Sandman

Reading from the beginning was a bit confusing because it talks about different people from different places in each panel. I liked the use of colors for this text,very colorful and i also like the part where this man was rhyming when he was talking. On page 27 the middle panel that figure reminded me of a character in the series Doctor Who and they were called the silence and you look at them but once you look away you would forget you saw them until you looked at them again. It also looks like the oods also from Doctor Who and they were sort of like slaves. So far reading this is confusing because its so many stories in one.

Latino USA: A Cartoon History by Ilan Stavans

Reading Latino USA: A Cartoon History by Ilan Stavans, I would have to disagree with Stavans when he said, "Nonsense, I say, puras tonterias. Our global culture is not about exclusion and isolation, but about cosmopolitanism (Stavans 3). He is disagree that Walts Disney is not brainwashing children's minds in Latin America, but i feel like they are not just brain washing Latin American children but also everyone who watches Disney movies. Disney inputs this ideal of romance, love and innocents in there movies that kids are so in to it that they expect this kind of romance to happen in reality. I feel like because of this they get so confused in what is reality and whats made up.

"Graphic Memoirs Come of Age" by William Bradley

I think in this text Bradley had some interesting points and he is a bit funny too.Thinking about what he said in the beginning of the text,i agree with him, he talks about how comic books later on  became like playing cards because everybody started reading comics and how all these authors who just want attention are willing to do anything to gain more audience and attention to their work. I think comic book or graphic novel now a days, do what they do not to entertain people anymore but to really just gain profit they would expand there stories just to prolong there time when people watch to gain money. Bardley mention how graphing novels aren't as illustrative in words and there is no picture illustration which makes it less interesting to read which i agree on. Just like when we were kids we tend to grab the book that has color pictures with less words then to get a book with alot of words but barley any pictures because it is not interesting, it doesn't appea to us.

"Empowerment Through Mythological Imaginings in Woman Warrior" by Sue Ann Johnston

What i found interesting about this text is that it talked a lot about  female and their role in china and in America. Females are looked down on in china but that wasn't just in china it also happens in other countries as well.Women were at the lower levels in society and are equivalent to slaves.In Chinese traditions, woman roles are to only be married and treated like property, they may not have a say in anythings. Johnston says Kingston piece is fiction because Kingston mentioned a story she was once told by her mother about  fa mu lan. She is not just taking the role of the male warrior because she is a female avenger. As a women she has both the ability to give birth and the ability to take away someone's life. 

“A Rhetorical and Sociolinguistic Model for the Analysis of Narrative” by Karen Ann Watson

In this text, “A Rhetorical and Sociolinguistic Model for the Analysis of Narrative” by Karen Ann Watson, I didn't like it. It was hard for me to understand this text I felt like there was a lot of things going on and alot of different titles and authors name beginning throw around in this text and she supports her argument by agreeing or disagreeing with the resources she puts in her text.I agree with her when she states Claude Levi-Strauss piece, "The Structural Study of Myth"  where it says "myth is language...it is a part of human speech"(244). I also feel like myth is a language because different myths can be only understood by different ethnicity. In different cultures there are different myths even if in some other culture the myths can be similar to your culture.

American Indian Myths and Legends Ed. by Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz

I found this text interesting because it talk about native american cultures and their beliefs how they talk about the sun, moon ,water and wind with value. I also like how they call everything spirit as if everything had a meaning or a purpose. I like the myth "When Grizzlies Walk Upright " in this reading because it explained the way the Indians were created as people.The grizzly and a human falling in love, the idea of the creation of the first Native American ancestors made me connect to a movie I watched where it is about god creating Adam and he was the only human then he create Eve to company him and they were in love and they were the first creation of human life. I think it is amazing how till this day this myth still has affects on Native American regardless of how long it has been. They still do not kill grizzlies because they believe that this story is real.
Also, reading this text connects to what i said on the last post #3 where native american's were forced into converting in to Christianity and changing and erasing there actual history.

"Porto Rican Folklore"

I think this article "Porto Rican Folklore" by Peter J. Hamilton was interesting because I am currently taking a class called Puerto Rican Latio Studies and we talk about the beginning of how America formed and how the spaniards toke over.I like how original the culture is and the text going into detail about what the people of the Puetro Rican culture believed, and it talks about different topics like music, animals and more. 
According to Hamilton, the West Indies have been known to practice witchcraft derived from Africa but, in my Puerto Rican Latio Studies class I learned that the spaniards called the African believe and culture as witchcraft because the spaniards wanted everybody to be Chirstian and forces people to convert or they will be killed. Many converted but secretly they still practiced there own believe and if the spainards were suspicious of them practicing there own believe instead of Christianity then they would pull that person out and say they were practicing witchcraft which is evil and would kill them.

"the sociopsychological analysis of folktakes" by J.L. Fisher

In the reading "The Sociopsychological Analysis of Folktales" by J. L. Fischer he said "likewise, if there are any rank differences in a society, there is generally an over-supply of tale characters who either occupy or achieve high rank, whereas the majority of the members of the society are obviously of lower rank"(239) which i didn't really understand. Is he trying to say that some myths are told more then others so some myths are more famous or is he saying the richer people tell myths to poorer people and the poorer people would make some of the myths popular because they tell everyone. 

Something interesting reading this was how folktales are influenced by technology, economy, politics, and society. People interaction and making conversations,makes folktales grow.People create folktales, but after that they expand, people tell it in all different versions. Stories being mixed up, being written, the original told myths might be lost. The folktales serve to teach lessons and to entertain, but they can also divide human cultures into a continuous expansion.

"The Roles of Fables in Human Life" by Edward Clayton

In the article "The Roles of Fables in Human Life" by Edward Clayton, he explains what is the purpose of fables.Clayton believes that fables have much more meaning than what they are seem as. He says that humans are much like animals and fables are mainly portrayed as animals because of the Athenians, They believed that there is a strong connection between how animal behaves and human behavior. Clayton believes that we shouldn't be comparing ourselves to animals because, it feels like he is trying to say humans are more superior then animals. He states in this article “Why should we choose to act like animals when we can choose not to and when we can create an environment in which acting like an animal is unnecessary (197).” I believe that humans and animals are connected in some sorts of ways but humans is the ones who dominate because we have a mind and we think, we question about the world unlike the animals, they don't think, or at least they don't think they way humans do. I think the Aesop's reminds humans how we are not pointless that we are all here for a reason , humans established democracy, justice, and moral code, we use them to "plan for the future, and change their environment and behavior" (198). Although we are like animals, we are not any ordinary animal, we are remarkable people that have our own voice, own opinion and we can make choices in our lives. In fables people can relate to the animal characters portrayed because the fables gave the animals human like personalities, which makes people feel like they can relate to the animals but then if the characters were written as humans people might not be willing to admit that they can relate because they think whatever happen to the characters are just another story, like movies we watch. For example, in a movie someone has cancer, we would think that's just a movie, it's not real so it won't happen to you but the truth is we all have a chance of getting cancer, but we just don't want to believe that this can actually happen to ourselves. Also, some people who are reading fables might just look at it as a story with no meaning.