Host

This week in English class we are reading "Host"by David Foster Wallace. I like this reading because not only are you reading one story but another one. I guess it is like killing two birds with one stone. It sounds really cofusing but.... once you get the hang of how the narrator is telling the story you realize that he is not only helpful but quite entertaining. Okay what i mean by all of this is even though th reading looks really confusing with all the wierd boxes and such. It is totally worth it for what is underlying underneath all of the text. I also like this reading because I believe that repoting news as become a way of watching a live entertainment show and that is not the point. so in this reading Wallace really gives you that opinion in i guess a "semi editorial" manner. More thoughts as more analyzing occurs.
~Raybird

bartleby

All of this week we have been talking about this crazy guy named Bartleby. Basically this is a story about a law copier. The cool thing we talked about was how he could be related to real life. by the way this is a short story by Herman Melville. I recommend that all of you read this reading and see if what you think about what is going on. This is because he has this clever man who in the time of the industrial revolution goes against the system of a,if you will, a machine. So when he gets hired into this new place he works really hard and then starts slacking off and says his famous line,"i would prefer not to". This is really weird because if we were to do this to our managers today we wouldn't have a job. More thoughts next week.
~raybird