Extra Credit Blog
Over this course i feel my reading comprehensions skills have grown and my deeper analysis of what im reading has improve as well. This has come from my fellow colleagues giving there opinions on passages we've looked over in class. Having group and full class discussions about certain writings was very beneficial to hear opinions from different perspectives.
Writing my book was a bit of a struggle at first the biggest problem was just coming up with a solid idea. I had to many things i wanted to try and couldn't really stick to just one idea. The next issue came with picking my work. Which pieces did i want to include? Which writings best fit with what i was trying to display in the book? It was a lot of fun to put together but also some work your writing changes when you know it will be viewed by others.
Through my book i wanted to encourage people to start reading more or perhaps to write there own story. Its very important to have these skills not only have them but keep them from getting rusty. Some people don't like to read or write especially teens, When actually there is no escaping it we do a form of reading and writing everyday language is all around us. Illiterate people are doomed to fail.
I decided to put some tips in my book on how to improve there own writing. I felt this would encourage others to start writing themselves some people just need the right push. I felt when i first came to the class i was one of these people I hated to read especially poetry it was much to confusing now its alot easier to understand and alot more fun to read because of it. My writing has improved and now i even do it on my own time.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Blog 10
In house of the future the author recalls the event of his brother dying and how it takes a toll on him and his family. What i like about the story is that he seems to be writing from the perspective of a few people not just his opinion about whats going on. The author describes the mood and certain setting of the house mentioning how theirs always a light filling each room even in the dusk of night. One thing i didn't like was he never fully explained his brothers condition this could be at the time he was young and didn't know or maybe just didn't wanna talk about it.
You can capture an idea of the rest of the family from his descriptions. He mentions his mother became quite a heavy smoker and how his father had lost his natural light. To me by natural light i think he meant his emotional support. So you could argue the house of the future is an escape for him to leave the bad times he;s enduring right now in his life and that maybe in the future things will turn out better. Either way it seems like an escape for him from whats really going on.
What i found interesting was the way he describes the house a couple of bedrooms and 2 baths he mentions. The story was written in the 1960's about 15 years after World War 2 during this time a lot of families lived together parents and husband or bride of child in single homes or apartment complex. The 1960 is where we see an introduction to mass structures of housing built for multiple people. The house he describes is very ahead of its time for the period in history.
In house of the future the author recalls the event of his brother dying and how it takes a toll on him and his family. What i like about the story is that he seems to be writing from the perspective of a few people not just his opinion about whats going on. The author describes the mood and certain setting of the house mentioning how theirs always a light filling each room even in the dusk of night. One thing i didn't like was he never fully explained his brothers condition this could be at the time he was young and didn't know or maybe just didn't wanna talk about it.
You can capture an idea of the rest of the family from his descriptions. He mentions his mother became quite a heavy smoker and how his father had lost his natural light. To me by natural light i think he meant his emotional support. So you could argue the house of the future is an escape for him to leave the bad times he;s enduring right now in his life and that maybe in the future things will turn out better. Either way it seems like an escape for him from whats really going on.
What i found interesting was the way he describes the house a couple of bedrooms and 2 baths he mentions. The story was written in the 1960's about 15 years after World War 2 during this time a lot of families lived together parents and husband or bride of child in single homes or apartment complex. The 1960 is where we see an introduction to mass structures of housing built for multiple people. The house he describes is very ahead of its time for the period in history.
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