Oct
17
Martí…por fin
Posted by: | October 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Sincerest apologies for my tardiness, I know everyone is long over this, but alas, it must be done. Sooo, what to say about José Martí? His writing is exquisitely detailed? Done and done. Well, let’s see, to elaborate slightly, I have to sa…
Sep
25
Escenas Norteamericanas
Posted by: | September 25, 2008 | Comments Off
En El Puente de Brooklyn, Marti obviamente tiene mucha admiracion para esta gran ciudad. Sus descripciones estan llenas con detalles y factos sobre el puente. Parece que alguien encontraba esta ciudad, con su technologia y gente de todos raices, ser …
Sep
22
Jose marti
Posted by: | September 22, 2008 | Comments Off
I know you are probably tired of hearing this but i also found this reading hard especially because poetry is not one of my favorite types of writing. When reading Marti i felt that he had a lot of the basic, and expected parts of peotryhe had a lot o…
Sep
22
what the hell???
Posted by: | September 22, 2008 | Comments Off
um………..i had just a few issues with the first of this book about the “puente del Brooklyn.” Besides the fact that i had to look up every second word, it was really hard for me to get through 5 pages the details of the Brooklyn bridge. And i dont…
Sep
22
Coney Island
Posted by: | September 22, 2008 | Comments Off
I chose to focus my blog on Martí’s Coney Island. I was supposed to read Nuestra America el año pasado but never got to it and therefore my knowledge of Jose Martí work isn’t what it should be. As I read Coney Island, I often lost track of the …
Sep
22
jose marti
Posted by: | September 22, 2008 | Comments Off
Yo estaba leyendo esa lectura en camino hasta Penticton. Tenia mi mini-diccionario de espanol conmigo y tambien yo estaba con una amiga ecuadorana en la coche pero de todos modos tenia problemas con el lenguaje de ese texto. Al principio no queria leer…
Sep
22
El hombre se muestra bueno
Posted by: | September 22, 2008 | Comments Off
Que no nos perdamos en quejarnos de lo complicado y descriptivo de los ensayos de Marti. Nos tenemos que perder en los ensayos mismos, y se nos abraran los ojos a un mundo que es simultaneamente colorido, absurdo, loco, doloroso y maravilloso. Tenemos …
Sep
22
Martí: “Es mejor morir a pie que vivir arrodillado”
Posted by: | September 22, 2008 | Comments Off
Firstly, I will agree with the sentiment expressed by other students that this was a challenging reading assignment. His stories took me a great deal more time than they would have were they written in English, but I suppose that is what one can expec…
Sep
21
El Puente de Brooklyn
Posted by: | September 21, 2008 | Comments Off
Martí presents New York through an understanding of its architecture. He constructively describes the Brooklyn Bridge as a structure that was created from points on a piece of paper. It is almost surreal that a few dots became a bridge and that same s…
Sep
21
Marti
Posted by: | September 21, 2008 | Comments Off
Even though I had a bit of trouble with the vocabulary, expressions and use of language, I found many of Marti’s stories pretty interesting. I usually tend to find it a bit annoying when authors are overly descriptive, but I found his choice of adject…
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