The Post-War Felling

Chapter 1 of Slaughter House- Five is a chapter of the book, which was written at the end of the book when the other chapters were already completed, since at the end of the chapter it states: “It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet?” (Slaughter House- Five, chapter 1, pg 22). And with these lines it’s referring on how the book starts and ends.
When I began to read this chapter I found that in order to really understand it I had to know what was Dresden: “The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force between 13 February and 15 February 1945, remains one of the more controversial Allied actions of the Western European theatre of war. The inner city of Dresden was largely destroyed by 800 RAF and USAAF bombers that let loose 650,000 incendiaries and 8,000lb of high explosives and hundreds of 4,000lb bombs[15] in three waves of attacks — approximately one bomb for every two people. Early reports estimated 150,000 to 250,000 deaths” (Wikipedia)
When the war is over and the main character decided to write a book about the war in Dresden there certainly is a clear after or post war feeling. He tries to think about things that he remembers from the war and he realizes that he does not remember most of things. And he also realizes that he cannot find any good memory of the war. He is searching for people to help him and they make him realize that the war had no good factors, and that he should write an anti-war book. He does know that he may not have enough words or memories to fulfill the whole book, and there for thinks he is not going to be able to write a book.
The theme about war and the idea that there is nothing good about it is clearly related to Mary since she finds and expresses that many babies were killed in the war and that it was not fair. That she was simply mad at many of the people who fought in the war just because of going, since they had no good reason of why to do so. But also as to the main character having gone to war and having to face such struggles made him have a new and different point of view towards war, and towards the decision that his country made to be involved in the war.

Life After The Journey In Hell

After reading the divine comedy of Dante, and seeing the journey from the beginning since he enters the hell gates very confused and says: “I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I have lost the path that does not stray.” (Canto I, Lines 2-3). Until in the end when he says: “O reader, do not ask of me how I grew faint and frozen then – I cannot write it: all words would fall far short of what it was. I did not die, and I was not alive; think for yourself, if you have any wit, what I became, deprived of life and death.”(Inferno, Canto XXXVI, Line 22) Clearly by this there is a change in the character of Dante. He began feeling disoriented and now he is confused of what he has become and if what he has seen.
When Dante finished his Journey through hell I predict that he will go back to his normal life again and will not sin and will give himself entirely to God. He will have to live a very careful and conscious life, and I think that also he will warn the people around him so that they will not go to hell and instead go to heaven. And in a future he may take Virgil’s role and take someone to hell and give them a journey this way they can go to the other people and influence them in taking good decisions and not sinning.

Defending The Dreams Of A Dear Destiny

The world I live in is hard to maintain
We all have a government and a right to express
We may have some laws that are hard to explain

But we all have some dreams that each day grow more immense
And we have the power to make of them whatever we desire
Because we are the city’s defense

Some of our laws we the people admire
Because they keep us under control
And never expire

Poetic Justice "Twilight Zone"

We can we see that in this Twilight Zone episode there is poetic justice since at first these two characters, when the war existed they were fighting against each other. As the war ended, and all the other soldiers died, they were lonely. And when they saw each other for the first time with the different colored uniforms they felt like they had to fight and keep on winning. But in a certain way they both knew that in order to survive they had to be and act together, and make each other company. It is very important to state that the scenery during this episode is lonely, deserted, and depressive. And that it had many posters and propaganda pulling people toward war and winning. So it is Poetic Justice because at first they want to be lonely and want to keep on fighting and winning. But as the man said that there is no more government, nor ideas there is no reason of why to keep fighting, and as time passes by they realize that they have to make each other company and be together.

Fun Summer In The Bahamas

Carla: Hey Meg
Megan: Oh hey Carla, it has been so long since we last talked
Carla: OMG I know, I miss you so much!
Megan: Me too, so have you had a good summer time?
Carla: Yeah! Totally last night I arrived from the Bahamas it was so much fun!!
Megan: Really? That’s great, and was the flight really long from Miami to Nassau?
Carla: Well actually we arrived to the check in desk 53 minutes before the plane left and unfortunately they did not let us get on the airplane so we had to take another plain 2 hours later!! It was so frustrating you can’t imagine plus my grandparents and all my family were waiting for us in the Bahamas!! My parents were like so angry arguing with everyone around it was really funny at the moment!! But we finally arrived there like ay 4 p.m. The plane is really short like about 30 min long.
Megan: OMG!! Seriously that’s terrible!! Jajaja but was it fun in the Bahamas? What you do?
Carla: Yeah well I stayed there like for 6 days, and it was awesome we did some water parks in the hotel, which were a total blast!! Then also we spend a lot of days in the beach, and then also we rented a boat and went snorkeling all around it was so beautiful!!
Megan: Carla that seems like so much fun!! You need to show me some pictures
Carla: Yeah totally I have these great pictures that you would love!
Megan: So when are you coming back to Colombia? I am really bored without you!!
Carla: Jaja Meg I’m also bored here without you!! And I will be back in 6 days. And how is your summer reading going?
Megan: Well actually it’s pretty good I have already read Dante Inferno and Brave New World I am missing 50 pg on 1984!
Carla: Wow!! You’re doing great I have already read 1984 and A Clock Work Orange and I am missing 140 pages of Dante inferno which really it’s like 70 pages. So I guess we’re kind of equal.
Megan: Hey I am kind of nervous of getting back in school, of all the new teachers, how people have changed I don’t know being in 10th grade makes me nervous.
Carla: Jaja yeah me too, don’t worry that is totally normal! Hey did you know that the middle school art room got burned and also some of the lockers beside it?
Megan: Seriously? That’s terrible. When did this happen and how?
Carla: Well I don’t really know any details I just know it happened.
Megan: Carla I got to go we’re going to the movies and then to go have dinner!! So good bye I miss you very much!!
Carla: Okay bye Meg love you!

Blogs With No Boundaries

After reading this article by Sara Boxer I realized that I do agree with her point of view regarding the differences between the books and the blogs. Personally I think that a blog is better than a book, since in a blog you can expand the topic by reading other peoples blogs expressing their own ideas about a certain topic, but then you can see the comments of others and understand their point of view. Also you can go into different links and find connections between this topic and many others. This helps broaden the topic and helps connect everything to understand better all the different opinions. The problem is that blogs sometimes have no walls and this may make you start reading about celebrity gossip and then end up reading about the Industrial revolution due to you following the links.

On the other hand books have a good thing which is that it is focused on one topic, with one opinion from start to the end. This is really helpful in the sense that you will have a better background knowledge on the topic and this will make you decide whether you agree with the author’s point of view or disagree. But books are only focused on the ideas of one person. And they will not give you the chance to comment on the author’s opinions, or even hearing about another point of view in that same topic. Personally as I mentioned before I prefer reading blogs over books because they have different opinions and can help you make connections with other topics.