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Marriage is a way for two people to show their love and commitment to each other. In Lorca’s Blood Wedding it lets you see how marriage has change through out the years. At one time marriage was not truly about love but was set up by the family members. It was also once seen that it was the woman’s job to the housework and bear the children, and it was believed that it was the man’s job to bring income in for the family. This is what was portrayed in Lorca’s blood wedding. Now a lot of ideas about love and marriage have changed. In today’s modern world one has the right to choose whom the fall in love with and whom they want to marry. Also, the women is no longer expected to stay at home. She now has the opportunity to go out and create a life that she chooses. Women now have all of the same opportunities as men. I feel that all of the changes that have occurred in our culture have let us become more open and diverse in the ways we live. I feel that marriage should be based on love and is a bond that can never be truly broken. I also feel that love doesn’t have a past tense because you either love someone or you never truly did.

The Alexis stories have one common ground that the each show in one way or another some form of deception through trickery. The trickery gives each of the stories there own little twist. The trickery of the from the stories have different reasons for being used. They range anywhere from cheap fun to cruelty and wickedness. One of the most entertaining ones is in the Amusement park when dirty Joe while drunk is put onto the roller coaster. Sadie and Victor did this so they could not be the ones being laughed at by the crowd, they even offer the amusement park worker cash to keep dirty Joe on there while he is passed out. Problems did occur though while in the fun house. During this part everything seems to foreshadowing what will happen next. For example, the were all out dancing and drinking at the cowboy bar Victor’s aunt reminds her husband to drive carefully due to having so many drinks when they went out. Sadly, her husband wrecks his care not long after. This distinctly takes one back to her telling him to drive carefully. One of the other trick that I feel is the most malicious once again deals with Victors aunt. After delivering her child she was tricked to sign an unknown paper. She was told that the papers where to identify her as an Indian. What she didn’t know is that the paper she signed gave permission to get her “tubes tied”. All of these forms of trickery gave the stories there own unique characteristics.

Conflicts are one of the best ways to keep the readed interested while reading a novel. In Kesey’s novel there are a lot of conflicts that can be identified. The hospital and nurses cause conflicts throughout the novel. The nurses of the mental hospital had complete control over every aspect of the hospital and the patients that were residing there. The patients were trapped in the hospital to be tortured and put through painful suffering. They would do some of the most gruesome things to the patients like electrocuting them and tying them down with restraints at night time. The patients minds are tortured also. For example, Ratched one of the nurses uses mind games on the patients to find there weaknesses. Ratched even uses guilt and black mail to the point that the one of the patients even kills himself in fear that his mother will be told about the hooker he brought home. This is a ideal example to show that the staff does not care about the patients at all. The nurses have complete control of everything that goes on with the patients making the patients realize that they must obey them. This isn’t as true for McMurphy and he even tries to strangle Ratched, but is unsuccessful. I feel that this is okay because of all the terrible things that Ratched has done to the patients. Even though it resulted in his own death at least he stood up for what is right. No one should have to deal with the agony that the patients of the hospital dealt with. His violence could have shown the other patients that they too need to stand up for themselves or nothing will ever change. Even though he used violence he wanted to make it so he did not have to deal with the hospital anymore.

The digital literature in class really seemed weird to me. When we started watching the asteroids game in class it to me was frustrating. I spent the whole time watching and trying to make some connection between the words that were used. Then I began to think of 2 possibilities The was there is no connection at all and it was just a bunch of words flying around symbolizing are thought process in our head being nothing more than just a bunch of stuff flying around waiting to used. The other idea was that they were some type subliminal messages. To me I think some of the interaction helps the authors. The author of the “Lies Project” Emily Herment, she opens it up and lets the readers post anonously as they feel. This offers you to be able to offer any thing you feel at the moment no matter how silly or real. Although I do feel that the asteroids game is made poorer from the ability to shoot and blow up words. The significance of this I’m still unsure about. All of these I feel are still literature because the all spark a response and try to express or convey something. This is what I think that literature was built on and why it can be interrupted in so many different ways

From the beginning of the book ceremony I could tell this book was going to be something that I was not used to reading. When the book is started with a type of chant or prayer that says “Sunrise” Then at the end this is repeated and says “Sunrise accept this offering, Sunrise”. This to me seemed a little strange and made me begin to look at this book as more spiritual type of writing. The structure was also confusing in how there were many small story’s inside of one big story. This was done from many flashback story’s that tayo told. One of my problems in reading were trying to determine when were the flash backs and when was he in the present. The drought was significant in the story in trying to show how he thought the people of the village were being punished for neglecting their spiritual roots. This lack of rain also effected Tayo’s uncle Josiah because his cattle were dying from no water. The events in the small story’s that make up the book don’t necessary complete the book as a whole but try to help the reader understand some of the native american’s heritage.

I think that blues lyrics and fairy tales are considered literature. They tell stories about periods in time with significant and insignificant events happen. Although lyrics and fairy tale may not be important or entertain everyone, they tell stories that teach us and tell us off others and there previous experiences. I think that the style that literature is written can determine its popularity. For instance work from Julius ceasar, although very popular in its time, now seems over written and hard to interrupt. This is mostly because of just how much our language and meanings change over time. At that time period that was considered the common language and was not considered strange to the readers.
The reading we did “Uncle Remus” by Joel Chandler Harris was somewhat confusing and left me trying to piece togeather what I just read. Having to go back and try to re-read lines over made me realize the complexity of this reading. The pronunciation in literature can at times cause much confusion or clarity. This shows just how much language can change. Years from now the way we communicated may seem obsecure to those that will read our present day literature

When I think about fairy tales the typical red riding hood and the cinderalla story comes to mind. This being that good always wins and the those who are bad get punished. There typically told before bed and as a form of comforting and reasuring. How ever the fairy tales from the author grimm seem much more violent. This to me was much different than the usual disney type fairy tales that seem overly sugar coated. These lead little girls to believe little girls that they can princess and little boys can be super heros. Grimms depication was much more realistic, real life view. He also seems to not just target one particular type of audience and present a more broad view and range. In grimms version of little red riding hood the wolf is symbolized as a chil molesting man that follows a young girl home to her house and procededes to get her to get undressed and climb in bed with him. To an adult this seems perverted but to a child the underlying concept is blown over there head. Grimms versions omit none of the horrifying details to these storys and take away that warm fuzzy feeling we get when we read the disney versions.

i think all the different versions of the corrido show just how real storys change over time and depending on whos telling it. the video in class gave me a little differnt view on his personality. this was when he was being interrogated about stealing the horse and the translators inabilties to understand. this simple misunderstanding contributed to so much death that could have been avoided. also from the movie the attitude of the translator seemed to have no respect for cortez. this to me was a story that was told to inspire the mexicans and give them someone to look up to and follow.