Vagina # 2

Ensler seems to have two purposes in this text: to celebrate vaginas and to raise awareness of violence against women? Does she achieve both of these goals equally? Do they contradict each other at all? What is the effect of reading all the monologues as one large piece?

Eve Ensler does have two purposes in this text but i feel she celebrates vaginas way more than raise awareness of violence against women. This book celebrates vagina more than pornstars. Never had i read a book that expresses, the sight and smell of a Vagina. From live performances to discussions on college campus this book raises awareness for Vagina. Eve even speaks to different women about their views and secret thoughts about their own vagina.

Vagina

1)The genre of this piece of literature is drama, meaning that Ensler wrote these monologues to be performed. Why do you think she wants vaginas to be publicly performed? Why does she want vaginas to be physically embodied? What effect does this have on the way we see and think of vaginas?
For one I Never met someone that is so comfortable taking about their naked body part. Almost no one i know actually calls it vagina. i really dont think she wants this to be performed, but rather she puts alot of emphasis in the word vagina. She has alot of similesand personification. "Here's the place to practice saying the word, because, as we know, the word is what propels us. "VAGINA". this quote is powerful enough to show the authors point of view without reading anymore of the book. Its more of a tell all about being more comfortable with saying and talking about their vagina. She gives desriptions and smells about it. even gives a full list of nicknames for the word.

Carolines Wedding

Caroline is very appealing to me because happened in my family, with makes me think if I should marry someone outside my family. My parents really don't care if i marry an hispanic, caucasian, or spanish women but their parents did. What is ironic is my mom's brother married someone outside of the race named Caroline, which is the protagonist in the story. Her mom wasn't to found of this situation bout the weddings still went on and it was beautiful. In the story, Caroline wants to marry a guy outside her race. They are haitian and personallly i never a haitian married to someone else besides haitians. Her mom decide to make bone soap which is suppose to ruined the wedding somehow. Grace, Carolines sister, is caught in between the drama. my attitude with this situation is that you carry whoever you want. myself i am not really attracted to women my own race.

Night Women Analysis

Night women is about a prostitute that has sex with married men right next to her son bed. This story bothers me somewhat because i cant imagine a mom actuallly during something of this nature. She describes her son as a " butterfly fluttering on a rock that stands out naked in the middle of a stream. what she means by this he moves in his bed but silently enough that she does not know that he is awake. Her excuse to her son that if she ever woke up that the person she is having sexual relations is his dad. I heard a similar story from my mom. My mom said that a girl in Harlem, my residence, was a prostitute and she lived with two of her children. She did not exactly do it in the same room but in the same apartment. Not only did she lie to her children about the guys she had sex with, she lied about what was going on. when her children heard noises in her room she said she was exercising.

Flinn, On the Bus.

This poem is somewhat hard to understand but was very interesting to me. "Three hours after the buildings fell, he took a seat beside me. Fresh out of prison, after 24 months, You're my first hello!" These were the first three lines in the poem and it grabbed my attention. Being that Naomi Shihab Nye was linked to writing about the September 11th, 2001 attack on the trade towers i automaticly figure she was talking about the trade towers in  the first line. Later in the poem Naomi talks about a person singing behind her on the bus that had spent time in jail. This person felt his lawyers did him wrong and he wanted revenge. But he didnt want to go back to jail so he second guessed his revenge plan. I felt this is similar to Americans wanting revenge on the terrorist or whoever they thought was responsible for the trade tower attack. "Savaged skylinesn thousands of lives" was said in the poem and that it was exactly happen on 9/11. The last line of the poem was "Peace is rough".