Blog #22

We have started to watch The Color Purple in class. At the beginning of the movie there are some similarities like the characters. Things that are  different  are the things I don’t remember like when Shug goes to see her father during the church service . Also when Squeak said her name is Mary Agnes I don’t remember the dinner sence. I like the book better than the movie. The movie is sometimes very dry and boring. I can’t wait to see the rest of the movie.

Add a comment November 10, 2009

Blog #21

For my final project I am going to work with Katie. We first decided that we wanted to do a game of some sort that’s when we decided on Jeopardy. We figured we would put it on a PowerPoint. The categories will be things like archetypes, stages of the monomyth, characters from the books that we have read. This is show what we have learned and it will help other people use their knowledge from the class. We figured that we could give some kind of prize to the winner.

Add a comment November 3, 2009

Poem #25

Rhyme

Everything in life isn’t easy

Coming home is one

Sometimes it makes me uneasy

And I feel like my journey has just begun

My worlds seem like they are two

Sometimes they don’t seem to mesh

I wish they would stick like glue

I feel like I just need to refresh

I will learn how to deal

And make it work out

I like how I am starting to feel

I have erased all my doubt

Add a comment November 1, 2009

Blog #20

The part of the monomyth we discussed was Master of Two Worlds. This is when the hero has to balance home and the new world. The example my group came up with is super heros. I am picking Spider-Man. Peter Parker is just a typical teenage boy. One day he is bitten by a  gentically altered spider and everything changes. By the end of the first movie he decides to be Spider-Man. The second movie is all about Peter struggling with his duties of Spider-Man and his normal life. He gets fired from his job and is falling behind in school. Soon he decides to give up being Spider-Man. This is when he tries to get MJ his love back and she says it is too late. Then his best friend Harry figures out Peter is the one who killed his father. He is very angry and wants to kill Peter. Things start to get pretty messy for him. At the end of the movie he decides to become Spider-Man again. At the beginning of the third he is happy he is Spider-Man again. He has started to be able to balance his two worlds. He is going to propose to MJ. That is when things become more comfortable for him.

I think this stage in my life would be coming home from college and having to balance the two worlds. At college I have the freedom to do what when I want. I have no curfew, I can party when I want, and I can sleep til noon if I want to. When I am at home I have a curfew and I have a job I have to go to everyday. This world is a lot more restrictive. Trying to balance the two worlds takes time and patience. Eventually you work it out.

The song I am choosing is a Taylor Swift Song called Breathe. It is about a girl breaking up with a guy and he was her whole world. The verse that says

And we know it’s never simple,
Never easy.
Never a clean break, no one here to save me.
You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand,
And I can’t,
Breathe,
Without you,
But I have to,
Breathe,
Without you,
But I have to.

She doesn’t want to go on without him but she has to learn how to do it. I feel thats what master of two worlds is about. You have to learn to deal with them and balance them.

Add a comment November 1, 2009

Quiz for 10/28

This is my atonement with the father moment. When I was little I was Daddy’s little girl. I use to go to McDonald’s with him and get his morning coffee with him. I thought he was the greatest person in the world. He would get me breakfast and we got to hang out. He had this Gun N Roses tape. He use to sing me the song called Patience by Guns N Roses. I feel like later in life that became kind of anthem. Life can be hard but you just have to have patience once and a while. I am not longer as close with my Dad but I do love him very much. We just kinda grew apart and have different views on life. I am a sort of mom’s girl now. But I love both of my parents a lot.

Lips of an Angel by Hinder reminds me of my ex-boyfriend Matt. I use to love that song so much. I said it would suck to be that girl who gets cheated on. Well later that was me. He was always so secretive about me seeing his phone. I always thought it was weird because he would look at my phone. One night when me him and our two best friends went bowling, I took his phone. Kristi, my friend and I went into the girls bathroom with it.  The line that sticks out to me is, “Well, my girl’s in the next room sometimes I wish she was you.”  I found text messages on his phone from his ex-girlfriend saying you have never cheated on your other girlfriends with me and come over now and be with me and dump her. I was furious and he knew when I came out I had read them. I told everyone we were going home. DJ my other friend had parked his car at the mall so I made him take Kristi home. That was the most silent car ride home. When he got out he told me it was nothing and that’s when I told him it stopped now or I was out. This was my road of trials.

My great grandparents were the two most in love people I had ever met. They were married for 70 years, and to me that is unbelievable. They were such an influence on my life. I feel like not many people can say that about their great grandparents. They taught me love and sharing and patience. I loved both of them so much. But the song I think about is All You Need Is Love by the Beatles. It shows me sometimes that is really all you do need and you can make it through life just fine.I think that they are my supernatural aid.

My highschool graduate song was Don’t Stop Believing by Journey. Funny journey considering that’s what we have been talking about in class. But to me this song says just keep pushing through. That threshold going from home to college. The line ,”Just a small town girl livin’ in a lonely world” sticks out to me. Before I graduated I lived in a small town and I just want to get out. This song says to me don’t give up and keep pushing through no matter what.

My mom has always been with me through thick and thin. She has been my go to person. She gives me strength when I have none. She has always got my back. I am going to use the song  Bad Day by Daniel Powter. She would be able to spot when I had a bad day. “You tell me your life’s way off line you’re falling to pieces every time and I don’t need no carryn’ on because you had a bad day” These words stick out to me the most. My mom would want to know whats going on and she would help me with whatever it is. She is my supernatural aid.

Add a comment October 30, 2009

Poem #24

Tanka

I am turning down

road that was once familiar

I am excited

I want to see my parents

I hope they want to see me

Add a comment October 30, 2009

Blog #19

The part of the monomyth we talked about is Crossing of the Return Threshold. Basically it is coming home and the threshold separates the new world and the old world. To me this mostly reminds me of coming home for the summer after my freshmen year in college. You have to get back into the swing of things such as work and being with your highschool friends. Things just aren’t always the same. I felt that I was wiser. That summer I learned that who your friends were in highschool is not who they are anymore. My defeating the gamekeeper moment was when I learned what friends were real and which ones were fake. I learned that some just were not worth my time anymore. As sad as that is many of my highschool friends did not make the journey to my college life with me. You only need a few true to stick by your side.

This stage feeds into the next stage Master of Two Worlds. You have to learn how to live in both. I feel the return threshold is something I have been through may times in my life. It is the place where you are caught between.

I found my poem online. It is called returning home.

Gatherings few and far between
Cautious excitement builds within
Distance between too extreme
Mother greets child, escorts her in
Siblings hug yet barely touch
Surfacing streams of resentment
Emotions muffled by a blush
Fear is replaced by contentment
Greeting cards declare their thoughts
Their sincerity is to be challenged
But together here they have been brought
Related strangers the room surrounds them
For all the time they were apart
Never did the telephone ring
No letters, cards, or other art
No communication was ever seen
But on this day they’re all together
A bond is rebuilt within the walls
Until the end of this grand gathering
When to the wayside this magic falls

It talks about how even though there was no communication while the daughter was away the mom still accepts her. The walls that were torn down while she was gone were rebuilt. Even though the family became like strangers it was like magic when they all came together. I feel like that when I come home. Things are different but when I come home by parents are so happy.

Add a comment October 30, 2009

Blog #18

The part of the monomyth we discussed was return from without. While on the return journey, the hero may need to be rescued from death or from a state of helplessness and bliss. It is pretty much the hero has to be saved on the return from his return.

We decided to write our blogs about a movie. I found the example in the Little Mermaid. Aerial finally get her wish to be human and to live on land. She is happy about getting married. When Aerial has just marries her husband she is afraid to let go of her family and her father. Her father tells her that is ok and then she feels more comfortable.

The song that reminds of this is of Best Day by Taylor Swift. It talks about how when she is having a hard time she relies on her mom to be there for her. The verse that sticks out to me the most:

I’m thirteen now
And don’t know how my friends
Could be so mean

I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys

And we drive and drive
Until we’ve found a town
Far enough away

And we talk and window-shop
Until I’ve forgotten all their names

I like that it talks about how she is having a hard time and her mom tries to take her mind off it. She is her aid in her time of need.

Add a comment October 28, 2009

Poem #23

My group decided to base our poem on wedding day jitters and a mother figure of some kind rescues me.

Haiku

Wedding day jitters

I feel very nervous

My mother saves me

Add a comment October 28, 2009

Quiz for 10/26

We watched Castaway in class today. It started out with Tom Hanks who plays Chuck. In the clip he is rowing out to sea. His magic flight moment is  when he is trying to get off the island with Wilson and get home. But he doesn’t make it he gets pushed back by a huge wave.When he just lays in the middle of the sea on his raft this is a belly of the whale moment. I feel that the belly of the whale of the moment I feel can be a anytime time in the journey. Sometimes you just get stuck. But anyway he sees the whale and he blows water on him. After this he loses Wilson which is his familiar. He cries and is so upset. Thats when he continues to lay on the raft. A boat passes him and he begins to yell at the people on it. This part to me is the rescue without. He is trying to get home and he needs to be rescued because he can’t make it on his own. This is where we left off.

Add a comment October 26, 2009