God

Now this story, this story I enjoyed!  First of all I would like to add that the title completely threw me off.  I am an atheist and do not particularly enjoy religious themes when it comes to literature.  However clearly, God was just a symbol(thankg god).  The story was really unique in my opinion and although there was some foreshadowing with his fondness towards Nutella, I still could not foresee the timeline.  Clearly there is some irony that comes into play in this story.  The frat life was pretty on point. I am not that experienced in that field but I have seen some turnouts and it is pretty accurate.  It was ironic how the only guy to finally be able to satisfy God was a gay guy.  Ironic in many platitudes. First that it was a gay guy that satisfied the girl between all the other more manlier brothers.  And second, more religiously, that it was a GAY guy who pleased GOD.  Seeing how the bible does not condone gays. Really made me chuckle to be honest.  Great story!

The spring breeze

It was quite a strategic move to place this reading during spring.  It was easier to connect with the story as spring is in session for us as well.  This story felt very confusing to me time wise.  I am not sure what is really happening.  Are they doing the things that are happening? I mean, how many times are they going to eat and drink?  I felt like I knew what the girl wanted.  She wanted something adventurous and new.  Break away from the everyday mold and do something new, just as that new spring breeze is coming through.  It was also quite stereotypical of men and women.  Women being that they do not share what they feel and want something they do not know.  Then men are portrayed as oblivious to the women's thoughts and feelings. Overall i though the story was ok, I was just confused as to what really happens.

Finishing Up

For the last week of the blog (5/10-16), I'd like you to make some final comments about your learning in the class. What do you think you have taken away from the course? What information? What skills? What friendships have you made and why? What do you plan to do after EN-201? Are you transferring to a 4-year school? To study what? How will fiction writing help you in this future endeavor? Also, what do you think I should do differently? What would you have liked to do less of? More of? What should we stop doing? What would you have liked to do instead?

Also, you should post about the class readings on Tues. What readings did you like best? How did you like reading your own work?

God

The fact that Melanie got her nickname because she wrote a poem about caleb, A guy she slept with that couldn't hold a nut. I felt like that was a interesting part of the story. I felt like too much was going in the story. Melanie was pretty much way to promiscuous, because she kept on sleeping with different guys from the fraternity. BUT at the same time the fact that she did that we learned a secret about the writer, he gave off reasoning to the readers that he was gay. I do believe he admired nutella but any man  that thinks about man while performing in sex with a woman might be considered gay or even bisexual.

Thoughts about "The Breeze"

As I was reading "The breeze" I had to continuously go back and reread paragraphs. The story kept jumping from different time periods/areas I believe Sarah was acting very difficult. If she didn't want to continue going to the movies and eating from the neighborhood deli, she should have came up with another idea. She didn't know what she wanted.I think it would have been better off if she had just stated she wanted to explore the town. It's not fair to her husband when she burst out into emotional temper tantrum and he's just thinking she's fine with doing the regular. I think there was also a part when they attempted to have sex but her husband was not in the mood or turned on. In this story, I also noticed that a breeze was brought up more than once. They talked about it in the subway while waiting for the train, I believe. It also came up again when they were at the Italian restaurant.

God

Was this writer secretly in love with Nutella or did he admire him so much that he yearned to be like him and fucking Melanie and her reciting the poem was a way to feel like Nutella. This story is sick. You have a man that nuts too quick another that cant get up and another who thinks about another man in the bed with a woman. Bruh! Not the greatest reputation for this brotherhood. Then you have a girl who tries to go through them like candy really! Very entertaining story

The Breeze

So this woman is on her balcony and feels a breeze of spring and she wants to live in the moment and have a good night. so she asks her husband to come home early so they can do something. When he gets home she doesn't know what she wants to so, she doesn't know what she wants throughout the night everything doesn't feel right or go as she planned. She wanted the picnic she felt it was getting late, he wanted the movies and already bought the ticket she said no. sex in the park couldn't happen. They went to the bar with there friends. The woman was just confused she wanted to find it but with no it to it and her man was trying to accommodate all her decisions.

"The Breeze" and "God"

"The Breeze": Besides for "This Is Not a Love Song," this story is probably one of the most innovative stories we're read this term. As Tysean and Carllene have pointed out, this story seems to revise itself as it goes along. In his bio, Joshua Ferris says that he wrote this on his phone which seems to suggest that this is why the story is this way. I'm skeptical. (If you want to see a story from 1969--long before smart phones existed--which does something similar, you should check out Robert Coover's "The Babysitter".) This is clearly an intentional story that has little to do w/ the technology it's written on. Why is the story written in this form? What does the form have to do w/ the content? Why is this story called "The Breeze"? What does the breeze (the wind, not the title) have to do w/ this relationship? What do they both have to do w/ living in NYC?

"God": We're back in first person in this story. It's Oprah's story and it's a closet/coming-out story. How would it be different if it were in third person like the other story? What does this story say about being a gay man in this society? What does it say about fraternities and friendships between men? What is the significance of Oprah's fantasy about the future consulting firm that he and his brothers will found and run? The insignia of a clockface in the talons of an eagle?

God

Like the previous entry I posted, I also had to read this story a second time in order to gain a better understanding of it. I honestly enjoyed this story because there was so much craziness that was occuring with these circle of friends. The whole concept of a frat house and the one girl that seems to catch a few guys attention seems so typically and realistic but yet it's also a reality. The most interesting part to me was the fact that everyone in the story had their own nickname. This is the first story that /i have read that has had such weird yet realistic nicknames. I find this cool because the narrator states that everyone in their frat house has a name to describe their personality.

The Breeze

When I first read this story, it was a bit confusing. So when I read it a second time around I gained a better understanding of it. I must agree with Tysean when he mentions the chronological time line that is presented throughout the story, it is confusing in the beginning, but like he said the space breaks are very helpful. I say this because throughout the story the couple goes back and forth between two situations. One situation is when they were trying to figure out what they wanted to do in NYC, and the other was when they were looking for a place to eat. The one thing that remained constant in the story was where the couple ate. For example: When they were roaming around NYC and going back and forth as to whether or not they would have the picnic in Central Park they got their food from their " neighborhood deli"; Whereas when they were bickering about which restaraunt they wanted to eat at it always seemed that they ended up in either an expensive Italian resturant or a cheap one.

The Breeze

This is perhaps my favourite story so far. However, I had to read it twice because it seemed too chronologically unsound at first. The author's use of space breaks are what helped the most with comprehension. The story revolves around a couple in NYC; both of them perceiving the world in their own way, leading to varying degrees of conflict. The premise seems simple enough, but the unorthodox arrangement is what differentiates it from other stories.

The breeze

Its a story of many different possible outcomes. I haven't read a story like this until now. My favorite outcome was when they actually had sex in the park after the picnic.
The girl is different in every scenario.  Shes a little crazy. The guy was the same in all the scenarios except in the one qhere he couldn't perform and wanted to be like the guy he saw at the bar