Class Evaluation!

1. I think I have grown as a student in this class by realizing that my ideas about literature aren't stupid. Everyone sees things differently, and that's okay. I think have to really pick apart all the literature really challenged me. I am used to just reading a text and then moving on. As a writer I think I improved on writing in the right perspective. I was always switching between the first and second. I also think I am doing better at explaining things.

2. I actually liked reading blankets, and after reading the poems and hearing some of the discussion i enjoyed those too. I struggled the most with the play. It was really hard for me to understand that type of language. I prevented me from getting into the play at all.

3. No. I always thought it could be looked at as literacy. There are many different forms and graphic novels are just a very odd one. I have found that I like reading graphic novels. I like having a picture to go with the words, and then I get a better understanding of how the character is feeling. They really grew on me!

4. I enjoyed blogging, I had never done it before and I thought it was fun. I liked being able to respond to everyone's posts, and to get a better understanding of what other people were thinking about the literature that we had been reading. My least favorite was discussion. I'm not very good at sharing my ideas openly. I like to keep them to myself. It's hard for me to get comfortable with new people and share my ideas.

5. I think I am better prepared to think critically about literature. I definitely think I could pick apart literature and look for different elements that were used to create it. I don't think I was hoping for anymore. I'm just glad we didn't have to read long plays. I think that is sooo hard!!!

The two Dream's

Well after reading the second Midsummer Night's Dream I was kinda thinking "What just happened." I thought it was very weird and honestly I don't even know if I am understanding it the right way. I took it as the real characters coming to watch humans perform their life, and Peaseblossom got pissed and wanted to play him self so he kills his character, and then puts a vex which may mean hex on the rest of the cast. It was also very clever that the Will Shekespear was the writer of the play and his sons name was Hamnet. I may be taking this whole work the wrong way, but if it happend the way I think it happened then I thought it was funny.

I don't think that turning the play into a comic destroyed it at all. Wouldn't it be the same as turning the writing into a movie. Some of the text is taken out to create the movie, and this is just a shorter and a changed version.

Act 1 Scene 1- Helena

In Helena's last part before scene 2 she is talking about Demetrius falling in love with Hermia. She doesn't understand why he loves her because she thinks she that she is just as pretty as Hermia. She is talking about love, and how it can be blind. I think Helena can't get over Demetrius and it's driving her nuts that he has already moved on. I don't know much about the story line, but I do know that they (Demetrius and Helena) were once engaged, but he left her after meeting Hermia. I thought this was interesting because it was her feelings on what had happened. Even thought I didn't understand everything she was saying it sounded very pretty. I don't really understand the language that they use in this play, so I wouldn't be able to tell you if it was used effectively.

Midsummer Nights Dream

To be completely honest I didn't understand any of this play. I attempted to read it, and I spent about an hour on the first page, and I still didn't know what was going on. I then tried to watch the play, which was even worse. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone got out of this play since I don't have much of anything to say. Sorry I can't add anything, but Shakespeare totally confuses me.

Thesis for paper 2

My main idea is What does it mean to be an American?

I think that to be an american you only have to live in America...or call America your home

the color of your skin, your religion, your beliefs shouldn't affect whether or not you are an American.

i am doing multi-genre

Persepolis & the poems

I don't really like this book so I manly skimmed through it. I think that the panel on page 69 where Siamak comes home is like the poem War is kind. I think the poem is about how the end of war is kind. Depending on the side you are on you either get a better life or you lose. In this case I think the poem is talking about how great war is when it ends and you are on the wining side. In the book you don't know what happens in the war yet, but this man has returned home. It is a very happy time. He has been a prisoner of war and now is back home and safe. The last stanza of the poem is "Mother whose heart hung humble as a button On the bright splendid shroud of your on, Do not weep. War is kind!" I think this is when the dead son returns home to be burried, but even though it is very sad that he died you should be happy because he faught for his country. He was fighting a war that could benefit you. I think this stanza is most like the panal on page 69. It was so sad that he was away and being tortuerd, but now that he's back everyone is happy especially because he came back alive.

Blankets and other text

I chose to look at the last three panels on page 235. In the first panel at the bottom it's shows Barney with a little bit of fuzziness from the t.v. in the middle. In the middle panel at the top ou see the t.v. that has turned completely fussy, and then under that you can hear what it would sound like "ssssssssh" the words under that change to "sshhk..sshk" and you see in the picture under that, you see a razor cutting off the fuzzy stuff. In the last panel you see Craig shaving, and that is where the sshk..sshk came from. I like how these panels brought these two scenes together.

I think this book is like the poem Much Maddness is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson. I think that poem has a lot to do with outsiders, and i think craig is a major outsider. He is picked on a lot as he is growing up because he is different, and isn't like everyone else. I can also see that this book is like Oranges also. Jeanette is looked at as an outsider because of her sexuality, and in The Bluest Eye, Pecola is shunned from everyone, and is left on her own. No one wants to be around her.