608

Walking up to this "classroom" every day I look right at this number as I approach the door. Although my thought isn't "here we go again" with a drag in my voice, it's more of "what lies with in? " as said by Forest Gump, "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get." Well 608 is the same way, you walk into a seemingly normal classroom and you are instantly struck with a journey. You have a proposed question that instantly brings you to thought. So many times for me I don't feel like I'm in room 608 at righetti high school, but more so in this room, 608, floating through out the sky, pin balling around in a never ending space. Just like the mental journey you go on, you have endless amounts of thought and you are literally just pin balling through what your mind comes up with. This is not a classroom, but more of a space, a space that hold endless possibilities, you could end up walking out with this space with a great idea that will define your life. Or you could walk out with an essay that you will either be very excited to write, or not so excited, but where you land once you walk out of the space is up to you. This space literally can be seen as the train of thought.... Train 608 now boarding, no tickets needed.

Project

Over the weekend I encountered a bad situation with my mechanics. My cars passenger side breaks were f****** shot. Full failure, and while working with my buddy to fix the breaks we found out that the threads to rebolt the breaks back on, well there weren't any, so we had to make threads using a helacoil. We thought the threads were 10 measurement, when it was actually and 11. In order to fix these breaks temporarily I would need to be able to find a way to keep my breaks on. I ended up now having a BMW bold in place of where the old on was. In the words of my friend, "If they make it, I can find it, if they don't, I can build it." :)

Question

Why? Why anything,  why do you get up in the morning, why do you question the things you question? Why are you who you are, why did you choose to become who you are? Comment to this post of you have a response? Maybe we can have a conversation that is meaningful to other people that will make sense to them and help people really understand why they are who they are.

In class essay 5/3

In class essay 5/2

In class essay 5/1

In class essay 4/30

Open essay

In Macbeth we see a lot of conflicting Desires and wants from all characters. However the biggest conflict that I saw was in Macduff, his conflict of having to fight his fear of Macbeth's want to kill him and his family because they posed a threat to his throne, and revenge from Macbeth for taking his thrown and eventually, killing his family. With this conflict in Macduff it made stand out the central meaning of everyone's ambition and how ambition can change someone.
•With Macduff's fear of Macbeth it brought to stage the power of Macbeth's ambition. It was enough power that is made Macduff move from his home to get away from Macbeth, and hide to be in safety. Bringing the affects of Macbeth's ambition causes a reader to think back and realize how everyone else's ambition cause Macbeth to turn into this person driven by power, he wanted more power. Once he got power he didn't want anyone to stand in the way of him keeping that power. Macbeth's whole life became about ambition, so much so I scared off Macduff.
•Even though Macduff was hiding in fear of Macbeth he did not want to move his family and love in fear. He wanted better and was upset with Macbeth. Once Macbeth found out where Macduff was, he came and killed his family and thought he killed Macduff. However Macduff was still alive, driven by revenge he came to kill Macbeth even over the fear of being killed himself. With the revenge being a conflicting trait it showed that when your life is driven by ambition, you have nothing, and are better off dead than with any power. When Macbeth dies in an attempt to protect his power, it reminds the reader how everyone else in the play had died and they were also driven by ambition. This helps press the central message of being driven by power leads to no power at all.
• With the conflicting sources it helps highlight the errors the other characters and their results. When you have character making the same mistake, and you have something to compare it to, it really brings it to the light. When the common mistake is understood, the message can be found.

Prose essay

•McCarthy writes of a boy losing a friend who was close to him. Losing this friend of his impacted this main character by having him remember the beauty and grace in the animal, which comes with pain. With McCarthy's use of imagery, his diction and syntax, it creates a tone that makes you really feel what the main character is feeling. The imagery helps you imagine what the main character is imagining, and soon you feel like you have lost a close friend of your own.
• His syntax and diction not only help describe what the main character is feeling, but without McCarthy's style with those techniques, the imagery would not have as big of an impact. Using words like "grace" and "starlight" create an understanding of the image the main character is seeing thought their own eyes. When you can see what the character is seeing, it takes you right out of the reader position and puts you right in the main characters shoes, there is no misunderstanding a single feeling when put in the same situation.
•McCarthy's imagery came to great use when he started using similes and trying to get the reader really feel and see the picture, beyond just understanding and seeing for your own eyes, but really feeling the situation as your own, taking one picture, and comparing it to the situation given, and really seeing it not only in your mind, but now it's almost like it's right in front of you. "What already ran amount the mountains with once terrible and of great beauty, like flowers that feed on flesh." What an image created. You see this beautiful graceful flower and is quickly turned to a beautiful mess, eating on flesh. It's that imagery with that simile that really pounds home the message that this kid is missing his friend, and he will always miss her with that pain.
•McCarthy really shows the affects on the main character through his use of syntax, diction and imagery. These techniques really brought home the feelings of the main character, and what he saw. Feeling the same thing and seeing the same thing as the main character Mack's the reader understand the impact on the main character because McCarthy puts you in the same situation and makes you feel it just as if you were the main character.

Poetry Essays

•Beauty and envy are both shown between the poems "Helen" and "To Helen." Through elements such as syntax, imagery and symbolism we can see that "To Helen" shows Helen to be a thing of beauty and admiration, while "Helen" makes her out to be a beauty that others envy.
•"To Helen" has a diction that
Makes Helen seem beautiful, gorgeous, even admirable. Even the title "To Helen" makes it seem like a gift or some type of letter starting with a soft introduction. The level of intimacy in these words, with a syntax that made it seem as though the author could be in love with Helen. The symbolism used made her imaginable as something graceful, like the Statue of Liberty. Something that is meaningful. Although given a single passage, which stated
"How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!" It seems as though he writes this as someone who loves Helen and admires her from afar.
•"Helen" takes and approach of someone who is explaining a crowds outlook on Helen, being based on envy and jealous admiration. The poem almost explains her as a repulsive thing in there eyes displayed in this excerpt, "All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills." The imagery here shows an envy that is so hot against this "Helen" that the author writes "hating it deeper." A complete opposite reaction than "To Helen" had upon "Helen." Again looking at the titles even, "Helen," makes it seem more as a way of confronting someone or needing to talk to someone or write something to someone in a serious matter. From the passage you can see that the diction chosen was more of criticizing words than admiring, and the syntax created a well known and understanding if the hatred portrayed. However, it was told from a view of someone from afar, a third party if you just like in "To Helen." Both were told in the place if someone who was watching from a window if you will, or someone from beyond the shadows.
•Both essays used similar emphasized techniques to portray their view upon this character "Helen." Both essays had a syntax and diction that created a dealing of love and compassion like in "To Helen," or a feeling of hatred and despise as in "Helen." Also each poem set a tone right off just by how the titles were written. Although these poems had very different view upon a seemingly common character "Helen," they were the same in the techniques used to show their views.









•"The unknown citizen" explains the way a persons lives. The poem explains a certain persons impact on society and how positive it was. It shows that this citizen believes in unity and helping out everyone, a universal benefit is the best benefit of all. Although this sounds like someone who is a great person, he is still no different from an average citizen.
• In "The Unknown Citizen" it portrays a character that believes in serving his or her community. "For in everything he did he served the Greater Community." This line shows that this citizen believes in a community and believes that as a unit we must benefit from fellow citizens action. He served a purpose for others in his community. This displays a human who is giving, and cares about his life and the others around him.
• Even though this poem has already set up a character who seems like such a great addition to a community, it springs something on the reader, that doesn't come to mind right away.
"And that his reaction to advertisements were normal in every way." "And had everything necessary to the modern man." This shows that even though this character seems like a great citizen, he or she is no different from you or I. Anyone can make a difference rather it be big or small, even someone who feels their average can make a huge difference, because even this citizen, and still an average daily life guy. It even states, "That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint."
•Even though this person was a saint, the question was still asked "Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard." This shows that even though he was an average person, was a saint, and did everything of an average man, it does not mean that every citizen is happy. There are plenty of people who are unhappy, and no one hears about it even though we are a community, the things that are truly important, are often overlooked.

Gridlock

Meaning- The meaning is to not fight for what makes your life, but fight for your ability to accept your life for what you have.

Antecedent Scenario- He is trying to make sense out of fighting for things in life that will change your life and what it is, he doesn't seem to make sense of it so he says just fight for your ability to accept your life as it is.

Structural Parts- He takes every part of life that most people would say they would fight for, and dissects it in a way that brings the sense of fighting for it too perspective, and shows that to him it isn't worth fighting for. He shows that men will only fight for things that are valuable to them, and that what is valuable to him is his ability to love his life no matter what he is given.

Climax- "Nor my children, nor my country, nor my fellow-men.
It all deprnds whether I found them worth fighting for."

Other Parts- The author addresses the idea of men only fighting for money and says that he basically doesn't have much, and would fight to hard for it.

Skeleton- The poet gets ready to describe his values.

Tone- Questioning

Agency- The poet is conclusive.

Roads Not Taken- The poet should have taken another stanza to help the addition of the men usually only fighting for his money instead of it being so random.

Outer and Inner structural forms- He starts by calling all the stereotypical things in life to fight for and shooting them down, then he goes into people's moral values and then into his own.

Imagination- What comes to mind is a man sitting upon his sofa, huddled in the corner, sulking. Questioning his well being, boarder line suicidal, and starts of by questioning his existence, and complaining about his life. I wouldn't fight for my wife because they arnt always loyal and making this list of things that would be meaningful, and tearing them apart to further his feeling of pointlessness in life. Then a shift happens, he looks up from his crossed arms, faced cut by years, and says to himself what he thinks men usually only fight for, and says, well I wouldn't fight for that because I don't have much of that, but what I would fight for, is my ability to do what I am doing right now, and this learning to accept what I have been given and life, and learn to be happy no matter what.

Seventh Readng

After reading my poem "What Would You Fight Fir" by D.H Lawrence seven times I still came away with the idea that he makes it sound like the only thing he would fight for, even out of his family and wife, the only thing he would fight for is his freedom to think freely. After I talked to Dr. Preston I realized the only thing he would fight for is his way to see his life and accept his life for what it is.

Jane questions

1. A
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. A
7. B
8. B
9. A
10. E
11. A
12. D
13. B
14. B
15. D
16. B
17. B
18. E
19. D
20. B
21. E
22. C
23. C
24. B
25. A
26. A
27. B
28. Couldn't see document
29. A
30. A
31. C
32. C
33. C
34. E
35. A
36. B

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is an evil vile woman. With these witches running around telling Macbeth his destiny, it sends lady Macbeth on a loop because he doesn't accomplish what the witches say.

Why is lady Macbeth so vile?

Why are these witches seeming to help Macbeth?

Lit. Analysis: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

1) Mr. McMurphy is admitted into an insane asylum where he rebels against the nurses and security. His influence affects the rest of the patients to act out in the way that he does. He leads the rest of the patients to rebel against Mrs. Ratchet causing them to be monitored and put under higher security. He leads an attempt to escape from the asylum in which he is the only one to try because the rest of the patients are too fearful. He gets caught and is forced to have an apesiotame. A patient by the name of chief then leads the lifeless Mr. McMurphy out of the asylum and escape together.

2) The theme of the novel seems to be ones dream is achievable by having people around you who support you.

3) The authors tone is desperateness. Mr. McMurphy meets chief and seems desperate to get chief to say something. Through rebelling against Mrs. Ratchet, he shows desperateness to have a form of power, and by trying to escape he shows desperateness for freedom.

4) The author sets a mood of loneliness which helped me understand the authors use of desperateness because of how lonely the patients were even in each others company. By setting his tone the author was ale to have the mood and tone connect to bring a connection between the reader and the characters.

5) The author uses indirect characterization to describe the relationship between chief and Mr. McMurphy. He also uses indirect characterization to describe McMurphys power over the rest of the patients. The author uses direct characterization to describe chiefs personality by showing his way of silence. He also uses direct characterization to describe each patient and there disabilities.

6) The authors syntax doesn't change when talking about a character, but the diction changes to a characterization use if words.

7) The protagonist is static and flat. McMurphy doesn't change his attempt to escape or  change his way of rebellion.

8) After reading this book I felt like I had actually met someone because the way the author wrote the characters interaction and drive for freedom. I could actually understand their wants and their drives for power and freedom.

Prose Essay Prompts On: "Life Of Pi"

1) P.39 "But what can you do when you love your father? Life goes on and you don't touch tigers. Except that now, for having accused Ravi of an unspecified crime he hadn't committed, I was as good as dead. In years subsequent, when he was in the mood to terrorize me, he would whisper to me, :Just wait till we're alone. You're the next goat!"

The references made, such as "You don't touch tigers" and "You're the next goat!", bring in a lot of different thoughts, what do you think these references are trying to say? Why is it that the use of animals through this novel is so critical for the author to use? Why do you think the author chose to describe these references in this way?

2) After reading The Life Of Pi, you came away with an idea of what the authors central message and purpose was. Write an essay in which you show how the authors style and use of literary elements helped you come to your conclusion of his purpose and central message.

3) In a well structured essay explain how the author used symbolism to help convey his purpose in a meaningful way. How did the author use symbolism to create His message?

Open Question Prompts On: "Life Of PIe"

1) What could Pi's adventure out at sea represent for the reader? Why do you think the author chose to describe Pi's adventure in the way he did? What does it describe for the author and what type of person, or views he may have?

2) When looking at the animals chosen by the author, why do you think he chose a zebra, Orangutan, hyena and a Bengal Tiger to be apart of Pi's journey? What about these animals allow a connection to the novel, Pi, and the message you believe the author was trying to present?

3 Pi being descried as an intelligent person, going through high school and becoming a college student, having a broad understanding of religion, what is the author trying to to tell us by putting an intelligent individual through such a journey that made it seem as though his intelligence didn't matter in the least? Why do you think the author chose a character like Pi, and what does this mean for the authors message?

4) P.128 "Movement was confined to a tremor in the rear leg and an occasional blinking of the eyes. I was horrified. I had no idea a living being could sustain so much injury and go on living."

How does this sentence describe the authors message, and the point of putting Pi through such a journey? What does this tell us about the authors view on human determination, and how does it link to the the authors central message?

Take home essay on Brave New World

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”(― Oscar Wilde) People often live life, do the bare minimum, just enough to get by. The novel "Brave New World" serves the idea that where you live affects who you are, and who you are, defines what you know, and what you don't know.
The world you live in can cause you to have a type of mood toward your life. In Brave New World, John was a character that was just highlighted to me with this point. This man was in a dark place from the very start. He seemed to want to die, wasn't an extremely happy person. To add to the sense of distress in his life, he begins to be alienated by the savage, and the "civilized" world. This affects John in such a way that it pulls him further into his distress.
In the beginning of the book we begin seeing Bernard as the main character. Knowing that Brave New World was written as a prediction, or warning of what Aldux Huxley saw the world leading to, it was semi difficult to see where exactly Huxley was going with the setting of this human created world, surrounded around scientists idea of a European society. However when Bernard fades behind the, and John becomes the light, it shows exactly where Huxley was going with this.
Huxley shows that we may have the idea that we have this society we live in is as good as it is going to get with where we are, but that's not the reality. The reality is, is that people are being slowly isolated away from what the truth is. With our isolation from what the truth is, we are alienated from the world just as John was. The novel ends with John committing suicide. With isolation from the reality of the world, people end up dead without purpose. He died because he didn't have the needed attention from other humans sending him into such a state that caused him to commit suicide.
Huxley's point with writing this novel was to show his prediction or warning of where he saw the world heading. Through alienation from the world, can lead to death. Maybe not physical death, but even mental death. A mental death that make you feel not only alone, but unaware of the reality of what's going on in the world around you. Hopefully it doesn't end in a demise such as John's, but who's choice is that?

Sparking BNW

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUE


Here is a link to the YouTube video that has the video summary of BNW. I'm not posting this as a quick way out, but I'm posting this as a way to compare the discussions we have online, and in the classroom. This summary tells you exactly what they think is said or implied and even what the purpose of each thing is. After watching Aldux Huxley's interview, it makes you realize how full of s**t that spark notes is. Reading the book, and watching this, one message: READ THE BOOK INSTEAD!!

Huxley response.

Brave world is basically an entire book written about his fears of what the world will soon become. His theory on the growing population is making our freedom slowly diminish Is causing I will do slowly slipping to a dictatorship instead of a democracy is it semi-true and we have kind of gone into that area of government slowly but not as fast as he seems to think we should have. He says that dictators will most likely become the most dominant form of government because people like Hitler are strong and were able to gain control using propaganda and ideas that are generally understood but with smart people come ways in which we can escape and we are slowly starting to climb out and we know what we want to do don't performing it. this book is about his entire fear of what he thinks this will become. However we are in no way becoming like the world that I have seen to be reading about this entire time I do not see as programming people later on through listening to tapes while people sleep in that's how we teach them that part seemed off but he Syrian the video seemed a little bit more on the nose is far is slowly slipping into a dictatorship.

Literature Analysis "Anna Karenina"

• Anna Karenina is mainly about characters being married to guys that they are unfaithful for. Every relationship that takes place in the book has the female married to a man that they want a divorce from, or in Anna's case, is cheating on. Anna doesn't receive a divorce and vomits suicide. He husband Levi starts questioning the meaning of life and figures out life is what he makes it.
• The theme of the story is life can be molded into whatever you can envision.
• The authors tone is desperateness. When Anna is pleading for a divorce so much that she commits suicide be aide she doesn't get it. Nikolai becomes ill and lays on his death bed as Kitty comforts him. Nikolai is desperate for love and affection in his last days. Lastly, when Levin is in search for a meaning to life.
• The author uses a tone that describes how the characters feel during time a of adultery and divorces which brings a connection between characters and reader. Sometimes the author uses direct characterization to describe a character, so he can pull right back to the main point of the scene. He also uses indirect characterization to describe some characters in terms of the romantic side, and there feeling of how there wife's have been acting. On thing the author seemed to emphasize is irony. He used this to display the usefulness of certain characters in given situations.
• Sometimes the author uses direct characterization to describe a character, so he can pull right back to the main point of the scene. Also the feelings of different characters are sometimes partially described directly to achieve a simple basic connection, but when he attempts to bring a deeper meaning behind a characters reactions or feelings, it is sometimes described indirectly. He also uses indirect characterization to describe some characters in terms of the romantic side, and there feeling of how there wife's have been acting. (Same as right above)
• The authors syntax and diction doesn't change much between character and descriptions, the main difference I would see, was the approach in describing each character in ways to make them appears more real to the reader.
• Main character is flat and static. She doesn't change at all. I fact she is so into her adultery and love for another man that she commits suicide because she is denied access to that man.
• I did not feel like I actually knew the character. Mainly because a block came up for me because I disagreed with a lot of Anna's actions so much though that I rejected the opportunity to understand the characters beyond the page.

Brave New World 3

Sphinx says write

Link to YouTube video of class wide ten minute essay surprise.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw5kPsZNIH8

Brave New World 2

The little tabs on the side are tab notes.

Writing as a spectator sport.

Megan Hardisty (http://mhardistyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2013/02/writing-as-spectator-sport-essay.html?m=0).
Great essays, connections made in such a short time is incredible.

Bernardo Gonzales
You could totally see where his thoughts were going and his point he was going for.

Ashleigh Pfeifer
Essays done well, and a real go getter getting the videos.

Christa Weston
Interesting way of approaching testing people. Had good ideas in essay, a bit less fluff though.

Alex Lane
Pre-write done well and essay reflected his reliance on the pre-write. Shows the importance of writing one.

Brave New World (1)

Reading the beginning of the book, the biggest thing that I notice is that it really set up a world that seemed pretty, tough. The world was described as something that sounded gloomy and painful. The things that we should find meaningful, like the word "mother" was describe horrifically, it made me expect to see "Brave" really expressed later on in the book.

I AM HERE

my progression in the class has varied. I am more searching for a comfort zone with my writing. I am seeking a better ways to know that I am understanding what I need to understand. Finally having the freedom to make the course what I want is great, but what do I do with it... That's my question...?

BOB I

Last lit terms

Lit Terms 101-136
101. Realism: writing about ordinary aspects of life to reflect life as it actually is.

102. Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song.

103. Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

104. Resolution: point in a literary work where the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

105. Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

106. Rhetoric: use of language,

107. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer.

108. Rising Action: plot build up.

109. Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt.

110. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of others.

111. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

112. Setting: the time and place.

113. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of compariso.

114. Soliloquy: an extended speech,

115. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

116. Speaker: a narrator.

117. Stereotype: cliché.

118. Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts

119. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection;

120. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words.

121. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

122. Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man.

123. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

124. Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

125. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

126. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

127. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

128. Theme: its message(s).

129. Thesis: a proposition for consideration.

130. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work.

131. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

132. Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

133. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

134. Vernacular: everyday speech

135. Voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

136. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history
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Tale of two City's

1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read, and explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).

2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid clichés.

3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).

4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.)

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1. Spanning the tumultuous twilight years of eighteenth century France, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a tale of redemption, of loss, and, even more, sacrifice. Beginning at the onset of the French Revolution in 1775, Charles Dickens’ legendary novel chronicles the exploits of various citizens over the course of the turbulent revolution. From the French Aristocrat/primary protagonist Charles Darnay to a vast menagerie of figures, A Tale of Two Cities is not merely a work of fiction but so to is it a chronicle, retelling of sorts of the turpitude and injustices that transpired during the French Revolution, wherein the common people the populace starved, wallowed in the streets of every city and the wealthy Aristocracy, apparent “nobleman” dined with fine wines and imported breads. In the service of avoiding full frontal spoilers by summary, Charles Darnay essentially epitomizes what would become the archetypical mold of a rich, at onetime ignorantly blinded in bliss aristocrat who eventually comes to realize and empathize with the suffering of those less fortunate, ultimately (with the sacrifice of an apathetic, goalless, attorney by the name of Sydney Carton) finding his own humanity while helping out hi fellow man. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities is undoubtedly his magnum opus, a timeless tale conveying empathy, compassion for fellow man, as well as (what I believe) the authors purpose of the need for self-sacrifice for betterment of all. Indeed Charles Dickens tale is one of two different worlds, two cities.

2. Of the litany of thematical motifs flowing within the undercurrents of the novel, Charles Dickens’ primary “theme” accomplished with A Tale of Two Cities is, in my opinion, that of self-sacrifice, redemption. Charles Darnay was initially one of the wealthy, ignorant nobleman blinded by his fortunate, birth-right bliss but (thru his love for a “commoner” Lucie Mannette) ultimately sacrificed this social station to enjoy his life with the love of it. Even the invariably inebriated attorney Sydney Carton is a connoted symbol of the concept of self-sacrifice, he sacrificing himself so that Darnay could escape execution, thus as Sydney’s life is given purpose thru self sacrifice, the man achieving redemption for his self-motioned “worthless existence”.

3.

· “And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy--cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly presence--nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.”

· “The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.”

· “Every pulse and heart in Saint Antoine was on high-fever strain and at high-fever heat. Every living creature there held life as of no account, and was demented with a passionate readiness to sacrifice it.”

A master of writing, the English language ecumenical, Charles Dickens’s utilization of rhetorical strategies is not limited to impeccable diction, unparalleled pacing, stylish structure but so to is his expert craftsmanship lent to tone. Gruesome and cold with dark diction and even darker descriptions, Charles Dickens’s tone within his A Tale of Two Cities can only be dubbed as grime. With grotesque, deprave actions being committed by man against man, and even more abominable acts being committed in the name of revolution or for the Old Guard Aristocracy, Charles Dickens paints a lonely and dark renditions of the French Revolution and the city/populace of Saint Antoine, depicting the disparity of two different peoples of the same city, yet two different cities all the same.

4. Here we go.

· Imagery: “And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy--cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly presence--nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.” (Book 1, Chapter 5, Paragraph 6) You can feel the filth, the grime and tense darkness enveloping the city of Saint Antoine here, on the eve of revolution.

· Tone: “Every pulse and heart in Saint Antoine was on high-fever strain and at high-fever heat. Every living creature there held life as of no account, and was demented with a passionate readiness to sacrifice it.” (Book 2, Chapter 21, Paragraph 30) The grim tone is evident (as it was above) here with Dickens’ expert manipulation of diction such as the choice words of “demented” or likening of Saint Antoine to a state of fever madness.

· Imagery: “Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation. Every green leaf, every blade of grass and blade of grain, was as shriveled and poor as the miserable people.” (Book 2, Chapter 23, Paragraph 2)

· Paradox: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. . . .” (Book 1, Chapter 1, Paragraph 1) Quite possibly the single most memorable/legendary openings to any work of the English language, Dicken’s entire novel is perfectly as well as concisely connoted in this paradoxical piece as the excerpt hints to the ironic existence of both extravagantly rich and an exasperated poor (amongst a hell lot of other things that could inspire an entire essay but I’d rather not :).

· Metaphor: “As an emotion of the mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun.” (Book 2, Chapter 2, Paragraph 41) Testifying himself in front the French court, Darnay here thru Dickens’s describes his innocence, his constitution “stronger than the sun” metaphorically of course.

· Symbolism: “The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.” (Book 1, Chapter 5, Paragraph 5) A classic likening of wine to the color of blood, blood itself is symbolized here, if not foreshadowed to be spilled unto the streets cobblestones as the Revolution revs in haste.

· Simile: “With a roar that sounded as if all the breath in France had been shaped into the detested word, the living sea rose, wave on wave, depth on depth, and overflowed the city to that point. Alarm-bells ringing, drums beating, the sea raging and thundering on its new beach, the attack began.” (Book 2, Chapter 21, Paragraph 36) Creating the image of the commoners, revolutionary people as a raging, rising sea, this simile is striking in its imagery.

· Setting: “It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven.” (Book 1, Chapter 1, Paragraph 1) Time-stamping, the setting of the book is smack dab right on the beginning/eve of the French Revolution and thus a grim and gruesome time, place to be, place to read.

· Allusion: “I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” (Book 3, Chapter 2, Paragraph 1) this is a direct rip from the Bible wherein Christ says the quote upon raising Lazarus from the dead.

· Irony: “Jerry you are an honest tradesman." (Book 1, Chapter 1, Paragraph 10) Its ironic that Jerry Cruncher is called an “honest tradesman” in that the character ultimately becomes/is later revealed to be one of the undercover revolutionaries.

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CHARACTERIZATION__________________________

1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization. Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?

2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?

3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round? Explain.

4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character? Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction.
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1.

Direct Characterization

· EXAMPLE 1:

· “I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.” – Sydney Carton

· EXAMPLE 2:

· “Monseigneur had one truly noble idea of general public business, which was, to let everything go on in its own way; of particular public business, Monseigneur had the other truly noble idea that it must all go his way--tend to his own power and pocket. Of his pleasures, general and particular, Monseigneur had the other truly noble idea, that the world was made for them.” – A description of Monseigneur

Indirect characterization

· EXAMPLE 1:

· “In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?” – Charles Darnay


· EXAMPLE 2:

· “He knew very well, that in his horror of the deed which had culminated the bad deeds and bad reputation of the old family house, in his resentful suspicions of his uncle, and in the aversion with which his conscience regarded the crumbling fabric that he was supposed to uphold, he had acted imperfectly. He knew very well, that in his love for Lucie, his renunciation of his social place, though by no means new to his own mind, had been hurried and incomplete.” – Charles Darnay’s internalized thoughts

As I’ve said in nearly all of my literature analyses, any writer worth their royalties utilizes both direct and indirect characterization. As a foremost figure of the written English language, Charles Dickens’s masterfully utilizes both methods to characterize his characters. With the direct characterization examples above we are learned Sydney Carton’s seeming mantra of purposeless existence as well as the capricious, disgustingly haughty character of the aristocrat Monseigneur. With indirect characterization example one Charles Darnay contemplates on his social station as a more fortunate aristocrat/begins to characterize himself as a sympathetic character to the poor lower classes as example 2 further solidifies. Indeed, Charles Dickens’ like any worthwhile writer, employed both direct and in characterization to flesh out his characters.

2. Yes. Dickens’s grim/dark tone shifts to a lesser gruesome, but sometime even moreso, tone when characterizing characters. As a relevant example, look at indirect characterization example 2, as Darnay contemplates his relationship to his fellow Saint Antoinians, Dickens’s tone, while remaining drenched with dark diction, to a simpler more expedient style in order to lend unmistakable gravitas to the internal monologue.

3. Charles Darnay is dynamic for a character of this literary period. Charles Dickens conveyed the character as one initially blinded by birth-right blessings to the unfortunate circumstance of the lesser fortunate lower class Frenchmen. Darnay ultimately sheds his aristocratic tidings, sacrificing them, for love, happiness with his to be wife Lucie and thus not only fulfills the most prevalent thematical motif of A Tale of Two Cities but also depicts dynamic change unlike many other protagonists of the early nineteenth century forward.

4. I’m surprised, though Charles Dickens and his legendary A Tale of Two Cities predates my birth, our time, by hmmm… over one hundred years the characters don’t seem like dated shells of old timey powdered wig wearing archetypes. Charles Darnay, even Sydney Carton, are as human as any non-book binding bound individuals, the former and latter both flawed but ultimately by the end of their respective tales, seek redemption, sacrifice aspects of themselves to achieve betterment, somewhat topple their flaws, how impossible this ultimately is. Indeed, though a few characters seem just that, hollow archetypes (I.E. Monseigneur as a stereotype arrogant and cruel aristocrat) others like that of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton prove their worth if not actuality as people for they, as we all are, are flawed each endeavoring to defeat their flaws, just like us “real people”, how impossible it might actually, ultimately may be. For something flawed can only ever be. Doesn’t mean we can’t keep trying anyways, hell it only means we should try even more. :)


Thanks Hayden Robel
http://hrobelrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2013/02/dickens-claqs.html?m=1

Remix 80-100

Remix 80-100


Irony- A teenage relationship,
Litotes- Dr. Preston likes to have us discuss the class.
Logic- I don't have brown hair, red hair, or colored hair, must have a type of blond hair.
Logical Fallacy- Slippery slope
Metabasis- Dr. Preston wants us to collaborate on our essays, and we will work on AP exam.
Metanoia- Government's use of constitution.
Metaphor- I dislike that person with a fiery passion of a thousand suns.
Metonymy- Pen is mightier than the sword.
Loose Sentence- I love summer, it's so nice to be outside.
Monologue- To be or not to be, Saint Crispin's
Mood- Wow! I can't believe he is wearing the same watch as me.
Motif- Shakespeare
Oxymoron- Bittersweet
Parable- Pearl by John Steinbeck.
Paradox- I know I can but I'm to scared to try.
Parallelism- The use of semicolon shows relationship of two sentences by each other.
Paraprosdokian- wow I really like ice cream it's such a sweet taste, yuck I hate pecan.
Parataxis- I like dogs.
Parenthesis- me and my brother always fight (out of love).
Parody- Imitation of ridicule of the original.


(Hard copy done in time)

Vocabulary 61-80

-Exemplum
citing an example; using an illustrative story, either true or fictitious.
-Exposition
background information presented in a literary work.
-Extended Metaphor
a sustained comparison, often referred to as a conceit. The extended metaphor is developed throughout a piece of writing
-Figurative Language
the body of devices that enables the writer to operate on levels other than the literal one. It includes metaphor, simile, symbol, motif, and hyperbole, etc.
-Figures of speech
e deliberate departures from the ordinary and literal meanings of words in order to provide fresh, insightful perspectives or emphasis. Figures of speech are most commonly used in descriptive passages and include the following: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Etc...
-Form
the shape or structure of a literary work.
-Generalizations
are assertions or conclusions based on some specific instances. The value of a generalization is determined by the quality and quantity of examples on which it is based. Bob Greene in "Cut" (p.57) formulates ma generalization--being cut from and athletic team makes men super achievers later in life--on the basis of fiver examples. For such a generalization to have validity, however, a proper statistical sample would be essential.
-Hendiadys
use of two words connected by a conjunction, instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea.
-Homily
this term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.
-Hypallage
("exchanging") transferred epithet; grammatical agreement of a word with another word which it does not logically qualify. More common in poetry.
-Hyperbaton
separation of words which belong together, often to emphasize the first of the separated words or to create a certain image.
-Hyperbole
extreme exaggeration, often humorous, it can also be ironic; the opposite of understatement.
-Hypophora
onsists of raising one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them, usually at some length.
-Hypotaxis
using subordination to show the relationship between clauses or phrases (and hence the opposite of parataxis).
-Hysteria Proteron ("later-earlier")-
inversion of the natural sequence of events, often meant to stress the event which, though later in time, is considered the more important.
-Image
a verbal approximation of a sensory impression, concept, or emotion.
-Imagery
the total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature.
-Induction
the process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization.
-Inference
a conclusion one can draw from the presented details.
-Invective
a verbally abusive attack.

The Time Of My Life

After the quiz I thought about my soon to come weeend trip to Lancaster to refferee. I am very intrested in watching better referees than I, and getting myself to be able to intrepret what they are doing in a way that I can communicate to the younger referees that I mentor in an affective way. This will better my communication skills, and help prepair me for my profession of teaching that I persue.

Literature Analysis "Bless Me Ultima"

Vinnie Cruz

Lit. Anal.

Bless Me Ultima

Bless Me Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

1. Rudolfo Anaya wrote a novel by the title of Bless Me Ultima, published in 1972, was written about a boy trying to find himself, as an individual. Ultima came as a girl to help guide Antonio to find his way of spiritual independence. Now, what did you see Ultima and her owl seemed to symbolize for Antonio, was she just someone on Antonio's trail or what was your take?...interesting, Ultima seemed to symbolize a lot more then just a form of guidance for Antonio, she symbolize his other side. Antonio has two parts to him that are obvious to a reader, his rebellious side that seems to question everything his parents and family wants his to believe spiritually. Ultima is the type of character that reflects a different side of a character, on the other hand is Antonio's “Spiritual” side. Antonio's part of his mind that questions things, and wants to find his spiritual independence.While the owl represents what Antonio's spirit wants to do: fly free in the wide open world as an individual. That being said it shows that freedom, and wounder seem to go about hand in hand with each other. In order for Antonino to feel like an individual he needs to find his own way of deciding his way to live, and how to run his spirit as himself instead of spitting images of his parents (which he doesn't want). With questions come answers, and with answers come a sense of understanding and interpretation of the world around you. In order to be an individual you must ask questions, and find your own way of interpreting your world around you (which I came to think is the them). Coming with these ideas what could this show the tone to be?..... Yea, the author shows multiple tones through the book, but he seems to stick to two main tones, curiosity, and Reborn. For the first half of the book it was all about Antonio asking why? Why do I listen to my parents about my spiritual way of living? He wanted to be his own person spiritually. His curiosity lead to Ultima holding a significant position in his life, a new beginning to who he is. She guided him the whole way through of becoming a spiritual individual. Once the owl of Ultima begins to die, and starts to take Ultima's life, because Ultima is kept alive with her owl: Ultima starts to die because the owl is dieing he really figures it out. Through out the novel he slowly broke free from his parents way of doing things. He had sight break throughs here and there that seemed to have him reborn in several minor ways, but at the same time, he was only just starting to break through the glass keeping him in. It wasn't until he started to lose Ultima, that he really broke free of his spiritual chains and became an individual. Before Ultima dies she request Antonio to burry the owl. Since Antonio has found his spiritual individualism, he no longer needs Ultima to symbolize his spiritually free side because he now is spiritually free. Now that he is spiritually free, he can now fly around the world in his own mind as free as the owl was, being able to do so, he no longer needs the owl either, he can burry both of them, and have completed his goal.
2. Now, on the technical side of things, what kind of literature elements did you recognize while you read, and how did it help your understanding of the text?....Yea, the author not only had a sense of tone that helped show the reader his purpose of writing a scene, but it also helped to understand what type of turn or twist the author was setting up, but he had a keen sense of using his characters in a way to show, and mean more to the story then just the basic character who supported the character through the story. He would use his side characters as a form of indirect characterization for the main character. Ultima and the owl showed different sides of Antonio like I previously said, but there were more cases of indirect characterization the author used through the book... any ideas of what they were?.. The obvious one to me was the usage with Antonio's parents. The author showed that Antonio's parents were kinda controlling weren't they? They sort of pushed their spiritual belief onto Antonio, which forced him into wanting his own spiritual individualism. Some direct characterization, the author showing that Antonio was a young boy, and also explaining that Antonio was a curious young man. When describing these things, what differences did you notice when the author was using dialogue as opposed to describing a character or a scene?... The author seemed to appeal more to a tone when he would use dialogue. His dialogue seemed to want more drama. Was Antonio static or dynamic?.. yea he was definitely static, the entire story was about Antonio changing. Which began when he was a little boy, and he grew older, while he learned how to be a spiritual individual. Reading about how Antonio changed, did it bring you close to him at all, in a way that he ment more then just a character in a book?.... Yea to me I felt like I related to the idea of him changing as he got older and wanted to find himself because I have been there, and we all have been there. Definitely a relatable topic.

Whats The Story

Dickens wrote the novel to show his view on the topic, as discussed in class. He wrote the story to show that some people see things in way that they want to see things not in the way that reality really has them as. Pip always saw things as he thought them to be, not as they were. Then again, why does anyone write anything? Maybe because they are told to in school, or are inspired by something in life. Sometimes when I write something I don't really show why I wrote what I did in the text. All I can do as a reader is guess. My thought is that Dickens wrote Great Expectations to show that even though, in life, you have great expectations from when you are a child, to when you are an adult. The people you go through life with may seem to have one type of intention for you, but they could have a complete different intention, so go through life with your expectations, not others.

Dickens Map

• Is Pip happy that he is given the opportunity to kiss the beautiful Estelle? Why or why not? (http://jpdrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/02/great-expectations-study-questions.html)

•  How does Estelle behave towards Pip? What is her disposition, character motive towards the main protagonist? (http://jpdrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/02/great-expectations-study-questions.html)
• Works of literature often depict acts of betrayal. Friends and even family may betray a protagonist; main characters may likewise be guilty of treachery or may betray their own values. Select a novel or play that includes such acts of betrayal. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the nature of the betrayal and show how it contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. http:/sb169.k12.sd.us/Prompt%20list%20for%20IR%20with%20AP.htm]
• Miss Havisham is heart broken and left in a disarry on her wedding day when her fiance leaves her at the alter.  Coincidently this "fience" is none other than Compeyson.  In her rage at this situation Miss Havisham adopts Estella to use her to get back at men.  Do you think that this justifies how Estella acts or is her manner just naturally how she is? Do you believe that Miss Havisham has the right to corrupt someone elses life and use them for her own selfish purposes?

  (https://sites.google.com/site/mrpipsgreatexpectations/essay-time)

• Is Pip happy that he is given the opportunity to kiss the beautiful Estelle?
  http://jpdrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/02/great-expectations-study-questions.html

Refined smart goal

My new smart goal is to better my communication skills, and learn how to communicate my ideas in a better, more affective way, to help my hope of later teaching profession.

POETRY ANALYSIS

Escape    https://www.aprweb.org/poem/student-poems

Juliet Williams, Central High School

I thought I was young and free,

but now,

now I am only

an empty cage.

Time,

you stole the animal

within me.

A Dream

In visions of the dark night                                      http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-fairy-song/
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star? 

Edgar Allan Poe

A Fairy Song

William Shakespeare

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,                              http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-fairy-song/
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. 

Hand Shadows

Mary Cornish

My father put his hands in the white light
of the lantern, and his palms became a horse
that flicked its ears and bucked; an alligator
feigning sleep along the canvas wall leapt up
and snapped its jaws in silhouette, or else
a swan would turn its perfect neck and drop
a fingered beak toward that shadowed head
to lightly preen my father's feathered hair.
Outside our tent, skunks shuffled in the woods
beneath a star that died a little every day,
and from a nebula of light diffused
inside Orion's sword, new stars were born.
My father's hands became two birds, linked
by a thumb, they flew one following the other.

Nights

Kevin Hart

There’s nothing that I really want:
The stars tonight are rich and cold
Above my house that vaguely broods
Upon a path soon lost in dark.

My dinner plate is chipped all round
(It tells me that I’ve changed a lot);
My glass is cracked all down one side
(It shows there is a path for me).

My hands—I rest my head on them.
My eyes—I rest my mind on them.
There’s nothing that I really need
Before I set out on that path.

LIT TERMS 1-5

Allegory- Platos allegory of the cave, when in henry the V speech, he says, "crowns of convoy be put into his purse."
That there shows a symbol saying more then what's written.

Alliteration- Martin Luther Kings " I have a Dream" speech http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=14358231

Allusion- I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.” This refers to the story of Pinocchio, where his nose grew whenever he told a lie. It is from The Adventures of Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi. 

Ambiguity- "Thanks for dinner. I’ve never seen potatoes cooked like that before."
(Jonah Baldwin in the film Sleepless in Seattle, 1993)

Amplification- ' I am so incredibly hungry, I could eat a horse. I haven't eaten a thing since breakfast. My stomach is making weird growling noises, like it's screaming 'food food food!'. I can't concentrate on my work and when I walk my knees go wobbly. If I don't get something to eat soon, I may simply starve to death.'

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN 1

My plan for this semester is to become a better writer in my mechanics. This will be achieved by review in class, and visually seeing what needs to be done and where, and then applying those rules to my writing.

AP PREP POST 1: SIDDHARTHA

1) If you were the river, would you be enlightenment or would you know enlightenment? In other words, what’s up with the river? What is it’s relation to enlightenment?

- (http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html)

- This question tells me that the AP test will require a lot of critical thinking, and deep understanding of a text.

- If I was the river I would know enlightenment. The river seems to symbolize the way enlightenment is, serene and flowing in one direction, "going with the flow."

2) What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Is it a feeling? An attitude?

- (http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html)

- This question tells me that you don't only need to understand text, but you also need to be able to understand the main point of a main character, and make connections between the character, his/her meaning, and its relationship.

- Enlightenment in Siddhartha looks more like a goal or a personality. It appears to me that the whole book he seems to be trying to compare himself to being enlightened, and he tries to better himself to get him enlightened. Like when someone has a tendency to act a certain way, but wants to act a different way so they work hard to act the way they want.

3) Siddhartha features substantial activity and narrative action. At the same time, it is about one man’s largely internal spiritual quest. What is the relationship between the internal and exterior worlds of Siddhartha? How does Siddhartha negotiate these worlds?

- (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/siddhartha/)

-This question shows me that it is important to know what makes a character, that character. When analyzing a character there is several things that make a character act, and appear a certain ways. The author will give you several different clues that will help depict the character, and you need to be able to recognize them, and make connections.

- The relationship between the two worlds is one world shows where his in the mind, the external, and the other shows where he wants to be, enlightenment, the internal. Siddhartha negotiates these two worlds by comparing where he is in the external world as compared to his internal world.

4) Discuss this quote: “One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must

possess it. Everything else was seeking—a detour, error.”

- (http://mrsvernonsapclass.blogspot.com/2011/09/siddhartha.html)

- This question shows me that it will be important to be able to take i short excerpt, and make connection to a given.

- This quote is saying that one must find there own reason for doing something, and own that, make it personal and meaningful to them. Every other reason was going to lead you down the wrong path or toward a false answer.

5) Why does he fear that he will not find it in prescribed religious teachings?

-http://www.studymode.com/essays/Siddhartha-Reading-Questions-641015.html

- The question shows i will need to be able to identify meaningful passages in a text, and write about them in an effective way to show understanding.

- He doesn't think he will find what he is looking for in other religious views because he thinks that they have done what they were intended to do for him, and still needs help finding enlightenment.