Blog Presentation Comments

-->Group 1: Erika Sison, Holly Lam, Sarah Gleeson
I agree with the point that Holly made about how Reg does not convincingly representing heaven (as Madiha also commented on before me).
Holly said that Reg does not represent heaven because he "does not show any love". I completely agree. He does not show any characteristics of what heaven should be about: love, trust, apathy. The proof that Dr. Ogden provided on how Reg represented heaven did not convince me. Although I do believe that Cheryl represents purgatory, I think that Reg can also represent purgatory. In his section of the book, he grows as a person when he purges his own sins and admits to his own wrong-doings.

-->Group 2: Clayton Ng, Jamie Masaro, Wilfred Tsang, Roy Ma
The group made an interesting connection between the similar themes of fragmentation in All Tomorrow's Parties and The Innocent Traveller.
Dr. Ogden pointed out in lecture that All Tomorrow's Parties had sentence fragments and that the chapters were fragmented, to come together in the end.
We can also say this about The Innocent Traveller because the chapters are fragments of short stories that fit together to make a plot.
When initially looking at the two novels, I find it very hard to see a connection between the two, but you guys have made a very interesting connection!

-->Group 3: Ken Smith, Bryce Brentlinger, Cvijeta Stojanovic, Lorenz Nierves
It was interesting to hear two different interpretations of the preface from Hey Nostradamus! by Ken and Lorenz.
I thought that both interpretations had very good points and were both very convincing.
I especially liked the interesting point that Lorenz made about the line, "we shall not all sleep".
He pointed out that "sleeping" is when you're at peace. He related this to the line by saying that "we shall not sleep" could represent the attitude of the people after the massacre and how they "will not be at peace". This definitely helped me connect the preface to the book and helped me look at it in different ways.

-->Group 4: Melissa Yeaman, Lauren Brown
There were a lot of good points made on sentence fragments during the presentation. The group made an interesting point about how fragments separate different perspectives. It would be interesting to consider that if different people read different fragments, they might interpret the whole story in completely different ways.