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The work that I think was most successful was the flyer I made. I think making that flyer was very easy for me to understand as well as execute it well. I also think I was very successful in being consistent with the discussion board, I feel as this would be hard for me to do because I would get really busy and would not find the time to do them but here we are. The work that I could have done better in was the most recent essay, I should have done better and I know I could have done better but I choose the easy way out and got lazy while writing the essay. Some specific skills that I learned that might be relevant event to real world is reading peoples expressions and knowing what they mean. Overall the stories we have read in this class were actually more interesting than I thought they would be. I want to thank you professor for having such a good taste in stories and made my time in the class enjoyable.

One specific personal experience that is echoed in The House on Mango Street is my living situation with my family is very similar to her past homes everyone shared rooms and shares one bathroom which just sucks when you’re already late for work/school. There is never any space in the apartment to do anything like run around throw a ball or anything. Ive always longed for a home in which I can have the space to do what I want when I want to. Since there was no space in the apartment me and my brothers would get on the walls and climb the walls since the walls were very narrow in the hallway. While reading the first vignette The House on Mango Street nearly at the end when Experanza was speaking to the nun and the nun asked you live there? That question had me rethink my living situation because I don’t live in a good place just like Experanza.

Analyzing the writing of Raymond Carver and comparing it to another writer we’ve got studied this semester, we can examine distinct differences. Carver’s minimalist approach is clear in his story “Cathedral,” wherein he makes use of easy language and sparse descriptions to carry deep feelings and complicated subject matters. Raymond doesn’t leave readers to discover it on their own except for the ending in which he ends it abruptly, he holds their hand throughout the read. The mood in this story didn’t feel dark. Unlike The Handsomest Drowned Man the story we read at the start of the semester, this story has a lot of details and you need to have multiple reads in order to find the complete meaning of the story, it took me multiple read to find all of the details that I missed. This story was kind of gloomy especially when you read the beginning where the village seems like a deserted wasteland.

The terror felt when reading “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is very different from the terror of watching a terrifying movie in the sense that when you’re watching a movie you can physically see whats going on and in a way that is more terrifying than read the story. For the story you have to use your imagination in order to “see” whats actually going on. You rely heavily on the details given to you in the story and so that can limit some people due to them not having much of an imagination.

Some ideas I have come up with for my research paper is talking about how fairytales are outdated for todays society due to the way the world has changed over the last couple decades such as inclusivity in the modern world. Another idea that comes to mind is that fairytales target audience shouldn’t be children, they should be catered towards teens and young adolescents just for the fact that fairytales have certain messages and ideas that would not allow them to understand what the true meaning of the story means as well as some of the words they use could be scary to children. I will most likely be using snow white as an example for my research paper just because I was fully able to understand and I think it sets an example of both the ideas I have above. I haven’t found any articles on the BMCC library yet but that will be done soon.

My attitude towards fairytales has change drastically due to this weeks readings. In the way that when you are a child you see the fantasy in the story and it gets your imagination going. As children we tend to be very naive so that also plays a part in not noticing the ideas that are presented  But now as an adult and reading “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” it opened my eyes to the ideas that it expresses such as waiting for a prince to save a woman from any danger, also the idea of beauty and how that is the only thing that matters. This story shows how people back then used to operate and I find it a terrible way to judge people.

While reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” one idea that stood out to me was the topic of redemption. The grandmother’s character arc, mainly, highlights the possibility for alternate and increase even in the face of drawing close chance. At first glance, she seems to be a shallow, self-focused person who’s most effective worried with her personal comfort and dreams. However, as the story progresses and she faces the threat of dying at the hands of The Misfit, we see her go through different phases. She tries to attraction to his humanity and indicates compassion in the direction of him in his final moments. This surprising display of empathy reveals that there is more intensity to her person than initially meets the attention and demanding situations our preconceived notions about who can be deemed “desirable” or “bad.” This exploration of redemption provides a sense in hope while reading this story.

I feel my ability to examine and understand Oedipus the King as quite solid. It is a classic Greek tragedy it really is stood the test of time. Some components have been a bit confusing with all of the symbolism and dramatic irony happening, however after class discussions, I felt like I had a good draw close on the overall subject matters and messages of the play. The way Oedipus unknowingly fulfills the prophecy of killing his father and marrying his mom is just so messed up, yet captivating. Overall, analyzing Oedipus the King become simply challenging at instances, but completely well worth it. I would love to play Creon inside the play because he simply looks as if I should relate to him inside the way he doesn’t need to be a king but receives all of the advantages. Creon just seems like he is just kind of hiding in the background in the play so I would probably play him

I would rate my ability to read poems a bit better than before these two weeks. If before I was like a 5/10 in reading poems i think it went up to a 6. The ways I think I can be better is identifying the figurative language that is being used in these poems. Also I still think poems are really difficult to understand and I feel like poems are very exaggerated, why use such complicated ways to talk about a lake. “And evening full of the linnet’s wings.” what does this even mean like come on there was definitely something else you can put there. I also just find some poems kinda dumb like Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost hes just talking about a stop he made in the woods while riding his horse somewhere. I just dont think Im ever gonna be at peace reading poems.

  Back during covid one of the big things were that people were scared to go outside. Even when people were outside they would avoid each other and if you were to cough then you would be given a look then people would slowly move away from you which can kind of be related to the play due to the fear of dying. Covid was a time where people were actually scared of dying on a worldwide scale. At one point it just seemed like there was no way to stop what was going on just like in the play when Oedipus said this . “But no man has power to force the gods to speak against their will.” in this way everyone predicted that death was coming and no one was able to stop what was going on. Covid was a really bad time I would hate for another pandemic to happen again.

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature and derided by vanity; and my eye burned with anguish and anger.” This is the quote I choose to focus on. The way this quote is embedded in the story is because this quote shows when the main character has his epiphany. This epiphany was what this story was about; it showed all of the young mans emotions and his thoughts about a girl who would never give him an actual chance and at the end of the story he realizes that he shouldn’t be doing what he was doing at the time. The main character realized that he was not in love with her but in love of the idea of her. He had a perception of her even though she acted like an older sister he took it as a sign that she really cared about him the same way he cared about her.

This sentence is ineffective because its too general and the readers get no information about what they are reading. It tells the reader that it is a compelling story but what does that actually mean, you can say something is compelling but is it actually? The sentence is so general that I personally would have no interest of reading because it has nothing to hook the reader in, it is only just an opinion of the story and nothing more. The way I would rewrite this sentence is In the story araby a young man goes through life and has an epiphany that changes the way he feels about others. This sentence provides some context about the story without giving away too much or leaving too little. This sentence encourages the reader to find out about this young man and the epiphany that he had in the story.

I might write something along the lines of how children are influenced by the world around them. My essay would emphasize the growth that the children go through. It would show trials and errors, and all of the trouble they go through in life. it would go into detail of the children’s thoughts and motives. The essay would have some cometic moments to lighten the mood a little but I think I would make it from an adult standpoint looking in so it probably would get a little bit dark in certain aspects of it. I would write how they grow up to be in the future and how past experiences shaped them in their adult life. Also I would try to show how they teach kids of their own about challenges one faces in life. The title that i would come up with is trials and tribulations.

I personally relate to the young narrator in salvation in the sense that he was willing to lie in order for people to have a great time. In my life i’ve been put in situations where I had to lie in order for people to enjoy themselves and not to worry about other things that may be going on. Although the young narrator is a people pleaser, I don’t necessarily think thats a bad thing at all it just shows that he cares and has a heart. It’s very hard to find someone who actually cares about others in a way that they would put aside what they believe in order to help others. The young narrator could have easily disregarded everything going on in the church and not stand up, but he didn’t because of the fact that he cares about how his actions may affect others not just his.

The reason I think this was the first story of the course was because it shows us (the reader) about having compassion for others even if you don’t personally know the person, also to include others. The story shows how the people of the village find a body of a man washed up on the shore dead. These people took him in and saw that he was huge for a man he couldn’t fit on a chair on the bed, the women and men of the village were impressed by his sheer size. The people of the village started to have empathy for the large man saying it must be very inconvenient to be that large and so by the end of the story people started to make their homes and everything bigger just to include and honor the large man. This story was great as the first of the semester it makes be want to see what else we are going to read in the future