9-25-08-You Dont love me yet screenplay

Today in class we revised our screenplays that we wrote for Jonathan Lethem novel "You Don't Love me Yet". I was very excited to see that Lethem actually wanted to read what we have written. In our adaptations of the story, we altered certain characters, changed dialogue and created a new atmosphere for some scences. In a sense this now makes us students who portray the role of writers. The story that my group had was the yellow arm chair scene, in which we changed some of the dialouge for the COMPLAINER and for lucinda. We tried to give the COMPLAINER a much faster pace for his tone, we wanted him to get to the point and get there fast. While for Lucinda we tried to give her an even stronger and more dominante personality then she had in the actual novel. In the end I was very proud of our group's screenplay and I am sure Lethem wil be as well.

9-18-08 Why dont you love me? Lethem

So far I have enjoyed reading "Why don't you love me"? by Jonathan Lethem. The story is very interesting because it shows characters that we can mostly relate to in our own life's. The story is rock n roll infused and plays heavily on that theme so far as the story follows the various band's members. One of the most interesting things that I have read in a while occurred during the "Yellow Chair" scene in which the COMPLAINER and Lucinda have a deep conversation regrading the COMPLAINER and his obession with "the most beautiful girl he has ever sleept with, but not really". When I first read the dialouge which reffered to the COMPLAINER performing oral sex on his dream girl, i was just blown away and i did not see the expect that level of detail and weirdness to transpire.

09/11/08 Pulp Fiction-Tarantino

When I contemplate what Pulp Fiction is, I quickly come to the conclusion that the movie can be compared to four slices of pizza, all with different toppings, that come from the same restaurant. There are four different sets of characters that are all involved with Pulp Fiction. Each character moves in and out of the plot and eventually come together to form the core of the plot. Overall Pulp fiction is a case of several stories wrapped in one movie.

9/4/08-City of Glass-Paul Auster

The theme of the City of Glass seems to be one of change or one that questions whether or not you can truly define someone or something based on a single name for it. The story forces you to think in ways that you may have never thought before. Paul Auster does an amazing job of confusing the reader by using multiple identities for characters and creating a distinct aura that surrounds the main characther Quinn as everything that we read is manipulated through his eyes and what we read my not be what is truly going on in the story, everything that happens in this book is placed there to cause confilct with what you thought that you believed and what you will believe.