My Live Journal

Well it has been fun rushing home at eleven o’clock on a Friday night because I remembered that I was suppose to post to my Live Journal Account. You have been difficult especially when there were pieces that were particularly difficult to read. And the weeks when I was sick were even worse because I did not have anyone ( Read more... )

ABCDEF... Happily Ever After

Margaret Atwood wrote a very strange story about all literature. In her work she states that there are only so many outcomes possible. It basically outlines a perfect relationship. Then it outlines relationships where one of the members is trapped in the relationship and abused. Then there is the story where ( Read more... )

Anne Sexton the Feminist kinda
            Anne Sexton wrote “Red Riding Hood” though it is known that she is a feminist most argue that it is not shown in this piece of writing. I have spent a lot of time with this poem and I have to agree. The poem starts out with several odd scenarios in which a comedian kills himself, an old woman is tricked out ( Read more... )

A Little before Antigone

Since we read Antigone I thought it was appropriate to reflect on Oedipus. Fortunately for me I did not have to go back and reread the book because we already read it in my Theatre class earlier this semester. Oedipus is an awesome book that I have always loved but Antigone just was not the same for me. Oedipus ( Read more... )

The Great Gatsby

I read The Great Gatsby for my research paper. I had  read it once when I was a junior in highshcool. The only thing I remembered from the book is one of the major themes was the color green and the basic plot structure. It took me a long time to get it in gear to read the book. It just didn’t have the suspense that it ( Read more... )

Slumdog Millionaire

This week we are going to be watching Slumdog Millionaire” and I am pretty excited about it. I have never seen the movie before, and I do not know anything about it. I know it has come on HBO a few times, and is very popular. I think that it will be a nice break from the normal literature we have been doing. I need to ( Read more... )

Hamlet

Hamlet was written by William Shakespeare, and we were able to watch the production done by Royal Shakespeare Company. The movie was great and mostly in period. The security cameras at the beginning of the movie give you the idea that it is going to be a little bit more modern. They were misleading to say the least. The play is ( Read more... )

The Ignorant Town People

“The Very Old Man with the Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a fantasy short story. It had to do with things that do not make sense and are not possible to prove a point. When this short story was written, Marquez intended to show how terrible people in general are. This short story also shows how simple minded ( Read more... )

Catastrophes of Love

“Love and other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape” written by Amanda Holzer is an interesting piece of poetry. Holzer took song names and wrote a story with them. I found it to be a little difficult to read the poem when you read the artists name with the song title.

It was fun reading the poem because the whole time I read ( Read more... )

“The Wolf’s Postscript to “Little Red Riding Hood”” written be Agha Shahid Ali was written to defend the Big Bad Wolf. The story before is of “Red Riding Hood” where the wolf is made to look like the child molesting granny eating cross dresser; we all grew up to know as “the wolf”. In the wolf postscript by Ali the wolf is telling you that he is ( Read more... )