Raisin in the sun

In the first act of the book the idea that the characters are driven by dreams they have either had or have. The story reveals a lot about the characters dreams and will most likely continue to do so. The poem is describing what comes of dreams being unattainable and what the person who had those dreams will do after losing ability to achieve it. The play has already presented that most of the characters won’t get what they want due to limited money and limited economic mobility. I think the reason the poem was so heavily referenced in the play is because they both share the theme of losing an idea you believed to be reachable but in reality was not. 

T g g I guess

The great Gatsby has opened my eyes beyond my syndical view of the American Dream. I realize now the american dream is much more than a hope of getting ahead in life. It is a dream of freedom. Freedom from a government who cares not for the common worker. Free from a government that gives privilege to the rich, the religious, or the military. This freedom is given in human rights and in economic mobility. The American Dream is a dream of freedom, And that dream is my dream. 

2/9/15 the great Gatsby

Nick Carraway is not being true to his first statement in the sense that nobody can truly reserve judgment from themselves but he does a pretty good job of reserving it from others. On many occasions he talks about his views of the other characters in the book like when he says that J Gatsby is everything he hates but he somehow became acquainted with him. In chapter two when nick was at the party he was judging the conversation for its vulgarity and he was also judging the act of becoming intoxicated indirectly by saying that he had only been drunk one other time in his life and in chapter 3 he describes his new girlfriend as fundamentally dishonest. But he is as he put it “one of the only honest people he knows because he doesn’t attempt to make people more justified than they are, he is only honest about his accusations and characterizations.

The great Gatsby 2/2/15

The most disturbing part of of the inequality is that it didn't surprise me. The position that America is in is a horrible state where the majority of the lower class is engulfed by poverty and the middle class is beginning to see poverty as a real threat to their not so secure lifestyle all because nearly half of the nations wealth is allowed to reap main with 10% of the public. He fact that we let this go on in our modern world is even sicker and more disturbing than the statistics.   

Odyssey 12/8/14

The purpose for all the violence in books 22-24 is necessary for Odysseus to have his nostos. He was known for being a war hero and because of this the people who turned against him must pay for defying a war hero. He also killed the maids that started serving the suitors, this was also necessary. The maids were loyal to the family of Odysseus and no one else, when they served the suitors they sealed their fates.

Mous 10/20/14

The list rations of mous don't take away from the book but add to it. It would be close to impossible to list rate a story about the holocaust that doesn't seem generic with words. But when he uses illustrations he also symbolizes the people into different kinds of animals and he makes the Jews into mice. I believe he did this to describe how hitler bunched them into a race rather than a religious following and how defenseless they were against the german forces. I look forward to reading more of this story for a unique perspective into an age old historical horror.

9/29/14 the alchemist

The alchemist uses dreams and expresses them in a way that any spiritual society would. Dreams connecting to the soul of the world would be a strange concept in today's society, people would be confused at hearing the world had a soul and that anyone can access it. Our society is built on the sad concept of the privileged are a treasure and the malnourished are a burden; while in the alchemist all people are respected as equals in the sense of potential.