I was writing my essay using a book I wrote about for a previous essay when I noticed that the directions say "works we have studied." I'm unsure whether that means his assigned texts only or just everything. Help, por favor.

After reading "In American Society" and "Fiesta," I found that they each portray different consequences of entrance into American society as an immigrant.

In "In American Society," the mother is able to gain power and confidence thanks to her relationship with American culture. At one point, she has a job as a manager and has men reporting to her, a different gender relationship than she experiences in her Chinese culture. Understandably, she embraces American culture/society and wants to be an even greater part of it by joining a country club.

Basically, after reading the graphic novel for Watchmen, I am no longer surprised why it was not successful in theaters. The way the novel ends leads me to believe that it was never set up for a movie format. If any movie wishes to stay true to the original then it is going to have to have the novels ending. I believe that they way Adrian teleported the monster to stop a war will not go over well in theaters. Movie goers will feel cheated that they were robbed of the action. Throughout the whole graphic novel, the suspense is building for this inevitable war with the Russians.

I watched Fargo to write my paper and like in No Country for Old Men and Oh Brother Where Art Thou, the Coen brothers did a really good job with the accents. The Minnesotan accent is really easy to pick up on. Did any one else's movie have characters with a thick accent?

While doing some research for my paper on "Walk the Line" a 2005 film by James Mangold, I stumbled upon a music video for Johnny Cash's last record "Hurt". I find myself watching this video over and over again, and appreciating it more every time. I don't want to convey my interpretation of this song just yet. But suffice to say that, for multiple reasons, I think this song provides empirical evidence for how music, video, and even the "remake" can be classified as literature.

Listen and Share:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Okay, so since we mentioned the significance of Jon Osterman being blue in color, I have been racking my brain for information and finally remembered to look it up. I initially thought the blue god in Hinduism was Shiva, who had the power to destroy, but according to (reliable) source of wikipedia it is Vishnu, and the relation is even greater.

Watchmen notes from Thursday's discussion:

• Comics:
o The simpler the graphic, the more you have to interpret
o More iconic, you have to imagine more about the picture
 Ex) bag that says “Goodies,” you have to imagine what’s in there. No mystery about bag that says “M&Ms”
• Idea of sequencing for panels/graphics
• Chronology in Watchmen
o General chronological framework
 Most of the characters have traditional flashbacks
o Except for Jon, who seems to be in multiple places in time at once
• How does Rorschach’s journal function in the graphic novel?

So this is kind of irrelevant now but I thought I'd post the notes I took during one of our discussions of No Country for Old Men.

• Idea of fate as synthesis of will and luck/chance
o Randomness in the world regardless, so if you try to operate just under the realm of will, it is inadequate.
o All of the things have to come together
• Sheriff Bell
o Acts kind of as a counterpoint to some social commentary
o Kind of acts as a moral conscience
• Contradiction from Chigur when talking to Carla Jean
• Fate

So I have not been able to put Watchmen down for about a day now. Its quite addicting. I just wanted to say I was not expecting that twist on page 27 chapter 9!!!!! Craziness

Here are some interesting and entertaining links that I've found on the internet. I promise...no rickrolls in this one.

(Some of these contains some spoilers, so you might not get some of the jokes until you finish the novel.)

Here is a webcomic, in which the cast of Watchmen have been replaced with newspaper comic characters:
http://www.pvponline.com/2009/03/02/ombudsmen/

Here's an animated trailer for Saturday Morning Watchmen, a parody, almost akin to the intro of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from when we were kids. I love some of the irony. "Rorschach's friends to the animals!"