The Final Blog

There have been a lot of stories and poems that I loved in this class....others...not so much. The poetry could be confusing at times and the stories sometimes seemed pointless, but even so I enjoyed to read them and to see so many different writers ways to express themselves. So many different things and view points on life and it all shows in their words.

Mint snowball for example,is a writers thoughts on a past she didn't get experience herself and her desire to be a part of a tradition that was long past. She explained her feelings about something that didn't have any relevance to most people who would read the story, but you could tell she was passionate about just by the words and details she used to describe her grandfather and the mint snowball. Her passion is what made me interested in the story, and although Ive never tried a mint snowball in my life i felt like I did.

Crumbling expectations is another good example of a writer writing about whats on his mind, and having a great piece of work come from it. If you read the story like a news article or something similar like that, it wouldn't make sense, but if you try to understand the story from the writers perspective it begins to make sense. He wrote about his life and his relationship with his father, and it almost seemed like it was therapy for him, like he was trying to figure it out himself as he was writing it.

I'm glad can say that I learned a lot about my own writing from these stories. Before, I always would second guess my words, not really if someone would understand what I was trying to say,but If they would like it.I learned that it doesn't really matter if someone agrees with or even likes your writing, because a writer writes for themselves, they pour their soul on paper so they can can express how they feel about their world and if someone likes it thats great, maybe you can get it published, get rich or whatever, If they don't, oh well move along and continue to do your own thing. I enjoy what i write and as long as that is true then i'm guessing that I am doing the right thing.

Crumbling Expectations

At first I thought that I would never understand this story, I had read and re-read it and still couldn't understand the concept. Then I focused on the last sentence of the story and everything began to make a little sense. "I quote back to my father now words he has written but never wrote". I realized that the author was trying to say that he learned the same things his father did, almost reliving the exact experience is father had before him.

The author mentions his daughter towards the end of the story, maybe she takes his place in his fathers story (hope that makes sense). It sounds likes she pretty old seeing how shes married, and he wants to leave the same lessons to her.

The crumbling resort being a metaphor for the fathers body is one of my favorite parts (I hope that doesn't sound bad). How he neglected all his relationships and loved ones in the pursuit to become healthy again. I wonder if his family is why he wanted to become healthy again in the first place? If it was, how would he react if he got healthy but his loved ones were no longer there? I guess that really doesn't matter anyway seeing how that didn't happen in the story, but I think of things like that from time to time. People try to hard to make other people happy they end up hurting them in the long run.