Literature Analyzed

Have you ever read a book that has so many characters that the author must meticulously describe with many details and quirks that you just became annoyed of the book. This has happened to me countless times. Something that could resolve this issue is by adding pictures of how the characters look. This can go a long way in better understanding a character. This also feeds into the point on why there should be more of a mix of images and pictures in modern literature, weather it be just to introduce characters or to introduce the setting, a small change like this can go a long way instead of reading two pages of the author just describing a scene or character and nothing happening. This way of thinking can be traced back to our childhoods when we learned that reading books with no pictures was a sign of growing up. The books that we "Finally arrive at 'Real' books, those with no pictures at all"(McCloud 808). Even so, we still see instances of images being mixed with w...

Many children at Troy High School are given tardies and other punishments for something as simple as coming in late to class by a mere ten seconds because a teacher is in bad mood or is super passionate about the rules that the school provides for the teachers to enforce. There is "no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense"(Thoreau), in school when every unique student has something come up that may have caused them to be ten seconds late. Many teachers also have a mindset that we are their "subjects" and should not be "men first." Many teacher long for respect by the students by giving unnecessary punishments, but this doesn't accomplish anything but not treating each other like people and just treating each other like subjects. The morel is, treat others how you would want to be treated and this will in turn make your interactions meaningful and will treat others like people and not like subjects.

If you are like me, your day starts with a stupidly generic alarm that wakes you up from your refreshing four hours of sleep you got wondering how well you retained the information for the four tests you had the next day. You try to shake that mild headache away and carry on with your morning routine. You try to eat breakfast even though your body is telling you is is two hours too early to be eating but you slowly but surely force the meal down your throat and tell yourself that it is a start of a new day. You then proceed to get on the bus and the bus driver looks on to you and says, "Have a nice day, with a voice that is the absolute sound of death"(Wallace, 235), and look on to the numerous zombies that also heard the same, "have a nice day." As you then walk into the doors of Troy High, you are pleasantly greeted with by some bald guy telling you to, "have a nice day," but never actually means it because he never makes eye contact to say it. As you wa...

Something that I found interesting this week was the topic on what is an appropriate way to honor the dead and missing through memorials. This in particular was interesting to me because I never put much thought into different types of memorials and all the symbolism they embody. An example of a memorial that has meaning and lots of symbolism is the Korean war memorial because it was designed with many factors into consideration as well as three parts. Some key components to the Korean War memorial was the polished granite wall symbolized the mountains and how the trees were Korean, this symbolized the terrain and were the soldiers fought. Another thing that made this memorial stand out is how it honored the dead and missing troops by symbolizing where they died. This memorial is unique because it is considered a cenotaph and it fits with where the soldiers died. In the passage, "Postcards from the Trenches," it describes a cenotaph as, "... A cenotaph is a memo...