Qestions for a second reading: James Baldwin

Hook it up Ed-posse I need your help with this one! I hate to say it but I'm finding it hard to indentify with James Baldwin. DOn't get me wrong, I know what it's like to feel liek a stranger, but not within the contexgt of my own race. It's hard for me to accept the limited views of prejudice, therefore my own preclivity to deny all such boundries prevents me of having a clear picture of this essay. I need your guys and gals help in realizing form and functionin this essay. PLEASE!!

Questions for a second reading: Gloria Anzaldua

Question one really is asking us to look at oursleves and too see all the layers that makes us who we are. When you are reading either Entering into the Serpent, or, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, You notice how absolutle nuts her writing style is. Gloria does NOT attempt to write in a fashion that is we regular whitebread citizens would even consider to make any sense at all. That in itslef is probably the most liberating thing about this piece. It attempts to throw away all lines and borders that we put up within ourselves to shield us from the things we don't want to see. Gloria has a proud tradition that comes from a time of when people were proud of thier heritage, and took pride in it. They took pride in being different. I would like to say that feeling like this piece doesn't speak to you is completely normal. Gloria throws in bits and phrases in other languages, I believe, for that effect specifically. It leaves the reader unbalanced and unsafe. Vunrable and suceptible. WHich is exactly the way her culture has been treated.

QSR: Henry Adams Cont.

Alrigght Second question. This question asks us to re-read the preface and try to divulge the intention, or percieved intention-as we all of individual perspectives-concerning this essay. The analogy of the manikin is prominent, and seems to be the most blaring example of intent that I can come up with...on my own, hint hint! To me Adams talking about the Manikin is like saying that everything he has learned was made to fit a certain mold shaped largely by the society he lives in. He is trying to open the reader's eye to the fact that knowledge is taken for granted and, as you can read at naseum on my personal blog, that there is a great need for well greased cogs to run and operate the systems we create. Also Henry Adams is showing his own discovery of this as he reflects back on his education, and by his experience can we learn!

alright folks, lets hear some feedback,or maybe someone try tackling a new question. Show em what the ed-posse is made of! WORD!

Questions for a second reading: Henry Adams

Well i can see that our very blank blog-space is actively exciting! Whoo! ed-posse rules! Seriously though its thursday and by now one of us should have attempted to read something and then post about it. Anyway I'm done griping, so lets get started.

Question number one brings about an imprtant note to me. It is important to remember that Henry Adams is indeed writing about himself. I think it strange that one person can find it in his own mind to write about himslef, often, in the third person. I know it can be confusing. Lets look for examples.

There's one in the very first sentence. "One day in June, 1854, young Adams, walked...." You see what's happening here? Henry Adams is calling himself Young Adams so that the reader will have the seperation between the Henry Adams that is writing this essay, and the Henry Adams that he is writing about.

Lets get some more examples!

Here it is!

Here is our English 102 group blog spot. Now all we have to do is read a LOT and comment (again a LOT) about it here. Oh yeah, and make a link here to your personal blog. Happy posting!