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

Aldous Huxley

1. Disney rejected Huxley’s screen play of Alice in Wonderland—there were simply too many big words. However, the final portrayal of the hookah-smoking caterpillar is supposedly a nod to Huxley.

2. Huxley’s eyesight problems drove him to give up his dreams of being a scientist and instead begin a writing career. He was practically blind for a few years as a teenager.

3. At Huxley’s request, his wife Laura administered LSD to her husband a few hours before he died.

4. He was born to an upper family and his father was a biographer, editor, and poet. Later in 1937, Huxley traveled to the U.S.A with the belief that the Californian climate would aid in improving his eye-sight, which was being a major burden. This also proved to be the turning point in his life, because Huxley gave up on writing fiction and chose essays as the tool for expressing his ideas. 

5. Failure to achieve academic distinction might be a disappointment for an ordinary person, but to be a Huxley was to be aware that one is not ordinary,

6. Much of the literature he created reflected a concern with physical suffering, malignant disease, decay, and death

http://www.enotes.com/topics/aldous-huxley
http://www.quirkbooks.com/post/happy-birthday-aldous-huxley-some-interesting-facts-about-his-life
http://www.famousauthors.org/aldous-huxley