November 23, 2009
Categories: Blogs . Tags: Crying of Lot 49 . Author: mtamayo13 . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
Blog 8: Jazz and Ceremony
After we finished reading Jazz what I got from the book was that it was a soulful novel about peoples lives and how we seem to all make mistakes. To me the characters seemed really realistic on how the couple Joe and Violet were together and the started having relationship problems and feeling apart. I [...]
Blog 7: Jazz
The novel Jazz, is strictly not talking about Jazz itself. The book begins with Joe’s and Violet’s relationship, and how they were unhappily married. Then the novel explain how Joe meets with Dorcas and they start having their love affair. Like I stated before the novel isn’t talking about Jazz as its main theme but [...]
Optional Blog
The novel I picked for the essay is Slaughterhouse Five. Many things have to do with the reason I picked this book. For one I have really bad memory and this is the last book we covered in class. It is also a novel I read for the first time and I really enjoyed. For [...]
Post 6: Slaughterhouse Five
I believe that Kurt Vonnegut wrote this book for his readers could question many things within it. For one, the whole reason behind him even writing this novel. It could have been to explain to readers about the experience he went through. Or it could be for the reason I think, which is to make [...]
Post 5: Naked Lunch
I actually went to the bookstore with a friend to buy this novel. When we got there I picked up the book Naked Lunch my friend was like ” Oh wow is this the book you are going to read, you are in for a bumpy ride my friend.” I wasn’t quiet sure what she [...]
Post 4: The Bell Jar
This novel was much more than I thought it would be. It really hit me in the heart. I have this boyfriend that I have been with for about 6 months, he became very depressed after his fathers death from a couple of years ago and he has really bad anxiety attacks. So every time [...]
