Yay! English class!

Hello while in English 113 i added some of my fellow students into my blog spot. I also went to my Doc. in my Google account and uploaded my draft paper and sent it to everyone in my group as well as Ms. frailly. Then i started exploring my friends bog's and reading them and hopefully late i will be able to make some comments on them. Overall English class today was great!

very late tuesday night

Hello today started off as very simple and comfortable but then things really started to become heavy and a little stressful for me. I often find my self getting silly little anxiety attacks from this class and i dont understand why because all of my other classes are just as important? Today after my classes i decided to work a little on english and not to my surprise i procrastinated a little so, unfortunately i am a little behind but this weekend i really need to catch up with every thing especially my English class. However to my surprise i really do like this writing assignment. It really helps with my critical thinking skill and makes me focus. Plus i really have been enjoying the short stories for this semester. I just need to over come my laziness and some how find some kind of determination so that i can really excel this semester.

"the thing in the forest" by A.S> Byatt

I must say that this short story has left me very confused. I have many questions that i wish to find answers to. first of all what exzactlly does the Loathy worm "the thing in the forest" symbolie? My guess would be that it represents something about thier past and war and thier fears it's just really confusing. I also felt like thier were many loop holes in this short stroy like when they mention that the creature took that little girl Aly with a "y" i have a feeling that that was something like a metaphore.

I kind of question whether the two girls actually saw something in the forest or if it was just thier inmaginations or if it ment somthing completly diffrent. For exzample when the authors talks about how peeny is going to stare it in the face and she becomes come and prepared i felt like that ment somthing aswell. Perhaps her the realtiy of thier child hood , past and exsepting the harsh reality of every thing that they lived through.

monday

Today our first draft was due and as usual i feel anxious and frustrated. Even after we talked about them in english this morning and what changes that need to be made i still find my self completely stressed out. I had planed to change my character in my essay to keep the same short story but just change the character but, i realized from one of the example that she had given us today, one of her pre-students had already written something very similar to what i was going to write. It's very difficult to write about a short story and make it sound original because despite what people say a lot of us actually do think a like. Well i'm just going to have to continue to carry on with a smile no matter how hard i struggle this semester. Because in the end i know that the lord wouldnt put me in situations with out giving me way out of them. It's time to buckle down!

The Yellow Wallpaper by: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For starters this short story creeps me out a lot. however i did find this short story very interesting especially when the narrator says "john is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad that my case is not serious!" (669). Also through out the story i sensed that she had a feeling that she new she was crazy and even hints to it in a section of the short story about how she is physically fine but not mentally. i feel like she is also sarcastic most of the time. i wonder why she becomes so obsessed with the "figure" in the wall paper?
As the months pass by i saw how her condition worsened and it really bothered me how her husband ignored his wife's extremely bazaar behavior. However in the ending she mentions her husband fainting and then say 's " Now why should that man have fainted? but he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that i had to creep over him every time!" (678). My guess is that when he walked in on his wife he and saw that she really was insane ... i think that he actually had a heart attack because she said that he was in between her and the wall so she walked over him i am guessing until she finished pulling the rest of the "figure" off of the wall. And i assume that if he did faint then wouldn't he have eventually woken up? I not sure i'm just guessing maybe i am looking to much into it.

English 113's first project

Hello today in English-113 Ms. Frailly went over our first assignment. We are to select a short story from a list that she provided us with and write an argumentative paper about how we interpreted the short story and support why we feel that way towards the story. Our first draft for this paper is due next Monday so i have some work to do. We also have to come up with a thesis statement along with our draft. I am a little worried about this assignment because i can honestly say that i have never written a paper like this and i am positive that this is going to be challenging because, i barely no where to begin.
Today after class once i reached my house i started looking over the list of short stories that were assigned to us and i started to mark out the ones that didn't interest me and reread the one's that did interest me. I have a few in mind that i would like to choose from but it's difficult because i am still not sure what i am looking for. I want to make sure that the short story that i do pick i will be able to create a strong thesis statement for it because, last semester i had a couple of weak thesis statements and i had to restart a few of my papers over and over agin and that barley gave me enough time to focus on the body of my papers. I just really want to do this assignment correct.