This Weekend

Sucked. It was a constant headache and I felt like my head was spinning all day. No I wasn't drunk. My mother in law and my brother both flew in on Friday from Seattle. My brother flew in Friday morning in Sioux City, Iowa and we had to go to Sioux Falls, SD to pick my mother in law up that night. My brother stayed with my dad because my place was full. Let me give you a example of how the nights went: loud baby, loud house guest, loud arguing, and of course dinners with the whole family thats down here in this terrible place we call Vermillion. We had to run a lot of errands and my dad is the only one with the car so we had to work everything out and that was a headache itself. We dropped my brother off yesterday afternoon at the airport after we went to see my grandma in Iowa so I was on the road all day. Then when I got back the whole loud process started over for one more night and of course more arguing. My mother in law left this morning at 11am and now its back to normal I guess. Whatever that is.

Outline

I liked the concept of the outlines we worked on in class. After completing it I basically have my paper done I just have to add a few things. I think we should have this for every paper it really helps out.

Updated Thesis

Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" represent how selish people can be in this world and also how very few people choose not to be in that category of selfishness by walking away.

Thesis

Ursula Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" represents how selfish people are and for the ones who actually walked away represent the very few people in the world that refuse to be apart of such selfishness.

Reading Critically

This is the first time I actually went through a story and tried to find symbols or anything else that I thought had meaning. It's definitely time consuming but overall I think I did ok.

Symbols In "A White Heron" and "The Yellow Wall-Paper"

For "A White Heron" I just picked the symbols we did in class: cow, milk, gun, white. I'm not exactly sure what most of these mean, I'm not too good with symbolism. For "The Yellow Wall-Paper" I picked: haunted house, yellow, wall-paper. Like before I'm not exactly sure how to spot out these symbols or what they mean. I'm hoping thursday's class will help me better understand this topic.