Blog 6: Crying of Lot 49

Part II: Analysis of Hillary’s Entry

While reading Hillary’s entry, I understood she was explaining how Oedipa was in search of finding the truth behind the mystery of the relationship between the bones and Trystero. What I took from Hillary’s writing is that she was using techniques like the ones in Pynchon’s novel, The Crying of Lot 49 in showing the [...]

Reading Response Six: Crying of Lot 49

It was a frightening night, there was loud thunder that sounded like it was striking only feet away from the house.  Oedipa Mass couldn’t stop pacing around the house; trying to put together the reason why she had gotten the phone call from a couple of days ago, leaving her as the willful owner of [...]

Blog 11: Crying of Lot 49

The whole beginning of class discussion on The Crying of lot 49 really interested me on the whole talk about Greek mythology.  During my high school years when I first really got introduced with the deeper stories of Greek mythology I was amused, so I was excited when we discussed it in class on the [...]

Blogging extra credit

I attended the Art Bash conference on Friday the 13th from6-7:00 pm. There were many different things I observed from this conference. For one, there was the explanations to ceramics, sculptures and hot clay. But what I enjoyed the most was when I entered the ground floor and I was presented to UF’s chapter of [...]

Blog 10: Inventory

Ceremony 1. The importance of myths and storytelling and the effect it can make on a person’s experience in life. 2. How someone’s culture can either brake them or make them. 3. How scared one can get when they don’t know or understand what is happening around them. 4. Nature plays a crucial part of [...]

Extra Credit: Hillary’s Reading Response

I was really fascinated by the way Hillary talked about the myths of the flies and the hummingbirds. We really didn’t get to touch up on that topic in class discussion so it was really interesting to see someone’s opinion on the myth. Hillary uses good support from the novel to bring her argument through. [...]

Response 5: Myths and Storytelling in Ceremony

In Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, experience is expressed in the readings through aesthetic figures and myths together. In this novel the myths play a crucial part in the lives of many of the characters, especially Tayo’s. One Laguna myth presented to us in this novel is the story of Ceremonies and their affects. It [...]

Blog 9: Ceremony

After finishing this novel for the second time, I learned new things on Silko’s look on experience. I did however like what someone mentioned in class on how anyone can have an experience but not one experience can be shared the same. Every one in this world is different, and when something goes wrong for [...]