While I was reading God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, I found my mi nd wondering to the boy. I think he is the most interesting character in th e short story and I would like to open a discussion about him. While I understand this story is fictional and set in a different time period, … Continue reading This May Be Mhttp://dh17.chalcedonyco.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/1200px-Brigham_Young_University_medallion.svg_.pngy Lonhttp://dh17.chalcedonyco.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/1200px-Brigham_Young_University_medallion.svg_.pnggest Rant Yet

My first impressions of Hemingway were how simple of a language he wrote his short stories. They were easy and interesting to read. It was almost as if the stories just flowed along like the boat they road in to see the pregnant woman. And yet, when I finished the story, Indian Camp. I was … Continue reading “Uncle George Gave Both Indians a Cigar”

500 Days of Summer is a love story that isn’t quite a love story. The guy doesn’t get the girl. They do not go skipping into the sunset and everything is not okay. It has the two best actors (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel). 500 Days of Summer is about realizing how blind you can be in … Continue reading 500 Days of Summer

I want to focus my post on Teen Voque’s article “We need to Talk about  Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs”. I honestly, sincerely do not mean to be the one that reads an article and decides that I do not agree with any of it. I always go in with an open mind but I … Continue reading I Just Don’t Think I Agree

I was reading Notes Towards a Deformed Humanities and I thought it was so weird. I am not reading a poem backwards. – I understand wanting to read literature in a way that finds unnoticed beauty. I understand turning the work into something new to explore it’s messages and ideas. I think it is so … Continue reading It Took Me a Little While

The more I read CAROL ANN DUFFY the less happy I am with her. I don’t know what to think of her. She is driving me nuts. I don’t think Carol Ann Duffy and I would get along if we met in person. I believe in romance, I believe in love, and I believe that … Continue reading What in the World Carol?!

Carol Ann Duffy writes in a way that is from the outside looking into society. It is not quite a commentary on society, but more an observation of how it is. She doesn’t act on the world around her, but rather writes down her impressions and thoughts. She writes about the little people; the poor … Continue reading One of the People

I believe fashion trends are a good indicator of what is happening in the world. There are times in history, the 1950s and early 1900s, where clothing material was of high quality. Boys didn’t own a hundred sweatshirts, but one nice coat. They wore ties and belts, and pants on their hips. Girls had wool … Continue reading Quality or Quantity

Reading Mrs. Dalloway proposes an interesting question. What is worse? To die? Or to live an empty life that is comparable to death? Mrs. Dalloway lives a very unhappy life. She feels a great distance between her and her husband. Even though he loves her, he has been unable to tell her for years. She … Continue reading To What is Worse?

This one line, completely changed the way I saw Clarissa Dalloway, wife of a politician. “Her one gift, she feels, is an ability to know people by instinct. She is so sure of yourself and her abilities and yet, I feel like she knows little of anyone else because all she thinks about is herself. … Continue reading Her one gift, she feels, is an ability to know people by instinct.