RUSHMORE

MR. BLUME

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here. Because, the fact is, whether you deserve it or not: you go to one of the best schools in the country.

Max's eyes light's up. MR. BLUME Rushmore. You lucked out. Max leans forward to the railing and begins to listen intently.

MR. BLUME Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich, and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs. And take them down.Some of the students and faculty begin to look at each other with puzzled expressions. Max is nodding and taking notes on the flypage of a hymnal. INSERT HYMNAL:

Rushmore -- best school in country. rich kids -- bad? MR. BLUME Just remember: they can buy anything. But they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget that. Thank you.

Mr. Blume leaves the podium. Max leaps to his feet and leads the applause. The organ starts and everyone stands up. EXT. QUADRANGLE DAY Mr. Blume and the headmaster, DR. GUGGENHEIM, come out of the chapel among the throng of students.

Dr. Guggenheim wears a wool coat and smokes a pipe. He is very dashing with silver hair and a warmly patronizing manner. He walks with his hands clasped behind his back. Two Jack Russell terriers follow quickly at his heels.

DR. GUGGENHEIN

Are you free for graduation, Herman? Maybe you could give us an encore. (whistles to the dogs) Nicholas! Copernicus! MR. BLUME (lighting a cigarette)

I don't give a shit. I paid for the whole damn natatorium. The least these little pricks can do is hear me out. MAX Mr. Blume.

Max has appeared beside them. Dirk tags along behind him. MAX My name's Max Fischer. I just wanted to tell you, I strongly agree with your views concerning Rushmore.

MR. BLUME You don't say. Tell me something. How long have you gone here? MAX Ten years. MR. BLUME

Then you've been living in a dreamworld for ten years. MAX Iknowit,sir. Max smiles broadly. They each notice that their haircuts are identical, neatly parted on the side.

MAX Your speech was excellent. Except I disagree with your ideas about rich kids. Because. After all, we don't choose who our fathers are. But that's really my only criticism.

MR. BLUME (hesitates) Thank you.

NOTES

Mr Blume seems to be one the main characters in the story as well as max. He seems to be a friend to max.

Max seems to be a nice young man just trying to make his way threw the world. He is obviously the main character

Ms.Cross is a teacher that Max falls in love with. I think the relationship grows because she sees a part of her old husband in Max and in turn unintentionally leads Max in loving her. When she starts seeing that max becomes Obsessive she backs off and goes to his friend Mr. Blume for help.

Max is not apart of this culture, so he can relates to Mr. Blume. He seems him as a father figure, later there relationship gets destroyed over a women and max takes revenge on Mr. Blume, the revenge then ends with either side happy, and near the end the relationship it brought back after neither him nor Mr Blume can have the heart of Ms.Cross

This story is a coming on age. Of a young boy who is finding himself in the world, he a smart  kid, but he seems a little reckless for his own good. This both drives the character to success and is his weakness as well. He becomes Obsessive and brings much drama to the story.

Lolita

A very interesting novel of a young girl who's life is ultimately changed when her mother is killed in a car crash. I found the novel to be pretty intense for what happens to Lolita is very sad and dark.

Humbert the narrator has a sick love for the girl, that fills him and he becomes obsessive with the girl and controlling her. I found it interesting that he did love Lolita, it wasn't just about the sex with her. Though this story could be scene as something very distasteful and disgusting, this story is really about a man who falls in love with an idea, not so much about a girl. Its the ideas of Loltia the he loves. Humbert would go into great detail as how Loltia made him feel just her being around him.

"My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I hitched up the pants of my pajamas, flung the door open: and simultaneously Lolita arrived, in her Sunday frock, stamping, panting, and then she was in my arms, her innocent mouth melting under the ferocious pressure of dark male jaws, my palpitating darling! The next instant I heart her—alive, unraped—clatter downstairs. The motion of fate was resumed. The blond leg was pulled in, the car door was slammed—was re-slammed—and driver Haze at the violent wheel, rubber-red lips writhing in angry, inaudible speech, swung my darling away, while unnoticed by them or Louise, old Miss Opposite, an invalid, feebly but rhythmically waved from her vined verandah.”

Its interesting, because like other erotic novels, I would think that that it would talk more about the bond on the characters together, like equals. My beliefs is that most of this is in Humberts head and that he is really the only one that is maturity enough to really understand what’s going on in the relationship. Lolita is far to young and I think with out her added commentary it makes the story that more creepy.

Pulp

I read first year of batman for my pulp novel. It was fun had a lot of themes that we see in a lot of pulp novels. Interesting I found that the universe of where a lot of Pulp stories take place are connected to are reality. and that this city is a dark and evil city, it sets the mood and allows to attach to something we know, like a city. but scene it does not exist it lives open the possibility for anything happen. The story it self is field with holes and is very loose. First year of Batman was very action based and was all about getting you threw the story as fast as possible, it tried to use plot elements, to build it up, but at the end its just another action story thats mostly only about the acton. it's funny analyzing it, how that really all it is and nothing more then just that. Just the same formula used multiple times, but for some reason were ok with it, we think that things will change. that this next gamble will lead Batman so where else in his journey.  The character becomes some what super human and  This formula can be scene in other forums of pulp as well, like James Bond. Really its the same story, just on a lager scale.

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.

A SIGN I N SPACE

A SIGN I N SPACE

This story seems to follow a man that has control of the universe similar to the last story I read. He seems to be going back to what he had created before ex the milky way. and is amazed that its still there. he picks up on signs and the story ends with him coming to the conclusion that he really servers no purpose and that space it self my not exist. I thought the idea was kind of cool, that this person has this power but over time does realize that is it really doing anything? It makes you think that is what you are doing anything at all? Do you really hold a purpose in life? Or are you just here based on chance?