Skunk Dreams

So Skunk Dreams didn't' make a lot of sense to me. The entire time I was reading it I didnt know what to think, was she 14 the entire time? how old was she then? why is she talking about elk? and why is this a story at all, whats the point? I know this sounds really negative, but I understood the first story so I figured this one would be just as easy to read, it wasn't to me.

Anyway, one of the first things I annotated on was how she never really answered why she was sleeping on a football field in the first place. I felt like I was missing information all throughout the story. Also on a smaller note, in the first two pages there was more alliteration than I've ever seen in my life!

There was also a paragraph on the 2nd page that reminded me a lot of the movie Inception. It might have been because I read this the night I saw Inception. But the paragraph mentioned a lot about dreaming and the quote that really got me thinking about it was when she talked about people thinking each others thoughts and if she was still dreaming. As I kept reading all I could think about was how much it was like Inception, but overall I liked the other story a lot better, this one was really confusing.

The Talk of the Town

So I read this article awhile ago, and at first I didn't really understand what it was about at first and I felt pretty stupid once I picked it up. One of the things that I picked up about this article was that even though we all knew what this was about the author's never directly said it was about Virginia Tech and 9/11. In the first few sentences I underline one part that said "why it happens over and over again in America." I thought this was particularly interesting, because I've never realized it much before but you really don't hear much about other countries having disasters like Virginia Tech and 9/11, even if they do happen as much as America they're never taken over by the media like they are in America. One other part I circled in this article was the paragraph about Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter at Virginia Tech. I know that what happened there was terrible and all those students shouldn't have died, but I do feel bad for Cho's parents and family. Cho Seung-Hui was part of the media for awhile after the shooting and then his family must have become part of it too, so I do feel bad for them because the American media does go over the top sometimes, like making Cho's family the villain too because he was their son. Overall though I didn't think this article was too bad, it kept my attention and opened me up to different things I never would have thought of