SyRiNA:
Toni Morrison is a very descriptive author. When she talks about a specific topic, she gets very descriptive, like when shes talking about Beloved. She says that Beloved's voice is rough and her skin is brand new. I like when authors write with a descriptive language because, it helps me see the picture more clearer.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Falling Behind
Sorry but I'm very behind everyone in the book. It's hard to read at home because there are soo many distractions. I'll try to catch up once things start calming down at home. I've been trying to read whenever I'm in a quiet place or alone. I'll Catch up I promise
POSTED BY:LUIS
POSTED BY:LUIS
CONfUSiNq AUthOR.
SyRiNA::
The farther I get in the book, the more I learn, but the way i'm learning is confusing. Toni Morrison is a very confusing writer. If she writes all of her books like this, I refuse to read another one of her books. She talks about the present and then switches back to the past faster than a speeding bullet. I don't know if shes talking about current events or things that happened a long time ago. The main reason I continue to read this book is because it is intriguing. It keep s you guessing and wondering about what will happen next.
The farther I get in the book, the more I learn, but the way i'm learning is confusing. Toni Morrison is a very confusing writer. If she writes all of her books like this, I refuse to read another one of her books. She talks about the present and then switches back to the past faster than a speeding bullet. I don't know if shes talking about current events or things that happened a long time ago. The main reason I continue to read this book is because it is intriguing. It keep s you guessing and wondering about what will happen next.
getting there
hey guys im up to page 79 s0 im getting there. so far beloved is making more contact with the family. she smiles when to let them know what she likes and paul d seems to always feel her bad presence
ciera
ciera
i hope ur proud syrii =]
lala
i read the book over the weekend and im now on page 69. Beloved just came into the picture. she is very intresting. i really loved the way the aurthor described sethe, paul D, and denver's shadows holding hands and as i read i could imagine the entire carnival experience that the colored people were having and how amusing it was to them to see these crazy lookin white people makin fools of them selves.
i read the book over the weekend and im now on page 69. Beloved just came into the picture. she is very intresting. i really loved the way the aurthor described sethe, paul D, and denver's shadows holding hands and as i read i could imagine the entire carnival experience that the colored people were having and how amusing it was to them to see these crazy lookin white people makin fools of them selves.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Back and forth
lAlA:]
right now im on page 43. the story keeps going back and forth. one minute sethe iz with her husband than the next minute she is with paul D. right now sethe is pregnent with denver and she is with amy. sethe cant move because she is in so much pain. sethe reffers to denver as "an antelope in her belly". im going to try to read as much as i can over the weekend and on the train, so dont worry syrina because im going to try. lol:]
right now im on page 43. the story keeps going back and forth. one minute sethe iz with her husband than the next minute she is with paul D. right now sethe is pregnent with denver and she is with amy. sethe cant move because she is in so much pain. sethe reffers to denver as "an antelope in her belly". im going to try to read as much as i can over the weekend and on the train, so dont worry syrina because im going to try. lol:]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
As I Go Along;
SyRiNA:
As I continue to read the book (Chap. 5) it becomes more interesting. Yes, I know it seems boring and confusing in the beginning, but if you remember what the narrator said about the past, you will be intrigued to find out about the future. In the previous chapters, it has said that Sethe lost a child, a long time ago, and that child is now haunting her. I wonder if that same child is the woman that appears now, the woman that comes back almost 20 years later. This is what I mean when I say the past always connects to the future. As I said before, the book is getting better and more interesting as I go along.
*In order to read this book, you must have patience and belief.
As I continue to read the book (Chap. 5) it becomes more interesting. Yes, I know it seems boring and confusing in the beginning, but if you remember what the narrator said about the past, you will be intrigued to find out about the future. In the previous chapters, it has said that Sethe lost a child, a long time ago, and that child is now haunting her. I wonder if that same child is the woman that appears now, the woman that comes back almost 20 years later. This is what I mean when I say the past always connects to the future. As I said before, the book is getting better and more interesting as I go along.
*In order to read this book, you must have patience and belief.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Finally
I am finally startin to understand the book it took a little while though. The way the author writes is a little difficult to understand but im getting through it ok now. POSTED BY: LUIS
Monday, November 5, 2007
im confused???
lAlA:]
im a little confused about whats going on on pages 28 and 29.sumthing about sixo and sethe not wanting paulD's attention, idk?? can sum1 plz explain those 2 pages 2 mii cuz im soooooo confused?
im a little confused about whats going on on pages 28 and 29.sumthing about sixo and sethe not wanting paulD's attention, idk?? can sum1 plz explain those 2 pages 2 mii cuz im soooooo confused?
Unreliable Or Reliable Narrator?
1. Is your narrator reliable? How do you know? Are there clues provided to allow you to trust the narrator or not?
2. What purpose would there be to have an unreliable narrator in the story?
3. How does your belief in the reliability of the narrator effect your reading and interpretation of the story?
4. Have you read or viewed other stories with unreliable narrators? Can you make any connections between that and your current story?
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1. Yes, the narrator seems to be very reliable, because she knows the characterss and what they are going through. The way she describes how the characters feel an act gives me enough evidence that she's reliable.
2. You wouldn't be able to follow the story line if you had an unreliable narrator. You wouldn't be able to believe the narrator as they go along telling the story. When the reader and the narrator of a book don't share a bond, it makes the reader uninterested.
3. When you know the narrator is reliable, you tend to believe everything the narrator is saying. It makes the story more intriguing because you never stop to doubt the facts.
4. Yes, the Tell-Tale Heart has an unreliable narrator. It doesn't relate to our narrator though.
2. What purpose would there be to have an unreliable narrator in the story?
3. How does your belief in the reliability of the narrator effect your reading and interpretation of the story?
4. Have you read or viewed other stories with unreliable narrators? Can you make any connections between that and your current story?
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1. Yes, the narrator seems to be very reliable, because she knows the characterss and what they are going through. The way she describes how the characters feel an act gives me enough evidence that she's reliable.
2. You wouldn't be able to follow the story line if you had an unreliable narrator. You wouldn't be able to believe the narrator as they go along telling the story. When the reader and the narrator of a book don't share a bond, it makes the reader uninterested.
3. When you know the narrator is reliable, you tend to believe everything the narrator is saying. It makes the story more intriguing because you never stop to doubt the facts.
4. Yes, the Tell-Tale Heart has an unreliable narrator. It doesn't relate to our narrator though.
OUR NON- fiCtiON ARtiClE
Beloved
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1987, Beloved is an astonishing portrayal of the brutal impact racial intolerance has had on black America. Set in Ohio after the Civil War, it tells the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who cannot get beyond the unspeakable agony of her past. The famous first lines of the book are a gripping and stark description of the house Sethe lives in with her daughter, Denver, and the mother of her dead husband:
124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."
Morrison's language is so vivid and rich that nearly every page is a stunning piece of art. The story is complex and profound, telling - perhaps better than any book ever has- the ugly and wrenching story of slavery in America. It is as much a "must read" as any book of the twentieth century and has staked its claim as such in most college, and many high school, curriculum. Like most great literature, it can be read again and again with an increased gut-level understanding each time.
The history of the black experience in America is still being told - in bits and pieces and occasional flashes of genius such as this. There is much more to be understood and much more to be chronicled, but Toni Morrison's ongoing eloquence is a gift that makes that task seem do-able.
Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for her entire body of work. Now 75, she works as Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and continues to write. Her last novel was Love, published in 2003.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1987, Beloved is an astonishing portrayal of the brutal impact racial intolerance has had on black America. Set in Ohio after the Civil War, it tells the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who cannot get beyond the unspeakable agony of her past. The famous first lines of the book are a gripping and stark description of the house Sethe lives in with her daughter, Denver, and the mother of her dead husband:
124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."
Morrison's language is so vivid and rich that nearly every page is a stunning piece of art. The story is complex and profound, telling - perhaps better than any book ever has- the ugly and wrenching story of slavery in America. It is as much a "must read" as any book of the twentieth century and has staked its claim as such in most college, and many high school, curriculum. Like most great literature, it can be read again and again with an increased gut-level understanding each time.
The history of the black experience in America is still being told - in bits and pieces and occasional flashes of genius such as this. There is much more to be understood and much more to be chronicled, but Toni Morrison's ongoing eloquence is a gift that makes that task seem do-able.
Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for her entire body of work. Now 75, she works as Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and continues to write. Her last novel was Love, published in 2003.
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