Reading for 6/18

The short story that I had to read for my book club was called "Nipple Jesus." I thought that it was weird, but interesting in a way. I finally understood the point of the story when he was explaining when you look at the picture far away it's beautiful and when you get up close it's ugly. He described his wife in this way. If they are going out she will get all dressed up and put makeup on and look like she could be a model and then in the middle of the night if he happens to roll over he sees her with her hair all messy and bad breath and you would think they wouldn't want that as a model. I really liked the part when they were talking about the reporters wanting to arrest Martha and Dave was wanting to be interviewed because there was a sign right outside the room that said "WARNING! This room contains an exhibit of a controversial nature. Please do not enter if you feel you might be offended." So when people were going in the room they knew that they could possibly be offended by the painting but they went in anyway. I think the reason why most people were offended and made such a big deal is because it was a picture of Jesus made out of breasts. That is someone religious people look up to and it is kind of demeaning. I look up to my mom and that is like someone giving me a painting of a bunch of obscene things making it look like my mom. I would kind of be upset as to why they portray her that way. I think the text was very easy to read because it's kind of an everyday language. On the other hand it was very back and forth instead of a chronological sequence.