Female Writers

We have been reading some poems and stories lately that are written by woman writers.  I am not a big reader of short stories and poems usually.  This is actually the first time I ever read anything like the literature I have been reading.  I do find that the woman writers tend to touch more emotional tones in their writing.  I really couldn't name too many though.  I have always felt like a female writer could express through words better than male writer, but I guess that is back to touching the other subject or topic we had to write about this week the Gender Criticism.  Well that is all I could come up with on this topic, enjoy.

GOOD OL WIKI

Well I have been voicing my opinion on the Wiki project.  I have since found a couple break through s though.  The first is I finally found where I will make my contribution. I will add to the background, and talk more about the times the poem was written for the weary blues.  The poem is more than just the jazz aspect, and reading over it more and more I am starting to see the meaning from where Poe is coming from.  The poem is also more about segregation and the struggle for African Americans and how music was their therapy to take their mind away their safe haven.  Finally I'm starting to see this project come together.  There was also some citations missing in the Wiki for the poem.

GENDER CRITICISM

Gender criticism is an extension of feminist literary criticism, focusing not just on women but on the construction of gender and sexuality, especially LGBTQ issues, which gives rise to queer theory.  Gender criticism labels the writer of the story.  An example of the dominating stereotypes would be that if the character is a man is dominating the leader role.  Whereas if the character is a female or woman then the character is submissive and a foloower, which is not always true.  There are cases where the woman is the dominant figure and the man can be the submissive, there is more of these roles in todays literature compared to the 1900s and earlier.  The stories we are reading in class seem to take the old way of thinking.

Symbolizes

     An object that symbolizes me everyday would have to be probably one of the most minor things one could think of.  Ever since I was 15 years old growing up in Monroe Heights in Riviera Beach, Florida.  Me and a group of friends all use to have our own little business well leave it at that.  We all also wore rubber bands on our wrist.  The reason the rubber band symbolizes is because a couple of us since then have been murdered, the rubber band is like a reminder of each of us.  One of the friends who is locked up in Prison for life still wears his also.  I'm not saying I condone any of these actions n the past, but no matter what one of us odes we still will be therefor each other.  Therefore the rubber band is not any gang symbol, it is instead a symbol of unity, loyalty to one another. I guess I can just drop a couple names here, Elton Doo-Doo Taylor, Aj Oooh Lawd Jenkins, Tarvaris Arson Jackson, and then there's about 10 others.   The rubber band will always be a symbol, lol and also holds the money if needed, ok thats enough.  

HOUSE OF USHER THEME

Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, is a story that is written about a person going to see an old friend, Roderick Usher who is sick with a condition that runs in the family. When he arrives at the house of Usher, the narrator looks upon the walls and senses gloom. For the first few weeks that he is there, he and Roderick read stories, paint, and play guitar, all efforts to cheer Roderick up. But soon Roderick’s sister has died and the mood in the house changes. Roderick decides to put her in a chamber downstairs for a few weeks so that curios doctors cannot steal her body and perform tests on it. One night during a terrible storm, Roderick goes crazy and in an effort to calm him down his friend reads to him. That’s when Roderick confesses that he has heard his sister’s cries from downstairs and believes that he has put her in her coffin while she was still living. The door was thrown open from the wind, and Roderick’s sister was standing at the door, she collapses on Roderick and both die, the friend runs out of the mansion and it collapses and the House of Usher is sunk in the lake. 

Wikipedia

   We are working on these new Wikipedia pages and trying to add substance to the already created pages in Wikipedia already.  I am not really a fan of the new idea using Wikipedia, I rather would have done the normal essays.  Although I understand Wikipedia is a great place to learn about whatever subject you are reading about or writing about.  I still am not a fan of the whole Wikipedia process this semester.  Wikipedia in my opinion makes things too complicated, there is too much clutter on the pages and it is hard to find the information I am looking for.  Although I jave no choice but to use Wikipedia this assignment, it is safe to say this would be the first and last time I ever use my Wikipedia login. 

Settings

     In the last couple stories we read the setting has been set immediately.  Most of the settings have involved dark mysterious, gloomy feeling. The setting has definitely not been a good happy feeling vibe.  I guess a lot of your writers back in those days were feeling more depressed or had a dark thought of mind.  The one example would be the Edgar Allen Poe short stories never did he start with a bright sunny clear day.  Instead Poe started with on a dark gloomy night.  The setting immediately puts you in the mood of the story you are about to read.  I feel like this is an important part of every story to get you in the mood, and will also give you an idea if this is the story you want to read.