Hm...Ill have to get back to you on that

Driving Me Insane

I still don't think that I comprehend what excatly is going on through out the whole story Death Of A Saleman by Arthur Miller. I understand when Willy is having flashbacks or daydreams, whatever they may be, but I don't quite get when he comes out of them sometimes. Unless A.) he never really does B.) I really wasn't paying attention to what I was reading.

I have a horrible problem with reading plays I don't like it and it gets me confused because my mind pauses and has to think alot more than just an obvious story. So critically or close reading a play for me is near impossible. Also I am curious because Willy has fantasy about The Woman, or are these events really happening? Not only that but why don't they give this chick a name? Is she that irrelavant to the story? If she is then why should she even be in it? At the moment I am reading The Color Purple as well....what is with these nameless people. It bothers me because I love names, names give personality to a character, or so I think.

I was thinking about someone else to with Willy's death but of course I can't remember. Another thing I would like to mention, I don't know when this was originally written but I think it still applies to today. If my child ever called me a phony, punk, fake whatever Biff calls him I would slap him across the mouth so hard I don't care if I was insane then when CYS came to the house I'd be free! Children are so disrespectful!

Now I am completely off my train of thought...oh I hate that!
I want to blog about The Color of Water as well but I came to this descion, I want to reread the book over this weekend, in between the wedding extravaganza 1, and then decide, I hope that's ok.

Hope you guys enjoyed the weather cause it looks like the beauty has come to an end....until Monday ;-)

My Driving Ability

Whoa! I really think the day that the DMV gave my the power to drive on my own someone wasn't paying attention! So I went out with one of my friends to Eat N Park in Latrobe tonight. Drank alot of cappucino, it was yummy! Then we are getting ready to leave and freezing cause it was like zero degrees in Eat N Park so I'm fumbling with my keys get my door open and start the car. I'm laughing and having fun I can't get my freakin car to go into drive I keep missing it and putting it in 3rd! If a cop had seen me I'm sure he may have assumed I had a few...sadly I was sober as a stone ;-)

So finally get the heat on and car in drive and go! As I pull forward my car goes over this big bump...then up then down. I stop the car and laughing til it hurts think I just drove over one of those little stoppers they us to seperate spaces, well wait until I turn the bend. I drove completely over the sidewalk at Eat N Park, this happened for a very good reason too, I couldn't see the sidewalk. :-) I couldn't stop laughing, in amazement none the less. My car sits pretty low and I seriously should have gotten stuck! Once back at school I examine my car...all the pieces still there. :-)
Also I must mention on Wednesday I hit the guardrail coming out of the parking lot! Theres a teeny mark on my car. :-) So when you see the red Sunfire with beads and feathers hanging from the mirror I suggest you get out of the way!

I am odd...thats something new!

Ok, so does this mean like that I have no common sense but I understand diffucult things? Haha anyways I knew I would at least do decent but then again I should brush up on my English, there's something new. Maybe the fact that I have absolutly no knowledge of English language and grammar is telling me that I need to:
A) try the high school/elemetry school thing all over again
B) Find a new major...any suggestions?

As the years go past sometimes I think I am really loosing brain cells...where do they all go??

On a side note I took the Swear Work usage test just to see if I swear to much
You scored 19 relevance and 8 creativity!
that was my score, so ya I swear alot I'm just not creative about it! :-)
Now I feel I must wash my mouth out with soap.

We come to an end...

You know just when I think I liked this book and this woman it ended. I have finished Eats, Shoots and Leaves over the weekend. Now the goal may have been to teach me better grammar, which may have happened. The brutal beginning just struck me down to where I didn't not want to read, once over the comma hump, I think this chapter still did not sink in. Then through the hurdle of semi-colons and colons, a section I would like to read again so maybe I can pick up on somethings. Finally, I hit some puncuation that I like, EXCALMATION POINTS and question marks. I am notorious for combinding both of these because I ask such crazy question they need emphasis.

I personally thought this section wasn't as brutal because most people understand the use of punctuation like this. That is except when quotation and paratheses are involved. I never knew any of the parathese rules, I thought it just went at the end of the sentence, same with the quotations. I do love to use these marks but I don't think I use them to much in dialouge. Good or bad who knows, I don't really like dialouge to much anymore, unless it's internal.

As the book came to a close and Truss began to talk of the other interesting marks we use and have created, for example smileys :-) I began to think that maybe she isn't such a literary psycho that she just comes down harsh because she is trying to educate about 85% of the world. I think that could put some pressure on someone, so sure I would be a little cranky myself. I know not everyone is going to pick up this book, but next time I see an obvious error I may suggest it. Hopefully I'll be able to fix all my errors and learn because I think I'm going to slowly work my way back through this book and try a little harder that was Truss can feel happy knowing that one person got something from this book and I'm gonna be a walking advertisment!

Maybe next she could write a book on improving your spelling ;-)

Those things!

I am not a Semicolon user which is where Truss starts us out in Airs and Graces in the next selection from Eats, Shoots and Leaves. I do not use semi colons very often, heck I normally don't use colons unless I'm making a list. I was never very fond of these marks of puncuation I'm more of a dash or ellipsis. I will say that I did get a good education from this chpater, I enjoyed the history of the colon and semi colon. I think I have anatomy, which I don't even currently take, on the mind because every time the word colon was there I kept thinking of the organ. I read something else recently and got very confused- now that's a word for me for that commonly confused word test. Anyway on with the show...

I would like to thank Val for her entry on ellipsis, cause hey I didn't know they had a name. I am notorious for the use of the three little dots, as well. They just make it much easier than putting in a comma or something, they leave space to think and...well....I just enjoy them! For no reason either they just make me feel happy, not like they make me look smart which I would love. Not to mention the dash-ha ha! sometimes I like this little guy and I am very aware that I use this incorrectly as well. They just seem like fun puncuation and I mean where and when did anyone ever learn the rules for these? Heck I didn't even know the dots had a name! So I was really interested in this section there was just so much to learn!

Who throws a party like that??

After reading Mansfield's the "Garden Party" I have appreciation for my social status. This was also section 27 in Foster's book How to Read Literature which this may have given me some insight. On with the story first my first reaction when I read this was, what a spoiled little biotch! My goodness, at first I thought Laura wasn't like many of the other characters who were just interested in the party. Her brother Laurie (this kind of freaked me out...isn't Laurie a girl's name?) seemed to me like the type of guy who would have stood by his sister and said cancell the party. I do think though it is significant that they did go through with the party for some reasons.

At the end when Laura takes the basket to Mrs. Scott and they take her to see the dead man as she looks at him, she realizes that he is in a better place. He is not worried about hats and parties like she is. This made me think back to the working men at the beginning of the story, first the short chubby one tells her to hang the marquee over the trees that Laura thinks are so beautiful. Hiding their beauty does not affect her party. Second she notices the one worker who smells the lavendar, he is taking a moment from life to enjoy something other than work, just how she sees the man in the end, not worried about the major things but the minor.

I wasn't to fond of the end through, for it being considered such a wonderful short story, it was a very abrupt ending. I know Foster talks about how when this woman has a chance she doesn't want to help those in need but she does. Secondly she is walking through the mean little cottages (did you ever see the Morty movies or did anyone else picture like a possesd Little Red Riding Hood?) and they are described very dark and dirty showing that these people are of no comparision to her and her shiny velvet hat, that is making her feel out of place. Then she is in the house and trying to leave then all the sudden it's as if she must see the body but it last so briefly. When I try to picture stories in my mind,I'm very visual, I see this scene lastly a very long time. You don't just stare at a dead body for 10 seconds and see the beauty in it then run. Not just that but when she speaks to her brother about it I think all of the audience understands or has their own version of life isn't, but still very aburpt ending.

One finally question......
How long was she really in this place with the mean cottages and why did her brother come down?

My personal side note, I don't think their party sounded that great even though they thought it was the best. I like her friend Kitty's idea about putting the frog looking band around the pond. Maybe I'm not high class enough but if I wanted to go walk around someone's garden for the day, I would just go to Phipps and pay to take pretty pictures too!

Eat This!

Apostrahes I do not mind that much. I am a killer for the it's and its thing. Especially when I am in a hurry I always forget to think about which one I'm using. Other than that I have a nice relationship here. Not to many problems that thing at the end Truss brings up with the posses extra s's like on Truss's eww...I think that looks horrible, I think I would be one to stick with Truss'. I like the presentation better

Commas, nice commas, are a pain in the butt to me. I've written a million papers and read so much on commas but still they mean nothing! When I first learned about commas here is what I understood: put a comma where ever there is a natural pause. Ok well what if I pause some where someone doesn't? I just do not like commas I understand you use them in list and to break up sentences, just when I think I understand I'm wrong again. So I basically stop using commas then go back to being a comma freak and there's a million of them when they have no need. I hate to say it but I don't think I will ever get this comma thing down. Every time she reaches the end of a chapter I think, I am that dumb person and some how I'm proud that I am that dumb person. I don't like grammar I like writing, I like being creative. I hate beign tedious and anal about things, hey I never was an obessive compulsive about anything! Don't get me wrong I like things nice and neat and that sound pretty and sure sometimes I rewrite a paper 15-16 times but it's not because of the grammar. I am a happy stupid grammarian and maybe someday I will be a happy less stupid grammarian, that's all I'm hoping for at the moment.

This is the most important part of this post
Every time I turn a page I can't think of anything but this and I'm dying to post it....

I am from Pixburg an attend Seen Ill (Ya guys we have our own Pixburghese!), near Laytrobe. My hometawn is near Carneygee and I got friends that go to Bobby Mo and Pitt in Oaklin. When I was young I useta’ ride in buggies with my friends and fish in Chartier’s Crick. Now we hang out at Da Point, Da Strip, Esliberty, Datawn, and Eaten Park. Jeet jet? Cause we sure did at Da O, got some hogies and progies and drank lots of pop! Back’air behind Seen Ill we could go deer spottin’ too, look aht for dem jaggerbushes! Then maybe hit up a bar on the Souside and get some Irn City. Yinz goin aht sahrdee nite? If not we could go up to Mt. Warshington or cruise the Norshor. I am from Pixburg my Pronounseeashun is never correct I was born to make grammatical errors. :-)

Yinz can find Pixburghese on the innernet ;-)

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This is just a test entry
Happy Birthday to me
Tomorrow I turn 20
This will show up hopefully :-)

Come and See The Show

Alright so I am pissed this is the sixth time I have started my portfolio this evening and lost it to the computer monsters. So this time I'm just gonna stick with the basics.....GRRR....

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
we're so glad you could attend
Come inside! come inside!

JanuraryThis section of my portfolio contains:

How To Read Literature Like A Professor
Good Men and Open Minds
Symbolic Flames

Good Men and Open Minds started the first real bunch of comments of my blog. I know it's not alot but most of the time I was at 2. Symbolic Flames incorporates many different readings into one, I am personally fond of this entry and How to Read Literature Like A Professor because it goes in depth with my personal experiences.

FeburaryThe some of my best here is:
Wow!
I wanna be a thief
Back Tracking Due to Work
Days Of God and Death
A Tribute that had to Replace My Homework
Tempting Verses
Religious Identity

My least favorites here are Wow, because I was so confused, but it's a fun read. Back Tracking Due to Work, also, you can tell if I'm not passionate about something it's not that good of an entry. I like I wanna be a thief because it covers alot. Days Of God and Death is also pretty cool cause it goes really in depth on some poetry. Tempting Verses, is about the Tempest, which trust me I was lost. Religious Identity is my favorite entry, I got a little mouthy but enjoyed writing it. Plus I got 5 comments! :-)
A Tribute is my wildcard.

March
We come to the end...
The Angry Woman Attacks Shakespeare
A Comical Night For Articles
ReWriting a Masterpiece
Somethings I Could Have Missed
What I Really Didn't Want to Do...
The Aggressive Side of Sonnets
What is with the Angry Women this Week?

The Angry Woman Attacks Shakespeare is my favorite, I really liked this article and writing about it. As Dr. Jerz said I think I was having a conflict with myself
:-) The rest of these really just touch on articles and sonnets that we read. What is with the Angry Women this Week? gets a little bit more personal than the other entries.

Come inside, the show's about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart
Rest assured you'll get your money's worth
The greatest show in heaven, hell or earth.
You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo.
You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll ....

What is with the Angry Women this week?

I am terrified to blog now! I am afraid I will be butchered through my blog by Lynne Truss. She seems so angry and yes, I understand we all have things that we are anal about. This Seventh Sense thing though...I think that may take it a little far. She seems so upset about little grammatical errors people make. Don't get me wrong or think I'm cruel but personally I love the SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY sign. >:-) I know I'm demonic and evil, but whose gonna deny that it's funny? I don't take it to the point though when I see a sign that say CD'S DVD'S AND BOOK'S to where I would ever correct someone. People are aware that they are not perfect and I understand that alot of people were never really given the chance to learn grammar, I mean personally I had like one grammar class in elementry.

Now I'm proud to admit that I do not know my grammar, ask anyone who grades my essays at this school, I don't know jack. Well, ok maybe I know a few things but I don't mind because half the time I sit here and think I'm on a career path with no real future. I can't remember what I'm quoting this from or I would cite it but, people can tell you that you are a good writer and in my head I thought I was (especially when I get angry and on my little pissed off rants I come up with some good work ;-) but when you get out there and see what other people have to offer, you slowly become nothing. That's how I felt til I came here, sure I didn't think I had the best ability in the world but I thought I had some. After reading the beginning of Truss's Eats, Shoot and Leaves I get this feeling even stronger. I hate being critical of other people because no one really likes being corrected. If I'm not sure I state it so I don't look quite as stupid.
This book though, so far, I will say is quite comically because a few times I was more caught up in her personal story than the content of the book. I don't think I will mind reading it, it just seems in the back of my mind the whole time I will have some sort of resentment towards this author because she seems some what mean (I'm trying to use polite words today, who knows why). I guess when I comes down to it I'd rather be an idiot unaware of the world then be completely ripped apart from end to end.

The Aggressive Side of the Sonnets

Death Not Be Proud
Death a force not to mess with right? Well, Donne doesn't think that death should have such pride. I had read this in Senior English and thought, well it's not to horrible. The thing that always got to me about this poem was when confronted with something frightening most people lose all thier courage. This poem really reminds me when girls talk about each other behind their back. No one ever says that your a dirty, nasty whatever to your face, but when you're not there it's alright. So to me this is like Donne saying behind Death's back you're weak you can't get me. So in a sense it's like he's being macho but really can't be because he's hiding behind a shadow when Death comes for him.

The Raven
That's one bad a*s little birdy, hey I've got enough courtesy to censor myself. I liked this poem because like I mentioned I'm all about revenge. This poem caught my attention. I mean you really feel bad for this little guy then he gets he revenge, it's like you uncover a whole new side to this character, if you the bird that. I think it's important in any work of literature when a character turns over a new leaf. I think it shows the turn the literature takes also. Like if you have a character who goes from being this girl who gets beat up by men to tough and independent your story line is going to have to change is some ways to symbolism her changes, even if you just have it a stormy night the first time she fights back, the storm could represent her anger. Has anyone ever seen the old movie Birds, I wonder if this little guy was the start of it all. :-)

What I Really Didn't Want To Do....

Ahhh...I total hate this because I was trying to avoid it! I didn't want to write about the Sonnets. Well, I guess this is the time to start, it's better than never!
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
I've read this before and I mean sure it's a sweet little poem but why does everyone make a big deal of it? It may have been nice to do this back in the day but I'm personally more of one for revenge poetry. Besides that why a Summer's Day? Why not Autumn, isn't that the season of beauty? I was lead to believe this my whole life maybe because in PA it's really amazing in the Fall. All the colors and the still light air, the hint of summer still hanging around. I would rather be compared to this because it just seems like you linger when you are fall day. You may not be at your best but beauty is still abundant and sort of timeless. Summer dies away to quickly were the images of Autumn remain through part of winter. :-)

Let Me not to the Marriage of True Minds
What I love about this is the fact that Jerz showed us in class if you change a little bit of grammar and the poem changes! Nice! Haha I love little alterations like this because then you can really help out your personal interruptation. I guess I really didn't enjoy this sonnet as much, it just didn't strick me as moving. I mean marriage is marriage and I'm a somewhat biased because I have no desire to be married. This poem was like aww it's sweet and I have thought about giving it to my sister in a nicely decorated frame for her wedding but eh, I might pass.

Somethings I Could Have Missed

I can't really tell you what all I've missed in my portfolio but I'm glad Val may have clued me in! :-) This is why we are where we are because hey, I'm not a slacker I do my work, just not on my blog!
Let's take a look at Foster for a minute shall we?
I do not believe I commented on Chapter 4, for a couple of reasons, I was so involved in decoding The Tempest, I just basically glanced through this section. Sure it does help to decode some of the Sonnets, but I knew The Tempest was up and coming, and this may be a sin for a someone in the English field, but I do not get along with Shakespeare.

Chapter 14, well eh, I really wasn't to thrilled here either. There could be a reason because I'm not really into the religious interruptation of things. I mean if you really got into it there are so many times you could catagorize any character as a Christ like figure. Alot of characters don't hold powers but power, this is important because the are the center of the story. I'm not talking about anything mystical but so many characters are larger than life, in certain ways.

Chapters 21 and 22 I suppose were a good lead but they didn't help me much simply because I had read this deformity theory before. Sure in some way I can agree with it, when something isn't 'pretty' we don't think of it as being good in anyway. This may have something to do with the way our world works to day through the medi (did I get that right?) putting so much pressure on perfection. I don't mean this in the way that it will come out but I'm all about deformity it give the reader a way to hold on to that character. I see it in the way where even obesity may be a deformity and that is something people can relate to so why not throw it in?

Geography and seasons otherwise known as Chapters 19 and 20, eh I am totally against this. I mean this is all about setting the scene, The Tempest for exmaple, is there a reason Shakespeare picks this wonderful island? I don't think so but I like the whole tropical feel it gives me :-) I need the warmth for this winter!

When I was Young....

Today in class(EL150) we were speaking of Miranda from the Tempest and how her age has alot to do with her maturity. Well, I felt like my life is gonna be over shortly, I'm not allowed to be young and stupid! In twelve days I will no longer be a teenager!!

I never really knew that our brians weren't completely developed until we were around 17 or 18ish...I'm past this stage! So this means every stupid thing that I do I have to actually justify with a reason! I can't even believe this, the thought never hit me until we were in class today, I have 12 days left of my teenage years. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that I'm old by any means, I'm just loosing the fun, stupidity, of my youth. Nor am I actually saying that I am an adult, I think I've just developed Peter Pan syndrome!

I have class though and I will continue this depression later.

Rewriting A Masterpiece

*Look below for Wednesday's Articles*
David Daybeen, kept my interest...I know this is pretty shocking, three posts on academic articles in a row and they all contain the word interesting! :-)
Rewriting the Tempest I suppose I liked this article because there were so many different versions of the Tempest mentioned. Ashley's blog talks about alot of the same thing. Some of the changes are so insignificant and crazy it is hard to believe that they would actually change the Tempest so much. Some of the changes are so crazy I can't believe someone would actually come up with them!

The Tempus Est is the main concentration of this article, the part that strikes me is when they talk about Miranda giving birth to a bionic creature who is Caliban. That just sounds so disturbing! It's like the whole story is the alternative to excatly what Shakespeare printed. It talks about Paganism and takes place in a desolate part of the forest. It is hard to belive that it can take place in a forest when they are a remote island with nothing around. To me a desolate forest is like well almost what surrounds Seton Hill...just kidding. It reminds me of being back home because I lived on 3 1/2 arces, all to myself, so it isn't excatly desolate but it isn't exactly busy busy.

This version of the Tempest does sound interesting, I mean it's a bit of a stretch. Thinking about Prospero scarficing animals or whatever they talk of Prospero doing to animals. It's kind of frighting, but like I said it does sound like a really interesting perspective. It's always good to look at things in different light, something like this when read right next to the Tempest could really help to draw some interesting comparision and maybe some hidden conclusions will come out with in the original text. I doubt I would ever do this though, I mean heck Shakespeare's old English was enough, I don't need two versions!

A Comical Night For Articles?

My excitiment was through the roof when I started reading this! With all the various reference to the different parts that Caliban has played I was in my glory. I mean the first article gave me a laugh then The Invention of Human sounded oh so boring, which I later found to be somewhat true. It could be because I'm kind of out on cloud nine somewhere (To many non school related problems on my mind) or because the author seems to jump around and I don't think I was completely clear on who some of these other characthers he was speaking of were. Maybe I'm just behind on my classic literature :-) That's not a shocker to me!
By the way I couldn't resist seeing if I could find Caliban as Java Man online. This isn't funny or anything but I tried to make a representation of my own...but let's say I have very poor art skills.

I must tell you though I love the author's honesty in this piece; The Tempest has no plot. I can't believe I didn't pick this up earlier, I love ripping things like that apart, I do it all the time in movies, which I guess are easier to destroy than timeless works. Then again I guess if this was my first work on my own I might mess it up too, but hey way to go Shakespeare for trying.

What I did get alot from this article are things which have already been disscussed in class. I mean I felt like I was reading alot of what I had previously heard, hopefully my coursemates feel different. I would like to get something new from this essay, something that I could learn, cause I'm definately struggling to pose a question or some kind of statement here. Under section five I thought there was something cool, when they are talking about the reference to the Bible and then go on to define the word Temperance as a name, I almost wondered why Shakespeare did not choose to use that for either Ariel or Miranda's name. I understand that they both have meaning and Ariel may be portrayed by a guy but it really seems fitting that it should have been the spirits name. It says it is both "calm" and "chaste" because the character is so pure because even if the master is giving the orders, Ariel is not the one making the choice.

The Angry Woman Attacks Shakespeare

"It is diffucult to understand his concern for chastity of his foot."
A quote if from the essay The Miranda Trap, if The Tempest was rewritten today.
This article was quite interesting to me, I got a kick out of this lady's views...and wow I'm thinking she might need to get out of the house more, cause as much as I will regret admitting this not all men are out there to take control and 'silence' a woman. Understandable that this play was written when women basically had no rights, plus the fact that Miranda is basically royalty, so that leaves her with less options in her life. This article was fun though I really enjoyed it, I mean how often can we read one of these an actually think the author has gone a little to biased? Most of the articles are some what open minded but this one is just full of angry and resentment, almost makes me think if you disagree with something so much why waste time on it???

Alright first on the agenda, I'm probably the only person to pick this up but it kinda of dissolves through out the essay. You can really feel the anger at the beginning and if you look at the words it is amazing! Although at the beginning she restates what we already know, Miranda means admired, peerless, and perfect; a little praise for the woman? Then we skip down a paragraph we see that Elizabeth (who is earlier referred to as Miranda's flesh-and-blood) takes a position as a wife, when they speak of her children (stay home and taking care of the kids is a women's role, not a mans) they use words like exile and a somewhat gruesome description of battles, they carry a negative connotation. Skip down two paragraphs and we see more reference to Elizabeth referring to her as uncapable. Wait, at the end of this paragraph we see Miranda brought up again and being referred to with all these words like lovingly, gratefull, rewarded. It's is almost as if our author has pity for Miranda like she is Shakespeare's victim, but when it comes to Elizabeth she is a victim of her own faults. Still through out this essay Elizabeth and Miranda are in such comparsion you would think the play was written to mirror Elizabeth's life. This shows me that possibly this article might be to biased to use. I am aware it's from a feminist point of view but our author seems to have a strange attachment to Miranda.

I just want to touch briefly on the foot thing, Miranda is still young. We not talking about some random guy telling a fifty year old woman that she is somewhat inferior to him. Miranda is inferior to her father, through his wisdom and experince. Personally I think this little rant that the author adds makes Miranda look even weaker. You ever hear the pharse "Respect your elders"? I think this is what Prospero is trying to say, for his daughter to step back in place and learn that she is not as wise and has not lived the life in near comparasion to her father.

The role of chasitity falls in with what was just mentioned, because this is her father. I mean really how many people run right to there dad and pronounce the fact that they are no longer virgins? Not to many that I know, especially woman because we are all daddy's little girl. Not only is that the notion that we send out but that is how we are viewed from birth by our fathers. It is his job to protect us from all the 'evil men' out there in this world. A good point is raised though about Miranda being Virture and Caliban being Vice. It is the ugly disfigurement that leads us to believe he has sinned to be given this horrible life. When as Miranda is always described as beatiful and admired so this leads us to believe she has never sinned and is given these gifts for her obedience.

As much as I would like to have a comment that I could agenda about the revised Miranda speech I do not. While I was reading it I felt as if I should punching ever guy whose ever put me down, burning my bra, and releasing those who are oppressed. Also while I was reading it I felt so feminist! It was crazy because I am always considered really independent and sure I feel us girls should be able to stand up for ourselves, especially when someone is doing us wrong. I just felt like oh my gosh I sound like this biased woman who is basically a man basher....which isn't good because like I said there are some decent guys around this world...somewhere....
:-)