"Death Be Not Proud"

The poem “Death be not proud” by John Donne was another good poem, it was basically about how death thinks he special  because it has the power to life, but he really is not because he has to take everyone’s life, it does not matter who you are. So that pretty much saying that he is a slave to everyone out there. The reason why death is not at all powerful is because there are also other things that can take our lives such as sickness and poison. Also even though death can take our life, when we go to the afterlife, and doing that time we are living forever and death seizes to exist. What I got from this poem was to live your life because nothing is guarantee, and it gives me a whole new perspective on what life mean.  It makes me feel bad about the ones that are out there sick, fighting for their lives. Not knowing what to expect they just live their lives and wait till death takes them away. Other than that I think John Donne is a very inspirational.

"The Fish"

The poem “The Fish” was a very good one too, it was about a fisherman who catches a fish and he talked about what the fish looked like and how it was beat up. The fisherman then describes the fish and notice that he was not the only one that has tried to catch it. The fish had fought with the other fishermen and when he had encounter it he saw it. He knew that the fish had given up on life, that’s why he let the fisherman catch him. After realizing all that the fish had been through, he finally decide to throw the fish back in the water and let it free. If I was in his shoes, after realizing what the fish had been through I honestly would have let him go because if I was in the fish position I would feel the same way. Other people would have not agreed with me, some would rather eat the fish because they caught it, and I understand that, but after going through what that fish did it’s the right thing. 

"The Road not Taken"

We read a couple of poems but the one that I liked the most was the “Road not taken” it was writing by Robert frost. This poem was mainly about a man who approaches these roads and had to make a decision on which one to take. He had to choose a path, not knowing where either one leads. He compared both roads, picking out the one that best fits him, and coming to a decision. At the beginning he looked down both roads to see which one was the right one, and one road was filled with leaves and the other was clear. Robert frost is interpret that we all have decisions in life and different roads to get to where we want to be, mostly everybody takes the easy road to get the easy way out. After making a decision he planned to take a different road realizing that he cannot come back, because one a choice is made it leads to different things and going back is not going to be a suitable option for to rely on. What I learned from this poem is never let go of your goals, and if you one something go after it.

"How to become a writer"

The Story “How to become a writer” was very interesting. When I first started to read it was kind of confusing at the start, and when I continued to read it I began to understand what she was trying to say, and also I could relate to it how she was messing up on papers, and having really challenging papers to write Everything was pretty much what we do now and some of the things that we go through. She talking to us the audience and trying to get us to understand that becoming a writer is difficult. She also talked about how you can put your all in a paper and have it rejected. She wanted us to experience what she was pretty much talking about, like how to become a writer and the different circumstances that come along with trying to achieve at something and be the best that you can be. There were some laughter within the story, but it was mainly about how you follow your dream or passion, and how to accomplish something. After reading it you understand that if becoming a writer is something you want to do, you are going to encounter a lot of challenges before reaching your goal.

"The cask of amontillado"

The cask of amontillado is about the narrator seeking revenge on fortunato, he didn’t like fortunato because he explained that fortunato hurt him. The narrator also mentions that fortunato insulted him. Hey wanted to get revenge on him. When they met each other at a carnival celebration, and he told fortunato that he had found something rare called amontillado, and he wanted to figure out what it was. The narrator lead fortunato into an underground graveyard, on their way down fortunato kept drinking, and since he was already drunk, it just made everything worst from that point on. So while on their way down fortunato was becoming sick and he keep on talking about the rare amontillado. When they got closer fortunato caught himself in a trap and was chain onto the wall. Fortunato was then cover up with bricks. As he was lying the bricks fortunato begin to yell and when he was almost done the only thing he could hear was the noise of fortunato clothes. He then began to torture fortunato until he started to beg for mercy and he called out his name screaming “montresor”. He then covered fortunato with the last bricks and left him there to die.

"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Another story we read was “A Good man is Hard to Find” which was written by Flannery O’Conner. This was about an elderly woman and her family. She lived with her son bailey, his wife and their two kids. Bailey’s mother decided that they should go on a road trip to Tennessee and not Florida, because she had read in the newspaper that a misfit was heading that way. On the day of the trip, the grandmother hides he cat and on their way she tells the kid stories. While in the car the grandmother explain that there was another house, and claimed that she knew a shortcut. So on their way there, the grandmother realizes that she was wrong and accidentally let the cat go, which resulted into bailey wrecking the car. After the wreck they were approached by three men, and one happened to be the misfit, and the grandmother knowing him, pointed him out. The grandmother tried to convince the misfit, telling him that he a good man, and he told his friends that they should take bailey and his son into the woods, Bailey came back and was later killed by the misfit, so was the grandmother.  

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

The Yellow Wallpaper was another good story that we had to read. It was about a woman who was going through some mental issue, and she was taken into care by her husband.  John her husband was her doctor, who put her in an isolated room with nothing but yellow wallpaper. She spends months in the room, with nothing to do. After some time she became insane, and started to illusionate that there was a women within the yellow wall paper. As time went by she began to lose a grip of reality, and started to become distant from her friends and family.  While in the room she was trying to accomplish one thing and that was to set the lady free within the wallpaper. This symbolize her becoming free from the room She became obsessed with the wallpaper. Jennie who was the sister of the husband begins to notice some strange thing around the room, like yellow stain over the wall and stuff. She eventually ripped the wallpaper off the wall and began to crawl over the place, and was later approached by her husband at the door where he fainted, and she was left free to leave the room.

"The Glass Menagerie"

The play “The glass menagerie” was very interesting, after reading the play, and watching the movie I can tell that this family is fragile. Laura the daughter being the most fragile separated herself from the world and devoted herself to her glass figures. She also had a bad leg and always walked with a limp because of her brace. Laura was very emotional, and never did anything to hurt anyone else. The glass menagerie pretty much represented her.  Another character was their mother was Amanda Wingfield, who was constantly trying to give Laura the life that she did not have back in her days.  Tom wingfield the son of Amanda and Laura younger brothers was taking care of the family through his warehouse job. Tom gets frustrated from his job, and he uses alcohol to escape from it. During the course of the play, Laura is introduced to one of tom friend Jim. After the power went out during dinner, Laura and Jim reconnected, and she mentions how he called her blue roses in high school. Jim gives Laura some advice about being confident and striving for your goal in order to be successful. Jim led Laura on with a kiss, and later told her that he was with someone else.

"Hills like white Elephants"

Hills like white elephants, is about a couple that were at the other side of a train station waiting on the train from Barcelona. And the expected arrive time for going to be in forty minutes. During their time there, they order some drinks. The bartender brought two glasses of beer out. While they we drinking, the girl mention that the hills look like white elephants, and the American did not acknowledge her, instead he order two more drinks that the girl wanted to try. She later mentions that the hills did not look like white elephants anymore, and that’s when the American told her that the operation was going to be simple and not painful. They got into an argument about whether he would still have the same emotion for her if she was to go through with the operation. The American told her that he’s not going anywhere, and that he was going to stick with her, and she said that she would do it because she did not care about herself. She said she will go through with it, so everything could be fine. She asked him do her a favor and stop talking about it. The bartender, brought two more glasses of beer, and alerted them that the train was coming in two minutes. The American carried their bags to the tracks, and when he came back to the table, he asked her if she felt better. She answered that she feels fine.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

the chrysanthemums

The chrysanthemums, was about a couple that lived in California, and they spend their days working  in their yard, Henry Allen and his wife Elisa Allen were working one day when Elisa saw her husband being approach by three gentlemen. Henry sold steers to the gentlemen and afterwards, he was happy for the progress he made. So he approaches Elisa to tell her the good news, and mention to her that they should go out to the town to celebrate. Allen left with a friend, and at the same time Elisa attending to the chrysanthemums, was approach by a weird looking gentlemen who was in need of money. So he asked Elisa if she needed anything sharpened for her, and she told him that she did not. During the conversation, he notices the chrysanthemums and told that a lady just down the road was interested in growing the chrysanthemums. She went back in the house to get a sauce pan for the old guy. When he headed on his way, Elisa hurried back to the house to get ready. Henry arrived and got ready and they headed out, and on their way Elisa saw the flowers on the road that she had giving the gentlemen that came by. She then started asking question about the fight and if other women attended it, they came to the conclusion that they were going to have dinner and wine.