Biblical Allusions in Beloved

This blog is going to be a bit of a ramble, but it’s relevant, I promise. I had a bit of an internal battle doing this project of finding biblical allusions in Beloved. I did not believe that there could be any biblical allusions worthy of being noted; I thought that it could possibly be counted as blasphemous. Taking the word of God and twisting it in such a distorted way so it would work for this assignment, but It turned out that there are some legitimate allusions. Lot’s wife, fire and brimstone, the horsemen, Romans 9:25, and the loaves and fishes are just some of the major and most obvious allusions. I had a poor perception of Toni Morrison, and still do for using the Gospel in such disturbing ways. Turning Jesus into a baby ghost come to life and getting into the wrong side of business with her step dad. Turning Mary into a deranged former slave who killed her daughter and who tried to kill her other children to save them from the life she had. Jesus and Mary are two people that Christians aspire to become like, but who aspires to become a manifested baby ghost or a murderous mother?

Rememory

This blog is to be about the term rememory. Microsoft Word just underlined it as incorrectly spelled, but not anymore, I am adding it to the dictionary! Toni Morrison used rememory in that weird poem chapter; Sethe was asking Beloved if she had rememory her. The way it is used is unusual and the word is all together original. The first thought that came to me when I firstread the word rememory, was a certain episode of Adventure Time. That is a cartoon on Cartoon Network that shows the adventure times of a boy, Finn, and his faithful dog, Jake. There is one episode called, “A Memory of a Memory,” which basically is my definition of rememory. The show dealt with a whole tree of memories in Finn’s head. Its parallel to the tree of memories in the novel, Beloved, all the different branches that lead you off into different tangents but are all anchored at one memory. Seeing rememory manifested in this episode makes me wonder if the creators of Adventure Time read the novel too.

Blog 4

So this blog is supposed to be my reflection on the definition essay and the description essay. The definition essay was fun to write, mainly because of the word I chose to define: sugar. But it was equally difficult because of the word limit; I had to kill my darlings several times because I could not fit the entire darling in 200 words. The description essay was not so memorable. I am having difficulty trying to remember which picture I wrote about. Now I remember, the steadfast soldier and his ballerina. Honestly, that is my favorite love story of all times. This was also a difficult essay, because I felt so limited to what I could say and what I could not say. It felt like I was writing a biology essay, very straight forward, as if there is some formula I must follow, so all I have to do is simply “plug-n-chug.” Not very satisfying.

Blog 3

This blog is supposed to be my own definition of rhetoric, let’s see how I do. So basically, I thought that rhetoric was a piece of straight forward literature, like speeches. I believe that poetry does not count for rhetoric; I have this poor connotation of poetry being whimsical. While rhetoric makes me think of strict, very straight forward prose. In the tiny textbook, its shows rhetoric in a triangle; the triangle connects the audience with the speaker and with the subject. Rhetoric also has a lot to do with connections. Connection with people, places, and events, most importantly the events, places, and people right there at that moment. The Bible must count as rhetoric because it is hard to connect with the Bible, unless you know the context in which these texts were written.

Those lovely little walks

I ought to be working on those two blogs with the tiny literature book, but I am not really in the mood for textbook work. So, I shall get out anything I need to say now before I hit the books. Ok, first of all, this weekend I watched The Muppets, which was a very fun movie. As it has been said before, reading an essay should not feel like reading, but it should feel like being taken on a lovely little stroll through the park. Well, this movie felt like I was being taken on a fun little jog through a musical. This is not the first movie that I lost myself in completely, another movie that I watched somewhat recently that did not feel like a movie was Super 8. After watching that movie, it felt more like I had just stepped of a crazy roller coaster or simulator ride, not like I had just watched a movie. If only I could write an essay that was as good as those movies.

the style analysis essay

This is a blog I should have done before starting on my extra credit blogs, but I got a little carried away by the thought of extra credit! So this blog is supposed to be about the style analysis essay that we wrote about the sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. I got a B on that essay, so nothing to complain about. Honestly, I should have done better, but procrastination got the best of me. My detail paragraphs were marked most on. I really was not sure how to write those paragraphs, so I guess that would be the reason why I failed on those paragraphs. I will have to review that style analysis packet!