AshleyMorris

Portfolio #2

This portfolio is a showcase of the literary pieces that we went over in the second half of the semester. These blogs are very different than anything that I have ever done in school but I realized how useful that they can be for people.

Poems that we discussed in class.
Daddy and In the Old Age of the Soul these were two poems that were very hard to understand. What you have to do is look up every word that you are not sure of and put them into context with the rest of the poem. These poems both dealt with death.

The World Trade Center and Brooklyn Bridge
These poems were a lot easier to understand. They focus on actual things that are in the United States and the appreciation or the lack of appreciation that they receive.

Stories we discussed

A Streetcar Named Desire
This was a really great story it was based in the south and it showed a sister that was jealous of another. One thing I could grasp was the disrespect that these women take from their men. Is it a southern thing?

Miracle at St. Anna
This was a compelling story. It seems so true that I had a hard time believing it was fiction. The relationship between Train and the little Italian boy was so amazing. The reason I believed that they had that is because they both were so innocent.

The Secret Life of Bees
This story was one of my favorites. It seems to have something in it for everyone. Everybody could find at least on aspect of the story. Either love, drama, or even a thriller. I really enjoyed this story and I believe many others could also enjoy this.

Short Stories

Here We Are
This is an overview of how everyone feels after they take a huge leap in their life. People are not sure where to go from here.

Your Ugly TooIn this short stories I felt that Zoe may have been a little jealous of her sister. Her sister is younger than her and happily married. This is something that many siblings go through jealousy.

Green Leaf
I felt that there was jealousy in this short story also. It was one neighbor jealous of the other.

I Want To Live
This story shows the suffering and the feeling that a person with cancer goes through. It is a very though situation.

The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd is such a moving and compelling story. It was amazing. It was a drama, thriller, and love story all put together.
It is based a child names Lily that feels like she doesn't belong. She is at the age that is a hard time in every child�s life and she has many other issues that she has to deal with. Feeling unloved by her father, getting treated horribly, and also trying to deal with her mother�s death. In the end everything works out for the best. Lily lived for ten years without a mother but now she has the love of many mothers and many people that care about her.

When Lily and Rosaleen arrived to the Boatwright's did they realize who Lily was? I think that they did know who Lily was that would have had to. I do not think that they would have let strangers stay with them. If they did they must have been very trustful people. I could not have let someone stay with me until that I was positive about their background.
August was like the "Queen Bee" She kept everyone together and seems as if she was the boss of everyone. She was a loving and caring boss. She made sure that everything was running smoothly. She also tried to give people advice that would help them. She did it in a special way.

Questions:

Was Rosaleen standing up for herself when she spill the stuff juice on the men feet or was she being revengeful?

Do you think that the Boatwright knew who Lily was from the beginning?

Do you feel that August was the "Queen Bee"?

Did you think the ending would end in the way it did? If not how did you think it would end?

I want to live

This story brings back many memories from my past. I lost someone very close to me who suffered from cancer. This is one of the worst things a person can experience. It is a horrible disease and everyday it seems as if it is getting worse and worst until you wither away. It is so sad. Also it is a very embarrassing disease. You lose all of your hair and you actually look like you are dying. Which you truly are. This story brought back many feelings that I was trying to overcome.

Miracle at St Anna

This was a wonderful story. I was amazed how different Train and the little boy were. They seemed to have one thing in common. That was innocence. The both seem very pure and that is what I felt brought them together. It was amazing.

Green Leaf

People that truely work hard for things do accomplish them. When a person seems to just be handed everything it could cause some jealousy. It is uspeting seeing a person getting everything in life so easily. These things do happen and we just have to deal with it.

Your Ugly Too

This story seems as if Zoe may have been a little jealous of her sister. Her sister is younger than her and happily married. These are two things that Zoe didn't have. She also seems as if she can't be happy right now with her health issues on her mind. So this may be why she can not find a man.

Here We Are

This is a very interesting story. Their a newly married couple and it seems as if they don't know what they should do now since they are married. They also had different expectation of what would happen after they got married. The man never thought married people fight, come on this seems very unrealistic.

A Streetcar Named Desire

What is wrong with the women? They let themselves get treated horribly and still stay with these men. They need to get their heads together and stick up for themselves. Did all women get treated like crap back then? It sure seems as if a lot did.

Machinal

I think this was a very hard story to read. It was very confusing. What I got from it was that the women seemed to be crazy. What was up with the hot dog?
Does anyone know? This is really confusing.

American Drama

This was very interesting. I think it did a great job of comparing The Adding Machine and Machinal. I notice they were a little bit similar but this made it much clearer.

Henry Adams on Mechanism and Modernism

Our lives have become very easy due to science and inventions. Earlier in life people had to work so much harder just to live life. Now it is a breeze for us. But we still need to know what is the most important. It is to put our religious belief before science. If we would put science before our beliefs I think this world would be a crazy place.

EL 267 blogging Experience

I have to admit that this is my first blogging experience. It has been a bit painful. It sounds like it is easy, but it isn't really easy at all.

Bernice Bobs Her Hair
In this blog entry I discusses that this is a story that was written a long time ago but it relates to many teenagers today. I look more indepth at teenagers and why they feel the need to fit in. My discussion on this was done well because I fully understood the story.

A Jury of Her Peers
A Jury of Her Peers seems like a very realistic story it seemed as if this murder really could have happened. I discussed how the women seemed smarter than the men.

The Adding Machine
I thought The Adding Machine was a humorous play. I related the name of the character to what he actually seemed like nothing.

The Great Gatsby
In this blog I discussed how unrealistic this story was to me. I think that my discussions on the Great Gatsby were done well because of the fact that it was the easiest to understand.

The Great Gatsby II
I wondered why this guy was so great? This blog entry really made me think. I was thinking about the world great them it can to me.

The Love Song
In this blog I was confused about the title. Was it really about love?

The World Trade Center and Brooklyn Bridge
These poems I believe are about appreciation.

Daddy and In the Old Age of the Soul
I discusses that these two poems have many things in common. They both talk about death and dying.

MachinalIn this I discussed how crazy I thought this women was. Well I guess if you kill somene you have to be crazy.

American Drama
I discussed how this made it easier to see the connection between Machinal and The Adding Machine

Henry Adams on Mechanism and Modernism
I believe that we as humans need to have our priorities straight. Science should not be at the top of our list.

Daddy and In the Old Age of the Soul

These two poems were extremely weird. Both of them were very hard to understand. What I got out of them was that they both were taking about death and someone dying. The poem titled Daddy was talking about killing their father and how much they hated him. This is odd. Also the author described everything as being black. I relate that color with death and dying. Both of these poems are very sad and negative.

The World Trade Center and Brooklyn Bridge

This poem is very true. I feel a lot of people in the United States take many things for granted. It takes something bad to happen to appreciate it. We need to stop putting things down and appreciate them now before something happens to it. I can't believe a poem was written about the World Trade Center in 1996 when something even worse happened to this building in 2001. I do believe now, that everyone does appreciate this building and wishes it was still there.

I related this poem about the World Trade Center to the poem about the Brooklyn Bridge. They are both in New York, and I feel people do appreciate both of these. The poem about the World Trade Center was much easier to understand. What I got from the poem about the Brooklyn Bridge was that it was going through a day on the Brooklyn Bridge, from morning to night. It seemed a lot more complex.

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