Music

finding something that symbolizes something was a bit on the challenging side. I actually had to pay attention to what was a symbol to that particular person and I noticed it was music. No matter how that persons day was going music had the ability to make everything go away or become better. Music was some type of Zen to my friend. No matter what her music was always playing whether sad, happy, motivating all she did was dance. This made everything seem better to her, then I noticed the reason why everything the music she was listening to made some type of sense. If she was in a happy mood the music was up bet and happy go lucky, if something was wrong or on her mind they music was slow and the words that the artist song would just touch your heart. Music does indeed make people much more at ease.

A symbol can be anything to anybody a person, place or thing. I belive that my child is my favorite symbol. She is 6yrs old and she represents me. As much as it gets to me my daughter is just like me with a some of her fathers features.  she acts like me tries to talk like me lol but wont. A child to me symbolizes who you are, how they act and appear reflexs on you. There is that saying monkey see monkey do, well children are perfect monkeys. My daughter looks up to me every second and every day. Although we dont spend so much time together because I am a full time student here and work a full time job but what I like is that she understands. She understands that in life to get what we want we have to work hard for it and she knows that we will have plenty of times together.

 psychological critisim



Just to debunk what I think is going on in a story seems appealing to me. Im writing my Doc2 paper on the short story of Flannery O'conner The Revelation. Now when you first read the revelation you meet a christian lady who belives that she is better than anyone even the rich people named Mrs.Turpin. As you read the story you notice how she critiszes everyone and puts her attention on a young lady Mary Grace. Long story short, Mrs.Turpin says somethings that are directed to Mary Grace. Before you know it Mary grace lashes out at Mrs.Turpin telling her "Go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog." the comment itself leavees her speachless and thinking all day. Now at the end of the story she scoldes at god, shes mad at him for the things that have happend, telling him "who do you think you are". We came to class on day and we basically debuncked the story. We basically figured out that this story took place around the civil right movement which would explain all the reasons why"white" people thought so low of the "black" people in this story. If you continue to read at the end of the story Mrs.turpin realizes that even when she thinks as a good or perfect person is not what god himself thinks, he accepts everyone.

The Desert......

 

 

 

 

 

When I first read The Desert by Benjamin Alire Saenz the first thing that popped into my head was not religion was not sexually but his journey to America. Now I am Hispanic and no I'm not racist in any form but the way he says "I came to you one rainless August night.You taught me how to live without the rain." sound like when he first started on his journey to America. How he started in an august night and how the dessert taught him how to live without rain. But then everyone said religion and I re-read the poem again, it all made sense. He went to god in august, he says how he (god) is everything sand, wind, sun, and burning sky.Then his verse saying salvame mi dios.... save me god it just all came together.....

Writers are great whether they are male or female. But, a female writer seems to write more personal stories and stories that are happening in that time they are writing. Most women writers get really into the stories they are writing. Its like you can see and feel what they are feeling and seeing. Like in the story revelation by Flannery O'Conner, when I read this story every thing I read from her its like I envisioned the whole thing. When she Mrs.Turpin would talk about everyone or when Mary Grace attacked Mrs.Turpin. The way she used her words just felt real and for the most art that's how I feel when I read a story that is written by a women. 

 

 

 

GENDER ROLES??????

I honestly Hate gender roles. Why? because who ever came up with the idea that "this is a mans thing" or" that's a womens thing" is plain dumb!!!!! why can't a man do what a women does. Why can't a women change the oil of her car. I belive that both men and women can do the same exact thing. Both men and women can cook and clean the house, do the "handymandy" job lol. Times have changed, society has changed; we do not live in a society that women cannot do a mans job and vice versa. Now alot of people might think oh but a women can't do the work of a man, we can say the same about a man how they cannot cook and clean so on. But there are alot of men that are single parents and guess what they cook, clean, iron etc. And there are alot of single female parents that can also do the fixing of the house hold, the hard labor. So lets stop this gender role thing and lets treat everyone the same.

 

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER....

 

 

 

This story is very interesting I had to read it a couple times to get it and honestly I think I still don't get it lol, but the story is very gloomy, sad and with betrayal. I noticed that when he read the story to Roderick it seemed that everything in the story actually happened to that family in real life..... Maybe I'm wrong but if someone can clarify this story for me it would be nice to hear it from someone else's point of view........