Blog 3: Due 7/16/07

THE REVOLT OF MOTHER
"Sarah put her apron up to her face; she was overcome by her own triumph. // Adomiram was like a fortress whose walls had no active resistance, and went down the instant the right besieging tools were used.” This quote was located at the end of the story. It sent a shiver down my spine. I liked the first part about Sarah because she finally stuck up for her and her family and it worked. She won. No more would the barn and the farm animals take precedence over her family. She had proven her point and she had won. I believe that Adomiram was so sad because he had finally realized what he had done and he felt bad that he had put these animals over his family who he loved so much. He didn’t realize that it upset them so much, because he hadn’t been paying much attention to them. It wasn’t that Adomiram didn’t want a new house or that he didn’t love his family, he just wasn’t paying enough attention to realize they were upset.
I really liked this story because it said that women can overcome men. We just have to stick up for ourselves. We don’t have to do exactly what men say (because that was expected at the time this was written).
I also think this story goes way past building a barn instead of a house. I think it has a much deeper meaning. I think it shows the importance of family and feelings. Put your family first because in the long run, they will be there for you. Not the horses or the cows or some stupid barn. In the end, the family stuck together, they compromised and they forgave eachother.

TRIFFLES
This play was rather interesting to me and it definitely left me thinking and wanting to read more of it. It never told us whether or not the wife killed her husband or not. My favorite quote is where they were talking and the wife said that she didn’t wake up when her husband was murdered. I think that no matter of how sound of a sleeper you are, if someone was being strangled or hung next to you, you will wake up. But on the other hand, he could have killed himself, in which case there was no struggle and maybe then she wouldn’t have woken up. I also that it was interesting how her husband was killed with a rope around his neck, strangled and the bird had the same type of death. Those two things alone got me to start thinking that maybe it was the wife that killed her husband. The quilt confused me though. I don’t understand how that played a part in the story whatsoever. The writer definitely made it suspenseful, so that I wanted to continue reading, however when I finished reading I was very disappointed that there was really no ending. We had no idea what happened.

AS CHILDREN TOGETHER
This poem was very sad. As I was reading, it wasn’t making much sense to me, and then I read the line that brought it all together. “I don’t know where you are now Victoria. They say you have children, a trailer in the snow near our town”. I believe they were sisters that did everything together. Victoria was a little older then the author. Was Victoria was promiscuous? The poem was about their memories together. Maybe Victoria may not have been happy with her life and ran off with one of the guys. I can tell from the poem that the author misses her sister very much. This poem had a lot of emotion in it and the author seemed very depressed.