...JOURNAL ARTICLE CRITIQUE of Boring, M. Eugene “Matthew’s Narrative Christology: Three Stories.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 64 no 4 (October 2010): 356-67. THEO 510 LUO (Fall 2013) Survey of Theology Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Jermaine L. Andrews (ID# 26089173) August 31, 2013 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Brief Summary 1 Critical Interaction 2 Conclusion 3 End Notes 4 Bibliography 5 Introduction M. Eugene Boring is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Brite Divinity School. In this article, his target audience is the Christian community and his goal is to discuss Matthew’s Christology as theocentric, presenting God’s manifested presence in the life of Jesus. Boring goes on to show how Matthew’s Christology is expressed in a narrative of three stories. He says that this can be appreciated and appropriated better in the context of narratives in which contemporary interpreters are embedded.1 He does not subscribe to a particular story, but believes that the ecclesiology, eschatology, and ethics of Jesus are intertwined. They cannot be separated or summarized. For that reason, we are introduced to and come to know Jesus as Emmanuel, God-with-us. Brief Summary Boring begins this article by talking about Jesus and how he was sent by God as the promised Messiah. He mentions how Matthew uses three stories that bridges the gap between interpreters’...
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...class for my degree. I did not have the most pleasant experience with reading literature until my freshman year. I was certain that I would not understand “old books,” they would be boring and last the “cool” kids did not have time to read books. They were too busy being cool to worry about nerdy things like that. I was wrong about those things. Since I have grown a bit I notice that those “old books” are transformed into movies that have sold out in theaters. There are many things that discouraged me from reading decent literature growing up from being worried I would not comprehend the story, being under the impression that they were boring and that reading was not a popular thing to do. Understanding Literature I lunged into the Odyssey when I was a freshman in high school and thought that I would be able to whiz through this story just like the other books I read in the past. I quickly changed my tune within the first couple pages; I was extremely overwhelmed and intimidated by the literature. I needed to face the facts and get extra help from my teacher. He told me that I had to be patient with the text, and read it paying special attention to the punctuation and to read it slowly so I would be able to fully absorb the story. When I did what he instructed, the story flowed and all doubts about this and other masterpieces disappeared. Dull to Fun...
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...class for my degree. I did not have the most pleasant experience with reading literature until my freshman year. I was certain that I would not understand “old books,” they would be boring and last the “cool” kids did not have time to read books. They were too busy being cool to worry about nerdy things like that. I was wrong about those things. Since I have grown a bit I notice that those “old books” are transformed into movies that have sold out in theaters. There are many things that discouraged me from reading decent literature growing up from being worried I would not comprehend the story, being under the impression that they were boring and that reading was not a popular thing to do. Understanding Literature I lunged into the Odyssey when I was a freshman in high school and thought that I would be able to whiz through this story just like the other books I read in the past. I quickly changed my tune within the first couple pages; I was extremely overwhelmed and intimidated by the literature. I needed to face the facts and get extra help from my teacher. He told me that I had to be patient with the text, and read it paying special attention to the punctuation and to read it slowly so I would be able to fully absorb the story. When I did what he instructed, the story flowed and all doubts about this and other masterpieces disappeared. Dull to Fun...
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...Summary of On Becoming a Writer John Powers Professor: Dr. Susan Ryan English 115 – Assignment 1 April 19, 2014 A literacy narrative by Russell Baker “On Becoming a Writer. In this narrative the author explains how he always wanted to be a writer from an early age. During earlier school years he did not enjoy English classes and thought they were boring. Because he was not interested in the classes he always waited until the last minute to complete his assignments. In his third year English class he had a teacher that all the students knew for being a boring teacher he was an older gentleman that didn’t relate with the kids and make the class interesting for the students. In the beginning of the year Mr. Baker felt all the stories he had heard about the teacher were true the class was very boring. Late in the year the students were given an assignment to write an essay and as usual he waited until the last minute to start writing his essay. When he picked his topic to write about and started writing he got very interested and wanted to start writing more for himself. Due to the requirements of the assignment Mr. Baker did not feel his paper would get a good grade because of all the added writing so he figured he would write another essay for the class. It took him so long to finish writing the original essay he didn’t have time to write another paper for the class so he turned in his original essay. A few days later after the teacher handed out the graded papers he started...
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...Destinee Thomas January 31, 2011 CJUS Seminar Week #1 The book, “Race, Crime and the Law”, by Randall Kennedy to me is boring, long and most parts are pointless. In chapter one, he discusses the four camps of race, which were: 1. Aims and beliefs, 2. American Politics, 3. All types of racial discrimination, and 4. People dedicated specifically for blacks. I can say that the reading about all of these camps were boring, but hard to read. I say boring, because it wasn’t interesting to me, and hard to read, because nothing said by Kennedy gives a clear understanding. For example: “The first four camps to which I address myself has made the control of street crime primarily through punitive measures a high priority on its political agenda. Demanding the attention be paid to the misery inflicted by crime, devotees of this camp have insistently raises=d the banner of “law and order” “(Randall Kennedy, Pg.3). However, the fourth camp stood out to me very well. It stated “No matter what the actual facts were in the Tawana Brawley case in a society which believes a black women cannot be rapped, because of her ‘nature, ‘it is impossible to sort out the truth or the lie of her story” (Kennedy, Pg.8). Kennedy talked all about how blacks are/ were viewed. This stood out to me, because he basically said that many people do not believe African American’s stories; whether they are true or false. Many believe that blacks lie about rape and race, and they pin it on others of different races...
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...Born Worker Review I thought born worker was a pretty good story. I liked the whole story. It gave great details and made you feel like you were cleaning that pool. The story didn't bore. Right when it started to get boring something would happen and the action would rise. Which is why I decided to write a literary response on this story. Why don't they tell you how Mr. Clemens did. For all we know he very well could of died. I wish it would of told how he ended up doing. I also wanted to know how much the boys got paid. If they were making all this money how much money were they really getting. Those were the things i really wished they could've mentioned in the story. My favorite part was probably when the end. Where Mr....
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...also used in this story. A plot defines the genre with few persons, few adjectives, which make the story less describing, and a short story. All these things are shown in this story. Even though the narrator is all knowing, he doesn’t use a psychological describing of the persons, but instead shows their personality through action and dialogue. For example you don’t get to know much about Mr and Mrs Elliot’s past. But if you want the whole and true story you have to read between the lines. Questions is coming up like is she really lesbian? Who do we have to feel sorry for? In the start of the story you may be confused, because he describes a bullfight. But if you read the whole story you can see that the bullfight is a synonym for what Mr Elliot goes threw. In the introduction a boy is hidden away under the cape, just like Mr Elliot is hidden away in his own room at the end of the story. The story have a very dynamic mood all the way threw and even though it’s the man who is left alone in a room in the end and the women who lays in bed with her girlfriend, you still get the feeling that it’s the lady who is miserable. All along she has been living in this illusion of a perfect life; Her having a baby with a young, talent man that apparently only have loved her. She tries to escape her real identity; that she’s a lesbian and that she’s way too old for him, as it said in the story. Hemingway uses a strange and interesting language. In the start it’s very boring and even a child...
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...Gatsby would be considered the main character, the story is told through Nick's eyes. Plain, boring, analytical, safe Nick. I think the purpose of that is to show the characters and the story through the least judgmental eyes in the book. Nothing every really happened to Nick. He never lost someone he loved and valued so deeply, he never felt oppressed or glorified or even noticed. Nick was the most sensible of them all, besides maybe Jordan. He wasn't vain or cruel or haughty. He was an honest man, who happened to be in the middle of a whirlwind story. Despite Nick being the fly on the wall, we usually can't tell what's happening or what's going to happen based on his own judgments, primarily because he almost never has one. However, the way the other characters treat and interact with Nick can give you more clues than anything else. If something horrible has happened, the way they treat Nick will give you a hint of what happened before its explained in the book. For the most part, Nick isn't very prevalent, other than the fact that every other character seems to trust him enough to fill him in on the latest detail of their lives, thus giving us multiple POV's and the ability to completely piece together the story with little effort. F. Scott Fitzgerald seems to...
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...Stolpestad By William Lychack Do you ever feel like you are going nowhere? Like your life is stuck in stagnation. Getting out of bed in the morning, going to work and returning home to bed just to rise and repeat the exact same routine the next day and the day after that. The routine becomes so familiar that it feels like the days goes by in a blur. It does not feel like you even exist in your body anymore. That feeling is the theme of the short story, “Stolpestad”, by William Lychack. The short story is named after the main character, Stolpestad, who is a police officer. He is called out to an injured dog and has to put the dog down for a boy and his mother. Late at night, the father to the boy shows up at Stolpestad´s house and tells him that the dog did not die. “The coffee shops, the liquor stores, laundromats, police, fire, gas stations to pass – this is your life, Stolpestad.” This is all there is. A small town and a boring life. That is Stolpestad´s life. The story takes place on a Saturday afternoon and evening in summer. It is clouded but never breaking into rain, a symbol of Stolpestad´s life. The clouds is a metaphor for how dull and blur his life seems, never changing into rain or letting the sun shine throw. As long as the weather stays the same, his life stays the same. On paper, Stolpestad´s lives the perfectly and comfortably life with the perfect family. “Wife and pair of boys waiting dinner for you…” The traditional family, living the suburban life. Comfortable...
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...The point of view from which Gary Paulsen tells Hatchet (third-person limited omniscient) is helpful to understand Brian's actions, thoughts, and feelings because if he told it in any other point of view, it could be biased (first-person), boring (third-person objective). First of all, Paulsen could have chosen a first-person point of view for the story. This would mean that the story could have been biased because the story would be in the hands of Brian and he could tell us whatever and we would have to believe what he says. It also could be repetitive because I and me would be said again and again. If he was lying, we would have no evidence to say that he was because we were not their in person. He also would have used "I" and "me" a...
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...Daniel Professor Federking English 1B 27 September 2013 Miss Brill We all have known and seen people who try to act younger than they really are. You know the ones who dress inappropriate to their age and refuse to acknowledge that they are old. The Character Miss Brill in Katherine Mansfield’s story “Miss Brill” is an old lady who does not realize that she no longer is in the younger demographic and is in denial that she is the same as “The old people”. It seems that in her mind the older folks are invisible, “still as statues” and “odd, silent, nearly all old.” (par. 5) Miss Brill believes that she is a part of all that is transpiring around her. Even in the end, with reality crashing in on her, Miss Brill still finds a way to shelter herself from the truth that she has become invisible and insignificant to the world around her. Miss Brill denies to herself that she is the kind of person who is disliked in her story. Miss Brill appears to be an elderly woman who does not think that she is seen that way by others her round her. Reading the story I picture her wearing an old, nice dress, which does not entirely fit her. Miss Brill is wearing a fur that is showing some wear, “”But the nose, which was of some black composition, wasn’t at all firm. It must have had a knock, somehow.” (par. 1) I could see Miss Brill walking down the street slowly as elderly people do with more effort and labor than others. She would be the lady who carried a purse that was much too big and...
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...Analysis and interpretation of “Elephant” + different types of endings Part A Polly Clark wrote ”Elephant” in 2006. It is a short story about a man, who writes biographies of female pop singers. He is having a writer’s block in the text and later begins to write false events to the biographies. His wife is also trying to get pregnant. The text is in a restricted third person, which means that the narrator can see everything but only hear the thoughts of one person, the main character William. That also means that we have to guess what the other character thinks, if needed of course. The text mainly contains description, but there is a small amount of dialogue between William and his wife. The narrator finds the events in the story boring and there is not anything exciting about William. The narrator is a bit unreliable because he has pre-interpreted William’s life and therefore describes it the way he does. That could change if it was another narrator or in first person. William is an adult male in his late twenties or early thirties. He is married to a woman named Ginny, who works in an office, maybe as an assistant, and he works as a biography writer. He writes biographies of female pop singers who are still alive, which is not what he would have preferred. He would have preferred to write biographies of male actors, but someone got there first. He and Ginny could live either in Great Britain or in the USA or some third country, but there is nothing in the text to indicate...
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...Dear, Mr. Cartman This month I believe I have improved as a reader. I have gotten better at reading without errors and comprehending the text. I have not felt any improvement in my knowledge of words. My experience with this genre has gone well. In a nonfiction text the main point is obvious, while in other genres there can be many different points. I am surprised at the variety of nonfiction text there is. They range from stories to lists of facts. I was surprised that I found the books that were a list of facts with some writing more interesting than real stories. Compared to the other books I have read in this genre, this one does poorly. I found this book to be very boring because it was of a topic I did not care for. I have read...
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...I rate Fahrenheit 451 “one star”, because it manages to be completely uninteresting and doesn’t succeed at persuading me to it’s viewpoint. Two viewpoints were reflected in the story: “censorship is bad”; and a viewpoint that is more overwhelming in the novel, “technology, primarily television and radio, corrupts.” Ray Bradbury himself said the purpose of the novel was to showcase the latter theme in an interview from 2007. From a story by LA Weekly, he insists that it’s a story about how “television destroys interest in reading literature.” Knowing the author’s intent, Mildred and her friend’s behavior makes much more sense. Mildred and her friends can’t even comprehend the thought of reading. It’s a strawman, because in truth, people can interact with all types of media and still be interested in others....
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...The author feels alone and stuck in a boring routine. When she started to talk to PFSlider, she saw an opportunity to break this routine and to start something new—something deeper and more adventurous. Even though Daum said that she started to like him, I could understand that she used him to feed her ego: this mysterious fanboy made her feel important and Daum used him to satiate her love’s desire. Also, being alone and having this boring routine made her crave companionship. Moreover, the fact that this relationship was unconventional added more sensuality to their daily conversations. Rather than flirting like any others, they just have a kind of mental flirt. This relationship is shown as an archaic kind of courtship; in fact, I can see in their relationship an allusion to the Rules of Courtly Love, but more importantly this relationship is an example of platonic love. Without even having any physical contact, PFSlider inspires Meghan’s mind and soul and opens her to a whole...
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