Hey everyone,
I'm not sure what all of you thought about these short stories, but I personally like them the most out of the readings we discussed before, "The Shadow of the Image", is a great story in which almost everyone can relate from adolescents to adults, throughout every day life. Not only do Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, demonstrate accurate descriptions of ordinary people confined to an ordinary world, both composed their "stories" within a story, as very diverse at the same time. Most importantly, what stood out in my mind as creative and attractive to readers, was the Ewens, brilliant usage of color in detailing, each picturesque image throughout this reading. For example, a short narrative about a man named Bill O'conner just sitting, leisurly reading his daily news, says, "The morning shines on the red-tan forehead of Bill O'Conner..." The first word to jump out at me, in reading this sentence, is "red-tan", because I think that most of us beings are sensory indivudals, and look for something vibrant and interesting to catch our eyes. Therefore, adjectives such as these, keep the reader wanting to read more about these images, and more about the people mentioned further in this reading.
In the "Note-Passing" article by Finders, she introduces a simple writing style, that almost ever teenager throughout the world can relate to, passing silly notes. Who in this class can honestly say that never passed a funny, embarrassing, or even risky note? Most people have. I know I have, I even got in trouble plently of times doing so. When reading this I realized, back when I was in middle school, we just wrote notes for fun, not for status. Finders points out in her story how the "queens" achieve status in school by the more notes they recieved and how uncool you were if you did not receieve many. This is the main thing that interested me the most, because to me notes are just notes, who knew pen and ink and a simple, cute note could make you so popular! ~Angel~
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I like your dialoge with Angel both here and in your post. Nice to see the "collaboration" or the "dialogue" between posts. I also think it's interesting that both of you comment on the fact that note-passing was not done purposely for "status." I think Finders would agree with you here. I don't think she is saying that the girls in her study were intending to create status. Status "happened" through the practices. I am thinking about our discussion about gender and note-passing last Wednesday. I'd bet that no one "intends" on reinforcing "heterosexuality" when they pass notes...yet, through our discussion, it "happens." I wonder how we can begin to account for this!
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