Babysitting

So I'm not sure if this is substantial, but I'm hoping that someone gets a kick out of the this wretched night. So on Saturday my high school football team won the state championship 42-0, naturally the coaches wanted to go celebrate their win along with their wives, and that's how I ended up with 3 little terrors. Ridge 4, Cooper 3, and Avery 3 months are the kids and it started off with Avery turning into a bear cat because she was so tired, but would not go to bed. Finally she fell asleep and then it was time to deal with the boys. One of my friends came to help because I know that alone I couldn't have handled it. Early in the night around 8:00 Cooper had pulled my back pocket open and was "looking" in it. I asked him what he was doing and he walked away, it was then that I realized it was all wet. He had just spit all of his milk he just drank into my back pocket. Who even thinks of that? Dani and I spent the whole night separating the boys who constantly had each other in leg locks and all other kinds of shenanigans. They wouldn't listen to us at all! My boyfriend stopped to give me some new jeans and the boys instantly loved, and listened to him. He was a big help! The boys had slept 4 hours in the car so there was no way they were going to bed early! They'd pick out a movie, watch five minutes and then start attacking each other again. Cooper was in time out 4 times, Ridge was only in once, but they both could've been in there the whole night. Finally around 11:30 they fell asleep on the couch curled up next to each other. Laying there peacefully it was hard to imagine that they were the same kids. Around 1 am the wives came home and we were free!

Outline

The outline worksheet was kind of helpful, I was confused in the beginning so I didn't do it right for the first 2 pages wrongish I think. I like to do my own thing though, it's nothing against the outline worksheet, but I guess I'm just used to doing it this way, I tried to fill most of it out, but I also did my own little sketch like I would normally do. The worksheet was very organized so that is a benefit of using that over other methods. I hard a hard time focusing on it, that could be do to my excessive levels of stress right now, but neither here nor there. It was a handy thing.

Thesis

If placed by a set of moral values Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," displays a skewed view on the correct behavior in the midst of another's suffering, by not helping the one suffering, and just walking away from the situation.

Thesis

If placed by a set of moral values Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas," displays a skewed view on the correct behavior in the midst of another's suffering, by not helping the one suffering, and just walking away from the situation.

Reading Critically

So when I read the stories the first time they both seemed pretty drab if I may say, but when we went over them in class and the real meaning of the White Heron was brought out it turns out these stories were actually quite intense. I guess thats what happens when you analyze every word and sentence of the reading. I'm going to work on reading things more slowly and trying to figure out what the author is really trying to convey to me, even if I might have to dig deeper to find it. I'm afraid that I'll take something in a completely different way and I'll interpret the whole thing wrong, but I guess then that will just be what the story means to me because I suppose we all have different interpretations of things.

Symbolism

"A White Heron" A few things I thought were symbols in this story were the color white, and the hunter, and the tree. I think the white symbolizes the very plain and simple life they live in the country. It's nothing crazy, it's just a basic calm and quiet life. The hunter symbolizes/creates turmoil and is different, they were fine until he showed up. He is the only guy in the story the cow, grandmother and Sylvy are are girls, and so when something different and foreign shows up Sylvia is uncomfortable and a lot of people are uncomfortable with new and different situations so actually that is kind of a worldly theme. I think that the tree kind of symbolizes the difficult decision she has to make about whether or not to tell the hunter about the heron. The climb isn't an easy one and she struggles with it, she also has a hard time with her decision because she doesn't want to tell him really, but the money would be helpful to her and her grandmother so she struggles with it, at the same time it kind of shows that she isn't willing to give up her morals for money and I think a lot of people wouldn't be able to make that decision in the right way like she did.

"The Yellow Wall-Paper" I had a hard time finding symbols in this one but one that I did find is the way that she just listened to her husband and her brother, because they were men. The male dominance was a theme I think, she knows something is wrong with her, but since they men say there isn't, there isn't. Also when she doesn't want to be in the room with the horrible yellow paper she has to stay because John says that the air is better up there. I know the yellow paper is a symbol, but I'm not really sure of what. I googled what the color yellow symbolized and it said that it stood for happiness, but also is the color of cowards and deceit. I don't know if either of those really work, she wasn't happy, I guess maybe she was cowardly because she just submitted to whatever John said, but she was a bit on the loony side so I don't know if that counts.