Woman's response:
Jeanette Winterson seams to know just how to weave words so as to create a beautiful and eloquent song. The story is full of passion and desire, it reads like an epic poem. Is the narrator a male or female? As I read the story, there were times that I was sure that the narrator was a female, then, in the very same paragraph, I knew the narrator was male. Reading this book was like hearing the real and secretly hidden thoughts of a lost in love soul.
Man's response:
Jeanette Winterson seems to write down every thought that comes into her head. She doesn't stop. There are not really any chapters. The story just seems to keep going. It is a love story, but seems twisted and complicated. The charecters seem to come and go. You get to know some and not others. Does the book really end?
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Woman and Desire
This snap-shot of my husband, John and I represents my ideas and feelings regarding desire. He is my best friend and the love of my life. My greatest desire is that each day would be, like the one in the picture, spent with him.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Skim, A Graphic Novel
I went to Ohio Universitie's Alden Library to check out the graphic novel, Skim. Much to my surprise, I found it in the children's section! Call me old-fashioned, but I would not let a child read this novel. The book contains very adult subject matter and language. I think that Alden needs to realize that just because there are pictures in a book, does not necessarily meen that it is a child's book.
This book was much easier for me to read than La Perdida. The images contained enough negative space to not overcrowd each page. The depth of line was simple yet informative. The story flowed nicely was easy to follow.
Unfortunately Skim had many of the same charectoristics as the female charecters from the other novels I have read this quarter. She had a low self esteem and questionable friends. She had a desire that she could not pinpoint and the fact tortured her. I must say, though, that I felt sorry for Skim while I had no feelings for Carla's situation in La Perdida.
Why do so many women have such a low self esteem?
This book was much easier for me to read than La Perdida. The images contained enough negative space to not overcrowd each page. The depth of line was simple yet informative. The story flowed nicely was easy to follow.
Unfortunately Skim had many of the same charectoristics as the female charecters from the other novels I have read this quarter. She had a low self esteem and questionable friends. She had a desire that she could not pinpoint and the fact tortured her. I must say, though, that I felt sorry for Skim while I had no feelings for Carla's situation in La Perdida.
Why do so many women have such a low self esteem?
La Perdida
Well......where to begin......
The graphic novel, La Perdida by Jessica Abel left me wanting. I wanted Carla to develop some self esteem. She would just run along after everyone around her like a little lost kitten. I wanted her to have some direction in her life. It seemed as though she did not know what she wanted, who she wanted, or where she really wanted to be.
Carla was lost. Was it companionship that she desired? Did she long for a place to call home. I think that she wanted Mexico to be her identity, but it wasn't. She grew up in the states and did not even speak Spanish. She thought that by crossing the border, she would all of the sudden be Mexican. It just does not happen that way. Cultures clash. The only way to truly know and understand a culture is to be raised in that culture. She was 50% Mexican but 100% Americanized. What caused her strong desire to exemplify her Mexican roots?
Carla's trip to Mexico started out on a bad note. She told Harry, her ex-boyfriend that just happened to live in Mexico, that she was coming for a two week visit. She never actually planned on leaving. I guess she figured that if she slept with him, he would not notice that she had overstayed her welcome. Once Harry started to tire of her, she found yet another bed to hop into. She started to date Oscar, a Mexican that only spoke Spanish. I suppose she thought that this would get her closer to her Mexican roots. What she saw in Oscar; I don't know. He was grumpy, possessive, rude, controlling, and part of a not-so-great crowd. She just wanted to be part of something at that point and she didn't seem to care what.
Carla made one bad choice after another and her life seemed to fly out of control. In the end, she was a prisoner. She was a prisoner of the choices she had made as well as an actual prisoner in her own house. I had a hard time feeling sorry for her, she had brought everything on herself.
Why do females put up with verbally and physically abusive men? Does it have to do with the desire to be wanted, the desire for love?
The graphic novel, La Perdida by Jessica Abel left me wanting. I wanted Carla to develop some self esteem. She would just run along after everyone around her like a little lost kitten. I wanted her to have some direction in her life. It seemed as though she did not know what she wanted, who she wanted, or where she really wanted to be.
Carla was lost. Was it companionship that she desired? Did she long for a place to call home. I think that she wanted Mexico to be her identity, but it wasn't. She grew up in the states and did not even speak Spanish. She thought that by crossing the border, she would all of the sudden be Mexican. It just does not happen that way. Cultures clash. The only way to truly know and understand a culture is to be raised in that culture. She was 50% Mexican but 100% Americanized. What caused her strong desire to exemplify her Mexican roots?
Carla's trip to Mexico started out on a bad note. She told Harry, her ex-boyfriend that just happened to live in Mexico, that she was coming for a two week visit. She never actually planned on leaving. I guess she figured that if she slept with him, he would not notice that she had overstayed her welcome. Once Harry started to tire of her, she found yet another bed to hop into. She started to date Oscar, a Mexican that only spoke Spanish. I suppose she thought that this would get her closer to her Mexican roots. What she saw in Oscar; I don't know. He was grumpy, possessive, rude, controlling, and part of a not-so-great crowd. She just wanted to be part of something at that point and she didn't seem to care what.
Carla made one bad choice after another and her life seemed to fly out of control. In the end, she was a prisoner. She was a prisoner of the choices she had made as well as an actual prisoner in her own house. I had a hard time feeling sorry for her, she had brought everything on herself.
Why do females put up with verbally and physically abusive men? Does it have to do with the desire to be wanted, the desire for love?
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