Aliens, or Angels? Who Knows?

English: "The Snake in the Grass or
Satan Transform'd to an Angel
 of Light." At the sides are a
 Puritan and a Covenanter above an
author writing. Courtesy of the
 British Museum.
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yeah, I'm playing catch up again.  I really intended to post every day while I was off school, but after working so hard on my critical analysis draft, I was feeling pretty self-indulgent.  Anyway, this morning I realized it was Thursday, and now I'm kicking myself (also again).
I think my draft was okay, although my thesis was not.  I went with:  The information revealed about Quill's father in Guardians of the Galaxy adds up to him being an angel rather than just another nonhuman.  I don't think I really made that point.

I had to make a list of everything that is said about him in the film, and in the draft I basically used the list, except for the material that was in my scene.  The point of this was to include the info without saying too much about all of the other scenes, because I didn't want to give the impression that I was analyzing those scenes (something forbidden in the instructions).  I'll find out if this is a problem at my conference with the prof next Monday, when I also hope to get some help with my thesis.

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• Angelic protectors..... (wepresson.wordpress.com)

"CinderBella": Sara Buttsworth's Take on Twilight

The Vampire Deutsch: Der Vampir
 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rather than a stand-alone essay, this is excerpted from a book, and it covers first the male vampires of the "saga" in relation to the myth of the American Dream before turning to the females, mostly just Bella.  According to Buttsworth, Cinderella is the version of the American Dream that applies to women.  A lot of what she says rings true, but I decided to go to an expert for another opinion. 

My expert is my sister Rebbie, who is kind of a vampire scholar/hobbyist (last year, she spent what I thought was an outrageous amount of money on the complete DVD set of Dark Shadows.  It came in a coffin.  Need I say more?).  She once told me that "Bella is me-- when I was twelve years old!"  Now (ten years later) she says that she agrees that Stephanie Meyer is working the Cinderella story in the Twilight books, but she says that's a problem, because what Bella wants are all childish things:  "She wants to stay young and beautiful (which I don't think she is.  Definitely not in the movies), marry a rich guy, and get her own way.  She is unbelievably selfish, and doesn't have any interest in anything but herself."  (my response:  "Don't hold back.  Tell me what you really think.)

Rebbie did grow out of her vampire fantasies by the time she was about sixteen, when, she says, "I began to realize that there were a lot of important things I should be worrying about, and the last thing I wanted to do was depend on someone else to give my life meaning."  I should point out that she doesn't usually talk like this.  I think she was trying to be the big sister when she said it.  My take on her Goth years is that the black eyeliner kept irritating her eyes, which sort of took the romance out of it all. 

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