Alex Hall
Family is a group of people who love each other no matter what happens and always stick by each other’s side. Family doesn’t have to be blood related or grandma or grandpa, it can be a bunch of random people who love each other unconditionally and are always there for each family member. Relationships in family’s can become very confusing and complex. A mother to son relationship is a unique one that the mother loves their son is sometimes very protective of her son. On the other hand, a father to son relationship can be extremely different. The father a lot of the times wants his son to fall in his footsteps and always to be very successful. Fathers aren’t always worried about things mothers worry about so it can sometimes become a split thing on who to necessarily ask which parent for a specific thing. The relationship of sibling-to-sibling is a lot different then parents to their child. Sibling to sibling all really relates to the age and gender. In James Baldwin’s Sunny Blues the relationship is between two brothers. One is older than the other and typically that situation can go either two ways. One is that the younger brother looks up to his older and tries to follow in his footsteps and learns from him. The other situation is the younger brother hates how his brother is so does and acts differently either in good or bad ways. In this case, the narrator’s brother, Sonny, acts differently in a very bad way. The two brothers seem to have a hard time interacting with each other. The background behind why seems reasonable considering Sonny was in jail for heroin, but a relationship within a family should always be a tight bond no matter what. They attempt to talk to each other after awhile of no talking and Sonny’s letter to the narrator made him “feel like a bastard” because it wasn’t what he was expecting. He didn’t know what to expect. After they start talking again you can tell with not much background that things are different between them. They attempt to have a good brother relationship but it just doesn’t work that well. Sonny is very self-centered and doesn’t care that much about that his brother thinks or knows is good for him. They seem to attempt communication and do talk and get things figured out between them, but overall their communication between each other isn’t very successful.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Response to "A Good Crot Is Hard to Find"
Alex Hall
A good essay consists of good grammar, no miss spellings, perfect format, and very well written and easy to comprehend. Tita Baumlin decided to give her class an assignment that goes completely against the traditional essay. But no one knew how or what to write. She gave no guideline on to write an essay. So she decided to help her students out she would write one of her own. The essay is nothing like I have ever seen before. It’s like the song by The Beatles “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite,” it just doesn’t really make any sense.
The essay has two chapters and about six different ways to write. Not the traditional ways, but ways most people have never thought of. Those ways are what really caught my eye, to see someone go completely outside the box. For example, on page forty-three (Straight line double voice”) she has one paragraph written out. If you read the whole paragraph as one, it appears to make no sense. Although half of it is italicized and half is not. If you read the italicized part all at once without reading the normal text, it makes sense. So what Tita did is in one paragraph she put two completely different texts but all as one. Very different from what I have ever seen but so inventive and creative at the same time. Another thing that Tita does that really intrigues me is she has about six different ways to write and tell you about them, all very creative. But while she is telling you about them, it is visually shown in the text what she is talking about. For example she talks about making lists. In one list she says a short vertical one. The next one is a list talking about making a long list with either short phrases or long ones. To me it is all very creative.
The one thing that really makes me feel uneasy is about five times in the essay she ends a section with a rhetorical question. Although it can be answered, it is just very hard to answer. For example she talks about crots and then fragments. Of course, while talking about fragments the whole paragraph is in fragments making it very hard to understand. At the end of it she says, “Get the point?” She leaves a space to let your mind soar to really figure it out. The only thing is that it’s very hard to actually figure it out. What point is she talking about? What am I trying to understand? In another part, at the end of chapter one she says, “It may not come again. Come again?” and then proceeds to chapter 2. What does she mean by come again? Maybe the magic she is talking about, but did it even come in the first place. Where is it coming from? All these open ended questions make me feel uneasy because I have no clue how to answer them and that is what truly bothers me the most.
A good essay consists of good grammar, no miss spellings, perfect format, and very well written and easy to comprehend. Tita Baumlin decided to give her class an assignment that goes completely against the traditional essay. But no one knew how or what to write. She gave no guideline on to write an essay. So she decided to help her students out she would write one of her own. The essay is nothing like I have ever seen before. It’s like the song by The Beatles “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite,” it just doesn’t really make any sense.
The essay has two chapters and about six different ways to write. Not the traditional ways, but ways most people have never thought of. Those ways are what really caught my eye, to see someone go completely outside the box. For example, on page forty-three (Straight line double voice”) she has one paragraph written out. If you read the whole paragraph as one, it appears to make no sense. Although half of it is italicized and half is not. If you read the italicized part all at once without reading the normal text, it makes sense. So what Tita did is in one paragraph she put two completely different texts but all as one. Very different from what I have ever seen but so inventive and creative at the same time. Another thing that Tita does that really intrigues me is she has about six different ways to write and tell you about them, all very creative. But while she is telling you about them, it is visually shown in the text what she is talking about. For example she talks about making lists. In one list she says a short vertical one. The next one is a list talking about making a long list with either short phrases or long ones. To me it is all very creative.
The one thing that really makes me feel uneasy is about five times in the essay she ends a section with a rhetorical question. Although it can be answered, it is just very hard to answer. For example she talks about crots and then fragments. Of course, while talking about fragments the whole paragraph is in fragments making it very hard to understand. At the end of it she says, “Get the point?” She leaves a space to let your mind soar to really figure it out. The only thing is that it’s very hard to actually figure it out. What point is she talking about? What am I trying to understand? In another part, at the end of chapter one she says, “It may not come again. Come again?” and then proceeds to chapter 2. What does she mean by come again? Maybe the magic she is talking about, but did it even come in the first place. Where is it coming from? All these open ended questions make me feel uneasy because I have no clue how to answer them and that is what truly bothers me the most.
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