beautiful day

Yesterday was just beautiful it was great getting out of class a little early. When I passed in my midterm I had a rush of clamnest come over my body, because now its off my hands. I felt even more comfortable after we started talk about how everybody had problems with the midterm and that he is going to keep those thoughts in his mind while grading. When we started talkin about the Fredrick Douglas reading everyone had really good points about how he wrote the story for example how he didn't give details on how he escaped so that other slaves could escape with out being caught. But as i mentionned before the one thing I thought that was interesting was when the slaves would rank the slave masters as being mean and least mean because in my eyes they are all cruel.
I am almost done ready the Passing which is a really good book I can't wait to be done with it to find out if Irene and Clarie get back in touch or if Irene says something outstanding to her, or if Clarie gives her a reason as to why she is hiding who she is.

Ok so I keep forgetting to blog, so this week I am going to try and blog about three times so that I hopefully catch up. But anyways first I want to say I was so excited that class was canceled last Thursday because that gave me more time to work on the Midterm which if I may say was harder than I thought it was going to be. I also read that Fredrick Douglas story it was very interesting but somewhat confused me when he had to keep changing owners. I also thought it was interesting how in the beginning he only saw the torment of the slaves and later on in his life he experienced it himself.
The craziest thing I noticed in this reading was how they ranked the people who watched out for the slaves as being mean to least mean. Because in our mind today they are all equally mean because they are all there for the same reasons. But through all his struggles, in the end it turned out to be a good story of his life.

Okonkwo What?

Well after I got past all the crazy similar names I understood the story. The quiz he gave us on Thursday allowed me to answer things that were going through my mind the entire time such as why is the story named things fall apart my answer to this was something along the lines of because everything in the story fell apart even from the beginning from his father, Okonkwo was extremely disappointed in his father and tried never to become him. Other things that fell apart are his family, his eldest son ran off to be with the Christians, and in the very end it seemed like Okonkwo was just so fed up with everything falling apart that he fell apart. Another question I really was interested in was who was the other. Of course most of us put Okonkwo, but I also put his eldest son and his father, because just like his father Nywoe was a lazy man and he eventually left and became a Christian. Therefore this was an interesting reading and gave a greater insight of the civilizations of that time than I had ever read of heard of before.