Thinspiration

After reading the article about the website thinspiration, I didn't see really anything wrong with these women except the fact that they were physically in shape. I went to the web site and looked at these pictures and I expected to see malnourished girls with ribs sticking out, but they just look like they wanted to be in shape to me. I personally would prefer a little more meat on my woman because to me, that looks healthy. As for it being inspirational, I guess it just depends on how you look at it. I asked my wife's opinion on whether or not  she found it inspirational and she said not really and it was unrealistic for some people to ever achieve this goal of being super skinny because women have all different body types and shapes. There were some photos of women who had once been big and lost the weight and those pictures were more inspirational than that of some random picture of a girl just taking a photo of herself who has probably never been overweight but thinks she is fat. My opinion is that real beauty comes from within. My wife is overweight herself and struggles everyday to make her lifestyle changes and she is making great strides but she knows she wont be one of those girls and don't really want to be. I love her no matter what size she is, I just want her to be healthy because we have our kids to raise and she is who I want to grow old with.

Adult content for children

I am the father of a 14 year old and a 7 year old, also a step-father of a 24 year old. As a parent, I believe that there is certain material that should be kept from children til a certain age like anything pertaining to sex I would not let my child read until they were at least 16 years or older. I am very old fashioned and am protective of what my kids do and who they see because the world has become an ugly place and I don't think there is such a thing as being too protective of your children. I do let my 14 year old read such books as the Twilight series and know by watching the movies that there are sexual themes in the books, but as for anything else of the such I don't let her  read it. I'm sure she reads stuff that she don't tell us about because we cannot screen everything that she reads but I try to encourage her to read things that are written for her age group.

Literary Analysis

I don't really make time anymore to sit down and read like I used to, guess life gets away from us sometimes. I did enjoy reading these short stories from last week, some more than others though. When I read "The Yellow Wallpaper," I really did not get the meaning in the story. What I got from the story was, that she may have been mentally ill, I still don't understand what the symbolism with the yellow wallpaper is, someone please enlighten me about this story because I do want to understand what it meant by her pulling the wallpaper off.
I like the story "The Man Who Was Almost a Man." Everyone has their own idea of what they can do in life to be a "man" and in Dave's case, a gun would make him a man. Although that gun didn't make him any more of a man, he felt like it did and that's all that mattered to him, no matter who got hurt.
My favorite of the stories was "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." I love the fact that he wanted to go on an adventure and feel brave and alive. He has his moments of fear but he don't give up on his adventures. His wife was an awful person though, it was her pushing him to be more of a man that lead him to his death because he wanted to please her.
The last story, "Good Country People," was an alright story, I just couldn't get into it very much. Maybe because I sat down and read all these stories one after the other and may have been a bit burnt out by the time I got to this one. Maybe I need to read it again.
I'm not sure which topic I am going to pick yet but I have it narrowed down to "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."

Hemingway Code

The Hemingway Code seems like to me is his idea of what a man should be. I can see some of these rules as beneficial and could live by them but I don't agree with the part about hiding behind false religious hopes. I am a Christian and I believe that there is a God and an afterlife and if I am luck and live my life by the Bible, I will go to Heaven some day. I can do all that manly stuff like never show emotion and endure pain in silence. I don't no why these are only geared toward men though, they sound like good traits for everyone to have.
I do see some of these rules come out in his writing, such as in the story of The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber, while the guys are hunting, Robert Wilson was always talking about not fearing the animals they were hunting. When he didn't face up to his fears and kill the lion, his wife treated him like he was a coward and shunned him away. I don't know if she felt ashamed of him or disappointed in him because she thought he was less of a man and wanted him to man up. People are who they are and shouldn't try to be anyone else to please someone. If a person don't like who you are and what you stand for they don't have to stay around. Be yourself, an original!