Literary Analysis "No Way Out"

Vinnie Cruz

No Way Out

1. No exit was a story about a a group of people who were trapped in hell, and claimed to not know why. They all refused to tell each other about what there background was in order to find out why they all were there. They had three different character, Garson who was the male who had sense of everything was around him, but also avoided issues with Estell an Inez. When they Inez would try to talk about everything Garson would sit back and just listen, Estell would sort of mock Inez. Once they found out what everyone had done to be in hell they started to argue. Estell kissed Garson, and Inez tried to stab Estell, when Inez did that to Estell the gates of hell opened, but they still stayed in hell.
2. The theme of No Way Out was that once you have developed your way of life, and decided to be a certain person, you will stay that way until you decide to change, so in your mind you are who you are in your mind, and that is how you will stay.
3. The tone of the Novel is irony, when the gates of hell open up and they were able to leave, all three of them stayed in hell. Inez was the one girl in the whole novel who wanted the peace, wanted everyone to work together, wanted them to figure out why they were all there, but then she tried to stab Estell for kissing Garson, and Inez was always trying to seem to be trying to cope with everyone around her but yet she always wanted to be looking at herself and always seemed all about her.
4. When the author focuses on a different character the syntax and diction stays the same, but the mood and tone chance. He wrote in a way that seemed to really express each character so that you not only were being told about the character, but you were also feeling the character.
5. The author uses dircect characterization when describing the setting of the story. The author uses indirect characterization to describe the characters state of mind. He also seemed to use a bit a juxtaposition to show the irony in a lot of the characters way of thinking. The authors syntax and diction was key in letting the reader know that every single prop in the play, or story, was put there because it held a significance, and with his yntax and diction, it left you continuin to think about why certain things were placed in the setting, and what they stood for.
6. When the author directly described the back grounds of each character, he tells you exactly what type of character they are by what they have done, which seemed to foreshadow each characters later actions. The author also directly tells us how there setting looks, they are in a room, dark, and alone with each other. The author used indirect characterization to show how the characters personalities were I ironic, Inez was wanting to solve the issue, shown by her drive to want to talk to everyone, but she was also self centered, shown through her obsession with her and a mirror. Also he used indirect characterization to show they are so in sync with there state of mind, when the gates opened up to lead them out of hell they still stayed in hell, because they were so use to the hell of there own state of mind.
7. The characters seemed very static and flat, because at the end of the story, they had a chance to change their ways, and walk out of the gates of hell, but chose not to, they chose to stay the same way.
8. At the end of the story I didnt feel a good connection with characters mainly because I am not very interested in knowing any character, or characters, like that in anyways, so I rejevcted them in a way.

Edit On Macbeth Literary Analysis

I have come across new information due to a public speaker in class. I read a lot online about it being about ambition, so I bit on that idea; however, in light of the speaker we had today, Quinn Mattfield, he enlightened me of an idea that it MacB is not about ambition, its about fear. As I made connections with this thought I felt more and more connection with this idea, when he is killed, it is by a man in fear of losing his family. When MacB runs to the witches to seehis future fate it is out of fear that he will be challenged for the throne and losing it to a new family. He kills several people out of fear of losing his throne, the play is themed of fear.

Thank you Quinn Mattfield :)

Thinking Outside The Box

Plato and Sartre describe the limitations of our think by showing the natural limitations we place on ourselves. Plato describes how we limit our thinking sometimes to just what we have been taught, or a sistem, or a type of routine in our life. We don't really try to break free from that, or do something outside of the norm, and its when we try to do that, that we become more open minded, and it is as easy as trying, "turning ur head" per say, to break free and become more open minded, or "walking into the light." Sartre compares the difference of pleasures, to what's important in life. They have several characters in a setting of hell. On person says hell is being surrounded by people, but when a male and a female start to kiss, a second female stabs the female kissing, and the door opens up to a bright light. In that he shows that doing something just because you are at the end of your road and doing what you can, or thinking the only way you think possible, doesn't mean that is what u should do. When eliminating that drive to do something that is pleasurable, and realizing that eliminating one cansourous thought, or person, it opens your mind up to new ideas.

Literary Analysis "Romeo and Juliet"

Vinnie Cruz

1) Romeo and Juliet is a story about two lovers who are not socially accepted they run away from their town in pursuit of happiness and love, and end up dyeing for each other.

2) The theme of the novel is nothing can break love, not even in death.

3) The tone of this novel was definitely disappointment. There were several examples shown in this novel, 1 would be when Romeo and Juliet were told they can no longer see each other. Another example would be when Juliet was told that Romeo had been sent away from the home town so she would no longer be able to see Romeo. Another example would be when Juliet found Romeo and thought he was dead so committed suicide, and then Romeo awoke from his sleep and saw that Juliet had committed suicide so Romeo committed suicide to be with Juliet.

4) The author uses tone to describe how the characters are feeling in certain situations. The author uses indirect characterization to show how complex his writing is and how much he wants the reader to analyze his work.

1) In Shakespeare's work he doesn't use much direction characterization, but throughout his novel or play he uses all kinds of indirect characterization from his explanations 2 characters such as Romeo's looks, Juliet’s looks from their lives, all the way to how they feel about each other.

2) The author’s syntax and diction stay the same when describing or talking about a character because most of his writing has to do with dialogue and direct characterization.

3) The main character is definitely static and flat. Throughout the novel he continues to love Juliet and drive to see you’re just as much as he does at the end of the story.

4) Considering I didn't much like the book I can't say I felt like I really got 2 know I the character but by the end of story I was definitely aware I was reading a book and didn’t feel much of a  connection to the main character at all.

Allegory of the cave sonnet

Locked up, chained up, stuck in darkness all alone

Close minded, scared of the light, turn your head

Walk towards what is bright, think clear, be free, live a live

Being free is easy, you just have to try

Walk free, see beyond the dark cave called your mind

Losen up, be you, think clear see the light

All it takes is effort, the light is bright

When you find yourself enlightened its a sight

Feeling new, free to think beyond a black room

Terrible lonelyness is ound is darkness

Sadly finding a mind a lone and inclosed

Systems, all you know is what you have

Being taught to think in a certain way

What a life, let me go, run from this darkness

PLATO Questions

1)  Allegory was a comparison against people who were trying to become intellectuals and people who are intellectuals.

2) Prisoners represent the non intellectuals, light shows discovery and knowledge, one long extended metaphor. People in a cave are becoming intellectuals, and people who leave are intellectuals.

3) It shows that's he believe different from education is getting brand new information

4)  Shackles and the cave show that difficulties in life may seem stronger and more difficult to over come then they truly are, and that all it takes it's effort.

5) discouragement and sadness shackle the mind, knowledge shackle the mind, anything that limits your mind of thinking beyond the normal.

6) the free prisoner was much more open minded and wanting to do something that was out of the norm as opposed to the prisoners who did not want anything to change.

7) one eay is not know what you really know, and the other is not going towards what you want to know.

8) Prisoners get free simply by trying and following there curiosity. If you want to be free, try.

9) I do agree, reality goes beyond appearances are, people put on faces all the time, they fake how they feel, and what they think, you appear one way, but think the other

Macbeth Literary Analysis

11)      Macbeth is about a man who was deceived by witches. He was obsessed with power and it eventually killed him. Witches told him he was to become a king, he was called the future thane of coward. Once he was told that he was to become king and killed Duncan because that who the witches said must be killed for him to become king. When Macbeth found a way to kill Duncan he hallucinated daggers with blood, which gave him motivation, once done he said he will never have clean hands. He became king. Banquo started to realize that Macbeth was the murderer; Macbeth insists Banquo come to Macbeths feast. When Banquo was on his way to the feast he had him killed. When Macbeth went to the witches to see why he started to see Banquo's ghost. When he was there he was told to fear Macduff, no one borne of woman can hurt him, and he was told that Banquos children will be king. So he goes to kill Macduff and his family. When he heard people were going to fight for England, war broke out, the war was futile because everyone turned on him, Macduff went out to kill Macbeth, and because he was taken out by C-section he kills Macbeth and takes his head. He takes the head to Malcolm, and Malcolm becomes king.

22)      The theme of the play is Ambition

33)      The authors tone is regret. Macbeth regrets killing Banquo which is why he sees his bloody ghost. When Macbeth was going to kill Macduff he is full of regret and sees bloody daggers, and says he will never get his hands clean. He starts to get scared once his army turns on him and realize he is defeated when Macduff says we was a C-section and regrets his previous actions on Macduff's family.

44)      The author uses tone, indirect characterization, paradox, mood,

11)      Direct Characterization is very few in Shakespeare’s plays, but in describing Banquo’s ghost, and describing how Macbeth felt after seeing the witches and hearing about how no woman borne child could hurt him.

22)       The syntax and diction does not change, 98% of Shakespeare’s writing is dialogue. When describing a character it is mainly through indirect characterization in conversation between two characters, or through indirect characterization with conversation with that character.

33)      The character is flat, Macbeth is very self-centered and all about personal gain, he is static, he has moments of showing change, but he goes right back to his normal ways.

44)       I didn't feel like I actually met someone because, everyone died, that had been a long lasting character, and Macbeth was someone I would never want to meet.

Big Question

Why do I, or you, care?

My Sonnet

My sonnet is a sonnet because it is 14 lines, has 10 syllables and written in iambic pentameter.

VOCAB LIST 11

Affinity- relationship by marriage
Bilious- of or indicative of a peevish ill nature disposition Cognate- of the same nature
Corollary- A proposition inferred Immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof
Cul-de-sac - a pouch
Derring-do- a daring action
Divination- The art or practice that seeks to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge due to the interpretation of omens
Elixir- A substance capable of prolonging life indefinitely Folderol- a useless accessory
Gamut- an entire range or series
Hoi polloi- the General populace
Ineffable- incapable of being expressed in words
Lucubration- to study by night
Mnemonic- intended to assist memory
Obloquy- abusive language
Parameter- an independent variable used to express the coordinates of variable point and functions of them
Pundit- a learned man
Risible- provoking laughter
Symptomatic- having the characteristics of a certain disease but arising of a different cause
Volte-face- a reversal in policy

1) I am related to most of my cousins through affinity.

2) Several fears of speaking in front of people comes from bilious.

3) Some philosophers say that we have a cognate of that of a monkey.

4) Teenagers like to form corollarys and put words into there parents mouths.

5) It is a great opportunity for a U-turn in a cul-de-sac.

6) Evil Caneval had a lot of darring-do's.

7) Palm readers ha very a lot of motivation to have divination.

8) A fountain of you is an elixir.

9) Ear rings are an folderol.

10) I like the Family Guy gamut.

11) The hoi polloi of teenagers in orcutt posted on Facebook their feelings on the election.

12) love is a feeling that is ineffable.

13) Autonomy requires Lucubration.

14) Notes are great for a Mnemonic.

15) Obloquy can result in an issue with someone or you getting in a fight.

16) When reffing soccer it isimparative you know the  Parameter.

17) Gahndi is and was a Pundit.

18) A joke is something that is a risible.
 
19) One type of cancer could look like a certain kind, but really be another, those systematic things can result in fatal out comes.

20) As a reff you see a lot of Volte-face.in the system.

Sonnet

From Visions

FrancescoPetrarch(1304-1374)

Being one day at my window all alone,

So manie strange things happened me to see,

As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.

At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,

So faire as mote the greatest god delite;

Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.

Of which the one was blacke, the other white:

With deadly force so in their cruell race

They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,

That at the last, and in short time, I spide,

Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,

Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.

Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie

Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.

(Trans. Edmund Spenser)

http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_famous_sonnet_examples.html

PLN for Hamlet

http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/component/courses/?view=course&cid=3688

This page made the cut because it made me consider Hamlet as a hero. I didn't think or see him as a hero till I saw this page and thought about it. It brought a new side to Hamlet that hadn't got to me yet. It supplied strengths and flaws in Hamlet that qualify him as a hero, and disqualify him as one.

http://aplove.blogspot.com/2007/11/ap-lit-hamlet-actscene-notes.html?m=1

This page made the cut because it took every scene and act, and summed up the main points of each one. If you happen to forget anything about a certain scene, or a key point, or a characters name, this is a great  resource. If you happened to not want to deal with the whole Shakespeare experience and just want to hit the main idea, here it is. It is also off blogger with closed the deal.

http://www.enotes.com/hamlet/discuss/what-hamlets-tragic-flaw-4731

This link is not to a university site or anything, but it is to an online discussion between people online. It is exactly what we are trying to do, open source learning. This link brings you to the discussion, that started by one question, and grew into more. You can comment and join the discussion too if you wish and have an enotes account I believe.

http://www.writework.com/essay/shakespeare-s-tragic-hero-hamlet-and-his-sanity-can-arguab

This is a link to a college students essay on Hamlet. This gives me an opportunity to see a colleges students view on an aspect Of Hamlet that you may not have considered. I have read some of these already and I am already contemplating Hamlets tragic flaw. If you have any feelings please comment to this post. :)

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=hamlet-quiz-ap-english-literature-composition

This is a link to a past AP  Literature and Composition test on Hamlet.  Take the test and see how you do. : )
 

Literary Analysis "All The Pretty Horses"

1) The story was about three boys who seemed to ride the ride of trying to discover the answers to there "big  questions". The story starts with two boys riding around the open range on horses, when the two boys come across a third boy, a convict, is when there problems begin. Once the police recover the horse stealing, murder convict, they kill him. Sending the other two to jail. When the main characters friend is killed in jail is when u see him change, it brings out a different, more fight for survival personality. Once he gets out of jail, he loses track of time, and trays to sell a rifle to a police officer, ending him again in a situation in which he explains his situation, to gain his freedom again, which he does.
2) Theme seems to be, the people you meet in life may cause you problems, but they help you on a journey to find who you truly are.
3)The others tone seems to mostly be change of heart. Meaning a type of serenity or kindness. When the two boys finally decide to let the convict in there group and ride with them. The three boys begin to bond and develope a relationship, when the convict is being dragged away to be killed he tosses the other two boys his boot with a lot of money in it, and in the end where the main character takes the horse back to the person who the convict stole it from.
4) The other used tone, when the convict gave the two boys the boot with the money in it, it showed the kind tone of the convict. The other used setting, characters road there horses in an open plain area where, to me, it symbolized the amount of knowledge they seemed together on the horses. The author also uses conflict, the beginning conflict with the convict and two boys to help described there initial beginning personality with later change. He used characterization, describing the characters in different way, from different view, to emphasize certain areas of the character that change more then other parts of their personality.

1) Direct characterization was shown when the author described why the horses were important to the main character, they were important to his grandpa, and when he passed away they took on a new purpose for him, and when the author showed the real side of the convict, he started out seeming great, and trust worthy, but once he was arrested, his actual background was revealed. Indirect characterization was displayed in showing the two boys at the beginning of the story, how untrustworthy they were of people they didn't know by rejecting the convict for a while, and at the end of the story when the main character was more sympathetic and happy to be alive, by fighting in the courtroom to not be convicted, and returning the kids stolen horse.
2) The author keeps a constant syntax and diction when explaining character. He mostly changed tone in order to developed a personality of each character.
3) The main character was dynamic, and round, he completely changed from a rebel, type "I walk alone" type kid, to a kind, forgiving,  and happy to be a live kid who is respectful, slightly sad for his passing of friends, but is ready to developed a new him.
4) I felt like I had actually met someone. I relate to what the main character was searching for, a way to answer all his bigger questions in life, and watching him change, and find himself happy with changing how he did, made me feel like I connected with the character.

Notes on Hamlet

My thinking on Hamlet went from me believing he was a hurt sole who has just lost his father. To wait,  No he isn't, he is investigating his father's death, trying to figure out why his dad is still around as a ghost, wanting revenge upon his uncle, and wanting people to believe exactly what I began to. Now in this moment, of act 4, I see a person who knows what he should do, but confusing his worth of being, with his wants  and aspirations, with what's right, and what should be done. He is an enraged son, seeking revenge, with No path of emotions, just a thrashing wave coming down on everyone from 100 feet high.

Who was Shakespeare?

Shakespeare was a writer, a person who mastered the art, and I do mean art, of communication with people in a way where he would not only get what he wanted said, but also learn how the person he was talking to thinks. In this case, with all his sonnets and plays he was able to see how the people watching or reading, thought. He was genuinely an engine, for others to think.

To Facbook or not to Facebook

My first impression of Facebook was Oh cool, another way to communicate with friends from a distance. Now, it seems more of an irritation because of the constant notifications and posts that I get telling me how other people are feeling 24/7 and honestly Sometimes, I just don't care... Nor do I wanna know, that they have a new feeling about how they feel about there mother yelling at them for there stupid choice.

Remix

Now I know this is behind schedule, and I don't know if 5 will comment, but there is glory in the attempt haha,

Hamlet is a play about the son of a king who is murdered by his brother and then gets his wife stolen by the very killer. Hamlet now seeks revenge upon his uncle, but is also fighting the negativity and obstacle set by his surrounds people's feelings and perspective, as of act three, he begins to get frustrated upon himself for not chasing his drive to revenge his uncle, this started as a type of script for a video, but I couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted to use to show my meaning, I'll publish the script. Hamlet is a person building two faces for himself, one he is in morn because his dad died and his uncle is now taking his mom, on the other hand he is a bubbling fire pit of lava ready to explod on his uncle out of shear drive to get revenge upon his single nemesis.

Here is a link to picture one, face one of Hamlet:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Edwin_Booth_Hamlet_1870.jpg/220px-Edwin_Booth_Hamlet_1870.jpg

Picture two face two, of Hamlet

http://malecodependence.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/anger-management-hulk1.jpg

Final

I did pretty close to what I expected. I did expect a little bit higher but I didn't cover over the most recent vocabulary lists when I should have which would have helped improve me outcome

Vocabulary Fall List #8 Hamlet Paragraph

Hamlet seems to be in a bit of a state of abeyance when it comes to trusting and being comfortable with his mom and his uncle. When he found out that his father has come back as a ghost he seems ambivalent about what he feels about that,  but is curious to figure out why, and what the outcome may be. Now that he is trying to figure out why his dad has come back, and dealing with his mother's new decisions, he is beleaguer considering his new tasks. His father is dead, but he still doesn't have the carte blanche that you would think now being the hair to the throne, he is being told what do and think and is lampooned about his actions and wants. Although he won't be malleable, he continues to stand for what he wants and has decided to do. At the moment he is opting to not continue on as prince. He is acting as a philistine who doesnt understand the culture. When he finds out about how his father died, it causes a cataclysm in his own mind, but in his immediate society, they seem a bit more careless that his mom is now hooking up with his uncle. Going around with his uncle seems to debauch the meanin of his mother and father's once marriage. At the moment he is not having éclat with seeking revenge upon his uncle for murdering his dad, but he is definitely imbued with the want of revenge. His plan of getting revenge still seems  inchoate. When he is told about sightings of his father's ghost he ask many questions showing fastidious in the situation. He asks several questions so he knows that it isn't  picaresque. Giving his life situation you won't be sing Hamlet gambol down the street because his life is under a lot of stress, and he is getting a lot of information about his dad's ghost. His nemesis is his uncle at the moment, and how to get revenge is the ultimate question. His father's death doesn't seem to make him queasy, just angry. He is being very refractory about letting his father's death lie, and accepting his mother and uncle. He is definitely able to
savoir-faire when his mom tells him to. do or be a certain way, he knows when he can and can't be defiant.

Study Strategy for Midterm

Tonight, I study list 1-2, Tuesday I study list 3-4 wensday I study 5-6, and Thursday I do list 7, with a reread of 1-6 and my own set of sentences for each word, or write a short story using all the words.

Pre-Will Questions

A) I have never read Hamlet so granted I don't know much.
B) I know Shakespeare to be an older English writer who is said to be a great author with great ideas who was well know for us of words and having multiple meanings.
C) I think some students involuntarily frown because studying Shakespeare is a bit of a pain because of the amount of analysis we are forced to go through. When others don't involuntarily frown, but directly frown because they disgust his writing and don't like his ideas.
D) To make this study unforgettable I think we should make this more student friendly and more open to free discussion.

Vocabulary: Fall List #7 Sentences

In "One Fly Over The Coockoos Nest" the main character was different from the supporting characters, and one of the main differences is he didn't have as severe of an aberration as the rest of the people surrounding him.

When requesting to get told ur grade, it is the worst thing to have ur teacher say I'll think about it, displaying an Ad hoc way of ending the conversation.

Sometimes something can be so much of a bane situation, that it causes so much misery, you die.

One of the worst punishments when u are a child is when u mess up, and ur parents are lecturing you about what u did, and they use bathos to make ur punishment, there express of disappointment they have in you.

One of the hardest things about working in groups is when u get a cantankerous team mate, and they are worth close to nothing for the project at hand.

A lot of riddles have a casuistry type way of asking the question.

These vocabulary sentences seem tideous and pointless, but
de facto is is that they help you out.

Sometimes the topic in English class make me want to lash out in depredation.

I have never seen more empathy shown, than a rosary reading.

If someone is drinking at a party it kinda works as a harbinger of how they might act later on in the Night.

Apparently we have the right to hedonism.

When covered in break dust chrome rims are obvious to lackluster.

When working with someone who is malcontent with ur ideas, it is near impossible to agree honestly.

Silence is very mellifluous.

Pander is a word that I'm not Sure I can use in a sentence without being somewhat disrespectful to the female gender.

Some people don't like accepting peccadillo as an act of kindness because it makes them feel helpless.

Thee day I went to CIF for track will now and forever will be a piece de resistance day for me.

Sometimes the hardest thing about being a convict is getting remanded.

Every type of medical sickness that may be severe has syndromes.

Literary Analysis "Great Expectation"

1) In “great Expectations” there is a main character named Pip. He grew up with his parents who had passed on and was
raised by his sister who was a blacksmith. As Pip grows up he has great expectations for what he is to fulfill in his family. He is to grow up and take over the blacksmith position of his sister’s husband. He meets this girl named
Estella and grows to love her. When started to apprentice the blacksmith, shortly after his sister passed away, it had been six years till he was adopted by a very rich man. Once he was adopted Miss Havishum had intended to have him marry Estella, when he took Estella back to France with him a different man showed up that was all over Estella. After pip grew jealous he drifted away from Estella, but never stops loving her. Miss Havishum sets up Estella to marry the new guy she met while in France. Pip comes back before they were to be wed to tell Estella he loved her, he loved her since the day she made him cry in the garden. Miss Havishum is apologetic for setting up Estella with the new gentleman, after Estella leaves the room he answers Miss Havishums question of what she did to him by saying she destroyed his life. On Pips way out of the building Miss Havishum catches fire and burns to death. About a year later Pipreturns to a single Estella who had been mentally, and physically trapped in the house in which she grew up in, and the house her mother burnt to death. Estella had grown insane and believed her mother to still be there with her. In
response to Estella’s insane mind set Pip “lets in the light” and shakes Estella out of her insanity. They leave the house together, and in love.
2)The theme of the novel seems to be self-improvement. As Pip grows older he grows into a, blacksmith, then a wealthy teenager, into a man who is unsure of what he wants, to a wealthy man with a future, and the love of his life in his arms.
3)The authors tone is a new chance.Throughout the story there is tragedy, then a chance to turn it around. His sister
dies, he becomes a blacksmith apprentice. He gets adopted by a rich man. Estella is mean to him, calls him names and makes him cry, she allows him to kiss her. Estella’s mother dies, he comes back to be with her and shake her out
of her insanity. The author uses conflict: Pip and
Estella in the beginning when they first met. Miss Havishem setting Estella up with the gentlemen from France, and Pip telling Miss Havishum what she did to his life. Pip and his own wants, he has a number of times in which he walks
away from what he wants the most, Estella. This literary element showed me the idea of the theme with Its ups and downs and the obstacles Pip overcame. The author used a keen sense of characterization that helped develop each tone and minor tone. In the beginning of the story Pip meets this escaped convict who is very aggressive with Pip, his explanation of the convict developed the tone of distress and helplessness that not only accounted for this part of the book, but rolled over to help explain his type of life at home
with his sister. The way he explained Estella’s beauty to Pip showed his motivation and want for her which slightly foreshadowed the ending. In doing so it made me able to slightly guess the change in events and predict the theme.
The jealousy that overcame Pip when Estella met the new guy in France set a tone of revenge and anger, showing Pips love for Estella, but he soon overcame his jealous revengeful thoughts and improved his ways of life linking back to
the theme. Another element is the point of view that the author told the story from. He chose to tell the story in the point of view of a dynamic character rather
than a static one. There were several times throughout the story where there would be a change in thought of Pip. His idea on what he wanted to do would change. From when he first meets Estella he falls in love with her, but he decides to leave her, to never return when he starts to apprentice the
blacksmith. Later on in the story as he grows and begins to change he decides to go back for Estella, and take her to France with him. Showing the change in his belief in the way
to handle his new feelings changed for the better. At the ball Pip was dancing with Estella and decided to question her about the new gentlemen she met, he sort of took a high school approach to the situation, again later on in the story you see him go from being upset about the guy, to going to Estella’s and telling her straight out he loves her, even though he got his heart broken by finding out they were to be wed. He then had a new change in ideas; he got his heart broken and took to it with anger, and blew up in Miss Havishums face. Once again later on in the story he goes back to Estella, with momentum this time, he is going to ask for her hand, and win her back. His perspective changed which helped conclude the story. The author used a very unlikely antagonist, Pips own desires. As a child he desired to have his mom and dad back, the opening scene is him sitting by his parent’s grave and putting flowers next the head stones. There he runs into the convict that causes him go out late and give him food, on top of that he gets home late and his sister whips him for being late. Once he was adopted he was moving to France and wanted his step brother, the blacksmith, to go with him, but he couldn’t.
Pips desire drew him away from the blacksmith and conflicted with his relationship with his step brother, the only source of family he had left.This example I have
used a lot but it was such a turning point in the story that it contains all my points, when he yelled at Miss Havishum for setting up Estella with the gentlemen from France his desire to have Estella overcame his desire to be respectful for
a women who has been there most of his life. This desire lead up to Miss Havishums death and now, thanks to his desire to want Estella, he left his final words to Miss Havishum being angry and disrespectful.
1) Direct characterization was show when he described the fear of the boy when he first ran into the convict in the beginning of the story. Some indirect characterization was show when he described how Pip was by showing his actions, taking the convict food, visiting his dead parents, show care and compassion for another human being. Direct characterization was also shown when Pip directly tells Miss. Havishum how she mad him feel by putting Estella and the man from France.  More indirect characterization was displayed in Estella and Pips effection.  It was kept indirect till about the end of the story when Pip straight says, Estella, I love you. The author uses these types of characterization to bring a certain tone, if he said it directly,  he was mainly looking for a certain tone or feeling, right away. If he used indirect characterization he was generally trying to begin a tone or feeling that will later grow more and more obvious to set up a single big scene.
2) When he would use characterization he did not change his syntax, he made the display of each characterization roll with the story patter; However he would usually change the tone or mood to help press the characterization feeling he was trying to create.
3) The main character is definitely dynamic, as I stated previously the theme is change and self improvement. In order to have self improvement one must change. Pip was a dynamic and round character because he changes multiple times and you can see his change from a little boy, to a man.
4) I felt like I met a character because through out the story Pip grew, I got to watch him grow as a visual scene in your head.

Vocabulary: Fall List #5 Definitions and sentences

acumen (noun)- keen insight.
adjudicate (verb)- to settle or determine.
anachronism (noun)- something or someone that is not in its correct historical time.
apocryphal (adj)- of doubtful authorship or authenticity. disparity (noun)- inequality
dissimulate (verb)- to disguise or conceal under a false appearance.
empirical (adj)- derived from or guided by experience or experiment
flamboyant (adj)- strikingly bold or brilliant;
showy fulsome (adj)- offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive;overdone or gross
immolate (verb)- to sacrifice
imperceptible (adj)- very slight, gradual, or subtle.
lackey (noun)- a servile follower
liaison (noun)- a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
monolithic (adj)- consisting of one piece; solid or unbroken huge
mot juste (noun)- the exact, appropriate word
nihilism (noun)- total rejection of established laws and institutions.
patrician (noun)- a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. propitiate (verb)- to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
sic (verb)-to incite to attack, shows original mistake in quote  was in the original saying.
sublimate(adj)-to make nobler or purer

1) Before coming into a socratic seminar, make Sure u have acumen on the discussion topic.

2) Businesses don't like to adjudicate for the lower price.

3) Post modernism has many different characters that are anachronisms in comparison to there setting.

4) When you write in a different way on a certain assignment then the way you would usually write it, it usually causes apocryphal.

5) There will always be disparity of wealth within this society.

6)  In military,  it is comments to use dissimulate to create a chance of surprise attack.

7) In science,  most of the the time,  once you start to take a test on a certain subject, you know it well through a lab you performed and have now gained empirical knowledge.

8) Taking my first steps into Dr. Preston's class sophomore year, his class had a unique approach to me that appeared flamboyant.

9) During a Socratic seminar it is always more interesting when you have people who are showy fulsome about the topic at hand.

10) When you are in a discussion, you are immolateing your way of thinking for a possible new one if the other person had valid points that convince you in a new and dissonant way.

11) In some class discussions it shows when someone as a bit less than an imperceptible  knowledge on the topic.

12) A long time ago, we use to have the ability of slavery. Sadly if you were at all appearing to be a lackey, you could be punished if to disrespectful in ur owners view.

13) In a discussion in class it is nice to have Dr. Preston as the initial liaison.

14) When u have a writers block, it usually feels like ur brain and Thinking as hit a monolithic wall that requires you to walk through a maze to get past.

15) It is such a wonderful feeling when you are giving a speech and you are trying to figure out that one word that just fits your idea of what you are trying to explain, and off in the distance you hear someone else shout the mot juste.

16) Sometimes the happiest or most content people have personalities that are sinical and sometimes nihilistic, although they seem so gloom, they are just black and white about everything.

17) Is it possible to have a personal person you see as a patrician. To yourself because of the role they play in your life?

18) Often times when you make a mistake, people will use sympathy to make there excuse look more propitiate to believe.

19) When reading articles about current events that have quotes, you often see a lot of sics to show that a typo was not their own doing.

20) Am I correct in assuming some religions believe that baptism makes a person a bit more sublimate?

Heros Journey

My hero's journey began in a little village on the tiny Island Of Teresa Resau Philippines. Growing up with nothing to his name really, he had ten total siblings,  all who in some way worked difficult jobs for about a quarter pay a day. He lived in a little house, like the ones you would expect a poorer family to have like u would see on tv.  He would pick food, and use the basics of everything to just get by. At age 19 he was finally able to come the United States in 1969 not knowing a lick of english. He in turn took night classes at Hancock College to learn English. He started working in the fields harvesting cabbage. After some time of taking part in that he picked up a few custodian jobs, also being a cook at an old restaurant called the Sandbar which No longer exists. Lucky he eventually got a job as a custodian at Luckys grocery store now known as Albertsons. He grew through the ranks and eventually became the highest paid employee there under manage off of minimal education. Then, recently he faced his biggest villain yet on September 7, 2012. Losing someing very near and dear to him, he had already lost his parents and now all he has is his children and I plan to help the hero fight his hardest villain, because now the hero, needs a Savior....

Beowulf ond Godsylla (translation)

Meanehwæl, baccat meaddehæle, monstær lurccen; Fulle few too many drincce, hie luccen for fyht. Ðen Hreorfneorhtðhwr, son of Hrwærowþheororthwl, Æsccen æwful jeork to steop outsyd. Þhud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom! Ðe bigge gye Eallum his bon brak, byt his nose offe; Wicced Godsylla wæld on his asse. Monstær moppe fleor wyþ eallum men in hælle. Beowulf in bacceroome fonecall bamaccen wæs; Hearen sond of ruccus sæd, "Hwæt ðe helle?" Graben sheold strang ond swich-blæd scharp Stond feorth to fyht ðe grimlic foe. "Me," Godsylla sæd, "mac ðe minsemete." Heoro cwyc geten heold wiþ fæmed half-nelson Ond flyng him lic frisbe bac to fen Beowulf belly up to meaddehæle bar, Sæd, "Ne foe beaten mie færsom cung-fu." Eorderen cocca-cohla yce-coeld, ðe reol þyng.

TRANSLATED:

Meanwhile, back at the mead-hall, the monster lurked Full (of) few too many drinks, he was looking for a fight Then (name), son of (name) asked the awful jerk to step outside Thud, Bash, Crash, boom, the big guy All of his bones broke, bit his nose off; Wicked Godzilla wailed on his a ss Moster mopped the floor with all the men in the hall Beowulf in the backroom making a phone call Hearing sounds of ruckus said, "What the hell?" Grabbed his strong shield and sharp switch blade Stood forth to fight the grimlic foe "Me," Godzilla said, "Make the mince-meat" Hero ? quickly got (getting) held with the famed half-nelson And flying him like a frisbee back and forth Beowulf belly up to the mead-hall's bar, said, "No foe has beaten my fearsome kung-fu." He ordered coca-cola, ice cold, the real thing

Vocabulary: Fall List #4 sentences.

Being an apostate is discouraged in the church.

Most outgoing people are not known to be effusive.

In the movie production "Saw" most of the victims in the movie are put in a seemingly impasse situation.

I can't wait for the end of my senior year because I know by the end of graduation I will feel euphoria.

When I visit my mom at the hospital that usually puts me in a state of lugubrious.

To me beowolf seemed to display a sense of bravado.

Objective thinking is more of a display of facts something that is provable by a certain formula or  something obvious to the eye while subject thinking is usually influenced by consensus.

when trying to remember or memorize a certain poem assigned to us in class it is often helpful to use dichotomy in order to make the mission easier.

Energy drinks, although give you energy, also seem to constrict the learning process or the ability to retain information.

Some of the finest carving artwork from wood can be seen in the style of Gothic.

In order to figure out the answers to some of life's
"big questions" it requires a very punctilio process.

Some birth defects are known to metamorphosize the 2 twins or the baby's body.

A lot of tall tales are fables are told by people who are raconteur.

When people are sick medication can be very sine qua non.

France has been said to be 1 of the most quixotic places  in the world.

Righetti and Saint Joseph high school has been known to be a very prologue vendetta.

White blood cells are supposed to protect the body from any kind of Non sequitur.

A shrine is one way to show a person, thing, or idea much mystiquea.

When trying to explain your reason to an idea about something, make sure that your reasons and your information do not appear quagmire.

Some people will not ask big questions such as what is reality, or why am I here because they are afraid that discovering or researching that part of their mind or thinking can propose parlous ideas.

Literary Analysis Book

I chose "Great Expectations"
And I chose it simply because I own it.

Beowolf Questons

1 Shield was an orphan, but through being a good man and being a hero he rose to be the king. Hrothgar is the descendent of Shield, his funeral involved sending him off with treasures, just like Beowulf. [Heorot is Attacked] (lines 86-188, pp. 34-36)

1. He built a great hall named Heorot, which was attacked by a demon named Grendel, Grendel would sneak in at night and kill the men who had been partying in the hall. The Danes prayed to God and pagan deities but nothing changed.

[The Hero Comes to Heorot] (lines 189-490, pp. 36-42)

1. He makes the decision to go and fight using only the 14 of the finest men. 2. They meet a guard, who stopped the riot but then let them by. For the time being it was very unrealistic. 3. The Harold’s name is Hrothgar, and supposedly he’s very wise. He trusts them, which shouldn’t have happened. Hrothgar’s knowledge of Beowulf’s life is not surprising, because it has been implied before that their families have had a relationship. 4. Beowulf tells Hrothgar about all the noble feats he has done. Hrothgar has made an alliance with Beowulf’s father, so he lets him pass.

[Feast at Heorot] (lines 491-661, pp. 42-46)

1. Unferth was insecure about his own helplessness against Grende,l so he started pushing Beowulf's patients. Beowulf confidently explained how the remarks he was talking about was untrue, and the story he told made him seem like even more of a hero. This helped set up Beowulf as a character for the rest of the poem. He is very arrogant. 2. The Queen was praying for their victory, and Beowulf responds by saying I will succeed wrather he has their help or not.

[The Fight with Grendel] (lines 662-835, pp. 46-49)

1. Beowulf decides to lay down his weapons and fight the demon unarmed to match the demon chances. 2. Beowulf waits for Grendel to approach him, and then wrestles him. Grendel ends up getting away, but not without getting his arm ripped off.

[Celebration at Heorot] (lines 836-1250, pp. 49-60)

1.When the Danes and Geats return from following Grendel's tracks to the mere, someone sings in Beowulf's presence, comparing him to Sigemund and saying that he was not like Heremod (lines 883-914). How is Beowulf like Sigemund? How is he not like Heremod? (Be alert for inserted stories such as this one. Beowulf contains many of them, most much more complex that this one.) 2. Hrothgar praises him and offers to make him his adopted son. 3. What happened is that the Finns and the Danes have enmity towards each other, and they battle. The Finnish king is married to a Danish woman, and kills her family. Finally, she ends up being able to be returned to her family once her husband has been killed. 4. She wants her children to be treated kindly after his death. 5. She asks him to be friends with her children. 6.However; they were drunk, so they just felt pushed to sleep there. It was a mistake because soon, Grendel’s mother would come upon the hall.

BEOWULF AND GRENDEL'S MOTHER (lines 1251-2199, pp. 60-79)

[Another Attack] (lines 1251-1382, pp. 60-62)

1. Grendel’s mother was grieving because Grendel had died, and she came back for revenge upon the first sleeping man she saw, and carried him away. 2.Hrothgar’s response was to be indifferent. He commissions Beowulf on another quest. 3. Mere is a dark, mysterious, magical swamp. No one knows how deep it is, and most natural beings seem to fear it.

[Beowulf Fights Grendel's Mother] (lines 1383-1650, pp. 63-68)

1. Beowulf assures Hrothgar to trust him because he will not let Grendel’s mother escape this time. 2. The counselor was decapitated before they could reach the mere. 3. Beowulf prepares this time by arming himself. Unferth lends him the sword named Hrunting, which legend says has never once failed in a battle. 4. Beowulf tells Hrothgar to take care of his people if he does not make it back. The demons live on the bottom of the swamp, which no one had reached before. 5. It is unable to pierce her skin. 6. The armor he put on had protected him, and he was able to fend off what he could using Hrunting. 7. Beowulf gets a weapon that she had on her wall that was forged by giants. It was able to kill her. When she is killed, the room becomes lighter and Beowulf can see Grendel’s corpse. He brings up his head, as well as the handle of the sword he used to kill Grendel’s mother since the rest of it had melted. 8. Most of Beowulf’s men had not expected his return so they sulked back into the town. But when they saw he was alright, they praised him and celebrated even more.

[Further Celebration at Heorot] (lines 1651-1798, pp. 68-71)

1. He gives him the head of Grendel impaled on two spears.

[Beowulf Returns Home] (lines 1799-2199, pp. 71-79)

1. Hrothgar predicts a bright and good future for Beowulf full of success because of his fearlessness and honor. 2. Hygd is a brave and beautiful young queen. Modthryth was also a queen, but she was wicked and cruel. 3. He seems to think that this marriage will only further the war. This is definitely a more manipulative and political side to Beowulf than we’ve seen thus far. 4.He reports it accurately with an emphasis on how terrifying the monsters were and how great the spoils were, which says a lot about where his mind is when he is performing these feats. 5. Hygelac gives him some land to rule over, and eventually he becomes king.

BEOWULF AND THE DRAGON (lines 2200-3182, pp. 79-99)

[The Dragon Wakes] (lines 2200-2509, pp. 79-86)

1. It takes place at least two decades later. Hygelac has died, and left Beowulf as king. Now, a dragon is plaguing the Geats. 2.The dragon is angry because a thief stole a goblet from the treasure trove the dragon was guarding. The treasure got there because an ancient race that was doomed to perish began to bury their treasures there, and the dragon found it. 3. Besides incinerating an entire country side, Beowulf’s throne room was also extra crispified. 4. Beowulf assumed he was receiving punishment from the gods. He orders a new, fire proof shield and plans on fighting the dragon alone. 5. There was a battle in which Hygelac died, but Beowulf was able to survive. Instead of becoming a king then and there, he acted as a protector to Hygd’s son. He then avenged Hygelac’s death. 6. He is killed in a battle with the Swedes. Beowulf then ascends to the throne and resolves conflict with the Swedes. 7. Beowulf takes 11 men to go fight the dragon. 8. There was a fight between two brothers in which one was accidentally killed, and this is what Beowulf relates to the war with the Swedes.

[Beowulf Attacks the Dragon] (lines 2510-2820, pp. 86-92)

2. When Beowulf fights the dragon, all of the 11 men leave him, much like they did when he fought Grendel’s mother. Wiglaf stays behind and fights beside him loyally. 3. The second time, Beowulf receives a fatal wound and Wiglaf ends up killing the dragon. 4. Beowulf wants to see the treasure before he dies. When he sees it, the thanks the gods. He wants to be made a barrow for which to be buried in.

[Beowulf's Funeral] (lines 2821-3182, pp. 92-99)

1. When Beowulfs companions return, they are ashamed because Beowulf has died. Wiglaf shames them, and expects foreign warlords to attack now that Beowulf is not around to protect them. 3. Wiglaf tells the crowd that the only way the hoard can be opened is by the will of god. 4.The dragon lies dead in the hoard, unable to be opened. 5. They burn the body, and put it on the hill for everyone to see. The death of their king is greatly mourned by the Geats. 6. They said he had the greediest spirit, and now he has been burned. This seems odd coming from a culture who revered him so much, but we all know how much the treasure and glory meant to him.

Vocabulary: Fall List #3 Sentences.

My family likes to attend an accolade every Sunday morning, often known as church but there are many other term for the same basic idea.

My boss at work is so acerbity that it makes most of his employees want to quit because of his deminishing approach to teaching his workers.

Trying to comprehend all the topics in school the lessons seem to cause attrition causing my brain to burn.

Working at the same place for years it becomes such a bromide it creates a parched day that is just banal.

Uncle Sam is a great example of someone who is a Chauvinist.

Math is such a banal subject because of it's chronic steps.

Most of Dr. Preston's topics he protects with his information and expound.

I try to write my essays with such critique that it is finally finish completely immaculate.

One of my Iimprecations is not liking to have to work with numbers, making math and science more difficult.

With how long it seems it has been, a low economy here seems to be ineluctable.

Mercurial is another way of explain bipolar.

Teenagers seem to perfect the ability of palliating.

It is best to have a receipt for something you are trying to return so u have protocol proving ur purchase.

After a PowerPoint in school and u turn on the lights, the lights shine so resplendent, that it blinds ur dilated puples.

The foreign exchange student had such a thick accent that it stigmatized him every time he spoke.

Most of what goes on in government is kept so sub Rosa that the citizens often don't know what truly goes on.

Sometimes when you are lost, we men are often so vainglory that we won't ask for directions.

We know that ancient animals exist because of the vestige they have left called fossils.

The best way to avoid confrontation is to just be volitious when someone gets angry with you.

1987 AP Test Essay

          Often times in life many people find a great life to be easy, with a low level of stress. " A life of leisure" as it is sometimes put. In a poem written by George Eliot he presents his ideas on leisure on how he perceives leisure in a comment community. He discusses leisure in multiple ways; he discusses the psychological effect leisure could have on a person, and in a personage way. He compares the leisure life against our judgement.
          Eliot states "Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engin is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them: It only creates a vacuum for eager thoughts to rush in." In this quote Eliot shows that leisure causes many thoughts and expectations to come up and be exciting for us. Although be careful with ur excitement because if u let it build to high ur expectation may be disappointed. leisure causes people to expect that leisure things are expected to make things better for mankind and nicer, but it may not live up to ur expectations in other words. However he then turns around and takes leisure and it explains it through a life of a man.
          Eliot refers to leisure as "old leisure." Explaining how he "Life was not a task for him, but a sincere." Explaining that Leisure means life is to be relaxed, and worrie free. "He slept the sleep of the irresponsible." Eliot implies that "Old Leisure" sleeps like he has No responsibilities and sleeps the day way. That is leisure in Eliot's eyes, worried free and responsibility free.
          Leisure is only seen as a relaxed, do what you want, type of relaxation. Eliot shows that leisure is worried free. Although life is worried free, the thought of leisure may be deceiving. A leisure life is easy,  but the thought of leisure can be disappointing.
         

Reflections On Week 1

The beginning of this class has been a real bauble. I wish the rest of my classes were as interactive and electronic as my AP english class. My involvement in this class will not be hindered in anyway because of electronics, if anything I would be brought out to more involvement because not only can I be involved with this class during school, but I have involvement in the class 24/7. Some of my best learning experiences were lessons I learned when I was able to sit back and really think about it. I don't have any specific learning experience, but for example a life lesson. Thinking about life and what my perpose here has been, I have spent the last, well as long as I have been able to fathom that thought. My best lessons in life that I have learned have been those that I was able to go back and add to my previous knowledge. Which makes me most excited for this class because this class seems more oriented around life, and Thinking, and those discussions, create my blood to run hot and just my mind jump up and down and I look forward to seeing where this class goes...

Orientation video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHmwawEiBkc&feature=player_detailpage
-This is the first post for Dr. Preston's class of 2013 AP English Literature and composition blog. Follow the above link to Dr. Preston's orientation of the class all about YOUR learning.