JE Final Reflections "Come Hither"

If i was in Jane's shoes, i would have stayed with Mr. Rochester. Jane has nothing and he is the only one that cares for her. She even says that Thornfield is the first place that feels like home. She is loved and secure there and i would definitely stay with him.

I didn't really end up liking the book. I couldn't get into the writing style and it just wasn't very exciting to me. I am more into an action novel than this kind of novel. It was definitely a difficult read for me. Mostly, what didn't work for me was the fact that i wasn't able to get into the book. I never got myself motivated to read every night.

I guess this would be an OK book to assign in college literature. It is a good example of a novel that not many people would read but you would have to learn to power through it and just get it done. It would get a lot of students ready for college level novels. Overall, i would not assign this book if i taught a college literature class but it would be a decent choice a different teacher to assign.

JE Reaction

While i was reading the latest section of JE, i found it very confusing. After Rochester changed his mind about marring Blanche Igrim and wanted to marry Jane, i found it very confusing why she was so repulsed when he offered to buy here all the gems she could handle and buy her the most beautiful dress. She really didn't want to have all of these luxuries. I just stared reading from the latest point and i don't know if i missed something but why does she not want to have all of this. It seemed to me like they were almost in a fight during some of the scene the next morning she woke up and had a conversation with Rochester. I found this very confusing.

"JE"

I dont have much to say about Jane Eyre. Im finding it very hard to keep up with the readings. I dont know about you but i just dont like the way the book is written with the 19th centurey text. I also dont find this book very exciting because i am more of an action/adventure kind of guy. I dont really make any connections to the characters so that makes it harder to like this book.

If you have any comments or thoughts, please comment.

Dirty Harry

I just wanted to say that i really like the monologue that we had to write. Last night when i was writing this paper, i found it hard to chose what character i wanted to write it on. I had so many choices like Buzz Lightyear and Potato head. I don't know about you but i almost found it easier chose a cartoon character than a real life person. I ended choosing Dirty Harry because i really love his famous line. "You gotta ask yourself", "Do I feel lucky?", "Well, do ya, Punk?"

What were your thoughts about this paper?

Catcher In The Rye?

Well, this was one H E double hockey sticks of a book. I don't have any word to describe what i think about this book. At the beginning of the book, i really couldn't get into and read it. Once i got more toward the end, i wanted to read because everything that Holden was thinking and what Holden was doing got weirder and weirder. I thought that they way the book was read really made it hard for me to get into this book. I don't know what everyone else thought about this book but i can say that this was one of those books that I'm glad i read but never want to read again.

Bloggin' On Holden

The more i read The Catcher In The Rye, the more i am finding Holden a very troubled individual. I have two parts that i found very weird in the first reading.
"...I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack in the toothbrush, so it would split his goddam throat open."
"That's a wrestling hold, in case you don't know, where you get the other guy around the neck and choke him to death, if you feel like it."

I chose both of these scenes because they both are about killing another person and in Holden's case, Stradlater. I also chose these because i think that this might be a sign of foreshadowing to what might happen later in the book.

My question after reading this book is, Why does Holden think so violently with other people?

I would love to have some responses to my question.

Visions of Childhood

In the short stories that we have read, i feel like they depict adolescence well in a couple of them and not so well in the others. In Every Little Hurricane, i think that they show that some kids have to grow up faster than others and become more independent at a younger age. Victor had an alcoholic family and he was explaining the situation in vocab that a normal kid of his age would know. It also seems to me like in Sutton Pie Safe, it shows adolescence by showing a child that really doesn't understand the situation at hand and i feel like the father tries to teach him a lesson when he cuts up the snake. He wanted to show his son that he cant take things for granted. In Bottle Caps, it tries to show adolescence by having this kid that loves collecting bottle caps and has a hug collection of them. Almost everyone when they were younger had some type of collection or hobby. In Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, it shows the more dangerous perception of adolescence. Connie is a girl that is snotty and narcissistic girl that eventually gets taken by a man named Arnold friend. I think that Connie though that she was untouchable in her own little world and this story showed that bad things can happen to you even though you may think that you are untouchable. A common theme that i saw throughout these stories is the theme of growing up. In most of the stories, the situation that the kids faced had to do with growing up or learning their lesson.

A movie that depicts childhood in an interesting way could be The Goonies. The story is about a kid and his family is going to have to move if they cant pay for their house. The kids then set off on a quest to find a hidden treasure that they believe exists so they can pay and so they don't have to move. Throughout the movie, they have to fight against another family that is also looking for the treasure. They have to grow with each other in order to find this treasure and make it out alive. I don't believe that any of the short stories that we read in class really match this movie. I recommend this movie to everyone.