"My experience"

This experience of the blog has being different because I have never done things like this. I think is better this way because we can save the paper and help our planet. In this blog we can write evrything we want without concerning of what poelple can say to us in the classroom. This really help us to express ourselves without any fear. Because some people are shy and do not dare to esxpress their thoughts talking, so this blog help us to express ourselves by writting our thoughts. I like this experience an I prefered this way rather than doing a porfolio.

"Daisy Miller"

This novel is about a woman who is American and lived in Rome, a total different culture. The real problem is that she is dating a guy named Giovanelli and they are always together and alone, no chaperon. And everyone around her are complaining about this situation, because they cannot stand an unmarried woman alone with a man; they have to be accompanied.

I think that Daisy is not a bad girl for doing all this because she is doing nothing bad, they are just enyoing the place. I thibk that everyone is misjudging her, because of her culture. I mean if Daisy is not part of that culture they shopuld not judge her, they should help her understand their culture. S I think that they are all overreacting, because she is doing nothing, but absolutely nothing wrong. They are just friends. But we see this other man always carring about her, whom is in love with her. Because he cannot leave them alone, he is always after her no matter what. Because he cares about her, and what people say about her. He is always trying to make Daisy understand the situation she is in.

And at the end when they are at the Coloseum she got infected with Malaria, for not listening to him. She died couple of weeks later, and he felt guilty of it. Because he reaches a point that he started to believe in everything people said about her. So after she died he regrest for everything, for not fighting enough for her.

"Lolita in Tehran"

This novel is all about memories of the author as he teaches American literature in Tehran University. In the second semester he gave to his students to read Daisy Miller and Washington Square. But both of them were a controversy because of the Islam culture. Those two novels were about Americans, that is why they argued so much about it.

This novel really shows how hard can be to live in such a culture that you can do absolute nothing. They underestimate the women, they do not allow the women to do anything except housework. They should be dress a way that covers their whole body, and if they show something they can go to prison or get killed. Of course we are talking about a novel of the 70s were the culture was very strict for everyone. I really admire the author because for all he had been through he knew how to go for his goals. I mean he is an Islamic and went to study to America and then came back to teach the Islamic students about a different country, a different culture that in some way affects their minds. I think that this novel is a great example of how to pursue our dreams no matter of the difficulties we are being through. We can do anything we really want, if we fight for it.

"The Secret life of Bees"

The Secret life of Bees is a movie that shows how things were couple of years ago. When the racism was very strict, that black people could not be seen with white people, because they will get punished. Just like Zach got kicked when he went to the movies with Lilly. it is hard to imagine how things were back then. i cannot imagine how much hate a people can have to another for just a skin color. I mean everyone is different thats the fun of life, because if we all were alike life will be boring.

I cannot understand why the racism started, just because they thought they were perfect because they were white, and black people were just a simply mistake. I mean black peolpe had been through the history and they were treated like crap. They are human beings like you and me. And I think there is no reason to treat a person that way, becuase they also feel, they think, they breath, they hear, we are all alike in that way, we all have needs, we all need to be heard, need to be helped. And that type of person is reflected in August Boatwright. She never saw the color of anyone, she saw the person, their personality, their way of being. Thats how things should be, not by color, but judge by personality.

The meaning of the title is that the bees have a secret way of acting that nobody understand. And all they need is love, just like us. So we have to send the bees love. That's what we should be doing between us, the people. We are the only animal that thinks and we should know better, we should think more in the others than in us. Because thinking of us all the time hurts the rest of the people, specially the ones we care most. So we shoul follow the example of August and care about others, instead of rejecting them.

Marriage

In the project we made about marriage I did a research on the marriage of China. And what I found was that the traditional marriage in China has different procedures: matchmaking, engagement, betrothal presents, meeting the bride, three bows and drinking wedlock wine. The first, the matchmaking is that a matchmaker woos the girl in the boy’s behalf and asks the age and year of birth of the girl and then goes to a fortune-teller to predict their future. After that comes the engagement which is a ceremony involving an exchange of certificates which tells the birthday of each other, including the hour of birth. Then comes the betrothal presents that are gifts sent to the girl’s family. Then the groom goes to her house to meet her, and the bride is veiled and carried with the sound of drums and in a sedan-chair for the wedding. After that comes the three bows also called bow to the heaven and earth. This is the most important rite ceremony; the couple must stand side by side and tell three bows, one for the earth, heaven and ancestors, second to their families and third to each other. And finally the most exciting procedure of all and is drinking the wedlock wine.

I choose this type of marriage because I found really different to what we are used to. I mean the couple will no meet each other until tat day in which they are getting married. If that marriage begins to be practiced here people could no make it, because we are used to choose our couple, not that our parent choose them. So I think that that should not be done because everyone has the right to be happy with their decision.

"George and the pink house"

This story is about a man who lived in a pink house, tearing apart, who abused of his family and killed his wife. But then his son got older and studied, her daughter got married and he re-married but she left him. Then a lot of women arrived as well as a lot of sailors, but after a while George ended alone, and few days later he died.

In this story we can see the reality of our present. We think that all the abuse between couples and families has ended, but it has increased today. Abuse has become a daily news. But this story reflects how a family directly affected by the abuse of a father could go on without him. I mean Elias studied, he could get prepared academically. His daughter Dolly got married. Everyone had what they wanted except for George, who died all alone by himself in his house. Maybe he was not conscience of what he did, maybe he did it because he was raised that same way. But even thou he was raised like that I had always thought that we have the right to decide how are we going to be after we are married, we choose how we are going to raise our kids, and how are we going to be with our couples. Its all our choice, nothing else.

"The Storm"

This story is about a storm that arrive to the town and disturbed everyone, specially Calixta Bibi was not home, and he was only four years. But then Alcee arrived to Calixta's place and helped her around with the clothes that were hanging outside. Then they both went inside and Alcee tried to clam Calixta's worries, so he hugged her and eventually they were involved in passion. Then the storm stopped and Alcee left and Bibi and Bobinot arrived. She was happy to see that they were safe. And this story end when Alcee send a letter to hid wife telling her to take more time with vacations that he was OK. And his wife was happy with the news and stayed.

In this story we can see how the factor storm atemorizes everyone. At the beggining Calixta did not knew that the strorm was coming and she was seated relaxing waiting for Bibi. And when the storm came Calixta was really worried about Bibi. This story shows us how people feel when their kids are gone. Because the important thing here is not the storm is the factor that Bibi left the house. And she was worried about him because she did not knew where they were. This shows how a parent should be with their children at all times.