I have always seemed really good at understanding what a story was about but reading this story I totally didn’t understand what was going on and found this story very boring. I keep having to go back and read a sentence again to figure out what it all meant. I totally just wanted to say screw it because this story took me about two hours to read. When I got to paragraph 88 it started to seem very interesting when the author wrote “Without hindrance I inserted my key, opened it, and entered. Bartleby was not to be seen. I looked round anxiously, peeped behind his screen; but it was very plain that he was gone.” That line made me want to read more and the reading started to go faster when I got to that part.

When I got to line 211 and 212 I found it very interesting and also kind of entertaining that they were saying this (“Bartleby,” said I, in the kindest tone I could assume under such exciting circumstances, “will you go home with me now—not to my office, but my dwelling—and remain there till we can conclude upon some convenient arrangement for you at our leisure? Come, let us start now, right away.

“No, at present I would prefer not to make any change at all.”) These two characters seem very odd and the fact Bartleby didn’t want to answer any of the other guys question seemed very weird. This story to me just seemed very weird and at the end I finally understand what was going on. http://sieteciudades.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/bartleby-y-discos-viejos/ http://www.bartleby.com/129/

http://www.glogster.com/btyson07/myglogster

“A Modest Proposal”

Jonathan Swift book “A Modest Proposal” was a very interesting read. The problem he identifies in his society is that children are huge burdens on their parents. Swift’s way out of this is selling or eating children, I am not to sure he should be taken serious on this one. I totally think he is joking but if he is not that is totally sick and wrong. The way he jokes about this was wrong and made me really not want to read anymore of it but I did because it was for class. This is totally not logical, why kill a child they didn’t ask to be put on this earth so why should they have to go through something like this. If a parent is having a hard time living their life then they shouldn’t have children. I totally understand why he wrote this though he wants the readers to think and come up with a more logical solution, which is totally don’t have sex if you can’t deal with what happens next it’s just that simple.

http://laliteraliteraria.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/a-swift-solution-to-irelands-problem-a-modest-proposal-by-jonathan-swift/