I really have no idea what this article is about. Clearly, the women that wrote it is very intelligent, but she also seems slightly crazed. Did she ever explain why she was sleeping in a football field when she had a house of her own? I found the whole article to be a repetitive rambling of random scenes she sees or her thoughts. She seemed to spend entire pages rambling about one scene or her con jumbled life. This article literally took me this long to get through it! I couldn't ever bring myself to sit down and read it.
One part that I did like was at the end where she talks about how you need obstacles to have desires or to just grow in general. But she never explained it further and just randomly turned back to skunks and how if she were an animal, she would be a skunk. I felt like I got nothing out of reading this article besides a confusing look into some random thoughts of some random women.
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I understand why you were confused. Although it may seem that you got nothing out of the article, I think that you began to uncover one of the deeper meanings without even knowing it. This being the whole idea of obstacles and desires. I think that since Kunkle made us read the article, there are probably multiple meanings within it that he is testing us to see if we can figure out.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Kaylee. Erdrich might need a therapist if she is randomly sleeping with skunks on football fields. However, her brief thought on obstacles and desires did make me think about how my desires start with obstacles. That is a good point, Ali. I don't think there is a "wrong" way to respond to any of these essays/articles.
ReplyDeleteThis essay also confused me at first. Did the author have an underlying, hidden theme? Or was it just a bunch of random thoughts and ideas pasted together? Either way I enjoy the thought she provoked about dreams and life after death. Also, her descriptive writing was phenomenal!
ReplyDeleteThe essay confused me as well. But I did also like the part about how you need obstacles to have desires, because with obstaces in the way it makes you want something more. The essay did kin of leave you just sitting there confused trying to figure out what she was trying to get across.
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