Self Reflection

I picked the topic of books because I am an avid read and I hate it when I see people with very little appreciation in reading for pleasure, of the places that books can take you that nothing else can. T.V. and video games are fine, but they don’t have that same personal feel that takes reading far and beyond that of other stimuli. When I read I can almost access the same intensity of the world that is being created as you might have in a very good dream. Have you ever had a time where you didn’t want to wake up, not because you were tiered, but because you we having a particularly good dream. That is how I feel when I am in a good part of a book. I love it when I get so into a book that I feel like I know characters. I especially like the characters with a quick wit that are always cracking jokes in deadly situations and what makes it even better is if it is placed in our world and the quips and witty lines are about things I know, like when they tell the big bad guy in the dark cloak that he looks like Empire Palatine from Star Wars, it gives me a sense of familiarity that just makes me happy. So what I hope to learn is how I can convey these emotions and experiences to others so that they can get just as much enjoyment out of reading as I do.

Quarter two Wrap-up: Critical Aproaches

In my class we wachted The Help based off the book writen by Kathryn Stockett. The reason for watching this film is that it provided an opportunity for us to use a the variety of approaches we've learned to interpet it. This film focused on the separtaion between the "haves and have-nots", the main focuse being the inability of those without power to voice their complaints without violent reprecussions. Due to this unwillingness to speak out the ones without power tended to be ruled by those who do have power. This movie is uses the feminist appraoch by having you look through the eyes of a young and indipendent women named Skeeter. Skeeter does not obey the gender norm and is mocked by the other women in her community who were once her friends and even her mother would ridicule her for her professional aspirations and for being single. Then they show you the life style of the black maids who have to suffer the indignitys pressed apon them by their white bosses at the thret of not having enough money to feed their children and even in going to jail. Then it shows as these two worlds colide when Skeeter disides to write about their experinces, how deploribal there lives are. When she asks some of the maids, she knows, if they would tell her their stories. Even though they were afraid the two main maids who she asked tolled Skeeter their stories. When Skeeter called her editor, her editor said she needed more maids and so they were pressed to try and get the other maids to tell their stories. finaly near the end the maids finally pulled together and tell their stories. To make sure some people wouldn't sue them they put a story into the book that would make shur that they never admitted it was true.