Excess is Not the Way

In King's novel he states that he believes stories are "found things, like fossils in the ground." when i read this metaphor i imagined a huge dinosaur skeleton in the ground and how hard it is to discover them but how great and accomplishing it feels to discover such a great thing. That's the same as the stories, when you find a great story or write a great story it feels amazing as you discover and unveil it.

King's metaphor of "writing as excavation" is like writing and removing the excess material that you don't need. In the novel king goes into great explanation in the toolbox section of how not to write too much. I totally agree with this metaphor because i don't like reading excess stuff.why read the excess? i just want to get straight to the point which king does and i love him for that!

The Search For The Dead Author

The search for Zora Neale Hurston was taken on by Walker with the accompaniment of her friend Charlotte. they both greatly appreciated the works of zora Neale hurston and thought to figure out what really happened to her and give her the proper brurial. in order to get more information out of people, she tells them she is Hurston's niece. She comes across many different acquaintances of Hurston and each person she meets gives her more information, thus extending the adventures of her quest. Some false information was given to her and Charlotte that upset them. like the fact that she died of malnutrition and it was a very poor and bad burial, but in the end they found out that she died of a stroke and she was very loved by her community. while trying to figure out the background and history of Hurston she starts believing that she really is related to Hurston. By hearing all of the views of the community that Hurston grew up with, Walker starts agreeing with what she thought Hurston would've sided with. So really she starts realizing her culture and heritage through the discoveries of Zora Neale Hurston's life.

Janies Life

Laying under a verdant tree,
thats where youll find the lovely janie.
Reflecting on life in her many ways,
janie tries to find love in what seems like a desperate place.
looking off into the horizon is where she sees her dreams,
but being crushed by men is always what it seems.
Married twice and still no love,
Janie's love life is like a glove.
she has the catch of the town
 but is always feeling down.
At the death of her husband might be a gleam,
of light, that proves.
maybe this life is more than it seems?

the year of questions and answers

 "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."  Write a speculative response on what the upocoming year will hold for Janie.  Will this eyar be the year that asks questions or one that answers them?  Will this be the year that does both?  Respond to at least three peers.

In Janies flashback, this is the year that she has asked and questioned herself about marraige and love, like the way she thinks love will begin to happen after she marries logan, but too bad it didnt. then one day she met a man by the name of Joe Starks and continued meeting him and then one day she built yp the courage and ran off, left logan and married Joe. The upcoming year is going to answer all of her questions, but then it might spark up a few more. This upcoming year is going to be very interesting for the newly wedded Mrs. Janie Starks.

Hidden feelings in marriage... its totally normal!

I believe that its totally okay and perfectly fine to hide feelings from the person you marry. Not everything has to be said or shown. Yes, it would be great to have an open relationship, but having a relationship that is too open might not be good. If a guy would tell me every little thing he was feeling i would get annoyed really quick and everything he would do or say would just bother me. Or when a man upsets a women, a women should tell him how it makes her feel, but only if it gets to a certain extent. If she constantly nags and complains about every single little thing I'm pretty sure the man would get annoyed. It goes both ways, if you talk about every single one of your feelings amongst each other it would probably get annoying for both the guy and the girl and before you know it, the marriage would be over.

Gatsby Questions

why does Gatsby take so long to talk to and communicate with Nick?
Why does Tom treat myrtle so badly when she mentions Daisy's name?
Why must Tom cheat on Daisy?
Why does Gatsby take so long to try and communicate with Daisy?
Does Nick really love Jordan, and if so, whats going on with his lady back home?

Fitzgerald a Poet In Disguise

"And, after boasting this way of my tolerance,
I come to the admission that it has a limit.
Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes,
but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.
When I came back from the East last autumn
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform
and at a sort of moral attention forever;
I wanted no more riotous excursions
with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby,
the man who gives his name to this book,
was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby,
who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn."

(Fitzgerald2)