Carli_2017

[carli-2017-blog]

She walks into starbucks and feels the stares. Her head dress gets heavy with judgment and fear that flow off the other customers in waves. She knows why, her religion now has a bad reputation because of the few bad seeds planted in the garden. She is Muslim and has never even injured a fly but can hear the whispers “Terrorist” and “isis”. Inside her head she is making this face and pose saying WTF(excuses the language it was needed) you dont even know me. I bring up this story up because it relates to the main character in “The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas”. One of the boys in the story acts like what everyone picture African Americans to act like in the 60’s. The main character is asked if that makes him ashamed to be colored and the main character responds no but really wanted to respond yes but only if you sum all blacks together and think they all share the same faults. They don't and they shouldn't be summed up together, it's similar to how all Muslims are viewed as terrorist but almost all are just Muslims practicing their religion. This is just like in the story we were reading how the main character was seen as bad just because of the few bad seeds. It's sad to say that our society is like that and may never changed.

[jasmine-hickey]

When you realize theres only 4 Monday’s left of senior year.

[carli-2017-blog]

I could have connected this to Kenneth but I decided that it was Russ I wanted to discuss. Russ is Bev's husband and they just lost their son to his decision to commit suicide. Russ "slips into darkness" he hits rock bottom and doesn't want to admit it. Bev tries everything to get her old husband back(small talk, arguments) she seeks his love but he wants to wallow in his depression. The saying " you have to live your life cause yes they dies but you didn't die with them". Russ is not living his life but pushing everything and everyone away. And he has a new job but I don't think it was for a new start but to run away from his memories and troubles. This song talks about losing someone and hitting rock bottom even if you have someone to live for like a wife. And the fact that the name of the band happens to be war which is what caused issues in Kenneth is just an awesome coincidence.

[carli-2017-blog]

During the time that Clybourne Park takes place the civil rights movement was just starting and the main focus was for people of color wanting their rights however, it was also a time that women fought for their rights. I think about how in the play Bev is the one that was like isn’t the family entitled to live here if they so please so, it was a woman standing up for what she thought and expressing her feelings toward the circumstance. Women were just expected to stay home and give birth. The movie The Help takes place a little after like the beginning of the 60’s. When the maid Aibileen (Viola Davis) takes care of the child of her bosses she always makes sure that the child understands that she is smart and important. Its another instance where woman did not really have much rights but the woman were important and strong. It does not matter the color of the women they were all view as less. The women had to be reminded that they did have more purpose than cooking, cleaning, and childbirth. Later in the Clybourne Park bev and Russ are discussing russ’s new work and bev says what is she supposed to do and he says things and projects. All that mattered in that time was the male and the women suffered for it. Its interesting that someone ,like a woman, that doesn’t have many rights would be the one to stand up for the family that is colored, almost as if she can relate to how they are being treated. During this time white women were definitely treated better than women as a whole however, both were treated as if they were unimportant. When Bev sees a situation get rough she always seems to play the typical house wife/ dumb women. However, there are instance where you can see that she is smart but it's almost as if she hides it cause she does not believe she is smart or important. All women no matter what color or religion should understand that they can be smart and are important.

[carli-2017-blog]

My heart when I realized that Troy and Cory could never make amends

[carli-2017-blog]

Military man

When a child grows up seeing their parents making mistakes and bad choices, that child normally has the goal to be nothing like that parent. My mother was heavily into drinking and drugs and growing up seeing her make those mistakes that took control of her life made me aspire to be nothing like her in that aspect her life. However, She taught me to be tough, independent, and to love life. This can relate to Troy and Cory's relationship. In Troy's own strange way he was teaching Cory that he needed to be strong and not care about what others thought of him. It was almost like Troy was showing him the worst parts of himself to Cory so that he could want and aspire to become something great. After Troy forced Cory out into the world the hard way he joins the military and at the end of the book when he shows up at his mothers house the day of the funeral for Troy he tells Rose how he wants to be nothing to do with Troy and wants nothing from that life he once knew. However, Rose tells him he can't forget and not respect his pop because a large part of who he is today came from the way he was raised by Troy. Maybe Troy is considered a horrible parent but most parents horrible or not teach us lessons we keep with us forever.

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[carli-2017-blog]

Fences are built for two reasons either to keep something in or keep something out. Whenever we read fences and in the book they bring up the fence I always seem to picture this In my mind. This fence was built for the those two exact reasons to keep the jewish boy in while keeping the "acceptable" boy out where freedom is an option. Makes me think of rose she starts as the boy in the striped pajamas where she is stuck in a situation because of someone else( her husband) like the boy in striped pajamas because of the actions of another(Germans/ hitler). However, in the recent part of the scene we have read I feel as if rose is starting to become the boy on the outside. Becoming her own person, wanting her freedom from the actions of her husband, thinking for herself saying what she feels. Letting her husband know she is only on the stuck side of fence because of him but if she wanted she can be just as free as she wants.

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[cr254572-blog]

Degradation of Rose

Granted for its time period, woman were still seen as inferior to men. Now is this a good enough excuse for Troy and Bono to talk about women as if they exist to only pleasure them? In the first act, Troy makes a comment about how a woman’s legs just get in the way, “Legs don’t mean nothing. You don’t do nothing but push them out of the way. But them hips cushion the ride!” This statement is beyond crude and shocking. As a woman to hear something like this would upset me.

[deeplifequotes]

You must be able to listen to yourself and be okay even when no one else understands.

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I saw this quote and it reminded me of Lyon and how he see things completely different from Troy. How Troy doesn't understand why Lyon spends his money on music and why he doesn't have a job, but to Lyon it makes sense. Lyon said what's the point of life if your not living it you have to have something to live for. Most times that how parents and children go, the children see life differently from the adults that have already lived through the mistakes they see us about to go through. Also though from Troy's view he sees things ways that many of us don't. But he understands and try's to help others see it by coming off harsh with life lessons. Like we saw in the comparison between the two Troy characters.

[carli-2017-blog]

The bridge is requiring

On the last page of the book, Lipsha is traveling home when he has to cross a bridge to get over a river. "Near dawn, I came to a bridge over the boundary river. I was getting pretty close to home now, so I stopped the car in the middle of the bridge," (333). When I brought up the bridge before in my Tumblr post it was Henry junior trying to bridge between the gap of his old self and his new self. Now it is very similar, Lipsha has finally bridged the rift in himself. One side of the bridge is the Lipsha that is Marie's son and has a life on the reservation. The other side is the side that is new to him the side that knows his real parents, it was the side that made him feel like something was missing. However, now he knows both sides and has finally made it to the middle of the bridge. Where both sides meet and makes him feel like everything is finally right.

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Lulu and KP

“That’s how I got most of them, strange to say, for I was never any looker. It was just that I kept my youth” (Erdrich 274). Reading this quote, Lulu reminded me of this girl I know. I will refer to her as KP. Lulu admitted that she was not pretty, and she knew that, but she gave the men what they wanted. As does KP, she is not much of a looker, the only difference is that she thinks she is. She is heavy set and is extremely sexually active. Lulu has eight children with all different dads. Good thing KP is childless, she already has enough rumors about how many men she has been with. The one major thing that really connects KP and Lulu is that they do not care what others think about them. They know the rumors but yet they still embrace their sexuality.

[leahfranks2629-blog]

When your gunna have to write a final essay and this ending sucks.

[carli-2017-blog]

Swimming toward change

"The whole lake was still"(265). In this part of the chapter June and Gordie run off the reservation to go have a honeymoon lake house. They walk to the lake that's by the cabin they are still in and he notes that the water is still. We have learn pedi so far from the book that water means a change. The water being still is like their relationship calm alas friends and cousins. However, then June jumps in and really seems to like swimming around making waves. First in their relationship they are cousins and friends and seem to be calm, but then they get married and it causes waves of change. June loves change just as much as she loves causing ripples in the water as she swims. When the waves thin out and it's gets calm I feel that's the times June would leave Gordie. She wanted more than marriage and kids from life. She relishes from the waves. Water symbolizes change and when they get married they definitely experience change. Their marriage started off with water.

[deeplifequotes]

If you find you are trying to force something, this is the time to let go.

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