Week 3

We finished the first book “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway. I was surprised how the story ended and things happened in the book. The one of the main characters Brett, it always a little unexpected of knowing what's her next move. She sounded like a player in the story, but she just wanted everything the way she wants. Her mind was open during that age (19 century) to sleep with different men. To relate this with the Flappers, Flappers were the girls who are the new generation after the women have the equal rights as men. Flappers did not want to stay electrotype, they cut hair short and wear shirts that showed their knees. They were also very outgoing girls. “The Big Blonde” by Dorothy Parker, was an interesting reading that attracted my tension to keep reading. Parker created a prefect blond woman in the beginning of the story, and then her life got worse later. After her husband left her, she started to met new men since she was a pretty women. A few years later, she found out how she had been all these years after broke up with her husband, she tried to commit suicide, but was saved at the end.

In the history class, we discussed the readings “ In Defense of the Bible” and “ To Expose a Fool.” The readings were about William Jennings Bryan believed everything was created by God and deep belief in the Bible. Clarence Darrow believed in science. Darrow was asking questions about things written in the Bible. William was not able to answer all the questions since some of them were not on the Bible. In the “To Expose a Fool” by H. L. Mencken, Mencken was trying the tell people what a fool Bryan was by proving points that were made during the case (between Bryan's and Darrow's ideas of creation of the world).