Disturbing truth

“A Rose for Emily” is a very disturbing story. The quote “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” basically says it all because the thought of finding a dead corpse then seeing an indentation where someone else had lying beside the corpse is a little past creepy . Emily must have been insane not only because she had a dead body in her house but the dead body was the guy that she supposedly loved and murdered him. Losing her father must have really affected her mental. The way she stays by her fathers bed denying the fact that he is actually dead kind of shows that she has the mental capacity of a child that doesn’t really understand death as a whole until they get older.

The surprising face was that the town didn’t say anything even when it smelled horrible. The quote “will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?” is bewildering because body odor usually doesn’t smell like rotting carcass. Did no one question where Homer went to? Did people in the town ever question why Emily stayed in her house all the time? How did her family members not know? There is so many unanswered questions that readers would want to know. Overall this was a kind of interesting story even though it was disturbing.

If I Was A Man

Why do woman and men just assume things about each other? Men have yet to figure out women and women have yet to figure out men. In the story “The Chrysanthemums”, Henry has no clue that his wife is unhappy and needs some excitement in her life. When Henry states “I don’t think you’d like it” when he is discussing whether or not Elisa would want to go to the fight, He needs to think about the fact that if she is asking about it maybe she has some interest in it or that she just wants to do something different. The fact that he is taking her to a nice dinner is sweet but that’s not exciting if it’s the millionth time they have done that. Relationships need new things to do or they tend to get boring after a while. Putting all the blame on Henry isn’t fair though because Elisa hides the fact that she is upset about everything in the end when it says “She turned her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly—like an old woman.”.  This is kind of sad that she conceals the pain that she is feeling. The thing that Elisa needs to be ashamed of though is the fact that she was going to cheat on her husband with this man that wants to fix her pots and things. The man may have been able to fix many things but Henry and Elisa’s marriage wasn’t one of those things and he was a “true man” to be able to turn Elisa down after she was lusting for him. Cheating is not the way to solve an unhappy marriage. Elisa should really open up to her husband more and let him know that excitement needs to be restored in their marriage so they can stay together and be faithful.

Unhappy Marriage

An "unhappy marriage" is two very contradicting words when put together. Isn't marriage suppose to be happy? “The Story of an Hour “ by Kate Chopin was an interesting story that made me think about marriage. Is a woman still sad and lonely even if she is married? Why do husbands not pay more attention to their wife?  Would someone really be happy if their husband died? All these questions were crossing my mind. Story on the news has shown cases where the wife kills her husband and shows no remorse but usually the case is abuse or something extreme not just being lonely. If marriage is this unhappy then maybe the couple should end it before it comes to bad circumstances.

The quote "And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not." shows that marriage doesn’t give that happy ending that most people want and that even though a wife loves a husband her needs of companionship and communication have to fulfilled of then the marriage will just become unhappy.

Another question that was brought up was the fact that this husband wasn’t dead at all and the fact that he hadn’t been near the wreck at all. Where was he truly at? Was he just as unhappy in their marriage as she seemed to be? I wish the author would have answered more of the unanswered questions that the readers may have.

At the end of the story when the wife passed away from the surprise that her husband was actually alive was a mind-blowing scene.  The quote "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy that kills.” was a very strange way for a doctor stating her death. The beginning of the story stated "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death."  And if she would have not seen her husband by surprise would she have still passed away from the realization that she is not free?

Over all “The Story of an Hour” was an astonishing story that many readers would enjoy. Marriage should be about happiness. If a person is wishing for freedom then the relationship should end cause people one get one chance in life and need to make the best out of it.

Chopin, Kate. "The Story of an Hour". Literature: An introduction to Reading and Writing.Roberts, Edgar. 9th edition. New York: Pearson Education, 2009.pg 331-332. Print

Edgy Friends

Edgy Friends

The gory scene of cutting someone’s throat made my stomach kind of turn, other than that Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber on Fleet Street is actually a pretty “interesting” movie to watch. I had never been interested in watching musicals very much but I must say Tim Burton captivated my attention with the way he chose to director this movie. I think the way he portrayed the characters was brilliant.

Sweeney himself had grown so overwhelmed with revenge that in the end he died anyways and killed the love of his life. I think if Sweeney would have actually tried to look for Joanna and Lucy then he would have realized that neither was dead and he might have had a chance to return to happiness like he was before he was falsely accused by Judge Turpin. I guess that wouldn’t make this a dark comedy with the killing and revenge aspect behind it.

The fact that Sweeney says “my friend, my faith friend” singing to his razors definitely showed how unbalanced he had become. The razors being personified as if they are the only things that are loyal to him and they are the tools used to help him carry out his plan of retaliation but ultimately they kill both him and Lucy. It almost seems that murdering people and the blood itself is Sweeney’s emotional release; he is more passionate when slashing a throat than any other times in the movie. When Sweeney is singing “There's a hole in the world like a great black pit” and he is talking about London, I am wondering if he only can back to London and get revenge and if he planned to do anything else or was dying kind of a release from the bad things that had happened.

This movie is definitely worth watching again and picking up on more things this time that I didn’t notice the first time I watched it.


Sweeny Todd:The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Screenplay
         Stephen Sondheim.Dir. Tim Burton.2007. Dreamworks,
         2008.DVD

The Perlexities of Love

The Perlexities of Love

      Love is a bewildering topic for many people to hand but to also chance the intervention of others can make it seem more impossible. In A Midsummer Night's  Dream, William Shakespeare wrote a comical love story about love being intervened by others. Lysander and Hermia are supposed to be true lover but the one mischievous fairies makes Lysander fall in love with Helena by using a magical juice from a flower to their eyes. Since there was a mix up and the fairies want Demetrius to be in love with Helena the put the magic over his eyes and Lysander back in love with Hermia. Then the fairies made the young couples believe that it was all a dream. My thought is that true love should not be intervened by anyone like the saying "Mind your own business".
      Not only did the fairies interfere with the hearts of the young lovers but Hermia's father Egeus was also trying to interfere. When Lysander says "The course of true love never did run smooth" is talking about how love always has it challenges and in this story a big challenge love faces is the interference of others.I find it very bothersome that a parent would rather have his daughte be killed for loving someone of her own choice. Parents should make a decision for a child and convict them to an unhappiness marriage. Egeus stated "Or to her death, according to our law", this makes one wonder if laws were better to abide by then the life of your own child. Egeus also says " And she is mine, and all my right of her I do estate unto Demetrius", his statements seem to be that she is his property not an actual human and that he can give her away whether it is her wish or not. Hopefully fathers back in the day didn't truely treat their children like this. The fairies also intervened with love by using the juice from the flower. It was not their place to fix love for Helena or any other character. Love should not be intervened or complications will occur like the mix up between Lysander and Demetrius.
      Basically what I am trying to say about A Midsummer Night's Dream is that the perplexities of love are overwhelming enough not to also include a parent and others try to fix things that need to be left alone and let nature take its course. William Shakespeare created a fantastic example of a difficulties of love and how their are many things one has to overcome before true love can be achieved

Shakespear,William. No Fear Shakespeare:A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1595.
        New York:Sparknotes,2003. Sparknotes.com. Web.2/24/2011

Old ladies kill for real

Old ladies kill for real

Arsenic and Old lace is very entertaining even if it is a black and white movie. My perception of black and white movies was that they were boring and outdated but when I watched this movie I kind of changed my opinion because I became drawn in looking past the lack of color and into the wittiness of the plot. I love the fact that the old ladies are behind the murders and that Mortimer wants to believe that it is Teddy. The fact that the police never went down into the cellar also amused me because not only did Jonathan tell the cops that there were bodies down there in the cellar but also did several others. The comical plot made it so much more interesting. It is also ironic how the aunts seem so fine in tell Mortimer and Jonathan about the killing the old gentlemen but then the tell Teddy that the old men are yellow fever victims and that they have him believing that he is digging the panama canal. It is also ironic how the old ladies live right next to a graveyard yet they are using their cellar as the place for burial. The old ladies also claim to be “good Christian women” and giving the men a good “proper burial” yet murder is not a Christian thing to do and being buried in a cellar isn’t really an ideal proper burial. I know murder is not something to laugh about but the way the story played out was hilarious. This movie changed my opinion about black and white movies and made me realize that one shouldn’t judge on the way something looks but the content of it.