Hello My Little Bloggers,
So as this semester is coming to a close this will be my last blog post, and the last thing I have to do for American Literature this semester!
Holy Cow! It just does not seem real that the semester is over already, I feel when I start the semester that 16 weeks seems like a long time, but it just FLIES by!
When I first signed up for American Literature this semester it was just sort of a filler class for one of my electives I needed. I was never interested in taking a class like this and I never thought I would actually enjoy this class, but boy was I wrong! By the middle of the semester I really enjoyed this class and it actually was one of my top favorite classes of the semester!
Not going to lie when I first started this class it scared me, it seemed like so much work and I had 5 classes I had to pass this semester because I am graduating, but then I realized how fun it actually was to read the stories and do the work and it did not even feel like school. I was especially nervous about blogging, but I actually really enjoy it.
I've been at Ivy Tech for 3 years now and I am finally graduating this Friday with my Associates of Science! This is such a big accomplishment for me and I cannot wait to be done.
But before I finish I was to thank everyone in the class and Ms.S for a wonderful semester, I really enjoyed reading everyone posts, thank you for a great semester!
Goodluck to all of you in your futures :)
Goodbye All!
Chelsey Meyer
Monday, May 5, 2014
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Hello Again!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I worked all weekend, story of the life of a server!
But just now I got done reading the story, "Separating" by Updike.
This story really hit home for me because my parents divorced about 3 years ago, and it is still to this day the hardest thing I have had to deal with in my life.
I felt very sorry for the father in this story because I felt as though he was not all that upset about the separation between him and his wife, but he was more upset about telling his four children. He was very emotional at the dinner table that night because he knew that his kids would most likely treat him differently or maybe even be mad at their father, which was the last thing he wanted. Richard (the father) was especially nervous about telling his oldest daughter, whom was his first born. All she has known all her life was her parents being together and happy and raising her to be an adult.
When I read this part it really bothered me because that was my situation in my family. I was the first born and I had a very close relationship with my father from when I was a little girl, and I was very angry with my father, still am to this day, not because of the divorce, but for what he did and he just stopped being my dad.
What I liked about this father though was the last thing he wanted was to lose his kids. He was willing to do anything to keep a happy relationship with all four of his children, and to me that is a true father. That even if the marriage did not work out, you never give up on your children because that is your blood, you can't just give up on that.
I really enjoyed reading this story because even though it hit a sore spot in my emotions, it was nice reading about a father who loved his children so dearly.
Thank You for reading :)
Chelsey Meyer
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I worked all weekend, story of the life of a server!
But just now I got done reading the story, "Separating" by Updike.
This story really hit home for me because my parents divorced about 3 years ago, and it is still to this day the hardest thing I have had to deal with in my life.
I felt very sorry for the father in this story because I felt as though he was not all that upset about the separation between him and his wife, but he was more upset about telling his four children. He was very emotional at the dinner table that night because he knew that his kids would most likely treat him differently or maybe even be mad at their father, which was the last thing he wanted. Richard (the father) was especially nervous about telling his oldest daughter, whom was his first born. All she has known all her life was her parents being together and happy and raising her to be an adult.
When I read this part it really bothered me because that was my situation in my family. I was the first born and I had a very close relationship with my father from when I was a little girl, and I was very angry with my father, still am to this day, not because of the divorce, but for what he did and he just stopped being my dad.
What I liked about this father though was the last thing he wanted was to lose his kids. He was willing to do anything to keep a happy relationship with all four of his children, and to me that is a true father. That even if the marriage did not work out, you never give up on your children because that is your blood, you can't just give up on that.
I really enjoyed reading this story because even though it hit a sore spot in my emotions, it was nice reading about a father who loved his children so dearly.
Thank You for reading :)
Chelsey Meyer
Thursday, May 1, 2014
The Quilt
Hello Fellow Bloggers!
So this last Pod we have been working on, I read a story called "Ever day Use." I was not really expecting it to be about a mother and her two daughters. Honestly I am not sure what I expected it to be about, but for sure not that. I really was confused when I first started reading it when the Mother was referring to the TV show and she wished she had that with her daughter, but the more I read it and I seen the way the daughter acted towards her mother and her sister it all started falling together and making sense.
I was very angry with the way the older daughter, Dee, treated her mother and sister. It was almost as if she acted too good for them and that honestly made me angry. I myself have a mother and a younger sister in which I am very close with. I have never in my life thought I was too good for my family or was ashamed of the life we lived. And for Dee to come back to her mother's home and demand she get certain things really frustrated me because if she was too good for them, then why did she want their stuff?
The part towards the end about the quilt, I was very proud of that mother for putting her foot down and not letting Dee have them. The mother had promised the younger daughter, Maggie, that she could have those quilts. Dee was angry because she knew that Maggie would just use the quilts and they would be of no use in 5 years or so, but Dee just wanted to hang them up for decoration. The mother told Dee that she could not have them because Maggie would actually use them like they were supposed to be. This part made me giggle a little bit because I myself have a quilt that my grandma made and my mom gets mad because I sleep with it every night ever since I was the age of like 10. It is all falling apart and needs to be fixed but it does not bother me because my grandma made it and I will continue to use it until I no longer can.
That is how I related to this story was because quilts are meant for "every day use", not to just lie around and not be used!
Chelsey Meyer
So this last Pod we have been working on, I read a story called "Ever day Use." I was not really expecting it to be about a mother and her two daughters. Honestly I am not sure what I expected it to be about, but for sure not that. I really was confused when I first started reading it when the Mother was referring to the TV show and she wished she had that with her daughter, but the more I read it and I seen the way the daughter acted towards her mother and her sister it all started falling together and making sense.
I was very angry with the way the older daughter, Dee, treated her mother and sister. It was almost as if she acted too good for them and that honestly made me angry. I myself have a mother and a younger sister in which I am very close with. I have never in my life thought I was too good for my family or was ashamed of the life we lived. And for Dee to come back to her mother's home and demand she get certain things really frustrated me because if she was too good for them, then why did she want their stuff?
The part towards the end about the quilt, I was very proud of that mother for putting her foot down and not letting Dee have them. The mother had promised the younger daughter, Maggie, that she could have those quilts. Dee was angry because she knew that Maggie would just use the quilts and they would be of no use in 5 years or so, but Dee just wanted to hang them up for decoration. The mother told Dee that she could not have them because Maggie would actually use them like they were supposed to be. This part made me giggle a little bit because I myself have a quilt that my grandma made and my mom gets mad because I sleep with it every night ever since I was the age of like 10. It is all falling apart and needs to be fixed but it does not bother me because my grandma made it and I will continue to use it until I no longer can.
That is how I related to this story was because quilts are meant for "every day use", not to just lie around and not be used!
Chelsey Meyer
Monday, April 28, 2014
Revenge??
Hello All!
So I am going to jump back a couple weeks to Pod #6! I really enjoyed the few stories that I read through this pod, but one story that stuck out to me was the "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner. This story for some odd reason kept me captivated. I think because I like the more dramatic and destructive aspect of it! A big question in this story was is it okay for this man to burn down the barns and ruin people lives? Just because that is what made him feel better?
I do not think that just because you are unhappy with your life that that gives you any reason or justification to ruin others lives around you to make you happy. When I think of this situation, it makes me think of bullying. When people bully others it is usually because they have a hard life and want to make others around them miserable with them as well. You could have do nothing wrong to make the bully made, but they still take it out on you.
When this man went and burned down the people's barns, he got satisfaction from that because that messed with them. Since he was not as rich as the other people or as well off as others around them, he wanted to bring them down to his level, which is so wrong in so many ways.
So what is your opinion? Do you think that under some circumstances it is okay to seek revenge from others, or do you think that revenge is wrong no matter what and that just brings you down to other people's level?
So I am going to jump back a couple weeks to Pod #6! I really enjoyed the few stories that I read through this pod, but one story that stuck out to me was the "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner. This story for some odd reason kept me captivated. I think because I like the more dramatic and destructive aspect of it! A big question in this story was is it okay for this man to burn down the barns and ruin people lives? Just because that is what made him feel better?
I do not think that just because you are unhappy with your life that that gives you any reason or justification to ruin others lives around you to make you happy. When I think of this situation, it makes me think of bullying. When people bully others it is usually because they have a hard life and want to make others around them miserable with them as well. You could have do nothing wrong to make the bully made, but they still take it out on you.
When this man went and burned down the people's barns, he got satisfaction from that because that messed with them. Since he was not as rich as the other people or as well off as others around them, he wanted to bring them down to his level, which is so wrong in so many ways.
So what is your opinion? Do you think that under some circumstances it is okay to seek revenge from others, or do you think that revenge is wrong no matter what and that just brings you down to other people's level?
Friday, March 21, 2014
Mr. Gatsby
Hello again!
So this week we are reading the infamous "The Great Gatsby" and I can not even begin to explain my excitement! When I was in high school I never enjoyed english or reading anything that had to do with english, but when we read "The Great Gatsby" I actually really enjoyed it and I was surprised.
I started reading the first two chapters the other day and I forgot how much I enjoyed Fitzgerald's writing style and the type of terms he used throughout this novel.
When you are reading the Great Gatsby, the way that Fitzgerald writes it makes you feel as though you are there in the 1920's era. I would have loved to live in this era, with all the parties and outfits and bling! I always thought that if I lived during this time I would be a flapper girl. Maybe that is why I really lean towards the character Daisy. She is the typical example of what a flapper was, and in my mind she was beyond gorgeous and had gorgeous things.
In the first chapter of this novel you are introduced to Nick Carraway, who is new to the town and goes to a dinner party at his cousin's house, whom is Daisy. There you sort of get a background about Daisy's "Fabulous" life, which actually turns out to be not so great. You find out that Tom (Daisy's husband) is having an affair with a women that lives in town, also you find out they have a child and it sounds as though neither parent is too worried about the child and it is just in the other room the whole time. Nick was not to fond about finding out about Tom's affair and he seems pretty uneasy in this chapter of the book with all this new information he has come upon.
I really forgot how much I enjoy reading this novel and I cannot wait to get more into the book so I can really grasp the true meaning of the story again!
So this week we are reading the infamous "The Great Gatsby" and I can not even begin to explain my excitement! When I was in high school I never enjoyed english or reading anything that had to do with english, but when we read "The Great Gatsby" I actually really enjoyed it and I was surprised.
I started reading the first two chapters the other day and I forgot how much I enjoyed Fitzgerald's writing style and the type of terms he used throughout this novel.
When you are reading the Great Gatsby, the way that Fitzgerald writes it makes you feel as though you are there in the 1920's era. I would have loved to live in this era, with all the parties and outfits and bling! I always thought that if I lived during this time I would be a flapper girl. Maybe that is why I really lean towards the character Daisy. She is the typical example of what a flapper was, and in my mind she was beyond gorgeous and had gorgeous things.
In the first chapter of this novel you are introduced to Nick Carraway, who is new to the town and goes to a dinner party at his cousin's house, whom is Daisy. There you sort of get a background about Daisy's "Fabulous" life, which actually turns out to be not so great. You find out that Tom (Daisy's husband) is having an affair with a women that lives in town, also you find out they have a child and it sounds as though neither parent is too worried about the child and it is just in the other room the whole time. Nick was not to fond about finding out about Tom's affair and he seems pretty uneasy in this chapter of the book with all this new information he has come upon.
I really forgot how much I enjoy reading this novel and I cannot wait to get more into the book so I can really grasp the true meaning of the story again!
Thanks for reading :)
Sunday, March 16, 2014
I am back!!!
Hello all!
Man oh man has it been a busy week! Sorry it has taken me such a long time to come back to blogging, but I have not had a day off work since last sunday! It is good to be back though!
Hope everyone enjoyed their poetry week! Like I talked about in my last post I was very very nervous about poetry week because I just do not understand it, no matter how long I sit down and try to read poetry, it does not comprehend with my brain, so therefore props to everyone that thought this week was easy! I actually enjoyed my last week's readings of poetry.
One poem that really caught my attention was "mother". It is a poem about a woman who had an abortion, and in my opinion regretted it. I liked the way that this poet wrote the poem, it was very easy to follow and understand. At times it made me mad, at times it made me sad, and other times it made me happy. It was all over the place, but I am glad it was not just a depressing poem, because at the first few lines that is the direction I thought it was heading. I felt that the mother did not want an abortion, that maybe she had no support or help and just went off her initial reaction, and that was she could not do this alone. I do not think that the mother would have done what she did if she really sat and thought it through, because throughout the poem the poet talks about the life the baby is missing out on, and she will never hear their life or cry, or never know what that baby could of been. To me that seemed as though she really did not want to do what she had done and if she could taken it back she would.
I am not sure why that poem stuck out to me, but it did.
One poet I was not to fond of was e. e. cummings. I found him VERY hard to follow and if I read it all together in one big sentence it made some sense, but still I just had a difficult time grasping what he was trying to get across, but that just may be my struggle with poetry coming out.
Well thats all I had to say for this week:) Hope everyone else did well this week with poetry and all I can say is I cannot WAIT to read The Great Gatsby coming this next week!!!
Thank You
Too da Lou
Chelsey Meyer
Man oh man has it been a busy week! Sorry it has taken me such a long time to come back to blogging, but I have not had a day off work since last sunday! It is good to be back though!
Hope everyone enjoyed their poetry week! Like I talked about in my last post I was very very nervous about poetry week because I just do not understand it, no matter how long I sit down and try to read poetry, it does not comprehend with my brain, so therefore props to everyone that thought this week was easy! I actually enjoyed my last week's readings of poetry.
One poem that really caught my attention was "mother". It is a poem about a woman who had an abortion, and in my opinion regretted it. I liked the way that this poet wrote the poem, it was very easy to follow and understand. At times it made me mad, at times it made me sad, and other times it made me happy. It was all over the place, but I am glad it was not just a depressing poem, because at the first few lines that is the direction I thought it was heading. I felt that the mother did not want an abortion, that maybe she had no support or help and just went off her initial reaction, and that was she could not do this alone. I do not think that the mother would have done what she did if she really sat and thought it through, because throughout the poem the poet talks about the life the baby is missing out on, and she will never hear their life or cry, or never know what that baby could of been. To me that seemed as though she really did not want to do what she had done and if she could taken it back she would.
I am not sure why that poem stuck out to me, but it did.
One poet I was not to fond of was e. e. cummings. I found him VERY hard to follow and if I read it all together in one big sentence it made some sense, but still I just had a difficult time grasping what he was trying to get across, but that just may be my struggle with poetry coming out.
Well thats all I had to say for this week:) Hope everyone else did well this week with poetry and all I can say is I cannot WAIT to read The Great Gatsby coming this next week!!!
Thank You
Too da Lou
Chelsey Meyer
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
I am nervous!
So I have never blogged before in my life! I hope that I am doing this all right. So this in general is very nerve racking for me. Also this week is very stressful for me because I have never been that good with reading and understanding poetry. Since the next two weeks is strictly focused on poetry, I will probably be having minor headaches here and there. Also I looked at the reading selections and I was like OH MY GOODNESS! Please send good thoughts for me for the next couple weeks to get through all the rhymes and rhythms of poetry!
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