Monday, May 14, 2007
A clase that rocked Reflection # 11
The blog was a new experience for most of us student , it was also a very complicated form of writng considering lack of instumetal helping tools and problematic internet acses. The blog might have been I little more complicated than I though but the idea of publishing you work for al to see was an exilerating proses. I loved reading and making coment and loved seing other people point of view but I still think the blog is an experience better left to really experience writer than rather simple student like us that don’t even understand most instruction or composing format, that is just my opinion some people my differ from my point of view. We did read I little bit of every thing and it was fun especially the clase, we saw movies , TV show and sitcomes, even some radio naration, and much more visual aid if you want to get technical an all ; the only fall back was over load of work we hade and it was hard to juggle this amount when you have other clases . The overall experience was fantastic , graphic novel, crasy sex poem , perverted dialog novel drama, exelirating doble meaning story , and many more attention graving form of writing this clased rocked for me any way.
The Maus experiense the Graphic Novel Reflection # 10
Maus was great, it was incredible and insightful because is not often you see a comic book or a graphic novel based on real life stories like the Holocaust. Comic books were all like naruto stuff but Maus showed me a different type reading and understanding comic or graphic novels. I will start by saying that the relationship between Artie and Vladek was pretty unorthodox, it was confusing to figure out Arties mind and how he felt about his father, and still I think a lot of people have the same problem. People sometimes see grown people as a bother rather than as a family that is how sometimes Artie sees Vladek. The novel was depicted by animal drawing it was curious aspect of the author but it made it more interesting, it made it more dramatic when the Germans were killing the Jews. Also the novel was really cruel it showed how they were treated and tortured. I think that is the reason why I enjoyed it so much, not that. If you see pictures of how the Nazis left Poland and the victims of it, it totally matches what the actual events of the true history of the Nazi campaign.
Maus led me to realize how fun graphic novel can be its very different from other comic I have read, although I have been a fan of some magna before reading this. It is definitely one great peas of written work. Some pictures tell us more and a than any word expressed by the author, they also can show us expression and feeling with those visual images. I really loved the novel. I’m definitely eager to read an other graphic novel again.
Maus led me to realize how fun graphic novel can be its very different from other comic I have read, although I have been a fan of some magna before reading this. It is definitely one great peas of written work. Some pictures tell us more and a than any word expressed by the author, they also can show us expression and feeling with those visual images. I really loved the novel. I’m definitely eager to read an other graphic novel again.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Reflection#9 What is love and can you handle its truth (M.Butterfly)
This story although long it is entertaining for it those type of stories that you can't help to get hooked on especially if its read out loud in class and it also carries a realistic background and ironic and humorous plot; kootles to David Henry Hwang for M.Butterfly play. This play is divided in three acts and it has seven characters, one of them is Rene Gallimard which is the protagonist and the antagonist is Song Liling believe it or not. This play takes place in a prison in Paris and it also presents thing from the past from 1966 to a near present (Beijing during 1960-1970). Gallimard loved the opera of Madame Butterfly (by Giacomo Puccini) the whole play is based on this famous opera. Rene Gallimard identifies himself as Pinkerton, a character of the opera M.Butterfly. This play begins in a prison in a Paris (1988) the protagonist, Gallimard speaks to us (the readers) and describes the cell and talk of how he has become a celebrity and how everyone knew who he was. Gallimard has a friend named Mark, and there are scenes in this play were they discuss and analyze oriental women, which they see as easy and cheap. Mark is always telling Gallimard how a man lives his life and how easy it is to be with as many oriental women as they want without ever having in mind their desires. There are scenes where Gallimard is demonstrated arrogant he had affairs without ever being ashamed nor should any remorse.
Gallimard was married to Helga to whom he was unfaithful with Song Liling. Unfortunately, Gallimard was charged by the French government with treason, apparently his companion Song Liling had been an agent for the Chinese government a perfect woman that turned out to be a man in all his mystery and had passed on political information that he had acquired. It is surprising because he spent twenty years of his life without ever noticing that She was a imposter a man disguised as a woman., but there were scenes where he was very shy and didn’t have the courage to speak to women and there were scenes that suggest in a way that he didn’t like having sex with women he wasn’t that satisfied although he says he was; that turned out to be although weird but ironic to the core. He wasn’t that happy or excited of having sex with a girl, that wasn’t taking the initiative of being with him. When he was with Song, it was different, he liked being with her, even though he never saw her naked (when they had sex, she always asked to turn the lights off) so the story it self has a lot of twist and turn but one can be ashore that they will shock you. This play of a play has open barrier that most play writer don't dear to make and make you the reader ask yourself what is the prize of ignorant love and can you handle that truth.
Gallimard was married to Helga to whom he was unfaithful with Song Liling. Unfortunately, Gallimard was charged by the French government with treason, apparently his companion Song Liling had been an agent for the Chinese government a perfect woman that turned out to be a man in all his mystery and had passed on political information that he had acquired. It is surprising because he spent twenty years of his life without ever noticing that She was a imposter a man disguised as a woman., but there were scenes where he was very shy and didn’t have the courage to speak to women and there were scenes that suggest in a way that he didn’t like having sex with women he wasn’t that satisfied although he says he was; that turned out to be although weird but ironic to the core. He wasn’t that happy or excited of having sex with a girl, that wasn’t taking the initiative of being with him. When he was with Song, it was different, he liked being with her, even though he never saw her naked (when they had sex, she always asked to turn the lights off) so the story it self has a lot of twist and turn but one can be ashore that they will shock you. This play of a play has open barrier that most play writer don't dear to make and make you the reader ask yourself what is the prize of ignorant love and can you handle that truth.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Reflection#8 "The not so love song"
The poem" The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a most powerful work of literature it has a lot of allusion and symbolism. Its allusion and symbolism makes the poem although complicated but challenging. T.S.Eliot's out did him self this time. The poem referred to mid life crisis which normally happens to most people in some point or a another; but the mid life situation here was a little more complex for it referred to somebody reasoning of weather it was worth to have sex with a prostitute to enjoy his remaining youth, to taste a peach if you know what I mean. This protagonist was in time of his life were desperate act or more than just desperate though. This man had a chip in his shoulder that he could never remove and that chip was age a fact that made him self-conscious of all his deeds. The truth is that his intention was never clear for he was undeceiving person that had lived what seems a cluttered life. This man in some way code be let to believed to be a priest although the idea of him getting to the point to consider such thing like sex for money way off a minister or priest moral standards but non the less it could be referred to some one with a history of religious back ground. In most cases you can see a lot of qualities in the poem that shout T.S. Eliot for example the fog that in other word meant a cat and T.S. Eliot loved cats as my English professor explained in classes. The poem could of easily been about the author himself, it could of been T.S.Eliot suppressed inner ego; this is something that made the story seem more realistic and more interesting considering its harsh and depressing tone. The fact is this poem isn’t about a love song but the complete apposite of one ironic to the core ,its most certainly riveting. I consider this poem a most read poem and a well piece of linguistics literature. To find the true meaning of this unpredictable poem you most read it and disifer the allusions yourself.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Reflection#7 “Familiar Poem”
I choose a poem called Order in the street by Donald Justice, this poem although having a plane text I still find it rather unique it most definitely can be compared to something one saw on a movie or something one read that cut its attention. If I'm not correct this poem is stated in the page that it came from an instructions printed on a child toy. It was quoted from some label by a writer from the New York Times. This bring this small poem a sort of ironic sense; for it speaks how I child toy can have such implication. The other sense I find ironic is the fact that this little passage has a rhythm or rather a rhyme which can really make you think whether if this little passage was written un purpose or it’s just a foe pa. This poem has cut my attention for it makes me imagine something I would play with when I was younger and I would probably even notice this coincidence if it wasn’t that I read this poem today. The constants repetition of the word jeep its what really give it that eristic value. This poem is most certainly very catchy. This in my opinion a most read poem. One can get some awkward flashback from reading this poem ,not excluding the fact that this poem is really descriptive it has a lot of imagery in other words in contains a complet batle scene in a few frases. This cude be consider a nonpoetic piece of literature but you have to read it carefully tu really se its poetic advertisement if you know what I mean.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Reflection #6 “The Chunky one, the tall Goony, the Queenie, and AP”
This story A. P. wasn’t one of my favorite story although it was humorous and a bit entertaining, the fact is I could barley understand what the writer was expressing too us the readers. The story had imagery and was very descriptive but it had no order. It seem like this story was writing based un hormonal teenager with time to spare. No offense to those who read this story and liked it but it was a waste of common sense. The writer might have a unique stile of writing but I didn’t get it very well it seemed a little farfetched or rather squeshy. I hope this story wasn’t based on a true event because if it did I would tell that Sammy he was incompetent fool to leave his money earning job to impress I couple of girl that probably don’t give a crap ( sorry for any harsh word seen in this reflection) about what he did or did not do. The fact are that he might have other motives for quitting that job but waste really necessary to do it for that particular reason to impress some unknown girls. The plot is weird and the story line is weirder but what surprised me or better said confused me more about this particular story was the way every single though that went through his simple headed mind was expressed. The only good thing I encountered from this story was his humorous remarks about these girls. The chunky , chubby was the one that caught his sight first, the goony the tall but yet normal one was the second one he criticized , and the queenie the perfect, pretty, and most expressive of the three , this was whom I think was the reasoned for him to quit. This three girl were described through out the whole story. The other thing that I found beneficial was to find out that this A.P was actually restaurants over there in the states, seem bum I Known but is the truth.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Reflection#5 the Classic Daughter –Mother Relationship
This short story “girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a classic story reflecting on mother-daughter relationship in postcolonial society. I find this story incredibly short and incredibly unusual especially for its way of dialect and composer. This short story is a complete sentence it has now division of any type except for the semicolon, the paragraph although a sentence has rather a sense of rhyme and order that seemed although dull but sort of catchy. This story its self reflect on how mother persuades her daughter to act a live as a civilized and proper young woman. The mother emphasizes a critical statement to her daughter in which seem like she is scolding or rather insulting her daughter. In some cases you might think that the mother might just joking around considering the way she would exaggerate the list of how to be a proper woman but I still consider it more of a complaint in yet a sarcastic matter. The truth is that you could hear the girl in some cases defend her self or better said rebottle what her mother is saying and that mean it is not a joke rather a discussion. I think that the girl although innocent might of accidentally lead people to think that she was mostly like her mother said a slut but she was just not aware of her actions. I consider the fact in those times you call slut what now in day you call tease but that is circumstantial.The complete story could have really be based on a argument or just the closeness of too family members its up to you to decide which one it is.
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