Friday, December 18, 2009

So LeWitt


Life-
So many expectations
Life-
So many boundaries
Life-
Like living in a box
People think that you can only go so far
People think you can't go beyond that box
What if we lived a life with no boundaries?
What if our box breaks letting all possibilities of meeting our expectations, possible?

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Endless Amount of Love

Pip is a boy who lives with his abusive sister and her husband named Joe. In the mean time, Pip’s life is on the line because he has been threatened by a convict. Recently, Pip stole a pie to feed the convict. Pip was longing to tell Joe, but he was afraid to lose his trust. “But I loved Joe- perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him- and as to him my inner self was not so easily composed.” (pg. 40)

Joe is Pip’s trust, Pip’s hope, and Pip’s best peer. Pip is in a challenging situation, and Joe is Pip’s healthy escapism. Joe completes Pip’s heart and without Joe, Pip’s heart will crack, and his life will be unfulfilled. This quote relates to the theme in showing that Pip has an endless amount of love for Joe. Pip’s love for Joe, is so powerful, since Pip is an empty-handed boy, Joe is really all he has in his life. Joe is his guardian, and he will always protect Pip from all harm.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The Other Side of Me

Standing in a meadow, the sun, just about to peak over the earth, and the clouds floating down low, low to the ground. Trees, slouching over the wet grass. I look behind me. There's a black, tall, wet lamp post, made me had a feeling, a feeling of a boundary from imagination and reality. I turn my head, and I see a silhoutte of a person, scrunched over looking at me in a strange way. He starts limping over to me. All I could do is run. I'm running faster, and faster, and faster trying to get away from this revolting creature. Leaning over and trying to catch my breath, I finally lost him. When energy was flowing through my body, I turn around and there, standing right in my face, looking into my eyes, was a slimy, green, full of acne, with his teeth rotton and yellow. Looking at him, was like looking at a witch. Trying to escape was a failure because everywhere I look --even if my eyes are closed --he is always there. This creature is almost a part of me, an evil part.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Other Side of Life

In the novel, Great Expectations, Pip's has finally reached his destination, London. While he is in London, he meets new acquaintances and friends. Mr. Jaggers -- a man who is very strict and has a load of power -- introduces Pip to Wemmick. Wemmick is a man who works for Mr. Jaggers. Wemmick takes his work very strictly, seriously and never wants to be interrupted. His personality here symbolizes the love of work. Pip was invited to eat dinner at Wemmick's house. As soon as Wemmeck steps into his house, his true personality comes out and Pip was surprised that Wemmick's personality changed and never expected that change. The change went from strict to joyfull and loose. He is so happy at his house, that Wemmick calls it his castle and Wemmick's house is a way for him to be himself. It is healthy escapism. Wemmick seems to have two different personalities. At work he is a strict serious man, and at his house his personality is happy and joyful. I think his personality changes at his house, because he is afraid to expose his true personality at work. It is the other side of life for Wemmick.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

A Relationship with Hope

In the novel, Great Expectations, Pip lives a life with his sister and his sister's husband Joe. Pip hates living with Mrs. Joe because Mrs. JOe treats him like a slave. Pip is always being brought up by hand or in other words, always slapped and bossed around. Pip also strongly dislikes living with his sister and the dog, Tickler. But Mr. Joe is Pip's best friend. They hang out together and Joe is the only person in the household that is actually nice to him, and Joe thinks that Tickler is not a necessity in their house. Joe is Pip's hope. Pip can rely on Joe and come to Joe when he is in a time of need.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Patriotic Rock


The car is full of music
Everybody is having a good time
Looking out the window, something caught the corner of my eye
We stop the car, and walk out to the side of the road
A rock standing right before my eyes
A large rock, a colorful rock, a patriotic rock
Laying on the top was the American flag
Soldiers standing all around this rock
Reminding me of the soldiers that created America
I was standing in astonishment
My hand creeps over to touch the rock
As soon as I touch the flag
My hand feels this hard cold rock
This American flag is a painting
All day I could not stop thinking about his rock
(This rock is real)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Emily Dickinson's Poems

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Click on the title to read the poem


Emily Dickinson was a lonely woman who spent her life inside her whole life writing poems. This poem, "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass", she is writing about how she hasn't had any relationships with a guy. The snake represents how her relationships come and go in a flash. At the end of the poem it says, "Zero at the Bone". That means that every time she goes deeper in her relationship, it seems to disappear.