Voyage in the Dark final-Ali Pepin

Voyage in the Dark proved to be a very interesting read. Our class discussion cleared a lot up for me though. The dream with the baby and priest that had a eerie look on his face was very confusing but upon further analyzing it made sense of the idea of religion against prostitution. As Anna was very promiscuous she definitely had some inner fears of being judged and this fear was illustrated in her dream.
The fact that she was on a boat in water seemed a prominent theme that I've noticed among our books. The Awakening, New England Nun, Voyage, Three Dreams in a Desert-all of these readings talk about water in them as though a form of rebirth. It's as though water is fluid like life and represents how women in particular can be recreated and let their soul be controlled by the water.
 Even babies and children have been prominent in most stories thus far. It's as though these "New Women" are finding that children are detrimental to their life and taking their soul. With Anna, her abortion was for the fact that she couldn't take care of a child, and it was her promiscuous actions had come full circle to their consequences. She was too immature-and almost too much of a drunk to realize what her life was becoming.
The alcohol she used to cover up her feelings to realize what she was doing, and the uncertainty with Walter left her in this downward spiral into prostitution (somewhat). This is similar to The Awakening as well, with how women are controlled by men in a way with how one man breaks their heart, then it's all downhill and their lives "suck" from there. For example, Anna's heart is broken by Walter, then she continues drinking, sleeping with other men, and finally gets pregnant and can't have a child, so she gets an abortion where from the drugs she has hallucinations and the book comes to an end.

This blog is a bit all over, but I had to cover all that I saw when reading this book.