http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/ American Literature Course web-blog en-us 2005-05-05T14:31:02-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/009358.html I know that my last portfolio was sub-par. I hope that this one will be better. Again, for background information (since I noticed most people put it in). I am graduate student here at Seton Hill University. I am studying... ChristopherParfitt 2005-05-05T14:31:02-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/009325.html It is pretty obvious that I am not a literature person. I am probably the one who understands the least in the class. So I apologize if I make glaring errors for this presentation or miss key underlying story plots.... ChristopherParfitt 2005-05-04T13:10:26-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/009027.html I think it is emminent that I am not a literary person. I do read a lot, but this stuff I don't necessarily comprehend very well. Well maybe I do, if the grades from the papers are indication, maybe I... ChristopherParfitt 2005-04-14T17:20:24-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/009025.html I have very strong feelings on this type fo subject. There are people who would say that these are old men, and this happened a long time a go. So many forget that all of the attrocities committed in nazi... ChristopherParfitt 2005-04-14T16:57:34-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008822.html Just as the previous story, this one does not make any sense to me. I understand that he was related to Rollo, who has died. Or, better said killed by an emu on his ranch in Wyoming. But other than... ChristopherParfitt 2005-04-07T15:12:10-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008821.html Thias story does not make any sense to me. The narrator who is a woman named Lucy, who is a freelance photographer by trade talking with her friend Leo in San Francisco. But beyond that it doesn't make any sense... ChristopherParfitt 2005-04-07T14:52:31-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008670.html I am really questioning whether this was a story or not. It was a conversation between a young married couple going to there honeymoon. All they did was fight, and it never went anywhere, it was the same arguments, presented... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-31T17:44:27-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008668.html Not just in reference to this story but also to the previous story, there seems to be much reference to racial tension, and prejudices and dividing racial barriers. There is also mention of death in both stories. The ending with... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-31T17:29:01-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008667.html I had a harder time with this one. The southern accent is always harder to read. I understand what happened, but I really don't understand what happened. The moon was an evil omen, but was the song coincidental or a... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-31T17:10:30-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008666.html My question is a simple one, asking why there is mention early on about the musical "The King and I" then no further mention of it in the short story? By a quirk of fate, I performed in the pit... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-31T17:09:31-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008379.html Set it New Orleans in the 1920's. Fitzgerald really must have liked jazz. It is at least a subliminal theme in a few of his works. The characters and their conflicts are intriguing to say the least. Blanche relentlessly clings... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-15T14:29:21-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008179.html This is a first for me, I have never done a blog portfolio, so I hope that it is satisfactory. I noticed other people included a little information about themselves. I am a grad (post-baccalaureate) student here at Seton Hill,... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-03T17:19:16-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008156.html I found these two stories to be a bit disturbing. The Lehman poem over the World Trade Center is a bit ironic, probably not so at the time it was composed but in the current light it is. I do... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-03T15:13:01-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/008155.html Sorry for the delay, finally got the computer problems fixed. I hate computers yet they are so ingrained into every day usage that I can't do without it. I find that "In the Old Age of the Soul" by Ezra... ChristopherParfitt 2005-03-03T14:55:30-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherParfitt/007618.html I am sure that Dr. Jerz will mention this in class, if someone else doesn't bring it up first. If I remember right it might have been touched upon during the last class. My agenda item for the week is,... ChristopherParfitt 2005-02-16T11:54:29-05:00