Okay for those of you who may or may not remember, "Happy Endings" is the short story by Margaret Atwood about the couple's story with all the alternate story lines and background information. Now ultimately the point of the story is that in the end no matter what the plot line, the couple inevitably dies, just as everyone dies. Now while this is ( Read more... )

If only this angel was as interesting as Weeping Angels, then this story might have been more fun to read. All that stop-motion murder action, would have been so awesome, but alas it was not so let's just discuss the details of "The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings". So basically to sum it up this man is the most unappreciated angel on the face of ( Read more... )

 Although we discussed this in class and I was told that it was not always true, I'm stubborn and so I'm going to spend 250 words talking about the fact that everybody dies in Greek tragedies or at least in this trilogy. It never ceases to amaze me how asinine the Greek Gods are on an apparent day to day basis, but this is just ridiculous, Oedipus ( Read more... )

I really have to stop watching so much Netflix instant queue, it's ruining my social life. What were we talking about? Oh, yeah, "A Doll's House"! Right okay, so what I want to talk about here is the character Doctor Rank, who in the play is in love with the wife of Torvald and is also terminally ill. There are a couple of things wrong with this ( Read more... )

Watching the entirety of the most recent Doctor Who series has reminded me how much I love David Tennant (and also how much I hate Matt Smith but that's irrelevant). Point is, this entry is all about Hamlet, and how awesome Hamlet is as a play and how boring it is to read on paper. The topic of the paper on this story was all about the difference ( Read more... )

I am not a complete stranger to the fact that living on a reservation sucks but I don't think it has ever been explained as clearly and as potently to me than in the story "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" by Sherman Alexie. I think the intriguing thing about it is that poverty on the reservations isn't as intensely oppressive as it ( Read more... )

What is with all of these insane Victorian women? I think these kinds of stories say a lot about the woman who wrote them. Anyways "A Rose for Emily" has to be one of the least shocking and suspenseful of the macabre short stories that I've read. I'm not sure if the intent was to shock the reader but if it was then Faulkner did an outstandingly ( Read more... )

So this week I saw Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" for the first time, which yes is a little late and, yes, it sounds irrelevant but it does have something to do with what we're going to discuss in this journal. The whole reason I decided to watch the movie is because recently I've become fascinated by cabin fever, the psychological phenomenon ( Read more... )

I sincerely regret reading this before going to bed the other night because it is quite possibly one of the most depressing things I have ever read in my entire life. Seriously thinking about this one kept me up at night (not in a scared way but in an existentialist dread way). I really have to say that I have never read anything that managed to be ( Read more... )

I don’t usually read poetry, though to be fair I don’t usually read either. However, one of the poems we discussed in class entitled “Singapore” by Mary Oliver, really resonated with me. In this short work, Oliver is describing her experience in an airport in Singapore where she walks into the women’s restroom and sees one of the air stewardesses ( Read more... )