jueves, 12 de noviembre de 2009

Vote or not to vote

Today I’m going to write about the presidential elections.
Well, I must confess that I’m a quite ignorant about it, I have my opinion you know, but I’m not an expert and either I have a deep knowledge about politics.
Well, this year I’m not going to vote because at the beginning I didn’t have any idea about how can I elect so I preferred to not vote. Lately, I’ve been thinking about that I should be registered because I really like Arrate, maybe because he is communist or just because I don’t like anyone else.
I haven’t a particularly political position but I prefer to communist than the “right side”. I think that it is because I don’t believe in the right people's proposes, I feel that they don’t care about people only in business and money… When they say that something is for the well majority I don’t know what kind of idea they have about majority because every decision that they made, hardly it is useful to poor people. But I think communist people have more social consciousness or at least, they care about it. . That’s my perception.
About be a politician mmm.. I don’t know, I think that we need a new political party with new proposes, ideas, something that could make a connection with young people. But it doesn’t mean that I want to be a president, it just doesn’t seem to me interesting, I mean, no as a job. I prefer just be a psychologist.
I believe that it is important to get involved in politics, because is our country and we can’t be apart from it. Every decision that people take, it affects us, and “the politic” are everywhere: when you chose something, you give an opinion… you’re always in a position: agree or disagree. You can’t avoid it. Even the anarchist people have a position because they are involve in a society even when they reject it… and this is just because they aren’t nowhere, they belong to somewhere.

sábado, 7 de noviembre de 2009

Well, today I’m going to talk about a new from a webpage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/31/david-vann-review-christopher-tayler

I chose it because it was about a book and I like literature so, I wanted to know what new books have been published the last time. One title caught my attention: legend of a suicide by David Vann. Immediately I need to know what the history talks about and with the summary I felt totally shocked. The book is a kind of novel but not completely, in fact, the author of the summary isn’t pretty sure how describes the composition. He doesn’t know if he should say that it is a novel or a memoir, or even both because the narrative’s tone is so confusing and because the life’s author (of the book) is so similar as the book. When people asked to David about it, he said that his book has real and fiction facts.

The importance of the true facts of David’s life is that he based the book in his father’s suicide so through of the book he told us about many experiences that he had to experiment with his father and the effects of this.

The structure of the book is a group of short histories of a little boy called Roy, which told us some parts of his life. Most of the histories talked about the relationship with his father: since he lived with him and his mother, until he broke up with her and Roy has to visit him.

The book has many humoristic facts and the tone of it is a quite ironic, but all this doesn’t rest the shocking effects that histories have. I really would like to read it because it is the kind of weird histories that I usually adore, it is something no conventional.

I expect you take a look to the new and tell me what you think =)