Then there was one..

I have never had to blog for a class. I have had to create a web page or design a PowerPoint but never keep a blog. I must say I enjoyed it a lot more than having a journal or some other such contraption. Somehow writing about thoughts online is easier than by hand. As far as using my blog to develop ideas.. yea not so much. Maybe I didn't get as in depth with my blog posts and that is why I couldn't really use them to develop my ideas. I have never really been good at just writing about what comes to mind. I tend to think too much making spontaneous writing difficult. But somehow I can ramble on like there is no tomorrow. Overall i really enjoyed keeping a blog. i felt it was a cool new way to express ourselves yet be somewhat professional. I hope to get an original idea like a blog again in the future.

Will this be a happy circle?

In class today we did two editing "workshops" to help better our essays. I enjoyed them both. The first little group session really gave me ideas and useful feedback. Both Erika and Nicole sat attentively and gave me ideas in which to better my essay. I quite enjoyed this exercise. The second workshop wasn't as productive in my opinion. I did as the loose instructions asked.. but all that was apparent was what I was missing. I wasn's as sure of how to fix my issues.

A Revalation

     Living in the dorms one encounters quite a few people. I will not lie. There are some people on my floor I can not stand for more than five minutes but for the most part I am making some friendships that will last a good while. We are all away from home and making it on our own but there are two very different paths on which people are walking. Some people don't seem to realize that they are sharing this space with other people. There is one pair in mind that never fails to wake me from my slumber around one in the morning each morning. There is also an individual on my floor who doesn't understand how to flush a toilet. How old are we? I seriously question the ability of some people to live away from the watchful eye of a guardian.
But with these inconsiderate people there are also some people that I feel truly blessed to be friends with. There are these two girls on my floor that were there for me when I was sick. You know you have a best friend when they pop in every half hour to see if they need to cleanse your puke bucket. You also know you have a true friend when they text you to see if you're okay because they heard an ambulance had to take a kid to the hospital because they passed out. It can be hard going to college so far from home but with true friends by your side, Christmas doesn't seem so far away. Thanks =]

The list

Writing out the outline was deffinately helpful. I enjoyed all the little comments and sarcasm that was writen into the paper. All jokes aside, filling this outline out really helped me structure my paper. I didn't finish the outline and I could deffinately tell. Once my paper was past my outline the writing got a lot harder. This outline is something I will keep close so that I can utilize its structure when I go to write other papers.

In Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" the visiting hunter is meant to represent the intrusion of industrialization and settelment on the native world.

Shockingg

Okay. When we sat down to analyze those stories I did not expect to find what was pointed out. To think that almost every piece of amazing literature has a whole separate story hidden under the surface is just mind blowing. It must take an author forever and a day to write two stories in tandem. As for my expirences alone, I found it hard to get started but once you found a lead it was easy to follow it through. It took me a good half an hour on one piece to get below the surface and even then I felt like I was pulling it out of the air. Im curious as to how everyone else did. Next time I will deffinately work on this sooner so I can compare with others before class.

A Deeper Look Into Symbolism

"A White Heron"

Symbol White:  White is shown in two basic forms in this short story. It is mentioned as the color of the milk from the cow as well as the color of the elusive heron that the hunter is hunting. As a general rule, white is a symbol of purity and innocence. I feel both of these can be directly relating to Sylvia as she completes the chores asked of her and goes about her life in the country. At times she seems to be one with the country. As an inference, I am going to say that the white represents Sylvia's purity of heart shown when she doesn't tell the hunter where the heron nests.

Symbol Hunter:  The Hunter is an intrusion on Sylvia's way of life. He causes her to question her morals and think hard. Given this I am going to say that he is a symbol of the settlements and what they represent. When the first settlers came to America they destroyed nature and just took over. This Hunter is much the same. He represents cities and urbanization. He came in and tried to change Sylvia's mindset on the nature she seems to be one with.

"The Yellow Wall-Paper"

Symbol Yellow:  The color yellow is given the understood meaning of sickness or weakness. If you take this color and couple it with how the main character insists she is sick throughout the story, one can almost infer that the yellow is also supposed to represent how she is weak. It might even stretch to say that all females are weak, or were treated as such in that time period.

Symbol Wall-Paper:  The story revolves around the wall-paper. The entire story, beginning to end, is about the main characters obsession with this paper. The fact it doesn't have a distinct pattern is important. If the wall paper is to represent how she is trapped in the house, then it represents the way all women were treated. Jennie is caught touching the paper in wonder and this can be taken as how she realizes her situation but doesn't know how to change it. Jennie is dumbstruck with how to get out of the stereotyped position she is forced to live in.