Responses to Blog Presentations

Group 1: Erika Sison, Holly Lam, Sarah Gleeson
The explanation of what purgatory is was very useful. I foudn it very interesting that this group thought that Cheryl's sin was silence because she felt guilty about not standing up and distracting the gunmen. I didn't pick up on that when I first read the book and it really made the whole four fold ontology theory make sense.

Group 2: Clayton Ng, Jamie Masaro, Wilfred Tsang, Roy Ma
This group found common themes in most of the texts we read which I think will be useful for the final. I enjoyed how they related the whole concept of Carpe Diem to Hey Nostradamus! and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Group 3: Ken Smith, Bryce Brentlinger, Cvijeta Stojanovic, Lorenz Nierves
I think that the beginning of this group's presentation could be tied into group 2's presentations becasue it talked about poetry and how it is fragmented and often difficult to understand. The part of the presentation about the preface of Hey Nostradamus! was very interesting. Ken was saying that the Corinthians part of the Bible which the preface is from also said something to the effect of, "without the knowledge of sins, you can't knowingly commit them". I thought this was really interesting - kind of like saying "ignorance is bliss".

Group 4: Melissa Yeaman, Lauren Brown
This group talked about fragmentation. I thought it was really interesting that they broke down All Tomorrow's Parties into macro and micro fragments. It was also really interesting how they highlighted the importance of fragments in Hey Nostradamus! because they separated each character's point of view.