The first story I read in the packet was the story Taking the Baby to the Liquor Store. After discussing it in class I believed it to be a sort of comedy story. When I first read it though, I did not tell it was a comedy, but I thought it was more serious. The lines where it stated the narrator and his baby were drinking together did show some sense of comedy that I must have read right over.
The second story I read was Wallet. This story was easily distinguishable as a comedy to me. The beginning the man talks about how he was robbed and how he wants to get back at thieves. So instead of getting assistance from the cops, he makes a pseudo wallet and acts like an old man needing help. This causes a thief to try and take his wallet, but the thief is stopped by the store clerks. This story was funny because it shows some silly actions that a father and son do in order to try and get even with a thief.
The third story I read was called Ungulated. It is a story about a woman named Stella trying to keep a deer out of her garden, or yard. This story is different since it doesn't really delve into the characters so much as the plot. It mentions that the deer wants to get into the yard in order to eat the food, but the woman doesn't want that so she builds a fence. In the end it mentions how they are both determined to accomplish their goals.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Post for Week of 2/10/2015
In the book Writing Down the Bones one chapter that really made me think was the chapter titled Baking a Cake. In this chapter it talks about how stories are like cakes. You can have all the ingredients to make it, but without that heat, or energy, it wont get very far. You have to put time into it and a lot of thought in order to really bring out what it best in your story. You need to look at all the little details of the story, just like how all the little details on a cake is what can make them so unique.
Another chapter that got me to think was the chapter titled The Action of a Sentence. This chapter is more about helping you put in the extra details or just different words to really bring out the full potential in your sentences. It gives more creativity, imagination, and uniqueness to every sentence. The chapter gives a little exercise where you put down verbs in a list and nouns in a list. Then you pick one random noun and one random verb and put them together to help make creative versions of your sentences. This helps to keep the story or poem from sounding expressionless or monotone.
The chapter Don't Marry the Fly was also one that caught my attention. It talks about how you can have your obsessions and you need to let yourself indulge on that obsession, however you shouldn't let that obsession take over your entire life. You can love the fly, and you can talk about the fly, but you should never marry the fly.
Another chapter that got me to think was the chapter titled The Action of a Sentence. This chapter is more about helping you put in the extra details or just different words to really bring out the full potential in your sentences. It gives more creativity, imagination, and uniqueness to every sentence. The chapter gives a little exercise where you put down verbs in a list and nouns in a list. Then you pick one random noun and one random verb and put them together to help make creative versions of your sentences. This helps to keep the story or poem from sounding expressionless or monotone.
The chapter Don't Marry the Fly was also one that caught my attention. It talks about how you can have your obsessions and you need to let yourself indulge on that obsession, however you shouldn't let that obsession take over your entire life. You can love the fly, and you can talk about the fly, but you should never marry the fly.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Post for 2/3/2015
In class we talked more about the Tocqueville book and poem. The main poem was confusing at first but now is starting to make more sense. I am not fond of how it seems to be a compilation of stories mashed together. I interpret this poem to be somewhat of a comparison of countries. Or even a look at the mind of a war veteran.
The PowerPoint 3 poem was the most confusing of all to read. I don't like how it is in simple powerpoint format, yet its showing such complex language. While reading through it however, I found that it seems to be a large comparison on peoples thoughts while going through these different matrixes. The grief matrix, consolation matrix, reverence matrix, etc.
In class we were to bring in poems and receive advice and give advice on how to improve out poems. My main poem I enjoyed the most was an imitation poem of Langston Hughes, "Preference". Instead of being from the point of view of a man, its from the point of view from a woman. She talks about wanting a young energetic man, instead of in the original when the man wants an obedient and carefree older woman.
The PowerPoint 3 poem was the most confusing of all to read. I don't like how it is in simple powerpoint format, yet its showing such complex language. While reading through it however, I found that it seems to be a large comparison on peoples thoughts while going through these different matrixes. The grief matrix, consolation matrix, reverence matrix, etc.
In class we were to bring in poems and receive advice and give advice on how to improve out poems. My main poem I enjoyed the most was an imitation poem of Langston Hughes, "Preference". Instead of being from the point of view of a man, its from the point of view from a woman. She talks about wanting a young energetic man, instead of in the original when the man wants an obedient and carefree older woman.
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