LAST BLOG POST

For this last post, I decided to write about the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes.  I really liked this poem because of its imagery and its ability to make you picture a dream or an object and imagine everything in the poem happening to it.  Sometimes with certain dreams or inspirations I have that don't go my way, I begin to feel like the author did when he wrote this poem.  I become discouraged and question every aspect of that wish, but then I decide whether to keep that goal or drop it.  Something about this short poem stood out to me, but I can't put my finger on it.  I really liked this.

fully good people do not exist

 "A Good Man is Hard to Find", by Flannery O'Conner is a short story about a family who goes on a trip and gets in some trouble along the way.  The author describes each character, the goods and bads about them, and how they pertain to the story.  All in all the annoying grandmother gets the family lost on the trip and puts them into a situation that wound up getting them all killed.  They come into contact with a man and his "crew" who were on the run, and he killed everyone that was in the car on the trip.  Before he kills them, the author gives each character a "moment of grace" where they become a "good person" before they die...making it seem like that was the moment where they saved themselves before they went...hopefully...to heaven.  I do not think that anyone is a "fully good" person. No one is perfect, and people make mistakes every day.  A lot of people probably have that "moment of grace" right before they die to use that as an apology for all the wrong-doing they've done, but an all around good person, does not exist.

How to become a writer

"How to become a writer" by Lorrie Moore, was probably the most confusing short story I have ever tried to read.  She goes from talking about what classes to take in high school and college, to deciding what major to partake in, and then who to date.  All throughout the story I had no idea what she was trying to get across.  But, I then realized she was focusing on the fact that her life has no plot to it; it has no core. The character went from day to day trying new things and learning, and wanting to find out how to become a good writer and never could.  But she then realized that you don't "learn" to become a  good writer. It just comes naturally.

which road shall i take?

I'm not very big on poems, but this one really stood out to me.  "The Road Not Taken", by Robert Frost, is a poem of a man who is stuck between two "roads" in his life and is not quite sure which one to take.  Each path has its ups and downs and he is alone on this choice.  In the end,  he takes the riskier one, or  "the one less traveled" and mentions that it has made all the difference.  It does not say whether that difference is good or bad but thats life.  No matter which road you take...it will somehow effect you but that it how you learn.  This poem put many things into perspective in my life at the moment, and with that I will never forget it.

The Road Not Taken

I'm not very big on poems, but this one really stood out to me.  "The Road Not Taken", by Robert Frost, is a poem of a man who is stuck between two "roads" in his life and is not quite sure which one to take.  Each path has its ups and downs and he is alone on this choice.  In the end,  he takes the riskier one, or  "the one less traveled" and mentions that it has made all the difference.  It does not say whether that difference is good or bad but thats life.  No matter which road you take...it will somehow effect you but that it how you learn.  This poem put many things into perspective in my life at the moment, and with that I will never forget it.

Cask of Amontillado

I LOVED THIS STORY! This was one of the few stories that I felt myself not getting bored with.  Throughout the entire writing, I felt like I was in the book, like a character.  From the fair, to the underground tunnels, to the room that Fortunato was locked into...I just felt like I was there.  It was sick, twisted, and mysterious...but that it what kept me so "into" the story.  I did not want to take my eyes off of it.  I think that E.A.P. did a good job with this story because it was so dark and screwed up, but it interested me and made me want to help Fortunato and put Montressor in his place.  It just comes to show that people take things way too seriously and how messed up society and the human race really is.

poems

I can not stand poetry :( HAHA! My favorite poem was the "hard rock" just because it was so deep and visual to the point where I felt like I was watching the entire poem happen before my eyes.  I wrote my last two papers for class on it, so I really read into how other people viewed and understood the poem and found myself agreeing with them.  I found it to be really sad because it was so descriptive to the way that the "hard rock" was treated, but also very interesting.