In class this week we are reading the story of  King Oedipus. Which is a Greek story that they would have performed way back then. This story is so sad but I love it! I love stories and plays they seem to just stick in my head better then poetry and other things like that. They are so much more fun and you get to know the characters. But anyways in this story Oedipus's dad(Laius) was cursed for killing Apollo's ( the sun god) favorite snake. They curse is that Laius son will kill his father (Laius) and marry his mother and have kids with her. As much as I want to tell you what happens I'm not going to because I want you all to read it for yourself. This is one of the best plays I think I ever read and I think everyone should read it. Now the picture that I have chosen for this blog seems creepy ( well the rest of my class thinks it is I think they are really cool) but it is the mask they would wear when they would act out this play. Now I haven't looked this up yet so don't hold this to me, but I wonder if they made them so big so people in the back rows can understand the emotions that the character is going threw. They didnt have the big screens that we have today to see. What do you think? 

The Reed Ghost

Ok I have read way past this point in the book but I wanted to go back to it because it makes me mad. So were I left of in the book is the young boy is bullying Jane. He yells at her saying that she can't read his books because she is from a poor family so she is not good enough. Well that didn't go well with Jane and she mouthed off and as she was walking away the boy threw the book and it hits her in the head. She gets knocked to the floor and picks herself up. The book has cut her head and she is bleeding really bad but she doesn't care she goes after John ( the young boy) thats when Mrs. Reed comes in and John proceeds to say Jane hurt him. So Mrs. Reed has Jane thrown in the Red Room where Mr. Reed died. Jane is in there for awhile and then she thinks that she sees Mr. Reeds ghost so she starts screaming and she tells Mrs.Reed but she dosn't care so she throws Jane back in there and locks the door. Jane then has a mental break down and ends up very very sick. All I can say is this is so messed up and I found myself getting very angry while reading this book! Now the pick that I have chossen is from the play Jane Eyre and it shows the seen where Mr. Reeds ghost tourments Jane. I thought it was realll cool that they made this into a play!

So while reading I guess I skipped a part because the lady who was treating Jane horrible is her aunt. Her mother has died , the brother of the mother had to take her in. He hates having to take in family. He is a very rude and horrible man but she has no where else to go. The three siblings a very mean to Jane and she fears the oldest son John Reed. He is very much a bully and gets away with it. This child could basically get away with murder cause his mother is always protecting him. " John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older then I, for I was ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities. He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim bleared eye and flabby cheeks. He ought now to have been at school; but his mama had taken him home for a month or two, " on account of his delicate health". Jane really does fear John she is actually hiding from him in the window sill hoping that he wont see or hear her because she fears that he will beat her up,like he always does.

Ok, this book is taking me awhile to read you really have to read and get into this young girls head to understand what is going on. So right now Jane has been sent away by her mother add has gone into her library to get away. She is hidding behind a scarlet red cutain and is leaning up agiants a window and is reading Bewick's History of the British Birds. This book is very advanced for this little girl but she some how connects to this books and then goes into her own little world. "The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignetter, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on the desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through the bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking".

So I am reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. So far the mother of Jane Eyre makes me very angry! She has four kids Jane, Eliza , John, and Georgiana Reed. She doesn't spend anytime with Jane, only with the other three children. She says that Jane isn't sociable and dose not act child like and she will not be able to join the family until she can speak pleasantly (or correct) and when she stops asking her elders questions. " Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her ( for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me she had dispensed from joining the group; saying she regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation that I was to be endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition" I found this to be quite heartless on the mother part. You are to except your children the way the are. I find this more infuriating when the mother (this is later in the text) actually send her daughter away cause she dose not want to see her and tells her she isn't aloud to talk until she can "act right"! I cannot wait to continue reading this book!

Ok so im switching books books because I fell asleep while reading last night. Which is terrible! I have never done that before and I almost squished my poor kindle (sorry kindle!). I was really disappointed I thought this book was going to be so much more interesting! But i just couldn't get into it to save my life. So I am going to change to the Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. From what I have read and what I have looked up this book is about a young women growing into herself , wanting more for herself , and starting to understand the world around her. I think that this would be a great book for all women to read because, it shows the strength and the courage women should have. I am excited to read this book, if you have read this book what would you rate this book on a scale of 1-10?   

OK. So in class this week we have been talking about metaphors. I don't think that writing would be as remarkable as it is without metaphors. When you use metaphors you can see pictures in your head and you can truly understand what the reader is trying portray. They also make it more fun,well to me they do anyway, you have to really think about what the author is trying to say, instead of just saying it. I think that gets really boring after awhile!