18 MAR 2010 Essay Packet

After reading the essay packet I can really only say one thing in general, the essays are a little easier to read than poetry. Of course, this is not to say that they're easier to read than short stories, but they are interesting to say the least.

The style of the essays were all written as a narrative. I was able to picture the Author in front of me and they were simply telling me a story. They were written as if they were all spoken stories. Such as "I saw this guy and he did this" instead of seeing "There was a guy who did this". They made for an interesting read considering that the picture in my head of an old timer telling stories about back in the day made the most sense while I was reading them.

The only one that I really had trouble with was the List of things to do today. I couldn't stop myself from trying to figure out who that person was, perhaps that is the intent. For the most part, I would have an idea of who that person was, but then on their list something completely off the wall would be there. Not quite sure what the point of the list was if there was no way of determining who the list was intending to be... of course there probably is a way, I'm just not privy to it.

My Paris...

My Paris by Gail Scott was definitely an interesting read. I was almost structured in some kind of order but that order escapes me. I know it wasn't chronological, nor was it event oriented, but it still had a certain kind of flow that was easy to follow. Perhaps Topical? Is that a word?

The piece was written almost exclusively in stage directions. I'm not sure if that was the intent, but there was no a single line of dialog. The author was able to elude to dialog however whenever the main characters ("S" or "C") had something to say.

I'm not sure if there's some kind of connection, but it seemed like each sentence had a word that was taken out of it. Perhaps we've just been reading too much poetry and I'm attempting to find some kind of pattern in everything I read now, but I wasn't able to find anything with missing words. Perhaps I'm just not putting the correct words into it?

The story seems to show the narrator becoming more and more french throughout the story. Perhaps it is chronological, but being the stranger in a strange land goes out the window around the third part. Then at the end, she's the insider gossiping at parties. It was however quite confusing... this has been my first experience with this type of writing.

No one...