While a blog is basically an online journal, I have just recently learned that although I am to simply record what my insights are on a specific reading, the blogging is helping me to better understand each piece of reading. My first impression was to simply state what I did or did not like about the literature for example one of my very first blogs seems almost funny to me after reading the depth I had gone into the reasons that I found on why "Gatsby is not that Great" in the story of "The Great Gatsby".
Gender and Justice
In the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" I focused mainly on the treatment that the women in the stroy recieved form the male authority figures.
Gatsby is not that Great and I have yet to be open to suggestions that make me belive otherwise. I did see his overall devotion to Daisy and that he stuck with that however, I think that there is a larger list of "Not so great" things that he did and that list is much larger than him being a great person.
"Machinal" victim or suspect?
I have no remorse for a women who enters a situation knowing that she is unhappy and then is caught between a rock and a hard place and thinks that she has no place to turn but murder.
The "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is about love but in what scenario?
After discussing a poem with others and seeing a different point of view I still am not sure with what interpretation I agree with however, this may be the beauty of the poem, not knowing.
Seeing is not always believing
"The World Trade Center" teaches us a life lesson on how we need some sort of credibility to believe in something. We also see that we are blind to previous problems or occuring problems in time of tragedy.
Posted by HollyWaite at March 1, 2005 06:30 PM | TrackBack