Ladies, ladies, ladies.

Men who run are searching for their dreams, women who run are irresponsible. A women's obligation and "responsibilty" outshine their own personal needs or wants in the context of this story. Pilate from a young age travelled from state to state searching for a way to rise above this. She lives many places, some better than the others, but none would allow her the type of freedom she wanted. Freedom from the idea of abandonment, which leaves only a burden which she would bare alone. Not even having a daughter with a man was enough to hold her to one place, she would only hold onto what was hers, the children. When she arrives and finds her brother who was "inhospitable, embarrassed and unforgiving," she is all but ready to quickly abandon him, before she herself becomes the abandoned one. The only thing which stops her is her sister-in-law whom cannot leave. To be abandoned would leave burden and loneliness inside of Pilate, which she fears, especially since her father and brother did that very thing. The only thing she could do was abandon others first, ironically leaving her alone with none to share her burdens but herself. The women without the navel would be different than the other women. She demands to be her own.

The other woman of the story all suffer from abandonment. Ruth was abandoned the day her father was killed. "The only one who ever really cared if I lived or died. Lots of other people were interested if I lived or died, but he cared." She is left alone with a man who on multiple occasions has harmed her, and is not actually there as a husband. The only reason that Ruth stays is because of Milkman. Macon Jr. is the support of the family, and without it, she could not take care of her son. Milkman is a man who Ruth has tried her hardest so he will never abandon her. By breastfeeding him even while he was still walking just so he wouldn't leave. Sadly, he still wanders far from her side when he grows older, and the only thing she can do is prevent him from permanently abandoning her the way her father did. Death. Ironically, the more she struggles to keep him close, the farther Milkman is pushed in his disguist and confusion. The small attachment Milkman feels is one of protection for harming the gentler sex.

Hagar is more obvious than the other two in her fear of abandonment. She goes the way of her mother and tries ardently to be the one who does the abandoning. What better way to ensure that than to kill the man right? She is absolutely obsessed with a man who has no interest in her, because he was the first to treat her the way she wanted to be treated since a child. With sincere love."Some days I went hungry." There is hardly anything more ironic though, then when you try to keep something close to you by killing it.

These women need love, affection, attention, a need to be needed. The world of this book leaves them with nothing but themeselves and their troubles. To escape from this fate, the women struggle to be independent or be the ones who are depended upon. Ironically, no matter what they do, they end up being the ones who are left alone.

Sund unt Furies 2

Who reflects more on the past?

Quentin, Daisekai, Mochiron. You would think at first it would be Benjy, but he's not really reflecting at all. Benjy is just traveling through time like its his present and future, he doesn't have anything to "reflect" upon anything...Benjy just watches. With all of his furious complaining and need for compensation, you would think that maybe Jason could be the candidate for most reflective. Buu, no, Chigau! Jason is focusing completely on his future and what in the world he's gonna attain next. He is pretty negative and UUNGRRYYY (thas megher begher for angry) so it seems that he would be thinking about the past alot. Nah. Quentin is the man. Baron no Danshaku. Quentin is mixing and matching his past and present constantly. Especially that loss of viriginity, (which really isn't such a big deal. c'mon guuuuyz. suriously.) Nothing concerns him more than what will happen next compared to what happened in the past...REFLECTIVE MASTER LEVEL 7 WITH BLACK OGRE ARMOR.

The least would be technically Benjy, but since i can't go ahead and say he doesn't reflect at all...I can never fully comprehend what happens in his mind...I'm gonna say Dilsey is the least reflective..I mean...she's a normal type person who is watching the family crumble to ash...and you know...thats ok.

Sound & Fury

How depressing...Zetsuboushda.

It kind of reminds me of this story...Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. Little everyday things ocurr and you just watch kinda bored, and eventually it slowly progresses time and everything is seen in perspective. Generations effected by what people do before, It's not quite as depressing...but the solemn feeling you get is the same. Also, everyones feelings are fully expressed and all their is to the story is relationships...I don't reccomend this to anyone...it takes awhile to read, and its a manga...so...yeah. Maybe if it were written as a book it would be a hit...Although i'm pretty sure it was in japan...

I am completely off topic...

Heart of the Apocalypse

Comparing these two pieces of work...I'd rather 'scape from class...

Let's get down the obvious synonymous stuff first.

First of all, a boat down a river. dur. "The horror, the horror." Yes, classic. Searching for the man named Kurz, a man whom everyone thinks is a genius and someone who should run whatever operation is going on. In both works, the man named Kurz has lost his will, he cannot handle all the things he sees deep within an unknown place. People getting killed, dying of disease everywhere, who wouldn't be able to handle it. The only way to adapt would be to ensure that you are on top of everything. Both main characters were eager to enter the jungle for their individual reasons, an exciting venture seems to be the consensus. Both men are in awe of Kurz, by his reputation and speculation, and expect him to be something great or terrifying when they meet him. "His methods unsound." thas a direct quote i'm sure.

I remember a part in HOD when there are fires everywhere, and a man says; "splendid." It kind of reminds me of the surf crazy general guy, who walked around the fires with a "splendid." kind of look on his face. Not to mention the book used the word "surf" like 30 times, which may refer to the men's obsession with it. tehee. Both of them have people that go stircrazy shooting guns everywhere...poor natives...

Alot of things on the river are described as dark through the book, and in the movie, the cieling fan creates a nice shadow effect at the beginning...I'm just saying, it creates a nice dark atmosphere for the beginning. Plus Mr. Brandow's face is half covered in shadow most of the time, representing his darkness and fall into madness.

Different stuff in the hizzouse. (rap for house.)

The setting and time period of course, the book based in the congo around 1900, and the movie in vietnam/cambodia. Names: Marlowe vs. Capt. Willard. Willard isn't the captain of his boat, he doesn't think nearly as much, (he's a soldier darnit!) and he has a very specific reason for confronting this terrifying insight of humanity. Darn those parents of his. (jodanja, joke.) Well, its alot harder to name all the things different than the same...KOTOWARU!!! YAMETOKE!!!

Blog #4 Short Stories

I think of the short stories I've read, the metamorphosis is one of the most complex...It's kind of hard to relate to someone from that country and time period, and understand why he would be considered a "pest" The story makes you wonder if he actually has transformed into this cockroach, which still wants to work and then slowly turns into a worthless being who is unwanted. Or maybe he is simply waking up one day to find, perhaps subconsciously, that he does not want to live this way anymore, and is a burden to his family although he loves them. The title confuses you to no end, you would think that the metamorphosis would involve him slowly turning into a cockroach over the story, and becoming useless to his family, but no, he just wakes up that way. The author makes it seem easy to accept that he just wakes up this way, and that his family would right out accept it, although not happily. Why in the world did this happen to the man? He seems to want nothing more than to make his family happy, especially his sister, yet he is allowed to degrade into a tiny insect, whom his family contemplates killing numerous times...and his sister's blow of great neglect kills him...Perhaps the metamorphosis is the family, stricken by what they believe to be poverty (although in the end they discover all of their problems were in their mind basically) and they evolve to the point where they must blame one member of the family, whom they depended on for sustanence...It is a very confusing story...

IT HAPPENED TO ME ONCE, I WAS LUCKIER. MOE MOE DANA.

Essay #1 Draft-Character Convictions Cause Chaotic Catastrophies

Those who shine the brightest may fall farthest from the heavens. When a stranger accidentally kills his own father, it could be considered shocking, but it could not yet be defined as tragic. In Oedipus Rex, it is the king's stubborn belief he has no connection to fate, and his driving need to prove himself, which leads him to his sorrowful fate. The very fact that he was the plague, which he strived to expunge from the people of his country, illustrates the dramatic irony that it is the convictions and utmost principle of characters; which lead them to what is known as a tragedy. A tragedy is created when what is considered dogma or sound to a character, whether it be destroyed or followed, leads to their eventual degradation, evoking emotions from the reader. Without the character self-realization that they are, whether it be directly or in-directly, related to a nightmarish occurrence, it cannot be considered the highest level of mourning, a tragedy.

Oedipus fights with all of his power throughout his life to avoid the fate placed upon him by the gods, but it is the very fact that he chose not to believe which led him to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Even his own father, who trusted the words of the gods, cast aside his only son, leading to the fulfillment of the prophecy and his eventual death. Throughout the play you hold abated breath as each piece of the puzzle is put into place, and you quickly realize the truth behind the prophecy mentioned. Each character begins to realize the danger of the inquiry as well, and beg Oedipus stop at one time or another. But the thing is, Oedipus is a very decent and strong character, his actions show no fear of his future, as his beliefs are absolute in his mind, even when the obvious is poking him in the face. You in fact begin to believe that even if the worst comes, the king would be able to handle such an emotional blow, which is in fact what brings about the severe emotional evocation when Othello falls into sorrow and madness. It is the character's duty in the play to move the plot and help you understand exactly who they are, and it is the reader's emotional attachment to this person who has lost everything, which creates the element of tragedy.

"You are the plague which you seek." Both Oedipus and Othello would understand the meaning of these words by the end of their individual stages, and Tiresias' warnings would have had about the same effect in either one of the plays, as neither man was one to change his mind easily. Othello is depicted as a man among men, someone who has no need for mistrust, and those whom he might; he quickly lets them feel his blade. For all his manly-freedoms of the world, Othello chose to shackle himself to his love, Desdemona, and in doing so, readily shackled himself into the fear and suspicion, which a marriage, or any relationship may hold. In truth, Othello was always impatient and quick to punish, and his morals did not change even when the love of his life was slandered as a whore. In the end, Othello pleads with Cassio to ask Iago why he committed such acts, whose response; "What you know, you know," leaves Othello with all the weight his heart can bare. Perhaps if Iago had given him all the reasons why he hated him, or gone on a long soliloquy, Othello's self blame would have lessened and the suicide could have been avoided, but Iago knows exactly the formula for a tragedy, and deals the final blow by saying his enemy already knows half the blame is his.

Even the one who brought about the eventual climax of a tragedy, is not the only one who contributed to it's fruition. Desdemona's personality and beliefs contributed just as much to Iago's scheme as any other character. Her trait of measure is her "kindness," which Iago used to weave his net "to enmesh them all." It is her life's duty to serve her lord and love him unquestionably, and do whatever is best for his favor. Desdemona's entreaties to discuss Cassio for Othello's own good, ironically heat the livid flame of hatred which Iago has breathed to life. Due to her bountiful goodness, she will not defend herself in a manner, (which is commonly used nowadays,) that would allow her to erase any doubts or insult the one she loves in the slightest, which is why she is killed. That someone so fair and truthful is slowly being sown in a tapestry of Othello's mind as a whore, liar, deciever of men, is painful to read, and creates the perfect amount of sorrow for another tragic factor.

Cassio is also a victim of his own pride and conviction. "damage beyond surgery! my honor! i have lost my honor! (is this right? fixing later...) Cassio is a man of high priorities and standards, honor being the number one factor of his importance in life. His beliefs cause him to practically beg the wife of Othello to ___ his council, which fuels the fire of jealousy in Othello's corrupted heart. His downfall in the first place was his weakness to alcohol, which he would not abide, ironically. ---<(0.0)>

(EDITING LATER!!! PLZ MATTE-KUROSAI!)
ZETSUBOUSHDA! CREATING AN ESSAY FROM NOTHING IS MAKING ME FALL IN DESPAIR!

Iago: Moral Megalo--Lympho--........Pyromaniac

"Wow, how nice. Relationships are wonderful aren't they? Everyone is content, they know their place, it's like a big painted picture with all the characters interacting...But, still...Wouldn't you like to see it burned away? The passion as fire grows and feeds upon the relationships in the painting, the glowing embers of feelings cast aside, morality forgotten, dancing living breathing flame...Divinity of the flames of hell, far to beautiful for men to behold...Held only in the hand of the one called "Evil." I say such a thing can't be judged by heaven or man, who are they to judge what i do is wrong? Such a thing...I've never really considered it that much...It's...consuming."

I JUST MADE THIS QUOTE UP PEOPLE. SERIOUSLY. PROBABLY CAUSE I WRITE ALOT OF SCRIPTS FOR ANIME IN MY MIND.

Iago definitely is some kind of "maniac." Truthfully, Iago seemed sane enough from the beginning, great hate and spite, but sane. His actions are well layed out, and his explanation seems to be one people can accept, people of that time had racisms, not to mention that he didn't get his choice job from that very dude. But later on...He doesn't really seem to know why he does it, nor does he care that much. I feel that he has no real plans at all, and simply makes it up as he goes along, (like a game?) and he is verrry good at games. He studied his enemy religiously everyday, as well as his friends and those he could use, and lost himself in his heated plot. The flames of retribution consume Iago, he simply does it for his enjoyment, what other reason could he possibly need? He certainly had no second thoughts about the wife, whom he at least cared enough about to be jealous that two men slept with her, or his "love" for Desdemona. I mean it's not as though he was shunned by her, he simply let her fall out of his mind, a childish excuse is all she ever was. And he even when the fire was put out, caught red handed with a torch, little Iago who went to far with his game could only say: "What you know you know." I imagine his tounge was sticking out, cheeky little blighter....But he did get burned, and I imagine it will continue on for awhile.