Discussion thoughts...

I’ve resisted this blog since Prof. Lennon gave us the assignment. I’m a creature of habit, I like the good ole’ pen and paper. To my surprise, while pushing through my resistance, I’m finding easier to post.

I’ve had a really cruddy week. I’m taking too many classes, working too much and trying to balance a twisted personal life on the remaining available fingertip. (I know, insert world’s smallest violin here.) I still have a sour taste in my mouth from ingesting Jarhead but am learning to both respect it as a work of art and relate to it as a memoir.

The last class discussion was fantastic. Everyone had pretty interesting thoughts about different parts of the memoir that I hadn’t originally thought of:

The Language as a means of stripping the men of their identities and a way to sever the ties between them and ordinary civilization was interesting but when Terrence further broke down the language I was blown away: “The words are dumbed-down, feminized and demeaning (i.e: hats become ‘covers’, shoes become ‘go fasters’). Brilliant call Terrence!

I’m finding a theme within the memoir that is seemingly parallel to my life, but that’s something I’ll leave for a later blog.

Until...