now it's working...let's give this a go...

in close to the knives, there is so much imagery. using colorful words to describe the surroundings and situations always gets me hooked. adjectives are my best friend, we connect quickly. this is because when i see those descriptive words, i can imagine the scene and the characters and they play the story in my mind.

the other thing i noticed is, what was with the whale facts? how they are, what seems to be, randomly placed in the story just confuses me a bit. why would you put random facts in a story that has nothing to do with the plot? i don't understand.

which leads to the structure. with the random what facts and the long paragraphs give a sense of rambling...like the narrator isn't really sure what is going on in his life and he'll talk to anyone that will listen to him. not going to lie, it drives me crazy a little bit as he beats around the bush.

My computer won't let me download the second essay packet...it says that this file will harm my computer if I download it just to read for this assignment. This blows! It's the last blog assignment for the semester and I can't even write about it! Man!!!!...I've tried to write it, but the same thing keeps popping up on my computer...

Maybe my computer is as tired of schoolwork as I am...but let's try some more!!!!

Second to Last one...

It's been busier than ever as the semester winds down. Eight papers, 3 group projects, 3 exams, *and a partridge in a pear tree* I sing as the Christmas season is coming in full swing. Only 23 more days until the day comes when everyone's families try to act "normal" and people give gifts that are well over the price range they established at the Secret Santa meetings. Don't get my wrong, I'm really excited for Christmas and the long break that comes with it. Singing carols, eating good food, being with family and close friends, and giving people gifts and seeing their faces light up (or they act surprised, it doesn't matter I love it!) It's waiting for it to come that's the big deal. Anyways...onward!

Essay Packet 2. Three Voices and The Fine Art of Sighing. Both are interesting. First Three Voices:

Three Voices, again, is one of those stories/essays that I just cannot figure out. I have read it a few times now trying to understand the underlying meaning of it, and I simply cannot put it together. It is full of sensory imagery! The colors, the sounds, the tactile images, it's very well put together. Reading it, though, I get the sense that this story is about a couple. A man who does many things to make his wife comfortable, and she doesn't really give him any credit, so she runs off with a Russian Acrobat in the circus, as if he can give her more support than a man who grants her every wish.

The Fine Art of Sighing:

Now, this one was interesting because it brought up a bunch of things I hadn't thought about before. We sigh for many different reasons. We sigh when we think, when we're comfortable, or when we drink a coke. We sigh sometimes as if our lives depended on it, taking in a sweet breath and letting it all go so we can relax. Everybody sighs at some point in their life. The paragraph was what got me though. The talk of Venetian prisoners who were escorted to their execution over the Bridge of Sighs connecting on breath to the next. Just very...spine chilling. How a sigh can connect people in their darkest hour...even if the sigh isn't an actual breath.