Bowers Humanities Lit

Invisible Man

2005-04-17T18:37:00.000-07:00

"Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison, is about a man, a black man, struggling in the 1950's with racism. This is why he sometimes calls himself the invisible man because of the color of his skil and society's views. In many of my blog entries, I have focused on society's racism. This is the main theme of the book. I will discuss differences and racism and its affect on the main character.
An example of differences and racism is when the main character gets kicked out of college. He was helping a trustee, Mr. Norton got sick and wanted to get a drink. He went to the Golden Day, the bar. The main character was a "yes man," he would do anything. The leader of the college Dr. Bledsoe, said he should have said no and expelled hom because he took Mr. Norton to a bar. If a white man did this at a white school, he would get in no trouble.
Another example would be when the main character works in a paint factory. The irony of this is he is making white paint and he has to but a droup of black dye to make the paint pure white. He began to start and later on ran out of black dye. The boss didn't tell him what tank the balck dy was in and, of course, leaves. The main character picks the wrong tank thus causing (gray paint). The boss yells at him and he almost got fired and told him he was already told where the tank was.
These are some of the examples I found reading "Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison. This shows racism and difference and how it affects the main character.

House of the spirits/Ideology

2005-03-31T18:16:00.000-08:00

To Senator Trueba, all political parties except his own were potentially Marxist, and he could not distinguish one ideology from another. (Page 307)
I picked this passage on senator Trueba sterotype belief that only his political party is good and any other political party is garbage. I believe this happends today with the media coverage with the Israel and Palistaines conflict in south east Asia. The media only shows on TV the terrorist bombing forcing you to believe majority of Israels and Palistaines don't like each other, but that isn't true most of Israels and Palistaines get along but only the few extremeist do the terrorist bombing.

Antigone

2005-03-30T16:12:00.000-08:00

Antigone, a Greek tragedy, is about how a family copes with Antigone's choice of burying his brother even though he ran away from war. Antigone's choice to break the law to bury her brother and how it affects the coutry as a whole. In all of my Blog entries, I have always focused on Society and its flaws. I blame society's view and sterotypes. This entry, I will focus on chocie and its profound impact. The choice of Antigone and Kreon, the King affect the play as a whole. For example, Kreon's view of making a law is to not let Antigone bury her brother. Even though Kreon's law is in place, Antigone choices on bury the solder that had left the battle which was Antigone's brother. An example is Kreon choice of a premature war celebration even though the war wasn't over. These are some of the examples that lead to the downfall of Kreon's country. This also lead to the deaths of Antigone and Kreon's son. Because of Kreon choice to banisher her is even though his son is going to marry her, this leads her to hang herself and Kreon's son to kill himself. This leads to the downfall to his country because the battle went bad and his army lost the battle and was heading for Kreon country.

Poetry Question

2005-03-13T16:48:00.000-08:00

When you write poetry, do you write it once or do you have to write, then rewrite? Also, when you write, does it come to you in poetry form (rhyme?)

Gregorio Cortez

2005-02-21T23:05:00.000-08:00

The Legend of Gregorio Cortez is about a man from Mexico and his journey. His downfall was caused by his brother, Romano. In many Blog entries, I have focused on society's role and its effect on the characters in the story. In the legend of Cortez, society's view of Mexicans foreshadowed his downfall. Society's view was to sterotype and be raciest toward mexicans in the late 1800's or early 1900's. The reasons Ango Saxions sterotype Mexicans is that they are always guilty of the crime. Cortez as innocent in the legend. I believe he defends himself against the Sherrif because of society's view. Society was raciest towards the Mexicans. While reading the book, I didn't see the racism, but, in the video, I had a better understanding of how the translater was a raciest. He believed in society's view of Mexicans. He told the Sherrif the wrong information while translating for Conrtez and the Sherrif. This happened during the discussion about the stolen mare. These two views, sterotyping and racism, are how society influenced the story. Society, believing Mexicans were guilty and trouble, caused a translater to provide incorrect information. Without this preconcieved notion, Cortez would not have been in trouble.

"Blood Wedding"

2005-02-15T16:25:00.000-08:00

Lorca's "Blood Wedding is a tragedy about two family's wedding. The Bride runs off with her former lover Leonardo. This cost the life of the Groom, Leonardo and part of the Bride's life. In my theme throughout my Blog entries, I have always chosen to blame society's influence on the characters in the story. While reading this wonderful written tragedy, society has a influence on the character in Lorca's "Blood Wedding." In the tragedy, society, I think, influences or forces this wedding. At this time, the Bride and Groom are very old and need to get married. I think society's influence on the bride is to marry the groom because of his monetary value instead of love. Finally the last reason that society has an influence is on the Bride and Groom's parents. The Groom's mother doesn't want her Son to leave. Even though his mother is like that, the Groom forces the wedding. The Bride's parents like their daughter marrying a Rich man. They don't realize her love for Leonardo. These are the reasons that society has many influences in Lorca's "Blood Wedding."

"The Awakening/Society

2005-02-02T15:47:00.000-08:00

"The Awakening" obvious meaning is how the main character, Edna, deals with Society's view of women in eary 19th century. The author gives multable symbols supporting this theory, a Bird Cage and The Sea. The Bird Cage symblozes Edna and Victoiran women in general, as a chaged bird with bars with limited freedom. The Sea symbolized pure and freedom with Edna leaning how to swim, and Edna killing herself for society's view of Victorian women's lack of freedom.

Yellow Walpaper/Slavery

2005-01-25T19:31:00.000-08:00

In essence, this piece of writing is quite the same a Douglass's piece on slavery, and ironily Gilman's main character is in slavery by the bars of the Yellow Wallpaper. The main character has mental problems forshadowed in the whole paper. She wanted to change society's view on people like Gilman's main character. Just because she had a mental condition, she was forced into a "cell" just as a slave. She was imprisoned. Through writing, she wanted to prove to sciety that she was safe to be around. Both Gilman's and Douglass's goal was to change socility view on the events of ther life slavery in form or another.

Douglass

2005-01-23T19:42:00.001-08:00

Douglass used his words to vividly describe, in detail, what slavery was really like. By learning to read and write, Douglass gained gained power. He learned so well that he had a secret school where he helped other slaves learn to read and write. He gains more power by using his skills of writing to tell the story of slavery. The real power behind Douglass paper was his words of his life writing and the truth behind his life and slavery. If this piece of writing was by a fictional author, it wouldn't have the same power behind the work.