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This week was tough to decide on a blog topic. To be very honest I am not nearly far enough in Winesburg, Ohio to really be able to discuss it. That's next weeks blog for sure! So I am back on All the King's Men. Sorry if it's a disappointment. In class we did a project that mostly had to do with a sexual coming of age, and the relationship between Anne and Jack. I like to talk about their relationship because I am a seventeen year old girl and love is just plain interesting! So we have this darkly humorous cynical guy: Jack. And this young, frivolous and a tiny bit promiscuous girl: Anne. How do these two go together? I'm starting to think that this book has absolutely nothing to do with politics. It is just a very complicated love story. Or is that every novel? All this stuff makes my head hurt. BUT, lets continue on. Water and love. Water: wet, cold, hard, soft, death, life. Love: heat, pain, passion, emptyness, beginnings, endings. I've noticed that the love between Anne and Jack is centered around water most of the time. Water brings them together and breaks them apart. But, in the end is everything washed away and the truth is exposed? The truth that they are "meant" to be together. It sounds SO cheesy, but when you read the novel that is exactly how it sounds. They meet as children, they fall in and out of love, and finally, after a lot of turmoil, they are together. So warren... is a romantic? Maybe I'm totally on the wrong track, but it's my track, so it's right for me. Let's talk a little MJ (Michael Jackson). The titles of his songs, to be exact. The way you make me feel, rock with you, don't stop til' you get enough= LOVE. Jack's story could be an MJ album. Just saying. I'm listening to Michael Jackson right now. So Jack watches Anne come out of the water and he's thinking "woah" so he's thinking you knock me off my feet, my lonely days are gone. Then he becomes a little older and he's thinking I want to rock with you, all night, we're gonna party til' the sunlight. Next thing you know, he's hit by a smooth criminal, Willie Stark. So Jack's thinking Annie are you okay? Are you okay Annie? You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth criminal. And finally, at long last, Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough! They are together and all Jack can think is, keep on with the force don't stop, don't stop til' you get enough! Yes, I just summarized a love life using michael jackson lyrics. Perhaps thats why Warren just added that little gem of a love story in the novel, because it's easy. It's a sure fire win, if you are half descent with the idea of love. Channel MJ, you'll get it.