Handmaid's tale 1st post

So far the story is interesting. Offred became a handmaid by creating a stillborn baby through pregnancy. I don't quite understand how this brings her from being a prisoner to a higher level. The angels are not able to look at the prisoners because they are all men. If the men are not able to look at the women then how are handmaid positions created? is the commander the only one able to create that position?

Macbeth

I think that if Macbeth would have never met the witches he would not have tried to kill the king. I believe this would not happen because when Macbeth is thinking about killing the king he has second thoughts. In the end his wife was the one who pushed him into killing the king. Macbeth had two outside forces pushing him into committing this crime. If it would have just been his wife, he would have been able to overcome her persuasion and would not have killed the king

Harrison Bergeron

After reading this story it really gives me a broader view of how Some American's are more advanced and how others can be jealous. The General of America in this story really makes me mad and makes me wish that someone else would have stood up and protected Harrison. I think that the message that is sent through this story implies that equality is not always a good thing. If everyone in the world was equal, life would not be as rewarding as it is meant to be. 

the ones who run away from Omelas

After reading this story i have a couple of questions to make this book a little more clear. The first question is: After the narrator published the story, did the someone do something about the child that was being held captive? Also I did not understand why the narrators family began to despise him.

The Lottery

I think that the lottery really defeats the purpose of itself. The reason the village is having the lottery is because it does not want to return to the barbaric times. But when they begin to stone Tessie because she got the black dot on her card brings them back to the barbaric state of things.

Young Goodman Brown

I have a theory that when Goodman meets the man in the forest, the man is actually the devil in human form. I came to this assumption by how the man keeps trying to give Goodman his staff (source of evil) to torment his soul. In the end the staff corrupted his soul for the rest of his life.

The Yellow Wallpaper

After reading this story, it gives made me a different view on the husband rather than the main character being crazy. In my opinion, the husband is the one who made the woman go crazy. He moved her to an insane asylum and locked her up in a room that had bars and yellow paper surrounding her. I believe that the husband is the one to blame for what happened to the main character.

A tell tale heart

Edgar Allen Poe in this story shows how the view the story is being told can change how the story actually comes across to the readers. In this story the narrator believes that he is not crazy at all. The way the narrator tells the story says that everyone else in the story is crazy and the readers see through that. Edgar Allen Poe's stories are very dark and gloomy and have usually have a sense of telling the story from the main characters point of view. I do like Edgar Allen Poe as an author mainly because i understand that he is crazy and the stories he creates take you through what is going through his mind.

A Rose for Emily

My reaction from "A Rose for Emily" has CRAZY written all over it. In this story Emily becomes crazy shortly after her father dies. For some reason she did not let them come in and collect the people she cares about most. I can understand from her point of not wanting to let go of them. On the other hand, in this world that is very abnormal. At the end of the story when the citizens find the dead body in the bed and the hair from the pillow next to it is gross. I can't believe that she can stand the smell of a dead person, especially while she sleeps.

Things about me

English 101
Some of the concepts I learned in English 101 consisted of Sentence Level Corrections, and how to use better grammar in most cases.

Some of the papers I wrote in English 101 were Argument papers, sketches about stories I have read, and stories about family.

In English 101, we worked constantly on how our grammar comes across through words to reach the reader. The more correct and direct our grammar is, the more we pull the reader into the story.

Personal
I usually do not like to write in my free time. Some of the things i like to do in my free time consist of: basketball, video games, hang out with friends, surf the internet.

I have not come to like reading in my past, but if required to i do finish the reading that is assigned to me.

My favorite subject I like to study is math,  My least favorite, sad to say, is English.

Some of the things i hope to experience in the class is to feel comfortable writing 1000+ word page papers without running out of things to talk about.