My topic may suck

I feel like my topic is a little lame and unimportant after reading all of yours, but I was thinking of writing my paper on the magical roads present in JS&MN and also in the short story we read earlier on the streets that jump locations. I loved that story and I love the concept of roads that don't always do what they're supposed to or lead where you think they will. I intend to use the King's Roads, the Fairy Roads, and then the streets from the short story. Not exactly sure if I can get 2000 words from it or not.

Addiction

I am looking for general questions about addiction. Maybe my last post talked about the paper too much, so there was confusion as to what I was asking for help with. I am going to write the paper concentrating on the fine line between the real and fatastical world when using drugs. I'll explain more tonight in class. However, I think it has to do with the point at which a person becomes addicted to the substance. I look forward to hearing everyone's topics tonight.

Virginia Woolf

Ok, so I need some help here. I've decided to take a slightly different approach to this paper. It just dawned on me after our guest speaker last week that there are a lot of parallel overtones to many literary works. Then, my sister text messages me asking who wrote the phrase "No man is an island". Of course, having read Donne's "Meditation XVII", I realized a few days later of course, (since my brain doesn't function that quickly) that I could tie it in to one of our short stories, Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle and the interdependence of each of the character roles.

Here's where y'all come in! Obviously, Peter Straub had a particular reason for including Virginia Woolf in his story Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle, but I just don't know what that is. This is where I need your help, especially you English majors of the world! I am not very familiar with her work, and I was wondering about any themes that run through her stories concerning independence or interdependence. I've read The Hours but don't think I can take that as a good biography. My point for asking is to know whether or not I'd be leaving out an integral argument if I deleted her presence from my topic's relevance in the story? From my understanding, her views of death and dependence are somewhat contrary to John Donne's, so I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything! Thanks a bunch!

I (don't really) hate to be the film and video guy

I think that I may do my paper on Spirited Away...Last paper I did mine on my favorite quote of the semester that far (and still, I think). So this paper I'll do it on the my favorite character - No face... we've talked a bit and blogged some on him...I think I may try and relate him to a character in on of the peices that we've read..though I don't know. And then of course about his relationship with folks in the movie and probably what this means for to us, bringing it all back to our realm..

Back to the Gods!!!!

Okay, so my paper is going to be a comparison of the portrayals of a few of the gods in American Gods with their portrayals in classical mythology. I know I'm going to talk about Wednesday (Odin) and Mr. Nancy (Anansi), but I'm still working on one or two more. Any ideas?