A Haunting..........

So, I while I am studying I am watching the Discovery Channel and the show "A Haunting". It is a little strange, I dont know if any of the stories are worth believing. Maybe these people are just seeking attention but who knows.

As a Christian I dont believe in ghosts per say but I do believe in demons...the bible talks about demons and angles.. but ghosts?? It doesn't say that, so anyway its interesting..

I do not know why I chased that little rabbit but I did.

What do you guys think?

Revision for Short PapeR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who would think writing a paper from one story could be this complicated?

The only source we need is the Norton Literature book...so this project should not be as hard as I am finding it. 

I am finding great content for my paper. I am loving the process of analyzing a character and there surroundings! FUN FUN!

Its so comforting to know that my interpretation of a story could be different from someone else's interpretation but that does not meant it's wrong.

so heres to good writing!!!!!!!!!

Its A Crazy Thing Adding Fellow Bloggers =D

We had the funniest time in class this morning...... trying to add other bloggers!!! 

For some of us it was like fighting the world of internet!!!! When the technical world fails to agree with you what are you supposed to do? Well, I just laughed it off! At fist I was unsure exactly where we were supposed to add email address.. was it our google accounts or blogs?

Later I caught on between helping myself..talking across the room to checking classmates blog address to helping classmates with there individual issues! 

All in all this was a good class, like it always is :D

We did not spend too much time on the revision part of the class for our papers although, we did for about the last 15 minutes!! 

The power point presentation was so helpful to me! I am going onto that website to find it! 

Now I have to work on my revision draft for Monday!!!!!!!

Pygmalion

I love! this story!

Pygmalion is the origional story of "My Fair Lady"....This story was origionlly a book then broadway musical played by Julie Andrews and the one I LOVE is the 1964 version with Audrey Hepburn. 

The story of a girl who is socially nothing and how a man a tutor a language specialist saved her from her poverty! Yes, he was rough around the edges but so was Eliza Doolittle. 

This story was beautiful! It sort of implicates how our most precious loved ones view us. While they get used to our company...they become accustomed to our faces... just as Professor Henry Higgins, played by Rex Harrison sung in the movie.

I had a sudden feeling to write about this story as I saw it in the book!

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner's  "A Rose For Emily" 

This short story is very strange in its own little way. So detailed.

At times you hate the people in the story because of how cold they are toward the main character. Later on you wonder if you have harsh feelings toward the character yourself.

I cant help but take the emotional side of the argument. I am for the character Emily, even though it is certain she did kill her "lover".

My interpretation of the story is that Emily is mentally distressed, her father died on her all of the sudden and I believe she is still grieving. Emily lives in large  house with servants but no family!

Toward the end of her life she sort of lived like a hermit, secluding herself to the large walls of her home. She would be seen buying strange things and that would really make the people talk! When she eventually died the "Detective" most famously known as the narrator found her lover dead on a bed and the things she brought were in his room, everything covered with dust!

I think that portrayed her feelings with her dad. I think she tried to kill the only person who liked her so that she would always have him!! It was like a control issue. If the man she was dating was dead and in her home than he would never leave! Correct?

Well, I dont know that Faulkner meant the story to be that way but this is my view on the story.

Cathedral........

The short story titled "Cathedral" was very interesting. My first impression of the husband, was that he did NOT like his wife always blabbing on about her best friend ( The blind man).

But, as the story unfolds the husband warms up to the blind man and in a way seems to understand/feel the same as his wife. 

But as these two men were watching tele one evening a story about a cathedral was shown, and the blind man had no idea what a cathedral looked like. 

The husband tried his best to explain in detail what a cathedral looked like but lost heart and eventually gave up.

The blind man told the husband to get a paper and instructed the man to draw a cathedral on the paper with him also holding the pencil. 

This part of the story was just so so so beautiful, to see a man who was so uncomfortable around a blind man whom his wife spoke so highly of and who had nothing to say to this blind man, finally started to have a change of heart. Now he was seeing like a blind man sees. 

I really want to write my paper on this piece. Just the paragraph with the two men as they are drawing cathedral.

The lame shall enter first

This short story was so sad to me because the father in his "hopes" to make his son (Norton) a less selfish person and to make him care more about "Rufus Johnson" he in-fact was doing the exact same thing he was persuading his son to do.

In one word Sheppard was a hypocrite. While he was trying to soothe himself and how he dealt with his mourning over his wife's loss he was neglecting his own flesh and blood son. And by the time he had come to realize what he was doing wrong and how he had really missed out on his sons life it was just too late Norton was already dead.

I think all three of these characters needed help, but all three of them went about the wrong way. And in our natural state we are all selfish and that was very relevant in this story.

The point where Rufus Johnson was accusing Sheppard of not having faith in him he needed validation and Sheppard really did not trust Rufus, so he was not really that off base.

Johnson's disability was more obvious than Norton's and I think that is why Sheppard was mad at his son because although, we the reader could see the pain and hurt in all three characters all they could see was their own pain. And all Sheppard could see was the most obvious pain which was Rufus.

There is so much more to this story that I have not seen yet and I am still working on it