thanksgiving

My thanksgiving break will consist of shopping and spending time with family.  I am planning on going to sioux falls because my aunt lives in crooks which is very close.  I am excited for black friday because there are tons of sales and I love to shop.  I also am very thankful for everything that I have and I am excited to celebrate it on thanksgiving.  I will also be getting a new phone because when I was sick I layed it next to me and there was a cup of water next to my bed that it fell into.  It must have fallen at the perfect angle to fall into the glass.  It made me sooo mad!!!!

paper

I thought the paper was relatively easier to write than the RBAA.  It wasn't as long and i liked the topic of Omelas. I found Le Guin's piece to be very interesting and I hope that class next semester will have interesting pieces to read.  I'm not quite sure what we were supposed to blog about but this is what I blogged about because I was gone. 

thesis

Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" interprets a strong message by displaying a connection of human ignorance to our society today.

reading critically

After reading through the stories critically, it gave me a better understanding of how the white heron was a symbol as well as the yellow wallpaper.  I thought that it was harder and more time consuming than reading the piece, but in the end it is well worth it because you understand the piece entirely and it is preparing me for future English classes.  My favorite story we have read so far is Omelas and I hope to do my Literary Analysis about it.  Reading critically has definitely helped me so far and I believe it will also help me in the future. 

symbols

I found the symbols in the White Heron very disturbing.  The tree you could obviously tell stood for the man after Lindsey pointed it out.  It was just creepy how it described a sexual scene.  I was totally oblivious to the entire thing.  The white heron seemed to stand for like pure, so almost like a symbol of a virgin.  The girl maybe didn't want to tell the guy where the bird was because of this reason because she wanted to lose her virginity.  Another symbol in the story could be the wallpaper.  The wallpaper is a huge part of the story, and it is almost like it mesmerizes the narrator. I think the author of the White Heron had a very sick point of view.   In the yellow wallpaper I felt that the house used to be a psychiatric ward.  The chains were a symbol to represent this.  The scratches and marks on the wall were also good representations of this.  The girl in the story seems to be getting worse and worse and I kind of feel like she is dreaming that she is at her house, but she is really living in a psych ward where her husband comes and visits a lot. 

women in 1900s

Clemente, Deirdre."Prettier Than They Used to Be": Femininity, Fashion, and the Recasting of Radcliffe's Reputation, 1900-1950.New England Quarterly; Dec2009, Vol. 82 Issue 4, p637-666, 30p
As women gained more rights they gained the right to be able to attend college. This right brought a new look on how woman were viewed. As women gained equal rights to men they were viewed as less attractive.  This seems silly to me today because today women are looked upon as sexieir when they are working and having equal rights to men.  The 1900s gave women many rights as the years passed by.  It showed how different the views from the past were compared to today.  I'm very glad our rights as women have evolved since the 1900s.