Translations

I thought that reading Translations was a nice close to the semester.  I had read a similar story in my English class here freshmen year and I enjoyed Translations just as much as I had enjoyed that story.  I find the name of a place fascinating.  A name can tell you so much about a place and what it  means to the people who live there.  Doing what the British did - taking the Gaellic names of all the Irish cities and towns and hills and mountains and Anglicizing them - I think helped take away part of the charm of Ireland.  Gaellic is a unique language and the English showed little respect for it by just barging in and manipulating the people into changing the name of the place in which they live.  Did they not realize that they were taking away the identity of the Irish people?  Did they know and just not care?  Should the Irish people have tried to do more to stop it?

Power

On Tuesday, we talked about the power in Power during class.  Another example that I came up with was when the police came to take Ama away for killing the panther.  The passage read, "Ama knew they would come.  She is ready for them.  It was part of the bargain all along - or should I call it destiny" (76).  Ama did what she did and she did not back down from it or try to hide from it.  In her own way, I think she created her own power by not running away from the police.  

Short Paper 2

Before I began writing Short Paper 2, I was extremely skeptical about the assignment.  Being an Accounting major, I don't usually have to be too creative.  Most assignments I have have a correct answer and is worked out logically.  So I thought I was going to have a problem being creative.  But once I decided on which of the works I was going to write on and I really thought about what I wanted to add to "The Yellow Wallpaper," I was not as scared of the assignment as I thought I was going to be.  In fact, I have a feeling I am going to enjoy writing it.  I have a lot of ideas as to what happened to the narrator after the story was finished and I am going to enjoy forming those ideas and putting them to paper.