Sandy’s Comments (group member since Oct 29, 2008)

Sandy’s comments from the Curie World Lit: Only The BEST group.

I believe that my sophomore teacher Mr. Woo teaches under the school cultural criticism. Mr. Woo will be consider a cultural criticism because, I remember in his class reading and watching the movie, The Raison In The Sun. It was a story about a poor African American family which decided to move to a white neighborhood. The Raison In The Sun shows the dominant vs. dominated, the wealthy and poor and also about ethnicity which Mr. Woo taught us. He taught the students how the African Americans were treated in early times,that they were not equal as white.

I agree with Joe in what he says about this quote. "When Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams one morning, he found out that he had been transformed in his bed into a enormous bug" (Kafka 11). I agree that Kafka is a modernist because, in modernist writing there's no introduction (exposition) the story just goes straight to the action. Kafka didn't describe anythin in Gregor's life before being a bug he just went into the action when Gregor had already been turned into a bug. Also Kafka uses reality in his story which makes him a modernist. He had Gregor worry about being late to work which everyone in reality have done before.

I agree with Rana in the part were she says that Mrs. Mallard was probably looking at death outside the window, where she could be free. But then, around the middle of the story I think it shows that Mrs. Mallard was letting out her true feelings, that she felt free now that her husband was dead. It goes back to the entrapment about marriage. Which she let society get to her about wifes staying at home, because if she wanted to get out of her home she would of have done it, but she didn't she stayed and followed society.