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Conjoined bc i can't pass the multipule choice!

Well because I could not pass the multiple-choice test twice!!!! I am here to talk to you about the poem “Conjoined”. We read this poem a while ago in class and answered questions on it. I did not do very well with that either, but it was because we had a sub and she was no help. We really needed Mr. D back when we read these poems. At first I did not understand anything the poem was saying, but I do not think anyone did. I had to read each stanza one by one and tear apart each meaning of the word. Once I got through the first paragraph things started to become a little bit clearer. In the poem “Conjoined” by Judith Minty talks about a man and a woman’s marriage. No one said love and marriage would be easy. In the poem Conjoined by Judith Minty the author uses literary devices such as symbolism, imagery, metaphors and descriptive language. The author uses these devices to show how a marriage can be unhealthy and unhappy. To most people marriage is nothing but being in love with a person and being happy around that person forever. However Minty does not agree. Minty uses descriptive words such as “freaks”, “heavy”, and “monster” to describe her husband and their marriage. This makes Minty’s outlook on marriage to be terrible and sad feeling, even almost angry at some points. In Minty’s poem she does not really talk about being in love with her husband and the word she describes her relationship with him is very disturbing. She uses words like “Two-headed Calf” and “one body to suck at a mother’s tits.” In a happy marriage people use words like “ two peas in a pod” or something about being best friends and getting along. Also when people are married they are usually willing to share things and be happy about it, but Minty describes it as if it’s a pain to share things with her husband. These descriptive words make it seem like the people are forced to live with each other and it is the worst thing ever. Another example is the first stanza states “ The onion in my cupboard, a monster actually.” The author is using symbolism to symbolize the onion or the monster as her husband. She also uses words like freak to symbolize her hers husbund and their relationship. Not many people like onions or monsters. Onions make you cry when you cut them up and monsters make you cry and scare you when you see them. By using the onion or the monster, it shows how she really does not get along or care for her husband or their relationship. Another symbol is the last stanza in the first paragraph that states, “Where it pressed and grew against each other.” This symbolizes how the more time the couple spent together the worse their relationship got. It is almost like they tried to grow together, but they kept bumping heads and colliding. Nothing was going or growing right.  She wanted one thing and he wanted the complete opposite. The onion grew almost into the other onion causing it to be deformed into each other and messed up, hence the name of the poem “conjoined”. When the author talks about being or feeling invisible, she is using imagery. The author states, “ Ah but man/don’t slice onions in the kitchen, seldom/ see what is invisible”, now she isn’t literary invisible. She uses this word to show how she feels alone in the relationship. Maybe not exactly alone but almost like she maybe is the only one trying to make things work. It also shows how her husband does not really help out in the house. A lot of men do not help in the kitchen but in the poem the author makes it as her husband never helps with anything. As you can the see the poem makes marriage an ugly thing by using metaphors. For example when the author states “one transparent skin” she is referring to the fact that the onion has many layers that form the onions into one. This gives the idea that marriage is bad thing and people have to form unnaturally with their spouse. When people get married they usually go together and get along with each other easily.  As you can see through out the poem you can see the literary devices, symbolism, descriptive words and imagery, used by Judith Minty. “Conjoined” was a good poem and it was very well explained with the use of these few literary devices. There is many literary devices through out the poem, but these are just a few that stood out to me. I understood these the most, while others were still hard to follow in the meaning. 

Maus

For my article I found one that I thought was really interesting because it is an entire page of just facts about the holocaust. I also thought it was really interesting because Art Spiegelman was really like scared the whole time in the book, because he wants to make sure that the “story” of the holocaust doesn’t water down the real events of the holocaust. When I read an article like the one I choose I fell like it waters it down so much because its just like fact after fact after fact and it almost makes me feel like I’m studying for school.  I really don’t care about what the article says because the facts are just sentences that have no meaning behind them. For example when I read “state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire”. Its like those are just words on a page and they have no really meaning, or even if they do have more meaning for you, I can obviously never portray the depth of the tragedy of the holocaust. So I think that people think that when Art Spiegelman cuts in and out of the story and makes sure for a fact that you know its just a story I think that is exactly what needs to happen because then when you read Mause you can see the pictures and you get the reminders that its just a story so its like you can put at least a little meaning behind the facts and also you keep in mind that its just a story so in the back of your head you know that it was even worse then the horrors expressed in the book. So I think that the way Art Spiegelman did Mause was perfect.