Thursday, March 15, 2012
A Different Approach
So if you follow my previous blogs, you will see that I felt my last book did not have what I needed for my blogs, so I am taking the high road and going for a classic I have always wanted to read, Catcher in the Rye. I have a brief idea what the novel is about thanks to Billie Joe Armstrong writing the song Who Wrote Holden Caufield? (which happens to be his favorite song off of their album Kerplunk!). Also i am a complete fraud. If you spend anytime with me, chances are you will hear me scream at the top of my lungs "KILL THE PHONIES!!!!!" and I have no idea what I am talking about. So hopefully after reading this I will. I will be looking for literary devices and themes that play a role that serves a purpose more than just entertainment.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Well this is awkward
Sooo I'm going to go ahead and give you a minute to read the post below this one.... Go ahead I'll wait.
Good?
Cause I'm not.
So I finished lines and right at the end repition kicked in once again, with an awful ending. Now, I don't mean to say it was anticlimatic or poorly written, just that the ending did not really end, but i guess thats what you get when you read a series. Once again the story is cut off and leaves you hanging simply wanting more. I also learned that there are six books in the series, so i still have a while to go, but I guess this is just another wonderful example of how repition is key for a series. As soon as a reader is hooked on a series they want to be picking up the next book as soon as they place the current one down.
Also, I know that for Q3 we were expected to be more analytical with our blog posts, and I don't want to make this sound like a cop out, but I can't. Well, maybe not in the sense I am supposed to be. While reading this novel, I was looking out for literary devices and their effect on the book I obviously found how plot was incorportated and imagery was used to paint a picture for the reader, but after reading this novel and thinking of others I have read like it, they do not serve any other purpose than to entertain, and there is nothing wrong with that. This is not Shakespeare. This is not Coleridge. It's entertainment. The point of the style of this author is simply to get the reader hooked to continue reading the series. I guess that is why Mrs. Reilly told us Harry Potter isn't literature, and that annoyed a lot of people...
I <3 Mrs. Reilly.
Good?
Cause I'm not.
So I finished lines and right at the end repition kicked in once again, with an awful ending. Now, I don't mean to say it was anticlimatic or poorly written, just that the ending did not really end, but i guess thats what you get when you read a series. Once again the story is cut off and leaves you hanging simply wanting more. I also learned that there are six books in the series, so i still have a while to go, but I guess this is just another wonderful example of how repition is key for a series. As soon as a reader is hooked on a series they want to be picking up the next book as soon as they place the current one down.
Also, I know that for Q3 we were expected to be more analytical with our blog posts, and I don't want to make this sound like a cop out, but I can't. Well, maybe not in the sense I am supposed to be. While reading this novel, I was looking out for literary devices and their effect on the book I obviously found how plot was incorportated and imagery was used to paint a picture for the reader, but after reading this novel and thinking of others I have read like it, they do not serve any other purpose than to entertain, and there is nothing wrong with that. This is not Shakespeare. This is not Coleridge. It's entertainment. The point of the style of this author is simply to get the reader hooked to continue reading the series. I guess that is why Mrs. Reilly told us Harry Potter isn't literature, and that annoyed a lot of people...
I <3 Mrs. Reilly.
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