Dear Mr. Steinbeck,
I just finished reading your book the Red Pony. I love how you explain everything, I have never read a book who's author explained his characters by their eyes. "It's tense ears were forward and a light of disobedience was in its eyes." In the first five words of that sentence I knew exactly how that horse felt, he was scared and almost wild he was... Uncomfortable and unfamiliar with everybody but when he saw Jody's soft eyes he knew he was different.
"It's coat was rough and thick as an Airedale's fur and it's mane was long and tangled. Jody's throat collapsed on its self and it his breath short." I love that sentence so much!
It is kind of funny I saw a pattern in the book at the beginning Jody was like any other kid he was skipping school, pretending to shoot things with his 22., then he got his first pony and he was actually responsible. He did his chores and took care of his horse, and of course his pony had to die and he was back to decapitating birds and not coming home until after dark. Then Jody figured out that Nellie was pregnant with a colt and he worked his butt of for nothing. But this time I think the pony left and he still had a little adult in him.
Sincerely, Logan
WARNING I did not have book for this I was mainly pulling it off old blog posts and memory!
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Cool. Nice blog!! I think that that post was really heart-felt because it was so simple and you got right to the point. And (I really wish I could italicize that word), reading your post, I felt as if you were "kind" while you wrote it. It had that "nice, kind" feeling to it. It had a really warm mood to it.
ReplyDeleteGosh, it is hard to explain. Do you kind of understand what I am trying yo get at??
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I tried.
Eleanore
First, Eleanore, I agree. I was thinking the same thing. Maybe, Logan, it's because you didn't have the book to refer to and with which to build something more formal. I think you could have expanded the last paragraph, however. In responding to literature, at least most of the time, it's important to remember to connect it to yourself. It somehow anchors it. I felt you were reflecting on your own life as you wrote it and YET there's nothing there in the writing to prove that. We talked a lot about how feeling significant in one's life makes a person, hmmm, exhale; the frivolous-fight mode sort of blows away and a sense of belonging fills him. What do you do in your life that gives you significance? The kind of significance Jody feels when he has horses to care for? Also, it's important when you submit a final piece of writing on anything to anyone that you comb through it with an eye for punctuation and grammar. You did this with your piece on Gollum and it shows a respect for the reader and the subject...and yourself. You can't forget that, Logan. It's a really important part of the process. Okay, see you today! Carolyn
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