http://vgolf360.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:33:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Henry Layton tells the reader about how his father was gentle and his father was violent, and it wasn't just that he was both of those that killed him. He claims "neither half of me wrought my ruin. It was the falling asunder of halves, Never a part of eachother, That left me a ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2009/01/13/henry-layton-lucinda-matlock/ "I lothed you, Spoon River, I tried to rise above you, I was ashamed of you. I despised you As the place of my nativity" Archibald explicitly states what many residents of Spoon River have been thinking, that they just want to leave the place. Searcy Foote and Mickey M'Grew talked about college ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2009/01/10/archibald-higbie/ As I was reading this section, i had something little to say about many of the poems, so I figured I would post it here, since we can't write in the books. Wendell P. Bloyd- It was interesting for me to see how the whole Adam and Eve story was just ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2009/01/08/spoon-river-anthology-p35-53/ For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment; Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid; Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life. And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the winds of ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2009/01/07/george-gray/ I chose these three related people because they all think differently of themselves when presented with similar information. Doctor Meyers thinks he did so much for the town as a doctor who took in those who could not pay, and then when he is blamed for Minerva's death dies himself. He ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2009/01/06/doctor-meyers-mrs-meyers-and-doc-hill/ Now, dat’s how everything wuz, Pheoby, jus’ lak Ah told yuh.  So Ah’m back home agin and Ah’m satisfied tuh be heah.  Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons (191). Janie had more of an adventure than ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2008/12/21/their-eyes-chapters-18-20/ There's enough fights and action in these chapters for the whole book. Janie is jealous of Nunkie flirting with Tea Cake, Mrs. Turner is jealous of white people and how they get treated, Sterrett and Coodemay fight in Mrs. Turners restaurant. I skimmed over what was available of this book, ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2008/12/16/their-eyes-chapters-14-17/ Janie is able to see some semblance of love with Tea Cake. He doesn't have much, but she's afraid he might just be using him, as are the others in her town. He doesn't really care much about his possessions either and doesn't even buy a car until he wants ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2008/12/15/chapters-11-13/ " You changes everything but nothin' don't change you- not even death" (86). Janie says this to Jody when he's on his deathbed. First she can't even enter the room but forces herself to, and is just in time too. Jody ends up dying and she's upset. We see at the ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2008/12/11/their-eyes-chapers-8-10/ Just when Janie seems to be about to leave Jody and move on from her husband, yet again, Jody pulls a stunt to show he that he can show compassion. First Jody is so focused on his goal of dominating the town and being a respectable mayor, which to Janie ... http://vgolf360.edublogs.org/2008/12/10/their-eyes-chapters-6-7/