Deconstruction

People who study structuralism try to find the meaning of all words in all languages.  They look for the overall meaning in all structures.   There have always been something missing and, thus, the absence of a ground to explain all of language.  In the Post Structuralism days scholars believed (almost identical to the formalist) that communication was on the grounds that all words shared the same universal meaning.  The ideology of structuralism in simpler terms is just the understanding of the overall structure that is taking place.  What I interpreted from this chapter is that this technique is just like a cause and effect.  Scholars just take a word, analyze it and create their own multiple interpretations about the word.

To understand God, one has to have vast knowledge of the devil first.  This is Deconstruction at its finest.  Deconstruction is the deconstructing of words themselves in sense.  Every day we look at a word and assume that automatically that this word has an essential meaning to and nothing else, right?  Well this is where you would be wrong.  Structuralism pay attention to the overall text, they labor within the text and nothing else.  There whole ideology is that, words have different meaning to them.  They do not believe that one word has just one concept or one way of comprehension in them.  People who practice this technique (Structuralism) have multiple meanings to every word, because they look at every aspect of the word.  These people play of the format of wordplay and puns. 

Signified and signifiers are a clear example of this notion.  Signifiers are basically the written word or punctuation of the word.  While the Signified are just the signs, or the incepted thought that comes about when the word is presented to you.    Let’s take the word cat for example.  Cat normal has the meaning of representation of an animal.  But to another person on the street the idea of a cat can be a person.  This is what signified and signifier mean. 

A different interpretation is the name of the game in Deconstruction.  Explaining a term or even logic itself first requires one to know something that is completely opposite from the text.  Another  way of explaining deconstruction is that in a sense you have to keep continuously keep using other words to first grasp the understanding of the essential word to begin with.  The whole ideology of Deconstruction is complex beyond complex because there are so many ways of breaking down a word and taking the smaller parts of the word and then explaining those smaller parts that appear in the original word itself.  This whole practice is very ludicrous but somewhat interesting.   Deconstruction is just the idea that there are different interpretations that can be spotted in a word.  Communication as a whole is an ever changing practice that will continue the cycle of having multiple meanings.  This whole process of communication is the magic of conversing in the first place, because no word has the same meaning over time.

My Amendment Response

It sounds like this guy is trying to invent a new way to restrict the human libido.  He brings up that as a child he use to skip around, wear his hair long, and he had the constant feeling of being happy to be alive so overall he was a sissy.  Then he goes on to say that he "reinvented" himself to be manlier.  He preaches about people going after their desires and he sounds as if he wants to propose this radical idea that they should all change, they being the gays, females with male qualities and men with feminine qualities.  If that was the case well then what’s the point of living.  I mean, were all born differently and the world would be quite boring if this lunatic were to have his way.  In all honesty I think the author of this poem would have been a homosexual himself or either a beta male at worst if he were never to have conformed to the ideas of society. 

 This piece made me conjure in my head the "John Wayne" concept, or in basic format the idea that men are supposed to be gladiators and have no type of conscience at all.  If you pay attention to the movie's that are being put out have you ever seen a mainstream Superhero or the Protagonist ever lack stereotypical male qualities?  Have you ever see the damsel in distress in these "epic" movies act like men.  And even if there is a female as the main protagonist in the script they always have so male quality to them.  We as Americana’s have identified male characteristics are strong, and the women to be well just women.  This ideology is spanned for years, but back to this piece as a whole.  To me the narrator of this short write is trying to deliberate that if he can change himself into some type of manly "robot" then you too can shut off your desires and become what you were born to be. 

 I do agree with him one thing, he says the nation can't be run by the anarchy of unrestrained desire and that is true things have to be governed to a degree, but in the same sense I ask the question well who is he to tell others to deny your self’s the freedom that you have as an individual.  If you want to be famine and you’re a man than do that it goes the same way for straight men and gay, be what the hell you want to be.  First off this guy even says he undertook the what, "he thinks" is a classic American project of self-improvement.  I laugh at that statement because first of all, what is a true American, and how does that go into class, and ethnicity?  Me being the black man I am right now, being America doesn't come with many benefits especially when you have darker skin.  To me I always said that light skin African Americans are the new white, my color was never designed to be a part of this America in my belief so when the narrator was saying that he had already lost his argument from the get and last but not least.  Who cares what he thinks lol, I mean I try to respect everyone’s opinions as long as it’s not complete bs, but this is by far just so Fucking ridiculous lol as my man RZA would say I mean come on, really, you are honestly gonna tell me to resist my desires because someone else told me too?  I wonder what this guy does when he has overly sexually urges lol.

The Knecklace

Marxism is blatantly a tool distributed in this piece.  Madame Loisel is blinded by material wealth, instead of self-worth.  She strives to become one of the wealthy, while her husband is pretty much set in the lifestyle that he has made for himself.  In the story, I really believe that the diamond necklace is a representation of how illusional wealth really is.  This is similar to the grass is much greener on the other side belief.  Madame actually believed that these people were beautiful.  She wanted to be just like them but on the other end she really didn't know how foul these people were as well.  As hard as her husband worked, his thoughts and his ideas that blessed the company were irrelevant in the eyes of the bourgeoisie.  She fell for the allure of societies "gems" which is crazy because the very same she lusted for never gazed over at her, not in for a second.  The party that she did finally attend, her husband had to conjure up, just to get into the party, because first of all who in the bloody hell would invite this ingrates that are a part of this class known as the Proletariat.  So she got to live the dream, of dressing up and going to this get together and dance the night away, but, in honesty for what?  She lived her whole life for a moment that came back to haunt her and utterly put her in more bondage than she could ever imagine.  In that scenario were first she got the necklace and then worked ten years just to come to find out that she had worked for literally nothing.  It goes back to the theory in which Karl Marxism discussed that it is the working class that gives the wealthy their riches.  That without this strong crutch to hold on to the wealthy would be weak.  It is the wealthy that take the products that the working class creates and distribute it back to them in way that is far from clever, the idea is simply brilliant. 

Vanity is the key to the success of selling a lifestyle.  Even in today's society the wealthy and lavish lifestyle is birthed by the actions of capitalism.  People buy things that have zero worth to them, but it’s nice to have.  The spirit of competition is the curse of our society.  In the story the story of the necklace look capitalism works out for Mamde Liosel and her husband.  Her husband work hard but yet doesn't reap the benefits of his labor.  Sure, he has a decent standard of living but that he works for doesn't even acknowledge him.  Like the story says he eats pot pie while the wealthy entertain guest at this extravagant party.  At the end of the story, Madame finally realizes her error, and starts to truly appreciate what she has instead of what she doesn't.  This should be a lesson to all walks of life in society.

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the ills .......

Araby

In Araby i can kind of relate to the tennager in the story because he represents innocents.  Well what about his innocents represents me, they ask?  When I say innocents i am speaking on his ignorance to the world.  He sees the world through his imagination, and through his imagination it guides around the desolate streets from which he is trapped to.  Without imagination, as a child growing up by yourself and with only a handful of freinds, it is extremly hard to cope with reality especially when everything around you is in turmoil and so pale.  The tennager in the story has feed his fantasy with these illustrations that have been left by this deceased preacher.  He takes the books and uses them as a manuscipt, sort of a blueprint to his own fantasy his own "illusion" about how things were suppose to be.  This is basically the fairy tale that he wants to believe that everything in his mind is pure and everybody is nice when they are not.

Before he even speaks to this girl he builds her up to be some sort of a goddess, and shareing devininty with God himself.  She pure in aspect to this kid.  Even when conversing with her for the first time he is left almost speechless when he actually comes into to contact with her.  So from this picture you can see that this kid has really buying into the preachers writings and has stuck to this alternative world of fantasy, and he plays the role well.  He plays it so well until the end.  He plays the role of the knight and the girl without even knowing is casted to be his queen.  The love struck youth even goes as far to speak in midevil terms during the middle of the story calling moments "enchanted" and using words like "chalice".  To me the kid is really acting in the wrong movie, because his surrouding never play off on his imagination.  For example when he gets to the market place the girl greets him as an obligation instead of actually caring as I put it.  This tears him apart because he expects everybody to be nice and over joyed.

When I see that he frustrated because of that you can obvioulsy tell that this child in my view knows nothing of the world and that his imagination even sometimes jades him from reality completly.  He is left torn apart and destrut about the whole affair.  He does not care about love anymore and he's more hopless than ever.  He starts to see the world for what it is and I feel sorry for him because his imagination is what keeps him alive.  I mean even the start of the story the setting is descirbed as a real dull environment, and I think that "love" is just a crying out for change, because he shuts his surroudings out of his mind.

Contradictions in my thoughts

Why should my creativity be shackled by my oppressor, which is my landlord.  You see my landlords are the ones who take my loans and distribute them amongst themselves.  They are the ones that read scriptures of Shakespeare and tell me that this is right and i am wrong like the slaves from the past.  Taking my place on this ship that sells to this wilderness that they deluded me from, telling me that the land would be called "Creativity" and when i got there i found out that the land was called Imprisonment, and big brother to shackles.  They tell to work the fields in your paper, but to do it in their way.  How can someone create art if the canvas is already there on the paper?  Creativity is a blessing but on this day it is but a memory in my eyes.  I too share sometimes formalist opinions.  How in the world can your critique creativity.  Shakespeare sometimes even wrote in lesser forms of language, a language that isn't proper which contradicts his whole background, which is England.  England, which is the highest degree of what, was proper and what was not.  So in a sense I feel as tho I am but a savage when i write.  I don't write what the completion of the paper is and neither do I savagely.  I am but a slave to what my mind illustrates to me.  So it’s like I have two masters.  The first being my mind and the second being my preceptor. 

Well i am against this religion of cannons that loves to fire upon me.  I respect the literature but I do not feel as thou i have to follow the patterns of a handful of men.  First off these writers never wrote in the same patterns as their predecessors, they had their own patterns that they made up and over time a group of civilians like the "puritans" ran with it and deemed as a religion.  They made these works into cannons by their there obsession with Shakespeare’s work, and told other poets first off, to be creativity but also that you have to follow this pattern or else your work will be deemed unfit for literature.  My friend, this is blasphemous in my eyes, because i am differing to another master and not worshiping the one who is not me? So is it that I myself is selfish or is it that I am just a "atheist" in the literary world? Wasn't it Bosch the won that was cynic?  Cynic meaning a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested point of view, also one of a sect of Greek philosophers, 4th century b.c. who advocated the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity.

Bosch concerned himself with executing the painting - "he must have" and that freed his imagination, and left him unguarded.  By the statement alone i have executed and won my own argument that you cannot control creative because you control me in a sense.  Check mate, like my favorite rapper said what you about to witness is my thoughts, right or wrong, just what I was feeling at the time.

Food for Thought

Here's a thought to ponder on, the all Seeing Eye.  Most would interpret this as some symbolic reference to the Illuminati.  I see it as a representation of being the "average American".  The eye is two eyes to me, which is our normal sight.  Now on the dollar bill this is but one eye, but physically we are blessed with two eyes when really we haven't quite enabled the third eye which is really our second pair of lens hence is the second eye.  Maybe it's an open joke, or maybe a blatant attempt at enlightenment.  Either way if you’re not totally sold on the idea then I’ve seized half the battle already into getting you to rebuttal against a new notion of an idea that is new.  Anyway thou it's just something that you as the reader should really think about and explore for yourself.  Remember every picture has several different perspectives on what the painter is really trying to display.

Barn Burning lecture (looking at it from my prospective)

Barn Burning is a very entertaining story to say the least.  It’s just funny how Ab acts in this short story.  I mean you have to look at him from two prospective; you have to look at it from the view point of Abs.  He is white trash obviously and he has trouble following authority.  He hates the fact that he is of the low class, he has a certain pride to him and shows throughout the story.  Ab is a white man in the low class during the aftermath of slavery and he feels inferior to these other whites that are rich and he is destruct over it.  From Abs point of view he illustrates the expression of pride.  Pride is his key weakness, because it's gets him into trouble.  One example of this is when he destroys Major De Spain’s rug by washing it with lye soap after purposely stepping on the rug with tracks of mud just because he is of higher class.  That is one way of looking at Ab the character, another way to look at him is taking it from most common readers prospective and just deem him a lowlife that just has serious anger issues and is too strung on his own color.  I say that because of his statement about Major De Spain saying, "his house was built off nigger sweat; maybe it isn't white enough to suit him".  This man obviously does not deserve anything that he cries about.  He enlisted in the military and ended up stealing horses and getting shot, so after reading this i was done with even feeling sympathy for a man that almost manipulates his own son to believing in his own practices that are clearly defiant against the law.

Colonel on the other hand shows a lot of promise and is very different from his father.  Colonel is struggling with his moral system along with his father’s way of doing things.  His father is a very vague and broken man.  His only way to express himself is to destroy barns by utterly burning them down.  He's quite the serial arsonist wouldn't you say.  Or maybe I should call him the Robin Hood of white trash.  I mean you got to hand o him the guy is very, very persistent with his work, even if it generates chaos.  Anyway back to Colonel, who is seen as the image of purity, he is the cry for help to me.  He wants to do the right thing but he is always challenged by his father to do the complete opposite of what his heart tells him.  Colonel knows right from wrong but he is confused to take his father’s side even thou he knows what he is doing is wrong or turn against his own blood and do the right and lawful thing.  In the end of the story we see that he chooses to break away from his father and his family and go off the only instinct that he knows, which is good.  He speaks up and tells Major de Spain what his father’s plans were and so ends the story.

"The Heresy of Paraphrase" (Novice take on this subject)

What I get from this piece is that you can't paraphrase poems because by their design.  In the book I get the since that the author is saying that paraphrasing a poem takes away from the beauty of the poem itself by fondling with the pattern.  Mr. Brooks also inquires that poems cannot be judged by the philosophies that were judging the poem on an overall meaning.  Basically stating that a poem cannot be translated but more so it is the statement of the writer, it is what the writer is saying. No art form can fully be interpreted and be critiqued and then distributed and packaged as ok this is the central theme of this writing.  As a writer myself when I write, sometimes i can have multiple meanings in a writing but they all draw back to the overall central theme which is blend between reality and imagination.  So if you ever tried to decipher my writings as just one blunt paraphrase then you would have a big headache on your hands because it's so much meaning in paper that you will never begin to understand if you use this technique as your only instrument to better understand a text.  This is what I got from "The Heresy of Paraphrase:

What is this world coming to

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Two men are burned to death, and for what?  They died because these men stole a stack of fucking potatoes.  Are you serious?  You know America claims to be the protector of all but they dont even lift a finger to help out Africa.  WTF

Is it just me or am I the only person in America who doesn't care about the Casey Anthony trial

To be honest, America has fallen in love with a good soap.  This is nothing more than a trial turned into a reality show and honestly im puzzled to why i should really care.  No disrespect to the family but i just believe that certain stuff that there airing about an alleged affair is just rediculous.  What in the hell does this have to do with the missing child and how she died.  America, really we throw away money on block busters like this and for what, entertainment purposes?  When this trial is over, these people who are obsessed with this trial will have to go back to their normal lives and cope with what ever situation they were faced with before.  Somebody please tell me the relevance of the father having an affair have to the missing child and how she became missing.  Is it his credibility or what?

Realty Stars

Americans have been mind fucked, and manipulated by Pop culture extensively and excessively to the point that real life people that have no true purpose or business on television are cared about and loved as the elite A listers.