I am unable to attend the L. Annette Binder reading tomorrow due to work, and I'm actually somewhat upset about it. I think that being able to not only hear an author read their work, but how they present themselves and their bodies while they are reading their stories is important. How they use their hands, eyes, facial expressions, body movements and more to express their stories in a way that makes sense to them is, to me, a really interesting part of getting to watch and listen to an author read their own work.
In her story, Nephilim, I thought it was interesting how Binder chose to describe Freda. I thought it was an interesting way to describe the character in the sense that God created everything in the world, and that God could choose exactly how he wanted a person to look. "God was a blacksmith and her bones were the iron. He was drawing them out with the hammer. God was a spinner working the wheel and she was his silken thread."I thought it was really interesting how Binder chose to portray God as a blacksmith such that all people in the world were his creation and he could make them look however he wanted to.
In the next story, Lay My Head, my favorite thing about the story was the innocence of the child, how the baby was not frightened of her face, and that babies don't understand sickness. That does not matter to them. The differences that other people notice in Angela's body are not noticed by the baby and she does not see that there is anything different about Angela. Although the baby did not notice anything different about Angela, the baby's mother did and she quickly pulled her baby away from Angela. I felt that this story connected to Kafka's Metamorphosis. The baby reminded me a lot of Grete because she was the kind of person who did not care about Gregor's appearance. She still treated him like he was her brother, until she changed. But at the beginning, she still treated Gregor like he was still her brother, just like the baby treated Angela like she was a normal human. It did not matter to the baby that Angela, or to Grete that Gregor looked different from others. I also think that the baby's mother reminded me a lot of Gregor's parents because they both weren't at all accepting of someone who looked different from others.
As for the last story that we read, Sea of Tranquility, I noticed a lot of similarities between this story and Eva Luna. In Eva Luna, there was a lot of reference to the eyes and how they were important to the characters. Huberto recognized Eva by her eyes after years of not seeing her, but Eva did not recognize Huberto. It proved that the eyes were important to Huberto. In Sea of Tranquility, the shopowner was gradually going blind to anything that was close up, and he was unable to see what his son looked like when he was born and that changed a lot for him. He was unable to see the beautiful baby boy that was now his. Although he was blind to anything that was close to him, he was able to see the mountains and craters on the moon with crystal clear visibility. I think it's a very interesting way to show how the eyes are important to people. Although he was blind to everything close up, he was able to explore new worlds with what his eyes could see. I think that the ways that authors choose to portray things through the eyes is an interesting perspective to give because the eyes are so valuable in our daily lives.
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