Book

This book has been pretty good so far. I do agree with that it is very graphic in detail and controversial. I can't believe how graphic they make the scene with the father and Bone. It's really horrible. They also explain how Bone masturbates to her fathers beating which I find very odd. The book is alright but hard to get through because it's boring. I also don't understand why the mother doesn't leave the husband and take the kids if the husband is so bad to her daughter. She knows that her husband beat her and just lets it go. That's really horrible.

Cherrylog Road

This poem was very interesting to me. It had great description of a car. The car was a '34 ford. For example it says,"Releasing the rust from its other color." That is a great description of the car. The story also has many sexual inuendos in it. For example,"So the blacksnake, stiff with inaction, curved back into life, and hunted the mouse." I didn't realize it while I was reading it but when you explained it in class I understood. It also describes the two people as doing something wrong and they have to sneak to do it.
This poem is a good poem because it has great description and good analogies.

Walking on Water Poem

This poem remined me of happiness that the person is walking on water. In the first stanza the author uses great description. An example from the passage is,"And poled off, gliding upright onto the shining topsoil of the bay." That awesome how she describes her walking on the water. The author also describes how she is crossing over between the two worlds, which are the land and sea. "Between two open blue worlds." She also describes how she doesn't make marks in the sea but when she goes onto the land she makes marks in the sand which shows that she did walk on water. She also talks about how she was alongside pelicans and beneath her was a shark. The shark was stalking her.
I thought the author was a very good writer and really has great description. In the end I made the connection that the person actually died and went to heaven. That's what it seems to me. I got this impression because it says that she's just waking. It also says that the king's grave turns you to light. It said all darkness is no more. It all relates to heaven.

Movie vs. Book Streetcar

I thought the movie was very similar to the book. I remember all the lines were exactly the same in the book and the movie. In the movie you really saw how aggressive Stanley was. He hit his wife very hard and was very aggressive with Blanche. I don't know how somebody could be so mean.
One thing that I didn't like was how Blanche sometimes just kept going on and on and didn't let any character get a word in edgewise. It was pretty annoying. I also thought it was weird how she kissed the boy that comes to the door. It was very strange that she would kiss a stranger on the lips. Then you see Mitch come to the door and what if he caught her kissing him. Mitch would not have been happy. I also don't understand why she leads Mitch on put never lets him touch her at all. What makes Mitch not desire her anymore and stand her up is that she lies to him. He finds out that she's not straight and has slept with many people in random hotels. He says, "You're not clean enough for me."
Also, Stan finds out that she got kicked out the school she was teaching in because she had an affair with a kid that was 17.
I thought the ending in the movie and the book were weird. I didn't really understand until someone told me that she was taken off to a hospital. It was weird how Blanche thought it was someone taking her on a cruise to an island. It's really sad that she got that messed up in the end.

A Streetcar Named Desire

I found this reading to be very uninteresting and boring. Nothing really happened. Blanch comes to visit her sister Stella. Stella's husband is messed up in the head. When he's drunk he hits Stella in front of everybody. I think that that's pretty messed up. Also we find out that Stella is having a baby.
Blanche tells Stella that her husband is an animal for hitting her. Stella tells her husband that if he hits her again she will call the cops. During the story Blanche flirts with a lot of guys. One is Jim who plays cards with the guys. She also flirts with a young man who comes to the door. I guess that's part of her character. A quote from the story is, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian nights?" I think this is very weird what she says. She also kisses him. That's weird to just kiss a person you don't know.
I really found the reading to be very boring and waste of time.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

It starts off that the girl lives with her grandma in the south. Everything is going fine until the Grandma makes the decision that her granddaughter will get married. I don't why why she makes that decision at such a young age. She has plenty more years to get married and she could've waited longer in my opinion. The gets married to this guy named Logan who makes her do a lot of work around the house which she doesn't like and tells him that to his face. She just wants to stay home and be an in house wife. This man comes along one day named Joe Starks and he tells her that he would be the best husband for her. She decides to leave Logan and go with this guy. This is a big mistake because he turns out to be just as bad. Joe Starks is the mayor of the town and runs everything. He doesn't allow his wife to speak at an open public speech he gives. The town says that they want to hear what his wife has to say and he doesn't let her. A quote from the novel is,"Thank you fuh yo' compliments, but my wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech makin'. I never married her for notin' like dat. She's a woman and her place is de home." It seems like Joe is very degrading to woman. It annoys me that he just wants all the glory and his wife can't take any of the power. Then Joe tells her that he wants her to work in the store while he's being mayor putting her to work. It's very weird how he contradicts himself. He says that he wants her to be an at home wife then puts her to work in the store.
In the end Janie is not happy with her life and speaks her mind to Joe. She says she's not enjoying being his trophy wife.

Barn Burning

In the story Barn Burning the father goes around town to town and burns barns. He drags the kid in with him too which is wrong. The kid knows that it's wrong and doesn't want a part of it but doesn't know how to tell his father no. He's faced with a conflict. Either he can turn his father in or continue letting his father keep burning the barns. It's a tough decision but if I was in his shoes, I would know that my father is scum and would turn him in.
Abner Snopes, the father, is just a bad spirited person. He has a lot of anger built up inside of him and feels that everybody's out to get him. An example of a bad thing that he does is that he wipes his dirty feet on the governor's rug. It's to show him that he doesn't support his gov't. The family is part of the lower class and are white trash. That's why Abner Snopes has to resort to bad things because he feels so low about himself. He also sees himself as better than black people because they are the discriminated race and that's what he does to feel better about himself. He says that he's at least not black. It's just such stupid thinking.
I'm very glad that in the end Sarty runs away and doesn't join his father and his father gets shot.It's good because his father got what he deserved. Sarty kind of becomes a man when his dad dies because he's on his own and is in control of the family.