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When we were in class talking about Hendrix’s version of The Star Spangled Banner, we talked about what we thought of the part where he played TAPS. Most people agreed that the playing of TAPS meant that he thought that the country was dieing and coming to an end. I would have to admit that at the time that may be what he meant when he played it, but as of now if he were to play that that could mean something else. I’m part of the 28th Infantry Division Band. I have been put on many funeral jobs where I would play TAPS. Yes, it is to everyone who is listening it is seems like it means the end of a persons life. After playing TAPS so many times, I have some to change the way I think about it. To me, I believe that it is the last honor that a soldier will ever get. Near the end of a military funeral, there is a 21 gun salute. At the conclusion of the 21 gun salute, TAPS is played. This is to end the funeral, together with the 21 gun salute; I believe that this is the greatest honor a soldier will ever have.

When I hear the word “trickster” I think of a person who may like to trick people into doing something, or maybe a person who like to prank or pull a practical joke on people. When I think of the word trickster I think of a couple different things. I think of a person who is in a way, I guess, a “class clown” who will do anything to anyone, just for a laugh or to make everyone else laugh. But to would want to, in a way, outdo him/her self the next time. The books’ example of a trickster is on pages 56-57 where the two Indian boys run around making “Indian noises” with their mouth and pretending to shoot each other and yelling, “Bang, you’re dead Indian!”

One of the issues that we talked about during class was authority. We talked about the authority that the Big Nurse had, and the role McMurphy had on challenging her authority. Before McMurphy was put into the mental hospital, everyone there seemed to be afraid of the Big Nurse. When McMurphy got to the hospital, he basically thought that he was free. He didn’t have to work anymore and all he really had to do was to have fun until his “time” was up. Well, when he found out how things really “worked” in the mental hospital, McMurphy assured the other non-chronics that the Big Nurse was just another woman for him to sleep with. He seemed to try everything he could think of to get rid of the Big Nurse, but his ignorance to the authority of the hospital seemed to prove him wrong when at the end he had been administered a lobotomy and was basically brain dead.

Blood Wedding really doesn’t have anything to do with love. A person’s Name, and that name’s reputation, is what seems to take the place of love. The wealth of a person is the decider of whether a man is worthy of marrying a woman or not. When the bride seems to break this and “fall in love with” Leonardo, the father of the bride states that he would much rather see his daughter dead than to see her run off with Leonardo, for the reason that Leonardo just isn’t in the same wealth status as the bride’s family is. Blood Wedding, to me, doesn’t make it seem that love is even an option, unless of coarse it is toward the person that you are “supposed” to end up marrying.

I don’t really think that there is reaslly any bad tensions between Pedro and Blanca. The main tension is that I don’t really think that, because of social status, the two would be ment to be together.

The word game seemed like it could be fun. You would think that I gets you to focus on the main word desire ( I think that is what the word was), but really it makes you pay attention to everything that is going on around you. As you are fireing at the groups of words you like kind of try and read and make sense of what the phrase you are shooting at says and make sense of it. The lieing booth one is there, I believe, mainly for humor. I don’t really feel that it has a significant meaning behind what is going on. At first I didn’t think that it really encouraged or discouraged readind in any sense, but now that I think of, it really does encourage reading. I guess itt really would be kind of boring to just look at the words on the screen and not accually read them. Its more like a puzzle that has many different meanings to it. You just need to find out how you piece it together.

Today in class we were told to write about a certain section in the book. The section that the group I’m in had was about the doctor talking to Tayo about him trying to kill Emo. What I took from this section was that the doctor is trying to blame Tayo’s drinking on the war, but Tayo dissagree’s and thinks that it is more of the hardships that he has endured after he returned from war.
In the part about the hummingbird, our group agreed that the hummingbird represented the old ways, and how they are taking the land for granted.

I think that fairy tales can be a form of literature. They tell a story and most of them also have a lesson that can be learned from them. I believe that they do serve the same purpose. They are forms of entertainment and also you can learn something from them.

Literature can be found anywhere. The number one place, I think, to find it is in song lyrics. Music is in my life in mor ways then one. I listen to mostly rock and heavy music, but I also listen to Jazz. Every jazz song you come across has a deep meaning behind it, no matter if there is lyrics or not. It tells not only a story about the jazz performer themself, but also shows you exactly how that artist feels.

The poems of Ceremony definantly were significant in explaining how Tayo really felt. Not only that but just thee steps of the story, different characters feelilng and so on and so forth. There are alot of strong things said about how it really was from the Native Americans after the world. One thing the I do wonder about, though, is if the poems were there to further catch the sympathy of the readers.