Locus

story seems to be about the life of these people and how there burn outs in the Los Angles, and the stereotypes of hollywood. great quote  "overestimating the importance of his crowd, the people who come to California to die" Tod is a painter and paints backdrops on movie sets. While in LA, he dreams of Hollywood failing apart and on fire. 

Tod also seems to be stuck as the go to guy in the relationship drama with Homer and Faye.  Seems like a horror story of low life's and bad problems all around, as well as Tod is on his own journey figuring out his place in this new city. In the end the idea of the locus swarm comes true after homer is caught beating a child up next to a movie premier and the crowd for the premier descends on to Homer. The area is thrown in to chaos and this is were Tods dream of the painting comes true.  and the symbolism of the title of the book takes shape.

I think when we went over this in class, I felt the idea of Hollywood as this place were only the lost go wasn't true. I think you can get the same kind of people any where not just LA county.  Iv seen the same kind of people in many cites from NYC to FL. Florida in my opine is filled with burn out. I feel Sarasota in general seems to attract a lot of gypsies and homeless people.  Same kind of thing that I see in the bigger cities.

wizard of oz

with the wizard of oz we see Dorothy as more of a girl with a lot of personal situation she seems to have a lot of characteristic of a very lost teenage girl that is trying to find herself. threw out the story it takes three male characters to get her to where she needs to go, which I thought was funny, because the wizard of oz seems to uses the roles that we have put in place of each other in western culture. that this girl can not make it threw this journey with out the help of these men, but whats weird is that Dorothy is the strong one in the group and that all the male characters have qualities that I think a lot of men try to gain. knowledge, courage and compassion. Even the witches play the role of a mother figure and the wizard plays the father, as the person to go to fix her problems. 

its a coming of age story of a young girl finding her self and is built to teach young people basic life lessons about growing up as well as putting a little bit of role play.

My situation as a reader.

Reading for myself has never been something I have fully enjoyed, I don't know if its the subject matter or that we live in an age where we except thing to come to us immediately. I guess reading for me has also been some what of a challenge scene a early age. I do like  reading short passages of information, such as news posts or reviews, but I never have been into books. Thinking about it, it might be because I did most of my reading in school and I never found that material anything I could relate to or connect with to really enjoy.