Sleepy

Sleepy was an interesting story. I felt sorry for the character Varka because she was pushed around the whole story. Her father dies and she has to work for these terrible people. They treat her like a slave telling her to fetch things for them. She barely gets any sleep. The ending of the story was terrible. Varka ends up killing a baby she was taking care of who wouldnt stop crying. After I read the ending I did not feel sorry for Varka because the baby was innocent, it is just a baby they all cry. Im not really sure what the last line means. It says " and a moment later is already fast asleep, like the dead". Im taking a guess that Varka finally feels peace from all her problems after killing the baby and is in a deep sleep where no one can bother her. It is just my opinion.

in class questions

1) The most difficult part of literary analysis question was to pick a clear thesis and make sure i was not off topic.

2) I expect to have difficulties finding two strories to compare and finding a narrow focus.

3) I wll try to negotiate this diffiuclty by finding key points in two stories, that are either similar or different

What is love????

We all have our own opinion of what love is or being in love. "What we talk about when we talk about love"by Raymond Carver is a story about a group of people who discuss what love means to them. Throughout the story the group of people start drinking alot and started talking about love and their c0nversations about love become different then the beggining of the story. Some of these people had some interesting experinces with love. There was a girl who had a guy so in love with her that he was beating her up because he did not want her to leave him. She thought of that as true love. I just think the guy and the girl are crazy, that is not true love. There were older couples and younger couples in the group discussing love. The younger couple believed they knew what love is and that they were crazy about each other. The older couple tells them that " youre still on the honey moon, for gods sake, you're still gaga." I think that line just meant that the only reason they thought they knew everything about love is because of their honey moon. The story just shows the different perspective people think love is. Sometimes in the begining love is great and sometimes later on the love is not that great.

The use of Force

I know every one has had an experince in their life were they were forced to do something they did not want to do. The story is about a doctor who goes to a persons house who has a sick daughter. The doctor tries to be friendly to the girl because he knows she is frightned. The doctor attemps mutiple times to open the little girls mouth to see her throat but she would not let him. Aftet a while the doctor gets frustrated and asks the father to help him out and open her mouth. He fights with the little girl and forces her to open her throat to check for any type of sickness. The littel girl puts up a fight and keeps her mouth close, but eventually the doctor wins and opens her mouth. The doctor finds that the little girls had a sore throat. I believe that the narrator is just trying to say to the readers that sometimes we need use force sometimes to accomplish certain things. Imagaine if the doctor never forced the little girl to open her mouth and just gave up, then he would never find out that the little girl had a sore throat.

the use of force

I know every one has had an experince in their life were they were forced to do something they did not want to do. The story is about a doctor who goes to a persons house who has a sick daughter. The doctor tries to be friendly to the girl because he knows she is frightned. The doctor attemps mutiple times to open the little girls mouth to see her throat but she would not let him. Aftet a while the doctor gets frustrated and asks the father to help him out and open her mouth. He fights with the little girl and forces her to open her throat to check for any type of sickness. The littel girl puts up a fight and keeps her mouth close, but eventually the doctor wins and opens her mouth. The doctor finds that the little girls had a sore throat. I believe that the narrator is just trying to say to the readers that sometimes we need use force sometimes to accomplish certain things. Imagaine if the doctor never forced the little girl to open her mouth and just gave up, then he would never find out that the little girl had a sore throat.

Do not get gentle into the night

The story by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into the night was an interesting story. It was about a son who wished his father would keep on living and not die. The story was really sad just painted a picture in my head of what the main character was going through with his father. In one of the lines in the story it says " Rage,rage against the dying of the light". I believe the narrator is trying to explain that the light is bad and to fight against it. I think it is a important line because it is repeated through out the story. Another line that is repeated throughout the story is "Do not go gentle in to that good night". I thought about what exactly is the narrator trying to say in this line. Why is the good night reffered to as being bad in this line? It seems to me that he is trying to say that he does not want his father to go to internal sleep which is death.

1st entry True Love

One of the stories that I was really interested in was True Love by Sharon Olds. It was interesting how she used metaphors in her story. The story is about a woman in love and she describes her feelings for the man she is in love with deeply throughout the story. How she uses some of the metaphors in the story really caught my eye. For example in line nine and ten it says " I know where you are with my eyes closed, we are bound to each other with huge invisible threads." How can you know where some one is with your eyes closed? I just thought those lines really expressed how she felt. What really left me thinking is the last line of the story because it leaves the reader thinking abd guessing. The last line of the story says " I quietly call to you and you come and hold my hand and I say I cannot see beyond it, I cannot see beyond it." Now what exactly does she mean when she says this? She just spent the whole time telling the reader how much she loves this person and now it seems like sheis trying to explain something else. I believe she is saying she cannot see beyond the momment she is living right now with her lover. It is just my opinion, the last line could have many explanations to it.

One of the stories that I was really interested in was True Love by Sharon Olds. It was interesting how she used metaphors in her story. The story is about a woman in love and she describes her feelings for the man she is in love with deeply throughout the story. How she uses some of the metaphors in the story really caught my eye. For example in line nine and ten it says " I know where you are with my eyes closed, we are bound to each other with huge invisible threads." How can you know where some one is with your eyes closed? I just thought those lines really expressed how she felt. What really left me thinking is the last line of the story because it leaves the reader thinking abd guessing. The last line of the story says " I quietly call to you and you come and hold my hand and I say I cannot see beyond it, I cannot see beyond it." Now what exactly does she mean when she says this? She just spent the whole time telling the reader how much she loves this person and now it seems like sheis trying to explain something else. I believe she is saying she cannot see beyond the momment she is living right now with her lover. It is just my opinion, the last line could have many explanations to it.