Blog #3

"There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn't live. Well, I say it's a pity she did. I said it right out to our minister once, and he was shocked at me. Only he wasn't with me that morning when she first came to... And I say, if she'd ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived; and the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues."

The final passage of the novel is important because Mrs. Hale discusses the state of the Frome household after the sledding disaster. Ethan is trapped with Zeena, death, and another image of a cripple, Mattie, like her wife.The passage reveals an allusion to the detailed description of the stone and Ethan's reaction. All that Ethan was missing was endurance, now that his attempt at rebellion had failed. Mrs. Hale talks as if Ethan died because Ethan has ended in a worse fate than he would have been dead. Ethan is experiencing death in life, with two monsters. The difference Mrs. Hale is talking about is that the Frome's in the graveyard are in peace resting, but the Frome up there, Ethan is in living death, with his tragic fate with Zeena and Mattie living together as he is tormented by seeing them as long as he lives or they live.

Blog #2

The setting of the novel is in Starkfield, Massachusetts, and it is during the winter. The setting impacts the characters by making them do things they wouldn't do without the snow that is in Starksfield. For example, if it wasn't Winter Ethan wouldn't or couldn't have asked Mattie to go sledding at night with the moon if there wasn't any snow. So the winter helped Ethan by asking her to go down a sled one day. Also the narrator would have never probably have met Ethan because during the only time in winter there are snow storms in Starksfield. The setting impacts everyone by the decisions they end up making and the choices they have to look at. Also another thing is that if it wasn't Winter Mattie couldn't have asked Ethan to commit suicide with her on the sled. So it does impact the characters because the choices they made. If it wasn't that season then they wouldn't have ended where they ended as cripples. In every novel or play the setting is always important because if it was a different setting then the play or novel would have been different and would have lead to different scenes.

BLOG #1

"Against the dark of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held her lamp..."
This quote is important because it reveals the features of Zeena, Ethan's wife, of being old,bony, and ugly. Zeena's features are describe in a negative way in which the reader shouldn't be attracted to. Being ugly is the worse thing to be describe as or looked at, Ethan just doesn't seem to be attracted to her because her old age. This is why Ethan then falls in love with Mattie because she is young and gorgeous. Zeena can't top looking or being like Mattie. All that Zeena has for Ethan is convention and Ethan's inertia. This helps Zeena by preventing Ethan from fulfilling his dreams and passions. not only does it reveal old,bony, and ugliness it also reveals sickness and death. When old age comes that's the time to worry about dying and what to do if it happens. Once the narrator talks about the hollow and prominences in her face, its ring of crimping , it is emphasizes the ugliness Zeena has. Being a picture of death strongly shows that it is opposing life in general. I just feel sorry for Zeena for being that ugly and for Ethan, good gracious your with that. I guess he is making the right move in order to be with Mattie instead of death.

"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich: Chunk 2

Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" explores the life and condition of working as a maid in Maine. She uses her experiences to tell how hard its also to work as a maid, come on barbara was picking up pubes, the detail she used made it seem it was disgusting. She struggles in this chunk of trying to maintain who she is, but people critisize her and loses her ability to stay in control and breaks off. She finds the "working poor" to be difficult because people believe their pain is solved by taking Excedrin and Advil everyday, when she said this her tone is frustrating and mad because she's tired of the owners of the hotels she has been working at. Her purpose is to make an impact and help the "working poor" be looked upon in a different point of view because they work hard, but get payed a pretty low wage barely surviving in society. Her audience is the general middle class and high class worker because they need to see that their are people with worse jobs than them and at least have pity for them.

1.Does Barbara wants us to show pity towards the "working poor" or change the system?

2. Do you think Barbara can survive because she seems to be struggling trying to survive?

"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich: Chunk 1

"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich explores the life of the low wage poverty of Americans. She joins the low wage poverty and disquises her identity in order to see the lives of many hardworkers that are in the struggle of surviving with their low pay of $6-$7 an hour. She keeps the reader attention by actually being a worker in a hotel or waitress and going through what these workers go through to feel the vibe that people in America are being taken by advangtage. She uses life experiences to prove that the working system is unfair and corrupted. She explains the lives and goes through every moment a disadvantage worker would go through trying to survive in the world.  She doesn't enjoy what she is doing going through this prosses( everyday) but is urged to reveile and help this people. She has in mind to the general worker because she is informing the workers about places/ jobs that are in harsh living wages that are tough to survive in. Her purpose is to enlighten the reader about these jobs that don't care about how much or who works and are being payed only about $6-$7 an hour. 

1. How does the author show she cares about changing the system?

2.How will Barbara change the way we see low wage workers now?

Television Outside the Box

Josh Levin's 2009 article,''Television Outside the Box", from the Atlantic monthly, he exhibits the new way of seeing things in the: big screen; tv's; computers; and gaming in the near future. "3-D" its called-the new dimension- of enjoying media. The author introduces the reader with the 3-D commercial of Sobe that was played during the Super Bowl. He then states that 3-D was not the thing back in the days every decade it would come out, but then disappear until it shows up again. Now that the media has brought it out again, DreamWorks and Disney’s Pixar will be releasing all of its features in three dimensions. He concludes by saying that once 3-D gets its real attention then people will be on their way to the big screens and 3-D entertainment at home sooner or later. I'm so great that they will be coming out with this huge new technology, basically modify it to surpass and get the audience attention. His purpose is to give the reader the idea that 3-D is not dead yet, but rising from its tomb to please the audience.He seems to have an audince in mind who enjoy technology or enjoy the media out in the world because he seems all hype up all about it.

1.Are YOU ready for the change?

2.How will this affect people in a negative way?

Should Obama Think Twice about Pot?

Joshua Green's 2009 article from the Atlantic monthly instructs if Barack Obama should think twice about legalizing marijuana to grow the economy. Mr. Green first stated that today Barack emphasized in his virtual town hall meeting that legalizing marijuana wouldn't be the right way to put the U.S back on its tracks. I thought it might be a great idea because several of people buy weed from other sources and they keep buying from those the illegal way. For example in the article I read last week "Cannabusiness" it stated that just in California itself generates $100 million in sales tax of medical marijuana, imagine the the full package we will get from legalizing marijuana. Green thinks he shouldn't have killed the dream of legalizing marijuana, but he should think it twice because it can save this country less than a second. His purpose is to give the reader a thought if Obama should change his mind about marijuana and the economy. He seems to have a political and common person in mind who is concerned about their future.

1.Is Joshua Green right about Obama thinking twice?

2. Will Obama change his mind about legalizing marijuana?