Reflection #10: Maus

In the book Maus page 108, chapter five of the first volume Vladek was telling to his son Archie that Persis went to Srodula, were he and Vladek agreed to gave him his first son Richeu and the other kids from the family. The day of the meeting all the family went, and in their way to the meeting spot they pass trough alley with fences and spine over it. They gave away the kids with a sad expression but at the same time they felted somehow relieved because for them the kids were going be saved, after giving the kids to Persis that day, the family never saw the kids again. Returning to the present and with the conversation between Vladek and Archie, Vladek told his son that every time that in the ghetto happened something bad the family felt more relieved thinking that the kids were save with Persis. Valdek tell Archie that around that time the Germans took from Srodula to Auschwtiz over one thousand Jews and most of the were kids from two to three years old and the ones who cried with no to much, the Germans grabbed them from the legs and swinged against the wall. At the end of the conversation Vladek told Richie that he never saw that cruel act but he heard it from other people.
I chose the page 108, chapter five of the first volume of Maus because it was very impact ting and shocking the what it represented on it. In this page Vladek told his son about how he give his fist son Richeu in order for his son to survive. This page also represented how far the German went in their hunt for Jews. The German soldier even take small child and kill them by singed them to a wall. This cruel brutality caught my attention and not only the words of the comic but also the picture were the soldier kill the boy was very real.
In order to paraphrase the comic was no an easy task because not only you have see the word but you also have to interpreter in words the picture and mention every details in it, take in consideration that the some pictures are from the past and the other of the present and transform all of it in narrative essay. This activity was very fun , I never have done something like this and is very interesting how much narrative you can extract from a comic.

Reflection #11: The End

The reason of blogging was to have a better understanding of the lecture and communicate our personal opinion to other classmate. By bloggging we can also exchange ideas and comment about the lecture with other classmate. This I think is very innovative using the technologies and a media that young people often use.

This was a really good experience in doing something innovative that help me a lot in improving myself in writing and in reading. I learn a lot from this activity. The only thing that I did not like was the comment of some people that they did it without completely reading what I post. Also I think that the activity may be better if there were less word, because sometime a reflection of a lecture is not that long and we have to write many complements of the lecture.

Well this is my last blog, I will not continue writing in here because I have a live outside the computer who I abandoned because of the overloading work that this university gives me. I had a really good experience with it and hopefully I will never write here again.

Good- Bye

Reflection #9: M. Butterfly

I really like this play and it was very different from others I reed before. This play at first was humorous but then later in the story turn up very sad and the ending was even sadder. A first I considered funny Gallimard , his shyness toward woman, when he could not finish his sentence when speaking to Song Liling, when Marc arranged a woman to have sex with Gallimard and he felt scared when he was doing it. It was also funny when the Dutch girl that have the was called Rene like Rene Gallimard and the thing that she have with the men's private part and the many names that she have for it. I even at first considered funny the fact that for twenty years Gallimard felt in love of a transsexual. But as I continued reading, as Gallimard's feeling got serious the story changed to a more serious one and as sadder were the events that occur to Gallimard more sadder the story turns up.
Well the thing is that this Gallimard was a complete woos, he was very shy toward beautiful woman. He have a fiend name Marc that was the one who always arrange him with woman because Gallimard can even speak complete sentences to them. Later Gallimar marry with I think was not very attractive woman named Helga , this woman was one , as said by Gallimard, one that no man can fell in love with her because of her past. Gallimard worked in the French Government and he is a diplomat who's decision have an important role in the war against Vietnam and he have access to secret information regardless to the United state movement in the war. The thing is that one day he went to see his favorite opera called Madame Butterfly, this opera was his favorite because he wanted to be like one of the characters named Pikerton who was a very masculine man and was marry with a very submissive Chinese girl named Cio-Cion Sang. That day he fell in love with the Chinese "actress" that play the character of Cio-Cio Sang named Song Liling. The sad part was that Gallimard truly fell in love with Song without knowing that she was a he for twenty years ant that Gallimard was been used by Song to retrieve information for the Chinese government. At the end Gallimard decided to still love the Song that represented Madame Butterfly in his imagination and he kill himself in jail.

Reflection #8: Emely Dickinson

The poem “Heaven”- is what I cannot reach! the author exposes the theme of life, deprivation and pain. In the first stanza the speaker define heaven as something distant and unreachable as “The Apple on the Tree-/ Provided it do hopeless- hang-”(lines 2-3) and these two lines uses the image of a tree with hanging a delicious apple and someone desperate want to eat it, but is so high that is impossible to get it. Also in those line make the allusion to the myth of Tantalus, in where Zeus kill him with a big rock because of perjury and robbery, and after his death Tantalus was condemn to eternal torture of to be in a lake with the water level up to his chin and a tree with fruits, but whenever he wants to drinks water or reach a fruit these move back before he could he get any. In the second stanza the speaker describe the heaven “Behind the Hill- the House behind-/There- Paradise-is found” (lines 7-8) as a prohibit paradise that is hide behind the hills and use the images of hills that form the distance are hard to climb and behind them are a land that is restricted and in these lines express the deprivation to enter to heaven. In the third stanza the speaker conclude the poem with “Enamored- of the Conjuror-/That spurned us- Yesterday” (lines 11-12), where expresses that God (the Conjuror) refuse all who want to go to heaven a long time ago. This poems involve religious beliefs in where maybe the author feel desperate or frustrated because of how to reach the heaven, and comparing that with conventional views of heaven that are accept God, regret of your sin and be saved, she have different opinion against the Christian.

Reflection #7: A Minor Bird

The poem A Minor Bird by Robert Frost is about when people is angry or mad. Some time when we are angry for something and an person get close to us we hurt or make that person go away even if that person is trying to help us. In the poem the bird resemble the good intentions of other people who want to help us. "I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day;", in here the author is representing when a person is angry at something an we make go away a person who is trying to help us. "The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key". This is the part that we realize that the cause of that bad feeling is not in other people, that is in ourselves. "And of course there must be something wrong. In wanting to silence any song." The final part the poem the author explain that we have to look deep in ourselves to see what is wrong, try to be better persons and be grateful for the help of others.

Reflection #6 :The Panther

In the poem "The panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke, is represented a metaphor of confinement . The poem star with this panther who in his eye vision only see bars ,"His vision, from constantly passing bars...", it can be determined that the panther is inside a caged. The panther grow impatiently inside it, like when we see lion in a zoo that they are wandering around in circle in their caged, "As he pace in cramped circle, over and over,..". At the end the panther reached with fury the first thing he saw when the bars lift, "...,arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone." This poem could represent how animals feel in imprisonment or how some men feel when they are confined and when they are free some of them commit crime again like the panther when the bars lift up.

Reflection #5: Poems

The poems have elements that make it more real and have us experiences thought images. The images have us verbal pictures that appeal to our senses. In the “Poem” of William Carlos Williams the line and stanza transform the poem in a rhythmic vernal picture because you can image what the cat is doing step by step. In “Calvary Crossing a Ford” by Walt Whitman you can imagine all the troop’s actions with the details that the poem have to us. In “Windsurfing” by Davis Solway the rhythm of the poem starts low and in the progress is more intensive and this help to imagine the poem. In “RootCellar” by Theodore Roethke the tone of the images and mood of the speaker are consistent and In Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” they shift as the theme is developed. In Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” the title is essential for this poem because help to imagine the setting and two sentences have selected words that make the poem to imaging to where are you looking in the metro.