http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly Just another Lyceum weblog Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:41:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think that these two have a lot in common about the way that they express themselves. They both take what they know and then change it to express the way that they feel about it. Jimi Hendrex takes the Star Spangled Banner and really changes it and ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/12/10/sherman-alexi-and-jimi-hendrix/ In the story Amusement I think that is a trickster or two. Victor and Sadie put Dirty Joe on the roller coaster because he is drunk and they think it would be funny. They have no real reason for doing this to him. It is not like ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/12/06/trickster/ McMurphy checks into the mental hospital mainly to escape his sentence to work an a farm for six months. At first he seems just to act a little crazy so that when he is first evaluated they will say that he has a mental disorder and needs to stay ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/11/30/was-he-crazy/ Blood Wedding is about a marriage that is not about love but it is not totally without any feelings. The son has to ask his mother for permission to marry his bride. He wants his mother to approve of his marriage even though the mother is worried about ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/11/07/lorca/ I don't think that the book is really a femenist book. It does have some points where I think that it could be, but overall I don't think its a femenist novel. Estaban has a power over almost everyone in the novel, except a fwe characters. One ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/10/26/house-of-spirits/ Throughout the novel there are a lot of changes occuring nad each character deals with them in thier own way. Most people have a lot of trouble dealing with changes, it's not an easy thing. Clara does not really like any changes but shes realizes that she must ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/10/15/dealing-with-change/ When Blanca and Pedro meet it's like they have an instant connection. They play and interact as if they have known each other foever. It's almost as if this predicts how they will be forever. When they are sleeping under the table and it says they will ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/10/13/the-meeting-of-blanca-and-pedro-trecero/ I didn't really like the astroid game, I didn't feel like it had a point. It was just liek words floating around that you shoot. I didn't even see a relation between the words. This is a perfect example of the author who created it only lets ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/10/10/author-and-authority/ I think that corridos can be compared in some ways to fairy tales. There are so many different versions and they all have generally the same ideas. They are like stories that get passed down through generations and change along the way. When some one hears a ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/10/02/corridos/ The story that is written throughout the novel tells of ways that the rain may have been taken away. The stories are about not appreciating what they have and not taking care of it. They took the rain for granted and it was taken away from them. ... http://www.sherwoodweb.org/lyceum033A/lyceum-0.33/src/lyceum/mskelly/2006/09/21/the-story-in-the-novel/