Thanksgiving Break

I got to go home for the long weekend.  I spent almost the entire time with my family.  I ran in a race with my aunt and cousin Thanksgiving morning.  It was the first time I had run that race and it was really fun.  Then I had dinner with my mom's family and then right from there went to dinner with my dad's family.  Friday I got to go to the badger hockey game with my grandma and two cousins, we tied in overtime.  Then, on Saturday I went to the badger football game with my grandma.  We won the game and won a share in the big ten championship, which also gave us the bid to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.  It was a really cool thing to experience.  Then Saturday night I went to the hockey game again, and we won the game.  Then sadly, I had to come back to school where it is freezing and were getting all of this snow.

#3 page 244-The Most Dangerous Game

The narrator really seems to emphasize on the story having the theme of "darkness".  He has darkness a lot through out the story.  In the beginning, they are on the cruise ship and looking out into the darkness where the island appears to be.  Then when he falls off of the ship he is in the dark swimming towards the dark.  Also, whenever Zaroff hunts the people he has in his so called game it has to be night time and dark when he does it. The story seems to just keep going on from the start of the story when they talk about the darnkness.

Young Goodman Brown

In the story of Young Goodman Brown there was definitely a lot of symbolism shown through out the entirety of the story.  In the story, Faith had more than one meaning to it.  It was indeed his wife and also included his religious faith.  Faith wanted him to stay with her, but he walked away from her, and his religious faith he walked from by going to the devil.  The forest symbolized sin and the man in the forest symbolized the devil in Goodman Brown's eyes.  I also think that the story was pretty hard to read.  It took me forever to finish it and it was confusing at times.  You definitely had to pay attention to key words and such.

A Rose For Emily

In A Rose For Emily I thought the way it was written was interesting.  It was narrarated by the towns people and they all had different insights in it.  It also jumped around all over, it went from her funeral to the townspeople saying things about her, back to the funeral and such forth.  It was a different way of writing, but if definitely made the story more interesting to read.  The way the townspeople talked about her showed that they didn't know what was really going on in her life.  Not knowing the details of the story from the beginning made you really think about what was going on, but also made parts of the story hard to read.

The Most Dangerous Game

The story was well written and had a good theme to it.  The author portrayed it as being suspensful and the theme was "darkness".  There were various parts to the story that had the darkness involved in it.  The very first part of the story when Rainsford was talking with the other guy on the ship and said it was so dark you couldn't see the island. When he fell off the ship, it was night time and pure darkness.  Also, when he got to the island and went to Zafford's house, he described Zafford with his dark features.  Another thing to point out is that when Zafford would go hunting it was during the night, all dark scenes during the night.

Katrina

In class, I always noticed Ichabod staring at me, and I always felt some sort of connection. But deep down, I truly loved Brom Bones.  I have started to notice that both Ichabod and Brom Bones have feelings for me and have started to argue over me.  I find it kind of amusing to watch. Brom and Ichabod fought over and over and Brom ended up running Ichabod right out of town.  I never thought he would really leave, I guess I was wrong.  At least I am left with Brom, who I know truly loves me. That's one less worry in my life.

Buffy Episode

I thought watching Buffy was kind of random.  It isn't something that I would choose to watch on my own time.  It is very corny and some of the things they say and do are just common sense that isn't really even funny.  It does show that the gender role can be different.  Typically, guys should be the tough ones saving they're friends from fights, but in this episode you have Buffy, the girl.  She takes on vampires, isn't the average girl, and saves her friend from a fight.  Watching this show for learning how to analyze literature was a good way because it was easy to do.  All in all I thought the show was alright.