Ah, Monday, after killing 4 white girls, having dinner, and getting a good night's rest, here I am. Just another long night at the office for me. I still don't understand how Milkman thinks I am in the wrong. He thinks that what The Seven Days is doing are hate crimes or something of the sorts. HOW? These white folk commit hate crimes against us blacks, and we're supposed to just take it? No, Milkman, I'm not gonna sit here and let these white people kill my people. As a member of The Seven Days, I know the true meaning behind our actions. We kill these white people out of love for black people. So, how could you think of it as a hate crime. If anything, it is a love crime! And at that point is it even a crime. I understand that killing someone is against the law and a "crime", but if you have the correct intentions then it's justified. Right? People don't get arrested for acting out of love. They get in trouble for doing things with malicious intent. Anyways, obviously Milkman doesn't love his people. He tries to buy his way out of everything. He doesn't see my perspective and it is frustrating. He doesn't see it because he is blinded by the money. He is trying to become one of the white men. He doesn't see how my actions are the correct way. My actions are to avenge the black people that were wrongly killed. Maybe, The Seven Days isn't a good name for this group. It doesn't demonstrate what we stand for. I want our name to scream "love". We should be called "The Avengers."
This week in class we read a piece called Show and Tell by Scott McCloud. This piece showed (and told) the importance of pictures in readings. It started off with a short anecdote of this kid in front of his class explaining how his robot toy transforms into an airplane. He uses a mixture of words and plain showing how it does what it does. This develops the author's main argument that "words and pictures have great powers to tell stories when creators fully exploit them both," (McCloud 809). I believe that images in books don't make a work of literature any less intellectual. If the content is meant to be intellectual, pictures aren't going to make it any less. Actually, images bring a different dynamic and can allow for more intellectual content. If an author were to include a statement where there could be many interpretations, that would be considered intellectual, but if you add an image to that and turn it into a comic, there could be an infinite amount of i...
I really liked how you included Guitar's point of view in face of all of Milkman's arguments against the actions of the group. Also I like how you included your own input of
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Interesting expansion on Guitar's character. I like how you really emphasized on the fact that Guitar did not see any faults with his own arguments and he believed himself to be right. He believed he served justice, as you have served justice to his character.
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