ENGL 1102 blog- Justin Nguyen

 In the 19th century, all women were housewives who had to take care of children and clean the house while the husband had gone to work to make money. For example, Nora never goes to college or gets a job because of 19th gender norms. Women were untreated fair and not enough freedom. All she does was cleaning the house and take care of the children, but she was very bored at home doing nothing. In the 21st century, women had the same equal right as men. Both women and men can take care of children and cleaning the house as a family. Women get a job and go to college to get an education.

 My favorite movie is Kong: Skull Island.  A team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific known as Skull Island. It shows many monster species living on Skull Island, such as dinosaurs, giant bugs, water buffalo, squid, bird, and skull crawler. Based on the movie, Skull Island is shaped like a skull when viewed from above, rather than simply bearing a skull-shaped mountain. Kong is the largest creature living on Skull Island. People try to search Kong to capture it but failed. The Island is filled with the largest ecosystems like trees, mountains, rivers, and caves.

 There are so many songs to what I am picking. If I have to choose a song, it would be So Alone by Anna Blue. I am comparing "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost to So Alone by Anna Blue. This poem about this character is walked down to the city to surround by darkness. In the first 3 stanza: I have been one acquainted with the night.  I have walked out in rain -and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. He has walked far out to the city's farthest edges, where the city lights stop, and he is plunging into deeper darkness. It could be that he was very lonely and depressed. It is very similar to a song. At the beginning of the song, it started, "My face against the window pane A tear for every drop of rain I am so lonely and so sad You're the reason I'm feeling bad." The poem takes place outside of the side; however, it is locating inside the house during the rain. Both are showing expression and emotionless.

Langston Hughes's "Harlem" metaphor compares the dream and the bomb. It felt like the metaphor reminded me of having a nightmare in my dream. Sometimes I go to sleep to keep dreaming, and there was a monster in my dream. In the poem "Harlem," it asked, "does it explode?" (432). Yes, I might get scared in the middle of the nighttime.

 If I would to describe my life, then it will be a volcano. First, at the bottom, I am learning nothing at school and places. Next, as the volcano rising up, I'm learning better and increasing more knowledge in each subject in school. Finally, when the volcano explodes up to the sky, I'm enjoying exploring more places and things such as universities, zoos, aquariums, mountains, restaurants, etc. This image is may or may not be similar to the poem, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." The volcano is almost similar to "The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting" (Herrick line 5-6).

 The tone of my life would be depressing and disappointed. It is hard for me to make friends around the college's campus and places since Covid-19. I used to a good grade last spring semester; however, when covid-19 hit, most of my courses were dropped from A to B. I wish that they need to hurry it up to vaccine on everybody so that they don't need to worry anymore.