Essay Day 2

Pre-write cannot be posted due to lack of a scanner at my house.. I have a hard copy if needed.

Desire. Its impossible to get away from. There is always something that one wants. Whether is be food, clothes, toys , or the company of another. In the poem The Blind Man's Mark by Sir Philip Sydney, the speaker has a negative attitude about desire. "Band of all evils."
The author uses elements like personification, rhyme scheme, and rhythm to get his main point across. Rhyme scheme an rhythm catch the readers attention and makes them become instantly interested. this helps the speaker to fully get his message out there because he has the full attention of his audience.
Personification is a strong element in this poem. Desire is being described as one would describe a person. This allows the speaker to reach out to the audience and get them to really fell the way that he does. People always feel more emotional and sympathetic towards other people. The author wants to use that to his advantage and extract as much feeling and understanding from his audience as he can.
The speaker has a negative view on desire. "Desiring naught but how to kill desire." He is saying that he doesn't want anything else, only to kill his desires and desire itself. In the poem the speaker discusses all the ways in which desire can ruin someone or himself.
Rhythm, rhyme scheme, and personification help to accentuate this attitude about desire by drawing the reader in so that the speaker can be more direct and will ensure that he audience's emotions are tapped with his words.

Essay Day 1

Pre-write cannot be posted due to a lack of a scanner at my house. I have a hard copy if needed.


Everyone expects different things in life. Some expect to lay low and go with the flow and others expect to defy gravity and actually do something. In the novel Brave New World by Adolus Huxley, Bernard Marx is unsatisfied with the world he lives in. he wants to make a difference. the change he makes ends up changing him for the bad.
Bernard goes to he Savage Reservation and finds a boy conceived by a woman who was left at the reservation long before. He takes the boy, John, and the mother back home and shows his peers his discovery. Bernard becomes famous and this causes him to change. the fame goes to his head and he goes from being shy and reserved to Mr. Popular and Mr. Conceded. He doesn't handle the fame well. the controlling surroundings he lives with doesn't held this change. Bernard also begins to speak his mind about the negativities of their world and it gets him into trouble. The Director the police and the soma distributors are all against him. he ends up getting sent to ice Land for disturbing the natural balance. The fame Bernard experiences for a short period of time immediately went to his head, he was no longer an outcast, but he lost his friends, his home and his job because of it all.
This aspect of the story is very minor. but it adds to the theme and meaning of the novel by teaching people to be thankful for what they have. Life was put that way for a reason. Just focusing on Bernard, John turned out to be a huge mistake. It basically ruined him. As for others, he had a slightly different impact but they were not effected in the same way.

SEVENTH READING

I have chosen to read "Oranges" by Gary Soto. This has been my favorite poem since 7th grade. I have read it thousands of times. But i still read it again and again and again.. Seven times. And what is different to me now is the final few lines..
"I peeled my orange
That was so bright against
The gray of December
That, from some distance,
Someone might have thought
I was making a fire in my hands"
I just realized that these lines can be interpeted as success. He is magic. He was able to pay for a candy bar with a nickle and an orange. His date was a success. They were both happy. The fire represents this happiness in the dreary darkness of December.

LIT CIRCLES: MULTIPLE CHOICE

Slaughterhouse Five

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Kafka On the Shore

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Life of Pi 1
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Life of Pi 2
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Life of Pi 3
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Carrie by Stephen King

Open Essay Questions

- Is bullying a good enough reason to kill? Use examples from the novel "Carrie" to support your position.

- What role does religion play in "Carrie"? Is it significant?

- A massacure if this size, almost 440 people, has been said to be greater than John F. Kennedy'sassasination. When, if ever, is there reason to kill? Use examples from "Carrie" to support your answer.

MACBETH ACTIVE READING NOTES

Act 2
-Banquo and Macbeth are wary about the witches prophecy
-Macbeth is nervous about killing Duncan.
-He tells himself that he has to act now before he can talk himself out of it.
-Lady Macbeth does have feelings... for her father
-Macbeth feels guilty after the murder "Amen stuck in my throat"
-Lady Macbeth is outraged by Macbeths guilt
-why is the knocking relevant?
-Lady Macbeth and Macbeth cover up their crime smoothly
-What is going on between Malcom and Donablain?

Act 5
-Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking.. probably due to her guilt over Banquo.
-Macbeth is kind of worried about his wife.. but he is more upset about the fact that her "illness" cannot instantly be cure. he is disappointed in the doctors practice
-Macbeth has become immune to fear
-Macbeth sees little point to life "Life’s but a walking shadow"
-" I’d like to see the world plunged into chaos" great line by Macbeth
-McDuff wants nothing more than to kill Macbeth himself
-McDuff decapitates Macbeth... Classy
-Malcom becomes King of Scotland

Multiple Choice Questions: Section One- Answers

1. E
2. A
3. E
4. B
5. A
6. A
7. D
8. D
9. D
10. B
11. E
12. C
13. E
14. D
15. D
16. C
17. A
18. E
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20. C
21. B
22. C
23. B
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25. C
26. C
27. A
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30. C
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32. D
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37. E
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40. D
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46. E
47. B
48. D
49. A
50. D
51. B
52. C
53. C
54. E