Ashley Hushka, Blog # 7/13

"Frenesi had absorbed politics all through her childhood, but later, seeing older movies on the Tube with her parents, making for the first time a connection between the far-off images and her real life, it seemed she had misunderstood everything, paying too much attention to the raw emotions, the easy conflicts, when something else, some finer drama the Movies had never considered worth ennobling, had been enfolding all the time."

I think that Frenesi is referring to how our politicians are corrupt. There is so much going on in politicians that we don't know about. Especially when you are a child, you only know about the major events that affect our country. As you get older, you start to learn how unfair a lot of things are. We then identify ourselves as liberal or conservative. When your a child you don't question the things your government does, but when your an adult you do. I chose this picture of Rod Blagojevich because being from Illinois, he pretty much screwed us over as our governor with embezzlement.






Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1990) pg. 81-82
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/6GKbQIvTz9m/Illinois+Governor+Rod+Blagojevich+Addresses/3bSA5tBkct-