Let me start of by saying that we are ending this semester with a great book. This book has kept me interested since day one. The only think that I dont like about this book is the truth behind it. Im going to be a teacher in the future and I would hate to anything to happen to mys students and seems like Bone has been through the wrost a child could go through as a child. It seems like Bones Inoocent has been taken from her. She was raped and beaten by a guy that she calls "Daddy Glen". I always wondered why she caled him Daddy Glen especially after all he did to her. What was more disturbing is that her aunt and her mother suspect of it happening and they still dont do anything about it. I hate that her mother lets this horrible man beat her and she doest do anything about it. Annie knows that this man beats her child and she still thinks that this man loves bone and he doesnt mean to do anything to her.
A real disturbing part in the story was when Bone masturbate to the fact that someone might catch Glen beating her. At first I was really shocked because she is so young she shouldnt have to think of anything like that she should be playing with dolls not masturbating. But it all makes sence she does this because its confort for her. She does it because it pleases he to know that some day someone can catch Glen beating her and look at him like a monster. Another thing that bothered me was the fact that she still would have forgave him for him doing such horrific things to her. while I read this book I always wondered why Glen picke Bone and not Reese. I think that he had some type of obsession with her. he was sick in the head. It seems like the mother Annie was even more messed up because she kept this looser around her daughter.
This book is very similiar to the play "A Street Car named Desire" because Bone and Stella were raped and there family members kind of just ignored it. They put there nasty husbands before there family members to me thats just insane.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
The Underground Stream and a little about Dickey
When I first read this poem I though Og a guy that was really depressed. I thought that he was suicidal, or a cry for help. To me this person doesnt seem to happy with thereself. They seem like they are trying to hide there identity. They may be trying to throw everything down that well and possibly become someone new. By this I think Dickey is trying to state that the well is an escape. The person in this poem can use the well to shed any worries or there identity that they are not happy with and become a new person. The end of the poem states " My image of joy flow down" Its like he is happy that he is free of the person he was.
My thoughts on Dikey.
When I read Dickeys poems half the time I dont know whats going on but as I read on I notice that he is very physical and emotional in his poems. Even though he uses emotions and physical characteristics he does it in a decrete way. Like in the poem " The sheep Child. He talks about the boys getting sexually aroused but you dont really catch on to it until you read it again. Most of his poems are sexual so that makes me wonder about him. Maybe he was lonely and the only way he got pleasure was through his poems. Just my opinion. I must say My favorite poem that I have read of his was "Falling" this made the most sence to me. It was long but the way he did it made it interesting. He based it on her falling and the things she thought about while she was falling. The ending was a surprise its like she survived just enough time to think about the fact tht she couldve lived if there was water around her, to me that was sad because as she was falling she was so hopeful and reality didnt hit her until she was ready to die.
My thoughts on Dikey.
When I read Dickeys poems half the time I dont know whats going on but as I read on I notice that he is very physical and emotional in his poems. Even though he uses emotions and physical characteristics he does it in a decrete way. Like in the poem " The sheep Child. He talks about the boys getting sexually aroused but you dont really catch on to it until you read it again. Most of his poems are sexual so that makes me wonder about him. Maybe he was lonely and the only way he got pleasure was through his poems. Just my opinion. I must say My favorite poem that I have read of his was "Falling" this made the most sence to me. It was long but the way he did it made it interesting. He based it on her falling and the things she thought about while she was falling. The ending was a surprise its like she survived just enough time to think about the fact tht she couldve lived if there was water around her, to me that was sad because as she was falling she was so hopeful and reality didnt hit her until she was ready to die.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
The Heaven of Animals
This was the most confusing and crazy poem I have ever read. I dont understand it much and to my understanding I believe everyone that reads this peom will have a different view on it. It starts off some what with a quiet tone then it gets a little scary and the end it unknown. I dont know if its just me but I read this many times and each time I read it the question that lingered in my head was "what is going on? So I am going to do my best to break each verse down.
The first verse describe how "they" came and where "they were possibly from"
The second verse describes how "they" came, and I got the sence of them being innocent becuase it describes their eyes soft as they opened.
The third verse, I got the sence that they could be strong becuase it says that they outdid waht was required.
The Fourth verse was it talkes about blood and how they hunted.????
the fifth verse " they " seemed more dangerous because it says that they were "more deadly than they can believe".
The las verse was confuding it was like" their" purpose was to hunt and kill and that was ok...
I chose this poem because when I read the title it looked as if it were going to be easy because of the title but Im not to shure if the title has anything to do with the poem itself. Just my opinion..... :)
The first verse describe how "they" came and where "they were possibly from"
The second verse describes how "they" came, and I got the sence of them being innocent becuase it describes their eyes soft as they opened.
The third verse, I got the sence that they could be strong becuase it says that they outdid waht was required.
The Fourth verse was it talkes about blood and how they hunted.????
the fifth verse " they " seemed more dangerous because it says that they were "more deadly than they can believe".
The las verse was confuding it was like" their" purpose was to hunt and kill and that was ok...
I chose this poem because when I read the title it looked as if it were going to be easy because of the title but Im not to shure if the title has anything to do with the poem itself. Just my opinion..... :)
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Revelation
When I first started reading this story I was really confused because i was expecting a story about God or about something in the bible, but it wasnt quite like that. Its about a women named Mrs.Turpin, who was very large who was in a waiting room in a small hospital sort of like a garage. This lady is very judgemental . It was quite disturbung actually. She talks about a ugly girl, the trashy people also know as "white trash" and the black people but she reffers to them as "niggers". I dont know if this is how white women thought in the south but I wasnt surprised.
On page 820 she says that if Jesus had asked her to pick from being white trash or a nigger, she would have asked for another choice but if he said she had to pick one she would had begged a little more but then she would have picked to be a nigga but she aked to be a propper one not a trashy one. I like Mrs. Trpins interpretation of the social classes in the south.. She describes that at the bottom of the heap were most colored people, then next came white trash, then the home owners and at the top were home and land owners. Mrs. Turpin was at the very top.
Yoou can kind of tell what time frame this takes place, becuae on pg 823 they talk about how hard it is to get black people top pick cotton and how even they were moving up on the class ladder but they described it as the black people trying to be like the white folks. Toward the end she is picked out she is very mad and she constantly says why dont they pick on other trash meaning white people and then she says to pick on the black people instead its like the tables were turned like her, she finally got to feel like the people she talked about.
On page 820 she says that if Jesus had asked her to pick from being white trash or a nigger, she would have asked for another choice but if he said she had to pick one she would had begged a little more but then she would have picked to be a nigga but she aked to be a propper one not a trashy one. I like Mrs. Trpins interpretation of the social classes in the south.. She describes that at the bottom of the heap were most colored people, then next came white trash, then the home owners and at the top were home and land owners. Mrs. Turpin was at the very top.
Yoou can kind of tell what time frame this takes place, becuae on pg 823 they talk about how hard it is to get black people top pick cotton and how even they were moving up on the class ladder but they described it as the black people trying to be like the white folks. Toward the end she is picked out she is very mad and she constantly says why dont they pick on other trash meaning white people and then she says to pick on the black people instead its like the tables were turned like her, she finally got to feel like the people she talked about.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Street Car Named Desire movie vs play
Ok this was more like it. I didnt like reading the play watching it is way better. When you watch it you can actually see how the characters look how they are and there facial expressions. Blanche looked exactly as I thought she would look, she was blonde skinney and sassy. I didnt like Stellas husband in the play and i especially didnt like him in the movie. In the play he seemed like a jerk in the movie he was a monster. Stella wasnt any help she let him act the way he wanted she shouldve left him when he hit her the first time, but her passion was really seen when she took him back.
I liked the movie better also because not only was it more interesting to look at but you could really see the character Blanche was. She was out of her mind since day one. It was like she was in her own world the way she would pance around the house like she was a queen. For some reason i expecte Mitch to be much more hansome because it just seemed like Blanche would have better taste because she was so sassy. The scen that I really thought was different was the scene where Mitch told Blanche that she wast clean enough to bring to her mother, in the movie he said it bt he was trying to seduce her at the same time. In the book it just seemed like he was telling it to her. Another difference was when Blanche freaked out in the movie she tol him to leave before she began to scream in the play she told him to leave before she began to scream fire.
The ending was the big twist. The ending was different from the play. In the play Stella actually was smart enough to leave her husband. you coul really see how crazy she had turned out she was out of her mind but who wouldnt be after she got raped and all she has went through previously. I liked how Mitch actually noticed what he had done and punched him. I was glad that she left him in the end.
I liked the movie better also because not only was it more interesting to look at but you could really see the character Blanche was. She was out of her mind since day one. It was like she was in her own world the way she would pance around the house like she was a queen. For some reason i expecte Mitch to be much more hansome because it just seemed like Blanche would have better taste because she was so sassy. The scen that I really thought was different was the scene where Mitch told Blanche that she wast clean enough to bring to her mother, in the movie he said it bt he was trying to seduce her at the same time. In the book it just seemed like he was telling it to her. Another difference was when Blanche freaked out in the movie she tol him to leave before she began to scream in the play she told him to leave before she began to scream fire.
The ending was the big twist. The ending was different from the play. In the play Stella actually was smart enough to leave her husband. you coul really see how crazy she had turned out she was out of her mind but who wouldnt be after she got raped and all she has went through previously. I liked how Mitch actually noticed what he had done and punched him. I was glad that she left him in the end.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
A StreetCar Named Desire
I going to start of by saying that I hate plays and I especially hate reading them. When i saw the title I really wasn't interested because I thought it would be about some stupid guy who liked to race cars and his cars name was Desire,but this was the total opposite. The title is kind of similar to the last story we read "The Eyes Were Watching God" because it has nothing to do with the book, and you notice that as you read on the play is kind of interesting. What i found funny was the fact that they discussed things that were kind of taboo for that time. For example Blanche was this women who made up lies up lies and tried to embellish them. She is a women who sleeps with a lot of men, she is definitely not your typical southern bell. I think that she tells lies because she doesn't want to face the truth. She doest even want Mitch to see her in the light its like she doesn't even want to face her age. Then Mich decides that he doesn't want to marry Blanche anymore and this was also like a big slap in the face. He even tell her "You are not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother". Even if I knew I was a typical southern bell and I was in fact a clean women I would have still been offended. So imagine how she felt.
Stanley cut the cake for me or should i say for Blanche. He really took her back to reality. I think the reason he raped her was to prove the fact that if he did it no one would believe that it was true because she is so promiscuous women and that she tells lies. I think her sister pickes her husband before her because she doesnt want a life like Blanche I think she rather just have a fake "happy' marriage than the one that every one is going to talk about. Sort of like the one that Blanche lives.
Stanley cut the cake for me or should i say for Blanche. He really took her back to reality. I think the reason he raped her was to prove the fact that if he did it no one would believe that it was true because she is so promiscuous women and that she tells lies. I think her sister pickes her husband before her because she doesnt want a life like Blanche I think she rather just have a fake "happy' marriage than the one that every one is going to talk about. Sort of like the one that Blanche lives.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Their Eyes Were Watching God
This was a great book. I was real hesitant about this book because the title sounds dry. As I read I found out that the title had nothing to do with the story. This was different from the rest of the stories. The main character Janie is a powerful character. In the begining of the story she was just a child and her point of view was different from all of the other african american characters in the other stories I read. Instead of complaining of her race she was proud to be black. She was not the type to get mad because someone was being racist she looked at it as them missing out on meeting who she really was. She was strong and independent.
As she got older she married man named Jody and this relationship was different. They were distant. I was really surprised at the fact that it was hard to leave Jody when it was easier to up and leave her last marriage. She didnt even get a valid divorce. But it was harder with Jody. Jody was rude and mean and i was really happy when she embarassed him and destroyed his whole sense of man hold. To me he had it coming, he always embarrased her and it was his turn. Towards the end it was like Jody didnt trust her anymore he was resentful. At his bedside when he was dieng he didnt even want her to feed him he trusted the docters instead.
Then came Tea Cake he was alot younger then Jainie he was in his late twenties and she was in his early forties. I was kind of skeptic about him because he was so young. But he was definetly better than Jody. They had a intimite and passionate relationship. He put her on this petistol and she didnt want to be on the petistol. He was different from Jody because he was the one to make her breakfast after sex. With Jody she was expected to be the one in the kitchen. But Tea Cake treated her like a lady.
I didnt like the ending. It was sad, It must have been hard for Jainie to kill the man she loved, but I see why she wasnt hesitant because she was defending her self. She says in the book that that she didnt see the man she loved. I was happy at the fact that they didnt convict her of murder and they were convinced that it was self defence which it was self defence.
As she got older she married man named Jody and this relationship was different. They were distant. I was really surprised at the fact that it was hard to leave Jody when it was easier to up and leave her last marriage. She didnt even get a valid divorce. But it was harder with Jody. Jody was rude and mean and i was really happy when she embarassed him and destroyed his whole sense of man hold. To me he had it coming, he always embarrased her and it was his turn. Towards the end it was like Jody didnt trust her anymore he was resentful. At his bedside when he was dieng he didnt even want her to feed him he trusted the docters instead.
Then came Tea Cake he was alot younger then Jainie he was in his late twenties and she was in his early forties. I was kind of skeptic about him because he was so young. But he was definetly better than Jody. They had a intimite and passionate relationship. He put her on this petistol and she didnt want to be on the petistol. He was different from Jody because he was the one to make her breakfast after sex. With Jody she was expected to be the one in the kitchen. But Tea Cake treated her like a lady.
I didnt like the ending. It was sad, It must have been hard for Jainie to kill the man she loved, but I see why she wasnt hesitant because she was defending her self. She says in the book that that she didnt see the man she loved. I was happy at the fact that they didnt convict her of murder and they were convinced that it was self defence which it was self defence.
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