Monday, February 22, 2010
Making Connections #2 p96
The small piece of literature, Araby, is a very distinctively literature of a young person’s innocence and their experience. As I read this story I remember about a particular experience in my life where I had the same moments of attitudes towards a particular experience. This experience was when I was around 12 years old. I lived in this pink apartment building in the middle of a lot of drama, gangs, and bad reputation around the neighborhood. My father was a much overshadowed guy who did not let me go out and play unless I was going with one of my friends and that was not really often. We lived in the corner apartment of this building and we had a huge balcony that arrange from one side of the street to the other. Since I hardly left my house other than for school, store, or any family distractions, I would always be peeking out of the balcony and when someone would turn up to see me I would hide. I had no reason to hide, but my innocence would make me hide for no apparent reason. When my father finally gave me permission to go out and visit my friend down the street I left very happy, it was my birthday and my father forgot. When I came back many people I would pass by will tell me happy birthday and yet when I reached the door to my apartments I saw my father talking to his friend. I stared at him, waiting for him to tell me happy birthday and yet he never did. He just told me, “Who gave you those balloons?” I answer that my friends did and with careless motion he said oh okay and went on talking to his friend. I turned and walked up the stairs to my apartment door; I opened it and rushed to my room. I looked at myself in the mirror and with a very deep repression I was upset and my eyes were burning with anger and yet my vanity was stronger than my pain. I just stood plain ahead and never let a tear out of that moment. I then realize that I was not acting out of the selfless motives I thought I was because I never consider asking my father or letting him know what was wrong with me. I simply sucked it up and ignored any kind of motion with him the entire day. I believe my dad did remember it was my birthday, because he had finally let me out by myself. He wanted me to enjoy the day, and yet he never gave me a happy birthday hug. I eventually grew older and see the rage was useless, because my father had given me a birthday gift which I did not see at that moment. That morning he woke up and gave me a kiss and a hug, left me money and told me to go eat something with my friends when I was out of school. This was his birthday gift and I was so naive to get inner rage for my father forgetting it was my birthday.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Responding to Literature
Literature is a very broad judgmental word. It can consist of so many different aspects and views that it all depends on how you take in the aspect of literature that will prompt you to judging the definite ability to describe Literature. In order to broaden the idea of literature we have to understand it before we can give an accounted response to it. Reading literature offers a way to listen to the voice of the author in past years. We will respond to literature depending on our own personal perspectives and our own personal experiences on the topic or thesis of this piece of literature. There are various way we can respond to literature by assuring the differences between the works. It is not as simple as reading literature and right after that, write an entire analyzed essay of the story. It will take time, questions, quotes, important information and several facts, or even some research. It does not matter how long or how simple literature is. It matters how a person gives their personal perspective and then respond to that piece of literature. Some ways to respond to literature is by reading the work out loud, by trying to make a connection between the title and the body, do a quick write about the work and read it to yourself trying to explain what you are trying to write. You can also keep a journal where you consist it of asking questions, establishing a work thesis, gathering information, and organizing the information to put together and have a good response.
As a result of critical analyzing, our lives can make a drastically big change in the way we read and respond to literature. We can simply read a section of literature and have a basic understanding to it. Of course we can also take some time to analyze the work and come up with certain ideas and questions that we did not have prior to analyzing the literature. By critically analyzing a work we focus on what the author of such literature is trying to throw across. We can also read between the lines and express intentional responses to what the author is not writing but what the author is actually telling us. The focus of the literature is what is not what is written, but what is observed by the writer. Everyone can analyze the work a different way, and yet come up with the attitude of controlling the static response of the entire literature in whole thesis.
In short we can have and ease the analyzing process of literature by combining the readings and the logic attitudes of our responses. We can share the relationship that causes us to understand the writing better than what is written, regardless if it is a very short piece of literature or if it is a very large amount of literature. The point to becoming a very good analyzer or a very good writer in literature we need to have our minds thinking critically when we are reading a piece of literature.
As a result of critical analyzing, our lives can make a drastically big change in the way we read and respond to literature. We can simply read a section of literature and have a basic understanding to it. Of course we can also take some time to analyze the work and come up with certain ideas and questions that we did not have prior to analyzing the literature. By critically analyzing a work we focus on what the author of such literature is trying to throw across. We can also read between the lines and express intentional responses to what the author is not writing but what the author is actually telling us. The focus of the literature is what is not what is written, but what is observed by the writer. Everyone can analyze the work a different way, and yet come up with the attitude of controlling the static response of the entire literature in whole thesis.
In short we can have and ease the analyzing process of literature by combining the readings and the logic attitudes of our responses. We can share the relationship that causes us to understand the writing better than what is written, regardless if it is a very short piece of literature or if it is a very large amount of literature. The point to becoming a very good analyzer or a very good writer in literature we need to have our minds thinking critically when we are reading a piece of literature.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Critically thinking literature
What is literature is a very deepened and unexplainable question that some of us ask our self. We believe we know the answer, but the truth is that we have to keep our understandings outside of the box other than just the basic and common responses. We have to think critically and that is what most of us run away from. We try to understand it and keep the understandings the easy way out. However, we eventually have to think critically for other things in our life. Yet, literature tends to signal that the fun is over. When we are asked to think critically we are asked the complex set of experiences that define us as human beings to analyze the work we encounter.
Literature matters to me a lot more when I think about it. However, I do not focus a lot of attention on that. Literature can be more difficult than fun, yet it is something easy to overcome. When we use critical thinking on literature it helps us focus much faster and the understanding is a bit deeper. Literature has a lot of importance to the fact that we have to critically read through our work. While we do this we have to ask our self a set of questions that we deepened and focus our understandings on. Such questions as what is the perspective of the author about his/her work? Those the authors experiences and views helps you like or dislike this work? Or does the author’s values and experiences reflect any of your experiences?
Literature has a very broad way of speaking to me. It illustrates the work and the understanding is much better. Depending on what kind of literature it is, the work can be an informative type of work that really helps and deepened my understanding when I read it and take the main points of the work. Through my entire school career, English has been my burden. It makes me a better writer, but at the same time it keeps me in fear in every single English class I take. It is a simple chain that causes a huge obstacle; it is English that deals with literature where we need critical thinking. Like I said it is a simple chain that has so much measurement of interest in it. Then again we use critical thinking in our daily lives but when I don’t see literature I don’t see any difficult in it and that is just the way I feel literature is carried among me.
I expect English 102 to alter my perception of literature in a good route. I believe this class will be another step of writing, critical thinking, and learning process on where I will try to do my best. I expect this class to be challenging and at the same time to make me a more competitive and skillful critical thinking writer. At the end of the term I hope that the world can be a step closer on leaving the fear aside and on making me a more perfectionist writer. Although through my past experiences that has not happened there is still the hope that that day will one day come.
Literature matters to me a lot more when I think about it. However, I do not focus a lot of attention on that. Literature can be more difficult than fun, yet it is something easy to overcome. When we use critical thinking on literature it helps us focus much faster and the understanding is a bit deeper. Literature has a lot of importance to the fact that we have to critically read through our work. While we do this we have to ask our self a set of questions that we deepened and focus our understandings on. Such questions as what is the perspective of the author about his/her work? Those the authors experiences and views helps you like or dislike this work? Or does the author’s values and experiences reflect any of your experiences?
Literature has a very broad way of speaking to me. It illustrates the work and the understanding is much better. Depending on what kind of literature it is, the work can be an informative type of work that really helps and deepened my understanding when I read it and take the main points of the work. Through my entire school career, English has been my burden. It makes me a better writer, but at the same time it keeps me in fear in every single English class I take. It is a simple chain that causes a huge obstacle; it is English that deals with literature where we need critical thinking. Like I said it is a simple chain that has so much measurement of interest in it. Then again we use critical thinking in our daily lives but when I don’t see literature I don’t see any difficult in it and that is just the way I feel literature is carried among me.
I expect English 102 to alter my perception of literature in a good route. I believe this class will be another step of writing, critical thinking, and learning process on where I will try to do my best. I expect this class to be challenging and at the same time to make me a more competitive and skillful critical thinking writer. At the end of the term I hope that the world can be a step closer on leaving the fear aside and on making me a more perfectionist writer. Although through my past experiences that has not happened there is still the hope that that day will one day come.
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