jueves, 1 de mayo de 2014

This is not Cheese

As we  were  reading about  Margaret Altwood, I can really  notice that   someone  thinks  almost the  same  as me, and  I  can conclude that  I'm  post-Modernism just because
Ok, not...  but  -the truth is that I thik that Margaret Alwood  work  is  kind  of  impressive and I love the fact that  she writes  about things that  matter to her,  so that at the end,  her work  becomes  something  important to somebody.
When I first  read "Gertude ralks back"  I really thought that  if  al the stories that we   read   from her  were going to be like that, I was going to get bored, because  I've read other stories, from other authors; but when I read "Unpopular Gals" that  is about  the  perspective from the antagonist  in  every  faerytale,  and  the truth is that at some point I thought the same  about  all the antagonist  and  as a kid, I  used to  ask me why they were like that.

After that,  we read "On Medea"  that is about the  Greek myth  about a woman who  is a witch and  that  participates in diferent stories,  but  her importance  changes throught all the variations  of the stories created,  because  anyone, at the end,  knows the real story. In this case, Margaret Atwood   argues that  there are diferent stories, and   at the  end,  as a conclusion, she ask  which  story, as a reader,  would you choose, and  moreover  which of the actions that Medea did  is the most important for you.
Then  we read "A letter to America" that  more than a letter   to  show that the US has changed,  is to show you that  everything changes,   that you change, and  until  someone shows it, ypou would ot  notice it,  and  at the   end,  it would  be your  decision whether  return  or not.
Finally, we've read " Aliens  have taken  the place of angels" where  she expose the terms 'sci-fy' and 'expeculative fiction'  and  as  a reader it  makes you  think  about  how  tecnology has changes, how  your life has changed and  when  do everything that we see on tv or movies will become  true.
I think that  Margaret Atwood is  someone that  makes you   think about   everyhing that  is around  you and  about what she   thinks is important, because , in my case,   at the end  I tought  questions, not  something  concrete  like "It was cool  because of this and that"; I thought  "what would  happen?", Why  she thinks it?"  and  so on. I think that  this  is  the purpose from Margaret, to make you think about  what she writes, and   to make you think.
I think that one of the purpose of  post-modernism is to make you think and to make  you self aware  about the  world,  also to  show you another perspective from the   things by the use of pastiche  and intertextuality; I think that   by using this characteristics,   Post-modernism tries to    show that   other  texts and  movies, that seem far way form your life,  when you change the  words  that you use,  they  become something moe  normal  and  something that can be relate   to your life.
Knowing this characteristics,  I think that Margarte Atwood  wants  that  you relate to her work, and  to  make  you  self aware about  everything and to question everything.
As  far as I've read   about Post-modernism, about Margaret Altwood and  about  her work, I kind of  like it a lot because  it  seems  something that I would  read  and   write,  and  at some point I think that   what I normally write  is  Post-modernism,  but I didn't knet it really was  postmodernism. Now I'm really looking forward  to eat a pizza.