The Glass Menagerie- Escaping

     In class we have to read and saw the play, The Glass Menagerie. For our next essay we have to write an paper and I chose to write about  desertion (escape) and how each character in the story tries to escape from their reality. 

      Amanda, the overbearing nagging mother seeks interaction with people. She lives in the past not focusing on the future which prevents her to move forward. She doesn't face the fact that her life isn't perfect or has a pitch perfect family. Her husband abandoned her and his family, her daughter is cripple, and her son doesn't want to be around her and he's a drunk. 

       Tom careless son drinks his problems away or either smokes. He can't stand his overbearing mother always on his back. He really hates his life he feels trapped, he's miserable with his job, home, etc... So he drinks and smokes himself away from life. He's the only one who goes out into the world but he seeks happiness elsewhere.

          Laura, the daughter is cripple, she's afraid to go out into the world an focus on what people may think of her thinking she's different. She is extremely shy , fragile women who's broken like a glass figure. 

           Each family member is incapable of living in reality, every chance they get they revert back to their fantasy world.  

     

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

     Another museum we arrived at is the National Air and Space Museum. This museum exhibits aircraft, spacecrafts, and technology from centuries to present day.  It exhibits its architecture and history of each collections presented. It was really cool it felt like you were going time from past to present. Seeing how technology improved and how it change the world. My boyfriend loves this museum , he didn't want to leave D.C. without seeing it, because he's so into technology, design, and creating items. It was a good time we saw the Apollo, machines, planes, clock, navigation, etc... We didn't get a chance to watch a movie there because we would have to wait so long and we had other places to go, but their is always next time. But for the most part even though we didn't get to see everything in D.C. due to time, we had a amazing time there. 

                             

National Museum of Natural History & the National Zoo

     Next stop is the National Museum of Natural History. This museum is well natural history of this world. It has artifacts and specimen of plants, animals, fossils, etc... We saw fossils of dinosaurs, animals and creatures of the ocean, and mammals evolution. It was pretty cool to see all the artifacts there. We also went to the zoo, it was nice outside so it was perfect, but not a lot of animals were out or either sleeping since we arrived at a later time. The animals were so cute like most animals are. It was nice we didn't see all the animals by the time we walked to some of the exhibits it was too late. We were excited to see the gorillas but it closed, we were a little disappointed, but at least we had the chance to see some the animals. 

 

           

                            

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

        Today we are going to the city Washington, D.C. to go see the museums, monuments and explore.  Like Alexandria, its fast pace, metros, and shops everywhere. It's like New York down south, it's so fast pace and busy. One museums we're at is the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The modern museum has nice amazing modern contemporary sculptures, every floor had different pieces that occur on different eras and modern contemporary artist. These are some of the pictures we took and a few of my favorite pieces, it has amazing sculptures and I enjoy it. 

Trip to Washington, D.C....Old Town Alexandria

    This break a friend and I are taking a trip to Washington, D.C. Currently we are staying in Alexandria, Va. It's so many things to do, see, and explore here. We'll be here for two days or so to go to see museums, restaurants, and other places. So far we're having a nice time, we're staying at Old Town Alexandria not too far from D.C. so it's not  a far drive. It's a cute town it has some great restaurants nearby and local stores.It's diverse with a lot of history and culture.  It not so warm when we arrived here, it was pretty cold, but I'm glad we had time to go and relax just to get away. Since it wasn't so warm we didn't go walking as much as we wanted to. We went to the movies, went to stores, and went to Ted's Montana Grill located in Alexandria, it was really good. We had a choice from a regular burger or a bison burger, we decided to try something new so it was a bison burger which is a buffalo, it was really good and fulling. The city was nice, hotel was great, and food was amazing. I can't wait till we go out to the city tomorrow.