18
Jan
Posted by haleyfaye in Thinking. Tagged: AP English, Beloved, blue pen, book, feeling, grammar, heart, hurt, journal, life, math, mathmatic equation, people, punctuation, purple pen, q, quadratic equation, stream of consciousness, suicide, theory, Thinking, Toni Morrison, trial and error, variables, writing, x, y, z. Leave a Comment
In English, we just finished reading Beloved by Toni Morrison (phenominal book). In it, there is a stream-of-consciousness section. Every week, we have to do two journal entries: One assigned, one that we choose. Today, we wrote our own streams-of-consciousness for our assigned journal entry.
After I got through the initial I’m-writing-with-a-blue-green-pen-because-my-purple-one-won’t-work-right thoughts, I ended up [...]
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13
Dec
Posted by haleyfaye in Uncategorized. Tagged: Beloved, book, denver, ghost, heart, intense, metal box, paul, pulitzer prize, reccomendation, sethe, sixo, Slavery, symbolism, Toni Morrison, trees. Leave a Comment
This is a phenominal book. Albeit very confusing the first read. Beloved is one of those books that you have to read the first time through utterly confused and lost, then the necessary second time through, you think, “Why on earth did this make absolutely no sense before?” The third read is even better.
Beloved requires a [...]
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14
Sep
Posted by haleyfaye in Quotes and Conversations. Tagged: absence, human, quotation, quote, strangers, Toni Morrison, Truth. 1 Comment
“The concept of what it is to be human has altered, and the word ‘truth’ needs quotation marks around it so that its absence (its elusiveness) is stronger than its presence.”
If you haven’t read Toni Morrison’s narration, “Strangers,” I highly recommend it. It’s brilliant. And don’t read it – or any of her writing – [...]
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