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blog post 7

The book “A Raisin in the Sun” by Hansberry talks about the hardship that Walter Lee’s family faced in living in poverty in the environment of the radical district of Chicago that they lived. Throughout the story, the author shows us the struggle that the Walter family faced and how lee has to share the bathroom with a group of people who live in their building, the job that Lee has that he is sick of working he wants a better lifestyle for his wife and his kid lee want that American dream. Lee talks to his wife Ruth into convenes his mother into giving the insurance check for the death of their father to Lee so he can use it to open a business while his daughter is going to use the money for her school to become a doctor. I see how the author depicted the hardship that everyone in the family faced the mom who wants to keep everyone together see that that money is destroying the family. Walter wants something better for himself his sister Beneatha who wants to be something does want to be in the role as every other woman would like an independent woman. Ruth whose is struggling with her husband with her kid and a baby coming on the way thinking about having an abortion due to the stress that her husband gives out to her and the lifestyle that they are living in the apartment. At the end of the story, we see that Walter change as a person in the began we he was obsessed with money that he would
Give up his pride and his dignity for money but he sees that money is not everything in the end.

Blog post #6

After reading Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, the author talks about the inhuman action and cruelty that the African Americans faced when they were enslaved and captured in which at the time was the norm at the time the most important lesson that I got from this novel was that the action around the time was believed correct in the eye of the law. In this story there is no good ending there is just tragedy, we have 3 main characters Babo a black man that is a servant to Don Benito a frail man who is dependent on his servant to support him, and Captain Delano the leader of a merchant ship the called the story Babo was the mastermind of the slave revolting he wanted to be a freeman like everyone else wanted to be treated as equal later, in the story, he gets captured and executed in the end.  Benito was a good person he treated people well he was a passive leader but he was emotionally distraught throughout the story he was physically weak very easy to get sick he succumbed to his sickness and died. I believe that this story gives us a better understanding of both sides of the story it does not pick any side which is good and evil it for us the reader to interpret what we see what is good and what is bad in our reading the story of Herman Melville this story was every interesting felt like I was watching a Telenovela it was an interesting novel.

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  1. A movie that I watched a few years ago called Gladiator is a very interesting movie that has numerous plotlines, betrayals, and corruption in the roman empire. The movie talks about a Roman general who fought under the old emperor till the son of the emperor killed his father and took his place, sending the roman general to death. However, he escapes to go see his family, only to find out that they were murdered. He was captured and enslaved to fight in the pit as a gladiator to survive to seek his revenge on the new emperor. There are many more plots in the movie you might not see it the first time when you watch it but after reading chapter 6 and re-watching the movie, at the end of the movie he had a one on one fight with the emperor, in which he stabs him in the rib and tells his men to hide the wound. While there was fighting, the Gladiator had the upper hand even though he was wounded the emperor told he’s men to give him the sword, but they all refused to give it to him. In the end, the both died the emperor by the blade of the roman general that he tried to kill, and the Gladiator succumbed to his wound.

2. I agree with cullers idea that narrative and stories give the reader many types of emotion, entertainment, and imagination. There are many different ways to create stories: from a book of a murderer mystery, in which you are trying to solve while you are analyzing the clues, or a movie of betrayal and manipulation with a lot of plot twists. Even in many types of video games, that often tell a tale of an event of a world that is created by the author to tell a story of each of the charters that you meet or are up against each other. In many different types of ways that the author is trying to bring the reader into their world to understand the plot in their stories. In many ways they are trying to bring the reader, gamer, and the people who are watching the movie to vicariously experience a thought that they are trying to portray what the author  the see in his vision.

 

Blog post 4

In Chapter 5 of Literary Theory, introduces poetic and rhetorical techniques and investigates the effects they have on literature. For example, poetry targets strong emotions and has the ability to persuade the reader while at first it was seen as an art of imitation or representation. Eventually poetry came to be seen as related to rhetoric due to both being similar in being viewed as persuasive tools. The author makes several mentions of rhetorical figures in this chapter, two of which I would like to identify in “The Sea is History” by Derek Walcott. Towards the start it is written: “First, there was the heaving oil, heavy as chaos; then, like a light at the end of a tunnel,” makes use of metaphor to give a very heavy atmospheric feeling as if something was brooding. This is abruptly followed by a juxtaposition of the light at the end of a tunnel, perhaps making usage of irony as one would not expect to see light in oil. He uses a clever comparison of darkness to oil to give it a tangible feeling since we can refer to what we know of oil and then uses irony to create an immediate contrast to this. The contrast undoes the effect he created with the metaphor in a manner I find suiting of a release of intense emotions. I believe this helped shape the meaning of the poem by creating a strong introduction and atmosphere for the rest of the poem to follow.

Post 3

After reading chapter 4 in “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation” by Jonathan Culler, the point that stood to me was the way that Culler explains the understanding of the diction and the meaning around it. “Meaning or words contribute to the meaning of an utterance.” After reading this text it made me wonder how literary works like Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare or even the poem ‘My Love is like a red, red rose’ by Robert Bruns can use language is such different ways but have a similar meaning behind them. They use different styles of language to better portray the message the author intended them to have. Culler gives another great example he talks about, many languages have words with common meanings found in other languages but they are written and pronounced differently. I know this first hand as I am fluent in both Spanish and English. When I’m having a conversation with someone in Spanish the words can convey the same meanings a conversation in English would have. The tone of our voice and body language while talking help our understanding as well.

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After reading chapter II, “What is literature, and does it matter?” by Jonathan Culler. In the passage of the nature of literature, culler gives After reading chapter II, “What is literature, and does it matter?” by Jonathan Culler. In the passage of the nature of literature, culler gives us five points of literature, which are: literature as the foregrounding of language, literature as the integration of language, literature as fiction, literature as an aesthetic object, and literature as intertextual. One of the points that I have read that I was interested in was, the literature as fiction. In the passage it depicts how stories of fiction give us a feeling of human emotion/trauma. In stories like Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet, emotions like love, death, fear, pride ensue. Reading fictional book gives us a type of feeling that vicariously allows us into the story, watching it first hand. With every page we read, it gives us the emotion of curiosity as we see what is unfolding and what is being foreshadowed.

Blog post #1

1.After reading chapter 2 in “What is literature, and does it matter?” by Jonathan Culler, I believe the important part is about the method we use to define literature. We can do this by providing examples about works that may not be literatures. Furthermore, it tells us how this connects to speeches, sermons, history, philosophy, poem, and story. In the first ten pages of the second chapter of the book Literary Theory,” Culler give us examples of poems and stories like Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the ‘My Love is like a red, red rose’ by Robert Bruns. In this paragraph, Culler details how theorists explore the different interpretations between different literary works. In poems they use rhymes, but also tell stories about their feelings and emotions to share with the person who is reading it while the novel is plotted to a story that keeps you captivated. Even though it is hard to tell what is the difference with what is literature and non-literature, it is better to get an understanding with both. However, at the end of the day, certain literary works have continued to influence the way we live our lives.

2.After reading this chapter, the question reverberates throughout my head is “what is the importance between literary and non-literary for human life?” I would like to understand this better, is it that maybe we, as individuals, interpret literary works and non literary works in different manners.

Introduction

Hello Profess. Fuess,

My name is Christopher Cordovez, I am majoring in Computer Science and this is my 1st semester. I am a 1st  generation college student.  Since I am not working due to the pandemic, I decide to go start my college studies.