In this weeks reading, we begin in the Cruncher household, were we meet Mr. Cruncher and his wife. Mr. Crunchers wife is supposedly praying for him, but he thinks that she is praying against him. Why is this? Mr. Cruncher also exclaims that her praying against him brings him bad luck. Mr. Cruncher must be doing something out of the ordinary in order to believe that his wife would be giving him bad luck.
Also, Mr. Cruncher throws a fit about the mud on his boots. Did his wife really put the mud on his boots? I'm a bit confused about this part of the chapter.
What does the rust under the fingernails mean? Does it have meaning? It is strange because young Jerry wants to know where the iron rust comes from because there isn't any around there, he says. It makes me wonder why he wants to be so much like his father when he isn't even completely sure what it is that he is doing.
Another part of this reading section that disturbed me quite a bit, was the way of punishment for a guilty punishment in court. It is absolutely grotesque the way that they quarter the people up. Half hanging them, cutting out their insides and burning them up, then cutting the body into quarters and burning that! Plus, the people treat it as a form of entertainment!! It is disgusting to even think about enjoying that kind of event.
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