Metamorphosis makes me giggle :x

So we are reading this book, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, which if anyone has played Final Fantasy 3 on the SNES or FF6 on the Playstation you should recognize that Kafka sounds very similar to Kefka, the antagonist of the game.

Anyway, back to the serious business.

The book opens with the main character (Gregor) waking up as a giant insect of sorts. Kafka's disgustingly accurate discriptions of Gregor in his insect state. So basically, we're supposed to accept some european's clearly drug-addled story as a work of pure genious? Not that its a bad story, but it should not be amazing just because of how strange it is. Strangeness does not equal genious in my opinion. If a book is being startling just for the sake of being startling, it dosent make it a work of genious. Ok done for now, gotta make like 2 more posts by tomarrow so peace peeps.

Close reading of "The Trees" by Rush

So I decided to do my close reading on the song "The Trees" by Rush. I'm not sure if any of you out there have heard this song before or not, but its quite good. It is about the taller trees in the society a.k.a. the upper class blocking out the sunlight for the shorter trees in the society a.k.a. the lower class. The lower class trees feel they are being robbed of their sunlight and "scream oppression!" The taller trees claim they cant help if they like the way they're made. This is essentially the everlasting clash between the rich upper class and the poor lower class.

I feel this is a very good text to analyze due to its political undertones and general theme of equality throughout. I feel that close reading while it is very useful and generally enlightening, it should not be needed to understand what the author is trying to say. If the author relies on just the smart, close reading section of society to close read his or her work to understand what the work is trying to say, then they will not become nearly as popular as they could be. I authors should strive to write their stories in a way that regular people reading for leisure can understand the basic plot and theme, and also have things hidden for close readers to find and giggle to themselves about how smart they think they are.

I would also like to add that i am by no means a professional close reader or summarizer, and the previous summeries/close readings may or may not be accurate.

Yea, its true

I am indeed really awesome, kinda like this blog is gonna be. Unfortuneately its only stuff we discuss in class, so it won't be as awesome as it truely can be, but I'll make the best of it. Not really sure what to talk about at the moment.........so i won't say anything i guess. Have a good thursday =]