Literature Analysis #8

The Road by cormac McCarthy is about a man and his son surviving after a post ApoColyptic world. Their main goal is to walk across a bare landscape trying to survive the long winter. The story does not say why the world ended. The father knows that they can't survive another winter so he takes his and him south to find the sea and "good guys" like them

The main theme of this story is never give up. Throughout the story the father and his son are trying their hardest to stay alive and find People like themselves. They encountered many bad people that were trying to kill them.

The tone of the story is enlightening sad and confusing at the same time. It's enlightening when the father and son survive each and every obstacle. It's sad to see them struggle. It's confusing in that we don't know how everything started

Many lit elements were used like flashbacks and symbolism. Throughout the story the author used flashbacks so we could understand the story a little better. The flashbacks helped me understand the story better. He also used to symbolism to represent real life events, for example the boy represents the "good" in society.  McCarthy also uses "carrying the fire" throughout he book which represents to carry on the human race.  He also uses many imagery to describe how everything is so bleak and grey.

Literature Analysis #7

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In the middle of a war, a plane, which was carrying young school children from Great Britain, gets shot down and crash lands in a desereted tropical island.  Ralph and Piggy, 2 of the main characters, assemble all of the kids to create rules and elect who will be the leader of the group.  Ralph is elected leader of the group, while Jack is elected hunter of the group.  Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon deicded to go on an adventure to see what is around the island.  The kids deicde to create a fire to try and signal passing ships. They succeed at making fire, but it soon burns out and enflames the forest of the island. At first the young boys enjoy the island because they had no parents to boss them around, but later they find out to be the worst thing that could happen to them. Meanwhile, Jack and his hunting team could not kill anything, and later Jack becomes preoccupied with the act of hunting. A ship finally passes by but the kids forgot to maintain the fire. As the story unfolds, the kids start to go against each other. Jack and hunters wanted to kill Ralph, they burnt the whole forest, where Ralph was hiding, which caused him to run out to the beach where the kids were waiting fo him to kill him. But as Ralph ran out of the beach a British naval officer was there to rescue the young boys.

One of the main themes of Lord of the Flies is loss of innocense. Loss of innocense means that once they crashed on the island, they were all well behaved kids wanting to be rescued and get off the island. But they turn into bloodthirsty hunters who careless of being rescued and brought back to their families.

The tone of Lord of the Flies is more dark, violent and tragic. This tone started towards the end of the book where the young boys transformed into bloodthirsty ravages. They didnt care about each other, all they wanted to do was kill one another.

Lord of the flies has many symbols. The conch represents society’s rules, politics, and speech. The fire represents of both hope of rescue and of destruction. The pighunts represent the shift of emotion and power of the boys, all they wanted to do was hunt and kill.  Imagery is also used in the book. The author kept talking about the "scar" that was left from the plane. This showed that there was already destruction at the beginning of the story.  Also the water that they bathed in was "warmer then blood". This showed how everyone will become bloodthristy.

I AM HERE

Yeah. I'm here. Always have been. Starting strong hoping that I will have enough stamina to finish the same way.. I'm ecstatic to finally be on top. At first I was timid not really knowing what to do but after tons of experience I feel like I'm unstoppable. I find myself constantly collaborating with new people sometimes more than once a week. Now I know I'm not the best but I'd have to say I go all out, and get the job done. Hopefully I can satisfy as many people as I can with my efforts. #besuperior (senior project) where me and Sebastian Guillen will try and launch a brand by using social networks/blog/website

Lit Terms 82-108

Omniscient Point of View- knowing all things, usually the third person
Onomatopoeia- whose of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
Oxymoron- a 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 of 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 argument; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing
Postmodernism- literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary
Prose- the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that doesn't have a regular rhyme pattern
Protagonist- the central 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, dirge, hymn or musical service for the dead
Resolution- point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out
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
Rising Action- plot build up, caused by conflict and complication, advancement towards climax

Lit Terms 57-81

Gothic Tale- a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay
Hyperbole- an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point
Imagery- figures of speech or vivid descriptions conveying images through any of the senses
Implication- a meaning or understanding that's to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author
Incongruity- The deliberate joining of opposite or of elements that aren't appropriate to each other
Inference- a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts already available
Irony- a contrast between what's said and what's meant or what's expected to happen and what actually happens or what's thought to be happening and what's actually happening
Interior Monologue- a form of writing that represents inner thoughts of a character, recording of internal, emotional experiences of an individual
Inversion- words out of order for emphasis
Juxtaposition- the intentional placement of a word, phrase or sentences of paragraph to contrast with another
Lyric- a poem having musical form and quality; short outburst of the author's innermost thoughts and feelings
Magical Realism- a genre developed in Latin American which juxtaposes the everyday with the magical
Metaphor- an analogy that compares two different things imaginatively
Extended- a metaphor that's extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it
Controlling- a metaphor that runs throughout the piece of work
Mixed- a metaphor that ineffectively blends two or more analogies
Metonymy- literally name changing a device of figurative language in which the name of an attribute is substituted for the usual name of a thing
Mode of Discourse- argument, narration, description, and exposition
Modernism- literary movement characterized by stylistic experimentation, rejection of tradition, interest in symbolism and psychology
Monologue- an extended speech by a character in a play, short story, novel or narrative poem
Mood- the predominating atmosphere evoke by a literary piece
Motif- a recurring feature in a piece of literature
Myth- a story, often about immortals, and sometimes connected with religious rituals, that attempts to give meaning to the mysteries of the world
Narrative- a story or description of events
Narrator- one who narrates or tells a story
Naturalism- an extreme form of realism
Novelette/Novella- short story; short prose narrative, often satirical

The Time Of My Life

I used my time in class on Friday to talk with Sebastian about our idea to start up a new brand. We are real excited but just are barely scratching the surface of what we are capable of doing. We still need to come up with a logo a brand name and figure out prices and how much profit we will take away and how we can use social networks and blogs to hopefully make the brand go! All in all I am ecstatic that I finally have found a senior project that i will be excited to present to my fellow classmates.

Literature Analysis #6

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Two men by the name of George (small and has sharp features) and Lennie (big and tall and mentally ill) are migrant workers who are on the road to find work.  Their main dream is to one day own a ranch of their own.  They were previously booted from their last job because Lennie was accued of rape.  The two men find work and report to the ranch. George decides to do all the talking with the boss because the fear that the boss will not accept Lennie for his mental problems.  They get the job.  They meet a couple of other workers.  Candy, who is very old and has a very old dog as well, Curley, the bosses angry son, and Curley's wife who starts to flirt with the two men.  At first the two men fit in, but are awaken with a serious problem.  Lennie, who loves to pet soft things, was accidently pulling Curley's wife's hair to hard and killed her.  The men were forced to flee the ranch once again.

One of the main themes of "Of Mice and Men" is The predatory Nature of Human Existence.  Almost all of the characters experienced profound sense of loneliness and isolation.

The tone of "Of Mice and Men" is Sentimental and tragic.  Their dream was to one day own their own and ranch, but the dream was broken after they were forced to leave another job because of Lennie's actions.

Of Mice and Men contains symbolism, imagery and allegory.  The setting is an example of symbolism.  The story begins with the two men by the river, it ends with them by the river.  This basically means that they have gotten nowhere with their lives. Also rabbits are a symbol of peace and life for Lennie, while mice symbolize death.  All of the characters at different times of the story represent broader populations.