Lit Analysis #2

1. The Sun Also Rises is a story about two gentlemen from Paris, Jake Barnes and Robert Cohn who both take a trip to Pamplona in order to to bid farewell to Brett Ashley, a friend of Jake's, and to go to a fiesta. The two along with Bill Gorton travel to Spain, then to Pamplona. The three men along with Brett and Mike Campell, who is said to be Brett's fiance. As the fiesta goes on Brett starts falling in love with a nineteen-year-old bullfighter named Pedro Romero. After the fiesta is over, Brett and Romero leave for Madrid, and the rest of the men go their separate ways. Brett later contacts Jake telling him that she left Romero and wants to back with Mike. Jake then books tickets to send Brett out of Madrid

2. A theme to the story is male insecurity, since Brett's love for Romero caused harsh fights between the men, one including a fight between Romero and Robert

3. The tone of the novel was mutual. There was no difference when talking about one character or another

4. Narrator- The narrator of the novel was the character Jake. It was not, however written in a first person perspective, and it is told like Jake is looking back upon the events

Vernacular/Dialect- With the story taking place in different European countries, the characters would sometimes speak different languages. For example, since the Robert and Jake live in Paris, French would occasionally be spoken. And when in Spain, some characters would speak in Spanish

Structure- The dialog in the story is structure in individual lines, as if they were like a script

1. One example of direct Characterization in the story is Robert. Jake describes most of Robert's life story including his time in World War I, up to his current job as a writer. An example of indirect characterization is Mike Campell, who is only briefly described

2. The author doesn't really have a changing syntax

3. I think Jake is a dynamic character. In the beginning of the story, he does have feelings for Brett and has a bit of jealousy for the fact she was engaged, but as the story went on, he began to accept it more that Brett will go after different guys

4. I don't feel like I knew a character personally, but seeing things through Jake's perspective helped getting to know things better

Three Resources

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWlqwSkUjm8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TMfEnk95E-g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUHYNhf_exXV1rymay3_b81w&feature=player_detailpage&v=3Jo0qGYOjyQ

These are three videos that influenced Ricky and I to make this video. We took them and looked to them as inspiration, and they still will as we work on progress of the video

Launch

I'd like to introduce to you a little something I'm working on right now. For this big project, I'm collaborating on with my good friend/drummer buddy, Ricky Luna. We both share one thing in common, our love of drums and music. Since Ricky would like to work on music in his future career, and I'd like to work in video/film production for my future career, we figured, why not fuse the two things we both enjoy? So Ricky and I are working on a drumming video. But it involves more than just that. It will be me, Ricky, and a few of our drummer friends playing on a small sized drum set, drumming in various locations around town. Like, the park, the quad at our high school, etc. We have planned days that we are going to go film on.

After we have completed all the filming, I will be in charge of editing the video. Once the video is completed, we will be uploading the video to YouTube for the public to enjoy. We will also be sharing the video with our peers, and will use tools of the internet to try and spread the word about our video.

Production has already started, both Ricky and I along with our drummer friends participating in the video have had a great time making the video. And we can't wait until it's all finished

Brave New Essay

In Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess "That outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions." In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.

   In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley there is only one character that appears human from the rest of the people, that is Bernard Marx. He has sane, human thoughts that are lacked by other people, or "clones" that are created. Here are some examples as to why Bernard matches the description of what Kate Chopin said.

  First, Bernard has human-like feelings of lovesickness and jealousy, despite the fact that the director announced that the emotion was completely erased. Bernard also has different views of relationships and sex. Bernard believes that a relationship should last between two people and should not jump around sleeping with a different person every day. His thought completely goes against what exactly the director is trying to raise the children to become.

  Another example of Bernard's different thoughts and feelings are his feelings of their director and Ford. Every child made looks up to the director and also worships Henry Ford like a god. Bernard doesn't have the same feeling towards the two like all the other children do. To hide his feelings, he only pretends like he's excited whenever they are in presence.

  So that sums up how Bernard, the only human-like character in Brave New World relates to Kate Chopin's quote of conforming and questioning inwardly. For he is the only character that goes against the beliefs and action of the new world and what the director wants of the children.

Brave New World Essay Prompt

"Write an essay in which you convincingly argue that Brave New World describes what actually could happen, has happened, or is happening. Remember to link happenings in the modern world with specific events and ideas in the novel. Idea to consider: Is any of the fantasy in the novel now reality?"

I would do as the prompt implied. I would think about modern happenings and events that have happened in current day and try to relate them to the story that might be metaphorical 

I Am Here

Right now, I am in planning stages of my senior project which I am collaborating on with Ricky Luna. We've talked and chatted about it everyday since we came up with the idea. We have our team of drummers assembled, and we start filming this Saturday. As we record, we will keep on coming up with whatever ideas come to us along the way.

Welcome To The Interdisciplinary

Greetings, to the person that might be scrolling through this blog. Perhaps you aren't quite familiar with something like this before. Allow me to guide you through a bit. See this? This is a new way of learning. We have all the technology to help us learn just right here, with our easy to access resources when needed, and the people we can contact or can collaborate with guide us through and help each other out. So, take a look. Pass it on. Hopefully you might find it useful, and if that's the case, then go give a good word about it.

Lit Terms 6

Simile- Comparing one thing to another using "like" or "as" to compare the two

Soliloquy- The act of speaking one's thoughts or feelings aloud regardless of hearers

Spiritual- Relating to religion or religious belief

Speaker- The thing or person saying dialogue in the story

Stereotype- An oversimplified thought or image towards something or someone

Stream Of Consciousness- Thoughts passed through the mind of a character

Structure- Framework for a piece of literature

Style- The way that an author uses words

Subordination- A principle of hierarchical organization of linguistic units

Surrealism- A genre that combines unrelated images into text

Suspension Of Disbelief: A willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable

Symbol- An image that represents a phrase or object

Synesthesia- Presenting a character in a way that involves more than one sense

Synecdoche- Something referring to the whole of something

Syntax- The arrangement of words to make a sentance

Theme- A universal lesson learned after reading a story

Thesis- A proposition written for consideration

Tone- General feeling the author gives in writing the story

Tongue In Cheek- Something written not meant to be seriously-intended

Tragedy- A play dealing with tragic events along with an unhappy ending

Understatement- An expression or statement that has less strength than expected

Vernacular- Language spoken by people in a certain region

Voice- The author's style, that makes the writing unique

Zeitgeist- Fashion or school of thought that influences the culture of a certain time

Hafta/Wanna

To be honest, I don 't really think I'll change that much from after high school on to college. But, maybe I'm just looking at this at a personality angle. I'm not gonna be a completely new person right after graduation. But who knows, maybe college will shape me somehow. It might make me a better student, or more responsible, and maybe better at time management but I don't see me actually full-on changing any time soon into a completely different person

Launch/Draft

1. Something I'm passionate about is playing the drums and music. Along with that, I also enjoy movie production. So, why not fuse the two together? For what I want to do, I'll be collaborating with drummer buddy, Ricky Luna, and we're going to make a video with the both of us and other friends playing drums in various places around town. In front of stores/shopping centers, the quad, etc... Then I will edit it all together and make what should be a pretty fun, little, short movie

2. Once the video is done, I would like to use our useful tools of the internet to try and spread the video around and try to get more people than just my peers to watch the video

3. To feel the awesomeness will be watching that completed film and showing it to friends and peers of the AP Lit classes. My biggest regret will be not finishing it

4. I think the fun concept of the video itself should be able to interest people

5. I'd like to take the experience of making this video into my future and my desired career as a video editor and apply the skills I used into making the video into the future

6. I think everyone that watches the video will be "the network". With their feedback of the video and what they thought of it, that way I can fix and improve on my skills for the future

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism- A balance of one or more phrases with the same grammar structure

Parody- A rework of a certain work for comedic purpose

Pathos- An appeal to audience's emotion

Pedantry- Excessive concern with minor details and rules

Personification- Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects or animals  

Plot- The main conflict of a story

Poignant- Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

Point Of View- The perspective of where the story takes place from

Postmodernism- A 20th century arts movement that contains skeptical interpretations of culture

Prose- Written or spoken language in ordinary form

Protagonist- The "good guy" that the reader wants to support in a story

Pun- A form of word play that suggest two or more meanings

Purpose- Reason to why an author wrote a certain story

Realism- Genre in which things are depicted accurately

Refrain- A line or stanza that repeats 

Requiem- A mass for the repose for the souls of the dead

Resolution- The ending of a story where the concept is resolved

Restatement- To state again in a new form

Rhetoric- Effective use of persuasive writing

Rhetorical Question- A figure of speech of when a question is asked to make a point

Rising Action- The events of a dramatic plot preceding the climax

Romanticism- A genre of literature that contained more emphasis on emotion of characters

Satire- A type of humor made to point out social and political criticism 

Scansion- The act of graphically representing the character of a line of verse

Setting- Location or locations of where a story takes place