I think it's going to be hard for me to blog on the weekends. Perhaps I should just focus on trying to get a few posts in from Monday to Thursday. It seems the weekends are when I do the most studying. Anyway, on to Lit!
So far, I think I like the men better! We have a wide selection of authors in this Pod, I'm going to try to read all of them this time around. I would like to be exposed to more variety than the last Pod. I was trying so hard to get through Twain I missed out on a lot of other stuff. But... summer is coming! :) I won't curse my instructor by doing *all* of the discussion questions or papers, I just want to do the reading.
It seems almost to be a prerequisite for great authors, or authors of note to have a hard childhood or a rough life. The story I am reading now "White Heron", was written by a woman who's childhood was actually nice. I can't wait to finish the story to compare how one's cynical views of life stack up against someone who has a more even keeled worldview.
So far, I can make one comparison between stories. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Yellow Wallpaper". I liked both for the same reason, they were different. I like "Occurrence" for the same reason I liked movies such as "Angel Heart", "Memento", and "Pulp Fiction". (A word about "Pulp Fiction", I didn't like the movie for it's content/story, but for the way the story was told). I liked "Wallpaper" for the same reason I like many of Stephen King's stories. He has a way of taking an average, ordinary person and completely turning his/her world upside down. I don't want to get into any more detail about "Wallpaper" in case my classmates start blogging and replying this week before they get the story read. I will say, however, it was almost like watching "The Snake Pit" in reverse :)
I like the way you use movies to compare the novels. When I read "The Wallpaper" I was not even close to what i thought the novel would be about. Once I started reading the story I wanted to keep going. I felt sorry for the lady and at the same time I thought of movies like the Frightners. The way the lady in the story becomes so involved into the wallpaper really allows the reader to understand why the lady could be so involved with the wallpaper. At the end of the story I was sad but also relieved about the lady finally getting the attention she deserved and the fact that she got her freedom she needed. I was not happy about the way she got her freedom but I can see why the story would end like that.
ReplyDeleteAfter you read about the author you can see why her story makes perfect sense.