GOODBYE

lunes 4 de mayo de 2009

Well folks I thinkthis is it! I one way or another I have enjoyed expanding my interest to this human kind behavior. It's not I that I didn't like this, it's just some difficulties that made my job a little bit harder. Well I really like this class and it's simple giving my opinion on what I understood on every story I had to read. I realize I had made a bad judge on these themes, but now is that I can see that the stories were getting closer to this time. It's true there is still a long way to be walked, and even putting it this way it results me difficult to see the day any of this won't longer happen. All these themes demonstrate me once more that in forty years nothing has really changed. We believed something has change, but we are only lying to ourselves. I can give a breath of hope that one day humanity can change for the well of everyone. I am sure that I understood the point of view of every story and even when there are very few the ones I like I compare it them according with modern times. As I heard today in the radio ''Don't buil over the ruins and start over some place else''. As I has previously were going to make mention to let burned in the flames what hold us back and don't let us consumed by small differences.

Reflection Daisy Miller

In the case of ''Daisy Miller'' is as more wide society and it's hard to imagine something wrong but there is. It's this class differences for which the high society and the common can't coexist as equals beyond money. Daisy Miller is a young social American girl who is traveling Europe with her family. She meets a young American named Winterbourne who has live in Geneva most of his life and falls in love for the charms of Daisy who is less proper than European girls. In the social circle she belongs to it's much harder to know freedom for it has: Imposed rules on behavior, rules of proper society, it's a more promiscous world, less trust worthy in others and it's all dtermine by age. It's a world guided by a rough code that constantly looks for someone to throw their offenses so that they can feel superior to the common. After she was seen in the company of Mr. Giovanelli everyone assume they were engage, but Daisy was just flirting with him. Anyone can tell there is no difference from today that girls now can date whoever thay want to for the motives they want to. No one will say that she is promiscous for dating a few men. She would not be limited to society to pick her a husband as she were a property. So finally, anyone can make his idea about if still exist or not this dilema.

Reflection on Reading Lolita in Tehran

In "Reading Lolita in Tehran" we can sense the powerful impact has this story that makes it one of a kind and that everyone should get to know. It is based on a true story and it's told from women perspective during hard times. The author expresses rejection to take part in the impositions of the new goverment that closed every door to be free. Putting boundaries between what was right and wasn't. There was no longer any place to the individual huuman spirit. Leaders were more concerned and fearful of the winds of change, as they maintain ideals that have been passed for hundreds of years of generations. There is a lot of arrogance to allow young idealist minds to choose what they thought is right. But most of all, at a time that everything was run by men the most troublesome were and probably still is female liberal believes. These events are told by seven of the author's female students who come up with these controversial themes. What they propose is to step forward over that has chained them as it is parental authority, social imposed rules and the sacrifices they must made. There are issues related to age, sex and marriage based on the ideals this girls have been raise. Restricted and thrown to a second playground beneath men, as I can clearly see it and for the reasons the author leaved Tehran University in 1981.

Interaction with The Secret Life of Bees

As I have mentioned before "The Secret Life of Bees" connects with the previous themes we read. In each there is that fact of human struggle against other people's believes or against a system thru the sixty's till the present. Some of them are the struggle of color skin that almost determines who you are, the flaws of the goverment to provide every citizen equal rights and that which never misses of foolish people who think they are superior to others. Maybe it's me that as always can only focus on the bad side of things, but that doesn't make me forgive the strenght that all the characters in this stories must had to overcome all of this. What I really mean to say is that if you can't put in their place you can 't appreciate the few good things they could had. For more usual this situations may have been and even when they remain at least I haven't sense them.

Reflection on the Secret Life of Bees Part 2

As I thought! The end of the movie will be better and I was right. Of course, there were many things I didn't expect to happen. The one that shock me more was the unfortunate death of May. I had thought that since she began to get in touch with Rosaleen she will get better. It never cross my mind even for a second that she will kill herself. Then I never thought Lily begining to get in love with Zach. But then the rest didn't catch by surprise. One of those was that June let down her defenses and accepted Neil's marriage proposal. That Lily could state clear that her mother didn't abandoned her and that the day she died she had come back for her. I suspected that sooner or later T. Ray will end up giving with Lily's location and that he will demonstrate his true emotions that were insecurity of himself and fear to loosing Lily for she was a live image of her mother. So finally, I reach the end where Lily decides to stay and live with the Boatwright sisters. This movie presents everynone with his own inner battle and how thanks to Lily they could be in order with themselves. The author tries to send the same message so that the reader can be in order when you take a look from the point of view of each character which are most women.

Reflection on The Secret Life of Bees Part 1

After having seen only a part of the movie I see that it continues to expand more the material we have cove on this class. Most of the themes presented in the movie like the woman perspective, the civil rights of niggers and all other challenges that came acroos the sixty's. It also shows certain psychological aspects as it is Lily's perception on having killed her own mother on an accident. I began to like it once Lily and Rosaleen got to the home of the Boatwright sisters where they take them in. There she begans to explore her mothers past and becomes involve in the three sisters lifes. First, August who begins to teach her on the art of extracting honey, but most important it helps her understand who is mother really was and how is that she came to end with T. Ray. Then comes June who is to insecure and it's afraid of getting hurt, the reason her relationship with Neil is not working. And then comes May who is quite emotionally unstable since her twin sister death and so she is very fragile. I was interested to hear that she was the one who pick the the tropical pink color of the house. My point is that this movie as all the other stories are told from the eyes of woman. Now I am more interested than ever to see the rest of the movie to see how it ends.