Final Essay

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Hannah Hurd

Dr. Preston

AP English Literature and Composition

7 June 2015

Open Source Learning 2015

            I heard stories of how this course was going to be, but in the end it was an experience that I couldn’t have prepared for. I was scared there was going to be homework up to my neck and it was going to be hard to balance between all my other classes that I was taking, but I was wrong. AP English and Literature is like college in the sense that you get out of it what you put in it and it’s an experience that is personal to everyone and not the same for any individual. In this course I along with everyone around me including Dr Preston had a lot of trust and we all deserved that trust for the most part, but sometimes there was lapses in our judgment. Sometimes students get lazy and want to rebel or not do the work and teachers can get discouraged by that attitude and it’s a hard relationship to balance and sometimes the students I think took advantage of certain situations, like any would do.

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Throughout the course I didn’t learn how to better use my time and technological skills because before I had no idea how to make a blog post or write an essay in pictures and I think that creativity is important for the future. The Canterbury Tales was piece of fiction that resembled the idea of our education system. We mock education and don’t take it as seriously as we should and in America we pass judgment based on education and in school it is many different backgrounds coming together and many different stories that are intertwined for the sole purpose of graduating or the “end goal.” Hamlet was a fiction piece that resonated with me as well because I am very indecisive and it’s hard for me to feel like I am doing the right thing or what the right thing is to do. I know I need to grow up sometimes like Hamlet and in order to do so I need to learn how to think and do things fro myself. The last piece of fiction that we read in class that jump started my idea of the course was The Poisonwood Bible because it dealt with alienation and feeling alone at times even when there was a family around you. Sometimes life gets lonely and I know I have felt alone at times and that people don’t really understand or “know” me to the extent that I want them to and its hard to communicate what you are feeling to those around you and that is isolating. When reading these pieces of fiction and throughout the course I think I really found that I like being a kid and not taking things to seriously. This year was a lot of work and it’s important to find the fun in any situation and I think with that idea I am going to move forward in my education and try to continue the idea of balancing fun with school n integrating the

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two because as weird as it sounds I do like school and I want to make the stereotype of school something positive.

            The best times in AP English Lit and Comp were when we would have discussions as a class and the comments made about a video or a story we made and they were purposely made to be funny. The times when we watched the giraffes jumping in the pool was pretty funny and it made me giggle because it was so awkward yet cute and funny and I had never seen anything like it so I enjoyed it very much.

            During the masterpiece presentations I think a common them throughout many was the idea of connecting people whether that be the same age to the same age or old to young or just spreading a message to get people aware of the world round them. In Noah and Alec’s presentation they were all about connecting with the youth and giving themselves a voice to help others, that is directly connected to mine Judith’s and Sierra’s presentation because we wanted to be role models for the next generation. Imanie’s presentation as about educating high schoolers on what high school is all about and showing the older generations how school actually is and what’s its like to be loaded with as much work as we have which corresponds to the idea of connecting the youth with the youth as well as the older generations. Matt H’s and Ashlyn’s presentations were about connecting people with the world around them and showing the students how other people see life through their eyes

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and learning about different cultures and conditions so people are less sheltered to the things in life that we can’t see.

            In the end I don’t think I am a hero to others, but I am a hero to myself. I set a goal and I accomplished it. My goal this year was to get a 5.0 and finish high school with all A’s and make myself feel like I deserved it and I think I accomplished that. Looking back at my 4 years at Righetti I can honestly say that I worked hard every day to accomplish something whether I knew it or not. I stayed true to who I was and I think in the end I have a better understanding of what I want o do and how I want to do it. I wish I had found a mentor that was someone I didn’t know so I could pick their brains and really understand something that I didn’t know so I think that is something I am going to do in college to better myself and complete my hero’s journey to the full extent that it deserves. My life is a flower and I am merely a bee that spreads it further.

(I wrote this on word so the page break up is where my pages were broken up on the word document) 

Masterpiece!

We'll go no more a-roving by George Gordon bryon

Will stop going out at night even though it was made for having fun and seeing the light if the moon and it's beauty. All these abstract things limit is and keep us back from want we want to be doing but we need our bodies to rest so we can do the things we love with our best effort. Even though the night was made for adventures and having fun you need to rest and won't go out. Simple diction and short sentences with medium length sentences. Metaphor to sword and sheath? Second stanza is giving examples as to why we need to rest our bodies and tied to the theme of having limits that stop us from what we want to do. Shift at "yet" in second to last lie that reiterates the idea if stopping which congrats with the lines above that explain the reason why we should go out and adventure in night. 

Life by Charlotte Brontë

This poem reminds me a lot of Hope by Dickinson because it talks I the forgiving nature of things. It resembles the Shakespearean sober we read in class because it also congrats the good with the bad but with the over arching theme that those bad make the good. The diction is informal and it reads as if you are talking to someone describing a day they had or just a self revelation. The syntac is shirt sentences with single worded sentences to express action or a feeling/expression. It's telling readers to be grateful for what they have and to not take advantage of the time they spend and to forget about what the present bad brings. But focus in what the future brings. Poem has a shift at "yet" that transitions the poem from the contradictory things of life to the personified triumphant spirit of hope and life that reiterates the theme of encouragement. 

Shakespeare sonnet notes

14 lines in sonnet

- Petrarchan: classical, before Shakespeare, shift after 8 lines, 

- couplet at end. Two lines at end that have change in tone =Shakespearean poem

- shift, 

- look at tone 

- support text with whatever tone you choose 

- Shakespeare realist 

- make fun of love poems and deeper meaning when insult because the truth 

- indirect characterization and narrator for tone questions 

- attitude questions 

- figurative language things that make things more relatable to reader 

- ask about language use diction and syntax 

- style: diction, syntax, figurative language, 

- differentiates : compare and contrast 

- title paraphrase connotation/diction attitude tone shift theme 

- intending on us to be moved authors diction is simple 

- yet however nevertheless but are shifters 

- experience from hope and last part is hope experience from other people And establish as a relationship 

- relate shift to theme of poem 

- see not just abstract idea, characterize as relationship and solid 

Act 5 study questions

5.1 

1. Gentlewomen has seen lady Macbeth sleepwalk. She doesn't want to lie and wants the speech to be justified so the engle woman doesn't get in trouble for saying something wrong that lady Macbeth didn't say.

2. Lady Macbeth reveals her guilty actions of murders she has done. Subconscious will let out the guilt she feels when she cannot let it out consciously. He thinks he knows what she has done but he will not speak of it because it is based in assumption. 

Act 4 Study Questions

4.2

1.  There are 3 witches in this scene.

2.  The first apparition says to be wary of Macduff and careful of him.  The second tells Macbeth he should be a strong willed ruler- bold and brace.  In other words he should not accept defeat.  The third warns of attacking armies coming, and tells Macbeth he won't be defeated until the kingdom of Norway attacks.
     Macbeth doesn't feel safe after the apparitions.  He has worries about Macduff's intentions and the possibility of an oncoming attacking army.  Yes he should feel unsafe because he is in a very precarious position.
     After the fourth, the line of kings, Macbeth is terrified.  He saw the ghost of Banquo at the end, whom he killed.  This frightened him as well as drawing out his guilt.

3.  In line 158 Macbeth learns from Lennox that Macduff is running away to England.  In response Macbeth decides to send someone try to kill as many of Macduff's family members as he can.

4.2

1) Lady McDuff seems to feel betrayed and angry at McDuff because he left them (her and her son) to die. She was advising her son to dislike his father because he fled when he discovered that Macbeth is planning to kill him.
2) The purpose of the scene between Lady McDuff and her son is to have his son have false impression about his dad. Also, the scene assists in the growth of the theme : fair is foul and foul is fair. This is because Macbeth is willing to kill McDuff in order to achieve what is"rightfully" his and McDuff fled, afraid of Macbeth's actions towards him. It also shows how McDuff's son refused to believe that his father left them to die, showing devotion, faith, and trust.
3) The entire McDuff family ends up being killed by Macbeth.

4.3

1. Macduff's family has been killed. 

2. Malcolm doesn't want to go home because he's afraid of judgement since he ran away. Malcolm is suspicious of Macduff bc Macduff has his own personal agenda. He might be secretly working for Macbeth since he left his family. Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty to him and he passes. When Macduff starts to leave Malcolm takes back the lies he's told and trusts Macduff now- they're now allies. 

3. Malcolm says he's a bad king but Macduff says Macbeth is a way worse king and that he needs to return to restore peace and justice. Avarice bothers Macduff more in a king, it sticks deeper with kings in the terms of greed and lust. 

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6. Ross tells Macduff that his family is dead, it takes him a while to tell him. Macduff says they must save their grief for later and Malcom says to turn their revenge into a medicine for their grief. Macduff says "he has no children" and he is referring to Malcom because he says he needs to mourn and "feel like a man" when Malcom tells him to dispute it like a man. To be a "man" in this play means to have feelings and don't hide but don't let them cloud your judgement.
7. Malcom, Macduff and Ross are ready to attack Macbeth's castle, they just need to go there.

Macbeth as King

Macbeth will be a greedy, selfish, and fearful and yet fearless leader because of his past actions of through indirect characteriation. Malcolm and Macduff talk of Macbeth and say how they are afraid to return because they think their wrong doings will make Macbeth look better than he is which shows the power of macbeth's persona. But when Ross comes and talks to them he says that Scotland is in rubbles and they need a true king who is not greedy or self minded to rule the kingdom which suggests that Macbeth is ruling poorly. As Ross continues to speak he hints at Macbeth's ruthlessness through his actions of slaughtering Macduff's family. Also, Macbeth will be too willing to please those around him and give in to persuasion as seen with his constant caving to Lady Macbeth and her conniving ways which is bad for the people because she has her own self interests of power in mind rather than the good for the people.

Macbeth act 4

- thunder with witches again

- witches out important body parts of animals in spell

- "a deed without a name"

- what does Macbeth want to know from the witches? Something about how even though things go bad they go good? Wants to know future?

- first apparition is head and warn Macbeth of thane of fife

- second is a bloody child who says no one can hurt Macbeth

- third is child crowned who says Macbeth won't be challenged and should be strong until great birnam comes

- Macbeth wants to know if banquo sins will ever rule

- 8 ghosts of banquo appear

- Macbeth starting to show cracks in sanity and ask Lennox if saw the witches and be says no so Macbeth questioning events 

- lady says Macduff driven by fear to run

- lady tells son father is dead and son is accepting 

- says that those who lie and sweat are treason and should be hanged by honest men 

- son dies 

- since Malcolm did bad makes Macbeth seem good even though he is bad

- Malcolm fearful of returning home 

- rumor that Macbeth killed macduffs family and Malcolm says use this to yiur advantage and let's get back at Macbeth 

If Macbeth was Good

If Macbeth did good things in life and actually earned his title and things he strived for then there wouldn't be a sense of questioning and struggle between good and bad. The readers feel for Macbeth and his tortured soul because we have all been down the path of choosing between what we want to do and taking the easy way to get it and the route of working hard. It is such a relatable subject matter, not the killing, but the idea of questioning yourself and what you really want and what you are willing to do to get it. The plot would revolve around Macbeth and him being this good guy who does the right things all the time and he would always triumph over the bad because that's how life works but really thats boring and not a tragedy. Macbeth wouldn't have died in the end from his bad deeds and no killing or action would have happened and everyone would have lived happily ever after and that wouldn't have been a historical play to last to where we are now. If he earned his title than there wouldn't be paranoia to take it away and justice would not have ever been served.

Macbeth act 3 reading notes

- Macbeth king and banquo saying prophecy right

- Macbeth trying to woe banquo by saying most valuable guest

- Macbeth fear banquo and his knowledge and good heart

- Macbeth order to kill banquo and son

- Macbeth paranoid from the murder and thinks people know it was him

- why does he go to wife for consoling and show his paranoid self and show weakness? 

- banquo dead but son escapes

- foreshadow that since son ran away he will come back and reveal Macbeth to everyone or attempted murder and increase macbeths paranoia 

- ghost of banquo shows up and this represents macbeths guilt 

- ghost increases macbeths craziness and Macbeth shows his distraught to his party members 

- Macbeth looks insane and this shows his evolution and change from confident man in eye if public to an individual who talks to nothing and hysterical

- thunder signify witches and dark magic?

- Macbeth done bad and not followed project right? 

- people starting to turn on Macbeth and think of him as bad and not deserving 

Act 2 Study Questions

Act 2

2.1

1.The opening gives a sense of forboding, things are not as they should be. The discussion serves to have Banquo acknowledge the weird sisters rather than claim they are a hallucination.
2. Macbeth is extremely stressed about having to Duncan and he is attempting to talk himself into committing the deed. He talks about it as if he is in a haze, a dream and he continues by making it a reality and committing the deed.

2.2

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2.3

2.3 1) The porter, in the third scene of act ii, is drunk and is pretending to be the Porter of the gate to hell. In the play, Macbeth has the trait of equivocation, where he manipulates his listener by circumlocution and the expectations of the other person without actually committing. For example, he does this when Lady Macbeth asks him to kill King Duncan.
2) The thematic function of Lennox describing the night as unruly was because that night was when King Duncan was killed by Macbeth. It was "unruly" not only for King Duncan but also for Macbeth because the guilt and fear of getting caught will always make him say and do things that might be suspicious, dark, and unruly. The scene is necessary to show Macbeth's transformation from the character before the murder vs. the character after the murder. This also connects back to what the witches had said earlier in the play: Fair is foul and foul is fair.
3) Macduff reports that the king has been murdered. Lady Macbeth appears to be horrified that this act could take place on his household. Macbeth is in encaged and kills the chamberlains. Malcolm and Donalbain decide to flee Malcolm and will go to England and Donalbain will go to Ireland. They're fleeing because they fear they will be murdered.

2.4

1. The function of the dialogue between Old Man and Ross is to discuss the strange happenings that have been occurring such as how an owl killed a falcon, the horses went wild and are one another, and several other things.  This wicked behavior symbolizes and foreshadows the promotion of Macbeth to the thrown. 

2. Macduff tells us from the castle that Macbeth has been made king by his fellow lords and that he will travel to Scone to receive the promotion and get crowned. He tells us that Malcolm and Donalbain are suspected of the murder of Duncan. They are suspected because they fled the scene. 

Macbeth character map

Macbeth – Lady Macbeth's husband and a Scottish nobleman, the Thane of Glamis. He is made Thane of Cawdor for his bravery in battle, and becomes King of Scotland by murdering the previous King, Duncan. As Macbeth opens, Macbeth is one of the great noblemen in Scotland: valiant, loyal, and honorable. He's also ambitious, and while this ambition helps to make him the great lord he is, once he hears the weird sisters' prophecy Macbeth becomes so consumed by his desire for power that he becomes a tyrannical and violent monster who ultimately destroys himself. What's perhaps most interesting about Macbeth is that he senses the murder will lead to his own destruction even before he murders Duncan, yet his ambition is so great that he still goes through with it.

Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife. Unlike her husband, she has no reservations about murdering Duncan in order to make Macbeth King of Scotland. She believes that a true man takes what he wants, and whenever Macbeth objects to murdering Duncan on moral grounds, she questions his courage. Lady Macbeth assumes that she'll be able to murder Duncan and then quickly forget it once she's Queen of Scotland. But she discovers that guilt is not so easily avoided, and falls into madness and despair.

Banquo – A Scottish nobleman, general, and friend of Macbeth. He is also the father ofFleance. The weird sisters prophesies that while Banquo will never be King of Scotland, his descendants will one day sit on the throne. Banquo is as ambitious as Macbeth, but unlike Macbeth he resists putting his selfish ambition above his honor or the good of Scotland. Because he both knows the prophecy and is honorable, Banquo is both a threat to Macbeth and a living example of the noble path that Macbeth chose not to take. After Macbeth has Banquo murdered he is haunted by Banquo's ghost, which symbolizes Macbeth's terrible guilt at what he has become.

Macduff – A Scottish nobleman, and the Thane of Fife. His wife is Lady Macduff, and the two have babies and a young son. Macduff offers a contrast to Macbeth: a Scottish lord who, far from being ambitious, puts the welfare of Scotland even ahead of the welfare of his own family. Macduff suspects Macbeth from the beginning, and becomes one of the leaders of the rebellion. After Macbeth has Macduff's family murdered, Macduff's desire for vengeance becomes more personal and powerful.

King Duncan – The King of Scotland, and the father of Malcolm and Donalbain.Macbeth murders him to get the crown. Duncan is the model of a good, virtuous king who puts the welfare of the country above his own and seeks, like a gardener, to nurture and grow the kingdom that is his responsibility. Duncan is the living embodiment of the political and social order that Macbeth destroys.

Malcolm – The older of King Duncan's two sons, and Duncan's designated heir to the throne of Scotland. Early in the play, Malcolm is a weak and inexperienced leader, and he actually flees Scotland in fear after his father is murdered. But Malcolm matures, and with the help of Macduff and an English army, Malcolm eventually overthrows Macbethand retakes the throne, restoring the order that was destroyed when Duncan was murdered.

Weird Sisters – Three witches, whose prophecy helps push Macbeth's ambition over the edge, and convinces him to murder Duncan in order to become King. The witches' knowledge of future events clearly indicates that they have supernatural powers, and they also clearly enjoy using those powers to cause havoc and mayhem among mankind. But it is important to realize that the witches never compel anyone to do anything. Instead, they tell half-truths to lure men into giving into their own dark desires. It's left vague in Macbeth whether Macbeth would have become King of Scotland if he just sat back and did nothing. This vagueness seems to suggest that while the broad outlines of a person's fate might be predetermined, how the fate plays out is up to him.

Fleance – Banquo's teenage son. Macbeth sees him as a threat because of the weird sisters' prophecy that Banquo's descendants will one day rule Scotland.

Lady Macduff – The wife of Macduff and the mother of Macduff's children (and the only female character of note in the play besides Lady Macbeth). She questions her husband's decision to leave his family behind when he goes to England to help Malcolmsave Scotland from Macbeth.

Lennox – A Scottish nobleman.

Ross – A Scottish nobleman.

Angus – A Scottish nobleman.

Donalbain – King Duncan's younger son and Malcolm's brother.

Hecate – The goddess of witchcraft.

http://www.litcharts.com/lit/macbeth/characters

What about my masterpiece

IM DONE! I just ned to work on how I'm going to present everything and how I want to explain my experience to the class and Imanie said she would help me with it so I am in good standings.

Love is Blind

The audience sees Lady Mac to be this snake and evil conniving witch who is in disguise. She is manipulative and selfish and doesn't care about others. They see her as mean and heartless and power hungry whereas Macbeth sees her as powerful and driven. He wants to impress her and in some way looks up to her because of the fact that he thinks she has his best interest in mind which she doesn't. Mac is a lost puppy and found a home, whether it be right or not, and he is weirdly comfortable in it and doesn't want to change.

Macbeth Study Questions

I-1

1) Beginning the play with a dialogue between the witches sets the mood to be dark, evil, and mysterious. This foreshadows the plot, theme, and mood for the future of the story in the same manner. In comparison of Shakespeare's other plays, Macbeth requires more ambiguity and the syntax and diction used needs to be more bleak. For example, Hamlet highlighted the themes of betrayal and complexity of relationships and power. Even though, the theme falls in the same ballpark with Macbeth, the gloominess of the plot of Macbeth overpowers that of Hamlet. In the beginning of the play, the witches were going to meet Macbeth at the "ere of sunset." Line 10 was "Paddock calls" and line 11 was "Anon." The phrase paddock class means a toad, which symbolizes transformation. The word anon means soon or shortly. The "toad" and it's transformation could metaphorically be compared to Macbeth and his evolving and transforming to be a completely different person or even having a transformation in his status and power. The witch's response as anon signifies how Macbeth will shortly have a transformation - to be declared a thane. 

I-2

1. The bloody seargent indirectly characterizes Macbeth by glorifying his actions towards Macdonwald. Macdonwald is a rebel who was executed. He tried to attack them. Macbeth executed macdonwald with his sword. This did not end the fight with the rebels, the Norwegians are still attacking.
2. The traitor was the Thane of Cawdor, as we learn from Ross. Duncan says that its a relief the thane of cawdor was executed and that Macbeth now owns his previous title.

I-3

1. The witches speech gives a first look at Macbeth and his wife without saying who they are. Indirect characterization of the two. Similar to Hamlet where he gives a mini synopsis early in the story. "Weird" in Shakespeare's day meant future seers not weird as we know it, prophecy and destiny. Shakespeare means that Macbeth's wife has him by the balls. They  cast a spell to control his destiny.
2. Macbeth says something very similar to what the witches said at the beginning of the play. This could be him falling into the destiny the witches set up. Dried, chapped fingers, gender ambiguity, hairy, old, they have literal beards. The witches tell Macbeth that he will thane of Candor and eventually King, right then he finds out he is thane of Cawdor. Banquo asked the witch why they had nothing for him, they told him he is lesser but greater than Macbeth. We knew he was thane before he was thane.
3. Banquo says the witches were a figment of their imagination that they lie or that they are hallucinating. Macbeth learns that he is thane of Cawdor from Ross and Angus. During lines 114-156 he was going over his plan in his head and how everything had just happened to him. He acts very happy and shows no incredulity at being thane. Macbeth's aside shows him rationalizing what happened to him and he begins to think that he is going to be King soon. Macbeth tells Banquo that he is happy and excited and nothing more he explains his behavior by saying he is confused.

I-4

1.Cawdor was executed after openly confessing his treason and pleading for mercy. Malcolm tried to stick up for the thane, but the king responds by basically saying that you can't trust a man according to his face. He doesn't believe the thane was truly repentant.

2.The king greets them by saying that he can never repay them enough for their good deeds, but announces he will leave all his estate and names his son, Malcolm, prince of Cumberland. He then proposes that they go to Macbeth's castle at Inverness. Macbeth tells himself that the only way to be king is to get rid of Malcolm, and even though he'll be appalled at his action, he must do it.

I-5

1. Macbeth was honest with his wife when he informs her of his new title as "Thane of Cawdor." He refers to the witches as "weird sisters" probably because he doesn't want her know that he is associated with the "evil servants."

Lady Macbeth responds by saying that she thinks Macbeth is playng things off as if everything is fine. By saying "but be the serpent under't", she describes him as someone that lies to make everything appear under control. This doesn't really match the characterization of Macbeth so far in the story which implies that there is something the audience doesn't know about him. 

2. The wife was confident about the guests visit. She also seemed prepared and a little cocky about the way her and her husband would handle it.

3. Lady Macbeth. Yes she wants to kill Duncan. No, he isn't sure whether he wants to follow through with Lady Macbeths orders or not. She tells him not to let Duncan see tomorrow. 

4. The question appears to answer itself. 

I-6

1. The opening speeches (1.6.1-10) describe how the surroundings of the castle are "pleasant" and the air is sweet-maybe even too sweet. From the outside, the castle appears to be paradise.
Lady Macbeth's welcome is formal. Her language is totally different from her language in the previous scene which shows how fake and dishonest her welcome was.

I-7

1. "If it were done when 'tis done then 'twere well." If it were done when it was done it was done well. (Meaning if he completed the death quickly and efficiently and with no complications then he did the job well.) Macbeth is determined to kill the king and be done with him but in lines 1-12 he is fearful of how the "inventor" will judge his actions. He's violating the hospitality of his kinship and responsibilities as a host towards his guest by trying to kill his guest instead of protecting them. The motivation that Macbeth attributes to himself in lines 25-28 is the attribute of an Arabic heaven-like God. He will be seen as a "God" and that is his source of motivation to get the job done. 

2. In lines 28-30 she is complaining about him leaving the chamber because it was  almost time for dinner. Macbeth responds to her complaining by saying did he ask for me? And lady Macbeth says don't you know he did? The positions are lady Macbeth is ready for the King to be killed while Macbeth is still hesitant and on the fence about it. Macbeth convinced Lady Macbeth by explaining that he is an respected person and doesn't want to lose his honor while Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth by convincing him to gain the power and kill the king. The stronger person in the scene is Lady Macbeth because  she's more verbally confident in her argument while convincing Macbeth to kill the King. 

My Macbeth Resources

http://www.classicstage.org/downloads/macbeth_studyguide.pdf
- this has references to a play and historical background but it still has good info on summarization and visual images
http://www4.nac-cna.ca/pdf/eth/0708/macbeth_guide.pdf
- again a play prewrite bit good info on character list and analysis and summary
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/macbethresources.html
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/sketchofmacbeth.html
- this specifically focuses on progression of Macbeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYbLL6ccaIw (the video is below)

Meet Macbeth

Macbeth is introduced from the witches and they mention him as a strong individual who is brave. This connotates that Macbeth is a man who will do anything and usually bravery is tied to heroism and has positive connotations so from this interpretation readers get a sense that Macbeth is someone who will do what is not popular but what id right. When he is introduced into the story he seems power hungry and clueless because he doesn't know that he is thane of cawdor but he is respectful because he realizes that the previous thane had the thrown and he questions why he should be given it and not Banquo, but Macbeth accepts it. The witches foreshadow that Macbeth will be great and Banquo shows his jealousy of having to attention. This foreshadows that Banquo will always be in the backlight and Macbeth will always surpass him. Shakespeare starts every scene with a setting and it allows the reader to picture where the act is taking place and the context of he words said. He uses the language and magic of the witches to hint at what they think is to come and their attitudes towards the different characters and even the attitudes of the characters toward the witches. Shakespeare uses indirect characterization to foreshadow and lay out the plot of the play without explicitly saying anything. Chaos and not organized with one description of him. Macbeth is seen as brave and strong but naive in a sense and power hungry. Shakespeare's tone is authoritative and pretentious. Macbeth seems like the individual who is better than everyone else and throughout the play that will get him in trouble because he wants to be the top dog.

Masterpiece Complete!

So this past Mon, Tues, and Wed Sierra, Judith, and I completed our masterpieces! Well I completed mine at least. We went to the Boys and Girls Club and put on a three day event where we played with the kids and it was really fun so the next step for me is to start to put together a presentation for the class.

This is one photo from Monday when we played sports with some of the kids.

"There's a Funeral in my Brain"

This prompt relates to my poem because it was based from a poem Emily Dickinson wrote and she has similar writing styles in most of her poems so I think this would relate to any poem she would have written.

Self-pity can be mistaken for depression or sorrow. The subtle difference between the three is who the speaker is. Self-pity is how an individual feel about themselves and depression and sorrow are how an individual feels about a subject. In Emily Dickinson’s poem “There’s a Funeral in my Brain,” Dickinson portrays self-pity in a light that is first hopeful then indifferent.

The attitude of the author is accepting because she knows she is tired and fed up with life and she acknowledges that it is her time to leave because she has done all that she can in this world. She has hope but she lost it. She was regretful. She literally was depressed she thought she was just done with life and everything and she missed out because she stood out. She felt the weight of all those who bring her down and it made her think of reality and how short life is. We get pounded with all this information constantly like the beating of a drum and it's hard to retain all of it and even care about it and at some point we reach our breaking point which is why she went numb. She didn't care. She can only absorb involuntarily the actions around her and she feels alone. Her sanity broke and she fell to her death and stopped caring. "Plank in reason," a plank is thin board above water and when you fall you die. So her plank was the slim truth and reason she had in like and when her reason wasn't valid anymore she fell. "Heavens a bell and I but an ear," she was made to hear the things she Donets want to hear. She is made to go to heaven and was inevitably going to go there. Ears can't not hear, it was an involuntarily action. The word wrecked has connotations of a mistake or something not meant to happen. She didn't mean or plan to be alone or an outsider, it just happened. The authors attitude shifts in the last stanza when she describes falling off her plank because before that it was more optimistic like she had a chance but was just sad. The poem mentions something broken and in the beginning if the poem it was talking about her potential or the things that made her. The shift was from no action to action. 

“I felt a Funeral in my Brain” is a poem that portrays the self-pity of both optimism and pessimism. Dickinson showed the raw emotion of being an outsider and she felt the pain of being something that didn’t work.  She became just something in the wind and was indifferent when she woke up from her reality. This was a poem about someone who was but never became. 

Young Goodman Brown

Waking up from a nightmare creates vivid images that instill real fear. It is hard to decipher reality from what was imagined and the actions that follow are a result of those fictitious images. The ideas create reality. In “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne portrays a man who is questioning what he sees in front of him. The notions created in his mind tricked his actions to betray himself and those around him. Goodman’s reality was his nightmare and his inward questioning led to his outward conformity and resulted in his self-destruction.

Young Goodman Brown was a naïve individual who had a comfortable life. He lived in an ironic town of Salem. He was someone who was religious and believed in the good heartedness of the people in his village and yet he lived in the village of the Salem witch trails. His wife was the symbol of youth and happiness with her pink ribbon. Her ribbon was the essence of her purity and complemented Brown’s persona.  She is good and has not been touched by the evil she believes lives in loneliness. Brown had a life that was contradictory to his rich town and this leads to the reader foreshadowing the future events. Young Goodman Brown was young, pure, and good intentioned as influenced by his conformity to his nurtured life

Young Goodman Brown began to question his life as he dived further into the darkness of his mind. The old man was the inception of the idea that Young Goodman Brown wasn’t whom he saw himself and his life as. Goodman saw those around him as pure, but as the Old Man and Goody Cloyse began to show him the other side of human nature. He saw the evil and secrets of those around him and felt the paranoia of his comfortable life. The woods that Goodman enters symbolize his twisted and confusing life and it changes the plot of the story of one that was known to something that was not. The woods are where all the inward questioning occurs. Goodman is forced to witness his reality slipping away. The ritual he witnesses is his pure soul vanishing before his eyes as seen with the loss of the pink ribbon from Faith’s hair. “ My Faith is gone,” this metaphor is representative of the loss of his old life. Young Goodman Brown was fed evil but the Old Man and he took the bait and caved to become what the society around him was.

Once Young Goodman Brown was introduced to the reality of his own mind, he let his constant paranoia and questioning of those around him change who he was. His nightmare became his life and he truly lost his faith. He became too involved in himself and became selfish and showed the evil side to himself. He saw the true nature of the town and people around him and this truth was too much for him to handle. He was not a strong individual and couldn’t handle what he was shown. Young Goodman Brown died like the men and women he was surrounded by.

Young Goodman Brown was a man who’s questioning of those around him led to his ultimate outward changing to the ideas he believed in his head. His story is a metaphor for the inevitable influence that the environment has on individuals. We can try so hard to stand out and be our own person but the power that we have on ourselves to believe what we tell ourselves is greater than how hard we try to make sense of everything. Young Goodman Brown changed himself from the truth he felt he saw and nothing could tell him otherwise which led to his ending.

Masterpiece: day 1

So yesterday Judith Sierra and I completed our first day of our masterpiece at the boys and girls club. We have two more days left and I am excited to see what the kids bring us today! 

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Poem analysis: I felt a funeral in my brain

Title:

I felt a funeral in my brain

- depressed and time to mourn and feeling on isolation but togetherness because like people feel the same as you. Sorrow

Paraphrase:

- she felt the weight of all those who bring her down and it made her think of reality and how short life is. We get pounded with all this information constantly like te beating of a drum and it's hard to retain all of it and even care about it and at some point we reach our breaking point which is why she went numb. She didn't care. She can only absorb involuntarily the actions around her and she feels alone. Her sanity broke and she fell to her death and stopped caring.

Connotation:

- plank in reason: plank is thin board above water and when you fall you die. So her plank was the slim truth and reason she had in like and when her reason wasn't valid anymore she fell

- heavens a bell and I but an ear: she was made to hear the things she Donets want to hear. She is made to go to heaven and was inevitably going to go there. Ears can't not hear, involuntarily action

- wrecked: a mistake or something not meant to happen. She didn't mean or plan to be alone or an outsider, it just happened

Attitude:

- the attitude of the author is accepting because she knows she is tired and fed up with life and she acknowledges that it is her time to leave because she has done all that she can in this world. She has hope but she lost it. Kinda regretful. My attitude was I felt bad for her. She literally was depressed and I felt like she thought she was just done with life and everything and she missed out because she stood out. 

Shift:

- shift in the last stanza when she describes falling off her plank because before that it was more optimistic like she had a chance but was just sad. It says something broke and before it was talking about her potential or the things that made her and out. No action to action 

Title revisited:

- why does she say brain rather than head or in my mind or inside me like soul?

- funeral is stereotypical and traditionally death but she was describing death at a funeral, her death rather than the past death she was telling a future death

Theme:

- she was alone and felt the pain and weight if life on her. People weigh you down, it's not you but the people you surround yourself with that make you who you are/ the actions you choose. (She looked around and saw she was different.)

Tobermory explained

First paragraph contradictory and straight forward in tone. Mocking and crude. More about characterization and making appin seem different and standing out from the crowd. 

First impressions are he is crazy for thinking of a beyond cat being

Cats signify loneliness in today's culture

Divest is to deprive 

Appin talks highly of himself and achievements

Appin seems to look down upon the guests as they do on him as seen in his address to my dear miss resker

Languid- slow relaxed slow movement 

Adroit- skillful in words

Once knew it was true and credibility was given to appin the guests were interested 

Velvet tread: soft walk and elegant sophisticated

Axminster is carpet which shows education of tober

Tabkes have turned and now the guests are the dumb ones and tober is laughing at their embarrassment

Tober is giving people a taste if their own medicine because guests talking bad about appin at beginning and judging him and now tober doing the same back 

Uneasy tone

Humorous even because guests are all gaucking at this cat magic being and making themselves look dumb like a fan girl who has just met her dream person. Tober is teasing them almost 

Balustrade : support/railing

Tober reflect on everyone else. 

In beginning of piece you think you get a sense of who appin is but you really get a sense of who everyone else is

Tober makes people aware of what thy say and do. He is like truth speaker 

The truth isn't always the best thing to say. Turns people against each other and people are so afraid to let others see who they really are that they create their own internal monster inside 

People selfish because going to kill tober but don't think of what that would do to appin

Panicked and offensive tone

Bite toast as if personal enemy and vindictive silence 

Sepulchral: relating to tomb 

Uncomfortable tone and mood

Paranoid

Lugubrious: looking or sounding sad or dismal

Trying to plot to kill tober? Is that what the guests are waiting for? 

Why did blue melt care if tober died? Didn't she want him dead?

Appin died due to trying to experiment of animal. Ironic that the only truth in this whole piece was what ended up dead.

It's like pushing something to hard to the breaking point and not knowing when to stop or when the things snaps. If you bend a stick enough it will snap and maybe flick a piece of broken wood at you and hurt you. Have to be aware if actions. 

Ironic

A nod to Jiro

Interesting Blogs

Jeez, well I don't want to just pick one blog out because I think all of them are pretty freakin interesting and I would feel bad if I singled out one person's blog because everyone has different taste, as cliche as that sounds. I like Courtneys blog because it shows her drive and reliable character to get the job done, I like Sierra's blog because it shows her passion for fashion, I like Megan's blog because I can always count on something well written that I can be amazed by, I like Imanie's blog because it's Imanie's blog and she is pretty freakin cool, I like Anaya's blog because it shows that extra material that shows her going above and beyond passionate character. Although everyone's blogs doesn't have "extra" non-school related things on them, I know these people on a personal level and I think they are pretty ridiculously amazing individuals who I don't need to see their character through their blog and am so grateful to have them in my life. Courtney wrote about me in her blog post and I thought that was really amazing of her. Thank you Courtney for all you do and you are an amazing person who is so passionate and driven and smart and fun to be around and i can only wish and know that you will do some amazing stuff in your future that I want to be apart of! So keep up the amazing work and thank you for being the amazing person that you are!

Masterpiece Progression

My masterpiece is pretty much all set up. I emailed and contacted the director of activities at the boys and girls club and I have date and times set. Now all I need is to meet with the director sometime this week and tell him what we plan to do and then go and do it. I am super excited to see the kids again and play some fun games with them over break!

Seeking Mentor

My expert can teach me how to be a teacher and work with kids. I want to put on a camp and I know he has been involved with his church doing volunteer charity events and maybe he can teach me some pointers on how to run an event like what I am trying to do. Organizing a group of kids and trying to get their attention id hard and I think teachers do a very good job of it everyday so my mentor can teach me how to be a teacher for a day so I can have the best experiences with the kids. Some questions I can ask my mentor are: What gift should I give the kids at the end of the camp? How doI get the kids attention? How can I make something fun but also educational? How long do you think I should make the camp so the kids get the best benefit?

Chapter 6 analysis

- Bernard odd at beginning 

- indirect characterization of lenina: only cares about materialistic things and the places and status 

- Lake District in northern England and where romantic literature 

- Bernard wants love and lenina is more surface 

- the lonely crowd: we could actually feel more alone with many people than by ourselves and walking on trail have to acknowledge others

- blasphemy is outrageous and threat and sin

- lenina guilty by association and lenina getting riled up like waves in ocean 

- forward comes back in relation to choices 

- Bernard given up on lenina

- third person omniscient

- Bernard odd because focus on lenina 

- whether or not Bernard odd or not is unresolved

- surprise by his surprise

- director reminiscing which is forbidden

- helmholtz has negative reinforcement and silence 

- director have too much away and got mad at Bernard

- director had feelings and not suppose to happen 

- foreshadow from story of director and girl

- ironic how lenina said progress is lovely 

- insect reference again

- escape is suggestive? Of what

- why did the warden want lenina to blush

- ironic that threats make Bernard feel like he is living

- description of how to get to reservation was jb middle is desolate place that killed with barbed wire fence with bones on ground

- foreshadow of how we never learn and see skeletons in ground

- Bernard said everything they do is funny talking about savages

- control savages with invisible hand and teach them to be like what they are suppose to be

- significance of laugh? 

Brave New World Essayito

Aldous Huxley claimed int h video that his new world is just around the corner from us. That was a while ago and we have reached the corner of the street where technology and mindless behavior is evident. Huxley points out the fact that technology robs us of our freedoms and that is true. As humans, we allow materialistic objects to define us and tell us what to do. We let our cell phones and social media define us and take us away from the simplistic lives of living. Technology robs us of our free minds just as commercials do when we watch television. We are involuntarily being exposed to advertisements and bribery and messages that we sometimes don't want to see. We become accustomed and brain washed into memorizing a jingle because it has been played so much. For example, the Charter commercial that has the song and office dance, 18004552999, I have that number memorized because of the jingle and not because I am interested in switching to charter who has features that rock. This is the essence of the intellectual hypnopaedia that didn't work because there was no moral connection with it so when is the time going to come when the moral hypnopeadia comes? As well as technology taking away our freedom, we are not limited in our imagination and we expect what technology has in the future. We are not limited by what cannot be, but we imagine and produce from what we see possible and so we are not surprised by technology and evolution just as in Brave New World where they talk about the past as if it never happened because they are so involved in the future. We are living in the the Brave New World even as much as it seems in odds with ours.

Literature Analysis # 2 : The Color Purple

1. Exposition is describing who Celie is as the protagonist of the Color Purple. She is poor and uneducated. The story takes place in the early to mid 1900's in rural Georgia. The main conflict is Celie and the abuse she has been subject to making her believe she's worthless. The rising action occurs when Celie starts have feelings towards Shug. Shug helps Celie open up about her past. During this time with the help of Shug, Celie finds Nettie's letters that have been kept from her by Mr.___. Celie starts to find her voice from the help of Shug. The Climax of the story is when Celie explodes to Mr.___ for keeping the letters from her, when she believed her sister was dead. Celie stops writing to God and loses faith because of everything she's gone through, but Shug helps Celie see god as a symbol. The falling action occurs when Celie is able to endure the heartache she goes through with Shug and she becomes dependent and realizes she can make herself feel special. After some time  Celie returns to Georgia to find that Alphonso has died and Mr.___ has changed. The story's resolution is when Nettie and Samuel return to Georgia with Adam, Olivia, and Tashi and Celie inherits her family's home and lives the rest of her life there. The authors purpose was to reveal that a person can undergo many heartaches but still find the strength through God, faith, and hope to be happy and successful, in relation to their perspectives.
2. The theme of the novel is personal strength. Celie lived in a time where African Americans had nothing and so people of that race started to believe that. She started out that way but she found in her heart and through hard work and believing that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, you can come out of any tragedy with lessons learned and a seasoned life. She found personal growth from others but learned to find it within herself and she proved that the motivation and inspiration that women can give themselves is priceless and it truly makes a difference what you are told and what you tell yourself.
3. The tone was somber and honest. The story is described in a more vulgar way but it is sincere and truthful. For most of the story the tone is in every word to make the reader feel emotion. "I lay there quiet. listening to Shug breathe. It hurt me you know, I say. I was just going on fourteen. I never even though bout men having nothing down there so big. It scare me just to see it. And the way it poke itself and grow." " Well I started to fight him, and with God's help, I hurt him bad enough to make him let me alone. But he was some mad. He said because of what I'd done I'd never hear from you again, and you would never hear from me." "No ma'am say Sofia. I do not love Reynolds Stanley Earl. Now. That's what you been trying to find out ever since he was born. And now you know." 
4.  Ethos pg 1 
"Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me."This expresses the innocence of a young girl who is asking for help, because she is confused on the events in her life.
 hyperbole pg 2
- "...you could have knocked me over with a feather." This exaggerates the shock and overwhelming sensation as she gave birth to her first child.

foreshadow pg 5
 - " I look at women tho, cause I'm not scared of them." This how Celie looked at women. Celie felt that could be more close and intimate with a woman because she didn't feel safe with men. 

simile pg 21
- "Shug Avery as black as my shoe." This is used to describe how dark Shug Avery is, when Mr.___ sisters and Celie are talking about her. They are trying to figure out why he is so infatuated with her. 

Irony - " You sure is ugly.." Shug says this to Celie when she first meets her, which is ironic because Shug and Celie end up loving each other.
- Symbolism 

When referencing to the color purple. Cecile finds immense beauty in the color that she never knew existed. This draws a connection with religion and her faith because she discovered the color while experiencing a religious awakening.
- Foils

Sofia and Celie. Sofia is strong and independent while Celie is innocent and doesn't understand who she is yet.
- Style 

The book is made of short chapters and letters. The letters express Celie's struggles and questions and shows her evolution as a character.
- Motif

God is used to display the confessions Celie uses to write her letters. She finds comfort and freedom in writing and talking about her journey and struggles.

- Imagery 

Kate takes Celie out to buy a new dress and the colors symbolize the start of her new life. 

Characterization

1. "...Little Like sleeping with mama, only I cant hardly remember ever sleeping with her." Celie mother died at a young age and this shows her struggle remembering her and yet another struggle she doesn't understand but has to overcome. "We have built another church and school." When the community got torn down and raided, they didn't just give up, they came back and built new what was destroyed this shows the strength of the community and the people Celie is surrounded by. "Shug Avery as black as my shoe." This directly explains Shug and the complex of his skin and how it compares to the things around him to allow the character to imagine how dark this character is to add to the characteization of this character. "He real fat and tall, look like a yellow bear." This exlains the skin color of Tobias and what he physically looks like to help the reader paint a picture in thier heads of how this charcter will act and create the big picture. 

2. The diction is important in this story because it shows the education of the individuals, Celie has short choppy phrases with words out of order and this shows how little educated she is just like when Shug talks. This also shows the social class of the individuals. When Nettie talks, she is more educated and thus the reader can infer that Nettie has had some education and found some higher living than Celie.

3. Dynamic and Round because Celie was a young girl who was uneducated and had no self morality or worth and as she progressed to a women she learned hoe to be dependent on herself and not having to live with someone else. She found her mold in life and she evolved from an uneducated girl who was being brutally abused to an educated woman who made a living for herself and learned how to make herself happy.

4. I felt as if I knew Celie and the struggle she went through. the book was so detailed and explicit that when i read the parts of rape, I teared up because I could never imagine that happening to anyone let alone someone that young. I wanted to help all the people in the book and after reading it it made me think of how grateful we should be to live in a society as the one we do with working parents and college and education and a future. I wanted to show and tell Celie that everything is going to be ok and to get your head up and find that one thing to keep you going because in the end you will come out on top you just have to keep the faith.

Experience with the book

The book is very strange and it honestly frightens me. The explicit detail that Huxley has, his imagination is so vidid and yet makes you think and really try to understand our society in modern times. Some aspects in the book seem simpler than what we have now and others seem outrageous and cruel. The bottom line is that Huxley critically looked at our society and I think he tried to create a new world that made what we think good bad and what we think bad good. This is the essence of what a Brave New World is; its a world opposite and different from ours and yet the same because it is still run on fear and basic human interaction. Huxley's writing style is simple and straight forward but so complex and detailed that one sentence has 10 literary techniques and one paragraph is more involved than my whole life. He does a good job of describing scenes and making readers feel uncomfortable but so intrigued to read on.

Brave New World: Analysis of ch 2 and 3

Chapter 2:
- brain wash and hypnopaedia with repeating idea over and over into kids heads for years and years so it become the only thing they know
- nursery explained with light and putting ripe flowers and life out. Juxtapose with pale death and whiteness of marble
-window one east side is symbol of opportunity and light but also having something come so close and not being able to do anything about it because there is something that olds you back from acting
- significance of races? emphasizing diversity?
- nurses are submissive to DHC and do hat he says with no question. Were they conditioned to obey him as children?
- say infants unloaded as if cargo and not human beings
- babies are pure and that is shown when sun comes from behind the cloud and roses bloom and babies smiling
- DHC destroyed happiness so ironic that happy room but horrible sadness goes on.
- make babies hate the very thing that you naturally love
- describe babies when electricity is on as dead carcasses that have just been killed. Still twitching and stiff
- ordinary terror?
- society built on fear
- describes room after babies leave as welcome silence? Just after babies were electrocuted people are happy they are gone but not even affected by the fact that the babies were tortured
- abolish the love of nature as if it is something that can be taken away. What if we had abolition of freedom, imagine the chaos that would happen, but these peopled trained to just accept
- "The most historical facts are unpleasant"
- explain mothers had being mothers and who they were and what they did to boys and they were confused. They missed out on the unconditional love of someone else.
- At one time had all of those things, what happened that made them change?
- hypnopaedia was first for intellectual education but failed because no meaning behind the phrases learned and no connections to the brain personally. then made for moral education and worked because changing who someone is and what they value of true(like memorizing something and actually learning and applying something)
- playing on education system how we are conditioned to learn certain things when scene in book when kids repeating what the different classes are and how to perceive them. No freedom at all to think just mindless repetition and brainwash
- comparison with water and liquid sealer?
- child's mind is the adults mind

Chapter 3
- kids don't have choice who they love
- monogamy is not ok and looked down upon which is opposite of today
- How to suppress the feelings that you have for someone?
- Seems simpler
- first paragraph is calming and describe as regular day and there are naked children running around
- Who is our Ford?
- madness to play sports which increase consumption
- kids doing grown up things but still think of them as just kids
- most facts about the past do seem incredible. always do that, have do as in emphasizing how weird the pst was. done it in multiple chapters
- Polly still scared of getting in trouble because still just a kid and has that innocence to still be pure
- Mustapha Mond is the Ford and founder?
- a lot of repetition
- scene where assistant predestinator says the the graphics were so good that why we don't get taught about history anymore because it can just be recreated to be bigger and better
- those who feel themselves despising do well to look it. says that we believe our duty is to look how we feel and think we are. hard to hide who we really are. foreshadow change?
- having mother is shameful and bad. seems dark subject and something people try to avoid because maybe want something like it
- describe woman's locker room in great detail but women and area like party or chaotic. Loud and on some level gross with water gurgling out.
- lenina and fanny
- home described like prison and something someone doesn't want. describe this way to enforce fear
- home was psychically and physically. suffocating. mother brooded over her children like brew or food. think breast feeding is gross but children can be naked together and that is normal.
- syntax is shifting between lenina story and mustafa mond story
- monogamy not ok and lenina like specifically Henry Foster
- everyone belongs to everyone else
- have to share and that is the essence of utopia is that everyone is equal and no structure but the fact that there is no structure, there is structure in the way that it has to have certain rules
- commenting on how relationships can be toxic and overrated
- lonely isolating pain is opposite of what you think when you are in a relationship. no stability
- metaphor of vice being trumpet
- machine turning symbolize utopian society as just factory and has to keep moving and regulating or things fall apart and people can fell again. must be manual though so need support of others which is opposite of what everyone is given. Support is taken away from citizens
- make an effort for promiscuity and sometime you don't feel like doing it. personify it as if having to do manual activity like exercise.
- fearful of Bernard because alone. opposite of what we have today, when someone is with everyone we look down upon them.
- alone is sign of figuring something out because you have time to think?
- repetition of some phrases when Lenina's part is on. IS she going through repetition or hearing it?
- Bernard man who doesn't objectify women and thinks Lenina as actual person. Different in mind so isolated
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lit terms: list 6

simile

soliloquy
spiritual
speaker
stereotype
stream of consciousness
structure
style
subordination
surrealism
suspension of disbelief
symbol
synesthesia
synecdoche
syntax
theme
thesis
tone
tongue in cheek
tragedy
understatement
vernacular
voice
zeitgeist

Love of Learning

The love of learning is not something that can be defined. it can be interpreted in many different ways by the many different people that do so. The love of learning for Isaac Asimov is that of inspiring the future and making education something to be cherished rather than dreaded.

Not everything is fancied by an individual and thus it makes it hard to be told what to do and enjoy it. To enjoy something you have to be willing and personally interested in the endeavor to really get meaning and learning out of it. This learning is easy and natural because as individuals, we want to learn something new or try something new so we can feel something new. As a society we look down upon learning as something that is punish or forced upon us. This idea is harmful to our future and the ability to learn. As children we think of education as something that is to "get done" like a chore and so we can be done with it; in reality education is intangible and so we cannot put an end to it. Education is something we should love to inspire what we can do.

When we get inspired there is a staircase effect where one interest can lead to another and another and another and eventually those interests lead to a singular idea that we grow fond of. The love of soccer can turn into the love of angles, which can turn into the love of math and therefore a future as an engineer or math teacher. This concept of staircase learning can help individuals find a future for society and themselves. An example of this is the rise of media and machines. We want to be able to learn and find new ways of doing things to brighten our minds and thus was born the idea of Google and Apple and the internet. We want to share our ideas and find new ones so we can have influence on others and others on ourselves.

The times are changing and we need to change with them. We can't live in the past and the present is only the worry and anticipation of the future. What we do now, what we learn now, what we see now all affect the future we have and by developing good educational habits now we can secure the fututre. The love of learning inspires the future because learning helps us find who we are and what we want to do in the world.

AP First Impressions

When I look at the Ap tests I think oh man its that time again. I always feel like I know nothing and that is no different this year, but I think if I study hard enough and understand what I am doing along the way, things won't turn out too bad. I think I understand the multiple choice it'c just a matter of opinion and interpretation of someone else's work as are the essay prompts. I think the essays will be harder because I haven't read a lot of books but I think the ones I have read are the books that are of merit and I can write about for any essay prompt. The only thing I am worried about is interpreting poems and how to decipher the language because whenI look at poetry and I sit down and actually analyze it, it takes me a long time but I don't have hours on the AP exam. So I think at this point I feel like I need to keep on studying but I have a firm background in the knowledge I need to know to pass the exam.

lit terms: list 5

parallelism

parody
pathos
pedantry
personification
plot
poignant
point of view
postmodernism
prose
protagonist
pun
purpose
realism
refrain
requiem
resolution
restatement
rhetoric
rhetorical question
rising action
romanticism
satire
scansion
setting

lit terms: list 4

interior monologue

inversion
juxtaposition
lyric
magic(al) realism
metaphor (extended, controlling, & mixed)
metonymy
modernism
monologue
mood
motif
myth
narrative
narrator
naturalism
novelette/novella
omniscient point of view
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
pacing
parable
paradox