We have started reading Carmilla chapters 1-4. I like this book so far. I can tell that it relates to the other pieces of literature we have been reading. It hasn't said it straight forward yet but I'm guessing the girl Carmilla is a Vampire. It talks about how she is very beautiful and how she draws Laura in. These are similar characteristics that the vampires in the twilight series and Lord Ruthven. All of them are extremely attractive and draw people in with their desirable characteristics. This book so far reminds me of a mix between Northanger Abbey and the Twilight series. I'm excited to keep reading!!

I'm doing my next paper on the social problem of women being to dependent on men. I'm using the book Northanger Abbey and the Twilight series to show this issue. I'm going to compare the role of the two main actresses Bella and Catherine. One of the parts I am going to use for Bella is when Edward leaves her in New Moon. I am using because of how much she lets it affect her life. She becomes very depressed and shuts everyone out.This is very unhealthy for women to do and is a problem. Here is a clip of Bella from new moon to show how depressed she was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=GNQASF3STWM&NR=1 

Today in class we went over the poem the Giaour. When I first started to read the poem I was pretty confused about what was actually going on. However, today when we went over it together step by step it was a lot easier to understand. Another thing that helped was defining some of the words that we were not sure of the meaning. The thing with understanding poems is that it helps to break it down line by line to understand.the Giaour was a little hard to understand because it jumped from one thing to another. Other than that it is a good story so far. Here is a link that gives advice on interpreting poems!!!
http://www.webster.edu/~armbruka/engl1030/handouts/interpretpoem.htm