This month we finished Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I enjoyed this play, but I couldn't really tell you why. I just enjoyed it. It was unlike anything else I had read before. From the breaking of the fourth wall, to the expansion on a play I knew and love, and the humor in the play, I loved every word of it.
We had some more practice writing essays as well. I need a lot of help, although I do not feel like I'm wallowing in a sea of incompetence anymore. Only a pond. I think that my best writing was done in my Open Prompt Part 2: 2004, although that is not for me to decide.
Lastly, we finished Frankenstein. I love this book, and it is definitely one of my favorite books. It reveals some unsettling conclusions about the nature of man. I would be lying if I said that I have never judged anyone by their looks. I probably would have judged the monster for what he looked like, not for who he was.
All in all, it was a good month. I can't wait to do more.
Hi Nick,
ReplyDeleteFirst off, what on earth is with your blog background and pictures? Anyway, I hope you’re at least able to swim in your pond of incompetence so that you can eventually make it out, not just wallowing in it and hoping the size of the pond shrinks to a puddle or something. What sorts of things do you think you need to work on in the essays? What do you think you’re good at? I know I need to work on not summarizing as much in my essays. That and also spelling and grammar.
It’s good that you’re liking the books we’re reading. I personally didn’t like Frankenstein very much, though. As for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, I don’t really know what to think about it. It was just really strange to me.
Nick,
ReplyDeleteNice work. I'm actually working backwards here, so I can't tell you yet what I think about your latest essay. I agree that these essays are certainly getting easier--not easy, not yet, but easier.
Your comments about Frankenstein are impressive. Few people would be willing to straight up admit that they would have judged the monster just as the characters in the book did. One of my favorite parts of the book was when Walton calls for the monster to wait, to not run away, and the monster turns around and just has the happiest look in the world. It was such a change from how people usually treated him, and really demonstrated a contrast between Walton and Victor.
Hi Nick,
ReplyDeleteGood job on your post. I liked how it was concise and to the point. You dabbled with each topic and expressed your own opinions and I really liked the organization of that. You also might want to include your thoughts about all of the annotation reading that we had to do this month. Though it may not seem like much, I thought those readings definitely gave me a different view on Frankenstein and gave a lot of incite why Shelley wrote about this or that. Other than that and that i liked how honest you were about your opinions, I thought this post was great!
Nick--I agree with your peer reviewers--it was really cool that you shared the honest thought about how you would react to the monster, because the truth is we would probably ALL react that way. Sarah K is right about being a bit more thorough, too, though. ;)
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