Intro to English Major

 People's backgrounds can be very difficult to understand.     Recitatif is one of the short stories that has opened my eyes the most this year. It was written by Toni Morrisson in 1983. The whole story is about these two little girls that were put into a place for orphans but they both still have their moms. We learn about their experience there but also after the orphan place, we learn about their path to being adults and taking on life as grown-ups.     It's about Twyla and Roberta, two young girls that were put in the same room at the orphanage, one girl is black and the other is white but the story never really tells us which one is which. Twyla's mom is a said dancer at night, in other words, a prostitute that couldn't take care of her daughter so decided to place her somewhere she could have a better life. Roberta's mom is said sick all the time, which made my class think she has mental problems which make her incapable of taking care of her little girl.    

       Lorraine Hansberry did not miss with her drama  A Raisin in the sun. It's good, energetic, realistic, accurate, and captivating .     The play was put   on screen a few times, three to be more precise. In 1961, by Daniel Petrie, in 1989 by Bill Duke, and in 2008 by Kenny Leon.      I had the chance to watch the one made By Mr. Petrie in black and white and I have to say I loved it. It kind of reminded me of the movie Rear Window in the way it was made. Obviously, being a play the action happens in one or two rooms but it is very similar to Rear Window where everything happens in one singular neighborhood. It takes mostly place in their little apartment and a few scenes are at the bar.      I really enjoyed the characters, Ruth, Mama, Travis, Beneatha and of course Walter. Walter is a very interesting man to look at because I think he can be very relatable to a good number of men. In the beginning, Walter has a dream and that dream is to open a liquor store. It would only be

 But who is she? Is it her? Double personality? Is she going crazy?      Today, in class we talked about this short story named The Yellow Wallpaper,  written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story is about this woman that was told was sick by her husband and put in this room upstairs of a rented house. The husband says she has to stay there because it is healthier for her and she needs to get better. The husband's sister, Jennie, is helping them with the house, cleaning, making food, and basically being the perfect housewife. The husband has work and is always gone away. They are living in this rented house for a few months before they go back to their normal house. Jane, the sick woman, was told not to write, not to do anything because it is bad for her. She decides to write anyway hidden from the other two living there. And the short story is her diary. Jane keeps staring at the wallpaper, which is in fact yellow and notices patterns. The more she stares at it at different times

 He did in fact kill his wife and tried to kill again.      In the last article about the movie Rear Window, I made predictions about the ending. Those predictions were that the man across the yard did kill his wife and cut her up with his saws. I said he put her body parts in his suitcase and brought them somewhere during the night. He did that three times in the same night to get rid of the whole body at once. He wanted to make sure the smell wouldn't get bad to raise suspicions. I thought that man was very calm about it because he was finally without the trouble his wife would give him.      I was almost 100% right about the ending. I guessed right about the husband killing his wife. Also about him cutting his wife up. The only thing we actually have no idea about is how he got rid of the body. The movie doesn't specify it. I guess it is open to our imagination. It could be in his suitcase during that night or could be in that massive box attached with a rope that he sent aw

     Different races or all the same. We real cool or they real cool? I am talking about Gwendolyn Brooks' poem We Real Cool. Here is the poem: We Real Cool The pool players. Seven at the Golden Shovel We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.      We talked about this poem in class last week and some people brought up pretty good points. First of all, Ms. Brooks is black which automatically made us think WE was about the black community. She never mentioned it though. We assumed and stuck to that. Another hint that can lead us toward that conclusion is the line about jazz. Back then jazz was a music genre that was most popular in the black community.      This is something very interesting to me because I come from Canada and am not used to this whole race conflict. I would always see the things that would happen here with black and white people like the George Floyd event and others but I had never experie

 Can you imagine having a mom like that. I would hate my life.      Wildwood is a "long short story" as my teacher said written by Junot Diaz in 2007. He has no filter and uses words like "ass", "chick", "bitch", and also Spanish terms throughout the story. I find that very interesting because I have never seen that in any other novel or story but I think it was needed in this one, to show how rude and mean the mom is to her daughter.      Wildwood is about a daughter and a mom that have a very bad relationship. The mom treats her daughter like she is nothing, at the beginning of the story we understand that the mom just discovered she had breast cancer. The daughter has to do the groceries, make food, clean the house, and take care of her brother because her mom doesn't want to do anything and works two jobs at the same time. Both women always yell at each other, and swear at each other; they barely talk about normal things in life. The daug