I just thought of something I wanted to share with the class that I had forgotten about until now. Last year my Fiancé studied in Europe. For one of her trips she went to Delphi and spent a few nights there. Normally she does not remember her dreams very well, she knows she had a dream, but does not know what is was about. When she was in Delphi she remembered her dreams like they were a movie. She said they are crystal clear. I find this very interesting, maybe the oracle was not a stoned teenage girl who was snuffing natural gas that came out of the rocks. There might be something special about the land there that causes people to have better dreams. I dunno it is just interesting to wonder about.
I really liked the importance of being Earnest. When I read it I felt like I ad watched some shitty sitcom on TV like Friends, the people in it were so fake, and the story was pretty cheese. Yet there was so much more to it than that. There were some pretty deep meanings to the story, like the importance of identity, and finding one’s self. Reading this and some of the other books from the class, and reading about Alice I really started thinking about the question the Caterpillar asked Alice, “Who are you?” And I don’t have a good answer to this. I don’t think any one really has a good answer, for me I might say “Jason” yet there are millions of Jasons in the world. I know two or three here in Bozeman, and there were four of us in my grade school class. So then I might say “I am a Air Force ROTC student, who is studying Premed and wants to be a doctor in the Air Force.” But again this is not a good answer, this answers the question of “What do you do?” The only answer I can come up with that might get close to answering this question is “I am me.” No it does not really answer the question very well, but it is better than the alternative answers. I think the reason stories like the Importance of being Earnest, Oedipus Rex, Great Expectations, and Mr. Pip are written is to help people come to terms with this unanswerable question. If we can read about people who are going through similar struggles of trying to find their identity then it helps us come to term with the question. Me, I’m happy not knowing who I am. It makes life much more interesting, and every day I discover something about my self and this world we live in and that’s what makes me happy to be ignorant. As the say ignorance is bliss. How I see it is I have my set personal values that I live by and every day is a new adventure that I get to experience. And any ways no matter how bad I have it someone has it worse. Like right now some of my friends are at basic training for ROTC. Or Matilda’s mom was fed to pigs, or my favorite, I’m not about to marry someone so superficous they can only marry a person named Earnest. (I think that is the biggest tragedy in any of the books we read in this class.)

I enjoyed this class. A few things that have changed in my life since the beginning of this class is, I know how long it takes me to read a book, and it is not as long as I thought it was before. I have bought a new bookshelf in my bedroom so I can buy more books. And I have met a bunch of people and learned about their lives, and their stories. I have also learned how important a story is in ones life. For example last night at work there was not much to do, we had a very slow night. If it had not been for the Mad Hatter I would have fallen asleep on the job, or gone crazy. As I sit here writing this blog I can really only think about how I wish I were reading about the Queen who wants the chop off everyone’s head, and find out what this world is that Alice is stuck in. six weeks ago I would be writing this blog thinking about how I want to play Gears of War on my Xbox. So yes this class has changed how I look at books, and I know how wonderful they are. If only more people would read there might not be as many problems in this world. If people had a way to escape they would not turn to drugs and other bad things like that. How I see it is if you wan to have a mind altering experience just go down the rabbit hole with Alice and it is pretty much the same as doing something like Acid. That first day of class when Prof Sexson came into the room and said, “I called my self Pip and came to be called Pip” I knew this class was going to be like no class I have ever taken in my life. And I was right. It was an exciting adventure and I feel like I learned more about life and myself in the last six weeks than I have in any of my other classes. I think stories have an amazing power on people and they can help people when they are on hard times. They show you that you are not the only one going through a problem. If any one has seen the movie Bucket List my grandfather was a lot like the rich old man. My grandfather also died of cancer. I think he would have done the exact same things the man in the movies did if he had more money before he died. When I went to this movie I went to the late showing, and on my way home at about 12:00 I had to call my mom and share this movie with her. Yes I woke her up but it did not matter, I had found a person like my grandfather who has been dead for about 4 years now, and was able to see him again. It was wonderful.
Thanks for a great class.

In class on Monday we talked about comedy and tragedy. And the differences and similarities between the two of them. Here is what I think about the two. First the Comedy is much more important then the tragedy. In the tragedy there are always outlandish characters that do outlandish things. Comedy also has these same characters, and they do the same thing. The only differences between the two are in comedy they do not take them selves seriously. In a tragedy they are taking them selves very seriously. So because of this I think the comedies are much more important in life because they can teach you more and are more relevant to our lives.
When we were talking about the papers on Wednesday some one said that Mr. Watts would do what ever he needed to do, when they needed a teacher they got a teacher when they needed some one to die he died. (I think it might have been a quote from the book, but I’m not sure) the first thing I thought of when I herd this was the new Batman movie. Batman does this in the movie; he becomes what Gotham needs. And that was when I realized that Mr. Watts was a super hero in this novel. No he did not wear a cape or anything like that, but he was still the outcast that is not apreacheated by the people, but he still saves the day when the day needs saving. And that comes back to one of the main themes of the class. Every story is a retelling of another story. Yet each book is a new collection of words on the page that makes a wonderful experiences.