Vacation

So what is suppose to be the best part of any vacation... getting away from it all. I can't imagine having to take all my problems with me like Carolyn did when they went to Hawaii. I mean to be a plural wife at home is one thing but when everyone else is only taking one wife on the trip and you are stuck with 2 sisters wives who are both super competitive and a mess it must have been more like hell than a vacation. You really can't help but feel for her not only in this situation but though out the whole book. It really shows you what most of the women in the FLDS have to go through, even if it isn't to the extreme of Carolyn's case it is still similar and therefore still seems unbearable. It next time I am on vacation I am sure I will stop and think and be grateful that I don't have three crazy people I don't like with me.

Final project

For my final project I am going to do a multi genre project on the memoir of Carolyn Jessop called Escaped I think it really fits in with the survivor theme of the rest of the memoirs we read in class and that it is a very interesting book with a very interesting topic, polygamy.

Bathrooms

Okay so I don't know if it is me or just my reading selections for this class but once again I am amazed by the conditions of hygiene and bathroom facilities in this book again just like in Farewell to Manzanar. Now of course the conditions are no were as severe as Manzanar but they still seem ridiculous to me. I had a hard time growing up in a 4 person family sharing one bathroom I can't even imagine what it is like with 30 siblings. Not to mention having to go without soap for long periods of time so everyone can eat. It just seems so unbearable. It really makes me thankful that I only have one sister.

Escaped

Just from the first chapter of this book you are really drawn into another world. I mean I for one can not imagine being afraid I would be hunted down if I left my house. The very thought is surreal. It really enforces what she says in the book it was a different world. One I know I would never want to live in.

Which of course brings up why would anyone want to especially women, the only answer I can come up with is that they don't know anything else that is at least the women of the FLDS don't. As for the women that I have read about in my research who live out in the outside world and were raised in 2 parent homes who chose this life that i don't know.

I for on see nothing attractive in the idea of sharing the person who is suppose to love you above all others. Especially if I found myself in a situation similar to Carolyn's with a man who didn't care about me at all. I mean there is enough divorce, and loveless marriages out there without throwing a third person in there to make it worse.

Do not go gentle into that good night

This poem is arguably one of the best known poems in the world and reading again for class today I can see why. The timing and words are beautiful. Not only that but the subject itself is so relatable. The other reason that I chose this poem is because personally I love it I love the forceful feel of his word choices and verses. You can feel the power in it as the poem progresses and you can feel his pain at the end. I have to say that I find this one of the most successful poems we have read so far in class.

Poems by me from class

Apple

Red mirror shining back
Looking up from the counter
Health


Doctor

The stainless steel tray shimmers
Carefully he wipes it on his shirt
Handing me the bright red apple








Summer


sufficed what they are
I lean and loafe at my ease,
every atom of my blood observing a spear of summer grass.

Retiring back, but never forgetting.

Poems

1.It's all I have to bring today (26)

by Emily Dickinson

I have always loved Emily Dickinson and I really love this piece her repetition and rhyming are just so hypnotic. I also her use of recurring images and themes, like of nature and fields. It is truly beautiful.



2. I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run

by Matthea Harvey

I like this poem because the images are so beautiful and sad at the same time. The whole poem really just spoke to me I guess it because it reminds me of a poem I wrote and I felt like I could feel what she was feeling. It just felt easier to connect to the words for me. Like the line "Heads in the planets, toes tucked under carpets, that’s how we got our bodies through." It is so beautiful and almost bittersweet in feeling.

The other poems I liked

Good Night

by Wilhelm Müller



Your Catfish Friend

by Richard Brautigan



On His Seventy-fifth Birthday

by Walter Savage Landor



I know why the caged bird sings

by Maya Angelou