I'll post more! I'll be funny! I promise! Or your money back, guaranteed!
So, now that I don't have to write about English specifically, I usually won't. It'll just be a general all-purpose blog for things. All the things. Also, I'm not Filip. I'm Danny. Nice to meet you, Blagosphere. At any rate, I might still post things about English class, et cetera. ( That's Latin for "etc".) Might as well talk about English now. We have a summer assignment. Huzzah! I might just be the only teenager who actually appreciates summer assignments. Then, all of the people in the class are good enough students, since the slackers didn't do the summer assignment.
Do not interpret this as "I am going to enjoy this summer assignment." I might say that, but only if I was reading this blag aloud or under the influence of many different mind-altering substances, or both. I have to write an essay on The House on Mango Street. The book was originally supposed to be titled The Many Problems of a Poor Mexican Girl, but the publisher advised Sandra Cisneros to change it. (Fun Fact: Great Expectations, similarly, was originally Pip's Plethora of Problems, but the publisher advised Dickens to try again on the title.) [1] This is one of those books in which the reader is supposed to connect to the character, and have a mind-opening experience through the eyes of the protagonist. As a middle class half-Japanese-American male, I can't really identify so well. I have never longed for a dress that I had not the money to buy, and homeless people rarely if ever try to molest me. Though, on occasion, me and my bros go out to the park to jump double-dutch, and talk about developing hips.
No. We don't.
Ah, well. I'm sure many girls and perhaps some boys are really taken by this book, and they don't make us read bad books in English, right? [2] I won't disparage it too much then. It seems to be on the whole written for women. I'll just read it and try to keep an open mind. Maybe someday, I'll look like those girls on the billboards.
But hopefully not.
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[1] Fun Fact: Every time I use the phrase "Fun Fact", It's not really a fact at all but rather a Fun Fat Lie. (But not this time).
[2] Answer: Lord of the Flies.
