Little weeds by rail/ Oil keep weeds down choked off/ Hard to live by rail

Engine smoke power/ Blast heat and burn bird on wire/ Lucky wings can fly

Rocks next to the rails/ Almost Run over rabbits fur/ Need to stay awake

DRJ#4

DRJ# 4 Ac4 4 is when things start to get good the lies and trickery catch up to Polonius and he gets killed. I can’t think of anyone this reminds me of except human nature itself. The nature of people deceiving others for their own gain is just a part of being human. Ophelia in act 4 is a very sad and depressed girl which seems to gone mad or maybe just a little crazier than everybody else. Unlike her brother see does not seek revenge on hamlet possibly because she is likely pregnant with Hamlets child. Ironically is she is pregnant that she must of not committed suicide like it appears. Act 5 has a strong setting of death from the use of Shakespeare’s gravedigger and skull of the “kings jester”(160). The talk of death and the rotting and decaying of body parts is preparing the audience for the final showdown. In the last pages of act 5 there isn’t much talk about rotting corpses but I think the dialog with the gravedigger makes the audience think not to many people are going to be alive when all this drama is over.

DRJ#3

DRJ# 3 The first thing that came to mind in act 3 is the continual planning of deception by most of the characters. Polonius is one of those type of people who love drama and really want to be in the middle of it. I work with a guy like that who drives a forklift around and parks it in certain places to see what people are doing. He will park it in places like the parking lot and watch for people to leave for lunch, which we are not supposed to do, yeah right! Similar to Polonius he will report to the king what he sees, even though he really gains no higher position for doing so. The guy I work with has been a forklift driver for a long time and is due to retire soon and has nothing to gain by snitching on people to management. He just loves to be a rat spy like Polonius. In act 3 Hamlet is continually messing with people or prodding at the characters such as the king, Queen and Ophelia. He says things like how could they kill such a noble guy to Polonius, when referring to his Julius Cesar role in a play he was in. Hamlet also talks about how his mother is seemed happy after the death of his father and refuses to sit next to his mother during the play. Hamlet sarcasm and messing with these people is used to create tension between the characters and sets up the audience for the Kings reaction to the play being performed. In act 3 scene 3 the theme of guilt/sin is very present and obvious during the performance of the play. Shakespeare gives the audience the reaction from the king we are expecting of course. At the beginning of act4 the king decides once and for all he needs to get rid of hamlet. After Claudius speaks to himself about feels guilty he decides “all may be well” in line 70. This short statement is shake spheres way of foreshadowing the need for Claudius to kill hamlet.

DRJ #2 Hamlet Act 2 In act 2 Polonius reminds me of well maybe myself. I have two daughters whom I am always concerned about. I foresee that i may become a overprotective father like I believe Polonius may be. Polonius may be concerned for the whole family also but I believed he just does not want his daughter to be seen as a whore. Polonius seems kind of naive to Hamlets sarcasm and the fact that Hamlet pretended not to know who he was. Hamlet told Polonius he has a fisherman but hamlet was messing with him and Polonius did not get it. Polonius is just concerned for his daughter and wants Hamlet to leave her Alone. Hamlet will probably try to get around Polonius and the King with trickery and deception later on in the play. Hamlet is going to set up the play to symbolize to everyone including Claudius that his father was murdered. Hamlet the protagonist does not have the guts to confront the King but hopes the play will guilt Claudius or cause him to have a reaction of some kind. This is a great plan however, Hamlet ironically feels like “oh what a rouge and peasant slave am I” . He feels bad because he does not have the strength to confront and or kill Claudius.

DRJ #1 Hamlet Act 1 In act 1 there is not too much excitement but a couple of the characters reminded meo f people I have come across in my life. I am only going to focus on the person who is currently my manager at work and a very arrogant and back stabbing individual who got to his position by doing just that. I am sure by now you have guessed it is Claudius who killed for the throne just like my dumbass boss. Hamlet, who seems to be a bit of a pushover and kind of a smart ass, however is good person at heart. He is devastated by his father’s death. He comes across the ghost who wants him to get revenge for his murder. Hamlet is young and vulnerable but at this point in the story is unsure the ghost is really a symbol of his father. Hamlet may also be unable to murder Claudius because he is not that type of person. In act 1 especially during the dialog between hamlet and the ghost Shakespeare sets a very hell like setting. The references to purgatory and hell in lines 10-15 are evidence for this setting. The ghost tells Hamlet is “confined to fast in fires till the crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away”(1-5-10-15). This setting is put in place to give the audience a feeling of the results of wrong doing in a religion. At the time the play was written people were very God fearing and the hell and damnation added fear and excitement to the play. I am wondering what Claudius means by his past sins, what did he do?

SSRJ #2 When I read this story I felt extreme sympathy for the author of which the story was about. The structure in this story provides the very graphic and the horrible reality of combat. I really enjoyed this story and hope to read more like it. The author Daly walker a Veteran of the Vietnam War presents this story in a first person point of view which in my opinion is the only way to make the story so powerful. The main idea that combat veterans thought history come back from war physically but have a hard time completely leaving the tragic event of war behind. Walker uses flashbacks in the story such as looking out the window of the plane seeing clouds can cause him to break out in a sweat. Upon arrival in Vietnam 20 years later to perform surgery the narrator takes a cab, sees the Viennese driver face and gets the image of his head on a pole. Walker reviling these horrible flashbacks support the reality that Soldiers of the past and present are still trying to leaving the war behind even 20 years later. What significance do you think the grass being mentioned several times in the story represents. I think it represents the covering up of the traumatic events that occurred on that land years before and the grass is time.

ssrj #1

hell welcome to my engwr 301 blog. SSRJ #1 Faulkner I chose to do the ssrj on “A Rose For Emily” by Faulkner because it was the most interesting. The way Emily was treated by her father probably led to the way she ended up. This may seem crazy but I am a father of two girls and this makes me think I need to be very careful on how I treat them especially when it comes to the boys. Most of all the story made me feel sadness for Emily because she was all alone and never really experienced much companionship. The author uses setting in the story to build a haunted house like atmosphere and keeps building up to the strange ending. The author describes Emily as “her skeleton was small and spare” and she dressed in black with a gold chain. They also used the foul smell of rotting flesh and the towns people have to put down lime. All these details I believe were used to build up to the shocking ending. The question I have for anyone is what is reason for the Negro man showing the people in and just leaving never to be seen again?