Comments for English http://mich119.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:54:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Blog #14: End of Native Speaker by rebecca44 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/blog-14-end-of-sula/#comment-23 rebecca44 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:54:27 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/blog-14-end-of-sula/#comment-23 I agree with you that Henry and Lelia's relationship changed. I think that they both developed throughout the novel a lot. I think that Lelia changed the most at the end with her personality and I also think that Henry did something I never saw coming from the beginning, getting out of his job. I agree with you that Henry and Lelia’s relationship changed. I think that they both developed throughout the novel a lot. I think that Lelia changed the most at the end with her personality and I also think that Henry did something I never saw coming from the beginning, getting out of his job.

]]> Comment on Blog #12: Ending of Sula by alyssa708 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/blog-12-ending-of-sula/#comment-22 alyssa708 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:25:35 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/blog-12-ending-of-sula/#comment-22 I definatly agree with this because I am 100% about not doing things like that to best friends! I do feel as if Nel needs to blame her husband a little more too than she does. In this though I do not think Sula thought it was that big of a deal, because her mother always did it, and then she followed in her mothers footsteps. O man I am glad not to have a cheap whore for a mother! I definatly agree with this because I am 100% about not doing things like that to best friends! I do feel as if Nel needs to blame her husband a little more too than she does. In this though I do not think Sula thought it was that big of a deal, because her mother always did it, and then she followed in her mothers footsteps. O man I am glad not to have a cheap whore for a mother!

]]> Comment on Blog #11: Ending of Invisible Man by alyssa708 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/blog-11-ending-of-invisible-man/#comment-21 alyssa708 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:11:51 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/blog-11-ending-of-invisible-man/#comment-21 I agree that the novel was definatly drawn out! The narrator could have shortened so many ideas and events but he chose not to which I wonder why. I never thought of your idea of him being proud of the moments he had, actually i thought that they didn't really touch him and he did not care to much. After reading your thoughts on it i definatly can see why you said that! I agree that the novel was definatly drawn out! The narrator could have shortened so many ideas and events but he chose not to which I wonder why. I never thought of your idea of him being proud of the moments he had, actually i thought that they didn’t really touch him and he did not care to much. After reading your thoughts on it i definatly can see why you said that!

]]> Comment on Blog #6: Done with The Sound & the Fury! by alyssa708 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/blog-6-done-with-the-sound-the-fury/#comment-20 alyssa708 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:17:44 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/blog-6-done-with-the-sound-the-fury/#comment-20 I so thought the same thing when we first started to read this book. I just could not keep up with Benjy's jumping thoughts. The rest of the book got easier to read as we went on but still there was so much messed up stuff going out. There is suicide, insest, and just plain weird ideas. I don't know where the author was going with the book but in the end it turned out to be pretty good and I actually enjoyed it too! I so thought the same thing when we first started to read this book. I just could not keep up with Benjy’s jumping thoughts. The rest of the book got easier to read as we went on but still there was so much messed up stuff going out. There is suicide, insest, and just plain weird ideas. I don’t know where the author was going with the book but in the end it turned out to be pretty good and I actually enjoyed it too!

]]> Comment on Blog #13: Native Speaker by literaturer http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/blog-13-native-speaker/#comment-19 literaturer Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:34:50 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/blog-13-native-speaker/#comment-19 Your comment on how they dealt with death differently really got me thinking. Youre' right, they did handle it differently. I had been trying to judge who handled it better, but it was just different. What is interseting to note though is the similiarities in how they coped. For example, both supressed their feelings. One, perhaps unwillingly, but none the less, no greif was ever really verbally expressed. Odd, I think, as this is a novel focused so closely on language. Your comment on how they dealt with death differently really got me thinking. Youre’ right, they did handle it differently. I had been trying to judge who handled it better, but it was just different. What is interseting to note though is the similiarities in how they coped. For example, both supressed their feelings. One, perhaps unwillingly, but none the less, no greif was ever really verbally expressed. Odd, I think, as this is a novel focused so closely on language.

]]> Comment on Blog #13: Native Speaker by devyn314 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/blog-13-native-speaker/#comment-18 devyn314 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:02:20 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/blog-13-native-speaker/#comment-18 I definitly have to agree with you when you talk about how this book came started off on a very slow start, the first couple pages were interesting but then i fund myself sttruggling to read the rest. But once i got through the next couple chapters it defintiyl started to pick up a lot and became so interesting. I also have to agree with you on the fact that Henry and his wife are dealinfg with their sons death in very different ways and i do feel that it has to do with the fact that they are from two very different cultures. I definitly have to agree with you when you talk about how this book came started off on a very slow start, the first couple pages were interesting but then i fund myself sttruggling to read the rest. But once i got through the next couple chapters it defintiyl started to pick up a lot and became so interesting.
I also have to agree with you on the fact that Henry and his wife are dealinfg with their sons death in very different ways and i do feel that it has to do with the fact that they are from two very different cultures.

]]> Comment on Blog #12: Ending of Sula by literaturer http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/blog-12-ending-of-sula/#comment-17 literaturer Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:13:33 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/blog-12-ending-of-sula/#comment-17 I kind of see where you're coming from in criticizing Sula's actions, obviously, it was wrong. But I think that nel placing the blame entirely on Sula was wrong too. It was Jude's choice to abandon his family, not Sula's. Jude should have been loyal to his wife, and I think he deserves more blame than Nel atttributed to him. Also, I think Alex raised a good point in his comment. Sula was rasied differently than Nel. I don;t think she understands that sleeping with somebody else's husband is entirely wrong. Her mom was sleeping with different guys all the time, and I don't think she thought that it was a big deal. Like I said, I do think that Sula was wrong, but I think that she does have a viewpoint that needs to be seen, and that there was a negative side to Nel's reaction. I kind of see where you’re coming from in criticizing Sula’s actions, obviously, it was wrong. But I think that nel placing the blame entirely on Sula was wrong too. It was Jude’s choice to abandon his family, not Sula’s. Jude should have been loyal to his wife, and I think he deserves more blame than Nel atttributed to him. Also, I think Alex raised a good point in his comment. Sula was rasied differently than Nel. I don;t think she understands that sleeping with somebody else’s husband is entirely wrong. Her mom was sleeping with different guys all the time, and I don’t think she thought that it was a big deal.
Like I said, I do think that Sula was wrong, but I think that she does have a viewpoint that needs to be seen, and that there was a negative side to Nel’s reaction.

]]> Comment on Blog #12: Ending of Sula by Alex T. http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/blog-12-ending-of-sula/#comment-16 Alex T. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:09:20 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/blog-12-ending-of-sula/#comment-16 "That is something friends should never do because men may come and go but a best friend is always supposed to be there for you." I think that was Sula's point, although she probably could have found a better way of saying than with sleeping with Jude. Sula probably just didn't think of itit being that important to Nel, because in her mind Jude is just a guy. Obviously Nel doesn't see it that way and understandbly so. “That is something friends should never do because men may come and go but a best friend is always supposed to be there for you.”

I think that was Sula’s point, although she probably could have found a better way of saying than with sleeping with Jude. Sula probably just didn’t think of itit being that important to Nel, because in her mind Jude is just a guy. Obviously Nel doesn’t see it that way and understandbly so.

]]> Comment on Blog #10-500 word response on Invisible Man by Devyn http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/blog-10-500-word-response-on-invisible-man/#comment-15 Devyn Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:04:52 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/blog-10-500-word-response-on-invisible-man/#comment-15 mich meng..i def have to agree with what you said in the end of your blog, you said that you felt that the narrator time and time again gets taken advantage of. I feel like ever since the beginning the narrator has had to stuggle just to fit into a society that only looks down on him. It really is sad and unfortunate mich meng..i def have to agree with what you said in the end of your blog, you said that you felt that the narrator time and time again gets taken advantage of. I feel like ever since the beginning the narrator has had to stuggle just to fit into a society that only looks down on him. It really is sad and unfortunate

]]> Comment on Blog #9 by kellbell http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/blog-9/#comment-14 kellbell Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:58:01 +0000 http://mich119.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/blog-9/#comment-14 I too also believe that the advice of the grandfather was wrong. Like the narrator should be his own person and sucking up isn't always the way to get ahead in life. I would have to agree that the grandfather's advice hasn't benfited the narrator at all just yet. So maybe he should just forget this advice. I too also believe that the advice of the grandfather was wrong. Like the narrator should be his own person and sucking up isn’t always the way to get ahead in life. I would have to agree that the grandfather’s advice hasn’t benfited the narrator at all just yet. So maybe he should just forget this advice.

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