Antonio Tabucchi: The riddle

Harper's Bazaar- An American fashion magazine which orignated in the UK and was called Harpers & Queen

Hispano Suiza- A spanish automotive and enineering firm known for their cars, engins and weapons before WWII

Field Trip

Kathryn by Silver Gelatin Print. This was a picture of a girl sitting on a toilet. She has a cigarette hanging from her figures and she has a visible attitude about her. Between the clothes she is wearing and the dark makeup around her eyes you can tell she doesn’t care what people think about her. She has a loot about her that no one would not want to mess with.

Hanna by Silver Gelatin Print. This was a picture of a girl sitting in a long, narrow hallway with torn up pictures under neither her. She has a beautiful dress on and you can tell she is into fashion. It was ironic that there were pictures below her.

Henry Thoreau

“Any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it.” Henry David Thoreau

During the time that Henry David Thoreau wrote his novels was a time when everyone wanted to be a leader and anyone would listen. These people were called transcendentalists. Transcendentalism was an idealistic, philosophical and social movement developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Mostly it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity. Henry David Thoreau was on of these central figures. In this quote I feel that he was speaking about what was happening to the people of New England. Everyone wanted to be a leader and everyone was making laws in which lower class citizens followed because they could do nothing else. I think that Thoreau wanted people to think about things in life and realize the rules they were making and why you followed it. When Thoreau went to Walden Pond he got away from the world, culture, rules and regulations.

The Way Home

The love a grandmother has for her children could not be spoken in words. The love for grandchildren is surprisingly greater. You can teach the lesions that years before you taught your own children. They are replicas of your own masterpiece.
My grandson has so many lesions to learn. Electronic devises will not always be a part of his life. For some reason my grandson learned this lesion the hard way. His longing for batteries made him go on an adventure. For once he had to learn, on his own, that he could not get his way.
The attitude of my grandson is one that I do not like. He is disrespectful to elders and uses harmful words. I know that one day he will get over this stage in his life but for now I will let him ride it out. I see the way he treats his mother and I would never have let that happen. I think my grandson growing up with no father is a terrible idea. He does not understand the quality of hierarchy. Because he didn’t have a father to look up to and receive discipline.
I have to let my grandson learn these life lesions on his own. I will always have love for him and do what he want. If he wants Kentucky Chicken, even though I don’t know what it is, I will do anything I could to get it. When he feel from the crazy cow I will always be there to clean his wounds. I feel my grandson has begun to learn the lesions of life. When I found the coco cupcake I knew he began to learn to share. The feeling in my heart grew stronger and stronger when he stepped off the bus and handed me the colorful paper.

Duong Thu Huong: Reflections of Spring

Equanimity- calm state of mind
Hanoi- The capital of Vietnam
Rice wafers- A Sourth-Eastern cuisine that is usually in a wrap

Banana Yoshimoto: Helix

Sashimi- A Japanese food consisting of fresh, raw seafood that is thinly sliced

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2044.html
One flew over the cuccoo's nest- A movie made in 1975 directed by Milos Forman about a man who get patients together to take on Nurse Ratched.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/
Prisms- a device used to refract light

Compare, contrast Gorilla, My love and The Glasstower

Both Gorilla, My Love and The Glasstower have many similarities and differences. Both Arenas and Bambara are contempary writers published in The Art of the Story. They write about main characters that show different personalities and characteristics throughout the story. Alfredo shows his other side when all of the characters in his head start to come out. Hazel started as a tomboy and soon became emotional when she find out her uncle was getting married. Arenas grew up in Cuba while Bambara grew up in the United States. Also the language of the story shows many differences. One is very formal while the other is written in a southern draw.