nothing much

so this class period and last we have not been doing much except for the revising of our first draft papers. Our papers our from a first person point of view, describing how some of out real life experiences might relate to another characters in one of the stories that we have previously read, while in class. At first in my mind I was just like "Out of these few stories that we've read, who and it what story could I ever relate to?" Because honestly I have thought all the stories to be kind of weird in a way! One story that I did really enjoy was the one about what rises must converge. However that is not the story that I have written my essay on. My essay reverts back to the unnamed woman in the story the yellow wallpaper and how she felt trapped in her own self, mostly because of the orders of her husband. In that essay I have written about a couple of times that I have felt cornered as she did. That was he ONLY story I felt that I could actually relate to, and it took me a while to figure it out, but nothing much has been going on just trying to finish up this essay and make it great! Talk to you guys later!

Everything That Rises Must Converge

I really enjoyed this story, this is one of the few! In the beginning of this story a lady has a son that she is very supportive of, but he hasn't did too much of anything with his life, he has to yet graduate college, but his mother supports him to the fullest. The son "Julian" is very miserable most of the story, he has this place in his mind that he goes to escape reality, especially when he feels that his mother is getting on his nerves. To start the story off the mother wants to go take exercise classes at the YMCA, because of the fact that she has health problems, and Julian is the one that has to get her there by the bus. Before they leave the house the mother is constantly talking about this purple hat that she believes she has paid to much for which was 7.50. To fast forward they get to the bus stop, get on the bus and the lady is pleases that there are no black people on the bus at the time saying something like "We have the bus to ourselves today". Then eventually black a couple of black people begin to board the bus at different times. Her son, Julian thinks that he needs to teach his mother a lesson about the way that segregation has evolved. He tries to get back at her by sitting by, and engaging in conversation with black people, it works at first but soon begins to fade off. Long story short, a black lady gets on the bus with the same hat as her & also with a child, the mother has a thing for black children so she takes a liking to him. They are finally at there stop and the black lady and her child also get off her, but they got off first. The mother is reaching in her purse as she is getting off the bus searching for a nickel to give the young black child, she finds out that she doesn't have one, and seems to come across a shinny penny. The black lady and the boy are speedily making there way down the street, the mother practically running after them hands the little boy the shinny penny, then his mother says something like " My child doesn't need your pennies". The mother is still trying to give it to him, the lady turns around and smacks Julian s mother in the face with her purse. After all Julian did tell his mother not to give the child any coins, but she insisted, and that was the result of her not listening. At first Julian is a little a peace because he believes that his mother has learned her lesson, but he begins to see her looking faint. She talks about how she want to begin to walk home at that very moment. She is in a world of shock and begins to fall out, Julian then cries for help and that is how the story ends.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

So, I enjoyed this story a lot, even though I couldn't completely grasp the subject. One subject was  his girlfriend and how they would argue and he would run off in his car riding around to let off steam, he once go stopped by police doing so because he didn't quite fit the description of the people in the neighborhood. They also had broken up. His ex girlfriend contacted him near the end of the story, and he still misses her. He used to work at this 7-11, but not exactly at the one he is buying this cream sickle out of. He goes on to stereotype the cashiers that work at 7-11, in reference to the one he has came into contact with. In his mind he thinks that the cashier thinks that he may be a robber, I'm guessing because he has long black hair. So there is a lot of stereotyping going on in the story. In the end and towards the middle he talks about himself as being an Indian, which kind of start making sense because at first he kept calling people white, but no one yet knew his race. It was also times during the story where he would be in the setting of one place, but the next minute he would be somewhere else, as if he was repeatedly going into flashback. Overall I think it was a pretty good story, I just wish it would've been organized much better.

My Impression On: How To Become A Better Writer

What I interpreted from this story was that maybe the girl couldn't quite find her niche, or what she wanted to pursue in life. I think she tried many ways to find out what she wanted to do then towards the end she finally found something that she was fond of. She kept coming u with a bunch of scenarios in order to solve her problem. I guess the scenarios were ways of telling us what could g wrong with that particular decision. When I began to read the story even til the end I didn't quite fully understand it, and I still don't fully, but in a wired way I do. In class when we discussed the story we touched basis on the fact that her writing this story How To Become A Writer was not much helpful but ironic because throughout the story, they criticized her work multiple times even though she was following everyone's thoughts on how to write in a great way. I did however find interesting the part in the book when the girl talked about cutting off an octopus' leg and calling it seventh heaven. That's one part of the book that really stuck out to me, and was funny.