tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46898167412222799082024-03-13T11:59:25.506-07:00Will Boerger's English BlogWill Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-48460482794136516392013-05-06T10:15:00.001-07:002013-05-06T10:15:28.713-07:00(McCarthy Topic) Essay Intro: The passage from the novel, <i>The Crossing, </i>by Cormac McCarthy uses literary elements in order to portray his imaginative story into the mind of the reader. McCarthy uses techniques to create an event that is intense even more noticeably dramatic. His consistency of words contribute to the passages tone, which is isolated and lonely, not only because of the circumstances, but the comparisons being made. McCarthy uses several different techniques in the story in order to portray his view of the death of an animal. Though the passage could be simple, he uses similes, metaphors, pathos, and comparisons to contribute to his tone and his syntax.Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-46528990403515520092013-05-06T06:34:00.001-07:002013-05-06T06:34:57.781-07:00Poetry Essay (Intro):<br />
Authors can incorporate their own views of an event or theory by using techniques in their writing. This allows them to be easily compared, because despite the major differences between texts and things that are said, there are always perspectives that may compare and contrast according to how they are described by the writer. These comparisons can be made between poems such as "Helen", one poem by H.D. and one by Edgar Allan Poe. In both poems, the author illustrate Helen's beauty using specific literary elements. In Poe's poem, she is described as one who is dedicated to her homeland, and loyal to the home she had left. In H.D.'s poem, the Helen that is portrayed is treacherous to Greece and is seen as a betrayer.<br />
These poems are able to contrast more easily through the use of elements such as tone, similes, attitude, and the authors structure of writing.<br />
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Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-20465810652933774312013-04-25T21:45:00.000-07:002013-04-25T21:45:03.978-07:00Poetry Analysis:<br />
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- The title, Howl, talks about the voice that everyone has, that has a baying howl that no one can here, but wishes for something more. It describes the life of many different kinds of people, conforming to society and living lives with false happiness, which is the ultimate emptiness.<br />
- The poem begins with "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,..." and contiunes to say, "who... poverty and tatters... the supernatural darkness. contemplating jazz... ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine" Then it continues to explain the unnatural circumstances that exist when people stop caring, and start looking for self righteous pleasure.<br />
- "Ate fire...; waking nightmares...; shoes full of blood..." These don't literally mean that they are eating fire, but being exposed to eating things that is bad for themselves. The term "waking nightmares" is used to describe the meaning of fear in someones life. Saying that "shoes" are "full of blood" indicates that there is pain in walking and going on for hours without help.<br />
- This poem has a solemn tone. The author is critical and intense about his views on which this society seems to be organized. I felt that the poem led to very controversial points that people are afraid to talk about but are really crucial.<br />
- The shift comes right from the beginning, describing the madness to people who were once good, then it goes into people who are uncaring, people who are inexperienced, and into the lives of people who don't care enough about their own lives to try to fix anything.<br />
- The title is about the cry for help. That "madness" is the source of much anger and that many people look for excuses to not cry out in their lives.<br />
- The theme of the poem is to have recognition of all of the things that can make us get distracted from what is important in life, and to recognize when people and objects have value... and when they do not.<br />
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2)<b><i> Cat</i></b> by JRR Tolkien:<br />
- This poem is named Cat simply because it is about a cat that lounges around and sees things as an animal with little intelligence, day dreaming on a mat.<br />
-"The fat cat... dreams... unbowed, proud, where loud roared and fought his kin, lean and slim, in the East feasted on beasts and tender men.:<br />
- As we see that meat is referred to, but when in reality it most nearly means prey. "The cat leaps upon his meat..." This is not simply just meat but the thrill of the hunt through recognition of what the prey may provide.<br />
- The author describes the cat as something that wishes for dignity. A longing to be more proud and independent then the life he has now. It makes me feel sorry for the cat, because he can't do what he truly wants to, but at the same time he is being lazy and doing nothing but daydreaming, giving a good idea of the selfishness of cats personalities<br />
- The shift is from the cats reality to his day dream, where instead of being dependent on a master for food, stalks pray for his own benefit, then comes back to his senses, only just hoping.<br />
- Not really, it is about a cat who wishes to be a greater cat.<br />
- The theme is that no matter how hard you wish to be something you are not, you will simply never get there by dreaming about it, and you will just bring yourself dissatisfaction by not trying to attain your goals.<br />
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3) <b><i>Hope</i></b> by Emily Dickinson:<br />
- The title's meaning is to describe hope as something that can be carried out, with care, and will fall without guidance.<br />
- "'Hope' is the thing with feathers... It sings... and never stops... and it's sweetest song... is heard... in the chillest land... and on the strangest sea"<br />
- "Perches in the soul", most literally it would mean to take a spot on top of the soul where it could survey and rest. But this means that it will keep itself in ones soul, and sing sweet songs so that we can push ourselves to become more.<br />
- The author of this poem seems very grateful for hope. She describes it as being there at the most awkward and lowly of times and being thankful for it's support of her, though she has done nothing in return. For me, I feel that it creates a realization that hope can be there in the most unlikely times, and it makes me feel satisfied and content.<br />
- The shift is at the very end of the poem, when the author changes tone from warm and hopeful diction to dark and mysterious situations.<br />
- The title says simply that hope will be like a bird to cheer you on, but never actually helping you.<br />
- The theme of the story is that hope is like a singing bird, that can be found in unlikely places to warm you when you get lost or lonely, and expects nothing in return. Hope often and use it to your own advantage.Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-36710359977589309032013-04-14T21:10:00.000-07:002013-04-14T21:10:27.311-07:00Macbeth: ACT II Active Reading Notes<br />
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<li>What is the purpose of the character: "Porter"? Is he like a mail person or someone who brings news?</li>
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<li>The Old man in the last seen is Ross's real father? or is he a priest or someone of religious importance.</li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">'Gainst nature still!</span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up</span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like</span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.' </span></li>
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Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-47670775625776486142013-03-03T19:34:00.001-08:002013-03-03T19:34:13.141-08:00Brave New World: Chapter's 4-5<b><u>Literary Elements used:</u></b><br />
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<li>Huxley's use of connotation helps the scene between Henry and Lenina become sensual and much more entertaining for the reader, comically understanding the scenario.</li>
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<li>This scene could also be described as an extended metaphor, insinuating the sexual attraction between the two characters</li>
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<li>His use of parallelism when the lower caste helps the reader understand their lack of education through there repetitive use of short sentences and small sayings</li>
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82) Narrator: one who narrates, or tells, a story<br />
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83) Naturalism: extreme form of realism<br />
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84) Novelette: short story; often satirical (not sure if it can be considered a short story)<br />
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85) Omniscient Point of View: knowing all things, usually the third person<br />
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86) Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning<br />
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87) Oxymoron: a figure of speech that has two contradicting words in a phrase to create rhetorical effect<br />
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88) Pacing: rate of movement; tempo<br />
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89) Parable: a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth<br />
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90) Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth<br />
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91) Parallelism: the principle that a sentence's structure ties into its function with a similar sentence<br />
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92) Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist<br />
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92) Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness<br />
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93) Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake<br />
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94) Personification: a figure of speech attributing inanimate objects with human qualities<br />
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96) Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation<br />
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97) Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary<br />
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98) Prose: the ordinary form of spoken and written language<br />
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99) Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction<br />
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102) Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it is<br />
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103) Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song<br />
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104) Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead<br />
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105) Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out<br />
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106) Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis (memes)<br />
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107) Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade<br />
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108) Rhetorical question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer<br />
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109) Rising Action: plot build up<br />
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110) Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact<br />
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<img height="200" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/02/casper.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" width="156" /> (Why is he up there? No one knows, why care, it's cool.)Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-72492375008650806692013-02-04T15:26:00.000-08:002013-02-04T15:26:01.142-08:00First 25 Literary Terms: Remix1. Analogy: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar</span><br />
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3. Anaphora: a use of words in repetition, at the beginning of sentences, phrases, etc.<br />
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4. Anecdote: a very short story used to make a point<br />
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5. Antagonist: a character (kryptonite is almost placed as an evil character) put in a story with opposition against the protagonist<br />
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6. Antithesis: balancing a term for emphasis on a term<br />
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7. Aphorism: a statement expressing an clever observation about life<br />
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8. Apostrophe: a figure of speech where a dead person, or something inanimate is addressed<br />
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9. Argument(ation): the process of persuading a reader<br />
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10. Assumption: the act of taking for granted<br />
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11. Audience: the intended for listeners<br />
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12. Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character's personality<br />
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13. Chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order<br />
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14. Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but few would have served<br />
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15. Classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of an ancient civilization<br />
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16. Cliche: a phrase, or fad which is overused<br />
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17. Climax: the decisive point in a story<br />
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18. Colloquialism: folksy speech<br />
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19. Comedy: original, nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending<br />
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20. Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension<br />
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21. Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition<br />
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22. Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity<br />
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23. Denotation: plain dictionary definition<br />
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24. Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax<br />
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25. Dialect: the language of a particular district, or cultural group<br />
<img height="200" src="http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/graphics/dialect.gif" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" width="153" />Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-88424444719068141322013-02-03T12:19:00.001-08:002013-02-03T12:19:26.251-08:00Time of My LifeOn Friday I used most of my time thinking about my SMART goal, and discussing it. I finally decided that my goal would involve my daily routine. Recently I have been lazy and straying from my normal motivated self. My goal is to make it to the end of the year with at least a 4.0 and with money in my pocket from scholarships. This will help me plan for my transition into college.Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-78367825109374370272013-01-29T20:05:00.001-08:002013-01-29T20:05:16.415-08:00Dickens Map<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1) Get most of the reading finished over the weekend. Review main characters and plots in the book, and then write what could be remembered of both.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1: In many works of literature, a main character has a mentor or mentor-like acquaintance whose influence dramatically changes how the character views not only himself or herself, but the world as well. Choose a novel or play in which a mentor exhibits such a strong influence, either beneficial or harmful, on one of the main characters. Then, in a well-organized essay, discuss the nature of the mentor's influence and its significance to the work as a whole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">2:</span><span style="background-color: white;">One of the strongest human drives seems to be a desire for power. Write an essay in which you discuss how a character in a novel or a drama struggles to free himself or herself from the power of others or seeks to gain power over others. Be sure to demonstrate in your essay how the author uses this power struggle to enhance the meaning of the work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">3:</span>At every stage in the progress of his tale the novelist must rely on what may be called the illuminating incident to reveal and emphasize the inner meaning of each situation. Illuminating incidents are the magic casements of fiction, its vistas on infinity. Choose a novel or play that you have studied and write a well-organized essay in which you describe an "illuminating" episode or moment and explain how it functions as a "casement," a window that opens onto the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">4:</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">In a literary work, a minor character, often known as a foil, possesses traits that emphasize, by contrast or comparison, the distinctive characteristics and qualities of the main character. For example, the ideas or behavior of the minor character might be used to highlight the weaknesses or strengths of the main character. Choose a novel or play in which a minor character serves as a foil to a main character. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">5:</span><span style="background-color: white;">Some novels and plays seem to advocate changes in social or political attitudes or in traditions. Choose such a novel or play and note briefly the particular attitudes or traditions that the author apparently wishes to modify. Then analyze the techniques the author uses to influence the reader's or audience's views. Avoid plot summary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3) With knowledge of the book I am reading, I think i will be able to give a knowledgeable review of the characters of the story, their connection to the plot, and how Dickens portrays these characters to make them appear more believable.</span>Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-91100805698164956522013-01-22T21:18:00.001-08:002013-01-22T21:18:12.887-08:00Poem Analysis<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>THE WEARY BLUES</b></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-transform: uppercase;">BY</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span>LANGSTON HUGHES</b><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; text-indent: -1em;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px; text-indent: -1em;">I heard a Negro play.</span></i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Down on Lenox Avenue the other night</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"> He did a lazy sway. . . .</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">To the tune o’ those Weary Blues.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">With his ebony hands on each ivory key</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">He made that poor piano moan with melody.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">O Blues!</span><span style="background-color: white;">Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">Sweet Blues!</span><span style="background-color: white;">Coming from a black man’s soul.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">O Blues!</span><span style="background-color: white;">In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan—</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"> “</span></i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ain’t got nobody in all this world,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Ain’t got nobody but ma self.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> And put ma troubles on the shelf.”</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">He played a few chords then he sang some more—</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> “I got the Weary Blues</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">And I can’t be satisfied.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Got the Weary Blues</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">And can’t be satisfied—</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I ain’t happy no mo’</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> And I wish that I had died.”</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">And far into the night he crooned that tune.</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The stars went out and so did the moon.</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The singer stopped playing and went to bed</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">While the Weary Blues echoed through his head.</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tone: The author of this poem uses an appreciative tone, acknowledging the artistic value of Blues and those who have musical talent.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Theme: In this poem we see that Blues played a big part in the author's life, or the life of those it influenced. The theme would be to have a better understanding of the music you study so that one may have connections to it in their own life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Syntax: The other splits the poem with lyrics of the singer, and then the words of the narrator, it is in this that we are able to see a connection to the lyrics, through a solemn tone, and the speaker, who is unidentifiable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Diction: The words the narrator use suggest that he has a connection with Blues, and the culture of the Blues, through his use of a Southern accent, where the first African Americans had developed Blues from Gospel Music, and slave songs.</span></span><span class="author" style="display: block; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></span><span class="author" style="display: block; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Those Winter days</b></span></span></span><span class="author" style="display: block; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>BY ROBERT HAYDEN</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; text-indent: -1em;">Sundays too my father got up early</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">then with cracked hands that ached</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">from labor in the weekday weather made</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, <span class="annotation" id="annotation-1">breaking.</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="annotation" id="annotation-2">When</span> the rooms were warm, he’d call,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">and slowly I would rise and dress,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">fearing the chronic angers of that house,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Speaking indifferently to him,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="annotation" id="annotation-3">who had</span> driven out the cold</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">and polished my good shoes as well.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">What did I know, what did I know</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">of love’s <span class="annotation" id="annotation-4">austere</span> and lonely offices?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Analysis:</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tone: The author uses a very forlorn tone, indicating the loneliness and sadness of the characters with words like, "blueblack" and "splintering cold". The darkness can be seen in our imagination.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Theme: In this poem we see that the author's intention was to show the work of a laborer, and to show the feelings of work, through the warm and the cold, and to express the inner feelings of those people who go through grueling work and expect nothing. They work simply because they have to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Syntax: A reader can notice how the author splits the feelings of being alone and cold, and then explains the things that are what the worker is </span>voluntarily missing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Diction: His use of highly descriptive adjectives help the reader understand the feelings of the speaker, and how he perceives his father doing this work. The father may not feel this, but the son sees his father doing work, describing it as "without thanks".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><b>Do Not go gentle into that good night</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="author" style="display: inline-block; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY DYLAN THOMAS</span></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Old age should burn and rave at close of day;</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Though wise men at their end know dark is right,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Because their words had forked no lightning they</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Do not go gentle into that good night.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Do not go gentle into that good night.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And you, my father, there on the sad height,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Do not go gentle into that good night.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Analysis:</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tone: The author uses an insightful tone, describing his thoughts which contradict, showing the confusion in the meaning of night.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Theme: I see the author as comparing life and death. His description of Wild men who don't notice that death is creeping upon them until they see it overwhelm, then grieve it on it's departure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Syntax: The author splits the views of each man by key lines, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Diction: Thomas is able to develop a sense of understanding in the character by using many contrasting words and sentences. This helps the audience compare the confusion between feelings in real life, and those described by the author.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="author" style="display: inline-block; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>the second coming</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="author" style="display: inline-block; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS</b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The falcon cannot hear the falconer;</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The ceremony of innocence is drowned;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The best lack all conviction, while the worst </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Are full of passionate intensity.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Surely some revelation is at hand;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Surely the Second Coming is at hand. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">A shape with lion body and the head of a man, </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The darkness drops again; but now I know </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">That twenty centuries of stony sleep</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,</span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u>Analysis:</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Tone: Centralizing the tone on suspense and intense </span>description help the reader see the urgency of the author, imagining end times and distress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Theme: The theme of this poem is that the failure of life will be indicated by the unnatural events that occur. The author uses these events to develop uneasy feelings in the reader, which are unusual and unnerving.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Syntax: Yeats uses the first half of his poem to describe the occurances of end times and how we might see it and notice it. The second half imagines humanistic reactions, fearful and confused in their desperation for normality.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Diction: The author speaks like a prophetic document, indications and references to religious text help the speaker's authentication of words spoken. Using an enlightened character helps the reader look at the text from the perspective of one being informed.</span></span><br />
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<b>OUT, OUT</b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;">BY</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span>ROBERT FROST</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And from there those that lifted eyes could count</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Five mountain ranges one behind the other</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Under the sunset far into Vermont.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">As it ran light, or had to bear a load.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And nothing happened: day was all but done.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Call it a day, I wish they might have said</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">To please the boy by giving him the half hour</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">That a boy counts so much when saved from work.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">His sister stood beside him in her apron</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">To tell them ‘Supper.’ At the word, the saw,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">As if to prove saws know what supper meant,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap—</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">He must have given the hand. However it was,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh,</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">As he swung toward them holding up the hand</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Half in appeal, but half as if to keep</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all—</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Since he was old enough to know, big boy</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart—</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">He saw all was spoiled. ‘Don’t let him cut my hand off—</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!’</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">So. But the hand was gone already.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">The doctor put him in the dark of ether.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">And then—the watcher at his pulse took fright.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">No one believed. They listened to his heart.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">No more to build on there. And they, since they</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.</span></i></span></div>
Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-91719212003023380142013-01-16T19:56:00.003-08:002013-01-16T19:56:39.318-08:00Henry V: Speech RemixDuring class today, I got the idea to interpret the speech into my own words, it may not be correct so I am asking if anyone sees anything that can be fixed comment! P.S. (I know it is wrong in a lot of places!)<br />
(It is just an exercise)<br />
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Henry V by William Shakespeare<br />
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King:<br />
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Who are you to judge them, and wish for aid?<br />
You, my cousin? No, not you;<br />
But if we are to die soon we will do<br />
our country service; if we live,<br />
the greater praise for heroes of battle.<br />
Only God knows! But let him not take another.<br />
By Jove, I do not crave gold,<br />
nor care who seeks me for riches;<br />
it doesn't bother me if you are of them;<br />
such things do not phase me.<br />
But if coveting honor is sinful,<br />
I shall burn in hell.<br />
Have faith in yourself, my cousin.<br />
For the love of God! I would not give<br />
my honor to another man where I have<br />
honor to be gained. My hopes are still high;<br />
though not another man show.<br />
For if the desire to fight is not there, then do not<br />
force him to partake in killing;<br />
He is not worthy of death by the sides of just men,<br />
This day is called the feast of Crispian.<br />
Those who live past this day will look back,<br />
in old age, and dine with his neighbors proclaiming,<br />
"Tomorrow is the feast of Saint Crispian."<br />
Then strip the cloth from his body to reveal the scars<br />
that so heroic a man has earned.<br />
The names of the man that fought by myself and eachother<br />
will be remembered forever as brethren.<br />
And through joyous party remember this day with fine drink,<br />
the story be told as that of a life lesson from father to son.<br />
We are the few. We are the happy few.<br />
We are a band forged of brothers.<br />
On this day, I will fight shoulder to shoulder with any man,<br />
may he be a thief, drunk, defiler;<br />
This day he shall be a brother, and all the men in England,<br />
now asleep in bed, be thinking themselves accursed to not<br />
have been apart of a glorious day. They will believe themselves<br />
no longer worthy of life, when<br />
those who fought remember Saint Crispin's day.<br />
<br />Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-60257184442433108082013-01-15T15:55:00.000-08:002013-01-15T15:55:25.886-08:00Spring Semester Plan 1As the Semester continues I plan on:<br />
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<li>Holding my integrity to my school work and into everything I do</li>
<li>Pass the AP exam with above a 3</li>
<li>Continue to learn from the place I live so that it my make my college experience even more successful</li>
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To get there:</div>
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<li>Spend time thinking about school (other then when at school)</li>
<li>Take assignments more seriously and try to see them more in depth</li>
<li>Show care and compassion to the people I love and help them understand me and my goals</li>
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Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-18923463342833074602012-11-29T22:30:00.001-08:002012-11-29T22:30:37.894-08:00Literature Analysis #5<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>A Christmas Carol:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>by Charles Dickens</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u>General:</u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. A Christmas Carol is a story about the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old man riddled with hate for anything material and does not look to bring pleasure upon anyone else but himself with his money. We start the story by watching Scrooge's horrible attitude to even "friends". The inciting incident is when Marley, one of Scrooge's old business friends who was so consumed by material wealth that when he passed away his afterlife was to be spent prowling the world in heavy chains. Marley decides to save Scrooge from this fate by sending scrooge to three different spirits, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Each of the ghosts lead on to a important parts in Scrooge's life, showing him the things he's done, and the things he is doing. When Scrooge see's his future, he realizes that his life was not worth living if he just let his own riches run his life. He was sent back to his home, and accepted the morals and virtues of Christmas, sharing his wealth and spending time with those who mattered. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. The them of the story is to not get so caught up in your life to forget what matters the most. Sometimes we pay to much attention to school and sports that we lose track of what is really important, and that is the love of those around you, and to love those people who love you. Showing gratitude is just a simple step, though significant, to showing Scrooge's change in his life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. The whole story is contained by dark images and somber people. The fact that poverty has struck London and that all of the characters seem to live on the line, Scrooge's outlook on those people seem condescending throughout the entire story. This doesn't not stop until Scrooge is pitiful in the end, but the author still notes that London is still racked with poverty and that people are still getting sick and live with nothing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. In the story, the author uses similes to describe things that have no significance, so similes were used, but rare in the important parts of the story. The other used his speech as an aphorism, explaining his ideas on life through the ghosts in the story. He uses a kind of rhetoric speech to say that those who are wealthy, but do not share, are selfish, and those who do, are more happy and well off. The other was very good at drawing out pathos. The reader felt pity for Scrooge as the story went on, not really hatred anymore, just a realization of a lost man, in need of love and help. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u>Characterization:</u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Two examples of direct characterization are when Scrooge meets the second ghost and the author describes him as "clear minded and kind". Another example is when the third ghost comes near to Scrooge and the author writes that Scrooge was "filled with dread". Two examples of indirect characterization are: Describing Scrooge, "<span style="text-align: justify;">Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ``My dear Scrooge, how are you. When will you come to see me.'' and another example is, "</span><span style="text-align: justify;">His hands were busy with his garments all this time: turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance." showing the excitement and nervousness.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">2. When describing Scrooge's dreams with the spirits, Dickens wrote in long descriptive sentences, with little dialogue, to give it a quiet, yet extravagant scenery. During the wake of Scrooge's real life, the syntax is with short sentences full of dialogue. The story switches in between the two for when he is witnessing the ghosts and talking to those in real life.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">3. As A Christmas Story is well known, Scrooge's tale is that of an extremely dynamic character. The story is simply about how Scrooge came to notice the importance of life and caring during Christmas, and how he changed his ways to a kind-hearted and generous man.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">4. I felt like it was someone that I was witnessing something with, not so much that i was meeting him or talking to him, but a fly on the wall, watching as Scrooge realizes things that pass by. Many of his surprises and heartfelt fears were very close to anything that would have scared anyone else outside of the story. We never want our flaws pointed out, and Scrooge acted, as I think, anyone else would.</span></span></span>Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-32684073086714303182012-11-27T20:29:00.001-08:002012-11-27T20:29:14.657-08:00Literature Analysis #4<b>The Scarlet Letter</b><br />
<b>by Nathaniel Hawthorne</b><br />
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<u>General:</u><br />
1. Hester Prynn, an unfortunate lover, was sent to America with her daughter, without the father ever meeting them in the new world. Hester's lonely travels in America led her to have an affair. The story begins explaining the meaning of the red A that Hester wears upon her chest to show that she has been marked as an adulteress. Though Hester is heckled and ridiculed, she is charitable and kind to the community, and therefore the community develops a bond with Hester and her daughter. As things seem to go smoothly, Chillingworth, the father disguised as a medicinal man, becomes close with Hester and the authorities of the village. Dimmesdale is then watched over by Chillingworth, who is secretly planning to kill the man, but first to expose him as the man that Hester had loved. Dimmesdale's distress and urgency, because he is a preacher, leads him to an unbearable discovery at the end of the story in front of the town, where he dies upon the scaffold that introduced at the very beginning.<br />
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2. The theme is to develop relationships that can not so easily be taken from you. Hester's relationship with Dimmesdale was strong, but could have led to the downfall of both of them, as it was revealed in the end. The relationships that are developed for your own personal gain or lust are most of the time those relationships that are not meant to be made.<br />
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3. Hawthorne uses a tone that is unlike any other story I've read. His ability to write in a dreamy tone is entertaining. The characters are often thinking in their own minds of possibilities to come, while the others are trying to discover the present. When Hester and Pearl are in the forest, the reader is able to discern real from unreal, but can understand the emotions of love and lust, confusion and uneasiness. These are elements that make Hawthorne a good writer.<br />
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4. The author uses implication very often when Hester reacts with other characters. Her scarlet A is seen and the characters reactions to that imply that Hester is a sinful person. Foreshadowing is used many times in the story. It is used to reveal her lover, used to reveal her husband, and used to eventually reveal the babies true father. Hyperbole is used when describing Pearl as a nymph, little devil, or an angel, her actions and looks are all exaggerated by the author. Hawthorne also uses surrealism, which can be seen in the forest scenes and when viewing Pearl.<br />
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<u>Characterization:</u><br />
1. Direct characterization would most likely be connected with Hester. Other's in the story describe Hester as a sinner. But I think that this is put in the story to show the indirect characterizations of the person so that the reader can see the obvious discernment between the people and Hester.<br />
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2. When describing the important characters in the story, I notice that you can divide them from the normal cast by noticing the change in syntax. The descriptions of the characters also seem to change in diction, for the characters become more animated by the writing and the sentences are long and descriptive so that you may judge the character, similar to how the people in the story judge her. Simply by face value.<br />
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3. Hester could be described as static, or dynamic, it all depends on the point of view. Hester doesn't change the way her actions show to people, in order to deceive them, and keep the writing of the story more engaging. On the inside, Hester becomes more in love with the man she had an affair with as she tries to first avoid him. The contact with him is the point where she decides to be more assertive with her ideals.<br />
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4. I could feel for the characters in the story. We have all experienced secrecy, but may not to these extremes. Hester's feelings of sorrow and regret fuel the reader with feelings that are of empathy, because the reader understands mistakes. Though Hester has done a terrible thing, the audience feels that she is just acting out of emotion and that her side is pure in intent. It is hard to break your ideas away from a character that you are exposed to for the entire story.Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-43477063369902051782012-11-25T18:35:00.002-08:002012-11-25T18:35:42.538-08:00Allegory of the Cave SonnetIn the cave for the prisoners 'twas dark,<div>
but not altogether alone were their thoughts.</div>
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Lost without an intellectual mark,</div>
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left to hang in fear of confused hearts.</div>
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They were missing from the world,</div>
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families and friends unknown,</div>
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Until a prisoner had twisted and curled</div>
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to discover an unbelievable zone.</div>
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For him it was scary but new,</div>
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a moment that none believed true.</div>
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His mind would expand in the love of life,</div>
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for his heart would be discovering of strife.</div>
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Experiences like this are uncomfortable,</div>
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but not for the opportunity to be knowledgeable.</div>
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Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-21674533637041848692012-11-25T18:15:00.002-08:002012-11-25T18:15:20.831-08:00Plato Study Questions<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Questions:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. According to Socrates, what does the Allegory of the Cave represent?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">2. What are the key elements in the imagery used in the allegory?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">3. What are some things the allegory suggests about the process of enlightenment or education?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">4. What do the imagery of "shackles" and the "cave" suggest about the perspective of the cave dwellers or prisoners?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">5. In society today or in your own life, what sorts of things shackle the mind?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">6. Compare the perspective of the freed prisoner with the cave prisoners?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">7. According to the allegory, lack of clarity or intellectual confusion can occur in two distinct ways or contexts. What are they?</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">8. According to the allegory, how do cave prisoners get free? What does this suggest about intellectual freedom?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">9. The allegory presupposes that there is a distinction between appearances and reality. Do you agree? Why or why not?</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">10. If Socrates is incorrect in his assumption that there is a distinction between reality and appearances, what are the two alternative metaphysical assumptions?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- The allegory represents the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">development</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and differences between showing the ambiguity and dull sense of knowledge through staying in the norm and the enlightening light of the outside knowledge. This representation shows the value of knowledge and faults of ignorance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- The shadows that are seen reflecting off the torch are images that depict the fake reality of the prisoners in the cave. The prisoners had only ever known the images of darkness and the comfortable feel of the cold stone, that is why the light poses to be a ping of irritation for the prisoner's and the idea of uncomfortable realization.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- That in order to advance yourself in all aspects, first you must learn to discover the uncomfortable, and find things that are new and creative. Learning and enlightenment are two of the same process. That is why it is important for the prisoners to delve into things they don't know, instead of things they do.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- The shackles represent the bond of the prisoners to the cave. The mind set that they will not get free from the place they are. The cave encompasses the prisoners, leaving everything outside it unknown to them, and the potential of their knowledge of anything else remaining confined to the cave.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- As talking about earlier in this class, the media can shackle your mind and make you think one sided on any topic if you do not pay enough attention to the other sources. I've been told that there is little truth in each article, but if you look enough you will be able to pick out your own version of the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- The freed prisoner understands what is to earned, while the cave prisoners know nothing about what is outside of the cave, they don't think it is an opportunity for enlightenment.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- You can be given the chance to experience the light and shy away or you can never be exposed at all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- The prisoners are freed by themselves, and there must be realization of the prisoners to spark curiosity. Intellectual freedom should be sought out by the individual, and if the individual desires for intellectual freedom are not sprung, then that person would find no need to be different or an intelligent individual from all of the people surrounding him/her.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- <span style="line-height: 21px;">I partly agree. Appearances can be decieving, but they aren't always so. Sometimes appearances give a perfect portrayal of the truth and there is no distinction. Other times, with more complex matters, reality is much deeper than its outward appearance and one much dig deeper to find true meaning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">- That someone could say one thing and do another, or that you can do one thing and say another.</span></span>Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-33795346416538853142012-11-12T19:16:00.001-08:002012-11-12T19:16:08.666-08:00Literature Analysis #3<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">1)<i>The Kite Runner </i>is a novel about the journey of boy named Amir. With the story being told by Amir, the novel begins with a flashback about twenty-six years back in time, to when Amir was a little boy growing up in Kabul. This point of the story told us about Amir's life as a child, with his father, who was a businessman, and two servants to his family. One of the servants was Amir's best friend, named Hassan. When hassled by the town bully, Hassan hit him with a rock shot from his slingshot. From there, the story jumps to winter time, and a kite fighting contest takes place. There is this tradition that the kids have called 'kite running' and they try to get the losing kite that fell from the sky. When Amir is fighting in the contest, Hassan goes to look for the fallen kite, who is then followed by Amir some time after. Amir finds Hassan in an alley way with the town bully and some of his buddies, watching as they take advantage of Hassan. Drifting apart, and overcome with guilt, Hassan and Amir leave each others' lives after Amir planted items in Hassan's bed, accusing him of thievery. Time goes on, and things start to get bad with the invasion of the Soviets in Kabul. Amir and his father flee the country, and after a long period, they soon go to Fremont, California where Amir attends school, and his father working at a gas station. In time, Amir finds a lovely girl, and soon marries her. After his marriage, Amir's father dies. Further into his life, Amir receives a call from his father's friend, and it was about Hassan. Amir, still holding the guilt of what had happened when he was a kid, goes to Kabul. Hassan's child is missing, and Amir goes to look for him. Nearly getting himself killed, he manages to save the kid and redeems himself of his wrong doings done to his best friend.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">2) One of the themes for <i>The Kite Runner </i>is the search of redemption. Best shown by Amir and his guilt that was carried thoughout his entire life ever since the incident with Hassan. This is probably the main theme that drives the novel.</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">3)The tone o the author is also related to the theme itself, which is being the confessional tone. Throughout the novel, it is portrayed all through Amir's actions, feelings and decisions. One example would be the pomegranates being throw at Hassan, just so he would throw them back at Amir. Amir wanted to be punished for his actions-- or lack of. Not only did he wanted to be punished, but he also pushed away his best friend. Amir built up too much guilt all to the point of framing Hassan for a thievery he didn't commit just so that he can get away. Lastly, when Amir encounters Assef again near the end of the novel, he starts laughing only because he is getting punished for it, getting beaten to near death by Assef.</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">4) The literary elements of <i>The Kite Runner </i>all have a slot within the machine that is this book. The foreshadowing in the story raises question about the surrounding events with the Islamic fundamentalists, and even when Baba questions Amir's ability to stand up for what is right. The overall feel of the book happens to be like that of a spring. It is felt all throughout the novel, even at times where it didn't appear to be as such.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Hope is the t<span style="color: #330099;">h</span>ing with feathers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That perches in the soul, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And sings the tune--without the words, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And never stops at all, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And sore must be the storm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hat could abash the little bird </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That kept so many warm. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And on the strangest sea; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet, never, in extremity, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It asked a crumb of me."</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15px;">English typically having ten syllables per line</span>Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-21201942443534230172012-11-05T20:38:00.000-08:002012-11-05T20:38:24.518-08:00Fall List #11<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">1. Affinity- relationship by marriage</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">2. Bilious- of or indicative of a peevish ill nature disposition</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">3. Cognate- of the same nature</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">4. Corollary- A proposition inferred Immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">5. Cul-de-sac - a pouch</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">6. Derring-do- a daring action</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">7. Divination- The art or practice that seeks to foretell future events or discover hidden </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">knowledge due to the interpretation of omens </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">8. Elixir- A substance capable of prolonging life indefinitely </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">9. Folderol- a useless accessory </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">10. Gamut- an entire range or series</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">11. Hoi polloi- the General populace</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">12. Ineffable- incapable of being expressed in words </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">13. Lucubration- to study by night </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">14. Mnemonic- intended to assist memory</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">15. Obloquy- abusive language</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">16. Parameter- an independent variable used to express the coordinates of variable point and functions of them</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">17. Pundit- a learned man </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">18. Risible- provoking laughter</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">19. Symptomatic- having the characteristics of a certain disease but arising of a different cause </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">20. Volte-face- a reversal in policy</span></span><br />
Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-62587111355000765672012-11-01T19:27:00.002-07:002012-11-01T19:27:56.946-07:00Vocab. List<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">aficionado- a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">browbeat- to discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">commensurate- able to be measured by a common standard</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">diaphanous- Of such fine texture as to be transparent or translucent</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">emolument- Payment for an office or employment</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">foray- A sudden raid or military advance</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">genre- A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">homily- An inspirational saying or platitude</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">immure- To confine within or as if within walls; imprison</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">insouciant- carefree or unconcerned; light-hearted</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">matrix- a substance, situation, or environment in which something has its origin, takes form, or is enclosed</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">obsequies- A funeral rite or ceremony</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">panache- A bunch of feathers or a plume, especially on a helmet.</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">persona- The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">philippic- a bitter or impassioned speech of denunciation; invective</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">prurient- unusually or morbidly interested in sexual thoughts or practices</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">sacrosanct- Regarded as sacred and inviolable</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">systemic- Of or relating to systems or a system</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">tendentious- Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan</span><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">vicissitude- A change or variation</span></span>Will Boergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09532030257407902826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4689816741222279908.post-18566168133338034032012-10-28T20:05:00.003-07:002012-10-28T20:05:29.185-07:00Literature Analysis on The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri<h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">1) Jhumpa Lahiri's novel <u>The Namesake</u>, is about a immigrant from India who deals with the hardships of being an Indian migrant growing up and living in the United States. Ashoke and Ashima the parents of Gogol have to raise their son in Cambridge and fight against all the controversy and problems they face for being a immigrant in the United States.<br /><br />2) The main theme of this novel is family control. Gogol is constantly confronted by his parents about the new American customs he is getting used to. His parents want him to have a more traditional lifestyle following their Indian culture and ways, but Gogol is pressured by his other friends and made fun of for not fitting in. So Gogol often has confrontations with his parents on how to live his life.<br /><br />3) Lahiri's tone in the novel is very serious. Gogol describes both of the cultures he grew up in (Indian and American). Often stating the culture his parents want for him, and then the more familiar American culture.<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">4) Lahiri uses flashbacks a lot when Gogol is comparing the American culture with his Indian culture. Also Gogol voice is compared to a Husky's bark, which is uses of Personification. Foreshadowing is used, all the ways Gogol reacts to how his parents are towards the American culture shows us what his actions will be. Last Lahiri uses irony, it is ironic how Gogol is just a nickname, but then ends up being his official name on his birth certificate.</span></div>
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