Hidden fees :(

Something that I have noticed which is very annoying is when a hidden cost springs up on you out of the blue. Throughout my senior year I have been taking a few classes at MATC since they are paid for by the school. When I first heard that the school would pay for me to get college credits I was like “Alright!” One thing that I didn’t take into account was to how much the books and materials cost. Yesterday was the first day of my second semester class. The teacher told us that we would be required to buy books and an external hard drive for this course so that we could complete the reading and assignments at home. I thought to myself books can’t cost that much; however, after I googled what book we needed I found out that it would cost $130.00 just for the paperback. I still am in shock that a book which isn’t even an inch thick can cost over $100.00. This is happening more and more whether it is a jacked up shipping fee for online shopping or some part you have to buy to fix something which when you bought it costs less than the part.

Caucasia

When first starting Caucasia I was bored with it because all it did was talk about two girls who liked to gossip and do their hair. As I read farther into the story I actually began to want to read more mostly because I have questions which I would like to see answered.
I have a few of questions about this book, for instance what did the mother do and what were the meetings about? Mostly likely these two questions are related. Right now I get the feeling that the mother was in on a plot to kill some politician. The reasons that I think this is because in the beginning of the book I remember Birdie walking in on the room of men with the guns in the bag. This was an awkward scene and I think the reason that the author put this in the story was to come back to it later. Another question I have is why did Shelia and Jesse do the same thing that Jane had done after hearing how she got caught by the feds. I want to know why the settled down in a small community. After the mother tells Birdie how Jane got caught why did they do the same thing, to me this seems kind of stupid.
After Birdie and her mother moved into the cottage house I started to notice how curious the landlords were being. At one point they basically interrogate Jesse asking her about her family in upstate New York and what her grandparents did.

Speaking in :p

My reaction when I first started “Speaking in Tongues” I was really disappointed in it because I thought that it was going to be about some goodie tou-shoe (or however you spell that) girl who went to church and I thought that it was going to talk about how boring church life was and how she had to read the bible and all that boring stuff. But I was really taken aback when I got into the story and found out who her mom was. Then when she ran away and met Dezi I was like dang things are getting interesting. So I guess you cant judge a book by its cover.

SH-V

After finally finishing slaughter house five I was relived. Personally I didn’t like it, I had no idea why the author would skip ahead and back through time every paragraph to me it was annoying and confusing. I think that I would agree with the author that this book was a failure. Another thing that bothered me by this awful book was how he went to that alien planet, I could see the whole being abducted thing as being a metaphor for something. However bad this book may have been I did like one thing about it. The part I liked about it was how Kurt Vonnegut made death present everywhere this made me think of how horrible it would be to have to fight in a war. Also I liked how he told his war buddy’s wife, Marry how he would no portray war as some heroic and glorious game. I think that he did a great job of making war seem depressing since every one who was around Billy die.

A Few Questions

Something that I don’t understand is why we are reading such stories as The Metamorphosis and Slaughter House Five if the authors themselves said they are crap. After reading Metamorphosis I was confident in the decision that Kafka had made as to call his work worthless because that’s what I thought about it. I don’t really seen the meaning in close reading these text’s if the authors themselves didn’t have anything to hide in them. I understand close reading is a good skill to have and all, but I think that it should be used in a text that has meaning not a horribly put together work such as the Metamorphosis.

Another thing that I have been wondering, which has completely nothing to do with literature is why do all girl’s blogs look all the same, the same font, same text and for the most part same color scheme?

Commentary on Absurdism

After we listened to that ridiculous so called poem in class with the men standing around in a circle making awkward noises I just thought, what is poetry really? So I looked the definition up on the internet and went through the various meanings of it only to discover that poetry could be pretty much anything you want it to be. By this I mean that if you think something is poetry then it is and if you don’t think it is then it isn’t. So pretty much I interpreted this to be, as long a something has a meaning to you then it can be poetry but if it means nothing to you then since it has no meaning it wouldn’t be poetry it would just be a random jumbling of words or noises. I think that this is a very controversial topic and can be interpreted in various ways. Some might argue and say that a random jumbling of words or noises can be poetry, but if they do they have to have some reason behind it, therefore having meaning to them and making it poetry.

Poetry???

After we listened to that ridiculous so called poem in class with the men standing around in a circle making awkward noises I just thought, what is poetry really? So I looked the definition up on the internet and went through the various meanings of it only to discover that poetry could be pretty much anything you want it to be. By this I mean that if you think something is poetry then it is and if you don’t think it is then it isn’t. So pretty much I interpreted this to be, as long a something has a meaning to you then it can be poetry but if it means nothing to you then since it has no meaning it wouldn’t be poetry it would just be a random jumbling of words or noises. I think that this is a very controversial topic and can be interpreted in various ways. Some might argue and say that a random jumbling of words or noises can be poetry, but if they do they have to have some reason behind it, therefore having meaning to them and making it poetry.