Blog #9…The Invisible Man…

Ok so even though I’m behind in my blogs I figured I can still write on my opinion of this book.  I remember that even before we started reading I thought this book was going to be totally different.  I mean the title is The Invisible Man so I dunno I thought it was going to be about maybe a kid who feels left out of everything in his family or at school of something I dunno. I know if it were about a kid that felt invisible no matter where he went I could relate that to that.  This is because I have never been a popular person and especially here at school I feel completely invisible. Like I dunno I feel like no matter how hard I try to fit in and be nice and whatever I never seem to be noticed.  Now that we have started reading the book however, I dunno it just doesn’t seem to be my cup of tea.  Like it isn’t something I am interested in for whatever reason.  I guess I have always been like that though, I’m not a person that likes to read a lot.  So a book has to be really good to grab my attection.  This book just isn’t doing it for me. I dunno it seems like all semester we have just read these books that have so much going on and are just messed up in so many ways what with family members wanting to sleep with eachother and love going wrong I dunno I just have no intrest in them.  I’m sorry for being so honest but I have always been like that, I never could read a book that I was assigned to read.  However if it is one that I just pick up for a good read I usually can get through it no problem.  Maybe I’m just weird!!!

For this blog I commented Michelle P and Michelle V’s Blogs!!!

Blog #8…Canonical vs. Non-cononical?!?!?!

For this blog were supposed to write about themes we see in both canonical and non cononical books.  It’s purpose is ment to help us prepare for our paper that is coming up.  Now that we are getting into the book invisiable man it is clear that even though it is not a cononical work it has themes common with books we have read previously in the semester.  one theme common in this is book is the whole time thing.  In the book Invisable Man the narrator is opens the book with his grandfather’s dying words to his father.  These words are brought up again later in the book.  so we have the maybe not obsession with the past but we have flashbacks in this book for sure.  Since we are still working through the book all themes might not have come out yet.  So another Non-cononical work is the book I used for our wiki project.  This book was the collection of short stories and poems by Dorothy Parker. Working off of memory and our wiki one theme that stands out to me is the fact that in most of the short stories by Parker most of the relationships the characters have is that of a messed up love story.  None of the characters seem to get along with their lovers.  So Love or the lack there of is a reoccurant theme.  So this proves while a book not be included in the canon it still can fit and relate to the books in the canon. 

For this blog I commented Amanda Lea’s and Lauren M’s Blogs!!!!

Group work………oh no!!!

Ok I must admit that I am one of those types of people who can not stand group projects.  This is only because in my past experiances of college group projects I have always been in the lucky group that outta maybe the 4 or 5 groups in the class has the most problems.  Like this one time in one of my education courses this one girl she would not do anything even though me and the other group member gave her as little as possible she still wouldn’t do the work and then tried to blame us her group members for everything.  so when I seen we had to do a group project I was not all too in love with the idea.  I’m sorry I like doing things myself because then I don’t have to relay on others to do this or that and I don’t have to worry about weither or not it is getting done. 

However for this project I think it is going ok.  Like i see some trouble spots, I think my group members and I could try and get over ourselves and try to act more group like.  It is ok though I don’t mind as long as the assignment gets done.  From what I see of it now I defiently think that our wiki page is looking good.  Sure we’ve had some problems i.e. the fact that my book has visited almost every state on the east coast before it arrived here…….I still don’t have it by the way, I had to go to the st.rose library and get an alternative copy of the book to use……but according to the usps website it is in the mailroom somewhere so its here hopefully just in time for me to send it back…..ha ha!

For this week I commented Alex’s blog and I wanted to Comment Alyssa’s too but for some random reason when i went to leave the comment wordpress keep saying that it was a duplicate and that I had already commented her blog when i really didn’t so I dunno!!!