WOOT! in class..

ok so here we are in class. we are doing like eleventy billion things at once. hahahah not really.  but so i was trying to upload my paper on google docs, then I was trying to add people to my contacts in gmail, and last i have been adding people to my blog. woot maky. more work you guys.  ttyl

1st paper, and class.... yeah

Okay so, I learned some more about what I need to do with my paper today.  I had written about the story "Boys and Girls", but I am not sure that story is long enough to write about.  I think I am going to write about "The Yellow Wallpaper", because it has more to it, in a way.  However, I am going to have to read it again to understand what I need to understand to write a paper.  When I do write about a story, I am going to have to focus on one point in the paper.  For example, in class today, we talked about Liz's paper.  She could choose to write about how Miss Emily could have taken responsibility for her own actions in "A Rose for Emily", or how the townspeople should not have allowed Miss Emily to live above the law, just because of her social status.  The paper could focus on either one of these aspects.  If I plan on writing about "The Yellow Wallpaper", I could focus on how the husband's condescending and dismissive manner toward his wife had a negative affect on her.  Hopefully I will be able to write enough pages, though.  I did not even write 2 full pages on the first draft.  But anyway, talk to you people later. peace

"Boys and Girls"

For this blog, I chose to write about the story "Boys and Girls".   I did like "The Yellow Wallpaper", but I did not understand a lot about what made sense to her and why she, therefore, did what she did.  In Boys and Girls, however, the girl did not want to be cooped up in the house and thought of as a simple girl.  She did not like the fact that her mother made her come inside and work when she would rather be working with her father outside. She simply wanted to be different and there is nothing wrong with that.  However, in that day and time, they did expect the women to stay inside and do all the housework while the men were outside doing the more manly jobs.  I chose to answer some of the questions on the norton website and one in the book for this blog.

In the book, the second question is "Find the two occurrences of the phrase 'only a girl.' Why and how does the meaning of the phrase change in each case?"  In the first scenario, the girl is working with her father when a salesman approaches.  The father introduces his daughter to the salesman as his "new hired man" in a sarcastic manner, insinuating that she works just as good as a boy.  "Could have fooled me," the salesman replies. "I thought it was only a girl." What he means by this is that, at first sight, she is a girl.  But, in fact, she works in the barn with her father, like a hired man of that day would.

One question on the norton website asks how I reacted to animals being killed in the story.  One thing I did not like was how Henry, the father's hired man, laughed when the horse, Mack, kicked his legs in the air after he had been shot. The other stuff did not bother me so much.  I did feel sorry for poor Mack; it was rather sad.  It was also sad about the horses and the foxes, nevertheless, this is how the father made a living, and he supported the family.

I am going to read the story again and see if I can tell if this girl gave up trying to be a tomboy, or if she simply exited that particular phase in her life and other things began to appeal to her.

mmmmmmmmmmmkay..............

Hey peoples!!! So I'm on my blog, still got some stuff to figure out. How do I accept friend requests? I don't know. But ok. This is my first blog on here. Woot! peace out, Fierceness