Memes and Whatnot

I think it is astounding at how desperate some people can get in their search for riches. Milkman traveled so far away from home in search of something that he wasn't even sure was there. I think it was quite ironic that Milkman was wealthy enough to afford the trip all the way down to Philadelphia, and he was able to simply carry $500 worth of cash in his pocket, but yet he still craved for more money. What stood out to me was that Milkman was so ignorant during his search for the gold. He simply gets out a lighter and takes about 30 seconds looking for the gold. What I think he should've done is went back to town, rested up for a bit and collected the tools that he needed to succeed in his search for the gold. If he had just went out and bought a shovel as well as a proper flashlight, there seems to have been a good chance that he would've found the gold. I thought it was also incredibly dumb of him to just tuck his tail between his legs and run off to Virginia in hopes o...

I understand that this book has so much hidden meaning, and the amount of detail that you can get from reading between the lines is astounding. But regardless of that, this is such. a. weird. book. like what even. A mother who breast feeds her four year old son? A daughter who sucked on her dead father's fingers? First cousins who are kids who sleep together for 14 years? That's just messed up. The concept of first cousins being together isn't so far out of the realm of possibility - Einstein married his first cousin. But I find it out that they were kids when they were sleeping together. The first time they sleep together, Milkman is a minor, while Hagar is an adult, that's very messed up. What I found extremely interesting however, is that Milkman gives Hagar money when he breaks up with her. Their relationship was focused a lot on the physical aspect of love - sex. This made it almost seem like Milkman was paying Hagar for sex, which reminded me of prostitution. ...

I was struck by how relatable the last source was in our packet of sources (the one where the news reporters minimize something that is much more important than something else). Many of us, including me, get the majority of our information about the daily goings of the world from the news, and usually, the first thing we see about something shapes our opinion about that something. There have been countless cases of bias in mass media; one of the biggest perpetrators,  Fox News. Fox News has become something of a State TV for the president. Fox News' reporting has become so skewed in favor of the republican party, their reporting is not to be trusted. This is due to a variety of reasons: the president is an avid viewer of the channel, he regularly quotes them, Sean Hannity, a political host on Fox, has close ties with the president, the president's previous DoC and DCoS was the copresident of Fox. What this has led to is the continual defense of the President's actions, ...

We've been reading Maus and in this graphic novel, page 95 in volume II spoke to me. The bottom panel depicts lots of dead bodies. Above the pile of bodies, you can see another person walking over these bodies. In this panel, Spiegelman include a wide variety of races in the bodies: Jews, Poles, and Germans. I believe the purpose of including this is that these concentration camps were living hell for everyone in them, not just the Jews. Typhus didn't discriminate whether you were a Jew or not; it affected everyone. The juxtaposition of the bodies and the bathroom show how many people were affected by this, and couldn't do the simple task of going to the bathroom. Also, the person walking over the bodies shows that in times like these, the dead didn't get much respect. It was everyone for themselves, and if it meant disgracing the dead, so be it. This also creates a foreboding sense that dropping dead on the spot can happen to anyone. All these people survived for s...