Self evaluation and Reflection

May 12, 2012

                                       

Today we are making a self evaluation about our blogs. I have to pick up a blog that i feel proud of, and write about it, describing  why i feel is the best of all my blog entries.

The blog entry that I particularly feel proud of, is number 6 "The Fight". This blog is very interesting for me because now we are able to see Rufus' transition from a boy to a man. I feel proud of this blog because i was able understand clearly that Rufus is who he is because of the society around him, which influenced him to act like acts. 

Reading kindred has taught me new words and it also has improved my vocabulary in many ways. Writing paper three has helped to improve my grammar. literary quizzes are a perfect practice to remind us what we have read, and it also has helped us to analyze the reading better. Blogs from 5 through 9 to understand kindred in different ways and also to make us realize how society acted in the eighteen hundreds. We learned about slavery as a system of control, where we see what slavers used to do to oppress blacks, like whipping them and taking their families away from them. Another topic we talked about was black stereotypes where black women called "the mommies" where happy living with slavery, which clearly wasn't true. This was something that white people invented to reject the idea that blacks were suffering for what white slavers were doing to them. These are few examples of what we learned when we write blogs and the class discussions with our professor.

what I have learned from my classmates blogs is to take different prospective from others and think about and try to analyze why they think that way and compare it with mine.

Here is the link of the picture: 

http://www.brainbasedbusiness.com/2007/03/what_would_other_say_about_you.html

Looking back at Kindred

May 2, 2012


                                              

Today we are looking back to kindred and analyzing different characters of the novel. I have to write a blog discussing what Sarah, Alice, and Dana  have to endure and sacrifice and also i have to explain which of these characters is the most heroic in my point of view.

Sarah:  Weylin took her children away from her and sold them, so she had accept the fact that if she tries to do escape or do anything against the Weylin, they would sell the only child the Sarah had. she does what ever they tell them to do without complaining. She is like a mother to Dana and Alice and advice them, so they don't they get whipped. 

Alice: She is forced to sleep with Rufus, to protect her self and her children from being whipped or sold. she loves her children a lot, she wouldn't know what to do without them. after Rufus pretends to sell her children, she gets so anxious and sad that she decides to kill her self, because her life means nothing without her children.

Dana: She is very brave and her propose is show Rufus that slavery is wrong, she is willing to resist whatever it comes to change Rufus mind toward slavery. after being slapped in the face, whipped and work for a lot of hours, she stills resisting. when Rufus tries to rape her, she decides to kill him seeing that he would never change.

In my point of view Sarah is the most heroic woman, because she has to accept her life as an slave, so Weylin doesn't sell the only child that she has left. She is not looking only for herself, but also for other slaves as Alice and Dana. She gives food to Dana, even when she might needed for herself or her daughter.

I chose this picture because this is how i think Sarah Alice and Dana would look like in the antebellum.

here is the link o the picture: http://www.aawc.com/Zfamily.html