3-23-15

My view of the modern theme of industrial and mechanization is horrible, abusive, and not innocent. These films show me how abusive humans are to  others and animals. Mass production is unhealthy because how can you make so much in good conditions. They have people slavering over these machines like they are apart of them. Factories are huge and may need many workers who are desperate for a job but can not live their dream. I relate to the films because I recognize that we work to get paid not because its are passion.

March 12, 2015

Roald Dahl 

            He uses dramatic irony to help develop his stories all the way to the end. He takes any situation to make interesting having us waiting to know what really happened. Dahl goes into depth with his characters with many detail describing them letting us know a most about their appearance and personality. Dahl uses many techniques in our interest. Some literary devices he uses in his stories are Characterization, conflict, foreshadowing, imagery, and definitely irony. The climax is usually when he enters his plot twist.  

march 4, 2015

Tennyson in my point of view valued the perishable real world. It was real stuff he wrote about affecting his life instead of the fantasy of a timeless world. Everything has an ending, everyone will sure value and accept the reality before they are gone. He values what really can happen or is happening not the non existent future.
When you continue to educate yourself it opens your eyes to other discoveries you did not mean to run into.

February 25

He describes the nature he has been surrounded by before in the graves the bones were collected from. He says his creation was beautiful but only his way of beautiful. His creation had long black hair along with black straight lips and was huge. The human body can be apart of nature and beauty. The progress he explains he had to go through on his own makes it obvious he stuck to what he wanted to do or be. "...I was thus engaged heart and soul, in one pursuit". Some of that individual progress included his father encouraging him most of the way. The sickness did not stop any progress.

February 11, 2015

The settings of the poems the poets describe in a exotic way represent the Romantics. They give us an image to understand their surroundings at the time. The nature that they go deeply into details is almost like a fantasy they create.

February 8, 2015

              The mariner's lifelong penance was to get his story out. He will spread his words of wisdom and warn the other of his depression and how to avoid it. The Mariner tells his listeners to respect everything of God. He will preach this forever. The listener's are happy because they can view the world in a different view. They have his story to look back to and see how it may get worse.

February 5, 2015

           Our modern society is accurately described in "The World Is Too Much With Us". People today do not appreciate the nature that surrounds us or any given opportunities and we do not realize it until it is too late. We make ourselves useless to the world. People are to focus on the wrong things and are too busy to stop and take in the overwhelming world. Like the speaker said we have sold our souls to whatever it is. Modern society has completely ignored nature and it's beauty.

February 4, 2015

1.
a) the lamb is a universal symbol of innocence because Blake describes them as little, soft and gave us the softest clothes and sacrificed their wool
b) the tiger symbolizes experience because it is fearful and is shows evilness or the dark side.
c) yes Blake reasoning for presenting archetype in pairs shows the difference between the two and makes it simple to understand each one separately

2.
Blake's usage of alliteration in both "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" helps emphasizes what he is trying to represent in these poems because it makes it stand out and allows us to catch on to something obvious.      

3.
a) "The Lamb" helps me understand the innocence of Tom in the second stanza in "The Chimney Sweeper" because Blake compares his bald head to a shaved back of a lamb they have no clue why they are in the situation they are in and why people are taking advantages
b) They do not know any better than to go through the struggles and while they are in them they still don't know because of how young or innocent they are

4.
who is suffering?      why?                                                      significance to that time
The young boys      they are sold or put into                           no law for child labor, mistreated
                              the chimney sweeps and that's abuse

the family               taking care of the baby                             they didn't have enough money

5.
the cat thinks he is big as a tiger

6.
a) yes they all have a representation of innocence or experience relating to other poems sometimes
b) "The Lamb" and "infant sorrow" because they relate and people have much sympathy for young little creations

7.
a) yes, poets usually express their time period
b) "The Chimney Sweeper" showed us with the young boys went through during that time

January 15, 2015

The Umbrella Man

                     A twelve year old and her mother had gone to an dentist appointment for this hole in the girls tooth that had to be filled. After they were all done they decided to go to a cafe for a coffee and a banana split. When they were ready to go home they've noticed it started to rain not just a little. They were trying to figure out their way home without getting soaked so they will try to find an empty taxi. As they stood searching a "gentleman" had approached mother in a nice way offering her his silk umbrella in exchange for taxi-fare which cost less than his umbrella. The mother daughter then noticed how fast he dashed off not looking any kind of tired so they were curious enough to follow him to see what was up. They had discovered the truth of what he needed that pound for. He entered a pub and asked for a drink he sat there and drunk until it was gone. The mother knew he was suspicious, it was proven right when he got up, took another umbrella and dashed off again back tot the main street to do it all over, but to a different pub. The daughter was more kind than mother because she thought the little old man was innocent, but mother's suspicion was accurate. The man was ticker who had been caught by the mother and daughter so he was so clever after all. There is always irony in Dahls short stories, the character who comes in articulation with the narrator never is who he set out to be at first. 4/5  

January 14, 2015

The Sound Machine 

                         Character Klausner seems to be over excessive with sounds, he admits it to his doctor at his hospital visit for his throat. Then, he explains how he have created this machine that zooms into sounds we normally can't hear. When Klausner goes back home he tries an experiment, his neighbor was cutting roses and he could hear them shriek. He call the doctor to come to where he was quickly after he heard the beach tree moan so loudly, he was scared. As soon as the doctor came to hear a branch had fallen on the machine before Klausner was able to swing again. Now the machine was broken and he could not prove his creation was accurate. Klausner was patient like when he had to wait by the telephones. He is also confident and excited about his machine knowing it works. The doctor sometimes seem nervous just as Klausner's neighbor was when she was asked to cut another rose, she did not know what for. The mood set between Klausner and the other characters were anxious. The other wanted to know what he was trying to prove and he was just trying to confirm it all. The plot happen to be weird because we never know where the characters was. Klausner has a different point of view for sound then the rest of us. People usually does not pay attention to the noises we cant hear clearly but they are there. 2/5 

January 13, 2015

The Hitchhiker 

                       On his way to London he picks up a hitchhiker in his brand new nice BMW. The man he picked up was described as looking like a rat and he explained tot the narrator that he was going to a horse race but not to bet or anything. This narrator mentions he is a writer and then they start discussing his new car and how it can reach 120 mph. The narrator proves his car can go that fast until a big tough policeman on a BMW motorcycle stops them. The writer is courageous and naive as he does things like speed and get a ticket just to prove something not important at all. Although, the writer represents a nice character by giving the hitchhiker a left. The hitchhiker was really clever and also showed some a good level of intelligence. He had the narrator going thinking about what is he does as a career because he had told him one thing before, but the policeman another. Now the writer was confused and asked once more what it really was he did for a living. The plot twist was right when the policeman had pulled them over and everything had to come out. He was neither what he told the narrator or the cop. The hitchhiker was a finger smith he could take anything he wanted with out anyone noticing, just as he took the two books from the cop. Dahl introduces the characters as one thing, but really end up being someone else. The tone of each person speaking helps readers know exactly how they feel. Irony is also used because the hitchhiker had taken the books which meant there was no ticket to register. 2.5/5        

January 12, 2015

Man from the south 

                 

   The narrator Dahl gives no name to was lying on a hotel pool in a hot place with palm trees. A white small man wearing a white suit and a panama hat comes in touch with him. Then comes along an American boy and English girl. The boy asks who were the American sailors coming around. The boy goes on in confidence that his light will always work even in crazy wind. The old man asks the boy if he is willing to bet on how good his lighter was. The bet was if the boy was able to light his light ten times in a row with out a skip he would get his Cadillac. If the boy loses the bet he will loose his little finger. The boy was confident believing his lighter will work each time. The little man was a lunatic wanting little finger and losing all of his cars. The two other characters were just standbys. In the middle of the process at his eight light, a women bargained in stopping the man and telling the passed stories of him before. The boy noticed the woman with missing fingers. Dahl uses an allegory to not trust anyone and it is not always what it seem. The old Man had nothing the Cadillac was not even his in the first place. 3/5      

January 7, 2015

Genesis and Catastrophe 

                      A women was giving birth to her son Adolf in a new hospital to her and her husband. She was nervous and scared of the birth of her child because the three children of hers in the past have all died from being ill. They all seemed to be small but the doctor was encouraging her that this new one was normal. The way the mother is described laying on the hospital bed was worrisome, as she has been through tragedy and it was obvious. The doctor was more supportive than the father was. He made sure Karla was convinced Adolf would survive and be a healthy baby. The mother Karla was too deniable, it was hard for her to hold the baby or just look at him because of the awful deaths of her children before. The father was so helpful stating that the baby was just like the other better yet even smaller. The plot twist is at the very end when the husband is forced to act kind to his wife Karla, the mother of his new born baby. Now, the wife was more reassured about the doctors statements of the baby's survival. This was the ironic part, it is clear that this new born was Adolf Hitler. Dahl writes about a couple ho has lost three children with in 18 months before this new baby and the mother really is begging for her child's survival. These characters represent real life people which creates an interesting way to look at any situation. Dahl uses them as an allusion weather readers get the message or not.  

January 6, 2015

Lamb to the Slaughter

                   There was some weird tension between Mary Malonely and Patrick Malonely Thursday night after he arrived home from work. Mary Malonely quickly took notice of his strange actions after drinking a stronger drink than regularly, she knew something was up. After the husband decided to tell her some bad news Mrs. Malonely lost it and the end was coming for Mr. Malonely but nobody would know how. Mary not wanting to believe any of it, made it seem easy not to. She went about her ways as normal as possible ignoring his strange acts knowing he was hiding something. The author must have not let readers know what the news was on purpose but it is obvious it was not pleasant to the wife. 

                    Mary Maloney observant and defending of herself. She would not be taken for granted. The fact that she got away with her husband's murder brings out her intelligence. She also created the perfect alibi making sure she had someone to back her up on the idea she was not there when Patrick died. Patrick Maloney was honest but mean to for leaving his wife impregnated. There is no good development for his character because he was cut short. The plot twisted as soon as the lamb was in her hand. Dahl uses an allegory in order to get his stories a crossed and leaving room for readers to fill in their own story. There is also irony in the story when the police officers eat up the weapon used to kill Patrick which was funny. All of the characters in Dahl's short stories are not fully developed because of the time frame he has to tell it. 3.8/5

January 5, 2015

Roald Dahl was an author born in 1916 from the United Kingdoms. He graduated from Repton in 1932 and went on an expedition to Newfoundland. Then, he had taken on job with the Shell Oil Company in Tanzania. In order to receive more adventure in his life he joined the Royal Air Force. After training in Kenya he became a World War II fighter pilot. Dahl was involved in a plane crash while serving in the Mediterranean in Egypt. Author c.s. Forester encouraged Dahl to become an writer while in Washington D.C. Dahl published his first short story in the Saturday Evening Post. He also continued writing stories and articles for other magazines like The New Yorker. He wrote The Gremlins for Walt Disney in 1942. Dahl first established himself as a children's writer in 1971, when he published the book James and the Giant Peach. Dahl claimed he was only trying to appeal to his audience of children with their cruder sense of humor. Although, many parents were upset of the portrayal that was made of children's harsh revenge on adult wrongdoers