Blog #14……..Finally Done!

Thank God. This is our final blog post for this project. I’m so happy right now!!!! One main reason I’m so happy is because I personally think that blogging once a week is just too much. Like I dunno I think we could have handled blogging everytime we finished a book. I feel as though if we had blogged every time we finished a book the posts would have been longer because we would have had to blog about an entire novel instead of dividing the novel into pieces not only to read but to blog about.  These are just my thoughts but yea I did like blogging about the books it was an intresting spin on your basic college english course.  It was cool to take a discussion on book from the classroom and add technology to it and see how we all responded and read the thoughts and comments. 

For this our final Blog I commented Amanda Lea’s and Lauren M’s Blogs!

Blog #13…..Native Speaker

Since this is yet again another make up blog because I let time get away from me and say i’m gonna do it, I’ll do it in an hour, I’ll do it tonight, and so on.  Yea procrastination is my best friend really it is.  I have so much work to do simply because I procrastinate and watch TV and go on Myspace, and IM. When we first started reading this book and then all that stuff happened at Virgina Tech I found it Ironic that the main character of the book was an younger Asian male who seemed to be dealing with a lot of things and then the shooter at Virgina Tech was a English major who was in fact a young Asian male who obviously had quite a few problems.  No surprise here that at least one character dies in the book.  Also no surprise really that it is a young child and related to the main character.  I really think that while this book may have been the better of the books we have read in this class it really was more of the same for me. I know the intent of the course was to show the similarities and differences of canonical and non-canonical works but just for a change I would have like to have read a love story or something. 

This week I commented Amanda Lea’s Blog and Devon’s Blog!

Blog #12….End of Sula!!

So now that we are finished with Sula and I’m all caught up with these blogs and comments I must say I am a happy camper!!!! Like I dunno again these books aren’t my cups of tea so like i said before it has been a difficult semester!!! However out of all the books we have read this semester I must say that this has been one of my favorites! I dunno why but it did seem to draw me in just a little bit.  Of course it was an easy read in that it was a shorter one but even though it seems to be crazy and messed up just like most of the books we have read this semester I dunno I like this one the most.  I wish though just once we could get over the whole crazy people, death, and messed up relationship things. I’m still holding out just a bit of hope for our last book Native Speaker maybe that one won’t be so twisted!!! Where is the Love peoples????

For this blog I commented on Amanda Lea’s blog and Devon’s Blog!

Post #11 end of Invisible Man on to Sula!!

Ok so because I’m sick to death of Invisible Man, it was not a fav of mine and I think that it is just crazy and drove me crazy that the narrator couldn’t get so much as a name from Ellison I would rather write about Sula.  Since we have read nothing but crazy twisted stories about death, cheating, family members hating eachother and so on I can honestly say that I expected the same from Sula.  It seems to fit with everything else we have read.  This is why I dislike this book too cuz I really am more of a love story type of person.  Give me a good happy ending love story any day and I’ll more than likely love it if not like it more than the books we have read thus far in the semester.  Like I don’t know these books just really are not my thing so this class has been hard for me to get through. 

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

Really Long Post….I Hope!!!!!

Ok so I have been behind with postings and I know I now need to make up 3 from my count.  This post is the one that is supposed to be at least 2 pages long.  It has to do with the ungodly amount of reading we had to do for The Invisable Man so yea a couple books ago.  I’m going to try and do my best and work off of my memories of class discussion and what I read of the book to write this crazy long blog along with the other two I need to write.  So where we left off the narrator was in the mist of the the whole thing with the brotherhood.  I must say I’m glad were done and over with this book because yea I’m over it.  It seems like a great majority of the book is about the narrator’s experiance with the brotherhood.  When it turns out that the brotherhood does not even want him there or care about him.  This is in my mind the whole reason why the book is called the Invisable man, the narrator feels invisable and does not know where he belongs. All throughout the book the narrator is trying to find his place he goes from being in college to working in a factory to being in this brotherhood.  None of these places are where he belongs however.  The brotherhood just seems to get our narrator in more and more trouble.  From the rally for the evicted couple that starts a riot to the time the narrator gave a speech to a women’s organization and ended up sleeping with a married women and almost being caught.  This brotherhood thing is just not for him.  The group just seems to use him for a lacky and does not seem to have any real concern for him or his problems.  Let alone it is just annoying to read about this whole thing because it just seems to go on and on and on.  Like we get it you don’t belong with these people one chapter would have been enough maybe two but really Ellison you over did it with this thing!!!!  Also what is up with the narrator and carrying around this briefcase full of objects like he has that broken statue thing and something else when at the end of the story he only ends up throwing it all away neways so really what is the point of it??? Then the whole thing with the yams and how at first its like the best thing in the world to him but then when he eats another its like ehhhhh whatever, yea I don’t get that either it really is random!!! I guess we could just say this is yet another crazy book that probably should be in the canon but isn’t!!!

For this blog I commented Amanda Lea’s Blog and Catilin’s Blog!!!!!