http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak Just another Lyceum weblog Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:32:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Theres a lot of conflict going on throughout Kesey’s novel that I find it hard to focus on just one issue without getting into all the others. I first want to discuss the mental hospital as a whole and whether or not is benefits the individuals that occupy it. ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/12/11/kesey-prompt/ In all three Alexie stories there is a very distingusible trickster quality within each of them. However, each trickster element is sometimes very obvious or subtle and each one is presented in a different light. In Amusements there is a fun light trickery when they put drunk dirty ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/12/11/alexi-prompt/ Lorca’s Blood wedding does a great job of giving us something to compare modern day marriage with the ideas of traditional marriage. Marriage is supposed to be something sacred between two individuals in love. If I were to define love I would say it’s just how you make each ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/11/24/lorcas-blood-wedding/ For the purpose of this prompt I will be focusing on the Patron’s system and the whore’s cooperative. As the class discussed the novel, The House of Spirits we decided that are many circulating ideas and tensions presented throughout the book. Sometimes these ideas left the reader wondering which side ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/10/16/authority-and-order/ The story of Gregorio Cortez and the Corrido may seem like a short story when read for the first time when in fact, there is an overwhelming amount of details and events to discuss. For the purpose of this blog post I will focus on ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/10/06/the-corrido/ When I examine the author that created the digital literature game asteroids I think that his or her main meaning of game was to obviously represent literature, but more importantly the process and reason for writing. Upon observing the game one will notice that random ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/10/06/the-author-and-driven-digital-literature/ Throughout Silko’s Ceremony there are mini stories that appear within the text. These stories may be somewhat confusing, but when given a closer look contribute to the novel in various ways. On the last page of the book there a few confusing lines that start out as a poem, then ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/09/27/importance-of-story/ I consider the blues Lyrics and Fairy tales very much a part of Literature, except that they often come in short stories and verses. To me when I hear the word fairy tale my first inhibition is that they are going to tell me a mystical, fictional story with ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/09/22/307/ My very own definition of a fairy tale is a children story that has an underlying theme or moral within the text. I would also venture to say that these stories are of the comforting type and usually do not contain any violence. Typically to ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/laurak/2006/09/10/fairy-tales/