Blog post 6 – Convergences & Kindred

The gender that was discussed in the (Convergences) chapter 5 was how man and women differ in the same type of things. The illustration that was in this chapter was of a group of men and women hanging out playing on their phones. 

- The women's group were all playing on there phones and multiple conversations were going on while this was happening. which made it very difficult to know what they were say in the comic because all the word bubbles were over lapping each other. 

- In the men's group they were doing the exact same thing as the women's group. They were all just sitting around playing on their phones. The thing that was different was that the guys were barely saying anything while they were playing on their phones. The bubbles were not over lapping and this made it very easy to fallow what was going on. 

This image shows the same idea and differences between the two genders. 

So in (Kindred) the gender role is pretty much set in stone. Men do all the manual labor while the women do all the domestic work around the house. There are a few times when the women do go out to do manual labor with the men, but the men don't do any cooking or domestic work around the house. The roles are the same in marriage as well. The men go work while the women stay home and take care of the kids if they have any while cooking, cleaning, sewing and so on.  

Blog Post 5 - Kindred

            Octavia Butler writing style is usually about young people who are often African-American. They are usually in some kind of struggle and or danger to themselves that they must find a way out of. As for her sci-fi writing the only way I can think of it, is that she must have dreamed up these weird scenario that she writes about in her books. Each story she writes about has almost nothing in common with the any of the previous books that she has written while that it seem to me that she tries to come up with a wide verity of different sci-fi theory’s that she tries out. One book is based in space with a spaceship orbiting a dying earth while trying to fix the dying plant and humanity. While another on has to deal with a girl that doesn’t know that she is a vampire and having to deal with the knowledge of what she truly is. Then we have Kindred the book we are reading in class which has to do with time travel. As for the time period she was in, I would think that she was an innovator because she was trying thing that other writers didn’t think of or even want to write about. As well as pervading a different look at different sci-fi theories that may have been on seen as one way like time travel, vampires and so on.

Knowing more about Octavia style and how she writes in other book and thought process doesn’t really make me think any different or my perspective about the kindred book. I would have to read a few of her book to get a real good feel for Octavia Butler and he style. Reading a quiet summary of a book doesn’t really do justice to the whole book and the writer. I do enjoy reading the book once the action started to pick up and have jumped a few pages to see where all the good parts are in the next chapter. 

Blob post 4 - Convergences

             In chapter 2 of Convergences we read a variety of different in things in this chapter. In this chapter I will be talking about the fairy tale and urban legend part of the chapter and how is partakes in the narrative element.

         
          In the fairy tale and urban legend part of the chapter, it gives a few stories that we all have heard at one point in are life. Each fairy tale has been told in different ways with the beginning, middle and ending being changed to fit the time period and place that they are being told in. While an urban legend I feel has almost always has had the same story and situation. The time and place might change but what happens has almost always stayed the same. Urban legends are told to scare people that there are dangers out in the world that they should be aware of. While fairy tales are told to entertain the audiences of something that is made up and could never happen. Some fairy tales have been said to have a bit of sexual tension in them as well like in Little Red Riding hood when the wolf is in bed with the grandmother or the little girl.

            The first thing a fairy tale and urban legend are supposed to do is entertain the audiences. The next thing is to have a message or a lesson that the audiences should learn something. They have a step by step process of how things happen, first this happens, then this and last this. These are all the basic elements of stories telling and entertain an audience.

Blog Post 3 - Convergences

I this this week’s assignment we looked at what makes a movie a “cult classic” film. In the chapter it gave a verity if different reasons of why or what made a movie a classis. The first was the creativity of a movie, the second was the power of the movie or just a single scene in the film and the last one was the way the film changed its era at the time. I will picking a film that I feel is a “cult classic” and pervading a few reasons why I feel it is one. The film I have picked is Scarface.

Scarface is a movie that was made in 1983 that started Al Pacino as Tony Montana. The movie has many iconic moments in it that are still used or copied in films and TV shows. The first one is the movie poster, the poster has developed an iconic status with people being able to recognize the poster almost instantly just by the image alone without having the film title on it. The film has many memorial scenes but the most iconic is the last scene when he has the shootout with the gang members. Which also gives use the most memorial one line in the film. “Say hello to my little friend!” just before he shoots down his office door.

In the movie Tony is a Cubin with a short temper and big dreams. With his temper in the film Tony had the ability to turn a comedy scene in to a dramatic scene. It also made it easy to see the scenes coming when the movie would play the same sounds every time Tony would lose it. Any little thing would sent him off in the movie, like when he found out that his right hand man married his little sister and killed him in their own home.

I picked the Scarface movie as the movie I feel that should be considered as my cult classic film. I have seen this film plenty of times and never get tired of watching it. I also feel like this film is not put in to the category of being a cult classic film when has rightfully earned its place in cinematic history.