Bad Bone?

This story makes me so angry. Reading the first hundred pages or so it made me angry and almost sick by what Daddy Glen did to Bone, the worst was that I didn't see it coming. What makes me so angry was that I don't understand how someone can do this , especially with all the circumstances at the time. It was her stepfather and Bone's mother was at the time trying to have a baby at the hospital, the thought of this makes me sick.

Beyond all this I feel bad for Bone in many ways. Because of her families financial status, I think Bone seems to have a hard time. But to add what Daddy Glen does, I feel, puts her over the edge sometime. When it gets to this point she tries to leave, not be at the house. Think about if it were you, afraid to go home? What would you do, where would you go. Also it makes me sad that her mother isn't doing more at this point to help her.

What really gets to me is the Bone seems to be blaming herself for what Daddy Glen is doing to her. I believe the reason she is doing this is because of how old she is. Children most times blame themselves for things, like if their parents got divorced, usually the child thinks it is something they did wrong. I think the same thing is happening here. Bone believes that it is something she did to make Daddy Glen act this way. I also think it has something to do with fear, because she knows what he is doing is wrong but she might think that if she tells someone that her mother has to choose between her and Glen, and in the back of her mind scared that her might pick Glen over her.

The Heaven of Animals

This poem made me think of doggie heaven. Like what your parents tell you your pet went, when it really died. But there was the difference, there was still the voilence like there is on earth. But to me I thought about it as for one animal. Say a lion, they hunt all day wanting the best kill, thats what they do. So if you think about it, if you believe in heaven, you want to think that you can do whatever you want there, in the lions case, getting the best kill.

Some of the description also sets a good picture of what they think the animals want as animal heaven, like
To match them, the landscape flowers,
Outdoing, desperately
Outdoing what is required:
The richest wood,
The deepest field.
With this you can see the picture of the beautiful land the animals are on.
This poem makes me think that the author was trying to say that there is a difference between humand and animals and that they do more and think more then we believe they do.

A Dog's world

Reading the poem, "A dog sleeping on my feet" by James Dickey the whole time make me thing about my dog and being home. It was a very cozy poem, one that's soothing and fun to read. To me most of the poem was her thinking or writing in a dogs brain or was of thinking. It seemed like since the dog was on her feet it seemed to give her insight to their minds.

I know what she goes through, my dog wants to be with you at all times, especially if you are sitting in a comfortable chair. Even if you are just standing she wants to be close anyways, so she lays on your feet, sparled out, taking over. But like in the poem sometimes when she is on your feet or laying with you, you seem to think about the dog and what she is thinking more than what you had been doing before the dog got there.

It seems like she is writing his dream like in the lines,
"Like a twisting shout through the trees
Sent after the flying fox
Through the holes of logs, over streams"
It seems to me that the dog is dreaming of chasing a fox, running through the forest in pursuit. Overall I liked this poem, it was fun cute, like seeing things from a dogs eyes, but not on purpose.

Seeing is Believing

Throughout most of the play I didn’t really see what was really wrong with Blanche. From just the dialogue you couldn’t really tell or notice anything. In the play reading it there was some stage direction but not too much to explain what Blanche was really doing. Like in the beginning of the play when Blanche is already there and Stanley comes home. At the time Stella is in the other room. In the play reading this you don’t know if there is tension or if Blanche is acting strange because there isn’t as much dialect talking about it. But in the movie you see the tension between them and the looks they are giving each other. Blanche also seems to have an attraction towards Stanley by the looks she gives him and the music in the background.

In the movie you also got a better sense of what the characters were like more because you could see what they looked like. But what I didn’t understand is in both the movie and the play Stanley is played up to be a macho guy who is tough, and handsome. But in the movie after the first time he attacks Stella when he is calling to her in that well known scene he is crying. He is crying and almost breaking down, the same scene in the book to be just sounded like he was drunk and yelling, not as upset as it seemed in the movie version.

Mitch in the movie version looked very shy and not very confident. All the other guys are mostly rude and don’t really care. Mitch dresses nice and leaves the games early to take care of his sick mother. All this was even more present in the movie in his dress, voice and everything he did. What he most reminded me of was in the movie “Chicago” the husband Amos. They both look alike and are both shy and let people, especially women walk all over them and take charge, or wear the pants in the family.