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Climbing the Tower

Climbing the Tower. By Harry Crews. What does Crews know about himself? Rather, what does he want you to think he knows about himself? Who is he presenting himself to be?. What does the professor know, and how does he know it?.

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Climbing the Tower

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  1. Climbing the Tower By Harry Crews

  2. What does Crews know about himself? Rather, what does he want you to think he knows about himself? Who is he presenting himself to be?

  3. What does the professor know, and how does he know it?

  4. What does Harry know about Charles Whitman? Where do you suppose he got his information? Does he claim a special sort of knowledge of Whitman? Is there anything contrived (obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous) about his knowledge?

  5. Do you think that Crews thinks that Whitman knew he was going to commit these atrocities?

  6. What does TOWER represent in the following quote in the essay, “…once the tower is climbed there is no turning back, no way out of it, no way down except death”?

  7. Does Harry know he is an alcoholic?

  8. What is the epistemological (the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge) status of dreams?

  9. What do you think Crews intended you to know when he quoted Graham Greene: “The artist is doomed to live in an atmosphere of perpetual failure…Inevitably, it is out of a base of failure that we try to rise again to do another thing.”

  10. What is guilt? What is knowledge of guilt? How are they related? What does Goethe mean when he stated: “There is no crime of which I could not conceive my self guilty.”

  11. Define sanity. Is the person who fails to realize that he has a tower to climb sane? How can you tell when you are sane or insane? Who makes that judgment?

  12. What does it mean to say that behavior is caused? Why is it important to think about behavior in those terms? If behavior is caused, are we responsible for it? Why is insanity a defense in a criminal trial?

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