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.

Blankets

I actually really enjoyed reading this book, and the comic format is really growing on me. I think is book is really interesting. It seems as if Craigs life is so hard, he is always being bullied, and he doesn't have any friends. I liked when he first met Raina. You could tell that they liked each other. On page 90 you see Craig and Raina meet. They both look at each other and are tucking their hair behind their ears. I think this is showing that they are both timid, and nervous. Just the look on their faces makes me think that they like each other. After that you keep seeing them look at each other. It's weird that you can get that from a picture, but you later find out they do in fact have crushes on each other. I think if this book would have only had words you wouldn't have known that they liked each other, but the pictures add so much to the text.

I think the book Blankets shows that just like Emily Dickinsons poem Much Madness is Divenest sense, if you are different than everyone around you, than you are picked on, and looked down on. You are some what of an outcast. Craig doesn't look like a jock, and he doesn't act like one, so they pick on him a lot. I love that he doesn't change just because they are mean. He sticks it out and ends up finding a girl that likes him for him.

Oranges are not the only fruit

I believe in many different things, God is one of them. I also believe that I will one day go to heaven. I also believe that it is really hard to trust people. You can't read peoples minds, if they are lying you may never know. Another thing I believe is that you can't live without come sort of support system. You need people to believe in you otherwise you only have yourself, and if you are like me there are many times you doubt yourself. I think that my parents shaped what I believe in. They have been there my whole life telling me right from wrong. I also trust them a great deal and know that they would never steer me wrong. I would like to say that I came to believe in these things on my own, but I know that's not true. Until I am out of the house for good, I will probably always believe what they believe. I went through a phase when I was growing up where I didn't believe in God. One day I just decided that there was no way he was real. Non of it made any sense to me. How could one person do so much. it took me a long time to get back to believing in him, but I think my belief in him is stronger because of that.

In Oranges are not the only fruit religion has a big part in the whole story. The people in the book are always going to church or doing things related to their church. Whenever something happened they always had to go to the pastor. Jeanette still goes to church throughout the whole book. I think the belief that oranges are the only fruit is changed. At the end her mother finally realizes that they aren't the only fruit, and she serves pineapple. I think when Jeanette realizes she likes woman is a self-revelation. I can't find the quote, but it talks about how she had never looked at men in a way where she liked them, and people said it was because she had a job of a man. Preaching.

Even after Jeanette accepts herself, he mother still doesn't and the people in the church still don't want to be around her. She is pretty much on her own. Her whole life was that church with all of her friends, but the priest pretty much took all of her involvement out, they didn't want her around any more because she was different, she liked girls.

I didn't get to finish all of the questions......