Thursday, October 12, 2017
Faulkner Visits Severn
I'm a goin' to school. We work there. There are a lot of kids there. Mewel says that we work there. I get there. I go to class. I don't like class. We work there. My teacher gives me work. We work all class. I go to another class. We work there. The other kids work there. I don't like the other kids. I only like my brother. His name is Carl. He is older. He goes to other classes. I go to lunch. I like lunch. We eat there. After lunch, I got to go to another class. This teacher is weird. I don't like this teacher. My teacher is a fish. I think Mewel's teacher is a horse. My teacher is a fish. Only this teacher is a fish. This teacher really makes me work. I leave school. I go home. I do my work. I do a lot of work. I don't like my work. The fish gave it to me. I see my mother at home. I see that my mother is a fish. I don't know how to do my work. My mother helps me. My teacher is a fish. My mother is a fish. School is the pond. We are the fish. I am a fish. I don't like a goin' to school. There are too many fish there.
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Ryan,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your version of a day at Severn through Vardaman's perspective. I think you did a very nice job of making the sentences short and non-coherent. Similarly, you added in the parts about the fish and horse, which definitely were specific to Vardaman. One thing that really jumped out to me was the last line. I think Faulkner was able to convey deeper messages and meanings through Vardaman even when the lines seemed to be superficial. I think you accomplished that in the last line with, "There are too many fish there." I took it as a message saying that life is filled with people that just fit in with the crowd, and just like fish, you cannot tell them apart when they are all crammed in a little pond. It makes me think about individuality, and in the grand scheme of things, do we really separate ourselves from all other people?