Thursday, March 29, 2012
Style blog
If I was in the same scenario as Dobbins and Azar when they saw the girl dancing I think I would react the same way as Dobbins. At first I would be curious on why this girl is dancing because of what happened to her family. But I would be respectful about it, I wouldn't make fun of her because I wouldn't know what to do if my family was killed. She was doing something to keep her mentally content and to keep her from losing her mind.
Monday, March 26, 2012
A memory from the past
The field is important because it's a historical place where a lot of memories happened. It's where Jimmy witnessed the death of a friend and another life lesson to be learned. If my father had brought me back to an important memory I would try and soak it up as much as possible. I would try and feel the actions that went down at that special place, putting myself in a position where I can experience the memory for myself.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Speaking of courage
In the story "Speaking of Courage" Bowker shows how much courage he really has. He keeps his fathers medals to remind him of the great things he did. And since Bowker is in the war, there are always opportunities for him to rise to the occasion. Of course the time comes for him to jump into action but he turns out to be too much of a chicken to do so. He's in shame after doing what he did and looking at his father's medals, thinking that he let him down and couldn't make his father proud.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Post #18
1) In the Sweetheart of the song Tra Bong there are a lot of
figurative language that help the reader to understand better the text. A lot of them are very strong, but they still
give you the idea of what you should actually feel.
“Greenies were not social animals. Animals, Rat said, but far from social”
“She had long white legs and blue eyes and a complexion like
strawberry ice cream.”
“Mark and Mary Anne strolled through the ville like a pair
of tourist”
“This seventeen-year-old doll in her goddamn culottes, perky
and fresh-faced, like a cheerleader visiting the opposing team’s locker room.”
“The seven silhouttes seemed to float across the surface of
the earth, like spirits, vaporous and unreal.”
“The girl joined the zoo.
One more animal.”
“At the girl’s throat was a necklace of human tongues. <elongated and narrow, like pieces of
blackened leather, the tongues were threaded along a length of copper wire,”
“It’s like trying to tell somebody what chocolate tastes
like.”
“She seemed to flow like water through the dark, like oil,
without sound or center.”
2) With these words Mary Anne means that she want to live
all those things at the same time. She
found herself in this country and now she can’t have enough of it. Rat tells this thing to all his friends
because this is an important passage for her, she says to her passed love of
her life that she wasn’t anymore like he wanted her to be. She was a killer, an animal and nobody would
have brought her away from that.
3)The reader sees Vietnam as a deadly place where nothing
has a sense. All the things that I can
see is the soldiers point of view and they see only deaths and the happiness of
being still alive after all those missions.
I can understand how difficult it is to live in a world completely
different from the world where we are use to live and Mary Anne just got into
it too quickly!
4) “Transformation” and “gender” are
tied to perspective of the reader, Rat Kiley, and even Mary Ann’s boyfriend
Fossie. Since Marry Ann is a woman, coming to Vietnam has a different effect on
her. Before arriving to Vietnam she had all the characteristics of a pretty and
soft woman, having long flowing hair and a motherly personality by taking care
of everyone. And after Mary has been in this setting for a while Fossie and a
lot of the other men are noticing some changes in her behavior. It starts on
her appearance and she starts to cut her hair short, learning some of the
Vietnamese language, she starts going on sort of night missions, and even took
part in some the rituals and bonfires. To top it all off Fossie caught her
during one of the gatherings and she was wearing a necklace with tongues on it.
Marry Ann had gone through a complete transformation from a prime example to a
house wife to a downright savage.
7) To make our presentation more effective we can use
different type of presentation in different points of view. We can do a normal power point to make
everybody understand the basic
5. Rat Killey added many his own view about Mary Annie, which
explained why Mary changed such a lot during those several weeks. Rat gave us
the point that Mary Annie was just like every man here, not as sunny as before,
became cold and sack less. The only difference was she changed more quickly.
Sanders Mitchell thought Mary’s disappearance and being one of the Greenies was
just like an animal went into the zoo.
6. The ending of this particular story does matter. At the
end of “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”
Mary Ann had completely become one with the land. “She was wearing her
culottes, her pink sweater, and a necklace of human tongues. She was dangerous.
She was ready for the kill.” This would affect the reader by suggesting that
war changes people to a great extent.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Post #17
If there is a class or group discussion I expect a
reasonable amount of participation. In a group I expect for there to be an
equal amount of participation. For one,
I hate it when I’m left doing all of the work. I mean honestly, who’s
cool with that? I know I’m not and it happens a lot. So, if I ever get lucky
and there is someone else who really understands the topic I do my best to try
and take part in the discussion so that the other person doesn’t have to be
saying everything for the group. Another thing I expect is for everyone in the
group to at least show up! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen groups of
five and I see about two people sitting there. It’s because other kids think
it’s really easy and don’t have to be there for it and just show up at the
presentation and spit out lines from sparknotes while their partners worked
hard to come up with really good information. And it’s basically the same thing with a whole
class discussion. The teacher will ask the class for their opinion and about
one or two people are consistently answering the question. I mean no one’s a
genius and know everything; if you at least made an attempt and gave a little
something I would respect that. But sitting there with a blank face won’t help
you in life.
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