The main focus of this week in class was reading and working on our group projects. We finished up the rest of humor this week by reading "The Drunkard" which was more of a fun read than "Rape Fantasies". I think that was due to the fact that as a group we gave each character their own unique voices. Which proved amusing later on in the story when Larry, the little kid, got wasted off of a pint of what he thought was lemonade. I think adding the voices really improved the reaction that we had for the story and definitely made it more memorable. Also the humor in "Rape Fantasies" was heavily based on irony in the sense that all of the women talked about these rape fantasies that were not what you would normally think of when you think of rape. The speaker in the story also plays on that idea for a lot of the text.
On a side note. For a bit of follow up research on the passage rape fantasies, I decided to read an article on why some women have them. The research done by some researchers at Notre Dame and the University of North Texas found that women who were very sexually open or felt desirable were more likely to have rape fantasies Another thing that I finished up this week was the Quiet American. Which turned out to be a lot better than I had expected. I crammed the last bit of reading I had to do on Thursday night after I got home from my game in Saginaw. After about page eighty the story really kicks off and I started to get into the guts of the story. My favorite part of the story was *spoiler* finding how Fowler was kind of sort of involved in the murder of Alden (A.K.A. Pyle). The way the story jumps around different periods of the past was a unique way to tell the story and I really enjoyed it in the end, even though it did confuse me a bit in the beginning. I can definitely see how this book is considered to have "literary merit" and I would absolutely recommend this book to other people.
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Josephine
11/1/2016 07:55:09 am
Hi Edgar,
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