Brokeback Mountain

The short story of broke back mountain seemed to leave out a lot of detail compared to the movie we watched in class. I have seem the movie before and I feel like it contained a lot more information than the short story. The movie seemed to stem from a novel instead of the short story we read. When we discussed the differences in class everyone seemed to feel the same way.

movie!

The recent movie that we watched was different. It was interesting to watch but kind of disturbing. The women was on the phone talking about sex with different men, in front of her husband and her children. Everyone in the movie was weird in their own ways and it made it kind of hard to follow. However, I did like how each separate family or person was tied together somehow. I was VERY confused at the end where the man snapped and killed the young woman they found on the bike trail. I don't know if we missed some clips of the movie in between each day of watching it but something did not seem to mesh very well. Over all it was an interesting movie but some parts became very confusing. I understand that the writer put ideas from his life into each of his stories so he must have been a disturbed individual to have a life involving all of these circumstances.

Short Stories

I read The Queen Bee by The Brothers Grimm, Regret by Kate Chopin, and Lucas Beauchamp by William Faulkner. Each story was completely different in the ways that they were set up. The Queen Bee was a fairy tale that was very detailed and had far fetched ideas what children would like. It talked about the journey a few men had in finding their wives. They had a mission to find the best one and went through all of these activities such talking with animals to do it. In the end the best man who was the kindest got help from the animals in the story and got the prize of the best wife.
Regret was a very serious drama. It was a very old story and used wording that showed it. This made it somewhat hard to follow in places but you still got the main idea. This story was about a lady who was seen as a hard working person who did everything for herself and by herself. She ends up having to watch her neighbors children while they are away and becomes attached to them and realize that she is not as stone like as she may have thought. She had feelings and could love someone other than her dog.
Lucas Beauchamp was a story of children who grew up being told what to do and end then end became men who were free to make the decisions they wanted to knowing that they knew all of the lessons life had to offer. It was a bit hard to follow and had many, many characters but it was a very plain story in the idea that it did not have much drama or suspense.