Archive for September, 2006

Ceremony

Monday, September 25th, 2006

When I started reading this book, I was so lost because it just started off without much introduction. I’m not sure how to explain what I’m saying but I was just lost. Whenever I finished the book I was still a little confused. However, through all the class discussions about the book I have started to understand and make more sense of the book.
Tayo was the main character of the book. He was white and indian. He believed that Indians made white people from witch craft. He had many nightmares about his life and he felt empty because so he had several different people raise them. This book explains how white people screwed Indians and they had everything. He was never the same after WWII. However, near the end of the book he meets Montano and starts to feel more alive and his nightmares turn into dreams. Montano helped Tayo except being bi-racial.

Literature

Monday, September 25th, 2006

I think everything is worth teaching because we won’t know if we will like something until we try it. Yes, they serve the same purpose and that is not inform and entertain us. I don’t think we read them the same way because there is certain ways to read all types of literature. I don’t like to read things like Shakespeare because I don’t understand his words. So I do not like trying to interpret or analyze literature. To me text in specialized order is not readable.
Today, I think that we use the least words as possible. Maybe it is because the internet and emails to friends, we use the internet lingo and shorten many words. History might think of it as uneducated but it is the easy way out and that is what our “lazy generation” likes to do.

Fairy Tales

Monday, September 25th, 2006

I believe there is a big difference in fairy tales. Grimms Tales focused on stuff that could really happen and not always a happy ending. As in my opinion on fairy tales is that I always thought they have had a happy ending. Such as, Disney, Chicken Little, Mother Goose. They all have happy endings. So Grimms Tales changed my view about fairy tales.

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Friday, September 8th, 2006

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