Thursday, May 10, 2012
Journal #20
In the last passage of the book Nick is telling how he can't even be around the Gatsby house on days when the parties were. He still can remember sitting at his house listening to the parties and going to them. The parties are over is kinda saying how Gatsby's life is over and how the summer is over and all the things happened in summer are over. All the things over the summer like him and Jordan and Tom and Myrtle and Gatsby and Daisy are all done. The Dutch sailors first saw the green light that they knew held so many things in store for them once they reach the island. When Gatsby looked at the green light it was like him seeing the possibilities that he could have with Daisy. Whenever Gatsby saw the light he was thinking of him and Daisy together and all the things they could experience together.
Journal # 19
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Journal 19 - Characterization in Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby
Write a description for each of the following characters based on his/her first appearance in Chapter 1. Your description should include:
-the character’s physical appearance;
-the character’s actions/words;
-an adjective that best describes the character based on his/her initial
appearance
Nick Carraway Adjective ___average____
Nick Carraway is your average man who is just trying to get by. He is the one who everyone comes to and trusts with their problems or secrets. He usually keeps to himself and doesn’t really relay any personal information other than in the beginning. Nick is basically getting an inside look of Tom, Daisy’s, personal lives without having too much to do with it.
Tom Buchanan Adjective ______egotistical______
Tom is all about himself and knows he is rich and awesome. He was a football star in a great college. He brought down all of his polo horses down the east coast to flaunt his wealth. Throughout the story he is shown as a man who just goes around with women and making himself look good.
Daisy Buchanan Adjective _____fake____
Daisy seems fake when you first meet her with her sing songy voice and laughing at everything. She only wants a rich, powerful man to marry so she settled on Tom. Not as loud, but she flaunted her money also with the clothes she wore and the snobby attitude she had.
Jordan Baker Adjective _____calm, cool, collected_____
Jordan seemed reserved and too herself. She didn’t really talk much and just stayed on the coach observing everyone else. She was athletic and a golf star, but was known to cheat in her games. She was small and skinny.
Jay Gatsby Adjective ______sad/disturbed____
When we first met Gatsby, he was standing looking at the green light. He was tall and good looking. He stared at the green light but at the time Nick did not know why. Throughout the book, Gatsby tries and tries to get Daisy back but to no avail. In the end, he lost his life.
Journal #21
Journal 21 - Some Like It Hot and The Great Gatsby Comparison/Contrast
Although Some Like It Hot is a comedy and The Great Gatsby is a tragedy, both works use popular culture to portray life in 1920s America. Focusing on the following elements (characterization, conflict, and theme), discuss how the two works are similar and different and what each is saying about American life.
Joe and Gatsby are very similar. To win over Sugar who is ‘Daisy’, Joe pretends he has money and pretends to be who she wants. To know what she wants, Joe pretended to be Josephine and found out certain qualities that Sugar wanted in a guy like glasses and a millionaire. Both Gatsby and Joe pretended to be other people to please the girl they wanted. Jerry is Nick in the movie. He is the secondary supportive friend. At first they are competing for her, but after things play out he supports Joe in his endeavor to get Sugar. Osgood is similar to Tom. He is rich and goes around chasing women. They both played polo and went to Ivy League schools. Tom is the villain though in Gatsby while Osgood is just a harmless man. Spats is like Wolfsheim. Spats has a speakeasy similar to how Wolfsheim got his money. In Some Like It Hot, the good guys end up living and the bad guys die, but in Gatsby the good guy (Gatsby) is the one who died. Both stories center on love and marriage. There are secret romances in both. Another theme is deception. The characters are trying to hide something whether it’s an affair or a relationship. These two works are saying that the society was a lot about having fun and drinking in the speakeasies. They didn’t really think much of officials and the police. They just broke the rules.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Journal #18
Journal 18 -“In Another Country”
1. What is the significance of the story’s title?
The story title represents their status. They are no longer who they were, but are trying to get back to it. The people are trying to adapt to their new life because of their injuries which had set them apart from everyone else. The injuries bond them together. The narrator is also actually in another country
2. Which character do you think best represents the “Hemingway hero”? Why?
The major represents the “Hemingway hero”. He is the one who suffered the most and went through it. The major, even though he lost his hand and his wife died, he still fought through it until the end. His injury was the most because he happened to be the best fencer in the world, so it wasn’t just a small hand injury. He handles his suffering with grass and dignity.
3. What can you infer about the photographs the doctor hangs up? What is the significance of the major’s reaction?
The photographs were pictures of people that have been healed with machines. The pictures weren’t actually cured by the machines, but to get the hopes up of the people that possibly they could be healed. The major does not accept what the doctor is trying to tell them. He is very skeptical and just stares off. He is accepting that he won’t return to normal. The major is looking away thinking about his wife and his loss.
1. What is the significance of the story’s title?
The story title represents their status. They are no longer who they were, but are trying to get back to it. The people are trying to adapt to their new life because of their injuries which had set them apart from everyone else. The injuries bond them together. The narrator is also actually in another country
2. Which character do you think best represents the “Hemingway hero”? Why?
The major represents the “Hemingway hero”. He is the one who suffered the most and went through it. The major, even though he lost his hand and his wife died, he still fought through it until the end. His injury was the most because he happened to be the best fencer in the world, so it wasn’t just a small hand injury. He handles his suffering with grass and dignity.
3. What can you infer about the photographs the doctor hangs up? What is the significance of the major’s reaction?
The photographs were pictures of people that have been healed with machines. The pictures weren’t actually cured by the machines, but to get the hopes up of the people that possibly they could be healed. The major does not accept what the doctor is trying to tell them. He is very skeptical and just stares off. He is accepting that he won’t return to normal. The major is looking away thinking about his wife and his loss.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Journal #17
1. What is the significance of the poem’s epigraph? How does it relate to Prufrock?
The epigraph is a stream of consciousness. It is telling people that it is not publicized, but rather his own thoughts. This relates to Prufrock because since he is not bold and outspoken the epigraphy allows you to enter into his mind and private thoughts. With the epigraph, it sets the tone that Prufrock’s poem is private and not for the public. He is full of self-doubt and would never have revealed this about himself.
2. Make a list of questions that Prufrock asks. Do you see a pattern/theme to these questions or are they random?
What is it,Do I dare, Disturb the universe, So how should I presume, And how should I begin, Shall I part my hair behind, Do I dare to eat a peach
Some of these questions are repeated more then once. This creates uncertainty and anxiety. He doesn’t really know what he wants with his life or what he is going to do. Prufrock is lost with his life and where he wants it to go. He questions everything because he is so unsure of what he should do and what people will think of him.
3. What do you think is Prufrock’s main flaw/problem?
His main flaw is his self- consciousness. He is very uncomfortable with himself and knows that he is the ‘background character’. Every little thing and decisions that seem unimportant are a big deal to him because he is not comfortbale in the world. He is afraid and not bold enough to go out and find love or meaning in the world.
4. Why do you think this is called a love song? In what way is it a love song?
He has a love for women, but he is too afraid to pursue love. Women will come and go, but he doesn’t have any relationships with them. Prufrock wants love but he cannot get it. Its very ironic to call it a love song because it is all about how he is not connected to someone. He is too scared too go after anyone and get into a relationship.
The epigraph is a stream of consciousness. It is telling people that it is not publicized, but rather his own thoughts. This relates to Prufrock because since he is not bold and outspoken the epigraphy allows you to enter into his mind and private thoughts. With the epigraph, it sets the tone that Prufrock’s poem is private and not for the public. He is full of self-doubt and would never have revealed this about himself.
2. Make a list of questions that Prufrock asks. Do you see a pattern/theme to these questions or are they random?
What is it,Do I dare, Disturb the universe, So how should I presume, And how should I begin, Shall I part my hair behind, Do I dare to eat a peach
Some of these questions are repeated more then once. This creates uncertainty and anxiety. He doesn’t really know what he wants with his life or what he is going to do. Prufrock is lost with his life and where he wants it to go. He questions everything because he is so unsure of what he should do and what people will think of him.
3. What do you think is Prufrock’s main flaw/problem?
His main flaw is his self- consciousness. He is very uncomfortable with himself and knows that he is the ‘background character’. Every little thing and decisions that seem unimportant are a big deal to him because he is not comfortbale in the world. He is afraid and not bold enough to go out and find love or meaning in the world.
4. Why do you think this is called a love song? In what way is it a love song?
He has a love for women, but he is too afraid to pursue love. Women will come and go, but he doesn’t have any relationships with them. Prufrock wants love but he cannot get it. Its very ironic to call it a love song because it is all about how he is not connected to someone. He is too scared too go after anyone and get into a relationship.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Journal #15
Journal 15 – William Dean Howell’s “Editha”
1. Write a sentence that summarizes the story’s overall message, and provide three direct quotes from the story that best illustrate this message
If someone is living a life like Editha, it can be very dangerous because you are not living in reality.
“To take the part that her whole soul willed him to take, for the completion of her ideal of him.”
“It isn’t this war alone; though this seems peculiarily wanton and needless; but it’s every war—so stupid; it makes me sick. Why shouldn’t this thing have been settled reasonably?”
“He told me he had asked you to come if he got killed. You didn’t expect that, I suppose, when you sent him.”
2. What tactics does Editha use to make George believe as she does about the war?
She starts telling him that it is a ‘holy war’ and that it is his duty to fight in it. She basically makes him choose to fight or leave. George starts to worry when he gets a letter and the engagement ring enclosed. She pressured him to go to the war and tells him he would be honored and remembered.
3. Is there ever a time in which Editha truly understands what she has done? Does she ever experience an epiphany?
No, I don’t think she understands what she has done. George’s mom tells her what she has done, but it really doesn’t sink in for her. She has an ephiphany when the lady said ‘vulger’. When she has her epiphany however it isn’t for the better, but rather going back to her old way of thinking.
1. Write a sentence that summarizes the story’s overall message, and provide three direct quotes from the story that best illustrate this message
If someone is living a life like Editha, it can be very dangerous because you are not living in reality.
“To take the part that her whole soul willed him to take, for the completion of her ideal of him.”
“It isn’t this war alone; though this seems peculiarily wanton and needless; but it’s every war—so stupid; it makes me sick. Why shouldn’t this thing have been settled reasonably?”
“He told me he had asked you to come if he got killed. You didn’t expect that, I suppose, when you sent him.”
2. What tactics does Editha use to make George believe as she does about the war?
She starts telling him that it is a ‘holy war’ and that it is his duty to fight in it. She basically makes him choose to fight or leave. George starts to worry when he gets a letter and the engagement ring enclosed. She pressured him to go to the war and tells him he would be honored and remembered.
3. Is there ever a time in which Editha truly understands what she has done? Does she ever experience an epiphany?
No, I don’t think she understands what she has done. George’s mom tells her what she has done, but it really doesn’t sink in for her. She has an ephiphany when the lady said ‘vulger’. When she has her epiphany however it isn’t for the better, but rather going back to her old way of thinking.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Journal #16
Journal 16 – Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” and London’s “To Build A Fire”
Read the following quote and discuss how it applies to the main characters in both stories. In the course of this discussion, address how each of the characters is both similar and different:
“Determinisim governs everything … The writer must study the inherited traits of individual characterand the social condition of the time. Together, these elements determine the course of any action, the outcome of any life. Free will or self-determination is mostly an illusion, although chance is granteed a role in human affairs. Still, even the effects of chance are obliterated in the inevitable course determined by the interaction of inherited character traits and the social environment.“
In the Blue Hotel, the Swede inhertited certain traits that ended up in his death. He was already told the Wild West was a bad place so he was already scared when he first got there. Mr. Scully also gave him alcohol which added even more to his downfall. When the Swede got drunk he became belligerent and made the other guests annoyed and angry. Every character played a role in his death by chance. Mr.Scully gave him alcohol which changed his personality, Johnny cheated, The Cowboy egged on the fight and said he wanted to kill the Swede, and Mr.Blanc saw Johnny cheat but didn’t say anything. The weather also caused all of these men to be at the hotel at the same time and also bring the stranger to the hotel who eventually killed the Swede.
In To Build a Fire, the man alos inherited certain traits that started his downfall. He did not listen to advice given to him by people who knew the area and he mistakenly built a fire under the tree. Because he was a newcomer and did not know the area very well his doom was pretty much from the start of his journey. If he had listened to the advice given he would have travelled successfully to his boys. However, he was stubborn and thought he didn’t need one and could face the cold by himself but this proved to challenging for him and eventually ended his life.
Read the following quote and discuss how it applies to the main characters in both stories. In the course of this discussion, address how each of the characters is both similar and different:
“Determinisim governs everything … The writer must study the inherited traits of individual characterand the social condition of the time. Together, these elements determine the course of any action, the outcome of any life. Free will or self-determination is mostly an illusion, although chance is granteed a role in human affairs. Still, even the effects of chance are obliterated in the inevitable course determined by the interaction of inherited character traits and the social environment.“
In the Blue Hotel, the Swede inhertited certain traits that ended up in his death. He was already told the Wild West was a bad place so he was already scared when he first got there. Mr. Scully also gave him alcohol which added even more to his downfall. When the Swede got drunk he became belligerent and made the other guests annoyed and angry. Every character played a role in his death by chance. Mr.Scully gave him alcohol which changed his personality, Johnny cheated, The Cowboy egged on the fight and said he wanted to kill the Swede, and Mr.Blanc saw Johnny cheat but didn’t say anything. The weather also caused all of these men to be at the hotel at the same time and also bring the stranger to the hotel who eventually killed the Swede.
In To Build a Fire, the man alos inherited certain traits that started his downfall. He did not listen to advice given to him by people who knew the area and he mistakenly built a fire under the tree. Because he was a newcomer and did not know the area very well his doom was pretty much from the start of his journey. If he had listened to the advice given he would have travelled successfully to his boys. However, he was stubborn and thought he didn’t need one and could face the cold by himself but this proved to challenging for him and eventually ended his life.
Journal #14
Journal #14 - E. A. Robinson Poems
Realism – The theory or practice in art and literature of fidelity to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization of the most typical views, details, and surroundings of the subject.
Read the following poems and write a detailed description for each of the title characters and explain how each is an example of the “real” instead of the “ideal.”
“Richard Cory“ (497)
Richard Cory was rich and very smart that everyone was jealous of. His name Richard brings out the term rich and Cory ‘core’. On the outside he is this perfect person, but in his core he is this unhappy person who thinks he has nothing.
Richard Cory was an idealistic image to the townspeople because he was rich and ‘king like’ to them. They thought he had everything, but really Richard Cory felt like he had nothing and was very unhappy so he killed himself.
“Miniver Cheevy” (497)
Miniver sits around fantasizing instead of doing things about it. He wanted to be a knight. His name is like a ‘minimal achiever’. He lived in the past and wanted to be born in a better time period. It became his whole life and became an obsession. His real life is boring and empty. He used alcohol to escape from reality. His ideal life was in his fantasy life with knights.
“Mr. Flood’s Party” (498)
Mr.Flood is lonely so he is drowning himself with drinking. He is ‘flooding’ himself with it. He could have alienated his friends with his behavior or they have all died. Mr.Flood has been caught in an area of change and he has been left behind. He is also living in the past which is ideal. His real life is sad, lonely, and drunk.
Realism – The theory or practice in art and literature of fidelity to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization of the most typical views, details, and surroundings of the subject.
Read the following poems and write a detailed description for each of the title characters and explain how each is an example of the “real” instead of the “ideal.”
“Richard Cory“ (497)
Richard Cory was rich and very smart that everyone was jealous of. His name Richard brings out the term rich and Cory ‘core’. On the outside he is this perfect person, but in his core he is this unhappy person who thinks he has nothing.
Richard Cory was an idealistic image to the townspeople because he was rich and ‘king like’ to them. They thought he had everything, but really Richard Cory felt like he had nothing and was very unhappy so he killed himself.
“Miniver Cheevy” (497)
Miniver sits around fantasizing instead of doing things about it. He wanted to be a knight. His name is like a ‘minimal achiever’. He lived in the past and wanted to be born in a better time period. It became his whole life and became an obsession. His real life is boring and empty. He used alcohol to escape from reality. His ideal life was in his fantasy life with knights.
“Mr. Flood’s Party” (498)
Mr.Flood is lonely so he is drowning himself with drinking. He is ‘flooding’ himself with it. He could have alienated his friends with his behavior or they have all died. Mr.Flood has been caught in an area of change and he has been left behind. He is also living in the past which is ideal. His real life is sad, lonely, and drunk.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Journal #13
Journal #13 – Edgar Lee Masters Epitaphs (p. 502)
Read “George Gray” and “Lucinda Matlock” and answer the following questions.
1. What object symbolizes George Gray’s life? How is this object representative of him?
The boat with the furled sail represents his life. His sail was not opened and his boat left at the harbor, so he didn’t take chances that he could have. He ship didn’t ‘set sail’ so he missed his opportunity on love and missed out on his ambitions. If he had unfurled his sail and let it take him where destiny wanted to then his life would have had more meaning. Because his sail was furled, his life didn’t have any meaning and he didn’t take any chances that he should have to of had a more fulfilled life. Don’t let your fear overcome your desire.
2. How was Lucinda Matlock’s life different than George Gray’s? How do you interepret the last line of the poem?
It seems Lucinda actually led a good life and was happy where as George seemed to wish he had gotten married and done more in his life. I think the last line is saying that you need to experience life to fully understand how great it is and too love it. If you just sit back and don’t take initiative you will not be happy with your life, but if you are like Lucinda who went out, married, danced in fields, sang to green valleys she actually experienced a part of life and was happy and loved life.
3. How are “George Gray” and “Lucinda Matlock” examples of realism?
They both expressed realism because they both were about average people living their lives. Even though George was unhappy and Lucinda was happy, both are examples of people living typial lives. Both these people aren’t really special people, but rather people who experienced life in different ways.
Read “George Gray” and “Lucinda Matlock” and answer the following questions.
1. What object symbolizes George Gray’s life? How is this object representative of him?
The boat with the furled sail represents his life. His sail was not opened and his boat left at the harbor, so he didn’t take chances that he could have. He ship didn’t ‘set sail’ so he missed his opportunity on love and missed out on his ambitions. If he had unfurled his sail and let it take him where destiny wanted to then his life would have had more meaning. Because his sail was furled, his life didn’t have any meaning and he didn’t take any chances that he should have to of had a more fulfilled life. Don’t let your fear overcome your desire.
2. How was Lucinda Matlock’s life different than George Gray’s? How do you interepret the last line of the poem?
It seems Lucinda actually led a good life and was happy where as George seemed to wish he had gotten married and done more in his life. I think the last line is saying that you need to experience life to fully understand how great it is and too love it. If you just sit back and don’t take initiative you will not be happy with your life, but if you are like Lucinda who went out, married, danced in fields, sang to green valleys she actually experienced a part of life and was happy and loved life.
3. How are “George Gray” and “Lucinda Matlock” examples of realism?
They both expressed realism because they both were about average people living their lives. Even though George was unhappy and Lucinda was happy, both are examples of people living typial lives. Both these people aren’t really special people, but rather people who experienced life in different ways.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Journal #12
Journal #12 - “Young Goodman Brown”
1. “Young Goodman Brown” is an allegory (symbolic narrative). What do the following represent?
Young Goodman Brown – He represents a person with good intentions, but an inclination to sin
Faith – Faith in religion and humanity
The Elderly Traveller/Fellow-Traveller – Temptation/ the Devil
Goody Cloyse – Hypocrisy or two-faced person
The Ceremony – represents a person’s transition from innocence to realization of sin
The Pink Ribbon – represents purity
Young Goodman Brown’s Journey – A person’s journey through innocence to temptation and the experience they had. Shows that other people can add to the journey
2. Identify the following for “Young Goodman Brown”:
Theme Message of Theme Element Used to Establish
Sin Humanity is Evil the plot and conflict
In addition, provide three direct quotes from the story that address your theme.
“My Faith is gone!...There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given” (6).
“Depending upon one another’s hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.” (8)
“Still rushing onward with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil”
1. “Young Goodman Brown” is an allegory (symbolic narrative). What do the following represent?
Young Goodman Brown – He represents a person with good intentions, but an inclination to sin
Faith – Faith in religion and humanity
The Elderly Traveller/Fellow-Traveller – Temptation/ the Devil
Goody Cloyse – Hypocrisy or two-faced person
The Ceremony – represents a person’s transition from innocence to realization of sin
The Pink Ribbon – represents purity
Young Goodman Brown’s Journey – A person’s journey through innocence to temptation and the experience they had. Shows that other people can add to the journey
2. Identify the following for “Young Goodman Brown”:
Theme Message of Theme Element Used to Establish
Sin Humanity is Evil the plot and conflict
In addition, provide three direct quotes from the story that address your theme.
“My Faith is gone!...There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given” (6).
“Depending upon one another’s hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.” (8)
“Still rushing onward with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil”
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Journal # 11
Journal 11 - Selections from Walden
Write a summary of the following selections and identify a direct quote that you feel best expresses its main idea.
“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)
This excerpt talks about the necessity of simplicity in our lives and how living a life with too many possessions is unessesary. He talks about the advancements humans are making, and he is against them because he wants to keep a simple life for people. He is saying that advancements, such as railroads, are pushing humans too far from their natural lifestyle.
Quote: “Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity” and “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”
“Sounds” (234)
Walden talks about all the sounds he heard while actually listening to the world. He loved to just sit out without doing working or seeing anyone and just being peaceful. He was able to stop his life for a little bit and just take a step back from his busy life. He loves life and thinks its an adventure. He doesn’t think nature is a waste of time and its wonderful to sit their and just listen to the sounds.
Quote: “it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.”
“Brute Neighbors” (235)
A red ant was fighting a black ant that was half an inch longer. They were wrestling with each other and it look not like a duel but a war. It was between two raises of ants (red and black). The black were so big it was frequently found that two red ants equaled one black. The red ants stood for republicans and black ants stand for imperialists. Then a red ant came to the full of excitement. He could see the unfair battle but he charged ready to fight. He ripped the body parts out of the black ant that was nearly twice his size. The man witnessing it was excited to see the minority party that the red ant was representing coming back. The man never found out which party won nor the cause of the war but he was excited to witness the battle before his door.
Quote: “I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellium, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted ones to one black” ……. “It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battlefield I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one, and the black imperialists on the other.”
“The Pond in Winter” (237)
Nature, in which all creatures live and flourish, offers no questions. It only gives the answer of pure beauty. Humans do not have to ask Mother Nature to provide wonder and awe, she just shows her true colors through the earth and animals. A pond in winter is beautiful because of its ability to be different, yet underneath the sheet of ice, its orginial beauty is still preserved through all seasons of the year. Life is beauty through any kind of weather.
Quote: “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head”
“Spring” (238)
It is talking about the beginning of Spring, and what Walden goes through in the beginning of Spring. It looks majestic and alive and beholds a great summer ahead. The geese are circling it, and different animals are coming alive. He is saying that Walden is like the beginning of new life with great chaos in it. It’s a time of new beginnings and happiness.
Quote: “As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is life the creaytion of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.”
Write a summary of the following selections and identify a direct quote that you feel best expresses its main idea.
“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)
This excerpt talks about the necessity of simplicity in our lives and how living a life with too many possessions is unessesary. He talks about the advancements humans are making, and he is against them because he wants to keep a simple life for people. He is saying that advancements, such as railroads, are pushing humans too far from their natural lifestyle.
Quote: “Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity” and “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”
“Sounds” (234)
Walden talks about all the sounds he heard while actually listening to the world. He loved to just sit out without doing working or seeing anyone and just being peaceful. He was able to stop his life for a little bit and just take a step back from his busy life. He loves life and thinks its an adventure. He doesn’t think nature is a waste of time and its wonderful to sit their and just listen to the sounds.
Quote: “it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.”
“Brute Neighbors” (235)
A red ant was fighting a black ant that was half an inch longer. They were wrestling with each other and it look not like a duel but a war. It was between two raises of ants (red and black). The black were so big it was frequently found that two red ants equaled one black. The red ants stood for republicans and black ants stand for imperialists. Then a red ant came to the full of excitement. He could see the unfair battle but he charged ready to fight. He ripped the body parts out of the black ant that was nearly twice his size. The man witnessing it was excited to see the minority party that the red ant was representing coming back. The man never found out which party won nor the cause of the war but he was excited to witness the battle before his door.
Quote: “I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellium, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted ones to one black” ……. “It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battlefield I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one, and the black imperialists on the other.”
“The Pond in Winter” (237)
Nature, in which all creatures live and flourish, offers no questions. It only gives the answer of pure beauty. Humans do not have to ask Mother Nature to provide wonder and awe, she just shows her true colors through the earth and animals. A pond in winter is beautiful because of its ability to be different, yet underneath the sheet of ice, its orginial beauty is still preserved through all seasons of the year. Life is beauty through any kind of weather.
Quote: “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head”
“Spring” (238)
It is talking about the beginning of Spring, and what Walden goes through in the beginning of Spring. It looks majestic and alive and beholds a great summer ahead. The geese are circling it, and different animals are coming alive. He is saying that Walden is like the beginning of new life with great chaos in it. It’s a time of new beginnings and happiness.
Quote: “As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is life the creaytion of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.”
Monday, January 2, 2012
Journal #10
Journal #10
Othello’s Insight
Write a one paragraph response to the following question:
Often at the end of a play, Shakespeare’s tragic heroes often have a moment of insight. What is Othello’s insight? Look closely at Othello’s last speech before answering this question.
Othello realizes many things when he makes his last speech. His major insight is of how he once had everything he wanted and then how fast it was taken away from him. He hated himself for what he had done to ones he loved. Regret was another big thing that he realized he had. He regretted not trusting his loving wife, but instead trusting a fickle friend who only wanted whats best for himself. Even though he had a whole life of regret he noted that the army would be in good hands with Cassio and he soon would be with his dead wife Desdemona. Othello was full of remorse for his wife, but he still really wanted to be recognized as the man he was before and not the actions he had previously taken.
Othello’s Insight
Write a one paragraph response to the following question:
Often at the end of a play, Shakespeare’s tragic heroes often have a moment of insight. What is Othello’s insight? Look closely at Othello’s last speech before answering this question.
Othello realizes many things when he makes his last speech. His major insight is of how he once had everything he wanted and then how fast it was taken away from him. He hated himself for what he had done to ones he loved. Regret was another big thing that he realized he had. He regretted not trusting his loving wife, but instead trusting a fickle friend who only wanted whats best for himself. Even though he had a whole life of regret he noted that the army would be in good hands with Cassio and he soon would be with his dead wife Desdemona. Othello was full of remorse for his wife, but he still really wanted to be recognized as the man he was before and not the actions he had previously taken.
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