Thursday, October 30, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Literary Analysis #2
1) It begins with the only surviving sister reflecting on the past because there is an interviewer asking her questions of their life. Through the book the sisters continue to tell the story of how they were able to get rid of their corrupt government system, and adding their own perspective. Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa (Mate)went to a Catholic all girls school, but Minerva was the one who became the first political because she met a girl named Sinita who apparently had lost a lot of her loved ones because of the Dominican dictator Trujillo. Since then Minerva began fighting against injustice and became the face of the revolution. The youngest daughter entered the cause after seeing her future husband. Then Patria entered after experiencing something horrific and decided to fight for her brothers and sisters( the people). Dede mostly maintained her distance because her husband Jaimito wouldn't let her join her sisters. Eventually they get caught so Minerva, Manolo ( her husband), Mate, Pedrito (Patria's husband), and Leandro (Mate's husband) all go to jail. The girls are there for about 9 months but come out changed.The sister's continue to visit their husbands in jail and after a visit they are ambushed and killed. Dede remains and takes care of their kids.
2) I would say that the theme was to just stand up for whats right to the bitter end, even if your a woman because they are a lot stronger than what they seem, especially if they are as courageous and intelligent as Minerva. There is something else that can be a theme for example throughout the book people would think of Trujillo as a God, even though he was an abusive, corrupt, and perverted man.
3) The author seem to speak of the girls as an admirer of their actions yet a little sad for how they are going to end up.
2) I would say that the theme was to just stand up for whats right to the bitter end, even if your a woman because they are a lot stronger than what they seem, especially if they are as courageous and intelligent as Minerva. There is something else that can be a theme for example throughout the book people would think of Trujillo as a God, even though he was an abusive, corrupt, and perverted man.
3) The author seem to speak of the girls as an admirer of their actions yet a little sad for how they are going to end up.
- "Voz del pueblo, voz del cielo." - means "Voice of the people, voice of heaven"
- "And that's how I got free. I don't mean just going to sleepaway school on a train with a trunkful of new things. I mean in my head after I got to Inmaculada and met Sinita and saw what happened to Lina and realized that I'd just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of our whole country."
- "A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. By the time it is over, it will be the past, and she doesn't want to be the only one left to tell their story."
4) 1. Foreshadowing: In the beginning the father said that, Dede will bury them "in silk and pearls". pg. 8
2. Symbolism: The mariposas were the symbols of the revolution and freedom.
3. Diction: It used spanish words also to draw in more of their actual culture, and to remind the reader of the setting.
4. Bandwagon: Minerva was a very persuasive activist and was able to get most of her sister to help in the cause against Trujillo, especially Maria Theresa.
5. Flashback: Dede is the one in present time since she is the only one that survived so she flashes back to the point where the whole story began and that's how the story begins.
6. Imagery: Minerva was really good at describing how things trully were in the government and was able to open peoples eyes to Trujillo's corruption.
7. Syntax: I really liked how the author did the structure of this book it isn't like other books but the way that its structured gives you hints of how the book is going to end but you don't truly know so the curiosity gets to you.
8. Allusion: "Las Mariposas" was an allusion to the Mirabal sisters.
9. Degradation: " If they had only known how frail was their iron-will heroine. How much it took to put on that hardest of all performances, being my old self again."
10. Hyperbole: "That room was silent with the fury of avenging angels sharpening their radiance before they strike."
Characterization:
1. 2 examples of direct characterization would be like, " I guess after three months of addressing him, I was sure I’d feel a certain kinship with the stocky, overdressed man before me." and,"There were hundreds of us, the women all together, in white dresses like we were his brides, with white gloves and any kind of hat we wanted"
2 examples of indirect characterization would be like, "I opened a cage to set a half-grown doe free. I even gave her a slap to get her going. But she wouldn't budge! She was used to her little pen. I kept slapping her, harder each time, until she started whimpering like a scared child. I was the one hurting her, insisting she be free. Silly bunny, I thought. You’re nothing at all like me." and “I’d sooner jump out that window than be forced to do something against my honor.”
2. His diction does change for example since Maria Theresa is speaking his words embody the voice of a 7 year old little girl because it wouldn't make sense if she sounded really sophisticated it wouldn't make sense, so he makes her vocabulary sound like a little girls. His syntax usually starts from the beginning then goes back to a certain point then works its way up, he breaks it up into like three sections and does the same for all three sections.
3. The real protagonist of this story I would have to say is Minerva and I would say she is a dynamic round character because you do get to see her grow as a person but so do her ideas so does her understanding of the world, and near the end of the book she's even questioning herself and her own strength, yet has enough to continue going because she knows that she's gone too far and she's going to finish it, even if its the last thing she does.
4. I feel like a read a character, I wish I could meet a person as brave as this but it seems to me that these type of great people only are in books even if they are in history books. Its just hard for me to believe that there is people like this, yet I know that there is people like this. It's just that I guess I've never met one so it's hard for me to believe in a person so great as this.
2. Symbolism: The mariposas were the symbols of the revolution and freedom.
3. Diction: It used spanish words also to draw in more of their actual culture, and to remind the reader of the setting.
4. Bandwagon: Minerva was a very persuasive activist and was able to get most of her sister to help in the cause against Trujillo, especially Maria Theresa.
5. Flashback: Dede is the one in present time since she is the only one that survived so she flashes back to the point where the whole story began and that's how the story begins.
6. Imagery: Minerva was really good at describing how things trully were in the government and was able to open peoples eyes to Trujillo's corruption.
7. Syntax: I really liked how the author did the structure of this book it isn't like other books but the way that its structured gives you hints of how the book is going to end but you don't truly know so the curiosity gets to you.
8. Allusion: "Las Mariposas" was an allusion to the Mirabal sisters.
9. Degradation: " If they had only known how frail was their iron-will heroine. How much it took to put on that hardest of all performances, being my old self again."
10. Hyperbole: "That room was silent with the fury of avenging angels sharpening their radiance before they strike."
Characterization:
1. 2 examples of direct characterization would be like, " I guess after three months of addressing him, I was sure I’d feel a certain kinship with the stocky, overdressed man before me." and,"There were hundreds of us, the women all together, in white dresses like we were his brides, with white gloves and any kind of hat we wanted"
2 examples of indirect characterization would be like, "I opened a cage to set a half-grown doe free. I even gave her a slap to get her going. But she wouldn't budge! She was used to her little pen. I kept slapping her, harder each time, until she started whimpering like a scared child. I was the one hurting her, insisting she be free. Silly bunny, I thought. You’re nothing at all like me." and “I’d sooner jump out that window than be forced to do something against my honor.”
2. His diction does change for example since Maria Theresa is speaking his words embody the voice of a 7 year old little girl because it wouldn't make sense if she sounded really sophisticated it wouldn't make sense, so he makes her vocabulary sound like a little girls. His syntax usually starts from the beginning then goes back to a certain point then works its way up, he breaks it up into like three sections and does the same for all three sections.
3. The real protagonist of this story I would have to say is Minerva and I would say she is a dynamic round character because you do get to see her grow as a person but so do her ideas so does her understanding of the world, and near the end of the book she's even questioning herself and her own strength, yet has enough to continue going because she knows that she's gone too far and she's going to finish it, even if its the last thing she does.
4. I feel like a read a character, I wish I could meet a person as brave as this but it seems to me that these type of great people only are in books even if they are in history books. Its just hard for me to believe that there is people like this, yet I know that there is people like this. It's just that I guess I've never met one so it's hard for me to believe in a person so great as this.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
LITERARY FICTION & EMPATHY
After
reading the article I was a little surprised that reading literary fiction
could have benefits like gaining emotional intelligence and social perception.
I always thought that reading in general would have the same educational
benefits, but it does make sense to me after reading the article how literary
fiction can help people perform better.” Literary
fiction often leaves more to the imagination, encouraging readers to make
inferences about characters and be sensitive to emotional nuance and complexity.” Hamlet's first soliloquy would be a great example of that because if I were to imagine myself in the same position as him, I would have been angry at my mother, so when I was reading it I thought of him as angry, furious and even betrayed. His father had just died and with her marrying within a month, it made it seem like his death and their marriage had meant nothing to her.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
HAMLET ACT I SCENE II
- Claudius begins as appearing sorry and mournful for his brother's death.
- Yet says that we should not forget about ourselves and continue our lives but to keep him in our memories .
- He mentions how the kingdom has been brought together do to him marrying his sister in law.
- He tries to get everybody to unite against a common enemy, young Fortinbras.
- Claudius gives priority to Laertes and allows him to go to France to study,but denies Hamlet that right; instead he tell's him it's best if he stays there.
- Hamlet's first line,"[Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind."
- Claudius tells Hamlet that it is very "sweet" and " commendable that he is still mourning his father but it is "unmanly grief", and that he should get over it. (as nicely as possible)
- After everyone leaves Hamlet unleashes his true feelings toward his mother and uncles's wedding. He accuses his mother of not mourning enough and from going from one bed to the other, because it was only a month after his father's death that she decided to marry again. He feels very upset and angry.
- Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo enter and tell him that they saw a ghost that appeared to be his father.
- Hamlet interrogates them of what they saw and easily believes them. He decides to go tomorrow in hope of seeing the ghost.
HAMLET ACT I SCENE I
- The scene begins with Francisco at his post he is replaced by Bernardo.
- Bernardo and Marcellus say that they've seen a ghost, but Horatio doesn't believe them until he witnesses it himself.
- The ghost appears, Horatio questions it but doesn't answer him then disappears.
- The three men realized that the ghost appeared to be the late king.
- The ghost appears again and seems like he's going to speak but the cock crows and he vanishes again.
- The men decide that they will bring this up with prince Hamlet.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Vocabulary #6
abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
* I dislike to cause abase on others, it doesn't make me feel any better, so I don't see the reason for it.
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
* King Hamlet didn't abdicate his position, because it was taken from him.
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
*I would consider a mutation between a fly and a mosquito and abomination.
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
* When I am agitated I have a tendency to be brusque.
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
* My brother was the saboteur because he helped prank the teacher, which ended up with a bucket on her head.
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
* A debauchery would be like the teen parties that we see in the movies.
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
* The radish seeds that we did an experiment on proliferated faster than what I expected.
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
* An anachronism would be like a caveman in modern time.
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
* Nomenclature would be like naming the animals in a food web.
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
* Sometimes people have to edit their personal essays because they are expurgate.
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
* The bellicose students were ready to show their karate teacher that they have improved.
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
* Someone who doesn't know manners is considered gauche.
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
*Lions are rapacious since they kill other animals in order to live.
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
* Paradox is a contradicting statement like, bittersweet and wise fool.
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
* I would consider, not being able to make a decision on what you want to study a conundrum.
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
* For a moment I wanted to study the anomaly of planets I even bought a telescope.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
* I ask myself why there is so many flies if they are supposed to be ephemeral.
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
* Rancorous is very similar to despising the difference is that one has accumulated hatred.
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
* I find it hard to be around people who are churlish.
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation
* Running up a precipitous mountain is such a hassle, I am surprised that people don't fall off of it.
* I dislike to cause abase on others, it doesn't make me feel any better, so I don't see the reason for it.
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
* King Hamlet didn't abdicate his position, because it was taken from him.
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
*I would consider a mutation between a fly and a mosquito and abomination.
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
* When I am agitated I have a tendency to be brusque.
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
* My brother was the saboteur because he helped prank the teacher, which ended up with a bucket on her head.
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
* A debauchery would be like the teen parties that we see in the movies.
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
* The radish seeds that we did an experiment on proliferated faster than what I expected.
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
* An anachronism would be like a caveman in modern time.
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
* Nomenclature would be like naming the animals in a food web.
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
* Sometimes people have to edit their personal essays because they are expurgate.
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
* The bellicose students were ready to show their karate teacher that they have improved.
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
* Someone who doesn't know manners is considered gauche.
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
*Lions are rapacious since they kill other animals in order to live.
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
* Paradox is a contradicting statement like, bittersweet and wise fool.
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
* I would consider, not being able to make a decision on what you want to study a conundrum.
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
* For a moment I wanted to study the anomaly of planets I even bought a telescope.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
* I ask myself why there is so many flies if they are supposed to be ephemeral.
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
* Rancorous is very similar to despising the difference is that one has accumulated hatred.
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
* I find it hard to be around people who are churlish.
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation
* Running up a precipitous mountain is such a hassle, I am surprised that people don't fall off of it.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Transmedia Remix/Composition
"Better is a rotten apple kept out of the batch than one that rots the rest."
The apprentice did get fired for stealing so I asked myself what brought him to the point of doing that. How is it that that he became that way enough to lead him to a gambling addiction. He lost everything to someone who was like himself. Chaucer wants us to look deeper into the story so we can know the reason for it. What basic need did he not receive because he doesn't seem to have good morals.I feel that we all do have a good side and a bad one, but we are able to identify ourselves by the choices we make, but all of us make bad choices once in a while which makes us human and in this case fish ( basic human needs make us equal). The last picture is manly to just bring the main point back which was that we are different to a certain point and can be totally contradictory to who we think we are and who we truly are, until we peel back the layers.
I chose the video because while i was looking for pictures this video popped up and after watching it I thought it went well with what Chaucer was trying to represent.
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The apprentice did get fired for stealing so I asked myself what brought him to the point of doing that. How is it that that he became that way enough to lead him to a gambling addiction. He lost everything to someone who was like himself. Chaucer wants us to look deeper into the story so we can know the reason for it. What basic need did he not receive because he doesn't seem to have good morals.I feel that we all do have a good side and a bad one, but we are able to identify ourselves by the choices we make, but all of us make bad choices once in a while which makes us human and in this case fish ( basic human needs make us equal). The last picture is manly to just bring the main point back which was that we are different to a certain point and can be totally contradictory to who we think we are and who we truly are, until we peel back the layers.
I chose the video because while i was looking for pictures this video popped up and after watching it I thought it went well with what Chaucer was trying to represent.
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