Blog #10

During this semester of class I had good and not so good experiences. This experiences help me to grow as a person and to do things that I though will not be able to do.

I think that this new experience of bloging even do I didn’t like it very much was a good one and helps us to open our minds to new things. I really cannot give recomendations for the blog because I dont know much about it. But if I had to change something it will be the dead line for posting our blogs. I think that it will be much better if we had more time to post the blogs because there are times that we are really in a hurry and cannot post them.

So I will finish this blog telling to all of you to take care of your self and to always work hard for the things that you want. Bye

Blog # 9

In the graphic novel Maus we can see many problems and situations by which people pass trough in something as simple as a comic.

I never before had the experience of reading a novel that was all of comics and after Maus I think that maybe I will do it again sometime. Definitely reading a graphic novel is more entertaining and easy to understand than normal novels in which there are no drawings to help us understand better the situation.

After reading Maus I was very interested in looking for information about the events that the author of the novel was talking. It's very interesting how the author exposes to us all the things that happened to his parents and that had a great effect in his life as a kid and as an adult.

Blog #8 M. Butterfly

In this drama, M. Butterfly we have Gallimard who is a man that lives in china and serves in the embassy. He also is married to Helga but has an adventure with an actor called Song. Gallimard meets her in a theater were she is performing. Gallimard is a man that during his adolescence was not popular with girls and was very shy to talk to them. During his stay in China he meets Song that resulted to be a man and that was a spy send by the Chinese. As time pass Gallimard not knowing that song was a man falls in love with her and wants to divorce his wife Helga. Then after twenty-years Song tells Gallimard the truth and Gallimard realizes the truth but still says that he is in love with Butterfly that was the character that Song played. He says that he knew the difference between truth and fantasy and that he decides for fantasy. At the end of the drama Gallimard takes a knife and says, “Death with honor is better than life…life with dishonor” and putting on butterfly’s wig and kimono and saying, “My name is Rene Gallimard also known as Madame Butterfly” kills himself.
In this drama they make seem the oriental women’s as submissive and that they like to be treated bad but the man also are unfaithful and have lots of woman. Also we can see corruption and homosexuality. This drama has betrayal and many things that makes it one interesting and entertaining.

Blog# 7 "The Road not Taken"

In this poem Robert Frost let us know the importance that decisions have in people's life and how does decisions can change the life of person.
In this poem Robert Frost thinks of the decision he once made and what would have happen to him if he would have taken a different decision. Maybe some time in our life we have stop to think what would have happen if we had taken an other decision or have done someting different that what we did. But we will never know because the decisions we can only take them one time and their is no going back.
I think that when we have to make decisions we have to be carefull because they can change your life forever.

blog #7 My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun

In this poem William Shakespeare is comparing his loved one with different things. But their is something about his descriptios that caught my attention, they all are bad comparisons.

For example, Sahkespeare says, "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head" or "Coral is far more red than her lips red". With this he let us know that his loved one is not beautiful. But he also let us know that the beauty is not the most important thing in love.

Shakespeare gives us the message that we should love person's not only for the outside but the inside. And that no matter's if your loved one is beautiful or not so beautiful the important thing is that you loved her or he and that he loves you too.

Blog #6 She being brand

In this poem we can see how the author compares a car with a virgin woman having relations for the first time. It's amazing how the author E.E. Cummings uses the paragraph division and word division to give the poem a diferent meaning. Also E.E. Cummings uses the different punctuation marks like comas and parenthesis to give the poem a special touch and unique structure. This poem uses very weird word division that makes it fun but also difficult to understand if you do not read the words correctly doing the different pauses.

I think E.E. Cummings is a great poet because it should not be easy arranging words that have nothing to do with sex and give them that significance like he did with this poem.