The first thing I wanted to say is that I actually do really enjoy this book, although I think that it comes with a lot of thinking. Whether it was with her use of colors, descriptions or even trying to figure out what was really going on.
The use of colors, I thought, was very well done. Especially when it came to the white being pure, green being nature, etc. Those were just a few examples of how color had made an appearance during the book. Do you think that the colors were necessary? I do, I think this way the reader themselves could come up with their own conclusions and how they see the book being written. It can't be either black or white- like my color use? Haha.
With the descriptions, I thought it was a bit hard to understand and could have been written a lot clearer. Do you happen to know who the direct audience was? Because sometimes it was hard for myself to even understand what was going on. I know some of you had that same issue when it came to the baby or even the rape scene itself. That's really the only thing I have an issue with in the book.
I also like how she interpreted Donkeyskin and I'm excited to see what happens to her father =]
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Class on Oct. 21
During class on Thursday, I thought that we talked about many interesting topics. I love how we always go off on our little tangents =]
The first thing I wanted to talk about was how little kid stories change throughout time. We discussed how Disney changed the story of Cinderella to being PG. Do you think that they should have? Obviously if they didn't, Disney could not produce it. I think that they should not have. Make up their own story, not copy someone else and change the story.
Although, I do find it quite interesting how really nice and inspirational stories were actually very brutal. Makes me wonder how other stories were twisted from the actual written literature. Bottom line, Cinderella is OBVIOUSLY not a kid story, haha.
The first thing I wanted to talk about was how little kid stories change throughout time. We discussed how Disney changed the story of Cinderella to being PG. Do you think that they should have? Obviously if they didn't, Disney could not produce it. I think that they should not have. Make up their own story, not copy someone else and change the story.
Although, I do find it quite interesting how really nice and inspirational stories were actually very brutal. Makes me wonder how other stories were twisted from the actual written literature. Bottom line, Cinderella is OBVIOUSLY not a kid story, haha.
In addition, I wanted to talk a little bit about Deerskin. I actually like how the book is written and how it is another easy read. I do think that Asher, her dog, is very symbolic and I wanted to see how it will be developed later in her book.
The only thing I did not like was the rape scene. I know we talked about how it was necessary to have it within the text, but, I do think he could have been brought out in a different way. That's just my personal opinion. I don't really want to get into a conversation about it, it's really not that big of a deal to me. I just thought I could through that in.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Psychoanalytical Criticism
I just wanted to rant about psychoanalytical criticism, I think it is 'crap'. While I was listening to the literature group today I do believe they did a good job. Although, I personally believe that all of it was just a reason. I think that psychoanalytical just gave critical thinkers more of a reason to 'think', haha.
In class today, we discussed what women want and how you could never pin point what it was. This is true and I'll use my example like I used in class; when I was younger I wanted a barbie doll, now I want a better car and in the future I might want more money. Everything depends on the time period, how old the person is, how they were brought up-values and so many more things.
In addition, we discussed this in reference to the book. As many times as we try to interpret what the author meant by this, or what she meant by this word use, we can't. Simply because of what is listed above or who the directed audiences is. When I use analogies, comparisons, etc, I try to use the appropriate for my audience. For example, the wind was as windy as the world spinning around the world. I know, it doesn't make sense but that was directed towards an adult audience because they are more likely to understand or narrow it down. Where if I was to talk to a child I would say, the wind was as windy as a fan blowing in my face.
With this book, there could be reasoning behind her writing what she did, mainly her audience. Or, maybe it was because she wanted to address issues that as some point your going to have to go through, like identity. There are so soo sooo many reasons why they wrote what they did and to try to analyze it is crap cause you can't. No one can except for themselves.
I guess I just felt the need to go on a mini rant and I felt this would be a good place to do it. I'm sure that I am not the only one to think so but please tell me otherwise if you don't.
To add on to everything that I had written above, I would like to say that I really enjoyed the book!! It was a very interesting story and easily read. It kept me interested and wanted me to read more.
In class today, we discussed what women want and how you could never pin point what it was. This is true and I'll use my example like I used in class; when I was younger I wanted a barbie doll, now I want a better car and in the future I might want more money. Everything depends on the time period, how old the person is, how they were brought up-values and so many more things.
In addition, we discussed this in reference to the book. As many times as we try to interpret what the author meant by this, or what she meant by this word use, we can't. Simply because of what is listed above or who the directed audiences is. When I use analogies, comparisons, etc, I try to use the appropriate for my audience. For example, the wind was as windy as the world spinning around the world. I know, it doesn't make sense but that was directed towards an adult audience because they are more likely to understand or narrow it down. Where if I was to talk to a child I would say, the wind was as windy as a fan blowing in my face.
With this book, there could be reasoning behind her writing what she did, mainly her audience. Or, maybe it was because she wanted to address issues that as some point your going to have to go through, like identity. There are so soo sooo many reasons why they wrote what they did and to try to analyze it is crap cause you can't. No one can except for themselves.
I guess I just felt the need to go on a mini rant and I felt this would be a good place to do it. I'm sure that I am not the only one to think so but please tell me otherwise if you don't.
To add on to everything that I had written above, I would like to say that I really enjoyed the book!! It was a very interesting story and easily read. It kept me interested and wanted me to read more.
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