During LOTF, I have been following the activities of Piggy, one of the main characters of the story. Where we are the story, almost everyone hates Piggy because he is overweight, has curly hair and that somehow makes him an outcast. The only person who has shown compassion towards Piggy recently are Ralph and Simon. Ralph stood up for Piggy when Jack was tormenting him and Simon gave him some of the pig to eat.
I do not know why everyone shuts out Piggy. He is the smartest one out of the group and is by far their best chance for figuring out how to survive. The way that Piggy's situation appears is that everyone makes fun of him and otherwise doesn't talk to him. Nothing has really changed over the course of the book thus far except for the previously mentioned kindness shown by Ralph and Simon.
It could that Piggy was put in the story by the author to show that people, left to their own devices, will cause harm to themselves and others. Piggy is the primary victim of all of this. All high school students feel like this at one point or another.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Midterm Thoughts
I understand the short stories pretty well. I don't really have a problem with those. The things I need the most help on would be the literary elements and the summer reading stuff.
I'd like to go over the summer reading in class, just because a good chunk of time has passed since anyone has looked over any of that stuff. As for the literary elements, I just want to make sure that I know everything about all the different topics and elements that we have gone over. I have a problem with remembering the different plot zones, or plot levels, or whatever they're called. I just want to make sure that I don't end up forgetting that stuff when the midterm rolls around.
Reading times: LOTF 11/13 30 min 11/16 40 min The Racketeer 11/13 25 min 11/17 64 min
I'd like to go over the summer reading in class, just because a good chunk of time has passed since anyone has looked over any of that stuff. As for the literary elements, I just want to make sure that I know everything about all the different topics and elements that we have gone over. I have a problem with remembering the different plot zones, or plot levels, or whatever they're called. I just want to make sure that I don't end up forgetting that stuff when the midterm rolls around.
Reading times: LOTF 11/13 30 min 11/16 40 min The Racketeer 11/13 25 min 11/17 64 min
Reading Post for 11/5
Well, I finally finished The Last Guardian. I don't know what took me so long. It wasn't like it was a big book or anything. I don't really know... Anyway, it was a good ending to one of my top 10 favorite book series. Artemis Fowl saved the world (again), only this time, he died. The book spent a few chapters talking about how he was going to sacrifice himself, but I didn't think it would actually happen. The main character hardly ever dies. However, he ended up coming back to life. Basically, they cloned him, and used magic to transport the soul of the real Artemis into the clone. The catch is, he doesn't remember anything. So, on the last page, one of the other main characters, starts to tell him something about Artemis Fowl and China.
It sounded familiar to me, so I started to check up on it. Sure enough, it was the opening paragraph of the very first book in the series, Artemis Fowl. This led me to believe that this character was the narrator all along, and that the whole series was just her recounting the various adventures to Artemis. I probably would have been disappointed, if I hadn't experienced something similar before. In the "Prince of Persia" video game series, the main character ends up having to explain the events of all the previous games to someone, which shows that all the games have just been him telling her the story. Also, he does the same thing, and uses the opening phrase of the first game to begin his story, just like the character in The Last Guardian.
It sounded familiar to me, so I started to check up on it. Sure enough, it was the opening paragraph of the very first book in the series, Artemis Fowl. This led me to believe that this character was the narrator all along, and that the whole series was just her recounting the various adventures to Artemis. I probably would have been disappointed, if I hadn't experienced something similar before. In the "Prince of Persia" video game series, the main character ends up having to explain the events of all the previous games to someone, which shows that all the games have just been him telling her the story. Also, he does the same thing, and uses the opening phrase of the first game to begin his story, just like the character in The Last Guardian.
Short Story post for 10/29
This one is kinda late --- sorry about that.
The three short stories I read were "The Sniper", "The Return", and "Hills Like White Elephants".
There were several things in the short stories that could have been the basis of a thesis statement. "The Sniper" gives you a good bit of background information while feeding the reader the thoughts and actions of the main character. This could be helpful in drawing conclusions about the story, based on the information given to me. In "The Return", the author uses descriptive language as a way for the reader to construct the scene with more emotional content. It could also have ground for a strong thesis.
The last one I read was "Hills Like White Elephants". It talks about a situation that the characters have, but it never really explains what it is. It's some sort of medical operation that the man thinks the woman should get, but the woman isn't sure about it. The stuff they talk about led me to believe they are talking about an abortion... but then I asked myself, "Why is she drinking beer if she is pregnant?'" The answer is simple: medical professionals wouldn't have known about the dangerous situation she would have put her baby in at the time of this story, because Ernest Hemingway lived back in the mid 20th century.
The three short stories I read were "The Sniper", "The Return", and "Hills Like White Elephants".
There were several things in the short stories that could have been the basis of a thesis statement. "The Sniper" gives you a good bit of background information while feeding the reader the thoughts and actions of the main character. This could be helpful in drawing conclusions about the story, based on the information given to me. In "The Return", the author uses descriptive language as a way for the reader to construct the scene with more emotional content. It could also have ground for a strong thesis.
The last one I read was "Hills Like White Elephants". It talks about a situation that the characters have, but it never really explains what it is. It's some sort of medical operation that the man thinks the woman should get, but the woman isn't sure about it. The stuff they talk about led me to believe they are talking about an abortion... but then I asked myself, "Why is she drinking beer if she is pregnant?'" The answer is simple: medical professionals wouldn't have known about the dangerous situation she would have put her baby in at the time of this story, because Ernest Hemingway lived back in the mid 20th century.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Reading Times
The Last Guardian 30 min
LOTF 30 min
Naruto 5 min
The Bible 30 min
The Cases That Haunt Us 60 min
LOTF 30 min
Naruto 5 min
The Bible 30 min
The Cases That Haunt Us 60 min
LOTF Class Activity
It wasn't that chaotic in our classroom, but it wasn't that orderly, either. The way I saw it, the class was divided into thirds: One third was trying to decide how we were going to do things, one third skipped that step entirely and started declaring themselves the supreme overlords of the island, and one third simply didn't care about anything that was happening. We didn't really have a definitive plan about what was going to happen.
Also, we skipped over the crucial points and went straight to the little details of our so-called "government". Instead of figuring out how we were going to survive, we were busy deciding what the official sport of our nation was going to be (by the way, its fantasy football). We were all just... milling around like a bunch of pigeons. It was quite a sight, let me tell you.
Also, we skipped over the crucial points and went straight to the little details of our so-called "government". Instead of figuring out how we were going to survive, we were busy deciding what the official sport of our nation was going to be (by the way, its fantasy football). We were all just... milling around like a bunch of pigeons. It was quite a sight, let me tell you.
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