Final Blog

This blog is a collection of your impressions about the literature you’ve read over the course of the semester. Do you have favorites? Those texts about which you feel you could still use a deeper understanding? Those that you would consider reading again?

During this semester we had a lot of stories and most I liked but there were some that stood out the most. My favorite the whole semester was A Doll House. I dreaded reading it because it was so long, but now, I'm glad I read it. I really liked the struggle of the woman in the story, trying to save her family and Husband and then like the jerk he is, gets angry for her doing what she had to save her family. But she shows her strength by leaving and standing on her own two feet. I didn't like the fact that she abandonded her kids, but it just shows another form of her new found strength and power.
I also liked The Thing They Carried. It was well written and had great symbolism in a dismal, harsh setting. It just goes to show, love can bring you up in situation but in other situations it can bring you down and weigh on you. There's a time and place for everything.
I would like a deeper understanding of Where are you going, Where have you been? I remember reading it and my friend was sitting in the room with me. She was entertained by my reactions through out the whole story. I think I scared her when I yelled, "What?" The ending was very confusing for me. I tried looking up analysis' by other people on the story and they assumed that Arnold Friend was symbolic for the pop culture and music industry she was into. But me, I still look at it and question, was it really a man that invaded her home or was it all in her head, a dream, or personal struggle. Still confused...
I would definately read A Doll House again. It was a very good story about the lengths a woman would go to save her husband and the ungratefulness of his rescue. It really irritates me when a man is unappreciative of what a woman does for him. It makes me angry when women are taken advantage of and told, "No, you can't do that. You belong in the home." It irritates me to no end. I'm a girl who has dreams and aspirations to make something of myself, not be trapped as a housewife. I'm a worker and the idea of a man trapping his wife into the home, not teaching her, not respecting her and what she goes through to save her family, blaming her for ruining him because of his own selfishness just irritates me to the bone. I loved the part when she left him dumbfounded and walked out of his house never to return. I wopuld love to see this play in person. I think it would be great.