Reflection #10
This is the last blog we have to do for this class and we were asked to do it on what we learned on the semester and write our opinion about it. It was a really interesting semester we read a lot of poems, short stories, did many essays, quizzes etc… When we got to the part of the poems it was interesting how simple short poems had so much hidden in them. The way they are written can be describing a certain part of the poem, the comparisons made indirectly, the messages they are sending, the way it can be interpreted in many ways but you want to see it by the author’s eyes because you want to find out what his real purpose was when he wrote it. The only thing I really don’t like about them is all the rules they have for them. For example you have to count the stanzas, see if it’s a trochee, figurative language etc…things that well for me don’t make sense. Maybe if I understood them they would make sense but frankly I don’t in English. In Spanish I understand it a little better.
I liked reading the stories because in “The Boy without a Flag” he fought for what he believed in, in “The White Elephant” how everything was symbolic of an abortion, and so many others read in class. I like that in class from what we read we discuss it and we have the liberty of expressing ourselves no matter what the professor actually knows about the stories. He doesn’t take our comments for granted and opens his mind into seen them in our perspective or point of view.
My opinion: Liked the class except for the part of looking for the different parts of the poems. It was a pleasure taking the first and second part of this course with you. I didn’t like the quizzes too much, but its part of the course, so it’s ok. Take care.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
*****MAUS*******
Reflection #9
Maus is sort of like a novel written in form of comics. It is a novel because it’s telling a story. It’s sort of a biography; Vladek’s to be precise, written by his son Artie. It’s a story about the holocaust, how he had to go through that awfulness with his wife Anja, Artie’s mother, and how they had to move from place to place, how they lost their first son, how they had to separate and how that had to bribe and exchange the only things they had to get food and to stay alive. I found it really unique the way that he instead of using humans to represent the Jews, Germans, Polish and Americans, as it’s normally done, he used mice to represent the Jews, Cats to represent the Germans, Pigs to represent the Polish and Dogs to represent the Americans.
It’s impressing to read and imagine what Jews went through in the holocaust. How some did survive that maybe if something like that happened again today their would be even less survivors because now we live so comfortably that frankly many people you just take their cell phones away for a couple of hours and they feel useless and actually start depending on them imagine not having food, where to sleep, bathrooms, the normal everyday necessities.
In the story Artie doesn’t understand why his father acts the way he does (he doesn’t want to spend any money, wants everything to last forever, etc…) but in a way I do understand him. All of the things in the holocaust did affect him emotionally and psychologically. It was a long time that they had to live saving every single thing they could get their hands on to survive and now we don’t care about any of it, we throw food and things that can be reused by others and also there are people hungry in this world that wish they had at least a piece of bread in their house for their family every morning and we throw it away because we forgot to eat it because of so many food that we have in our fridge.
It’s a great novel and it’s written as a comic book so that it attracts every reader’s attention. It’s very interesting because you learn also history and it can be read easily and quickly.
Maus is sort of like a novel written in form of comics. It is a novel because it’s telling a story. It’s sort of a biography; Vladek’s to be precise, written by his son Artie. It’s a story about the holocaust, how he had to go through that awfulness with his wife Anja, Artie’s mother, and how they had to move from place to place, how they lost their first son, how they had to separate and how that had to bribe and exchange the only things they had to get food and to stay alive. I found it really unique the way that he instead of using humans to represent the Jews, Germans, Polish and Americans, as it’s normally done, he used mice to represent the Jews, Cats to represent the Germans, Pigs to represent the Polish and Dogs to represent the Americans.
It’s impressing to read and imagine what Jews went through in the holocaust. How some did survive that maybe if something like that happened again today their would be even less survivors because now we live so comfortably that frankly many people you just take their cell phones away for a couple of hours and they feel useless and actually start depending on them imagine not having food, where to sleep, bathrooms, the normal everyday necessities.
In the story Artie doesn’t understand why his father acts the way he does (he doesn’t want to spend any money, wants everything to last forever, etc…) but in a way I do understand him. All of the things in the holocaust did affect him emotionally and psychologically. It was a long time that they had to live saving every single thing they could get their hands on to survive and now we don’t care about any of it, we throw food and things that can be reused by others and also there are people hungry in this world that wish they had at least a piece of bread in their house for their family every morning and we throw it away because we forgot to eat it because of so many food that we have in our fridge.
It’s a great novel and it’s written as a comic book so that it attracts every reader’s attention. It’s very interesting because you learn also history and it can be read easily and quickly.
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