Being a Good Person

A list of traits a good person would have: Kindness, hardworking, respectful, had their own belief, obeyed authority, helpful.

What it means to be a good person is to be respectful toward others, and to help those in needs. To be a good person is to not be selfish, but do things for others, for the greater good. Being a good person means that you do what you're supposed to do, and not expect anything in return. You do things because you like to do them, not because you were told to do it or were forced to do it. Good people are polite and care about others.

I think some characters in our texts lack the "selfless" trait. I think a lot of the characters are selfish and only really care about what's good for them, rather than seeing the whole picture. Trying to think of every single character that I came across over the course of the semester is tough, but from those that I can remember I think that's the main thing, is that a lot of the characters were too selfish and the story line forced them to be selfish or do things their way rather than doing things for everyone. But most stories go like that.

Antigone

I do think that Antigone is a good person. A character who just lost both of her brothers in war, but only gets to see the one get honored and buried. So she takes it upon herself to defy Creon's orders and bury her brother. This gets her in trouble, but she owns up to trying to bury him, and defends herself, because she knows it was the right thing to do. The people know that she was trying to do the right thing, that's why the people were in support of her. She told Creon to just kill her and get it over with, and she wasn't going to wait, so that's why she took her life I believe. I don't think that takes away from who Antigone is, she was defending her brother, and doing what she knew was right and what she knew the Gods knew was right. In that context, I think that she is a good person, she defended what she believed in and didn't try to run or hide from the consequences. Although she probably had a good chance to live a full life as Creon was going to release her.

Good People

These definitions of being a good person are more between the two characters who are in a relationship. They are two people thought to be in love with each other. However that's where the boy starts to think that he may not be in love with her after all and how would he tell her that as they are expecting a child. The girl believes this guy to be a good person, but she doesn't quite know what he is thinking. That's how the hypocrisy plays into the "good person" definition. Ideally, a good person, when expecting a child with a girl, would be there for her, and wouldn't second guess his feelings after learning of a potential child. At the beginning of the story, they seem inseparable and they he is with her all the way and supportive and will be there for her. Towards the end of the story, he's not sure if he loves her and not sure how he would even tell her. So the story kind of takes a complete 180.

A Good Man is Hard to Find

One of the ideas of being a good person is respect. As the grandmother says "children were more respectful to their native states and their parents and everything else." Having respect for others and being able to show that respect is showing a quality of a good person. The grandmother's definition of good is different from the Misfit's because the grandmother is all about Jesus and praying where the Misfit doesn't really care for that. He comes off at first respecting the old lady, until she tries to get him to pray. I think the grandmother is probably the most good out of all the characters, the way that she explains things and talks to people, she shows interest and respect. What I make from the Misfit's final comment on the grandmother is that he thinks that she lived her life wrong, and if someone would have been there to shoot her every minute of her life, he believes that she's messed up all her life and that she lived her life wrong.

Reading vs. Watching

I went ahead and watched an adaptation of the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by William Shakespeare. The adaptation that I watched was "A Midsummer Night's Rave". This is basically a parody of the original play in which the characters are all at a rave and Oberon turns into your typical club drug dealer and Puck, who is a little more feminine in this parody becomes the middle man meant to deliver this "potion" to the right people. The difference between reading the play and watching the film is that the characters are made out a little different. Oberon doesn't seem like mighty king as he's telling Puck about this potion or drug. Puck seems like a servant, he's a young, weak, somewhat naive person who goes around executing the orders received from Oberon. Also, the characters in the film are portrayed as young, adolescent at best. Whereas when you read the play, and are familiar with Shakespeare's work, you envision these characters as somewhere between 40 and 55 years old. So reading and then watching changes your view on the characters, but at the same time, it has to be acknowledged that this is a parody, not an actually depiction of the play.

Protagoist in A Midsummer Night's Dream

I find the protagonist in this play to be Puck. Puck is basically the servant to Oberon who is the king of the fairies. Puck is the person in charge of retrieving the magical flower in order to get the juice that is to be spread on the eyes of Titania so that she falls in love with the first person she sees when she wakes. Puck is also ordered to spread some on Demetrius' eyelids after he was seen being rude toward Helena. Puck would mess up these orders however and place the juice from the plant on the eyelids of Lysander thinking that he was the man that Oberon was talking about. This leads Lysander to fall in love with Helena, who Demetrius is also in love with. So this introduces the conflict between Demetrius and Lysander. Anyway, Puck has to make things right and fix this which he eventually does by placing more juice on the eyelids on Lysander which then makes him fall in love with Hermia. I believe Puck to be the protagonist because after he's introduced in the play it becomes about him putting the juice from the flower on certain peoples eyelids and he messes that up so it becomes about him making things right again. For me, the play focused more on Puck trying to fulfill the orders of Oberon and then fixing his mistakes which lead me to believe that he is the protagonist.

Connecting the Dots

A connection I can make between "Those Winter Sundays" and "Death of a Salesman" are that both the main characters are hard working men. Both are blue collar, likely middle-class, who go out in the harshest of conditions and work to provide for their families. Both men seem to be after the same thing, and that's the American Dream. I can relate to the man in "Those Winter Sundays" as could many people in this region of the Country because the winters are typically pretty harsh as far as temperature and precipitation go, so having to go out and work in freezing temperatures are normal for most of us in the winter. Another connection I can make with this poem is from another story titled "To Build a Fire" written by Jack London. As this man is on a journey to reach a camp where his friends are and he has to travel through harsh weather conditions to get there. Much as the man in the poem is also in harsh weather conditions trying to make a living for his family. This also ties in with the recent film "The Revenant". As the main character in that film is living and journeying through harsh conditions in the northwest.

Willy Loman

Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" written by Arthur Miller is much like any other man in that he is in search of the American Dream. Which is the pursuit of happiness typically in forms of wealth and success. This is something that Willy never really gets his hands on and neither do his children which is another thing that Willy hopes for is to see his kids succeed and become wealthy. Willy never accomplishes his life full of riches mainly because his job wasn't exactly the best of jobs as he spent his time as a salesman. Willy's Son, Biff, had the best chance to seek a life full of riches with a scholarship to play football but he couldn't pass his math class so he couldn't take the scholarship. Happy really isn't doing too much either as he is just an assistant at his job, not making much money either. I think Willy's main problem is just his mind set. He had all these hopes and dreams but as each one failed it buried Willy deeper into a hole. A hole that eventually led to demise. There was nothing wrong with Willy's dream, to strive toward success and wealth. However, I don't think that he took it upon himself, I think he just waited for things to fall into his arms rather than going to get it. Willy is a blue collar man, a man, who works hard for a living. Though Willy wasn't satisfied for that. It also didn't help that his kids weren't doing too well either, and this I think is what pushed him over the edge. Was that nothing was working out for Willy, and that ate away at his mind and led Willy to do what he did and that's take his own life.

Trifles

In the play, "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, the main characters are Mrs.Hale and Mrs.Peters as they are interested in the death or Mr.Wright. Some differences the ladies have are that Mrs.Hale doesn't like that the police are in the house, while Mrs.Peters knows that it's just their duty. They also disagree with each other as Mrs.Hale believes that the investigators are trying to turn the house against Mrs.Wright in order to lock her up, while Mrs.Peters says that the law is the law meaning that the police have to do their job and if that's locking up Mrs.Wright then so be it. Mrs.Hale also insists fixing one of the threads on the quilt while Mrs.Peters doesn't believe that they should be touching things inside the house. I believe that Glaspell made these two women different in order to add more suspense to the play. As Mrs.Hale doesn't seem to care for authority and Mrs.Peters is more worried about things. Their differences bring them together toward the end of the play as they dispose of the bird together that would've been a key piece of evidence for the authorities. Which is also how they contribute to the end of play as disposing the bird really leaves the authorities with no leads and nothing to go on.

Week 10

For this post I focused on a few of my favorite music artists to look at Figures of Speech. The first artist I looked at was the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In the song "Snow", they use an Anaphora when in their chorus they use the word "The" to start each verse of that chorus. The lines go " The more I see, The less I know, The more I like to let it go." As they repeatedly "The". Jay-Z also uses an Anaphora when in his song "Encore" he says "I came, I saw, I conquered." He repeatedly uses I at the beginning of each sentence. Adele also uses a Figure of Speech when she uses a Hyperbole to exaggerate calling her lover when she says "I must have called a million times." She uses that in her song "Hello". These are just a few instances in which artists use Figures of Speech in their work. When artists use figure of speech they are trying to get a message across, something that they have encountered or something that they have been through, they just put a little twist on it. I never really payed attention to the use of Figures of Speech in music until I really started paying attention to it and reading the lyrics for this post, but there are a lot of uses for Figures of Speech in music.

At the San Francisco Airport

I chose to focus on "At the San Francisco Airport" written by Yvor Winters. The wording in this poem is a little strange in my eyes. It seems as if when she use Terminal, that she means it in two ways. I notice this because in the first line she says "This is the terminal, the light" but then in the first line of the last stanza she says "This is the terminal, the break." So she uses terminal in two different ways. Also, when she says "You take the way you must take." I think she says this because when you go to get on an airplane, you're doing it for a reason, you must take that way because you chose to travel, you need to get to where you're going. I also think it's interesting when she uses yard in the first stanza. She's talking about the planes in the yard rather than calling it a runway or just strictly the airport. So the use of yard in that line is interesting to me when she could've said runway or airport though yard is the correct term. I think it's ironic that she says "Beyond this point, on lines of air" because you're getting ready to fly and travel by air but also because it's called an airline so for her to use lines of air is ironic in a way.  This could also be viewed as a pun.

Stop all the Clocks

In the poem "Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone" by W.H. Auden, it seems as if someone has died. The speaker seems to be a woman who just lost her husband as in the very last line of the poem she says "For nothing now can ever come to any good." Something that only a wife or husband would say about each other. Also, when the speaker says "He is dead." in the second stanza, leads me to assume that it's a woman talking about her husband. The speaker is speaking to an audience, maybe her friends or family. The speakers attitude is very upset, depressed. As she has just lost her husband. The setting switches I believe in this poem, as I believe that it starts out in her house and then maybe to a funeral home. In the first stanza she says "Stop the dog from barking" and "Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come." The dog would be at her house, the coffin would be at the funeral home. The situation is that this woman just lost her husband and so she is very upset over this. The tone of this poem is somber, very depressing. As she mentions that nothing will ever be any good, and that she "thought love would last forever." She is depressed about the loss of her husband. The theme of this is grief, or even depression. I come to this finding because of the speakers tone and the way that she is describing things as the speaker is making it seem as if her world is coming to an end.

A Certain Lady

In this poem, a see a man who loves a woman who either doesn't love him back or even know that he exists. In this first couple lines of the poem he seems upbeat, and happy. However as we reach the end of the poem he turns into a bit of somber tone, where is more speaking from his heart about his losses when he says "nor can you ever see the thousand little deaths my heart has died." Also when he says "And all the straining things within my heart, you'll never know." He also speaks about all the things he can do for her like smile, and paint his mouth and trace her eye brows but she'll never see or understand the pain he feels inside. However at the end, it seems like he would do her wrong when she leaves or if she left. When he says, "Oh, I can kiss you blithely as you go..and what goes on, my love, while you're away, you'll never know." So it makes it seem as if he would do her wrong when she left as she'd have no idea what he was doing which would give him free range. So it's a bit of a tough story to pick up toward the end as he kind of switches his tone here for a different meaning.

Home Burial

There are two different speakers in this poem, the husband and wife, the mother and father of the child they just lost. They take two separate approaches on grieving, the husband seems to have accepted the loss of his child, while the mother is still very upset over it. The father, while he has seemed to have accepted the loss of his child, is now more focused on comforting his wife and making sure that she is okay, which you can tell by her tone of voice that she is not. I feel as if the husband's approach is better than his wife's. While i'm sure that he is upset, he handles it much differently, by not losing his cool and by focusing more on his wife, while she just seems angry about everything now and is uncooperative with her husband is so upset that she needs to leave the house when she says "I must go- somewhere out of this house." The wife, however, does have a reason to be upset after losing her child, I wouldn't know the feeling and hope to never know the feeling, so I can understand that she is upset, but for the long term I think that her husband has the better approach.

Fast Break

I found a poem on poets.org titled "Fast Break" written by Edward Hirsch in 1950. The poem is about a team making the perfect relay to the two forwards on the court to lay the ball into the basket. Showing perfect sync between the members of the team. As Hirsch says "letting the play develop in front of him in slow motion, almost exactly like a coach's drawing on the blackboard." It ends with the defender going after the wrong forward where that man passes to his other teammate running the floor with him and passing to him to let him take the wide open lay up. We see this today in basketball, watching the DSU team or when I watch my home team. Except in today's sport, they most likely dunk the ball on a fast break, whereas with basketball around the 1950s, dunking wasn't much of a though let alone a specialty like it is now. Just a poem about a team perfectly executing a plan and making the basket, by utilizing their skills and teamwork in order to get what they needed and wanted, a basket.

Poetry Doesn't Matter

This week I read a poem titled "Poetry Makes Nothing Happen" written by Julia Alvarez. This poem is an interesting one if I say so. The way the author writes this is that poetry, in what i'm assuming is her own mind, poetry makes all the things that are wrong in the world better. The last two lines of the poem read, "That's why they can be trusted, why poems might save us from what happens in the world. Mike Holmquist, Jenny Klein and Faith Cheney identify as the characters in this poem. Each on having their own situation in life. Julia Alvarez continues to say "Poetry made nothing happen" and "if only poetry had made nothing happen. As if poetry was able to make something happen, or had a role in something happening. These characters turned to poetry, in hopes to escape their problems and feel as if nothing was wrong.

More on A&P

For my second post, I'll focus on Sammy and the three girls. I find it interesting that Sammy was willing to quit his job all because Lengel embarrassed. Now, I understand that stores have clothing regulations and that a majority of the time they are monitored and enforced. Lengel even tells the girls, "That's policy for you. Policy is what the kingpins want." Sammy, a 19 year old kid, probably got all googly eyed when these girls walked in to the store with their bikini's on, as most teenage males would. I just don't see the point in quitting your job over that fact. A job that most high school kids have and keep in order to have money for what they desire. It must not have been that important for Sammy, as he does walk away form his job in preference for the girls, though he doesn't even get a phone number or anything. However, Sammy does realize that it's a hard world out there, and it will be from here on out for him.

Coming of Age in Boys and Girls, A&P

In both stories, "Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro, and "A&P" written by John Updike have instances in which there is a sense of maturity, and making their own decisions. For "A&P", at the end of the story, Sammy quits his job because he believes that Lengel embarrassed the three girls, Sammy states "You didn't have to embarrass them."speaking to Lengel. This leads Sammy to quit his job, as he says "Their unsuspecting hero" in defense of the way Lengel handled the situation with the girls. Sammy also says at the end "I could see Lengel in my place in the slot, checking the sheep through. His face was dark gray and his back stiff, as if he'd just had an injection of iron, and my stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter." As it seems Sammy realizes here that it's going to be an uphill battle as the world was cold. It's admirable of Sammy to defend the girls but he gets nothing in return, and even loses his job. Now, for "Boys and Girls". The little eleven year old girl grows up a bit when she lets Flora, their horse, run out of the gate to freedom. They live on fox farm and use the meant from the horses to feed the foxes that are on their farm. When the horse began running around, it headed toward the gate. The eleven year old describes this as "Instead of shutting the gate, I opened it as wide as I could. I did not make any decision to do this, it was just what I did. Flora never slowed down; she galloped straight past me, and Laird jumped up and down, yelling, "Shut it, shut it!" even after it was too late." She elected to choose to save the horses life rather than help provide food for the foxes on the farm. This shows that she is taking a stance against the job that her father does, of killing the horses for the foxes to feed on. Even though that is most likely how they receive their home income. This may not have been the smartest choice, but it is only one horse, and her father forgives her at the end of the story, saying "she's only a girl". Indicating that he can't be mad at her for this. 

The Disapperance of Alys

Another thing I found interesting about this story was Alys, and how she disappeared. I know she followed Primrose and Penny into the forest, but no one ever sees her or finds her or any of her remains. At the end of the story when Penny and Primrose are discussing the creature in the woods as they reflect on it, they are trying to determine whether or not they really saw, or that the creature was indeed real. As Penny says, "Sometimes I think that thing finished me off", Primrose responds with "It did finish that little one off, didn't it?." As if she wasn't really sure what happened to the little girl. Byatt writes in the story that she went into the woods, never to be seen again, but when Primrose and Penny are reading the book inside the country house, there are no mentions of the little girl that was never found. As Primrose and Penny struggle to determine whether or not the creature was real, maybe the question is was Alys really there, or was Alys more apart of their imagination than the worm was? Or was Alys real and the worm was fake? I guess we'll never know for sure what ever happened to Alys in the woods that day, but maybe it's best that we don't.

The Thing in the Forest

Looking back on this short story and the 'worm', I believe that is imaginary but it also has the chance of being a real creature. The way that the girls describe it in the story is very detailed. Saying that it's lips were thin and had white eyes along with it's lips being raised like welts from whipstrokes, these are distinct features. However, then the girls add that it's body looked to be made up of wet paper mache and had a tube shape. It seems kind of ironic that the girls come across such a creature, as they define that it's a monstrous creature, because they are moved to this in the country to get them away from the danger of the Blitz during the World War Two era, and while it comes off as a safe country house, they come across this worm that seems to be everything but safe. As I read this story, I thought of a few things in the Harry Potter books and movies, as well as caveman. At the end of this story, it mentions how people had been fighting off this beast for centuries. Much like cave drawings of cavemen fighting off these "beasts" but today, we don't see many if any of those animals or creatures that were supposedly fought off in that time. I see Harry Potter in this because of the serpent that is locked away inside the Chamber of Secrets. Also, the forest depicted in the Harry Potter series is named "The Forbidden Forest" because of the many dangerous creatures inside that forest, much like the worm in this unknown forest.

White Heron

I recently came across a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett titled "A White Heron". This piece was about a little girl who lives on a farm and has to find one of the missing cows. She finds the cow and while bringing the cow back to the farm she comes across this man who is a hunter. The hunter asks for shelter at Sylvia's grandmothers' house. While he's there he explains that he is a hunter and has a collection of many birds that he has hunted over the years but there are a few that have eluded him for so long. One of which being a white heron. While the hunter explains that he has been following the heron's path and that's how we ended up here. Sylvia hears this and thinks to herself about how she's seen that white heron. However, she elects not to tell the hunter where she saw the heron in order to save it's life. I found this interesting that a little girl, only 9 years old, would protect this heron for whatever reason. The hunter had told the family that he could make them rich with money, he promised it. This doesn't stop her from protecting the heron. It could have something to do with the fact that she's been around animals her whole life, so her loyalty lies with the animals, but even being promised riches, she still keeps the heron's location a secret. No one can really tell where a younger persons' loyalty lies, when it comes to animals, or people, or whatever. She cared more for life than money, that's something to think about.

Say Cheese

Cameras and photography are present in both "Interpreter of Maladies" and also in "A Pair of Tickets". However they are used in two different ways. In the "Interpreter of Maladies", Mr.Das uses his camera to take photographs much like a tourist would do. This differs from "A Pair of Tickets" because in this story, Jing-Mei uses photography to win over her little cousin by taking photos with her to make her cousin feel more comfortable around Jing-Mei. In the first story, Mr.Das is using his photos more to capture a moment, something to put in an album and say yeah, we went to India where my parents are from and saw this and that. However, Jing-Mei uses her camera to win over a little cousin, using it as a toy or something to do that doesn't necessarily mean that she's a tourist, she's just playing the likes of the little cousin. That's how the two cameras differ from each other, they have the same purpose, and the same use, but each person is using them to a different degree, where one is for capturing a moment of a time and place, and the other is used to keep a little girl happy in a meeting between two family members.

Dealer's Choice

Since we get to pick what we do for this one, i'm gonna stick to Sonny's Blues and look at all the deaths inside this story, especially his daughter's. I'll also talk about why exactly the narrator chose to contact his brother, Sonny, while he was in rehab. Death is mentioned a lot throughout this story, including the death of the Mother, Father and the father's brother, along with the narrator's daughter. Are the deaths the reason that things went south for Sonny in terms of his drug use? Maybe drugs are what Sonny turned to in order to cope with those loses. Also, when the narrator loses his daughter, it's not until this time that he decides to write to Sonny in rehab. What if he never lost his daughter? Would he have still contacted Sonny? Did he contact Sonny because he's lost everything but Isabel? Things like that make me think, like, why did it take all this time to contact him? Why not contact him beforehand, and let him know about his niece. I know in my life, there are some family that I don't hear from or contact unless something bad happens, but even then, I still think why we go so long without communication. I understand that certain things happen in life that will take two people far from each other, where there is minimal contact, but it opens my eyes here in this story, just because it's an odd time. I mean, I guess on the bright side he still contacted Sonny and reached out to him. At the end of the day that's all that matters, that he attempted to reenter the life of Sonny so that they could reconnect their relationship.

Prejudice in Sonny's Blues

On the content page race was listed as one of the notable prejudices. As race is still an issue today. One thing that i'm gonna look into is the prejudice that musicians are involved with drugs. The reason i'll focus on this is because it was relevant in the time period of Sonny's Blues, the 1950s. Also, it's stated in the reading when Sonny writes to his brother, the narrator. Sonny writes to his brother "I don't want you to think that it had anything to do with me being a musician." Sonny is referring to his drug abuse and how he ended up in rehab. He says this to his brother because I believe that musicians were labeled to drugs in that era due to the uprising of LSD and other narcotics. I think today many people still have that perception. Especially when it comes to a lot of today's hip hop artists. Back then, it was more of the rock bands and then developed more into an assumption of the hip hop artists taking over. Today, all hip hop artists sing about are women, sex and drugs. Thus labeling themselves with drugs and the use of drugs in their lives. Much was the perception of musicians during the 1950s and continuing into today's artists. It doesn't say whether or not Sonny was in a rock band, we just know that he is pianist. However, the fact that he was associated with the label 'musician', he still fell and falls victim to that prejudice. It's hard to escape that label, and the things that are linked to those inside that label, and I think that's why Sonny mentions to his brother not to think that he's in rehab because he was involved in music.

Sister Sister

This was essentially along the lines of watching a tv drama play out in a book. Sister once dated this Mr.Whitaker, then loses him to her sister who marries this man and then shows up unexpectedly on the Fourth of July. Talk about a firework show. I couldn't help but laugh throughout reading this just because of how ironic and funny it was to me as I continuously connected this to many tv series that I see commercials for or movies. In a rather boring life for Sister, things heat up when her sister, Stella-Rondo shows up with her adopted daughter. Things heat up because there's a rift between the two sister. This would lead to the eventual split of the household. Not so much a split, but just Sister electing to leave. Stella-Rondo ends up being the one who elects to turn the whole house against Sister. Stella-Rondo tells Uncle Rondo that Sister thinks his appearance is ridiculous. Thus angering Uncle Rondo and leading him to throw a pack of firecrackers in Sister's room early in the morning. Angering Sister and this was the last straw as Sister would then move into her place of work, the post office. The family claims they will never step foot in the post office, this was a response to Sister taking a couple vases. Sister informs Stella-Rondo that without the post office, she can't stay in touch with Mr.Whitaker. My question, who really gets the last laugh?

The Cask of Amontillado

I didn't find this short story to be as dark as previously suggested by the content page. To me, I find similarities between this story and Othello. As both consist of a betrayal and an attempt on a friends life. In this story, Montresor plans to enact revenge on his friend Fortunato for insulting him. One thing I would've liked to know is how exactly Fortunato insulted Montresor to where Montresor would attempt to take the life of his acquaintance. Visualization for this story was made easy by the talks of Carnival to help picture a setting and understand surroundings as well as the small, four walled crypt that Montresor lead Fortunato into where bones lined the walls. I personally enjoyed reading this as it was easy to follow and there weren't many instances where I got stuck on a certain part of the story. It would've been helpful to know how Fortunato insulted Montresor as well as an exact setting for the story as the place where it takes place is vague outside of knowing that it's carnival season.

The Elephant In The Village

This was an interesting piece. A short story about a man who takes his elephant up a mountain to a village that is home to the blind. The people spend their time inquiring about what exactly is in the village with them as they can hear the elephant eating and breathing and they can also smell him. The people of the village are confused and they begin to argue, compare and contrast. While reading this, I felt sorry for the blind people obviously, as they can't take in the greatness of nature and it's animals. I also looked at it similar to babies when they explore their new world. They crawl or walk around not sure about their surroundings. They feel, and smell and use their senses in order to determine whether or not there is a threat or not. Sometimes in doing this, you find out that sometimes your senses fail you as you think it is safe and then get hurt. Another way I view it is how some people look at other people. Sometimes you look at someone and try to judge based off of smell or sounds but you don't get to know the person and you make the wrong assumption. I don't know who exactly the author was targeting for their audience, but if I had to guess, it was for all walks of people. It makes people think about how they view certain things based off their senses, because sometimes senses can be misleading.

Journal Entry I

In this entry i'll look into a poem, book, or play that I have read and enjoyed and one that I disliked. I'l begin with the one that I disliked. During the fall semester of 2015 I came across a play titled "The Importance of Being Earnest." I didn't enjoy this play due to the fact that it was hard for me to follow. In this play, there is an imaginary character that is created by a woman in the play. When we learn that Earnest is a made up a person, it kind of threw the whole play in a loop and made it confusing as to what I had just read. It really didn't affect me in any certain way as I was indifferent on the play.

Now for the book that I enjoyed. In high school I was told to select a book for a class assignment and to read that book in its entirety, then complete an essay on said book. For my passion in baseball, a book was recommended to me by my teacher. That book was titled "For One More Day" written by Mitch Albom. I enjoyed this book for multiple reasons, one reason being the references to baseball, another reason because it taught me to appreciate time, and appreciate the moments with my family more that what I was. In the book, the boy, Charles Benetto, blows off his mother multiple times. Well, the day comes where his mother passes away. Charles is then faced with his own death, and while he's reminiscing on his life, this takes him back to when he was a kid. Where he sees just how much he missed because he went his own way. The moral of the story is that in the end Charles would've given anything in the world For One More Day with his mother. It taught me to cherish the little moments in life, because you never know when it will end.