Class Cancelled

Today we did not have class.  It allowed me to catch up on my work for English 102.  This morning I read to Chapter 10 on the novel The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. The book started off pretty slow, but as I kept reading it, I get more interested in the plot.  I cannot wait to keep reading to find out what happens next. I like the fact that we can write about how we feel about the things we read in class.  It helps to analyze the stories and poems further and further.  I have never had this opportunity in previous classes to write down how I feel for the whole world to see.  It is definitely a cool feeling. I also had the chance to catch up on my blog posts as well as my essays. This class gives me the chance to learn to manage my time well to get everything I need to do finished. I am trying not to cram everything into the last week of class like I usually would.  Thanks for reading my blog xoxoxoxoxoxoxo.

The Road Not Taken

The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a poem that everyone can relate to. It is such a well known poem, yet extremely confusing.  It's only four stanzas but it has so much depth in each word.  There is a literal meaning and a figurative meaning.  The literal meaning is that the speaker is standing in the woods at a fork in the road.  Both paths are equally worn, and takes one and says that he will take the other another day. The figurative meaning can be interpreted in different ways. When I read this poem I feel like he's trying to find his own path in life and not worry what other people are doing with their lives.  People encounter dilemmas similar to this all the time.  They have to choose the "right" way without even knowing the outcome of either path.  This poem has a lot of imagery in the first two stanzas.  Frost does a good job giving detail about the woods. The author shows no remorse for his decision he made many years before. He uses this poem to show a defining moment in his life.

The Yellow Wallpaper!

The story "The Yellow Wallpaper" identifies the slow mental degeneration of a young woman.  Her husband, John, forces her to go into a "rest cure" in a new house.  She isn't allowed to write or go anywhere besides the room.  She likes everything besides the wallpaper of the room.  She spends 3 full months examining it over and over again.  Being in this room forces her to become totally insane.  She begins to see a woman in the wallpaper pattern, with bars in front of her.  This story is like a journal of the young woman on her journey of losing grip of reality and becoming more and more distant from her friends and family.  Her goal is to set the woman free from the wallpaper, which could symbolize herself becoming free from the room.  It could also have a bigger meaning of the whole women role in society. On the last day she finally rips the wallpaper off the walls and begins to crawl around the room, going completely off the deep end.  When he husband finally got into the room and saw her, I believe he passed out and she continued to crawl over him, for he was in her path.