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You can never escape the rhetorical triangle

You may hope or wish that you can, but it will come for you at the most unexpected times, for example in your German Composition course. Shocking, I know. Even when you think you’ve escaped, @kreinbring65 is there, hiding in your brain, ready to pounce with the rhetorical triangle

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Minutes into Handmaid’s Take season 2 and it’s already fucking with me

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Stole @heyitsparpar mentor poet, and found a new one by going to @amandalovelace and Cyrus Parker’s poetry reading and book signing today.

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Two years in AP Lang ago I wrote a paper about corrupt language using a sermon presented by Westboro Baptism Church. Tomorrow they will be at my university (just off campus) though I cannot interact with them due to an exam, I reminded how they use corrupt language to convince people.

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The Scarlet Letter

Another three chapters of The Scarlet Letter, that puts me through chapter 10, and in these three chapters I've noticed the chapter titles VIII The Elf-Child and the Minister IX The Leech X The Leech and His Patient They all refer to characters of the story Pearl and Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth also known as Roger Prynne, and then Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmesdale. These three are definitely a focus. Though these are not the first interactions with the two men it is a better insight into their characters than when they first appeared earlier in the book, though we already know Roger Chillingworth is Hester Prynne's husband, but will never be known as that to the towns people. Dimmesdale is truest the most interesting, a sickly clergyman filled with guilt and distrusting of all, even of his always present physician, Chillingworth. The more I read the more I consider the fact that I am anything but the original audience of this book first published 167 years in 1850, as I am fairly confident Nathaniel Hawthorne did not write this book for an atheist teenaged gay girl, and it really makes me think of how his original audience would have reacted differently than me to different conflicts that happen throughout the book such as when in chapter VIII with the debate over wether or not Pearl should be taken from Hester, as my immediate reaction is of course not she is her mother no matter the sinful actions that brought Pearl into the world. However, I have no way of positively knowing how people of the 1850s would view the same matter, should the daughter be taken from her mother? It is something I cannot know but it intrigues me, as does the rest of this story. Also side comment but the language is so old and the definition of intercourse is communication or dealings between individuals or groups. Because that is a common word used in this book. Along with methinks, which is fun.

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Mini Scarlet Letter blog but thanks to my book for pointing out Bible allusions to me. Now I see the significance of the choice of scarlet as the color

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The Scarlet Letter

I’ve read another four chapters of the Scarlet Letter and more has been established, i am very uncertain of Hester Prynne’s husband who won’t be known as her husband, I am not sure if he loves her, hates her, or both. He seems to be very interested in revenge. Hester Prynne’s child is now three years old, her name is Pearl, and she is apparently absolutely beautiful. And she might also be a “demon child”, Hester and Pearl have just gone to the Governor’s Mansion. It’s pretty interesting, I like it but this book is no easy task. The characterization of Hester and Pearl are very interesting too, the are both described as very beautiful, along with their personalities, especially Pearls, she is sweet but she is also an angry little girl.

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Picture with an OU librarian. She was a bit uncertain about this and the printers know my feelings.

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The Scarlet Letter - the beginning

So I've just started the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn, well I just finished chapter three and I am very intrigued. I'm a bit unsure about some of the aspects of the plot as the 1850s English can be hard to read but I like it, especially the contrast of vocabulary in what I'm used to reading. I like it so far, there's not much to say yet, it's just been a basic set up of what's happening, Hester Prynne has her 3 month old babe and the Scarlet Letter A sewn on her bosom, she had stood in the market place for all to see and she will not say who the father is. Her character is very interesting to me in this fact, as in when first walking out of the prison she seems to completely ashamed yet when she refuses to tell who the father is she seems like a strong female character. I am also intrigued by Hawthorne's choices in describing Hester Prynne's beauty and character and I looking forward to see how he uses her character and develops her as a character.

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ee Cummings’s balloonman. Aka Kreinbring being creepy and weird

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Mentor Poets

When I went looking for a modern poet I actually started crying. The first poem I read was “Heartbreak” by Amber Tamblyn, as an animal lover this poem about loosing a pet absolutely broke my heart, and I loved it. I then went to read Tamblyn’s poem “Brittany Murphy”. I enjoyed her poetry and would happily use her for a mentor poet. 

Then I found Patricia Lockwood and read her poem “Rape Joke” the raw emotions and truth in her poem brought me to tears. I was absolutely in awe of her form and how it seemed to fit her story perfectly. Poetry like hers is not often poetry I am drawn to, something I would usually glance past. However, I am captured by her poems and personality. They are fascinating to me, though I don’t understand quite everything in them, it just makes me want to read them more. Lockwood is certainly my first pick as a mentor poet.

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Finished my project, would love it if you guys would watch it, maybe leave a comment. 

Video about how law increases violence. 

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Once I found the strength to be myself, I no longer had to be myself.

Andrew Sullivan 

When I was first asked to respond to this quote, I thought it was completely absurd, why wouldn’t you want to be yourself, however after mulling it over i understand it. As a teenager I spend a lot of time not knowing who I am, and struggling to know why my brain is working the way it is. However, because I am young I am constantly learning new things about myself and I have to not only learn who I am, I have to accept myself for who I am and I have to find the strength to be myself. However, once I become come comfortable in that version of myself and I am happy being that version of myself I can move onto the next version of myself, I no longer have to be that person. I don’t know what Sullivan wanted it to mean, but that is how I see it.

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Why can't a woman be more like a man?

George Bernard Shaw 

I would like to know why a man can’t be more like a woman. There are many ways men and women are different, and a lot of the negativity/inequality of the two comes from society and the stereotypes associated with each gender. Men are stereotypically considered strong, intelligent, powerful, money-makers, and dominate, while women are stereotypically considered weak, dependent, overly emotional, housewives, and submissive. However just because someone’s gender has a stereotype it doesn’t mean they meet it, it is also impossible to say what traits the perfect person would have, so why are “masculine” traits considered to be better, when in all reality these traits should be gender neutral because someone of any gender can have any trait.

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