You Don't Love Me Yet

The mini-screenplays created in class are good examples of the text-self stage of reading development. Personally while collaborating with the other member of my group we had the power to choose what to put in our screenplays and what to leave out. I didn’t realize it at the time but doing the screen play was my way of saying “I like this,” and “we don’t need that.” Also, the mini-screenplays were examples of text- other texts.
Our task was to think of how this novel could be converted into a screenplay to adapt it into film form. In doing so we choose what people could relate to, what was funny, and what could be easily converted into a possible movie. In a way when we were converting the pages of words into a screenplay I tried to use other books that were converted into movies to choose what to include in our screenplay. Not knowing it I was using two of the stages of reading development.

Plagarism

According to the Marriam-Webster online dictionary the term plagiarism is defined an act to steal and pass off someone else's work as your own. Also to present a new idea as an original. With this definition we are all plagiarizers the only difference is that someone thought that there words meant enough to claim them as their own. 

With this definition Lucinda plagiarized the phone complainers words. Lucinda used someone else's words to inspire someone else. If we use the definition from the online dictionary than Lucinda did plagiarize but in this instance I believe Lucinda doesn't have to give credit to the complainer who spoke those words first because those words didn't mean anything to the complainer. The complainer did not come up with the lyrics to the words but simply inspired someone who inspired someone else. 

America is just a bunch of selfish plagiarizers that think they are always right. You can't read the newspaper or listen to the news without someone suing someone for stealing their original idea when in fact that original idea was not formed by them first. America needs to take a chill pill and use others works to inspire themselves and forget about suing everyone because they stole a few of the same words or tunes.

"I"

At the end of City of Glass I was extremely confused. To me it seems that the author Paul Auster is doing exactly what Don Quixote did in his life adventure. The four main character are actually one person, but who is the "I"? The entire book is told in third person except for the last two pages where the story take a turn and begins being told from the first person point of view. I'm confused at which for of the main character it is being told from. 

We know that Paul Auster is there but is he with Quinn, Work, or Wilson? From the story we get a sense that Work's character died sometime when he was living in the alley watching the Stillman's apartment. Quinn could be the second person but if he is than why would he wish himself luck? The last possibility is that Wilson could be the second person because he does not want to read the  red notebook. This is just like Quinn becuase he doesn't want to hear about the opinions of the girl that reads his book while waiting for Stillman to get off the train. Overall, we will never know who the "I" is but it is interesting to think about each main character being that "I". 

nothing was real except chance

Chapter 6 in the book The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster confused me why it was in the book. There has to be a greater meaning to this chapter because every word has the ability to have great meaning according to the author. Reading this book confused me to the point that I was trying to make connections and to relate things to one another in a way that made more sense. Chapter 6 does the same thing.

The main character Quinn tries to explain why Dr. Stillman is so weird. Dr. Stillman cannot simply pick up objects from the ground for nothing. There has to be a greater meaning to it. According to Quinn nothing was real except chance so this makes me want to conclude that Auster doesn’t believe that nothing was real except chance because there has to be an explanation for everything. This chapter explains to Quinn that Dr. Stillaman collects items to try to recreate the universal language or at least that is what Quinn tells himself to explain Dr. Stillman’s actions.