Thursday, November 12, 2009
Emily Dickinson
Stayed away from the world- didn't want her poems to be published after she died. She wanted the poems burned but after four years of her being dead her sister decided to publish them. They were too good to keep hidden. She wrote poems about sadness and hope in her life. A lot of them had to do with death of a family member of herself.
Necessary to Protect Ourselves
By Malcolm X
Malcolm is more for the violence- he thinks that blacks need to protect themselves and however they do that is fine.
-He says that if the police are unwilling to protect them then they have to protect themselves.
-He says that no white is willing to protect a black: ex: FBI
-He says that the county was made by people that were tired of the way things were- and you should expect something of the same thing from blacks soon.
Malcolm is more for the violence- he thinks that blacks need to protect themselves and however they do that is fine.
-He says that if the police are unwilling to protect them then they have to protect themselves.
-He says that no white is willing to protect a black: ex: FBI
-He says that the county was made by people that were tired of the way things were- and you should expect something of the same thing from blacks soon.
Stride Towards Freedom
By Martin Luther King Jr.
-There are three ways to deal with the fair and unjust:
1. crawl into yourself-try to crawl away from it.
2. physical violence
3. nonviolent resistance- this is the way Martin Luther King thinks it should be done.
-There are three ways to deal with the fair and unjust:
1. crawl into yourself-try to crawl away from it.
2. physical violence
3. nonviolent resistance- this is the way Martin Luther King thinks it should be done.
Ballad of Birmingham
-A girl asks to go down town to protest and her mother says no. It is not safe for little girls. They should be going to church and singing. After she sends her daughter to church the church was blown up by a white supremacist. She only found her daughters shoe.
Coming of Age in Mississippi
By Anne Moody
-this is a story of Anne as college student and her experiences.
-Anne is trying to graduate, her credits haven't been passed on and she can't live on campus b/c she doesn't have any money. She can't eat very much and she knows she has to finish to show everyone. How wrong they were about her. She is helping with movement.
-Anne was to be a spokes person at a local lunch counter for the NAACP. The police knew something was going to happen but not when and where.
-Her and two students sat down at the all white lunch counter.
-The waitress turn off the lights and run away.
-They just sat there as more and more people came in-some white college students tied a noose and tried to put it around their necks. They were called every name in the book.
-They started to pray and a man threw Memphis on the floor and started kicking him. Anne was slapped and the police arrested Memphis and the attacker. Pearlena was thrown to the floor, they got back on the stools and tried to keep composure.
-They got stuff thrown at them and by the time they were covered. Anne went into a salon and got her hair washed.
-this is a story of Anne as college student and her experiences.
-Anne is trying to graduate, her credits haven't been passed on and she can't live on campus b/c she doesn't have any money. She can't eat very much and she knows she has to finish to show everyone. How wrong they were about her. She is helping with movement.
-Anne was to be a spokes person at a local lunch counter for the NAACP. The police knew something was going to happen but not when and where.
-Her and two students sat down at the all white lunch counter.
-The waitress turn off the lights and run away.
-They just sat there as more and more people came in-some white college students tied a noose and tried to put it around their necks. They were called every name in the book.
-They started to pray and a man threw Memphis on the floor and started kicking him. Anne was slapped and the police arrested Memphis and the attacker. Pearlena was thrown to the floor, they got back on the stools and tried to keep composure.
-They got stuff thrown at them and by the time they were covered. Anne went into a salon and got her hair washed.
Gettyburg Address
The Gettysburg Battle started over shoes. The confederate army needed shoes but when sent to get them they encountered Union Soldiers.
-July 1-3, 1863
the union won
President Lincoln gave speech in remembrance of the soldiers lost.
3. I think that Lincoln was a very noble man. He was respected in everything he did and was able to bring many people together.
-In his speech he says that everyone will come together and that the nation will have a new birth. He brings hop to the people.
-He remembers the soldiers lost in the Battle of Gettysburg, he dedicates this speech and the resting place to them.
-He tells the people that they need to be as dedicated to the cause of making this county better just as the soldiers were at fighting for their side.
-He visions the nation as being born again, he says that it will be governed by the people, by the people and for the people.
-July 1-3, 1863
the union won
President Lincoln gave speech in remembrance of the soldiers lost.
3. I think that Lincoln was a very noble man. He was respected in everything he did and was able to bring many people together.
-In his speech he says that everyone will come together and that the nation will have a new birth. He brings hop to the people.
-He remembers the soldiers lost in the Battle of Gettysburg, he dedicates this speech and the resting place to them.
-He tells the people that they need to be as dedicated to the cause of making this county better just as the soldiers were at fighting for their side.
-He visions the nation as being born again, he says that it will be governed by the people, by the people and for the people.
Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
The narrative of Frederick Douglas is about his life and what he goes through as a slave. His original owner rented him out to a neighboring slave driver to try to break him in. Frederick had been a house slave and had learned to read and write but could not work in the fields. When he was sent to the other plantation he was beaten very badly. He was whipped for no reason and so one day he decided to go back home. He was almost dead as he walked seven miles up the road. When he got back to his owners, they told him he had to go back. He met some friends that gave him a root saying that it would help him. They told him that he would never be whipped again as long as he kept this root in his pocket. He goes back to his owner and the owner is about ready to give him a big whipping. Frederick stands up for himself and takes the owner by the neck and almost chokes him. From then on Frederick was never beaten. The owner was scared of him and he realized he could stick up for himself.
Style:
-formal
-conversational
-concise/elaborate
-objective
-subjective
-word choice
-sentence choice
-tone
-figurative language
-use of dialogue
Figurative Language:
"He was under every tree, behind every stump, in every bush, and at every window, on the plantation." (565)
Word Choice:
"We were worked in all weathers." (565)
Subjective:
"I was broken in body, soul, and spirit." (565)
Tone:
"My sufferings on this plantation seem now like a dream rather than a stern reality. . . " (565)
Use of Dialogue:
"Covey said, 'Take hold of him, take hold of him!"'
Style:
-formal
-conversational
-concise/elaborate
-objective
-subjective
-word choice
-sentence choice
-tone
-figurative language
-use of dialogue
Figurative Language:
"He was under every tree, behind every stump, in every bush, and at every window, on the plantation." (565)
Word Choice:
"We were worked in all weathers." (565)
Subjective:
"I was broken in body, soul, and spirit." (565)
Tone:
"My sufferings on this plantation seem now like a dream rather than a stern reality. . . " (565)
Use of Dialogue:
"Covey said, 'Take hold of him, take hold of him!"'
Monday, November 9, 2009
Declaration of Independence
List of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
These are things that have happened over and over and not gotten through peoples heads.
2. Why do they make it personal?
They bring out peoples faults and by doing this they hope to change the minds and actions of the people.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
It tells the people that they realize how life has been. They respect the need to stay the same but they also say that you must get rid of old times to move on in the world.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
When they say He before every fact. They emphasize the facts and faults. That way you know what is wrong and what needs to be changed.
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. " This is saying that not matter what we need to be peaceful and willing to live with others as one.
1. Why do they repeat it?
These are things that have happened over and over and not gotten through peoples heads.
2. Why do they make it personal?
They bring out peoples faults and by doing this they hope to change the minds and actions of the people.
3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
It tells the people that they realize how life has been. They respect the need to stay the same but they also say that you must get rid of old times to move on in the world.
4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
When they say He before every fact. They emphasize the facts and faults. That way you know what is wrong and what needs to be changed.
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.
5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. " This is saying that not matter what we need to be peaceful and willing to live with others as one.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A Murder, A Mystery, A Marriage
John Gray- farmer, 55 years old(Sarah/Sally Gray- John's wife)
He lives in small town called Deer Lick.
His daughter Mary Gray and Hugh Gregory want to get married.
Reverend John Hurley
Tom Gray- son of John and Sarah(Mary's brother)
Dave Gray-John's brother-Has lots of money.
-Hates Hugh because he tried to cheat Hugh's father out of money and Hugh stopped him.
Dave left all his money to Mary in his will
John went into the field and found a stranger in the snow
The stranger was named George Wayne-Frenchman, very rich, father is a lord and so is he, his father wanted to marry a queen but he wanted to marry for love.
His real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Mary now says she could love Count b/c he came a gave a big speech about how he will leave her alone b/c she loves Hugh.
Hugh and Dave get in a fight.
Count comes and says he loves her. John comes and said Hugh has killed Dave, the knife, the cloth and blood.
Hugh and Mary are trying to reach each other but John gets in the way.
Count and Mary decide to get married.
The hanging is on the same day as the wedding.
Mary doesn't know that Hugh has been excused.
They are going to get married- a stranger is the reverend and he tells of the hanging. The police rush in and say that Hugh is innocent.
-Jean Mercier-counts real real name.
--He taught himself everything he knows.
Count killed Dave Gray so that he could get Mary's wealth
Jean had worked for Jules Vern and Jean would go and when he came back he told Vern his stories. Vern would then twist his stories and make books. He killed Vern when they were up in a hot air balloon.
This is the ripping on Jules Vern b/c of Mark Twain and the stolen book.
He lives in small town called Deer Lick.
His daughter Mary Gray and Hugh Gregory want to get married.
Reverend John Hurley
Tom Gray- son of John and Sarah(Mary's brother)
Dave Gray-John's brother-Has lots of money.
-Hates Hugh because he tried to cheat Hugh's father out of money and Hugh stopped him.
Dave left all his money to Mary in his will
John went into the field and found a stranger in the snow
The stranger was named George Wayne-Frenchman, very rich, father is a lord and so is he, his father wanted to marry a queen but he wanted to marry for love.
His real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Mary now says she could love Count b/c he came a gave a big speech about how he will leave her alone b/c she loves Hugh.
Hugh and Dave get in a fight.
Count comes and says he loves her. John comes and said Hugh has killed Dave, the knife, the cloth and blood.
Hugh and Mary are trying to reach each other but John gets in the way.
Count and Mary decide to get married.
The hanging is on the same day as the wedding.
Mary doesn't know that Hugh has been excused.
They are going to get married- a stranger is the reverend and he tells of the hanging. The police rush in and say that Hugh is innocent.
-Jean Mercier-counts real real name.
--He taught himself everything he knows.
Count killed Dave Gray so that he could get Mary's wealth
Jean had worked for Jules Vern and Jean would go and when he came back he told Vern his stories. Vern would then twist his stories and make books. He killed Vern when they were up in a hot air balloon.
This is the ripping on Jules Vern b/c of Mark Twain and the stolen book.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens is his real name. He was born on Nov. 30 1835. At a young age he had very poor health and was kept inside most of the time. At age 12 his father died and he went to school to be an printers apprentice. He became a river pilot and Mark Twain came from river talk. It means it is free to move on. He then became a newspaper and married Olivia Langdon. They had four children but three died before the age of twenty. By the end of his writing career he had written over 30 books. Before writing under Mark Twain Samuel used Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass as his pen name. His books are controversial because of the use of words for African Americans and the fact that he uses many African Americans in his stories as main charaters was controverial.
Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
Ex: the irony of someones reply when you ask how their weekend was and they say Great when really they worked all weekend.
Jules Verne was a Frence writer. He was writing books at the same time as Mark Twain. He wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
Ex: the irony of someones reply when you ask how their weekend was and they say Great when really they worked all weekend.
Jules Verne was a Frence writer. He was writing books at the same time as Mark Twain. He wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
The Fall of the House of Usher
-Poe: very structured in his writing
-unity of effect: single overall feeling
-Poe wrote to explore the strange and fantastic, convey psychological terror through carefully chosen details and events.
-Mood: feeling or atmosphere through writers words.
The narrator goes to the house of Usher to visit an old friend. It is a big house and only the friend and his sister live there. They are the last of the Ushers and are both quite sick. The house seems to be dying with the family. Roderick gets nervous about everything and his senses are all extreme. He can't listen to anything but string interments, or eat anything but bland foods. His sister has spells where she looks like she is dead. She will go into a coma like stage and nobody really knows if she is alive or dead. While the friend is visiting Roderick buries his sister alive on purpose. He wants the family to be gone and everything to be destroyed. The friend just thinks she died suddenly. He wants to end their suffering. Roderick hears her scratching at the coffin and screaming. On night there is a storm and the friend reads a book to Roderick because he is going crazy. Everything he reads in the book happens in real life. The sister escapes and comes up bloody and scary looking. Roderick screams and she falls on him and it kills him. The friend goes running out of the house and is able to escape before the house crumbles into the ground and goes into the swamp in was near.
-unity of effect: single overall feeling
-Poe wrote to explore the strange and fantastic, convey psychological terror through carefully chosen details and events.
-Mood: feeling or atmosphere through writers words.
The narrator goes to the house of Usher to visit an old friend. It is a big house and only the friend and his sister live there. They are the last of the Ushers and are both quite sick. The house seems to be dying with the family. Roderick gets nervous about everything and his senses are all extreme. He can't listen to anything but string interments, or eat anything but bland foods. His sister has spells where she looks like she is dead. She will go into a coma like stage and nobody really knows if she is alive or dead. While the friend is visiting Roderick buries his sister alive on purpose. He wants the family to be gone and everything to be destroyed. The friend just thinks she died suddenly. He wants to end their suffering. Roderick hears her scratching at the coffin and screaming. On night there is a storm and the friend reads a book to Roderick because he is going crazy. Everything he reads in the book happens in real life. The sister escapes and comes up bloody and scary looking. Roderick screams and she falls on him and it kills him. The friend goes running out of the house and is able to escape before the house crumbles into the ground and goes into the swamp in was near.
The Signal Man By Charles Dickens
Specter- ghost
-The signal man lives and works at the station. A visitor came to pay a visit to the signal man. He was taking a walk a was interested in the signals man's work. They became friends and the signal man tells him about the ghost and how the ghost yells Hello below down there and waves his arms like danger is coming. Both times it has happened some one has died.
-The signal man lives and works at the station. A visitor came to pay a visit to the signal man. He was taking a walk a was interested in the signals man's work. They became friends and the signal man tells him about the ghost and how the ghost yells Hello below down there and waves his arms like danger is coming. Both times it has happened some one has died.
The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe
Poem about loss.
-Raven represents evil, omens, and death. Bird of prophecy.
-End Rhyme-similar or identical sounds at the ends of lines.
-Internal Rhyme- rhymes within a line.
-Rhyme scheme- the basic pattern of the end rhymes.
The man in story has lost someone in the past, Lorene. He is morning about his lost love. A raven comes and sits on the top of his door. All the raven will ever will say is Nevermore. The man asks the raven questions that he knows will be answered nevermore. His sorrow continues. He already knows what the answer is and it will continue to make him sad.
-Raven represents evil, omens, and death. Bird of prophecy.
-End Rhyme-similar or identical sounds at the ends of lines.
-Internal Rhyme- rhymes within a line.
-Rhyme scheme- the basic pattern of the end rhymes.
The man in story has lost someone in the past, Lorene. He is morning about his lost love. A raven comes and sits on the top of his door. All the raven will ever will say is Nevermore. The man asks the raven questions that he knows will be answered nevermore. His sorrow continues. He already knows what the answer is and it will continue to make him sad.
The Masque of the Red Death
-Allegory- a work with two layers of meaning, where the persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities.
Prince- thought he could escape the plague. He couldn't escape the plague.
Abbey- was a refuge from the plague. It became a place of death.
Series of 7 rooms- all had life but the scarlet room meant death. They all die in the black room. Stages of life.
Clock- life/death. Stops ticking when last person dies.
Stranger- the plague. No one can escape it.
The plague had killed many people, they would have sharp pains, dizziness, lots of bleeding and then die.
-The prince thought it would be a good idea to save some of his people. They went into a closed abbey and it was provided with supplies and different kinds of people. Then he shut everyone else out. They started to party!
-The clock is in the bed room with the black and scarlet furniture. The clock represents evil or death. It strikes every hour and everything freezes and the people are confused and nervous.
-Nobody will sleep in the apartment because it has the clock. It is the farthest one back and its scary! All the other rooms have life but this room is death.
-A masked stranger comes out of the dark room, people are surprised, their horrified and then disgusted.
-The stranger represents death. He is dressed like death, he has a mask that looks like a skeleton, he has blood all over him.
-The Prince is mad and orders his men to take him away to be killed. No one will move to the dark side and kill him. They let the stranger walk the whole length of the room. Prince tries to kill him but the stranger kills everyone he walks by without touching them.
-The stranger represents the plague. He is not a real man but a dark side. The Prince tries to escape the plague but it was impossible.
Prince- thought he could escape the plague. He couldn't escape the plague.
Abbey- was a refuge from the plague. It became a place of death.
Series of 7 rooms- all had life but the scarlet room meant death. They all die in the black room. Stages of life.
Clock- life/death. Stops ticking when last person dies.
Stranger- the plague. No one can escape it.
The plague had killed many people, they would have sharp pains, dizziness, lots of bleeding and then die.
-The prince thought it would be a good idea to save some of his people. They went into a closed abbey and it was provided with supplies and different kinds of people. Then he shut everyone else out. They started to party!
-The clock is in the bed room with the black and scarlet furniture. The clock represents evil or death. It strikes every hour and everything freezes and the people are confused and nervous.
-Nobody will sleep in the apartment because it has the clock. It is the farthest one back and its scary! All the other rooms have life but this room is death.
-A masked stranger comes out of the dark room, people are surprised, their horrified and then disgusted.
-The stranger represents death. He is dressed like death, he has a mask that looks like a skeleton, he has blood all over him.
-The Prince is mad and orders his men to take him away to be killed. No one will move to the dark side and kill him. They let the stranger walk the whole length of the room. Prince tries to kill him but the stranger kills everyone he walks by without touching them.
-The stranger represents the plague. He is not a real man but a dark side. The Prince tries to escape the plague but it was impossible.
Danse Macabre and The Big Bug Theory
Danse Macabre by Steven King- means "dance of death"
-the big bug behind the door theory means the suspense leading up to the scary part is what is the scariest part. The rest is a relief since it could have been worse. It could have been a bigger bug.
-the big bug behind the door theory means the suspense leading up to the scary part is what is the scariest part. The rest is a relief since it could have been worse. It could have been a bigger bug.
The Devil and Tom Walker
-It was said that a treasure was buried by Boston, Massachusetts in Charles Bay. It was under a tree and buried by a pirate. The old stories said that the devil posses the treasure and all other treasure that was stolen. The pirate died and never came back to get his treasure.
-Tom Walker- New England, him and his wife are miserable. His wife sometimes beats him, she was a scolding women and many people just left them alone b/c they didn't know how to help.
-One day Tom took a shortcut through the swamp- it was a mistake and he had to stop and rest by an old tree. It was here that the Indians had a fort during the wars w/ the colonists, it was said that the Indians put charms or spells on things along with sacrifices to the evil spirit.
-When Tom puts his stick in the ground he finds a skull and an ax. He hears a voice and it tells him to leave the skull alone. The man is swarthy and dingy and covered in soot. He has an ax on his shoulder and has great Red eyes.
-All of the trees in the swamp have a name of a wealthy person carved on it. They are all dead people. The tree is axed and when the devil wants him dead he will ax the tree all the way down.
-The devil told him of the buried treasure under the old oak tree and that the devil protected it. Tom thought about this and wondered if their was a way he could get the treasure.
- Tom questions the devil on who he really is and the devil puts his finger on Tom' s forehead. When he returned home he found a burn on his forehead.
-Absolom Crowinsheid had just died and Tom had seen the tree in the swamp hacked down by the devil.
-Tom tells his wife about the devil and she tells him to become his helper to get the treasure. He doesn't want to please her so he says no.
- Tom's wife decides to get the treasure herself, she wants the treasure and will not give any to Tom. She comes back b/c the devil says she has to give up everything she owns. The next day she goes again but doesn't return home. Nobody knows what happened just that their are many stores. All Tom found was his wife's heart and liver in her apron in a tree.
-Tom thinks that his wife must have put up a good fight for the devil. He is almost happy to have her gone.
-Tom agrees to do anything for the devil for the treasure.
-Tom becomes a broker in Boston and charges high interest and drives people to bankruptcy, he brings them to the devil.
-He grows old and realizes what a mistake he has made. He decides to change his life and become closer to God.
-One night he is talking to a client and he says the devil take me and he doesn't have his bible on him. The devil comes on a black horse and takes him away. They go back to the swamp and it lights on fire. Nobody really knows what happened but Tom was never seen again.
-Tom Walker- New England, him and his wife are miserable. His wife sometimes beats him, she was a scolding women and many people just left them alone b/c they didn't know how to help.
-One day Tom took a shortcut through the swamp- it was a mistake and he had to stop and rest by an old tree. It was here that the Indians had a fort during the wars w/ the colonists, it was said that the Indians put charms or spells on things along with sacrifices to the evil spirit.
-When Tom puts his stick in the ground he finds a skull and an ax. He hears a voice and it tells him to leave the skull alone. The man is swarthy and dingy and covered in soot. He has an ax on his shoulder and has great Red eyes.
-All of the trees in the swamp have a name of a wealthy person carved on it. They are all dead people. The tree is axed and when the devil wants him dead he will ax the tree all the way down.
-The devil told him of the buried treasure under the old oak tree and that the devil protected it. Tom thought about this and wondered if their was a way he could get the treasure.
- Tom questions the devil on who he really is and the devil puts his finger on Tom' s forehead. When he returned home he found a burn on his forehead.
-Absolom Crowinsheid had just died and Tom had seen the tree in the swamp hacked down by the devil.
-Tom tells his wife about the devil and she tells him to become his helper to get the treasure. He doesn't want to please her so he says no.
- Tom's wife decides to get the treasure herself, she wants the treasure and will not give any to Tom. She comes back b/c the devil says she has to give up everything she owns. The next day she goes again but doesn't return home. Nobody knows what happened just that their are many stores. All Tom found was his wife's heart and liver in her apron in a tree.
-Tom thinks that his wife must have put up a good fight for the devil. He is almost happy to have her gone.
-Tom agrees to do anything for the devil for the treasure.
-Tom becomes a broker in Boston and charges high interest and drives people to bankruptcy, he brings them to the devil.
-He grows old and realizes what a mistake he has made. He decides to change his life and become closer to God.
-One night he is talking to a client and he says the devil take me and he doesn't have his bible on him. The devil comes on a black horse and takes him away. They go back to the swamp and it lights on fire. Nobody really knows what happened but Tom was never seen again.
American Gothic
-Cavernous Gothic cathedrals- irregularly placed towers and their high stained-glass windows were intended to inspire awe and fear in religious worshipers. Gargoyles-mascot of Gothic, imaginative distortion of reality. Gargoyles warded off evil spirits.
-Romantic writers- led to the threshold of the unknown- the shadowy region where the fantastic, the demonic and the insane reside.
-Gothic tradition can be called the dark side of individualism.
-Romantic see "hope" Gothics see "potential evil"
-Poe- dark medieval castles or decaying ancient estates provided the setting for weird and terrifying.
-male narrators were insane
-female characters- beautiful and dead or dying.
-extreme situations- not just murder, life burials, physical and mental torture, retribution from the grave.
-For Poe it was only in such extreme situations that people revealed their true natures.
-Hawthrone examined the human heart under various conditions of fear, greed, vanity, mistrust, and betrayal.
-Now days Steven King
-Romantic writers- led to the threshold of the unknown- the shadowy region where the fantastic, the demonic and the insane reside.
-Gothic tradition can be called the dark side of individualism.
-Romantic see "hope" Gothics see "potential evil"
-Poe- dark medieval castles or decaying ancient estates provided the setting for weird and terrifying.
-male narrators were insane
-female characters- beautiful and dead or dying.
-extreme situations- not just murder, life burials, physical and mental torture, retribution from the grave.
-For Poe it was only in such extreme situations that people revealed their true natures.
-Hawthrone examined the human heart under various conditions of fear, greed, vanity, mistrust, and betrayal.
-Now days Steven King
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Gothic Literature
Gothic Lit: is characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events. Originating in Europe, Gothic lit was a popular form of writing in the U. s., during the 19th century especially in the hand of such notables Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
-Romanticism: writers saw limitations of reason, celebrated individual spirit, emotions, and imagination. The basic elements of human nature. This was a reaction to Puritanism.
- The splendors of nature insired the romantics more than the fear of God.
-Fascination with the supernatural
-Washington Irving
-Their works exhibit a typical romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment and optimism.
-Transcendentalism: transcendent forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
- Belief in something else: faith, God-something beyond you that you follow.
-every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his/her on, through intuition.
-Romanticism: writers saw limitations of reason, celebrated individual spirit, emotions, and imagination. The basic elements of human nature. This was a reaction to Puritanism.
- The splendors of nature insired the romantics more than the fear of God.
-Fascination with the supernatural
-Washington Irving
-Their works exhibit a typical romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment and optimism.
-Transcendentalism: transcendent forms of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
- Belief in something else: faith, God-something beyond you that you follow.
-every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his/her on, through intuition.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Gothic Literature is said to go back to the 18 century when Gothic architecture was starting. It is said that "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole was the first Gothic romance. Anne Radcliffe was one of the first writers to get people interested in reading Gothic arts. Jane Austen and Mary Shelley are other Gothic writers. Frankenstein written by Shelley is said to be one of the first scientific novels. Edgar Allen Poe is said to be one of the best romance writers of all time. Charles Dickens made Gothic writing more modern day. Gothic Lit. made the reader think. It made the reader be able to feels the emotions the author was trying to write about. People loved what was being written because of the suspense. Gothic Lit was often over dramatic and gloomy.
Transcendentalism is a group of new ideas in Literature, religion, and culture in the 19 century.
Romantic Literature evolved from Gothic Literature when Gothic Lit. had run its course. Romantic Lit used imagination and got down to the deeper meanings of life.
Transcendentalism is a group of new ideas in Literature, religion, and culture in the 19 century.
Romantic Literature evolved from Gothic Literature when Gothic Lit. had run its course. Romantic Lit used imagination and got down to the deeper meanings of life.
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Crucible
Elements of Plot in Drama
Exposition: Part of a play or work of fiction when the background is introduced.
Rising Action: Starting of conflicts in the story-leading up to the climax.
Climax: The most important part of the story. When the conflict in the story is at it's highest point.
Falling Action: Leading down to the resolution. The conflict is starting to be resolved.
Resolution: Resolving the conflict.
Foil: a minor character whose traits contrast sharply with those of a main character.
Monologue: a long speech spoken by a single character to himself or herself, or to the audience.
Soliloquy: a monologue in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts aloud and appears to be unaware of the audience.
Aside: a short speech or comment that is delivered by a character to the audience, but that is beyond the hearing of the other characters who are present.
* Spectral Evidence: the testimony of a church member who claimed to have seen a person's spirit performing witchcraft- was enough to sentence the accused to death.
Crucible: a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures.
-a place or occasion of severe test of trail.
-a place or situation in which different elements interact to produce something.
Act 1:
-Salem had been established 40 years ago. The Europeans believed Salem was inhabited by very or over excessive religious people. Nobody was allowed to read a novel. They didn't celebrate Christmas and a holiday meant more concentration on prayer.
-Nobody had much time to "fool" around but they did have "raise the roof" when someone put up a new building. They got together and ate and enjoyed life. They played shovel board a game where you shove a disc across a board by hand.
-People were not allowed to have their own privacy. It brought around suspicions that helped create what is coming up.
-People were to stuck up and snobbish, that failed to convert the Indians. The Puritans believed that since they can't convert the Indians the woods where the Indians lived were considered evil or Devilish. In act 1 Reverend Parris is praying over his daughters bed. The girls of the town were caught dancing in the woods with Tituba. Parris saw them dancing and saw some one naked. Now Parris daughter is in shock and the village thinks it is witchcraft. Abigail drank blood and wished for Proctor's wife to die so she could be with Procter. Reverend Hale comes to tell the town if there are witches in the town.
Act 2
In act 2 John and his wife are talking and their servant comes in and says she has been at the trials of witchcraft. John forbids her to go back but she tells him that his wife has been accused. She gives Elizabeth the doll that she made that day and says that Abigail is the one who has accused Elizabeth. Hale visits and is questioning everyone in the town he asks John to state his commandants but Elizabeth has to give him the last one. The marshal comes and they take Elizabeth away to jail for stabbing Abigail in the stomach with her spirit. Their servant is extremely angry and tells them that this is all a mistake and the girls are faking it. Even the servant Mary says it is fake.
Act 3
Giles shouts out in court. He says that people are trying to steal land and that is why they are blaming others. The court stops its session and they as they are talking to Giles Proctor and Mary come in and Mary tells the court that the girls are all lying and it is all a fake. Parris believes they are trying to overthrow the court. Proctor says he just wants his wife and friends free. They tell him that his wife claims to be pregnant and is going to be pardoned for at least a year. The judge bring in the girls and Abigail denies all claims made by Mary and Proctor. Mary says she only thought she felt spirits but that they were all fake. Abigail says that Mary blew a cold wind and when they feel Abigail she is freezing and they accuse Mary of witchcraft. Proctor calls Abigail a whore and says she only wants Elizabeth dead so she can be with Proctor. The judge tells them to turn their backs and they bring Elizabeth from the jail to be questioned. She lies thinking she is doing the right thing when she is really hurting him. After Elizabeth leaves Abigail sees a bird and thinks it is going to fly down and hurt them. Mary says they are faking but then when everything falls apart Mary accuses Proctor of being the Devil's man. Proctor is arrested and Hale is disguised and says he is quitting the court.
Act 4
Hale returns to Salem to try to persuade the jailers to confess just to save their own life. Parris' has become a wreck because Abigail ran away after he took all of his money. Hale tells the court that all the farm animals are running wild because all of the owners are in jail or dead. Elizabeth agrees to talk to Proctor but she promises nothing about trying to persuade him to confess. They are allowed to talk alone and Elizabeth tells him about Giles and how he was pressed to death for not telling the name of the man he accused. Proctor asks Elizabeth what he should do but she tells him that no matter what he does she will stand next to him but she will not tell him what he is to do. He agrees to confess and has to sign a paper. He asks why and they say it has to be hung on the church door for all to see. He is angered by this but signs anyway. He is then asked who else he saw with the devil but he refuses to give any answers. As they try to take the paper to hang it on the door he takes it up and asks why he has to give up his name when that is the only thing he has left to hang onto. He then tares up the confession and they arrest him on the spot. Elizabeth refuses to persuade him and he ends up being hung.
Exposition: Part of a play or work of fiction when the background is introduced.
Rising Action: Starting of conflicts in the story-leading up to the climax.
Climax: The most important part of the story. When the conflict in the story is at it's highest point.
Falling Action: Leading down to the resolution. The conflict is starting to be resolved.
Resolution: Resolving the conflict.
Foil: a minor character whose traits contrast sharply with those of a main character.
Monologue: a long speech spoken by a single character to himself or herself, or to the audience.
Soliloquy: a monologue in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts aloud and appears to be unaware of the audience.
Aside: a short speech or comment that is delivered by a character to the audience, but that is beyond the hearing of the other characters who are present.
* Spectral Evidence: the testimony of a church member who claimed to have seen a person's spirit performing witchcraft- was enough to sentence the accused to death.
Crucible: a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures.
-a place or occasion of severe test of trail.
-a place or situation in which different elements interact to produce something.
Act 1:
-Salem had been established 40 years ago. The Europeans believed Salem was inhabited by very or over excessive religious people. Nobody was allowed to read a novel. They didn't celebrate Christmas and a holiday meant more concentration on prayer.
-Nobody had much time to "fool" around but they did have "raise the roof" when someone put up a new building. They got together and ate and enjoyed life. They played shovel board a game where you shove a disc across a board by hand.
-People were not allowed to have their own privacy. It brought around suspicions that helped create what is coming up.
-People were to stuck up and snobbish, that failed to convert the Indians. The Puritans believed that since they can't convert the Indians the woods where the Indians lived were considered evil or Devilish. In act 1 Reverend Parris is praying over his daughters bed. The girls of the town were caught dancing in the woods with Tituba. Parris saw them dancing and saw some one naked. Now Parris daughter is in shock and the village thinks it is witchcraft. Abigail drank blood and wished for Proctor's wife to die so she could be with Procter. Reverend Hale comes to tell the town if there are witches in the town.
Act 2
In act 2 John and his wife are talking and their servant comes in and says she has been at the trials of witchcraft. John forbids her to go back but she tells him that his wife has been accused. She gives Elizabeth the doll that she made that day and says that Abigail is the one who has accused Elizabeth. Hale visits and is questioning everyone in the town he asks John to state his commandants but Elizabeth has to give him the last one. The marshal comes and they take Elizabeth away to jail for stabbing Abigail in the stomach with her spirit. Their servant is extremely angry and tells them that this is all a mistake and the girls are faking it. Even the servant Mary says it is fake.
Act 3
Giles shouts out in court. He says that people are trying to steal land and that is why they are blaming others. The court stops its session and they as they are talking to Giles Proctor and Mary come in and Mary tells the court that the girls are all lying and it is all a fake. Parris believes they are trying to overthrow the court. Proctor says he just wants his wife and friends free. They tell him that his wife claims to be pregnant and is going to be pardoned for at least a year. The judge bring in the girls and Abigail denies all claims made by Mary and Proctor. Mary says she only thought she felt spirits but that they were all fake. Abigail says that Mary blew a cold wind and when they feel Abigail she is freezing and they accuse Mary of witchcraft. Proctor calls Abigail a whore and says she only wants Elizabeth dead so she can be with Proctor. The judge tells them to turn their backs and they bring Elizabeth from the jail to be questioned. She lies thinking she is doing the right thing when she is really hurting him. After Elizabeth leaves Abigail sees a bird and thinks it is going to fly down and hurt them. Mary says they are faking but then when everything falls apart Mary accuses Proctor of being the Devil's man. Proctor is arrested and Hale is disguised and says he is quitting the court.
Act 4
Hale returns to Salem to try to persuade the jailers to confess just to save their own life. Parris' has become a wreck because Abigail ran away after he took all of his money. Hale tells the court that all the farm animals are running wild because all of the owners are in jail or dead. Elizabeth agrees to talk to Proctor but she promises nothing about trying to persuade him to confess. They are allowed to talk alone and Elizabeth tells him about Giles and how he was pressed to death for not telling the name of the man he accused. Proctor asks Elizabeth what he should do but she tells him that no matter what he does she will stand next to him but she will not tell him what he is to do. He agrees to confess and has to sign a paper. He asks why and they say it has to be hung on the church door for all to see. He is angered by this but signs anyway. He is then asked who else he saw with the devil but he refuses to give any answers. As they try to take the paper to hang it on the door he takes it up and asks why he has to give up his name when that is the only thing he has left to hang onto. He then tares up the confession and they arrest him on the spot. Elizabeth refuses to persuade him and he ends up being hung.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Salem Witch Trials
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/images/pylewitch1.jpg
This is a picture of the arrest of one of the first accused of witchcraft. She was an outcast that some people were afraid of. They wanted to get rid of her and this was a perfect opportunity.
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/salem/images/hibbins1.jpg
This is a picture of the execution of Ann Hibbins. She was one of the innocent that was hung in the witchcraft trials.
The Salem Witchcraft Trials started in 1692 in Massachusetts when a little girl of the new local preacher would not get better so the family called a doctor to help. Then soon after other girls in the area started getting sick too. The doctor could not do anything to make them better and so he said the family had preformed witchcraft. The trials ended with 19 men and women head via hanging, 1 man stoned to death, and 7 others died in prison. The people that were put to death or sent to trail were not treated fairly. The people that blamed them had no proof. If they were outcasts or the people didn't like them they were accused.
This is an amazing little video of the story of The Salem Witch Trials. It explains the Puritans view and what happened throughout the whole year.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/story/story.html
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Ancestors
This is a picture of my great grandparents Edgar and Marie Smith Moats.
This might have been what some of my Irish immigrants looked like when they came from Ireland.
I come from the Germany, Scotland, England and Ireland. On my mom's side my grandpa is all German(My Great-Great Grandparents Switzer and Reiff) and my grandma is Scottish and English(My Great-Great Grandparents Forsyth and Putnam). My great-great grandparents might be the ones to have come over from Europe and through Ellis Island. On my dad's side my grandpa is German and Irish(Neher) and my grandma is English(Moats). My grandma told me that the Moats family has been hard to trace because the courthouses that would have had the information were burned down in the civil war.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Overview of Stories
I learned that the Indians have never been treated well. They were moved from place and never given any freedom. In A Way To Rainy Mountain the Kiowas were moved many times and were never able to fight.
The Indians always seemed to be willing to help others. In Of Plymouth Plantation the Indians helped the Pilgrims learn to plant corn and grow other crops.
Everybody has different rituals. In The Man to Send Rain Clouds the family wanted Holy water sprinkled on their grandpa so that he would bring rain for the people still alive. The ritual in Of Plymouth Plantation becomes Thanksgiving. We still have that ritual today.
Many Native Americans have myths or religions they believe in. The Laguna people from The Man to Send Rain Clouds believe that the dead will become Shiwanna or Cloud People and bring rain. The Kiowas believe that they entered into the world through a hollow log.
Native Americans have been moved from place to place and have always been told what to do yet they are able to except others. In The Man to Send Rain Clouds the priest wasn't a Indian yet they still wanted to have him help with the burial. In Of Plymouth Plantation the Indians help the Pilgrims survive on the new and much different land.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
A Way to Rainy Mountain
1)Geographical Details About Landscape
"A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain."
Page 56
"Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun."
Page 56-57
2)Historical Details About the Rise and Fall of the Kiowa
"For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron. In alliance with the Comanches, they ruled the whole of the southern Plains. War was their sacred business, and they were among the finest horseman the world has ever known."
Page 57
"When at last, divided and ill-provisioned, they were driven onto the staked Plains in the cold rains of autumn, they fell into panic. In Palo Duro Canyon they abandoned their crucial stores to pillage and had nothing then but their lives. In order to save themselves, they surrendered to the soldiers at Fort Sill and were imprisoned in the old stone corral that now stands as a military museum."
Page 57
3)Personal Details about his Grandmother Aho
"Her name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in the North America."
Page 57
"Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood. She could tell of the Crows, whom she had never seen, and of the Black Hills, where she had never been. I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the mind's eye, and traveled fifteen hundred miles to begin my pilgrimage."
Page 57-58
Momaday, N. Scott. "A Way to Rainy Mountain." Page 56-61.
From The Language of Literature. Evanston: McDougal Littell, 2006.
"A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain."
Page 56
"Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun."
Page 56-57
2)Historical Details About the Rise and Fall of the Kiowa
"For more than a hundred years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill River to the Red, from the headwaters of the Canadian to the fork of the Arkansas and Cimarron. In alliance with the Comanches, they ruled the whole of the southern Plains. War was their sacred business, and they were among the finest horseman the world has ever known."
Page 57
"When at last, divided and ill-provisioned, they were driven onto the staked Plains in the cold rains of autumn, they fell into panic. In Palo Duro Canyon they abandoned their crucial stores to pillage and had nothing then but their lives. In order to save themselves, they surrendered to the soldiers at Fort Sill and were imprisoned in the old stone corral that now stands as a military museum."
Page 57
3)Personal Details about his Grandmother Aho
"Her name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in the North America."
Page 57
"Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood. She could tell of the Crows, whom she had never seen, and of the Black Hills, where she had never been. I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the mind's eye, and traveled fifteen hundred miles to begin my pilgrimage."
Page 57-58
Momaday, N. Scott. "A Way to Rainy Mountain." Page 56-61.
From The Language of Literature. Evanston: McDougal Littell, 2006.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Laguna Indians
This is a picture of the Laguna Indians. The Laguna tribe was invaded in 1540 by the Spanish. Since then they have been pushed around by other people. They have many rituals and traditions in their tribe. Their religion is based on ancestor worship and nature gods. Most of the traditions have been able to remain in the tribe despite the fight to become more "American." Much of the income comes from the uranium ore-mining on the reservation.
Friday, August 21, 2009
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