I was thrilled to see the remainder of The Fine Art of Sighing. In the last packet the first paragraph or so was present and the rest was gone. When i read the packet at home i was disappointed that the rest of the story wasn't there, and also in class when we discussed the packet many of the other group members were upset as well. So I'm sure they were excited to read the remainder of that story as well.
I felt the author did an amazing job displaying what a person looks like and how they feel when they sigh. I liked how the author explained the different feelings that were involved or can be involved in sighing. Like pleasure boredom or melancholy. It was just a nice little collection of what sighs can mean and the reference to the carbon feeding plants when well with what the weight of a sigh can mean. Very great story!
Monday, November 29, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Blog Response on Essay Packet
So i decided to do a blog response specifically on the story about the Eclipse. There was so much to that story and sometimes in class i want to say more but i try to give other people in the class opportunities to speak up and get participation point. Then it end up being someone who already has the points. Why everyone in that class is so shy I don't know.
I really enjoyed the eclipse story. Of course the first thing that grabs my attention, because it was at the beginning is the picture of the clown. I was a little unsure if it was actually a clown picture made with veggies or if that was just how she remembered it. Either way she did a really good job at making it seem more creepy that just a regular clown picture would be.
The second part that grabbed my attention and i feel like they kind of go together is the description of the how the eclipse kind of came at them like a shadow creature coming for them is what i pictured. She then wrote that she heard screams and something about how it's not uncommon that people would scream because the sky suddenly changes. How amazing a terrifying that would be all at once. Her writing really gives you a great image of what she sees and she put you in a spot to also feel what she felt at the time.
The story as a whole had this whole un-worldly kind of feeling. There are mentions of shadows like creatures unknown. There is a lot of the feeling and colors of time travel. She keeps mentioning that everything is wrong. The idea that the sun has disappeared and all that is left is a ring of where the sun once was. The sun is a need for all life on the planet. Plants need sunlight to grow. Animals need plants to eat. We, human need plants and animals to survive. The world can not exist without sunlight, so its a terrifying and mystical thing to actually see it disappear. To see something that not everyone can see in a lifetime, something that can be captured on film but never truly felt unless you see it for yourself and the actual event is something that is in itself something unworldly. She did a great job of putting everything of such an experience on paper, it was much better image reading this story that it would have been looking at a picture. Unreal.
I really enjoyed the eclipse story. Of course the first thing that grabs my attention, because it was at the beginning is the picture of the clown. I was a little unsure if it was actually a clown picture made with veggies or if that was just how she remembered it. Either way she did a really good job at making it seem more creepy that just a regular clown picture would be.
The second part that grabbed my attention and i feel like they kind of go together is the description of the how the eclipse kind of came at them like a shadow creature coming for them is what i pictured. She then wrote that she heard screams and something about how it's not uncommon that people would scream because the sky suddenly changes. How amazing a terrifying that would be all at once. Her writing really gives you a great image of what she sees and she put you in a spot to also feel what she felt at the time.
The story as a whole had this whole un-worldly kind of feeling. There are mentions of shadows like creatures unknown. There is a lot of the feeling and colors of time travel. She keeps mentioning that everything is wrong. The idea that the sun has disappeared and all that is left is a ring of where the sun once was. The sun is a need for all life on the planet. Plants need sunlight to grow. Animals need plants to eat. We, human need plants and animals to survive. The world can not exist without sunlight, so its a terrifying and mystical thing to actually see it disappear. To see something that not everyone can see in a lifetime, something that can be captured on film but never truly felt unless you see it for yourself and the actual event is something that is in itself something unworldly. She did a great job of putting everything of such an experience on paper, it was much better image reading this story that it would have been looking at a picture. Unreal.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Blog Response: Other Reading Source
This week we were supposed to be doing a blog response on something we were reading that was not in the creative writing class. I haven't had much free time to do reading outside of school because i work nine to ten hour shift every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So the stories that I have options to talk about are those i am reading in my Lit class. I had originally wanted to write about As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner. But i also have an interpretive paper project due in that class and i have chosen the story Boys, by Rick Moody. Because i am not yet finished with Faulkner i have decided to do my journal response on the short story Boys.
This story is as simple as it is meaningful. The first thing that grabbed my attention in the story is it's style. The entire story is three and a half pages long and is one long paragraph. The story is also consisted of long run on sentences. These sentences are statements of what a pair of twin boys do when they enter and leave their parents home, the home they grew up in. I believe the style of writing in the story gives way to how quickly life passes when you think back on your own. This is what you did, and this is how fast it went. The run on statement sentences really give you that kind of feeling.
I also really liked that the title and the mention of what the characters do is always in reference to boys. "Boys enter the house." "One boy enters the house bleeding profusely and is taken out to get stitches, the other watches." Every sentences in the story describes these twin boys lives when they enter this house. Throughout the story is is not direct reference to them being men. This is because they become men at the very end of the story. The boys father dies and has to be carried out of the house. The account of the moment of when these two boys became men and stated in the last lines: "here's where the boys are standing, as that beloved man is carried out. Boys, no longer boys, exit." It tell that these boys are no longer boys because they are now men. I loved this story and thought that it was done in a really neat way.
This story is as simple as it is meaningful. The first thing that grabbed my attention in the story is it's style. The entire story is three and a half pages long and is one long paragraph. The story is also consisted of long run on sentences. These sentences are statements of what a pair of twin boys do when they enter and leave their parents home, the home they grew up in. I believe the style of writing in the story gives way to how quickly life passes when you think back on your own. This is what you did, and this is how fast it went. The run on statement sentences really give you that kind of feeling.
I also really liked that the title and the mention of what the characters do is always in reference to boys. "Boys enter the house." "One boy enters the house bleeding profusely and is taken out to get stitches, the other watches." Every sentences in the story describes these twin boys lives when they enter this house. Throughout the story is is not direct reference to them being men. This is because they become men at the very end of the story. The boys father dies and has to be carried out of the house. The account of the moment of when these two boys became men and stated in the last lines: "here's where the boys are standing, as that beloved man is carried out. Boys, no longer boys, exit." It tell that these boys are no longer boys because they are now men. I loved this story and thought that it was done in a really neat way.
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