What About My Masterpiece?

So far our masterpiece has been slow moving due to the fact that I am separated from my group mates during class and furthermore lose out on the conversions. Personally I have nearly finished the story board for the video. I am now just waiting to hear the feed back from the others on how far they have come.

Love is Blind

The difference between the way the audience views lady Macbeth and the way Macbeth view his wife is all in the relationship. As outsiders we serve as an almost objective force view the maiden on just actions alone with out emotional ties. Whereas Macbeth is married to the women, so he is constantly trying to make her proud, or make her love him. As readers we have the luxury of not having the pressure of love cloud our view of the sinister women.

This is only a test

Masterpiece (Warrior Nation Timeline)

I, Jury

Essay comments from Shane Hunter

Colter Knight (http://cknightrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2014/02/brave-new-essay.html#comment-form)

I liked the essay the use of an arch to build up your argument worked really well. The point that you made about how Bernard was brainwashing kids with beliefs he himself did not hold was the strongest point in my opinion

Rebecca Aldrich (http://rebeccaaldrich.blogspot.com/2014/02/brave-new-essay.html#comment-form )

The first 3 paragraph essay I read and it was a bad thing you condense your point into a concise message. This working better than a drawn out dissertation so good job.

Jacob Hoffman (http://aplit2013-2014.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-slightly-cowardly-new-essay.html#comment-form )

Very nice essay, good analysis of the characters

Huxley's Brave New World

After watching Mike Wallace’s interview with Aldous Huxley, I noticed that there was a sense of anti-communism. As a dystopian novel Brave New World was used to bring about awareness against total control. In a time in American history where red scare was rampant Huxley’s position could have been used as Anti-communist propaganda.

Literature Analysis: Tempest

Plot

1.      The play opens with the storm at sea (causes by Ariel and Prospero) that wrecks the nobles and brings them to the island. Upon being washed up on shore Ferdinand meets Prospero’s daughter Miranda and falls madly in love with her. Meanwhile the other noble looks for Fernand (who is imprisoned by Prospero) and are waylaid by Ariel several times. As Ferdinand works as a servant for the wizard, Prospero sees that his love for Miranda is true and allow them to marry. Then he sends for the nobles to be brought to him in which Antonio is belated to see him so is alive. They all return to Naples where Ferdinand and Miranda are married and Prospero returns to be duke of Milan.

2.      The main themes of this play, are the treachery of the nobles, the ability for forgiveness and the idea that love conquers all

3.      Shakespeare’s tone in the play is ominous, there always seems to be some sort of impending doom. Whether it’s the spirits that torment Caliban or the strange lightning storm that appears to foreshadow doom.

4.      Literary Techniques: foreshadowing, foreboding, soliloquy, anecdote, conflict, Dialects, evocation, Magic(al) realism, spiritual, stereotype

Characterization

2.      When characterizing Prospero the narrator uses powerful syntax and large diction with commanding tone to show the power of Prospero on the island

3.      The protagonist is a static character in that he is very stereotypical knight in shining armor; Ferdinand always is hard working and chivalrous.

4.      After reading the book I felt I knew all the stock characters when they were introduced and was not surprised by the actions, save of course Prospero’s relinquishing of his magic.

Brave New Essay

Prompt:

Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile can become “a potent, even enriching” experience. Explain how traveling and exile work in the book Brave New World?

Essay:

               “Community, Identity, and stability,” this is the mantra repeated time and time again in Brave New World. Ironically the World state doesn’t not welcome the idea of personal independence; in fact in the book, the state stresses the exact converse. Citizens are taught to be interdependent on others and the state at all times. For the most part everyone complies and stability is reached, but for every rule there is an exception, this is Bernard. Beginning in chapter six Bernard seeks to visit the savage reservation, most likely to fill his need to see what life is outside the World State. Edwards said that “exile can become a potent, even enriching experience,” and in his quest, Bernard seeks a sense of enrichment separate from the state in order to find his personal identity.

               With such a strong emphasis on dependence of its citizens the world state makes it all but impossible for individuals to have an identity. In Bernard we see this yearning for separation from others, as a reaction to his yearning for identity. Take for instance Bernard and Lenina’s helicopter ride over the English Channel (Chapter 6), where Bernard flies close enough to the ocean that the waves almost lick his craft, just in order to be far from everyone else. In the community Bernard is only a number, but out on the ocean, or the reservation or in Iceland Bernard can start to recognize himself and an individual. This motif is common even in the world today, the book Into the Wild illustrates the true story of a man who needed to escape his “community identity” in order to find enlightenment.

               Even for Lenina who is perfectly content in her bubble of having orgy parties and consuming soma, the idea of leaving her home is “strangely compelling to think about.” The notion is so compelling that she leaves all amenities to go with Bernard to the reservation, where she is met with horrors beyond her comprehension. In that moment we see the real Lenina, without the State, soma or any other dulling agent, we see her identity. The dependence that the state has imposed of this women has made the “rift forced between a human being and a native place” unsurmountable for her. Huxley uses this to show how to much interdependence can cripple a person, Linda’s inability to mend clothes is a prime example of this.

               Huxley’s use of the journey to the reservation underlines the different themes of exile, enrichment, separation, desperation, for his character in the book. If community is stability, the exile is disarray and adversity and in the book Bernard comes to learn that one doesn’t learn from stability, but adversity.

I am here

My performance this year has be different from last semester in that I am doing more in class work. I find myself spending less and less time checking my blog to see if it’s up to par, this I am changing. Also I have a mental disconnect between my project in which I live as a homeless man for two days and a meaning that can be related into the academic realm. This disconnect has rattled my brain for weeks now and I feel myself floundering.

Hafta/Wanna

Habits that are formed in high school are both permanent and temporary.On the surface obviously if one has a habit of procrastination that will carry on until the cycle is broken, whereas immaturities go with age. I would only home that when I graduate high school that the desperation of life on ones own will awaken me to be more conscious of my decisions. In the real world to balance what we want to do and what we need to do is a careful act. "All work and no play make johnny a very dull boy," the famous quote from The Shining illustrates that one must have both work and play to be functional and happy. To achieve that is a entirely different matter all together and a task that one must reconcile with oneself. For me I try to devote at least a hour at the beginning of the day and an hour at the end of the day toward reflection and personal pondering, and it has worked pretty good so far.

Literary Terms 4

Interior monologue- a form of writing which represents the inner thoughts of a character; the recording of the internal, emotional experience(s) of an individual; generally the reader is given the impression of overhearing the interior monologue

 Inversion- words out of order for emphasis [or to fit meter]

Juxtaposition- the intentional placement of a word, phrase, sentences of paragraph to contrast with another nearby

Lyric- a poem having musical form and quality; a short outburst of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings

Magic(al) realism- a genre developed in Latin America which juxtaposes the everyday with the marvelous or magical

Metaphor- an analogy that directly compares two different things imaginatively

Extended metaphor- a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it

Controlling metaphor- a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work

Metonymy- literally "name changing" a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute or associated thing is substituted for the usual name of a thing

Mode of discourse- argument (persuasion), narration, description, and exposition

Modernism- literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology

Monologue- an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel, or narrative poem

Mood- the predominating atmosphere evoked by a literary piece

Motif- a recurring feature (name, image, or phrase) in a piece of literature

Myth- a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world

Narrative- a story or description of events

Narrator- one who narrates, or tells, a story

Naturalism- extreme form of realism

Novelette/novella- short story; short prose narrative, often satirical

Omniscient- knowing all things, usually the third person

Onomatopoeia- use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning

Oxymoron- a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox

Pacing- rate of movement; tempo

Parable- a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth

Paradox- a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas

Literary Analysis: Into the WIld

1.       The novel Into the Wild follows the latter life of Chris McCandless as he journeys across the US and finally to his resting place although the stampede trail in Alaska. The book starts of by introducing Chris as a lifeless body found in the remote Alaskan bush. As the subsequent article in outdoor magazine is published, our author reads the piece and becomes entangled in the story of this young man. He writes the book tracing Chris’s travels and the people he meets and touches along the way. After following his trail and speaking with the people Chris held close the book ends with our author back in the place of Chris’s death.

2.       The informative novel try’s to explication the idea of the Hero’s journey and a very literal way, with this true account of Chris.

3.       The author use two distinct tones throughout the book, Narrative, and Investigative. When the author is telling the story of where Chris had gone and who he had met this is obviously when the author writes in a narrative tone. Whereas when he traces or relates stories such as, the story of the Anthropologist, he uses an investigative and almost informative tone to tie relevant knowledge to the overall understanding of Chris’s mindset.

Characterization

1.       Most of the novel used indirect characterization to describe Chris. Since it was a non-fictional piece, just as in real life we come to see Chris through his many personal relationships. For instance Mr. Westerberg often says that “the boy was very hard worker and never shied away from a dirty job.” This example of indirect characterization is not unique and actual quite prevalent. Direct characterization of the other hand is rare, the only time we have a clear picture of Chris is when we r being giving information about Chris’s running career or at his death.

2.       When it comes to the authors syntax and diction toward the character is seems as if the he almost sees himself in the young boy. There is a palpable empathy between the author and Chris.

3.       Chris is both static and dynamic, at times he is illustrated to us and this pondering wanderer just living by the wind. Other times we see Chris take a very active role in where he goes and how he conducts himself, this becomes more and more common as the novel progresses.

4.       After finishing the book Chris seemed like someone I have known for a very long time, he almost seem to embodied qualities I had in me.

AP Prep Post 1: Siddhartha

•  What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Is it a feeling? An attitude?
•  What purpose does self-denial serve in Siddhartha? What about self-indulgence

http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.htm

•       How does enlightenment relate to or have to do with knowledge?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AP+literature+questions+Siddhartha

•       Does verbal communication play a positive role in the spiritual progression of characters in Siddhartha?
•       How does the river speak to people?

http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/language-communication-theme.html

Seven Steps to Collaboration Happiness

Allegory of the cave sonnet

The cave, deep, dark and normal

The light, blinding, pain and truthful

Born in the dark, knowing no different

Own reality as real as my hand chained to the wall

Freedom, dragged from the abyss

To where I do not comprehend

Flash, bang, knowledge, enlightenment

Pupils contract on a fantastic dream

Must return home to enlighten others

New reality is so wonderful

Wait they can’t understand my gift to them

Just another shadow on the wall

Reality is cement,

Chaining us to our own perceptions

Brain with 4 legs

Maddie, Colter, Edmond and Myself are all in a group studying The Tale of Two Cities. We created a Google group to converse back and forth if need online. Also we divided our reading into a chapter and a half a day to finish the book by Thanksgiving.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

1.     .      According to Socrates, the allegory of the cave represents the human condition of perception. How we as beings believe that our reality is the only reality, and when someone tries to tell us otherwise, when cannot understand them.
   2.       The three key elements of imagery of the allegory of the cave are one chains, because they represent how our thoughts bind us, two the deep dark cave, and the blinding light of the real world
   3.       The Allegory suggests that learning or enlightment is difficult, in the story when the prisoner first sees the light of the world it painfully blinding, which symbolizes the pain of change
   4.       Both the shackles and the cave have dank dark connotations which illicit to the audience that the prisoners lives are sad and meek.
   5.       In the present society, others perceptions and condescension shackle our minds from creating or being original.
   6.       The freed prisoner has been allowed to be among the enlightened but when he returns to tell his friends of the world he just shows up as another amorphous shadow on the wall.
   7.       Lack of clarity can happen when a person it taught to think and stay in the box which inevitably chains him in the preverbal cave.
   8.       In the stories the prisoner is freed by another soul which elicits that one can only be enlightened by those who are enlightened.
   9.       The line between perception and reality is a fine one. On one hand more times than not ones perception of realty is a variation and therefore not the whole reality, hence the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Although in rare cases some people can perceive exactly what is happening and all the facets of the current reality.
   10.   If Socrates is wrong in  his assumption then;
   a.       Reality is not a general term but a personal one
   b.      We cannot make and sort of society because every human lives in a different reality and therefore cannot be governed

Hamlet Remix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXacA4ympBY

This is my groups Hamlet Remix
Kylie Sagisi: http://ksagisirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Ian Steller: http://istellerrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 
Dallas Burciaga

To be or not to be collaboration

Poetic Inquiry

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Sonnet CXXXVIII

When my love swears that she is made of truth,

I do believe her though I know she lies,

That she might think me some untutored youth,

Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.

Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,

Although she knows my days are past the best,

Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:

On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:

But wherefore says she not she is unjust? 

And wherefore say not I that I am old?

O! love's best habit is in seeming trust,

And age in love, loves not to have years told:

   Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,

   And in our faults by lies we flattered be.