last post

awwww this is the last post! well, as much as i didnt like the blogs at first, i think they played an important role in me keeping up with the readings, and as the weeks went by, they werent as bad as i thought they were!
overall ive enjoyed this course, i knew from the first day that jon was going to be a good teacher. i like the humor and energy he brings into the class, even though it may have been a book that no one liked, or a project that some of us (including myself of course!) were to shy or lazy to get started on. needless to say, how cool is it that were gonna have class at the gallery tomorrow!?
of course i loved the idea of getting rid of the final paper to focus on the wikipedia project, however i do feel guilty because i know i should have put a lot more work into it earlier. i like the idea of the project, because as we saw, most of the articles werent very good to begin with, and i think that the writers and themes deserve to have a lot of accurate information up on the web on a site such as wikipedia.
its been a good semester in this class, oooo also, i really liked how we got in groups to discuss paragraphs because that way we got to know and interact with out classmates!

feast of the goat, part 2

today i began reflecting on what we talked about in class, how the book is pretty much black and white without much grey. more specifically, i thought about urania in this book. she is a powerful figure in this book, because even though she went back home to where horrible memories surfaced, she still remained pretty strong until the end.
for example, on the last page when a man was trying to buy her a drink, she reacted strongly because there was no way she was going to forget her negative past sexual experiences with trujillo.
her way of dealing with her past seems unhealthy because she doesnt really deal with it, instead she suppresses it by constantly working and tiring herself out. however, it is hard for me to imagine how one would begin to deal with something so traumatizing.
i feel sorry for urania and its sad because girls like her got dragged into something horrible without being able to control it, which is very common under dictatorships.