5/18/18

Today in class Mr. Rivers went over that if you had any blogs yesterday and Tuesday that you are able to reschedule because of the power outages. We dove right back into our notes that we had on Tuesday and discussed a  question that he had put on the board. The question was "Do all streams of consciousness look the same? If you were to sketch your own consciousness into a stream what would cause it to change course?" After we were done with discussing with our group we were able to open it up to the class and someone said that not all streams of consciousness is the same because we all have different perspectives, and each person is unique. Another person said that there is always a constant change, for example death is inevitable. At the end of the discussion we were able to circle it back to the idea of perception/ experiences. For example, if you and your sister live the same life but handle it differently shows perception. Mr. Rivers then read us a chapter from Ulysses and asked us to see why this was an example if consciousness. It was an example of consciousness because everyone has different brains and that chapter was just one sentence and it shows that he was a madman. We then read the first page of The Catcher in the Rye to see where Holden's consciousness is represented. We learned that Holden's consciousness is all over the place and as you read you can see that he jumps around a lot. We also discussed that he talks like he is immature, there are a lot of run-on sentences. In the first sentence he pushes through topics that he does not want to talk about. We discovered that Holden can be a romantic because he hates movies, he is anti-new technology. (Holden rather read a short story then watch a movie.) However, Holden can also be a modernist because when it comes to his brother it is complex. For example, he his jealous of his brother and calls him names but he also respects him because he has money to get a new car. At the end of class we went over where Holden can be and we used evidence from the text to help support our theories. Some people said that it could be a hospital, a school etc. Our homework for tonight was posted on google classroom, and we have to read 1-5 over the weekend. We also have questions to answer for Monday's class.

Overall, today's class can be helpful because we talked about how everyone's brain is different. And now in the future you can use your knowledge of consciousness and apply it to a book your reading, just like we did today with Ulysses and Holden. We went over the fact that everyone's consciousness is different because of life experiences and how experiences can affect someone mentally. You can go into the real world knowing that everyone is different and that you don't know what someone is suffering mentally.