Brave New World-- 9

-Lenina swallowed 6 half-gramme tablets of some "It would be eighteen hours at the least before she was in time again."
-Bernard left her to run errands
-he spoke with Mustapha Mond
-Mond gave permission to bring Linda & John
-Bernard did a lot in the amount of time he had
-the author states the times Berard completes an action
-John comes to meet them but finds the door locked
-he sobs but half an hour later he looks through the mirror
-he finds a green suit-case with the initials L.C.
-John goes through Lenina's things
-he hears a noise
-John enters another rooms and finds her lying on the bed
-he kneels besides her
-anaphora "Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice;"
-John was thinking about touching Lenina
-"Did he dare? Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that … No, he didn't."
-John was scared to pull the zipper down
-he heard a fly only to find it was a plane
-he panic band ran to the other room
-John received Bernard as he climbed out of the helicopter

Brave New World-- 8

-Bernard says it’s hard for him to realize that they live as though they were on different planets

-Flashback & Imagery

-he remembers his mother being with a lot of men

-women beating his mother because of it

-his mother blaming him and hitting him, crying afterwards then kissing him

-Linda would talk about the Other Place to John and how it was

-the old men of the pueblo would talk about how the creation of the world they live in

-Linda taught John how to read

-John tried to read a book his mother kept “The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers”

-it took him an hour to read the title alone

-“He threw the book on the floor. "Beastly, beastly book!" he said, and began to cry.”

-when children would make fun of John, he tried harder to read

-Linda wasn’t able to answer his questions

-the old men of the pueblo had different answers to his questions

-after his 12^th birthday he found a new book “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”

-similes “The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried; like old Mitsima saying magic over his feathers…”

-“But now he had these words, these words like drums and singing and magic. These words and the strange, strange story out of which they were taken”

-setting: bedroom / his mother & Pope lying in bed

-Forshadowing: “"I'll kill him, I'll kill him, I'll kill him," he kept saying. And suddenly there were more

words.

When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage

 Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed …”

-he stabs Pope

-Pope laughs as John runs away crying

-Mitsima tells John that he needs to work the clay now that he’s 15

-John wanted to join the boys that will enter the kiva and come back as men

-they didn’t allow it & said "Not for the son of the she-dog,"

-they threw rocks at him then left him alone outside the pueblo

-Bernard & John talk about being alone lonely and different

-John tells Bernard “I stood against a rock in the middle of the day, in summer, with my arms out, like Jesus on the Cross." "What on earth for?" "I wanted to know what it was like being crucified. Hanging there in the sun …"”

-Bernard asks if John would come back to London with them

-John is happy and asks if Linda could too

-John asked Bernard if he’s married to Lenina

-after saying no Bernard begins to laugh

-John is ready to see the New World "O brave new world," he repeated. "O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once."

Brave New World-- 7

-setting: The Mesa

-could see the pueblo Malpais

-tall houses stepped and amputated like pyramids

-Lenina described it as "Queer"

-she doesn't like the man

-drums being beaten in Malpais

-wish they could have brought the plane 

-Lenina compared the top of the mesa that was a flat deck of stone to "Like the Charing-T Tower"

-the Indians were naked and could be heard because of their heavy jewelry

-they tried to avoid Lenina's presence

-at the entrance of pueblo, Lenina held her handkerchief over her nose

-she was amazed at the horrible conditions they lived in

-Bernard didn't make the situation into a big deal, but merely said "they've been doing it for the last five or six thousand years. So I suppose they must be used to it by now."

-they disagreed on how the Indians lived

-Bernard tried to be "unmoved" about the situation

-repetition "We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated."

-Bernard calls them creatures

-Lenina feels emotions and goes for the soma but finds that its been left behind at the rest-house

-Bernard talks to Lenina after seeing a mother breast their child "And what an intensity of feeling it must generate! I often think one may have missed something in not having had a mother. And per-haps you've missed something in not being a mother, Lenina. Imagine yourself sitting there with a little baby of your own. …"

-setting: "A dead dog was lying on a rubbish heap; a woman with a goitre was looking for lice in the hair of a small girl."

-they come across a village square and they notice underground chambers

-the drums reminded Lenina of "the synthetic noises made at Solidarity Services and Ford's Day 

celebrations." . "Orgy-porgy,"

-the Indian performance reminded Lenina of “a lower-caste Community Sing”

-they danced and sang a song then the leader of the dancers threw snakes at everyone to catch

-there was a lot of movement within the group and the dance

-Lenina covered her face and started to cry asking the people to stop what they were doing

-She kept crying wishing she had her soma

-a boy talked with them and they were amazed to hear what he had to say "I ought to have been there," the young man went on. "Why wouldn't they let me be the sacrifice? I'd have gone round ten times–twelve, fifteen. Palowhtiwa only got as far as seven. They could have had twice as much blood from me. The multitudinous seas incarnadine."

-he wished he could have been hit by the whip "to show that I'm a man”
-Lenina thinks he was a "nice-looking boy" and began to smile at him
-Linda was his mother
-she had she had came from the"Other Place long ago"
-She got hurt while walking alone and was left behind by Tomakin as he went back to the Other Place
-"(Yes, "Thomas" was the D.H.C.'s first name.)"
-hunters from Malpais found her and the boy was born in Malpais
-they meet Linda and she's in horrible conditions
-Linda starts to cry and is happy to see a "civilized face"
-she said she had to suffer without soma
-Linda was a Beta having a baby and ashamed of it
-she said she didn't know how it happened and that she took all precautions
-she begins to reminisce on old memories
-things are different there bcuz everyone belongs to one person
-Linda talk about being rushed after women found out that their men kept going to her
-she mentions John and how jealous he was 
-John was overprotective and couldn't understand why Linda had to be with so many people
-he tried to kill someone at one point
-Linda said it was hard to answer questions because she was just a Beta that worked in the Fertilizing room
-it ends with asking "What are you to answer?"

LIT TERMS APPLIED

I wasn't prepared for this test. I had to look for literary elements on the spot and within seconds. It was different, but something the course needed.

February Literary Analysis

GENERAL

1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read, and explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).

Death of a Salesman is about the American Dream. The novel focuses on the Loman family, mainly Willy Loman – the father. Willy, above everything else, holds appearances, popularity and his salesman title as priorities even though he has not completely acquired these characteristics. He has created this false image that he and his family are successful, but in reality they are on the edge of poverty. He faithfully believes that they will soon get their “big break” that they so greatly “deserve”. But as his mirage slowly begins to crumble and he begins to see he is really a failure, he slowly goes insane – has flashbacks and talks to his self-created apparitions. In the end he dies as a failure and not many people show for his funeral.

2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.

The theme of this novel is that of the American Dream. Willy believes that the key to success is through attractiveness and likeability, however the real path to the American Dream is through hard work. Since his dream doesn’t happen, Willy goes through a physiological breakdown.

3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).

The author’s tone in the play was monotone and gloomy.

4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers.

Syntax:

 “but now his old friends...they're all dead, retired”

Anaphora:

“He is not just liked, but well-liked” which shows his materialistic views

Symbolism:

“What the hell is that seed?”

Foreshadow:

“From the darkness is heard the laughter of a woman.”

Allusion:

“Smell the stink from that apartment house!”

Characterization:

 “He is past sixty years of age, dressed quietly.”

Conflict:

“Don’t you care whether he lives or dies?”

Epilogue:

 “Linda doesn’t react. She stares at the grave.”

Euphemism:                              

“Ah, it’s a dog’s life.”

Point of View:

“The curtain rises.”

 CHARACTERIZATION

1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization.  Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?

Direct and indirect characterizations have different purposes in a play. Direct characterization is meant for the actors so that they could imitate the characters. Indirect characterization is meant for the audience during the production of a play.

2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character?  How? Example(s)?

When the author focuses on character description, the diction and syntax become simpler and more directed towards specific people.

3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic?  Flat or round?  Explain.

The protagonist is a static flat character. His inability to grasp reality and his constant lying to his wife show that he doesn't really change during the play.

 4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character?  Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction.

It feels like I read a character. His reactions to certain events made it seem unreal. A real person would have reacted through actions, instead of being in denial of being a failure. 

FIRST QUARTER REVIEW

I believe I've done alright on required assignments. It takes me a few days to catch up on the assignments I've missed, but I will complete them. I have gathered information through the group I'm working with and am trying to reach new connections. I expect to get a good score on the AP Exam, pass the course and leave a footprint with my senior project. 

Lit terms 108 to End

1. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

2. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement toward climax.

3. 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.

4. Satire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of indivduals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

5. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

6. Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.

7. Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

8. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

9. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

10. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

11. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

12. Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character's thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

13. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

14. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

15. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.

16. Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

17. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

18. Symbol: something which stands for something else; yet has a meaning of its own.

19. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

20. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

21. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

22. Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).

23. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disaproved: the main idea.

24. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.

25. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. "dry" or "dead pan"

BOB I

I will be listing my top 10 blog in no particular order. These are blogs that are almost always on top of things. Most of them are.

1.  E'ana Bordon
2.  Sarah Gutierrez
3.  Kathryn Greenup
4.  Josh Montero
5.  Socorro Ramirez
6.  Ubi Kim
7.  Katelyn Porraz
8.  Hayden Robel
9.  Ryland Towne
10.  Will Veroski

I AM HERE

For the first grading period, I have struggled to get my assignments done on time but I am catching up. Im almost caught up and I already started the new literary analysis.

I put my senior project on hold because I'm having to apply for scholarships. I know what i need to do to get it done though. All I need left is to send a letter and communicate with everyone involved.

Lit Terms 82-108

Omniscient Point of View: Knowing all things, usually the third person. 
Onomatopoeia: Use of a word whose sound on some degree imitates or suggests its meaning. 
Oxymoron: 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. 
Parallelism: The principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form. 
Parody: An imitation or mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well known artist. 
Pathos: The ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness. 
Pedantry: A display of learning for its own sake. 
Personification: A figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
Plot: A plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose. 
Poignant: Eliciting sorrow or sentiment. 
Point of View: The attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; physical point from which the observer views what he is describing. 
Postmodernism: Literature characterized by experimentation, irony, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary. 
Prose: The ordinary form of spoken and written language, language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern. 
Protagonist: The center character in a work of fiction, opposes antagonist. 
Pun: Play on words, the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications. 
Purpose: The intended result wished by an author. 
Realism: Writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is. 
Refrain: A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus. 
Requiem: Any chant, hymn, or musical service for the dead. 
Resolution: Point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement. 
Restatement: Idea repeated for emphasis. 
Rhetoric: Use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade. 
Rhetorical Question: Question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.