I am still reading John Dies at the End by Jason Pargin and many events have transpired since the last time I typed up a whipper snapper summary on this internet. When I left off last, Dave was walking down the street after leaving the police station and talking to John, now dead, through a bratwurst. (By the way, I read a fun fact earlier that this miraculous story uses the word "bratwurst" over 80 times. Dr. Pargin is my idol.) Now you might be thinking to yourself, "Dave is communicating with the dead through a bratwurst? What a jabroni!" Now that me be fair, but remember that he is still tripping on Soy Sauce, the extremely sketchy street drug that can make impossible things happen to you. So John tells Dave to go to Bob Marley's abode, which is just a dilapidated trailer in a ghetto trailer park where there was a homicide not 24 hours ago. Hmmmm...... Anyway, he goes there and just kind of walks inside. He is surprised to see that there is no trace of blood or guts anywhere. The cops really did their job, febreezing the place and everything. He is mesmerized by a beautiful, exceptionally detailed painting of a cabin on a mountainside in the snow. There is a deer and a woman, and she has a baby in her arms. And the infant has a horn coming out of its forehead. Also there is a pond in the background with hands sticking up through the frozen ice. Dave falls into a trance and just stares at it for a while, thinking that it is real until he snaps out of it and trudges onward. He goes into the bathroom and notices that the toilet is not where it should normally be. He takes a closer look and notices that where the toilet would normally be, there is a hole that dives 20 feet straight down. And a rung ladder leads down into the deep, dark pit of doom. Or maybe not doom, I don't know yet because that is where I left off. Very suspenseful and intriguing, isn't it? What do you think will be at the bottom? A depressed, fat leprechaun with daddy issues or a heaping pile of fecal matter? Leave your answer in the comments below:
For my English class, I am also reading the famous play entitled Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare. Right now, I am in Act 2 Scene 2 and it has genuinely exceeded my previous expectations for the script. Before I began reading this, I thought it was going to be a boring love story with fancy literatures that I would not be able to understand. However after perusing it, I have become enveloped in the plot and characters. I like Shakespeare's use of characterization because each character has a very distinct personality. I feel like Romeo is a little bipolar in a way because at the beginning he is depressed about not being able to have the love of a nun, but the next day he completely forgets about her and falls in love with another girl. Also Tybalt is a huge jabroni. The play has also made me laugh a couple of times because our language is very different from the lingo of the 16th century and that Shakespeare wrote about some sketchy subjects in some parts of the story. One example of this is in the very beginning: "Sampson - Ay, [cut off] the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt." I was a little speechless at that point because of my previous expectations for the story. The only thing that bugs me about reading the play is that it really can be very difficult to understand what is being said at times, but after reading over it carefully I can usually comprehend the message. So, overall I enjoy this story and would like to keep reading it during our class.
