 20 men.
       Breaking down the paragraph led me to realize it was a very strong and clear point the author was trying to make, and I made this assumption from the word choices he used such as: two explosions, dynamite, threats, the phrase he shouted to god when the explosions happened, killing twenty men. These are all powerful words that were obviously talking about a powerful event, but I think the author chose to use these powerful words to indicate how much it affected him by the Times getting blown up. There is different ways and words to use to describe something like this that don't seem so powerful, but the way he described this scene going down really shows it impacted him as a person.
       Taking a step back and looking at the paragraph I chose to analyze, my opinion hasn't changed much but I have realized how deep Lummis took this event when it happened, and the impact it ultimately gave him. I don't need to re-state my thesis much, but I need to add that this wasn't only a huge event that went down in the Times history, but it was a huge event that went down in Lummis' life as well. It all adds up because Lummis had talked about the threats the Times had earlier in the story, and we saw the disagreements the Times went through with different agencies. So it was kind of a hint the whole time, but did not seem real to anyone until it happened.
       Taking another step back, this was not really a break in action but an ignition of action. This explosion boomed a new topic in the story for us as readers. This tells a story about a previous event, and how it was kind of revenge. I cannot think of any other moments as significant as this that happened anywhere else in the text.