The Color Purple

I really liked the quiz today [hmmm, never thought I'd say that]. But what really helped me was to read the question that was asked and then ask myself the three questions Stariha told us to answer [what do you mean? how do you know? why is it important?]. And I included appropriate quotes in each of my answers that help support my point(s). So hopefully I did a lot better!

18

I thought turning 18 would be different than what it really was like. I really feel no different. I'm still close to graduation. I'm still living with my parents and brothers. I'm still going to school. I think being 18 won't sink in until I go to college.

I was watching the office a while ago and heard one of the funniest lines by Dwight (though everything he says is hilarious): "R is among the most menacing of sounds. That's why they call it murder and not mukduk." I was thinking, dang, that's almost a rhetorical analysis. I notice myself analyzing rhetoric ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!

On another note, I'm kind of disappointed that I forgot to start a blog conversation about the cycle of victimization, but I belive I understood it for the quiz. I see it all the time in today's society, especially with what we just did as a country. Osama killed us, he made a victim of us, so we killed him, made a victim of him.

Does anyone else have other examples of a modern cycle of victimization? Or one from the book?