What's in your wallet? Intertextuality

I chose this youtube video of the captial one commercials featuring the Vikings:


I thought this was a good representation of intertextuality because it incorporates modern day America, but references the ages of the Vikings. The commercial is actually mostly accurate in the apperance of the vikings, as they did wear the helmets and use the weapons that were shown. Interestingly, The also have a scene where a viking is helping a woman, which was not uncommon to their kind. While in many cultures women did not have rights to have money or property, the Viking women were second class only to the law. They could manage their own finances, and could even divorce their husbands if they wished! While the Vikings are known for their brutaility (and this is not necessarily wrong) they had a strict law that was upheld in their homes, and law breakers were trialed and punished accordingly. The reason Vikings are known for their violence is because of their brutal raids on villages.

Blog about Blue Highways #1

I haven’t read all of the assignment entirely, but I’ll go with what I’ve read so far. The book is.. slower…. Than Northern Lights. Especially at first, coming from a fast paced book like Northern lights, and having read Harry Potter over spring break, I tried to dig into this novel and was somewhat stunted. It was not enjoyable first, but I find the more I read, the longer I can keep reading. It does seem, however, like a book with no plot and if you’ll look back on my previous vent about my school-assigned sagas, I despise books with no plot. At least, no mission, laid out adventure, key goal, etc. This is a guy on a road going somewhere. Yee-haw.
I can relate to William Least’s style of writing in a way though. He seems to write like I think, which I’m noticing is really annoying and I hope I don’t speak this way. Any errant though that is somewhat related to a topic he is or was talking about gets said. It’s very distracting, and I personally do not fancy it. But, to each his own, I suppose.
I’m hoping for more dialogue coming up in this novel because I actually do enjoy the novel when there is a dialogue to follow as opposed to his thought process in narrative form. Meeting these strangers makes a direct story, and his irritating random facts or thoughts or wisdom that show through during the dialogue make him seem considerably more enjoyable to listen to. For example when he notes that the people who have the least are always the ones to offer a meal, whereas the ones who could afford a guest never do. It’s so true! More things like that, and I will be a happy camper….