Reflection #4
Evelyn is a story about a young woman who lived with her two brothers and father. Her mother had died of an illness when she was little. When her mother died her father started treating her bad. He was very strict with her and didn’t think that any guy would be good enough for her. As she got older she met a young man and they fell in love. He promised her everything, a home, happiness, love and many other things. She had had a really weird childhood because since she was the only girl and her mother had died she had to do everything in the house and deal with her father. She had the greatest opportunity in leaving this house to make her own life with the man she loved and she wasted it all. She didn’t leave with him because of the promise that she had made to her mother once of not leaving her home and trying to keep it together and she was already so accustom to that life that she got scared of new things or changes. Would you act the same way? In my case I don’t like routine and besides it’s part of life. Someday you’ll get married and start your own life away from your parents. If I had gone through something similar, as Evelyn’s case and my father were sick an alone I would get married and well live near his house so that I could take care of him too. Obviously, this would be things that I would have to talk to my fiancée first, but I think he would understand. Then everyone would be happy including me. What would you do? Would you leave your loved one?
Monday, February 19, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Awkward...but what's the ending?
Reflection #3
“Young Goodman Brown” is a story about a man who has this lovely young wife named faith. She had a very innocent look and they had been married for three months so obviously they were still very much in love. He had to go out to do a “work” in the middle of the night. She didn’t want him to leave because she had a bad feeling but he left anyways. From what you read on the story you know that he is part of a satanic cult and that in that very night they were going to initiate him. When he left his house he went into the forest and met with a man that from the descriptions given in the book was the devil himself. In his journey to the place of the initiation he meets with a lot of people that were once part of his life like his catechism teacher, a pasture and many others. This made him think a lot about the people that surrounded him all his life. In my case it would make me think to because obviously people aren’t perfect and just because you’re a christian it doesn’t mean that you’re a saint and that your life is pink but if you do believe in God and you know what’s right and what’s not…why would you be in a forest in the middle of the night waiting to be initiated in a satanic cult? When they arrived into the place where the activity was going to take place he saw a fire camp in the middle and many other people including his wife. That shocked him the most because knowing how innocent she was and hiding that from him and doing this…but wait…didn’t he lie to her too. He told her that he was going to work in other words so why does he take it this way. At the end of the story from what we assume it was just a dream but he lost all his faith and trust in everyone around him including his wife. My point exactly, why does he act this way if it was just a dream and if it were real he was in it too? The story does leave the end to your imagination. So as a comment you can tell me what you thought the ending was or something.
“Young Goodman Brown” is a story about a man who has this lovely young wife named faith. She had a very innocent look and they had been married for three months so obviously they were still very much in love. He had to go out to do a “work” in the middle of the night. She didn’t want him to leave because she had a bad feeling but he left anyways. From what you read on the story you know that he is part of a satanic cult and that in that very night they were going to initiate him. When he left his house he went into the forest and met with a man that from the descriptions given in the book was the devil himself. In his journey to the place of the initiation he meets with a lot of people that were once part of his life like his catechism teacher, a pasture and many others. This made him think a lot about the people that surrounded him all his life. In my case it would make me think to because obviously people aren’t perfect and just because you’re a christian it doesn’t mean that you’re a saint and that your life is pink but if you do believe in God and you know what’s right and what’s not…why would you be in a forest in the middle of the night waiting to be initiated in a satanic cult? When they arrived into the place where the activity was going to take place he saw a fire camp in the middle and many other people including his wife. That shocked him the most because knowing how innocent she was and hiding that from him and doing this…but wait…didn’t he lie to her too. He told her that he was going to work in other words so why does he take it this way. At the end of the story from what we assume it was just a dream but he lost all his faith and trust in everyone around him including his wife. My point exactly, why does he act this way if it was just a dream and if it were real he was in it too? The story does leave the end to your imagination. So as a comment you can tell me what you thought the ending was or something.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
"A rose for Emily" and "A good man is hard to find"
Reflection #2
In this journal entry I’m going to talk a little about the two stories that we read in class: “A rose for Emily” and “A good man is hard to find”. I’m going to give a very brief summary of what these stories were about and then compare them in some aspects that made me think a lot about the stories.
In “A rose for Emily”, Emily was a young woman who lived with her father. Her father was a very jealous man who always thought that every single man was never good enough for his daughter. She loved under his shadow. When she did fell in love with a man named Homer she found out later on that he was gay so she killed him and never buried him. He stayed in her bed till she got old and died. By this time her father had already died too. This story is written in a retrospective way, it jumps from the present to the past, etc…
In “A good man is hard to find” a family composed of three kinds, their parents and grandmother plan a trip to Florida. Their grandmother by reading the newspaper finds out that a prisoner escaped and that he was headed to Florida. She warned her family but they went anyways. On their way they stopped to eat barbecue sandwiches at a little restaurant. Their grandmother sat and talked with the owner of the place and he told her that in today’s world you couldn’t trust anyone because no one is trustworthy these days. They left the place and kept on with their trip and she remembered of a house in a plantation that she uses to go to when she was little. It had supposedly a hidden door on the walls which no one could ever find. The kids got curious and wanted to go see the house so they went back and as they were driving she remembered that the house was in Tennessee, not Georgia. They had an accident on the way because of the dusty road and three men came to help them. Their grandmother quickly recognized the man. He was the prisoner who had escaped known as “The misfit”. Then he just killed them all.
This two stories for me where really shocking in a way because it’s unbelievable how there are people that really do act this way. They don’t care about other people’s lives. For example, in “Arose for Emily” how can you sleep for so many years with a dead body by your side? Obviously, it’s not normal but then it’s a very high insanity level. In “A good man is hard to find”, “The misfit” didn’t even care that there were three kids he just killed without even thinking or feeling anything at all.
Something that I found to be really awkward was, why did we read two stories about death? Did it have a purpose? It did made me think that frankly as in the story “A good man is hard to find” they say, in today’s world you can’t trust anyone, not even family, because no one right now is trust worthy.
In this journal entry I’m going to talk a little about the two stories that we read in class: “A rose for Emily” and “A good man is hard to find”. I’m going to give a very brief summary of what these stories were about and then compare them in some aspects that made me think a lot about the stories.
In “A rose for Emily”, Emily was a young woman who lived with her father. Her father was a very jealous man who always thought that every single man was never good enough for his daughter. She loved under his shadow. When she did fell in love with a man named Homer she found out later on that he was gay so she killed him and never buried him. He stayed in her bed till she got old and died. By this time her father had already died too. This story is written in a retrospective way, it jumps from the present to the past, etc…
In “A good man is hard to find” a family composed of three kinds, their parents and grandmother plan a trip to Florida. Their grandmother by reading the newspaper finds out that a prisoner escaped and that he was headed to Florida. She warned her family but they went anyways. On their way they stopped to eat barbecue sandwiches at a little restaurant. Their grandmother sat and talked with the owner of the place and he told her that in today’s world you couldn’t trust anyone because no one is trustworthy these days. They left the place and kept on with their trip and she remembered of a house in a plantation that she uses to go to when she was little. It had supposedly a hidden door on the walls which no one could ever find. The kids got curious and wanted to go see the house so they went back and as they were driving she remembered that the house was in Tennessee, not Georgia. They had an accident on the way because of the dusty road and three men came to help them. Their grandmother quickly recognized the man. He was the prisoner who had escaped known as “The misfit”. Then he just killed them all.
This two stories for me where really shocking in a way because it’s unbelievable how there are people that really do act this way. They don’t care about other people’s lives. For example, in “Arose for Emily” how can you sleep for so many years with a dead body by your side? Obviously, it’s not normal but then it’s a very high insanity level. In “A good man is hard to find”, “The misfit” didn’t even care that there were three kids he just killed without even thinking or feeling anything at all.
Something that I found to be really awkward was, why did we read two stories about death? Did it have a purpose? It did made me think that frankly as in the story “A good man is hard to find” they say, in today’s world you can’t trust anyone, not even family, because no one right now is trust worthy.
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