Im finding it hard to write about our readings now. They aren't exactly storys to write about or question. They are short and simple. I think Virgina Woolf held a strong opinion about men and women how ever i found if hard to agree with all of her ideas. Like when she went to the museum to find TRUTH. What do you usually find is a museum? Old things. When she based her opinion that every reading had to to with men. She has to understand that those things are outdated facts. In the old days women were beneath men but we have evolved from those days and we will continue to grow. But to say that todays world's truths are based on past truths is completely false. I come from a family where the most of the women don't work however as the younger generations grow us girls are starting to set a different trend and thats how our world continues to become a unique time and place.

Poems

I love poetry and Ive been waiting to read some all semester. I love it because its like a puzzle or mystery. The poem is never what it appears to be saying on the surface it has and hidden message and or deeper meaning and love hunting for it... My favorite out of the poems was Wheatelys because her messages was so complex I knew exactly what she was saying but every time i tried to make myself explain it more would come from her words and it was one big cluttered mess in my head that I had to unravel. In class Smith told us to look at the word Sable and I interpreted at first glace she is just saying black race but go deeper and Sable is the color of mourning and heartache. African American people have been given nothing but heartache and Wheatley balances that

I LOVE U MAN

Enjoying my spring break, wishing it wouldn't end, Ive been neglecting my blog :( ..I think our midterm when actually pretty well, the questions were at least "answerable" The readings for the past few weeks a really haven't enjoyed, they are kind of depressing and too deep in a way.
In the souls of black folk i do think the author made it a point to take about how segregated America is, and although that is true you have to realize when ur built on roots like America is its going to take time to completely change our ways. I think that in a few years America will be so mixed that there wont be anymore "categories" people will be black Asians and white something or other and we will have to find something else to distinguish ourselves by. We have always had some sort of separations between races but times now and a lot better and more tolerent than they were 50 years ago and will hopefully only continue to get even better!

Too many names!!!

Oh my God I think this is one of the hardest stories I have ever read in my entire life!!! I could not keep the names or the citys straight i had to write everyone down in my notebook and keep going back to it to see who someone was and even if they were a boy of a girl. I was so confused through the whole thing and i hated every minute of it! The end was a shocker but i didnt like him anyway.. I believe the story is about pride and how it can eat at you if you let it. He knew deep down inside he didnt want to be that way yet he made his own fate

brain on over load

After reading all 4 of the Vietnamese stories i was feeling a little overwhelmed not to mention i was sick this week. But they all did send a good message i can just picture that little old Vietnamese grandma sitting in a rocking chair telling these stories to her grand kids to teach them the lessons of life. My fav was the 4th one because its a lesson that most aren't taught to the fullest but should be. once i finished all of those i read the guest which was actually very easy to read but...where was the rest of it? really was that it... i was actually into the story and wanted something deeper than what i got. I wanted to hear about how they started a beautiful friendship and lived happily ever after or something to that extent... nothing really happen. But i believe it delt with personal responcibility.. am im sure we will get deeper into that in class....with all that work down and my blog out of the way I NEED TO RELAX it was like all my professors decided to assign loads of homework this week ...of all weeks to be sick!

Get him some Meds!!!

what the hell did i just read...I seriously feel, after reading that, that i am crazy myself. That poor man has a lot of problems and the biggest problem is that he is so observant and very good a piecing together things that if he was in a right state of mind he would problem be an asset to society. I think that he is in fact a mad man but i think that the people around him did nothing to help him. No reassurance that they weren't there to harm him, no communication about anything involving his life, nothing! Poor guy! But as i was reading the story i actually began to believe what he was saying, and understanding where he was coming from i had to keep reminding myself that this man was out of his mind and that nothing he is piecing together is really the truth!...again...Poor guy!

He's Everywhere!!

Like i have mentioned in some responses, I love Shakespeare!!! It really makes me wonder that if there was never a Shakespeare and we never had his writings would we have the kind of story plots and movies that we do. Any and every movie i have ever seen has had some reflection of Shakespeare's work. From love gone wrong, to betrayal, to the tragic endings, most of our basic movie plots have a Shakespeare; which is why i love reading him so much i love to ponder about all the movies that have been created in this likelihood. Try renting the movie O its a modern Othello.. too funny!!