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Reflections on "The Things They Carried"

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Reflections on "The Things They Carried"

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While Reading this story, I was reminded of a song that is about letting having the issue of not being able to make someone love you. I imagine that, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross could have had this song playing in his heart during the time he would go back and forth on Martha's feelings for him.

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Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me / Nick of Time

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Reading this reminded me of the movie "Wedding Ringer" where the main character hires another person to be his best man and form a group of fake friends to be his groomsmen and impress his wife. However, he realizes his whole life was based on lies and he wants to be himself with his new friends. In "Death of a Salesman" the whole family is built around lies and keeps the family from getting any kind of closure.

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"Brownies" by ZZ Packer is a story of irony as one group of girls seek revenge on another. However the group of girls come to the realization that this other group is disabled and has the same kind of unjust treatment as they do. It shows that hate or anger, even if it is deserved, can blind us and embarrass us in the end.

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While Saturday Night Live science Presentation sketch with John Cena is a more comedic and silly, it does represent the unfairness in competition between two groups of people. While in the sketch the jock is getting an easier pass based on his position for the football team, the young kids in  Tony Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" learn this same reality, the unfairness of a chance to education and wealth, because of their race and their position to the higher ups of the country at that time.

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Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" reminds me that what some people see as something to have other see as something they need and is part of them.

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Ralph Ellison's short story reminded me of the first X-men movie. In the movie, Wolverine is first really seen fighting in cage fights because that is what they regular humans kept him around for. In the "Battle Royal" the main character submits for approval of the people who oppress him. Stan Lee has said in a way that, X-men was a way of portraying social injustice through comic books and I can see the relation here. Even the movie sub-quote suggests that white people or 'non mutants' can only trust those willing to submit.

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In "If We Must Die" by Claude Mckay, the author gives a speech to give his people encouragement not to roll over and die like the hogs for the slaughter. Instead go with a boldness so much that their murderer even has to give honor to them. This poem reminded me of the similar words of Sitting Bull who alluded that we must fight for something more than ourselves.

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Langston Hughes poem "Negro" makes a plain, simple, and yet deep statement, that no matter what he has been labeled as or used as he is is proud of his African Heritage. This quote sums the poem up nicely because it does not just pertain to him.

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The main character in " The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins GIlman, is disturbed by yellow wallpaper in a rent house. She claims she can see something moving this wallpaper at night. Whether this is an allusion caused by her depression or an actual haunted being causing her grief is up to the reader. The picture below shows what she might be seeing in the story. No doubt, it is a form of herself trying to break free.

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While reading "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, a look into the mindset of a woman who believes she has lost her husband, it reminded me of the time I lost my Grandfather when I was thirteen. At the time, he was the only friend I had because i was mainly bullied in school. The song "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor, spoke to me and still does in hard times. I tried to see the story as if it were a movie, and I think this is the song that would be playing during her scene of self-reflection.

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While reading "Girl" by Jamaica Kinkaid, I was reminded of the Disney Pixar movie Brave . In the story, we hear all the things her mother wants her daughter to do. In the movie the main character's mother is constantly trying to prep her for her princess position. I think in the story "Girl" the scene of the mother telling her daughter all the rules to live by could have looked like this.

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Reflection on "Trifles"  & "A Jury of Her Peers"

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Reflection on "Trifles"  & "A Jury of Her Peers"

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While reading "Trifles" and a "Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, I couldn't help but notice the two different thought processes that were going on between the men and women in the story. While the men were looking straight for clues at the murder scene, they though it funny that the women were more concerned with a quilt, birdcage, and other small details. However, by doing this the women were able to find a clue as to what the motive was that the men did not find. The picture below shows two different processes. While one leads to the main point faster, the other can lead you to see the whole picture.