We Real Cool

In class we were assigned groups today and in each group we had to pick a poem to read aloud and explain to the class. My groups poem was We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. My group all agreed on that the poem was about high schooler or an older crowd that were cool, went to school, hung out late,had sex and soon die. Then Sweeney showed us a video, which was Gwendolyn Brook actualy talking about how the poem was banned,how it was about her seeing kids in the pool hall and about how "we jazz june" had nothing to do with having sex. I thought the poem was pretty straight forward and I like the tone of the poem. 

The Glass Menagerie

I have actually enjoyed reading and watching the play The Glass Menagerie at first I thought it was just going to be another boring play that we'd have to read then write a paper on, but clearly I was wrong. Throughout the play I picked up on several symbols in which helped me write my paper on. The symbol that most related to me was the glass unicorn. To Laura the glass unicorn meant a lot to her, because unicorns are a made up creatures and they are different from all the other horses. Everyone has a trait that makes them different from everyone else. What set Laura apart from everyone else was that she was cripple. Being cripple made a large impact on Laura’s life because to me she let her disability get the best of her. I think if she didn't have that disability she probably wouldn't have been so shy and she probably would have had a lot more confidence in herself. When the horn broke off the glass unicorn Laura claimed it was a blessing in disguise, which to me meant it was like a sigh of relief like she’s finally free and doesn't care that she’s different. 

Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants is about an American man and a girl that are in Barcelona. They are talking and drinking beer in a train station . At first I just thought they were casually talking and drinking and i did know that the girl was getting some kind of operation. In class we discussed that the girl was getting an abortion. I was caught off guard because that was the last thing I even expected to happen. We also discovered that there is an age difference between the man and the girl because thought the story the girl has a name which is Jig but is referred to as "girl" while the man is referred to as "the man". The man suggest that she should get the abortion but she travels on a train to leave. I think don't think she got the abortion because at first she seemed as if she were scared and then she lighten up about it and decided to keep her child. The man could of had a wife or something back in America but we don't i think that he did because even though the age difference why else wouldn't he have wanted to keep the baby? Since the class discussion I've understood the story a lot better and I actually liked it. I researched "White Elephant" and the definition was "for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth." That also lead me to the conclusion that she did not have the abortion.

First Blog

In the short story The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, the main character is a Native American that's being judge upon his race. One night he goes into 7-11 to buy a Creamsicle and as soon as the clerk sees him he instantly thinks he is a armed robber since he looks "dangerous". Soon while paying for the Creamsicle the Native American man tries to start small talk but he can easily tell that the man feels threaten. Also, another way that the man is being judge upon his race was when he got stopped by the police officer and the officer tells him that he doesn't look like the profile of the neighborhood. All the man was trying to do was blow some steam off since him and his girlfriend got into an argument.Living with his girlfriend who is white and with him being native american and with the area being mostly white I could imagine that he gets judged a lot.