FIRST REFLECTION POST

FIrst, I hope that this isnt considered late being on the 31st and im sorry if it is.
there have been so many good discussions and readings that i dont know where to start. I really enjoyed confederates in the attick actually. im a history buff so i liked reading about the battles and stuff like that, but the social aspect was also really interesting. I had no idea that there were so many people in the south who felt so strongly about the confederate flag. personally, i am one of the people mentined who say "you lost...get over it" and i will support that position. However, even before i read this book i knew that not every southerner who flew the falg wanted to sceed from the union, that the flag was very much a simbol of stated rights to them and not of the confederacy. what i didnt know was how many other meanings there are to the flag. there are people who feel that it still is simbolic of slavery, and others who feel that its simply and simbol of the rebelious spirit of the confederacy. perhaps most surprising of all to me though was the reaction the flag got out of some people...i didnt know that anyone felt that strongly. i simply couldnt believe that even today the flag could stir up enough emotiom to motivate someone to murder another human being.
my favorite reading though was little women. while i definately had to read through the sexism in it i tought it was simply a really good book simply for entertainment purposes. i could also appreciate how well it illustrated life in that era, or at least what life would be like idealy. some of the discussion in class surpreised me though. first, i was surprised by the varing age ranges given for what people thought the target audience was and it really showed me how differently people can interpret the same text. I wounder how differently the book read for those who thought that the target audience was say...around seventeen than for me, who though it was closer to thirteen. i was also surprised that while there were so many variations on the age of the tarfet audience everyone seemed to agree that hannah was white (or at least not black). it seemed to me that if anything would have been up for debate it would have been that and i was surprised when we all aggreed. so far i have really enjoyed our discussions and look forward to more of them. see you in section