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.