Monty Travis

English III

Summer reading

7-31-13

I started out by reading The Hound of the Baskervilles first.  This story was very interesting and caught your attention right of the bat.  The only real motivation I had to read this story was that it was required for school and was probably something that I would not read if I did not know anything about the story.  I picked the other stories out strictly by their tittle, which seemed to work out pretty good for me.  Most of all the stories were interesting and some did not have anything to do with there title.  There were a lot of distractions to not read the stories and the biggest one is the fact that at the begging of the summer you feel like you have so much time that you do not need to worry about reading and then it catches up to you.  The motivation was getting the work done by the dead line because I know there will be consequences if the work is not done by the proper time.  The stories I have picked to read have all been good so far and I have one more to read and I am thinking about picking that one comply random and see how it works out.  

Blog 1

British Literature is very different from modernism and post modernism.  The most distinct change is they way people talk and use their words.  In The Hound of the Baskervilles Dr. Watson said, “All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your severely practical mind.”  Just the way they worded this shows me that British literature is very different than any kind of modernism.  Also After reading this story shows me how you can stay one thing but just in many different ways.  It also shows how people can present their shelf in today world.  This meaning that someone can just their body language, words, actions to show someone how they are feeling or how they feel about what they say.  I like to relate this to real life situations and to me this shows the most about someone in the way they are and the way they present there self.  So far I have read three of the five short stories we have to read and all three of them are really interesting and very much alike and different from each other.  This is also true for The Hound of the Baskervilles.