Confused

The truth is that, after finishing reading the story, I was confused. I didn't know if this was because I didn't read closely enough or because the author isn't clear enough as to what the purpose of the story is. I feel the author goes out of his way to mention certain things such as the weather as he does for example on pages 54 and 55, or he talks repedetley about the guests not even allowing themselves to think about saying something regarding the food being served at the feast. This repeated mentions of the weather and the guests thoughts seem often unnecessary, and in my opinion, make the story more complicated than it needs to be. But that's simply my opinion because I could not grasp the message the author intends to carry across with this story. I feel that the author is attempting a master piece with too many pieces, which makes this story so hard to follow. I mean any story has many characters, but I can easily find out what each character contributes to a certain piece of literature, which I can't do in this case. I find it hard to understand the purpose of each character and each point the author brings up in this story. It's hard to see how all the pieces in this work connect to make a point. After reading the story, I still can't answer, what's the point of story?

Maybe after a discussion, I will be able to have more insight about this story; hence, I will produce a better blog.

I thought God took care of us?

Growing up in a Christian household, my family always made it seem as of God was this amazingly rich higher being. They always told me that he had a palace waiting for me in heaven and that his huge kingdom had golden roads and crystal waters. As a young girl I was obviously excited and couldn’t wait to get to heaven so that I could finally be rich. But, at the beginning of Bertolt Brecht’s play, The Good Woman of Setzuan, the Gods exchange a few words that confused this long time belief.

SHIN TE: But everything is so expensive, I don’t feel sure I can do it!
SECOND GOD: That’s not in our sphere. We never meddle with economics.
THIRD GOD: One moment. Isn’t it true she might do better if she had more money?
SECOND GOD: Come, come! How could we ever account it Up Above? (11)

The first thing that came to mind when, on page 11, the Second God mentioned, “Up Above,” was heaven. But, the way they said it made it seem as if they didn’t have very much money to spare and that they stayed away from everyone’s finances. This was nothing like what I had been taught when I was younger. It really confused me at first because I kept asking myself, “Isn’t God SUPPOSED to take care of us?!” But, then I remembered that my AP English teacher, Susan Davis, told us that this play was a satire when she handed it out. But growing up, my parents always told me that it wasn’t right to “play” with things about God. So, why is Brecht doing it? Is it okay to say these things about God? Or am I just misinterpreting Brecht’s writing when he’s not really doing that what I’m accusing him of?

Works Cited
Brecht, Bertolt, and Eric Bentley. The Good Woman of Setzuan. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota, 1999. Print.

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Confused...

On page 379 it talks about Yasin and him being mad at his wife. It says, " He felt almost regretful, not because he had suddenly discovered some dregs of affection for her in the corners of his heart, but because of his desire to treat her politely, perhaps out of respect for her father or fear of his". it sounds to me like Yasin is having mixed feelings about his wife, and now he needs to put the blame on something higher than his emotions. Do you think that deep down Yasin really loves and cares about his wife or does he just try to respect her now because of their parents? I feel like he is a little like his father when it comes to his wife. I feel like his father really loves Amina but he can't really express that love to her because then peoples image of him will be distorted. I feel like Yasin feels like he has to hold close to the same image as his father so he tries to trick himself into believing that the inly reason that he cares about her is because of her father and his. But don't get me wrong there is a part of him who is just like his father in that he does like to sleep around with other women and that he does look at other women as well. In the research I did on Muslim marriages it talk about how the marriage should be shown off and how the man is not supposed to sleep around with other women except his wife. It seems to me that Yasin and his father are kind of doing the exact opposite of what they should be, and the only reason that Yasin is doping it is because he has seen i=his father do it to Amina. So I don't really feel like he doesn't love his wife but i do feel like that he idolizes his father and aspires to be like him, and the one way that he can do that is by acting like he really doesn't love his wife but by caring for her because that's what he is supposed to do.

Work cited:
http://www.jannah.org/sisters/marr.html