Sunday, November 4, 2012
Response to Course Material #3 -Nov.4-
Due to my terrible memory, I'm having trouble remembering all that has been going on the past few weeks, so i'll try my best to remember as much as I can. Death of a Salesman, watching the movie was fun, though since I was in Canada I missed a good chunk of it (and I plan on making up for that in the reading). But from what I saw, Willy is a salesman who believes he deserves a job in New York. He's married to a woman named Linda and has two sons, Biff and Happy. I think it was Biff who walked in on Willy while he was cheating on Linda while he was away on business. Willy also gave the woman his wife's stockings (according to Biff anyway), which may or may not have some significance to the rest of the story. Originally in the end, I though Willy killed himself, but after a bit of discussion, apparently he went chasing after Biff when he left the house and ended up crashing. Which reminds me of the discussion about Willy's two cars. From what I remember we had talked about how one's really beat up, and the other is really nice, but Willy takes more care of the beat up one (I think...). I know we had mentioned symbolism within the cars, and the idea of the car's being something like his past and present, and Willy hangs on to his past, so takes care of the older car more may have been brought up. There was also the days where we learned how to answer multiple choice questions. There were the distracting answers such as opposite, too broad, correct but doesn't answer the question, etc.. When going through the questions, I was able to see a few examples of these in the choices.While going through the questions I had some trouble with some of the vocabulary used in the questions and the answers. Which brings me to terms test #2... that test was evil. I thought I was going to do a lot better than my first test, since I studied harder for this one. That was a lie. A complete lie.
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You seem to have put a lot of thought into the plot of Death of a Salesman, as well as pay attention to the conversations in class. And the terms test, I understand that compleatly
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting commentary on the significance of Willy's cars. That never came up during my hour. Hold on, if they are super poor, how can they afford to have a really nice new car and never even drive it?
ReplyDeleteYeah, the deceptive AP questions were tricky, but I'm so happy we are getting some insights and strategies for the AP test.
Haha I definitely laughed out loud after reading your last two lines. It was the same way with me! But anyway, like Emily said, that is definitely interesting about Willy's two cars.. I didn't know he had two cars.. hmm...I think it's interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think your memory did a pretty nice job, but next time, maybe you could write a little more about how these things that you remembered affected your thoughts. For example, what surprised you while watching the movie?