Be a character from your novel and discuss important isuues with other characters from other novels (or with another person's version of the character). Blog for one hour. Blog times are as follows:
Saturday, April 17th from 2-4 and 6-8
Sunday, April 18th from 1-3 and 7-10
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hello
ReplyDeleteanyone there?
sarah s
I'm major major
ReplyDeletesarah s
My first, middle, and last name are all Major. (my dad was pretty much a butt head)
ReplyDeletesarah s
well, i guess i'll come back later
ReplyDeletesarah s
Anyone online? [let me know ASAP.]
ReplyDelete-Kristen
Anyone here? Let me know ASAP.
ReplyDeletehello i am the main character from the invisible man
ReplyDeleteanyone there?
ReplyDeletewell my issue is, i that no one seems to truely belive in racial equality here in harlem
ReplyDeleteis any of this posting?
ReplyDeletehello....
ReplyDeleteI AM THE INVISABLE MAN
ReplyDeleteWARNING: I AM HORRIBLE AT ROLE-PLAYING...SORRY, THIS WILL PROBABLY NOT SOUND LIKE THE CHARACTER.
ReplyDeleteI am also the Invisible Man. GASP. there's two of us. It appears the stereotype is spreading...
i believe that sighted people should go out and spread sight to others it is a sad thing to walk around this world and not be seen, and it is even worse to see the poor sightless people who are invisible, and dont even know it
ReplyDeletei believe that the steriotype has always been there, for how many people look around and see people as they truly are
ReplyDeleteIt appears the other invisible man is currently invisible. His posts are not showing up, despite trying "publishing" them.
ReplyDeleteugh
ReplyDeleteWell he was invisible when I posted that.
ReplyDeleteThe stereotype is sometimes hard to notice, but when you do, it's sickening. I was just a tool...nothing but a tool, thrown aside.
how can one such as you know of your invisibility, yet still not have eyes to see?
ReplyDeletei like light-bulbs in my hole :D
ReplyDeleteanyway yes indeed now that you too see how can we simply stand aside and not act, to bring the invisible visibility, and the sightless sight?
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to believe you're doing something, you just have to want to be seen enough that you ignore your own invisibility.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes...lightbulbs are amazing, though even with those, people cannot truly see.
Because it's too hard. I've tried...it doesn't always work.
indeed it is as you say.
ReplyDeleteHa
Yes and with Ras the Destroyer's folowers after me, it is dangerous to try to make myself seen.
Ras had a valid point he was making, but he was going about it in the wrong fashion.
ReplyDeleteKRISTEN
his violence will bring nothing but sightlessnness to all who join him, and i do not agree with his purpose either, he to wishes for the separation, and he cannot even see the ones that he proclames to lead, for he sees them only as what he wants them to be, instead of what they realy are.
ReplyDeleteHe makes a point that there is sterotyping, that they look down on us, but you're right, seperation isn't the way to go. He doesnt see in his own respect, either.
ReplyDeletethey do see, in a way, but their sight is limited by the steriotypes that you are so aptly stated
ReplyDeleteVery true. Ras was very influential though; he knew how to work the crowd.
ReplyDelete[sorry for this being so "broken"; It's not saying that the other person posted a comment until a few minutes later. And then it takes time t owrite. and the really publish.]
was it he who worked the crowd, or did the crowd work him? the crowd gave him voice, gave him power, and when speaches were no longer what they hungered for, they gave him a new name, Ras the Destroyer
ReplyDeleteVery good point, invisible man No. 1.
ReplyDeleteHe was a destroyer. Didn't he start that riot?
did he? was he not controled by the first words of dissent he spoke into a crowd? was not that crowd in control of their own actions? could he have started it without the consent of those around him? he is no dictator. the crowd chose to act, to riot on their own. he was mearly drawn to the riot like the crowds were to his first speach, he has no more power over them then a fly has over waste.
ReplyDeleteHe truly did destroy a lot, especially the community.
ReplyDeletes
ReplyDeleteoops. Many a speach did i dilever, and it was the crowd, what gave me the power, not the other way around
ReplyDeleteThe crowd was important, and yet, I misused them, not understanding what i was doing. I failed them.
ReplyDeleteAnyways...I'd best be going...my little room with 1369 lightbulbs becons.
no that my point has been made i see no reason to continue from this point, and will relreat now back to my palace of light
ReplyDeleteAnyone on?
ReplyDeleteMegan
hello
ReplyDeletesarah s
in on
ReplyDeletelets get this party started
ReplyDeleteMilo Minderbinder at your service
i am Major Major!
ReplyDeletesarah s
i am the gallant and intelligent Yossarian!
ReplyDelete(Megan)
definitely wanna get this ish over with
ReplyDeletei don't know what an ish is but i'll sell it to you
ReplyDeletehaha please do, is your character a sellsman?
ReplyDeletei don't wanna talk to anyone cuz i look like henry fonda and i have a funny name: Major Major MAjor
ReplyDeletesarah s
U knock that off u bureaucracy horrible Milo. quit ripping the public off.
ReplyDelete(megan)
yah so i've already killed two people so um everyone should shut up
ReplyDeleteyes, and the best in the business
ReplyDeletei'm not ripping anyone off, its a syndicate, everyone has a share.
ReplyDeleteif you screw me over your asking for a shovel to the head
ReplyDeleteyeah, i would have much rather preferred Caleb
ReplyDeletesarah s
killin aint nothin in war especally when the death of a black man is as un-sinfull as the death of a moth. thats just how it be. life keeps livin - paul D
ReplyDeletewho are you stokes?
ReplyDeletesarah s
lets calm down i'm sure we can work an arrangement out that'll suit both parties
ReplyDeletethat sounds like typical war paul D. army just kills and kills and every soldier is interchangable. The gov. and army men do nothing for the people it is I, Yossarian that must right things.
ReplyDelete(megan)
stokes is a coldblooded killer, from Grapes of Wrath, how fitting
ReplyDelete(out of character)
i dont wanna settle anything, everyone is also hatin and judgin me and my family for no doggone reason, its ridic!
ReplyDeleteok john so since im a killer you definitely just moved yourself to number one on my hit list
ReplyDeletetell ya what i will sell you a a .44 magnum for cheap
ReplyDeleteashley says:
ReplyDeleteoh woe is me! i have so many issues i just dont know where to start!
sounds good...just make sure its loaded. especially since you salesmen are prob against all us "okies"
ReplyDeletei feel you stokes.
ReplyDeletei was promoted to major as a private because my name confused people. So, i outranked my commanding officer. Eventually i was promoted again so my friends would no longer eat with me or play basketball with me anymore. they be hatin'
lol
sarah s
ashley says:
ReplyDeleteSomebody has got to find something wrong with me...
i'm not against anyone with money. That a fact
ReplyDeleteright like what the heck just cuz im the minority dont got mean these stuck up people got the right to kick me off my land, and act like meanie heads
ReplyDeleteAnyone eat any of milos candy? Thoughts?
ReplyDelete(megan)
ashley says:
ReplyDeleteMr. Paul D.,
i do not know what book you are from but i have just two fears. My two fears are the pacfic ocean and flight time...my two fears do not include whitewomen although whitewomen could bee very scary sometimes. whitewomen are terrifying and i would hat eto run into one whenever i get back to my practice...
so, you killed the meanie heads?
ReplyDeletesarah s
its wonderful, you all should buy more, after all, the money is coming right back to you anyway
ReplyDeleteand yah i killed this sucka in a fight and a police man that killed my bff casy...thats why i had to go into hiding
ReplyDeleteashley- i say your a white woman cuz i dont know who the F you character is
ReplyDeleteashley says:
ReplyDeleteMilos candy? he thinks hes got troubles? what about the Pacific ocean?!?! and Flight Time?!? God, those are the real fears here Yossarian!
ummm Milo is a horrible person to have sold us chocolate covered cotton.. inedible junk. People should have known better and investigated the matter.
ReplyDelete(megan)
ashley says:
ReplyDeleteBut im not complaining really...
omg john im white (in this character at least) and still think thats wrong...slaves have no reason to be oppressed
ReplyDeletestoke's character- tom? i agree, its the "whiteman;s right" non bout it - Paul
ReplyDeleteD
my troubles are your troubles. if whats good for the company is good for you, then whats bad for the company is inevitably bad for you.
ReplyDeleteand apparently to you to.
ReplyDeletewho did you kill stokes?
sarah s
ashley says:
ReplyDeleteim an indian male named Doc Daneeka! And i dont know who your character is either...or which book...Someone check my temp! im a sick man!!
forget about the company. wut about the young boys being dragged into the war and forced to want to take part?
ReplyDelete(megan)
yah destiny im tom and sarah i killed a cop and some dude i got in a fight with. they locked me up for the fight killin and will lock me up again for the cop...if they find me
ReplyDeleteyous still whiter than me - Paul d
ReplyDeletemoney is money, i don't discriminate. It just so happens though that in war time profits are up :) so i say bring the boys on
ReplyDeletedoc begs:
ReplyDeletedoes anyone have any dough? or an ear to talk off? i can have either...oh and can anyone get me off this flight at 8? Why take chances when i dont have to ya know?
Hello. i my name is of no consequence just think what you want about me and ill be manipulated by you :)
ReplyDeletei am pretty dark from working on the family farm and from being out on these camps to find work
ReplyDeleteDoc Daneeka here
ReplyDelete"It's a terrible thing when even the word of a licensed physician is suspected by the country he loves"
tom- i knows some crazies to. all of us is crazy as a matte. seein ghosts. my woman killin her baby- takin a saw to its throat and tryin to kill her sons. so i got you stokes- Paul D
ReplyDeletedang yo wife is crazy as heckkkkk. you need to ditch that woman, thats what the men in my family do. either die along the way or leave that woman for haself!
ReplyDeleteoh course (john's character's name) see only the profit you can get. not the people that war affects. Those soldiers are my brothers, ignored by your missing inner eye.
ReplyDeleteyall bein all upidy not going with the topics at hand. i bets you white too -Paul D
ReplyDeletetalkin bout aimee + karl 's character/persons
You can;t determine if someone is crazy if your crazy. I have to have the word of someone sane that your crazy
ReplyDeleteDoc ur nothin but a crazy man who is too negative. I, Yossarian wants nothing to do wit u, except when i need your help wit the men.
ReplyDelete(megan)
doc drones:
ReplyDeleteyou know there was once a time that i was in my pracice and doing well because all the other docs had gone to war and been drafted. well this newlywed coupe came into my corner location and the wife was telling me she was a virgin when the husband was telling me he gave it to her everynight. well i showed them my method and told them to try it. they said ok and paid and left. the nest day the husnand came in and demanded to see me. as soon as we were alone, he punched me square in the nose! what a mess...
i like to sign different names on official documents so they don't come back to me.
ReplyDeletebut 2 stupid CID guys started snoopin' around to find out who Washinton Irving is
sarah s
yeah, i left. but more for necessity than crazys. different towsfolk see diff erent reasons. buts i gotta roam. -Paul d
ReplyDeletei am upidy? you are simply casting your views upon me. but i cast them off! I am sticking it to the man!
ReplyDeleteaimee
wait is there anyone thats black in character?
ReplyDeletedon't make me out to be the bad guy, if anything i take on the burden of the rest of the company just to put a few dollars in your pocket. You all have shares of the company. and war is business and business is boomin
ReplyDeleteaimees character is right! Young boys are our future, we cannot destroy their lives! They are becoming mentally scarred. There must be something done!
ReplyDelete(megan)
i hear ya paul d. i would have left but my family need another man for the journey for work..and my momma always takes care of me
ReplyDeleteWho was the guy i (Yossarian)tackled outside his trailor again? was it major major or someone else? liek the recluse guy who didn't wanna see anyone..
ReplyDelete(megan)
doc says
ReplyDeleteWell yossarian you sure do like me when I can get you out of flight duty by sending you to the hospital or get you free fruit for your "liver" condition
paul D is black
ReplyDeletethat was major major
ReplyDeletethey aren't being scarred, their protecting the business infrastructure of america. a few must fall so the whole can rise
ReplyDeletedoc to doc:
ReplyDeleteHey!! you copied me(karl)! oh! you could fill in at my practice for me other doc!:)
While i agree with your statement megan, you are still casting your views upon them. seeing them only as a unit, not as individuals. But then, is it ever possible not to make people invisible? Even i do......
ReplyDeleteaimee
oh ok so paul d is a brotha. thats whats good
ReplyDeletedoc says:
ReplyDeletei agree other doc. yossarian is a pansy.
megan:
ReplyDeleteI t was i, major major, who you tackled.
i don't wanna talk to you Yosarrian
haha yah. i loved foolin wit the military n gettin to give away all the fruit. n man major major was gettin on my nerves when i hada tackle him jus to talk to him alittle..
ReplyDelete(megan)
i am your brother brother! Paul D, leave the manipulating brotherhood of oppreion and join me in sticking it to the man!
ReplyDeleteaimee
Yeah! I can be the happy pre-war doc before he gets drafted and you can be the doc that goes to war and gets "killed"...:P
ReplyDeleteashley says(out of character):
ReplyDeleteDestiny! i didnt know you were black!! this is huge! and youre a man? this just keeps getting better and better! :)
who had to F a cow! BUTT RAPE! i win pitty contest! hahah and a Ghost so suck it! -Paul D
ReplyDeletestickin it to the man is great and everything..but why not just kill the man? i mean it takes care of everythinggg
ReplyDeletePsssst...... Ashley hey over here! hiding with the invisible guy! guess what! i'm a black man too!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteaimee
i dont stick it to the man i just take it. -Pauk d. the white man is too strong- too big - Paul D
ReplyDeletedoc says
ReplyDeleteIts not major major major major's fault you had to tackle him, if you had just see him in his office that could have been avoided
a dead man tells no tales. he also pays no bills. thats why you don't kill him
ReplyDeletewell, Yosarian, if my squadron wouldn't have kicked the crap out of me, i wouldn't be embarrassed to sho my face.
ReplyDeletesarah s
Well guys im not a black man liek u, im a tall muscular white male who is in the military. I Yossarian am God's gift to the earth.
ReplyDelete(megan)
doc
ReplyDeletewith credit to Yosarrian, i was tryin to jump out of my trailor window to avoid him
sarah s
john omg enough with the money holy crap...here in the great depression aint no body got money! much less a job
ReplyDeleteYou shouldn't let people force you to do things Paul D. i mean really? F a cow!?!?! I was once forced to fight amoung my black brothers for the "opportunity" to speak to the white men. it is no opportunity and there is no way i will submit myself like that again.... (well okay maybe i did for about 3 more years..... but now i won't!)
ReplyDeleteAimee
doc says:
ReplyDeletei dont wanna get killed thouhgh!! pooh...
Okay, this scene which hopefully a particular person will pick up on (which secretly we planned) is going to be a good debate between Milo and Cathcart- Nuffff said.
ReplyDeleteMy black-market like syndicate has become quite successful despite what anyone may say
i, Major Major, am also white but i am not a gift ti the earth. In fact, i often apologize for not being henry fonda when people confuse me with the actor
ReplyDeletewere not int he great depression!! its WWII. get back in grapes of wrath before i place a bombing run over the shack you call a house
ReplyDeleteI feel you stokes. I don't have money either. but i don't need it, just stick it to the man! steal electricity!
ReplyDeleteAimee
doc says
ReplyDeletetrue that
Milo and Cathcart? ...Refresh my memory on what they did? hmmmm
ReplyDelete(megan)
i wasnt forced. i was lonely. (lol.) but we couldnt leave the farm and the one woman was so pretty. all of us did it (grose- that doesent make it better and whos heard of MASTERBATION!!!!!) -Paul D (the () and destiny)
ReplyDeletedoc rambles...
ReplyDeleteSOMEBODY HAS TO FIND SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME!!! and yossarian needs to just zip it and you are lucky you jumped out your window major major!
Milo opened a syndicate to buy and sell goods throughout the meditteranean. It started off by getting eggs for the mess hall but grew exponentially.
ReplyDeletethe non- seeing did that to you, don't you see! their oppresion is forcing you to do these things, don't let them force their thought upon you like your invisible.
ReplyDeleteaimee to pual d
doc, it is catch 22.
ReplyDeleteif you didn't want to go home you were insane and could go home if you asked. but...
if you want to go home, you are sane and healthy and you must stay
sarah s
john i dont even a shack. we just have a truck and yah paul d thats um weird...i might just have to end ya misery
ReplyDeleteActually Milo, as captain of this squadron i am disgusted that you would turn against your squadron and your country. Not only was what you did unamerican; but will eliminate your chances of ever becoming general.
ReplyDeleteKarl says
ReplyDeletethat is ALOT of refreshing
doc says
you don't really die. U only die on paper when McWatt runs into the mountain becasue you wanted to get your flight time in without flying and no one believes your not really dead because you died on paper so then your wife gets all your insurance money and then decides to ignore the letters you send her telling her that you aren't dead because she thinks they are a sick joke and prefers the money over you
tyler- maybe he was ... Lonely -Paul D (lol lol)
ReplyDeletekill that woman..she dont love you
ReplyDeleteMilo is just a man who uses people. his ideas are never any good for the people. big business should die. People can rule themselves!
ReplyDelete(megan)
George- Milo (btw i was the one early who said nuff said)
ReplyDeleteHaha, please el capitan. You will never have a chance of being a general. You purposefully throw your squadron into oblivion with almost no chance to survive. Do you think it's working? At least what i did, i made money for it in such a hard time of war.
i cant help it. business is actually forced upon me by capitalism. i'm compelled. and its not like america could'nt have bought the air raid. I sell to the highest bidder
ReplyDeletehey how bout that Snowden? So unfortunate, what happened to him..
ReplyDelete(megan)
i'm not a king, think of me as a CEO, the people have to eat right? i'm just making sure that happens
ReplyDeletetell me megan. what happend to Snowden? I can see that you are not blind to problems.
ReplyDeleteaimee
doc sniggers: (cuz he does that alot)
ReplyDeleteeveryone should be like havermayer...smile and make the best of it....i cant smile because i have too many troubles. i lied on peanuts for eight years while learning to be a doctor.
the capitalism takes an even worst turn when they start objectifing people by money. by survice they can do or blacks them selves - Paul D
ReplyDeletemoney isn't everything. its about the PEOPLE.
ReplyDeleteLIVES.
(megan)
doc says
ReplyDeletesnowden nver had a chance cause that one guy went crazy and stole the controls from the other dude.
karl says
The book has such a unusual timeline that i could find exactly where that happened and who did it
karl- at leact your peanuts were a metaphore- mine were real. :( -paul d
ReplyDeletelol i think the doc needs to shut it. so much complaining is hard for my ears. theres always a bright side. look on it.
ReplyDelete(megan)
destiny, i like how you are named off a guy from Jersey Shore LOL
ReplyDeletei hear ya life is already hard enough without outside influences trying to make it impossible to even feed yaself, much less ya family
ReplyDeletedoc continues his story
ReplyDeleteafter paying so much to get my practice off the ground only to be drafted right as i start to make money WTF?
doc to doc:
ReplyDeletei knew that i was just being a drama king which is what i (the character) is good at!
thats debatable, the money i get saves lives. how would you like to eat MRE's all day every day people would practically die from monotony and self-pity. Now lead is the only murderer
ReplyDeleteOk yossarian (megan). Your one to talk about complaining. Every mission "i don't want to die, ground me" pot calling the kettle black much
ReplyDeletenow i am done. my life of survitude is at an end. no more cows for me. F thos ghosts. i merely want to live, and live with Sethe (though she is a Fn crazy cyco) - paul d
ReplyDelete(see yo suckas)..(my mom sais on nicenet)i forgot abt that.
well at least its food...we aint got none of that or home or jobs like wtf is wrong with the world
ReplyDeletedoc #1(ashley):
ReplyDeletei have to do this because destiny thought the peanuts were from karl when they were really from me. i am doc 1 and karl is doc 2. got it?
doc 1 to doc 2:
yes when we left we were making loads of dough!!!
lol sorry i did not see that post before. well he died, aimees character. it was an impersonal and unfair death, for such a good man.
ReplyDelete(megan)
peace! hours over
ReplyDeletei understand doc-karl, to the government, your just a invisible face in a crowd of soldiers. you are not a person to them.
ReplyDeleteAimee
Foreal. Yossarian is a whiner.
ReplyDeletesarah s
I put my soldiers in situations that push their abilitys to the maximum. If they get out, then they, and me, are all heroes. I don't have intentions on killing; i have intentions on shaping my men to be the best
ReplyDeletemilo has just died, good hour
ReplyDeletehay every-one I'm insane i realy need to go back home to the US. The planes are talking to me!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletesam p
ok well its been an hr so Yossarian is OUT! Gotta go finish that project ha
ReplyDelete(megan)
doc-ashley agrees:
ReplyDeletethank you sarah! now im a whiner too, but hes worser than me!!
all these deaths. so senseless. you will be remembered. i will speak at your funeral.
ReplyDeleteaimee
idk about that, doc.
ReplyDeleteYossarian flies the missions. You are a doctor complaining about not being able to make more money at his private practice.
gotta go.
1 hour is up
sarah s
do not allow the man to manipulate you for their cause! write your own history! Leave the military (sams character)
ReplyDeleteaimee
Shannon saiddd.....
ReplyDeleteI am an invisible man.
Does anyone go there for this meeting of individuals?
go where shannon?
ReplyDeleteaimee
doc cries:
ReplyDeleteThe Pacific Ocean got me...ive been transferred to that wretched place. i might as well have died. take my practice and give it to yossarian, for even thouhgt he is a whiner, he is my good friend. goodbye and farewell!
George ----- Well sir what you do is only for your own gain, obviously! What i did was for mine, and my syndicate's, well being; and a profit- When you're as brilliant as i am, you don'y mind taking risks. Sure, some people get cuaght in the crossfire, but i have to play the devils advocate, who ever pay's the most, wins. I first started off with good intentions, but it just got so hot and great, that i had to take it a step further. How can you justify yourself?
ReplyDeleteShannon--(first I'd like to say that I am going to suck at this)
ReplyDeleteI go around as an invisible man. For I have rebelled after years of trying to go after what everyone else has wished and yearned for. I made the effort to adopt the opinions of others but have realized that what others see is not what truly are.
doc says
ReplyDeleteI did "die". My wife got the insurance money and left.
to milo: I hear you. Profits and the american dream is where its at.
hahahahahaha!!!!!!!! i have stuck it to the man and i have been seen! my mission is complete! i will now go hibernate in my nice warm well lit hole.
ReplyDeleteaimee
hay quit complaning at least whe they tell you when you can go home they stick to it, insted of trying to fly you till you get killed!!!!
ReplyDeletesam p
I can justify myself as becoming the next best general the United States has ever seen. You need to go crawl in a hole in germany and stay there. Those are obviously your new allies.
ReplyDeletedoc says to the invisible man
ReplyDeletedoes that make you sane or crazy?
doc says to who ever tyler is
ReplyDeleteif you are cathcart, i would rather go to the pacific than have you as a general
- GeorgeAs i said before, mr.ignorant, that i go for the most profit! I love bologna, so why wouldn't i team with teh teamsters in bologna, which you want to bomb! In the end, i think what im doing is best for the world, despite who ever wins the war!
ReplyDeletedoc says
ReplyDeletemilo please read "War is a racket"
This is Emily as the chaplain in catch 22
ReplyDeleteHello there, is there anything I can do for you?
doc says
ReplyDeleteI became a doctor for the money but even I helped people when you did what you did
My men would never allow for this. Turning on your own country will not help the world! Your treason is what will bring this world to end!
ReplyDeleteand yes i am cathcart..
rosage or manning
ReplyDeletedoc says
ReplyDelete"It's a terrible thing when even the word of a licensed physician is suspected by the country he loves"
karl says
this line is HILARIOUS and the new people need hear it again
manning or rosage
ReplyDeletemanning or rosage?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! where is my comment??????????????????????????????????????????
ReplyDeleteYeah? Well the fact that i bombed OUR men, and they accepted payment to be bombed, means that they show more support for what i am doing than what you are doing. Obviously, you dohn't have the support you think you do. Mr.Feather in my hat, and just another black eye!
ReplyDeleteto chaplain..
ReplyDeleteyes i'm insane can you plz tell the doc
sam p
Shannon--Invisible man.
ReplyDeleteI am a man aware. For I know that when one is viewed it is through a scope of stereotypes, no one knows another but rare for who they actually are. For a man may go unseen and not even be aware. But you must seek out to make your invisibility visible and ignore the fact that you are indeed invisible.