blOgGer.!

Has blogging been valuable to me? That’s a good question.  Personally, I just see blogger as the website I’m posting my work on.  It changes nothing in my opinion.  It’s the exact thing as just typing my piece of writing out on word and printing it out.  It does not change the way I think. Sometimes I may need ideas from other people’s papers, but if we didn’t use blogger I would just ask them instead of reading theirs. Most of the time, I only read one blog of somebody else’s to comment for a grade but to me that’s not really interacting especially because the person hardly responds to your comment.  It wouldn’t matter to me if we continued doing this kind of work.  Using blogger is completely different from what we had in other English Classes. I believe it’s different, but not in a bad way I guess.  If we continue using blogger I would prefer to have more free writes and pieces that are more enjoyable. A suggestion I have is telling us specifically what we are being graded on.  At times I get confused on what I am doing right and wrong in my writing. Sometimes I think my writing is really good and I come out with a grade that is below what I thought I would receive. It would be better Mr. Fiorini if you would go into more detail in the comment you leave with our grade and why you gave it. Even though putting are grade up might be a bad idea, I would prefer a e-mail or something to give me more incite on my paper. I don’t think blogging changed the community within my class or the other class. Like I said in the beginning, to me it’s really no interaction or anything, we only may read another persons blog because we have to and not because we choose to. Sorry if my response wasn’t as positive as others but I’m just being truthful.

 

The Great Gatsby!*

“My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer...writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”
“Self-interview,” New York Tribune (May 7, 1920).

        This quote to me basically is saying that F. Scott Fitzgerald writes to readers of his generation, the ones below him, and the ones that have yet to come. In my opinion The Great Gatsby indeed reached out to my generation.

        The Great Gatsby was a great book. It definitely kept my interest throughout the entire book. I loved the plot of the story. This book as a whole engaged us in as a readers and only left us out on parts to only fill us in at the end. Unlike any other stories we read this year, The Great Gatsby was filled with excitement, from affairs, love, lies, riches, parties, to murder.

        The only thing I really didn’t enjoy about The Great Gatsby was the ending. I didn’t like how Tom snitched because he didn’t like Gatsby and told Wilson that Gatsby was the owner of the yellow car that killed Myrtle. I would have also liked to see Gatsby alive at the end. I was hoping that him and Daisy would forget about Tom and do their own thing, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. I also thought that it was rude of Daisy to not call or even acknowledge the fact that Gatsby was dead for somebody that supposedly loved Gatsby. I would have also liked to see Nick and Ms. Baker together, but after all, all stories don’t end in happily ever after.

The Great Gatsby

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone just remember that all the people in the worlds haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (Page 1)

Nick is the person talking. He is telling us readers what his father told him about how you shouldn’t judge people because they may not have everything you have or you don’t know what conditions their living in. This quote really stuck out to me not only because it was one of the first things I read but it’s a statement that is true to all of us.

“Tom’s got some woman in New York. She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time.” (Page 15)

In this quote Miss Baker is telling Nick about Tom’s mistress. To me this quote stuck out because I like drama filled books. From reading this you can already tell that there is going to be trouble especially because it’s known to a lot of people. This quote really made me want to keep reading.

I’m really enjoying what I’m reading so far. The Great Gatsby really seem like it will be a great book. I enjoy the narration from Nick. To me it’s kind of funny because in some instances it just seems like Nick is just there for no reason. I also don’t understand why Daisy is still with Tom if he’s cheating. Obviously she’s a fool, well she stated, “the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1883. Williams was a poet who poems shined in the 1920’s through the 1940’s. William started out as a poet in the Imagist movement. Later on Williams started to write about poetry based around real life situations. His style of poetry was very influential. He became a mentor to many other young poets. In the poetry I have read you can very well tell that he likes to write about real life situations.

“To A Poor Old Woman”

munching a plum on

the street a paper bag

of them in her hand

They taste good to her

They taste good

to her. They taste

good to her

You can see it by

the way she gives herself

to the one half

sucked out in her hand

Comforted

a solace of ripe plums

seeming to fill the air

They taste good to her

The above poem is the poem I chose in class. The repetition in this poem added to the experience in reading this poem. When reading the repeated lines it helped me paint a picture of an old lady really tearing up some plums because she was hungry. This poem is very real because in real life today you see homeless devouring food when they receive it and really getting into it.

“This is Just to Say”

I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

The above poem is my second poem I looked up from my poet. 

I enjoyed reading this poem especially because it was about plums

 once again. To me the tone is sort of humorous. Well when I got 

finished reading this I laughed. I thought of my own household 

because we always voluntarily eat each others food because we can’t resist.

            From reading several of William Carlos Williams’s poetry, his pieces of writings 

does show Americanism. The way his writings are structured and his literary devices

 he uses makes them American.

kate chopin

1.Kate Chopin Writings do not compare to those of the American Romanticism. She doesn’t really touch on nature and the beauty of it or unrealistic things. She focuses on reality. Just like in both of her writings she talks about real life issues.

2.Kate writes on topics that deal with women. In both “Lilacs” and “A Pair of Silk Stockings” she talk about women and their issues. Mrs. Sommers had problems with oppression. She was a poor woman that found $15 dollars and was originally suppose to spend it on her kids but ended up wining and dining herself. Adrienne lives a dual life and basically had an identity issue.

3.Kate is writing to all women and girls that can relate to some of the real world issues today.

4. To me as a reader, Kate writings are very interesting. I enjoy reading her writings because they are feminist pieces and are realistic.

5. Honestly, the fact that A Pair of Silk Stockings was the shortest passage to read is why I picked Kate Chopin.

“How good was the touch of the raw silk to her flesh! She felt like lying back in the cushioned chair and revealing for awhile in the luxury of it.”
I liked this quote from the passage “lilacs.” This is really the way women think. She admired the way she felt because she felt good. I know when I try on clothes I also like to just sit and look at myself in the mirror for a long time.