Last Blog!!!!

So, the Native Speaker. I think that I liked this bgook so much because it was finally about something I can relate to! I am going to be a Speech Pathologist and I finally can get something. The book as a whole, I found to be somewhat confusing. The time jumps and the story changes. The thing I really didn’t like was that the author jsut assumed that we knew what he was talking about. For example, the author starts the book by talking about his son Mitt and how he misses him blah  blah. Well, the reader is thinking why does he miss him? Is he dead? How did he die? Not to mention this narrator takes his dear sweet time telling us stuff. In a way he reminds me of Benjy (remember that guy from TSATF?!?!?) He thinks of one thing and that reminds him of something else which brings him to another story all together and then that story takes him back to when he was five and when he was five he loved ice cream and ooo speaking of vanilla, my mom used to smell like that…. GRRRRRR!!! Get to the point already. I used to think that the longer the book the more complex it was and I would completly shy away from it. Do you know what this class has taught me?!?!? Not that the thicker the boko the more complex, it taught me that the thicker the book the more bull the author is using to fill up space!!!!! Now I am sure that this is not true for every book.. Believe me, I tried to get through A Tale of Two Cities in high school and that was confusing and complex, but for goodness sakes!!!! Why the hell are all these authors so completly out of their minds?!?!?!?!?!?! Lets kill everyone and make everyones life miserable. This is the first novel we have read in this class that has had somewhat of a happy ending. I suppose, that this was my most favorite book!!! Thanks everyone for listening to me rant and rave all semester… I can honestly say that I will miss this class and everyone in it!!!!! MUAHS!!!!!!!

Native Speaker

This book was a slow start, but as Alex informed us, it does pick up. However, of course I do have a few of my own problems with this piece. First of all, I really do not like how all of these authors assume we know what they are talking about. In fact it really bothers me. Can’t they just make something simple for once. Second, how morbid, a child dying the way he did. On his birthday, playing with friends, at his house, in front of his family. Who honestly sits down and says I am going to write a novel and the kid is going to die, how about I throw a little incest in there, a little sucide, an affair or two, oh, and lets not forget to plow people over with my car and I certainly can’t forget to have a person rotting away and screaming at their wife. What else is my problem with this?? Well its a not a problem its just a weird thing that I feel like discussing. Perhaps a but hypocritical on my part. All this time we have been talking about women have been portrayed in all these novels. As inferior and just things that are tossed around and used. Well, here we finally have a book where the woman is the superior one. But as I stated in class today about how if my kid were to die, I reserve the right to fall to pieces and have my husband pick me up. I don’t know where I stand here. I mean, I guess I just expect a man to be all masculine and have a bit a machismo, but not to the extent as in the past novels. I guess these novelists need to find a happy medium. Honestly, the pansy prissy image just isn’t working for me here. We need a character that chases his wife when she leaves and does everything to stop her. Cries next to his wife when the child dies, but wipes her tears before his own. I don’t know. I suppose I am just tired of reading and just want what I want.

The End of Sula….

So, how do I feel about the ending?!?!? Needless to say I am not very surprised. At this point, arent we all expecting to have some messed up someone killed someone and then pissed on the grave ending?? The questions that are left up in the air at the end of every single novel we read, is really starting to get to me. But anywho, on to this novel…

The whole tunnel thing where practically half the village dies, is symbolic in so many ways. We find out toward the end of the novel that the white people are starting to take interest in the Bottom. Wanting to build their big houses up on the hill and whatnot. The people from the Bottom dying in something that white man built shows several things. One, that well if half the people in the Bottom are gone, that leave plenty of room for the whites to move in. So in a way it was “mother natures” way of making room for the superior race. Even during the time of the civil rights movement. Two, Its another way of mother nature taking out the weaker people. A cruel way of looking at survival of the fittest. After Sula dies, all the women start cheating again and beating their kids and so on. Well, all of them dying in the tunnel is a way of riding the world of the “monsters” that prevailed before and after Sula. And third, the white people would not let the backs help with the tunnel because the whites were better and stronger blah blah blah. Well what a kawinkie dink that something that is supposed to be so strong and superior ends up killing tons of people. Oh the irony.

I have one last thing to say……. HOW ABOUT CHANGING IT UP A BIT!!! These canonical authors are so predictible. I dare a canonical author to boggle my mind and change it up a bit. Do something that we wouldnt predict. Thank you and goodnight!

Not all that sure

I am not sure what to write about… the ending of Invisible Man or Sula?? Well since the ending of Invisible Man made me so mad I was practically foaming at the mouth. How about I chat a bit about Sula

First of all, what happened to all the warm and fuzzy books. I am by no means a “girly girl” but for goodness sakes, can we read just one book were someone doesn’t kill themselves or get set in fire, or drowned, or I dont know.. just STOP THE MADDNESS!! Anywho, the similarities between all of these books is starting to get on my nerves. Maybe I am too stressed out from the semester, but I dont think thats it. If I see one more metaphor or symbolism about fire or loving and losing or paint or affairs or invisible or impotent I swear to God I am never reading another book again!!! No offense to those of you who live for this stuff, but I just want to sit back relax and enjoy a good story, that maybe just maybe makes me want to believe in the good things. Im not going to lie, despite popular belief, every once in awhile, I am not the sarcastic funny biotch I am percieved as. I would like the crazy person who thinks his hands are whatever they are to recover from his mental problem, go home to his family be welcomed with open arms and fall madly in love with the girl next door. And what is with the imagry some of these authors choose to expand on and go into great detail on. Did Morrison tell us all about how Eva lost her leg?…. NO! She did however make it a point to describe in detail about how she put lard on her finger, stuck it up her sons butt, felt around for a little while, and then pulled it all out. SWEET!! Did Ellison ever tell us the narrators name or anything personal about him?…. NO! He did however find it necessary to go on FOREVER… about a dumb speech, in a dumb ally, about something dumb. Seriously, if this is what writing a novel takes, be on the look out for mine soon.

So, my take on Sula, I have no idea, all these people are messed up and the titles….. so misleading!!! When I hear a title like Sula, I dont think if one legged women, and whores, and sex fieneds, and fingers in butts, and lighting my kids on fire. When I hear Invisible Man, I do not think of living in a man hole, telling storied about guys who have sex with their daughters, battle royals, and hey I love you but I want to kill you. SAY IT LIKE IT IS!!!! I suppose this is a classic case of never judge a book by its cover…