On Tuesday, we visited the Library to get an insight on how to go about finding sources for our final project. I found the library meeting to be very helpful because we got advice from one of the best Nancy Foasberg. I remember earlier in this semester one of my other English class met with her and I was completely lost with my project, but after I spoke with her, I was able to find the sources that I needed for my essay. With professor Foasberg advice, I received an A on my paper. This library meeting was also good because professor Tougaw was there to help us and guide us on what we should look for when trying to find sources. My focus is Autism and he directed a few articles and a novel that would be helpful to my final project. I also liked that as a group we were able to help each other and give each other advices.
I know many of my fellow classmates found Motherless Brooklyn to be enjoyable but for some reason, I didn’t. I find myself getting bored while reading; I guess I am not into mysteries. Motherless Brooklyn is a detective story that is set in Brooklyn. One thing that I liked about this novel is the main character Lionel who has Tourette. “Tourette’s teaches you what people will ignore and forget, teaches you to see the reality-knitting mechanism people employ to tuck away the intolerable, the incongruous, the disruptive—it teaches you this because you’re the one lobbing the intolerable, incongruous, and disruptive their way.” (43). One thing I noticed about Lionel personality is that he says things that he can’t control because of his tic and he also cannot stop touching things. Is he not his brain? I thought that our brain is our everything; Humans don’t have to be their brain. Is that true?
I would say that we can’t be who we are without our brains, but our brains don’t define every aspect of our identities. That’s as true for Lionel Essrog as anybody else. Make sense?
I do agree with you about the library meeting it was very helpful and useful. Also Professor Tougaw had a chance to see where we all were with the sources. Some of the things Foasberg mention there was really great because I didn’t know about it. Now I feel like I have all those ways to find sources. I also didn’t like reading Motherless Brooklyn maybe because we read Marbles before, now all of a sudden too many words without pictures. I think our brain controls most of the things we do and react to certain things.