Candideeee

oh candide! This book brings many thoughts into my head. In the beginning it is just like the garden of eden. they live in a perfect place and then, they are removed and horrible things start happening. i felt so bad for Candide at first. he got thousands of whippings and other things that he just couldnt live through. I realized that this book was a satire very quickly because there is no way that any human being could live through anything they went through. i also got sick of how literally everyone came back to life. at first i would get excited when we found out someone was not dead..but then i just came to expect it every time someone was "killed." I think voltaire was making fun of organized governmnet? and just authority and life in general. Candide would stick to Pangloss' theory even when it got stupid to continue believing it. Obviously, Candide was not in the best of all worlds, yet he refused to come up with his own thoery and believe in his own thoughts on life. I just wish they would have stayed in Elderado to begin with. thats the only place they were happy at.

Even when Candide and Cungededjldfk were re- united, Candide was not happy. Cung lost her beauty and then Candide didnt love her anymore. i guess that proves what their love was base off of. I think in the end, Candide came down a long road and in a way discovered himself. He basically didnt believe in Pangloss' thoery on life anymore that everything is for the best, finally. and he came up with his own theory a little bit, that they must cultivate the garden. Now i am not even sure what that means, and thats just a whole other blog. im so confused at that ending and i was kinda bummed, not gunna lie. but it was a good book, it had me laughing.

spongebob squarepants!

so theres a pretty cool allusion in spongebob considering spongebob is the best ever.

There are these 2 heros of bikini bottoms and they are called Mermaid man and Barnicle boy! they are always there to save the day! they have this awesome cave thing that they live in and a pretty sweet car that looks like the batmobile. Even Mermaid mans costume looks like Batmans costume. so if you havent quessed it, then yeah, its an allusion to Batman and Robin! they basically do the same thing and even enter rooms the same way. they even have similar theme songs. its pretty sweet.

sisterhood of the traveling pants

ok...so yeah..i watched this movie the other day and saw a big allusion in it! although it wasnt the best movie ever i thought id blog about it

So this girl, Lena, goes to visit her grandparent in Greece for a Whole summer. Well anyway, she meets this guy and she starts to like him and hes all charming and everything. well she tells her grandma about it and her whole family freaks out. It turns out that they have been family enemies for an extremely long time and they hate each other. She is forbidden to see him again. Well, of course she doesnt listen and then they fall in love. Then Lena has to leave and they kind of fall out of love, but they still secretly love each other. Well, many years later they re kindle their relationship and then i think they will eventaully get married. but anyway, its just like Romeo and Juliet except they dont die at the end. its pretty good except the 2nd one is pretty horrible. the end just ruins it all. 

the office.

i just want to let everyone know that i love the office and its on very soon!!! and i cant even wait!

i thought id blog about my excitement.

also there are a lot of allusions in the office, like they allude to Home Alone, jeopardy, the simpsons and much more. :) i thought youd like that ms. Clinch

Wuthering Heights Characters

I thought the characters in Wuthering Heights were pretty lame. they were devolped very well, i just had so many mixed feelings about them. I mean i really liked the stroy and everything, but i got so sick of Cathy and Linton. I did not like Linton at all. He was just so whiny and always complained about his life and all i wanted to say was get over yourself! he was so mean to Cathy too and it was just weird. I dont see why she would want to marry him anyway. I know Heathcliff locked them in the house until they got married, but i just dont see why she would agree. and plus she said she was going to marry him anyway. i dont know why it just drove me nuts. I also had mixed feelings about Heathcliff. At first, i really like heathcliff and i felt so bad for him for some reason. i really didnt like edgar at first and then its weird, it just switched like half way through. Heathcliff just turned into the devil and then i started feeling so bad for Edgar because he loved Catherine so much and i dont think it was mutual. it just got so weird at the end. I thought it was just werid and way overbaord how Heathcliff went insane and had to own and have everything Edgar owned. overall, i was a little confused on some things, but i really liked it. i dont know if i would call it the ultimate love story though, like some people do. i mean, i thought Heathcliff was pretty creepy and i didnt really think it was THE ultimate love story but it was good. im glad i got to read it. 

Grendel

i thought our discussion about Grendel was very interesting and helpful. it was also helpful clearing up the Beo and beowulf are two different people because that kept throwing me off. i was also wondering what Grendel he looks like though! im imaging him as a monster but i dont get it because he is the son of Cain so i picture him as somewhat human...yet he does live in larr so i guess thats not like a human. i do somewhat feel bad for Grendel though...even though i know thats lame and that i shouldnt...but hes such an outcast and the story shows that he does have feelings too because he feels sad when he sees the guards and humans talking and stuff. also, you know how he is the son of cain, did the monks add that in there when the were writting the story down? because i thought that the anglo saxons didnt beleve in a God or bible and they didnt have anything religious in beowulf so i was wondering if the monks added this part form the bible like they did for the other parts...?

Aslan and Christ

Aslan is the lion in The Chronicles of Narnia. He is an allusion to Christ. 

Narnia has been waiting for Aslan to come and save them from the evil witch. She has taken over their country and is freezing everybody. Well, Aslan comes and the evil witch doesnt know waht to do. The bad people take Aslan, and he goes without fighting wven though he could have easily killed them all. they whipe and beat him and then kill him. well a few days later he rises from the dead! he then saves narnia and gets it back from the witch. its great and just very exciting. its a direct allusion to the story of Christ basically. 

Favorite Summer Reading

My favorite summer reading book was Wuthering Heights. it definietly kept my interest, although i did get confused at some parts. this novel had a lot of major themes in it. one of the main ones was good vs. evil. it is shown throughtout the whole book. heathclliff starts off as a good guy, or at least it appears like that and then he basically just goes crazy after catherine dies. he wants to basically ruin edgars life and posses eveyting that he posses, which he basically acheives at the end of the book. he is constantly trying to be better than edgar and does things just out of spite of him, like marrying his sister. another theme was love and passion. heathcliff is so passioniately in love with catherine and his life is just ruined when she dies. he was still haunted by her and thought about her all the time, even 20 years later. cathy and linton are supposedly "in love" even though i dont think is was real. and then cathy and hearton were in love and catherine and edgar were in love. Basically everyone falls in love with Cathy or Catherine.

The Sun Also Rises

so i thought id blog about this book. i basically felt one thing while reading the sun also rises, this is pointless! their lives are are really waste. I felt kinda bad for them actually. Basically all they do is drink and drink and drink. im surprised they can even function. Throughout the book i was wondering how they even make a living. none of them do anything! ughh it drove me nuts. and the other thing that drove me insane was Brett and Jake!! the whole time i read that stupid book i was wondering why dont they just have sex and get married if they love each other so much!?? then i recently found out that Jake is impotent and that cleared up a lot. i was so mad i didnt know that earlier..it really would have helped me out. i guess i didnt catch on that that was his war injury. but anyways i also got really annoyed with Brett. Shes just a slut and Jake is just always so sad he cant be with her. they all had miserable, boring lives and i feel bad for them. the one thing that kept me reading was the hope that they would all make something of their lives and stop being alcoholics but that never happened, unfortunitely. When i finished the book, i wondered what the point was and i yet to know...