In Just Spring

I liked the feel of the poem In Just Spring... It reminded me of being younger on the first warm day of the spring season. I couldn't wait to get home from school, get on my bike and go! I don't really relate to hopscotch or dancing around in the fresh air but I remember coming home those nights very exhausted and very happy. Days like that were the best time to play yourself to death and go home muddy, hungry, and excited!

My mood changed pretty dramatically when I switched my reading from In Just Spring to Because I Could Not Stop For Death. The line "Because I could not stop for death- He kindly stopped for me". It made me think about how death can " kindly" stop for someone and also if someone does not stop for death they can't stop the inevitable. I know there are more humane ways to die than others but if someone is not stopping for death then they are not gonna take to kindly to it.

Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo!

If I had to choose which one of the Cinderella stories I liked the most I would have to say that I really enjoyed the Chinese version of the story. I liked the story cause I felt like it had a lot more of the Chinese culture than the Disney version had American culture or the Grimm version had German culture. It was a story about magic and fantasy but the magic did not come from a fairy godmother or a dead mother but a fish from the natural world. I liked that the story showed how the fish and the natural world was still important. The Chinese calendar revolves around animals and their importance to humans and the story showed this. The thing I didn't really like about the Chinese version is the ending. It was not a fairytale in the end of the story. She did not become a royal princess and live happily ever after but it did teach a good lesson about greed.