" Bill Hutchison was standing quiet staring down at the paper in his hand. Suddenly Tessie Hutchison shouted to Mr. Summers, "You didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!" (The Lottery, Shirley Jackson pg. 217)
I think that this line in "The Lottery" is very meaningful. As you go along reading you don't really have much of an idea what the lottery is about. People are joking and seem fairly happy. And then when Bill is quietly looking at his piece of paper and Tessie gets upset, you start to realize that maybe this lottery means something more and it's not maybe that good of a thing. You start to wonder what is really going on.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Blog 3: Freestyle
I guess my biggest problem with reading these days is not being able to get into the book from the start. I guess my question would be, How far do you need to read into a book before you decide it is boring? I have the bad habit that if the book doesn't hook me after a couple of pages I am done. Any thoughts on this?
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Blog 2: Quote Response
"Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning froward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair." (A Rose for Emily, Faulkner pg.35)
This end quote is very interesting to me. Reading the story I was aware of something more going on, but could not quite place it. I knew that Miss Emily is seen as being off her rocker a little, but throughout the story I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. She was just a sad lonely woman. Not until the end of this story where they find the body of a man in her room did I get a different idea about Miss Emily. Then ending it with these lines and talking about the strand of gray hair put it altogether. The strand of hair gave me the thought that Miss Emily was indeed mentally off, not only did she keep this body in a room, the gray hair on the pillow brought it altogether as to how off she was. The meaning of the gray hair to me, is that she was so out of reality that she lay beside the body of the man as if it were a living human being. I guess this line interested me most, because I noticed things that made Miss Emily noticeably odd, but then reading the end just brought it more into a shocking idea of what kind of person she was.
This end quote is very interesting to me. Reading the story I was aware of something more going on, but could not quite place it. I knew that Miss Emily is seen as being off her rocker a little, but throughout the story I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. She was just a sad lonely woman. Not until the end of this story where they find the body of a man in her room did I get a different idea about Miss Emily. Then ending it with these lines and talking about the strand of gray hair put it altogether. The strand of hair gave me the thought that Miss Emily was indeed mentally off, not only did she keep this body in a room, the gray hair on the pillow brought it altogether as to how off she was. The meaning of the gray hair to me, is that she was so out of reality that she lay beside the body of the man as if it were a living human being. I guess this line interested me most, because I noticed things that made Miss Emily noticeably odd, but then reading the end just brought it more into a shocking idea of what kind of person she was.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Blog 1: Readers Autobiography
My name is Mary McDonald. I am going to EOU for my associates in business. I am what you call a non-traditional student. I play co-ed city league softball on La Grande and I go to many tournaments throughout the summer. I also have two jet skis and enjoy going playing on them whenever I can. I am not much of a writer, but I will do my best.
When I was younger I used to read a lot. I grew up being read to and I loved it. When it came to reading as a kid in elementary school I read a lot, a lot of it was the determination to get the awards that were given after reading a certain amount of books, but I believe that I really did enjoy reading some of those books. As a teen I read a lot of V.C. Andrews, I guess I really enjoyed the twists and the drama those books brought. I really don't read much now. The books I have read lately are pretty off color. The most recent one I am reading is one by Tucker Max, which is very much off color. Why do I enjoy these kinds of books? I guess you could say comments I have on a daily basis are pretty off color (don't worry I Will not use off color comments here). I do like to read Dean Koontz every once in awhile, I like the suspense type stuff.
I asked three different people what they read and why.
Jessica said that she likes to read books because they are an escape from reality. The books that she has been into lately are the twilight books and books by Nora Roberts. Like me, Jessica grew up reading lots of books, unlike me she still likes to read a lot.
Rikki says that she actually likes reading some of her textbooks, mainly the theater textbooks as that is what she is into. She is also into books that have a political side to them, books that try to convince you to see one side of something. Our tastes are very different, I am not really into the learning type of literature.
Rob really doesn't read any books. He is more into hunting and sporting kind of magazines. He says that they are of more interest because they are made up of various articles that serve his interests more. I would have to agree, I myself like a good magazine to sit down with every once in awhile.
I asked three different people what they read and why.
Jessica said that she likes to read books because they are an escape from reality. The books that she has been into lately are the twilight books and books by Nora Roberts. Like me, Jessica grew up reading lots of books, unlike me she still likes to read a lot.
Rikki says that she actually likes reading some of her textbooks, mainly the theater textbooks as that is what she is into. She is also into books that have a political side to them, books that try to convince you to see one side of something. Our tastes are very different, I am not really into the learning type of literature.
Rob really doesn't read any books. He is more into hunting and sporting kind of magazines. He says that they are of more interest because they are made up of various articles that serve his interests more. I would have to agree, I myself like a good magazine to sit down with every once in awhile.
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