So far I have very much enjoyed this novel. I felt that his struggle to learn was very inspiring. While I was reading the first four chapters, I found that I could not help but think about how I would have acted growing up as a slave. I would want to think that I would crave the same knowledge that he craves for, but I am not sure because of all of the hardships he goes through to learn. Also I kept on thinking about how easy it would have been for him, or his mother, to tell him to quit. As I thought about this I wondered if Washington wanted to create those questions in our minds.
When I got to chapter four I did not want to put down the book. I felt that this was such a hard part to stop at because I kept on wondering whether in the next chapter anything would happen to Washington. I worried that this chapter was foreshadowing for the next chapter with the Ku Klux Klan. I have done some studying on this time period out side of school so I felt even more drawn to this part in the book. It was hard to read and not think about all of the innocent lives that were hurt and taken. I felt that Washington really wanted to connect with his readers on a more personal level to him.
All in all I have felt that Washington’s story is very inspirational so far because of how much he really wants to help others. I have been wondering about Dubois’s thoughts about Washington though.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
blog 9
So far I have really loved and connected with this book so far. The main character I have felt really compassion for. I feel that she has matured so much in the last 100 or so pages. She has changed from the girl who never really had a care in the world, to realizing and standing up for the hardships of others.
It is also easy to realize that the author is Jewish. She seems to have an immense amount of compassion for the little Jewish girls. I feel though that the authors way of writing makes the reader sympathizes more than if it was written from the Jewish perceptive.
I thought the part where she gets kicked out of her house is a real turning point. Now she is not just a women helping with the strike but now she feels what they feel. She is now homeless with not a “cent to her name”. She has no home and no place to go. She now has no father, or mother, or Jim. Somehow she is content with herself though because she is still standing up for what she believes in. When she goes into the pawn shop she just does not see objects, she sees the stories of women who have tried to live and have given everything they could, including baby shoes, just to live.
This has been a very touching story and I cannot wait to see what else is going to happen. I just hope that everything will work out soon and not too late.
It is also easy to realize that the author is Jewish. She seems to have an immense amount of compassion for the little Jewish girls. I feel though that the authors way of writing makes the reader sympathizes more than if it was written from the Jewish perceptive.
I thought the part where she gets kicked out of her house is a real turning point. Now she is not just a women helping with the strike but now she feels what they feel. She is now homeless with not a “cent to her name”. She has no home and no place to go. She now has no father, or mother, or Jim. Somehow she is content with herself though because she is still standing up for what she believes in. When she goes into the pawn shop she just does not see objects, she sees the stories of women who have tried to live and have given everything they could, including baby shoes, just to live.
This has been a very touching story and I cannot wait to see what else is going to happen. I just hope that everything will work out soon and not too late.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Blog 8
I was really glad that this reading was an assigned reading. I felt that it answered many questions that I had had about the movie Blade Runner. Technophobia expressed the relationship that exists between liberty and equality. My first thought of both concepts is that you could not have one without the other but this is not the case. Equality is brought to an extreme in many 1970 and 1980’s movies by cloning and machines, while liberty is the escape into freedom.
I felt that Blade Runner was a contradiction to the examples expressed earlier because it had the escape into nature but also that escape was with a machine. I also felt that with the machines in Blade Runner the viewer had much more sympathy for than the machines in the other examples.
Something else that I was grateful that the author did was express the scene where Decker basically rapes Rachael. I was very confused with this scene in the movie but after reading this passage it made a little more sense. “It can be read as depicting the construction of female subjectivity under patriarchy as something pliant and submissive as well as a threatening and castratory.”(63).
I really loves the style of writing the author used to express such an abstract concept. It was very easy to follow and I felt that it dragged the reader in. Also the examples the author uses are expressed in such detail that the reader does not have to have prior knowledge of them.
I felt that Blade Runner was a contradiction to the examples expressed earlier because it had the escape into nature but also that escape was with a machine. I also felt that with the machines in Blade Runner the viewer had much more sympathy for than the machines in the other examples.
Something else that I was grateful that the author did was express the scene where Decker basically rapes Rachael. I was very confused with this scene in the movie but after reading this passage it made a little more sense. “It can be read as depicting the construction of female subjectivity under patriarchy as something pliant and submissive as well as a threatening and castratory.”(63).
I really loves the style of writing the author used to express such an abstract concept. It was very easy to follow and I felt that it dragged the reader in. Also the examples the author uses are expressed in such detail that the reader does not have to have prior knowledge of them.
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