Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Creating Fear (assg. 6)

1. I'm not a fan of being scared. The only time I'm okay with it is when I know I'm not in any real danger and I'm with friends.
2. A lot of things scare me, like my basement when it's dark.
3. Madness is when someone is odd to the point of nonsense. To be considered mad by my book you'd have to say weird stuff that makes no sense.
4. Drugs can make people go mad, but utter confusion does too.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

First Lines (asg. 5)

Part One:
1. Adding a core value, and the wrong one at that, TayFay was going down.
2. It was this morning they noticed the addition that had been made to the dining hall wall. Where the four core values were once draped above the kitchen doors now hung a fifth, slightly higher than the rest.
3. All remained the same as before. All but for a 4x12 plaque of wood suspended above the kitchen doors.
4. "Patricks not gonna be happy"
"I sure as hell don't want to be around when he sees it"
5. He had it comming, guess being in-camp cooking all summer got to him.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Assg. 4

Task One:
B. Connie's character draws the reader in by her neurotic personality. I think she's just a confused kid who doesn't know what the hell is going on, and doesn't get it. Joyce Carol Oates has Connie represent how our society can corrupt kids into basing life solely on the way things look and totally disregard all other senses.
D. This story most likely doesn't appeal to very many people because of how odd it is. It's written pretty intensely and can bring a sense of discomfort to the reader.
E. In the end I think everything clicked for Connie. And then she called the cops.

Task two:
1. one centralized character
2. easy to follow plot
3. regular sized font
4. small number of characters
5. one centralized setting
6. totally relatable
7. or totally ridiculous (none of this in between business)
8. no science-fiction
9. or fantasy
10. narrated by someone