Reading+Journal

Here are my reading journals!

1) Starting the book I am having a difficult time placing the characters in the proper time period. I'm still imagining petticoats, carriages and large umbrellas. While the the setting is in the 1920s during the war, I still have the feeling the school has a 'Finishing School' quality to it, I know that there are motor vehicles at this time, but I can't help but imagine it as a boarding school. I also have a difficult time adjusting to the girls ages, 12 years old and discussing sex with their teacher? That's completely ridiculous. I find the point of view slightly confusing, but I think it's interesting to see how the girl's opinions on the world and especially Miss Brodie changes over time. At first the girls were very willing to believe everything Miss Brodie said and would relay any information to her, but as the year grows on the girls decide to keep some things within the group (for example, the man exposing himself by the river).
 * The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie:**

2) I do not like the way Miss Jean Brodie treats her objects of affections, especially in front of the girls. Perhaps I am getting too caught up in the relationships and should be focusing on how Miss Jean Brodie is trying to bring forth the education out of her students minds. Some times I think that's hypocritical, she tells her students her opinions, invading their brains and practically teaching them that her way is the only way. I find that she thinks of her self slightly Godlike and prophetic, comparable to Jesus and his disciples.

I find Henry Higgins character to be expressive, eccentric and fascinating. On stage I think he'd be brilliant to play and I think that if I had watched the movie as well I would have enjoyed his character more. I like reading the stage directions however, because I often find my self staging the play in my own head. I find Mr. Pickering rightiously genteel but rather dull. Despite his obvious place as a mian character I think he lacks a certain amount of prescence... or perhapts its the little things he does that needs to be seen on stage and can be easily skipped over in stage directions.
 * Pygmalion:**

The conclusion of the play was expected, but still wonderful (minus the return of the father, I thought he was gone for good). I believe the amount of time between Eliza's transformation that the play write allotted was startling, but it helped move the play at a fast pace. Mrs. Higgins was a stronger character towards the end than I had expected and I believe that she taught Eliza something as well. Perhaps Miss Doolittle was a blank, yet receptive canvas, that took extraordinary pieces of surrounding character's personalities and created a new Lady.

//The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time// I) I have really enjoyed this book so far! So far in the book Christopher, a 15 year-old autistic boy who lives somewhere in England has happend upon his own murder mystery, the murder of a dog. The author does oa good job of giving the character two sides; the innocence his character portrays, explicitly self-explained that he 'cannot lie' thus this is a 'true' account of soemthing he cares about. Except where he deliberatly know what situations he can put himself in, and inturn tells white lies. I feel as if I can trust Christopher and his diary-like chapters (marked in prime number of course) but sometimes I wonder if
 * __Second Quarter__**