1st response
I felt like Sarah's response to "My Papa's Waltz" was a very well thought out response which talked about many different issues and, at least in my opinion, responded and discussed each issue thoroughly and deeply. She really went into each individual topic and talked about all the different sides of the issue talking about why each issue is relevant and gave examples supporting each idea. For the most part also she did a good job of being as little bias as possible
2nd response
Another blog post i really liked, and that i thought was very interesting, was Tomin's response to "Please don't take my air jordans". What i liked about it so much was that it displayed his opinions and thoughts on the poem. Usually, when people talk about pieces of literature (including myself) just kind of brief over about what they thought on it and get into some big ideas about it. Tomin on the other hand laid it all out to, he told you exactly what he thought of it and backed it with examples from the poem and other ideas.
3rd response
The third poem I really liked and I thought was very well written was Julia's response to "Please don't take my air jordans". The reason why I liked Julia's response so much was because you could tell she really put a lot of time and effort into making. And I really appreciate that sort of thing. Lots of people, including myself again, just try to do the bare minimum and leave it at that. Julia went above and beyond what she was supposed to do. She talked about and discussed each little thing and each idea in the poem and I liked it a lot
Congratulate me....
ReplyDelete*SPOILERS ALERT: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt-reveals ending for the film*
Congratulate me, I have finally finished Youth In Revolt by C.D.Payne! Finishing such a large book inspired me to treat myself to my favorite Hitchcock, Shadow Of A Doubt(1943-
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten and Macdonald Carey). While I was watching the special features, Alfred Hitchcock was responding to a question about why Teresa Wright's character turned against her uncle, who had committed a series of horrible crimes, yet she him loved dearly. He quoted Oscar Wilde; "...each man kills the thing he loves..."
This hit me, and changed my point of view on Youth In Revolt almost completely. Instead of hating Nick Twisp for doing the stupid things he does for love, I understand that we all end up harming the thing we love most; either as dramatically as Nick Twisp to his family or as lightly as over talking to your friends about your new favorite band and then they ended up hating them. This seems very human, it has happened to me so often, maybe this is the objective of the novel. Perhaps the author C.D.Payne made Nick Twisp do the awful things he does to his family, to show the reader how we as humans affect our surroundings. To show how we SHOULD respect the things we love. Or even maybe Payne made N.Twisp do awful things and to ruin his own life, to show how we should appreciate our lives. The story of Nick Twisp will always puzzle me, and I fear I will never be able to fully appreciate the novel.
Have you ever killed something you love(metaphorically)?
AFTER THOUGHTS-yet another interpretation of Oscar Wilde's brilliance:
"...each man kills the thing he loves..."
Perhaps, the man who loves this thing the most has-almost-permission to end it, or kill it so to speak...Only because he knows so much and loves it so...Your thoughts?
March 3, 2011 11:03 AM
Congratulate me....
ReplyDelete*SPOILERS ALERT: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt-reveals ending for the film*
Congratulate me, I have finally finished Youth In Revolt by C.D.Payne! Finishing such a large book inspired me to treat myself to my favorite Hitchcock, Shadow Of A Doubt(1943-
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten and Macdonald Carey). While I was watching the special features, Alfred Hitchcock was responding to a question about why Teresa Wright's character turned against her uncle, who had committed a series of horrible crimes, yet she him loved dearly. He quoted Oscar Wilde; "...each man kills the thing he loves..."
This hit me, and changed my point of view on Youth In Revolt almost completely. Instead of hating Nick Twisp for doing the stupid things he does for love, I understand that we all end up harming the thing we love most; either as dramatically as Nick Twisp to his family or as lightly as over talking to your friends about your new favorite band and then they ended up hating them. This seems very human, it has happened to me so often, maybe this is the objective of the novel. Perhaps the author C.D.Payne made Nick Twisp do the awful things he does to his family, to show the reader how we as humans affect our surroundings. To show how we SHOULD respect the things we love. Or even maybe Payne made N.Twisp do awful things and to ruin his own life, to show how we should appreciate our lives. The story of Nick Twisp will always puzzle me, and I fear I will never be able to fully appreciate the novel.
Have you ever killed something you love(metaphorically)?
AFTER THOUGHTS-yet another interpretation of Oscar Wilde's brilliance:
"...each man kills the thing he loves..."
Perhaps, the man who loves this thing the most has-almost-permission to end it, or kill it so to speak...Only because he knows so much and loves it so...Your thoughts?