The final blog

For the final blog you have to do the following:

Write about your experience using blogs in the English class.

Say:

> What you think about the experience in general
> How much you feel your writing skills have developed
> What you would like to include in the future
> What else you would like to write about


Wordcount: 200
Make comments on 3 of your classmates' posts.

My favorite tv show

So this topic is quite broad. I immediately think about the X-men cartoons from the 90s, How I Met Your Mother that recently ended or cartoons like Slam Dunk. Some of you might think that I have spent a lot of time in front of the tv, and your completely right, I have. So, to make things simple I will say I have many favorite tv shows, like the ones I mentioned above, but I will focus on one that I think is sometimes underrated.

There was a golden time in television in which you could have a good show without drugs or killing someone. A time where Bryan Cranston wasn't a drug dealing psychopath that made bucket loads of money. Nope. The time I'm referring to is a time where Mr. Cranston is a struggling white collar worker with 4 children (5 in the last seasons), a bossy wife and a crappy life. The last part is also truth about Breaking Bad but the character in this series does not go on a drug-making killing spree.

This is the story of a pretty average suburban family in the US that has three children in primary school and one in military school. Having so many children, the family is always struggling to make ends meet and they picture that by mentioning that the children never have new clothes, which is handed down from brother to brother, by stating that they can't have vacations or that they can't afford to go out.  This family is composed of 4 children that have very different characteristics. The oldest one is in military school because he is always getting into trouble with the law and it was a military school or juvenal detention center. The second oldest son is not very smart and is always trying to pick fights. The main character is the third son who gets into trouble because he is too smart. And the youngest son tends to put the cuteness into every shenanigan these children do.

I really like this show because it is not centered in rich people who have rich people problems. Here, this ordinary family is struggling with real issues in a funny way. Some characters are divorced, others are Afroamerican, others are handicapped, others are Canadian and even German. This show has everything, love, fights, intrigue and a continuous criticism of western societies in general.

Which show is it?

You know the drill, at least 220 words and comment on three of your classmates' blogs.

Your favorite book or movie

So, the themed post is back and for today I have two easy options: write about your favorite book or movie. Fortunately, my favorite book and movie are the same: Fight Club.

Fight Club is a book written by Chuck Palahniuk, a former blue-collar worker. Palahniuk studied journalism but he worked as a diesel mechanic before becoming a successful novelist. While he was working, he attended book clubs and wrote short stories. That is how Fight Club began, as a 6-page short story. Later, and after receiving a good review from his fellows in the book club he tried his luck and turned it into a novel. 

Fight Club is a story about an unnamed average white collar worker who has a severe case of insomnia. While trying to fix his problem, because he was supposedly in pain, he received an ironic piece of advice from his doctor "You wanna see pain? Swing by First Methodist Tuesday nights. See the guys with testicular cancer. That's pain" And that is how he cured his insomnia, he started to attend meetings every night, every week, where different people would try to cope with their diseases. By lying to them and earning their empathy, his insomnia was magically cured. Unfortunately, another person, a woman named Marla, had the same idea and screwed his plan. Therefore, insomina was back. When things were turning for the worse, the protagonist meets Tyler Durden, a handsome soap maker and distributor who believed capitalism and consumerism were depriving society from their most talented people and were making our lives meaningless and useless by constantly brainwashing everyone. Society was so worried of owning things and preserving things that our early ancestors who had to fight to survive would be embarrassed. That's when they wonder if they had been in a real fight, and decide to fight. The fights cured the insomnia and attracted more people that were like them. I won't say anymore because I don't want to spoil the fun.

I really like this book because its main point is not physical violence, nope, the main point is that the society we are in is depriving us from our drive to do things, that we are being brainwashed all the time and that we are so immersed in it that we can't fight back, can we?

The book and movie are quite similar, and I really enjoy both.