What called my attention was that description at the moment at the beach. I

The Stranger

   
    What I've notice in the the couple of pages was that the confrontation between the Arabs and mersualt and Raymond had became intense 

The End of The Stranger

I do believe that meursault had some kind of mental issues because no one in the their right frame of mind would be thinking of the things that he was right before being executed.it was almost as if he were welcoming it. On page 123 he said  " I had only wished that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate" from what I understood of his expression was that he was nonchalant about his death. It is what it is

In The Stranger Meursault was on trial for the crime he was convicted of doing , he was anticipating what was going on, and what he thought might happen to him while he was on trial. His thoughts were that he was going to get executed, and also how people would react to him being executed. he felt that no one would really care much about it, and also that they would rather look at him with hate, and not show any feelings, or pity to him when it would happen. he is living in a cold sort of environment.

Hey guys!

I hope everyone is studying for finals and is feeling confident! I feel like I've been studying forever, I'm hoping all of this will pay off.  Just remember to trust your gut, get enough sleep and eat before the exam! Nothing worse then a grumbling stomach when you're trying to fill in the scantron! I really enjoyed our discussions and material we went over in class, I hope you all enjoy the summer and time off and excel in your bright futures!

Thank you, Tori

Time go fast

Time is the only thing we can't get back. So the time we spend in class, went flying. Now we finished a semester and I didn't expect this quick transition. In the beginning, I wanted the semester to end fast but now I'm sad because I don't like endings. But this is part of life.

An Acrostic on Arrange Marriage

Arranged Marriage

(Acrostic)

A marriage of getting a man and woman to acknowledge one another

Reality of two persons that don’t know each other

 Relationships that is expected to turned into love

Accepting a complete stranger as their spouse

Not giving the two people a freedom of choice

Gruesome relationship to grow into love

Expecting the two to become one

 Decision made by parents.

Maintaining a marriage that is being forced upon two people

Anticipating angels would sing and dance

Requiring two strangers to live in peace and harmony

 Relationship that is to be obliged by two people

Intent to last and prosper

An artificial marriage that has no love or affection

Generated to work out

 Eternity of forced love.

Short Days & Mister Lytle: An Essay

From the two readings this week, "Short Days" and "Mister Lytle: An Essay" were both very different.  "Short Days" definitely caught my attention more because each little piece had meaning independently.  With the separation of each piece my mind was able to break them up, rather than me trying to read it as a whole.  I highlighted six pieces, but the one that caught my attention the most was, "It isn't that the genius makes it look easy; it's that he makes it look fast", because the more I thought about it, so many famous faces floated around in my head and those couple little words really make you stop and think.  I love how engaging each piece was and in "Mister Lytle: Am Essay", I just wasn't finding something to keep me wanting to read more in depth. 

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I felt like the genre was auto biographical, it was personal and it seemed almost as memories of someone written down as thoughts.
My favorite epigram was "The dark owns everything, but our sun comes out often enough that we think the universe is half dark, half light."  he epigram before talks about ending and oblivion then leads into the epigram i chose. i felt as if when you think of oblivion you think of this dark place of nothing. The dark owning everything is a way of looking at the world in a pessimistic way. the sun comes out to fool us, to make us think its half half but in reality the dark owns and usually dominates.
The next epigram spoke about when the bad passes the first feeling is relief. i related it to the the epigram i chose by saying when the sun comes out after darkness, its that sense of relief.
Of course i don't think the author was being literal when he was writing this. he wanted to get a message across and used these comparisons and distinctions in order for readers to comprehend.
i think this piece of work was titled short days because each epigram sounds like a day this character has endured. a day that they lived and how our life is short lived and each day is just one of  many that is the episodes of our life.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

This week

Since this week is only a half-week, I'll give you extra credit for any entries you make on the blog. In addition to the two series of questions, I've posted this week, you might also talk about your experience in the class, what you learned, what you're still learning, what we did that helped, what you wished we had done more of, etc.

You can also use this space to compliment and celbrate your classmates' readings on Wed.

I appreciate all the hard work you've put into the course this term.

best,

jt

Mr. Lytle: An Essay

Some questions:

• Why is the cedar coffin such a major part of this essay?
• What is Mr. Lytle like?
• The Southern Agrarians, of which Lytle was one, was a very influential group of writers. Based on the essay, what was the group like?
• What do you think John Jeremiah Sullivan's attitude toward Mr. Lytle was? What do you think it is now as he writes this essay?

Short Days

Questions:

• What genre is this?
• This is like a series of epigrams. Which is your favorite epigram? How does it work w/ the epigram before? The one after? 
• Which epigram puzzles you the most?
• What is the overall effect of reading all these epigrams together? Why is it called "Short Days"?

Late Post

I have no idea why this always repeatedly happens to me, but I'll always be doing my homework late at night and then I'll finally remember, "OMG THE BLOG".  I have no idea why it always occurs to me deep into the night that I should be checking up on everyone's responses and even submitting some of my own.  Why do us college kids always leave things for the last minute? Actually, even past the last minute.  Truthfully, I just don't think there are enough hours in the day. 

Short Days

In Short Days the author in it has a lot of emotional stuff that makes other people read it have strong feelings toward her. She talks about different kinds of writing, and the way it is in how people decide what to do with it. It could be the genres they decide to write about which seem to make people's impressions about writing become more interested in a certain topic than another. She feels that writing can go into deep discussion about things that go on in people's lives, which could be personal to them about anything. For her writing is a passion that she enjoys doing, she likes coming up with ideas, to write about. It is a way of expressing things out, and even trying to get a message across to the reader. For her after seeing other people's perspectives about writing, it is clear to her that everyone has their own reason for why they write. It is a way to express themselves, yet they have their own stories to talk about.

Should we get rid of automatic cars?

A lot of new cars in the United States are automatic. There's a reason why buyers choose automatic cars instead of manual cars, also called stick cars. Because automatic cars are easier to drive then stick cars and easier to learn. Then, there's no reason to have a stick car on the market? According to Quoted," just 3.9 percent of cars sold in U.S. were built with manual transmissions".

The Hidden Kingdom

They say there's a kingdom above the clouds

A kingdom that no human can see

They say there is no king or queen,

A place where everyone is free

In the kingdom there’s a palace so scenic,

That its beauty is unknown to mankind

In the kingdom there's a grassland full of flowers,

With vibrant colors so defined

But the kingdom hides a dark secret,

A secret unknown to the citizens,

The kingdom conceals its bruises,

Falsifying their deadly sins

A kingdom masked by the cold mist,

A kingdom so distorted,

It mustn't truly exist

But the kingdom full of lies,

Lays there,

Before your very eyes

Dogs

Sometimes I feel sad for dogs because they stay at home alone and when you come back they get happy to see you. This happens over and over. Just imagine if you were a dog and when your owner goes to work, you stay at home waiting for him. I personally hate waiting for someone to come home. That is the saddest part of being a dog. The other sad thing is when the owner can't keep the dog or doesn't want the dog anymore. When this happens, they just throw them to the streets.

Enchanted Love

The Enchanted Love

That delicate moment, that loving face,

Brings me to a fascinated place,

Yonder of the heavens, stars, moon above,

To that enchanted feeling that people call love,

Love is like a jig-saw puzzle that has no clues,

But through the vapor we knew ours was true,

Powerful enough to withstand the wall of pain,

Mending my gaping wounds that no medication can cure,

Our eyes connected and my heart skips a beat,

You love me more than others,

Your heart redeems all the sorrow,

Both of us know a twinkling sort of happiness,

That enchanted moments that makes living life worth,

That moment that brings heaven and earth,

You are scared, I will become your guiding angel,

Cuddling you close through the darkest night,

That quiet touch that shatter my heart,

A cardiologist does not know how its starts,

That ray of passion as powerful as the sun,

Brave enough to burn a blunt of a bullet,

That love protection that no emotion can overcome,

That love detector that makes me depict you in every heartbeat,

That feeling when stars are closing up and the sky is closing in,

Like a lion raging to capture his prey,

Is that the enchanted love you give me to sustain the pain,

Is that the strength you invented to break my chain?

Life is love, love is the lyrics, and you are the music,

When I dance and sing in pain then, begin the enchanted love.

The end of The Stranger

The ending of The Stranger we see Meursault show the most emotion throughout the whole novel. We see him get emotional when he talks to the chaplain and when asked Meursault why he doesn't call him father and with that he snaps back at the chaplain. I believe to a point the emotions that Meursault felt and understood were coming to a head at least for him. In general though I don't believe he would have have ever fully grasped feeling like everyone else does.

Letter from Kentucky #16 He talks about the strange things his friends do, of how his one friend Scott used a razor to cut his own chest but not just a cut he carved out the whole word "pussy" into his own skin. He also compares his friends to being weirdos which I see as an understatement for someone who is able to carve themselves with a blade like that.