Dickens Novel

I chose Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities”. The title of the book basically says what it is about which is literally a tale of two cities. The two cities being London and Paris before/ after the French Revolution.

Literature Analysis: The Tortilla Curtain

Lit Anal Tortilla Curtain

This is my life poem

*This poem is well worth reading because sometimes all of us feel like this about life. We stop and think "What really is life?" and we don't cut ourselfs slack for certain things. I do this a lot and this poem stated everything I think and feel at times that is why I liked it and connected with it.

Life defines in Metabolism,

In reproduction,

we make our miniature selves,

our look alike

In the power of adaptation,

like what is in now,

What is fashionable,

how I blend with all of you

How I mimic you,

how I become a clown to you,

Life in being nice

This is my life A short and a merry one

This my life In the middle of my own life

To life,

a life,

in the hope of discovering the meaning of my life,

My speech my poetry

Come to life with me

To the life,

for the life of one like me,

Not taking this life in my own hands,

Never,

never,

To life,

this is life

As big as life

as large as life is large

In resiliency,

in elasticity

Animations, cartooning, animate,

I vivify

I vilify

I quicken

I liken

The life force in my life’s functions

Drawn from life

to life drawn

Dream to life a life full of dreams

This liveliness, this sparkle

This effervescence of life,

this bubbling life like wine

This sprightliness like soft

Drink like energy drinks

This verve,

this vigor

this vivacity

Of life to life as big as life

My life

This is my life

This me I am life

I am energy

i am in this poem trying to run

away from everything in my life,

running in life

to life and life,

because of life,

for life.

RIC S. BASTASA

Big Question Abstract

Teen pregnancy has become more common as society has grown. I grew up in a small community and I saw how common this was, one of the things that I noticed was that most young teenage parents came from young teenage parents themselves. The research that I found showed that 22% of daughters from teenage mothers are more likely to become mothers. In the US 750,000-850,000 woman age 15-19 become pregnant.  Some of the factors that contribute to this are poverty, drugs, alcohol, and rape.  This type of environment is more likely to come from a home provided by teenage parents. That is why that cycle tends to take a while to end since the environment continues to remain the same.

Literary term: Audience

Audience

Definition: The intended listener or listeners

Examples:

*Dr. Sues “Green eggs and Ham” the audience is for young children.

*Advertisements in Commercials the audience is for potential buyers.

*Twilight books and movies the audience is for teenagers and some adults.

How I remember it!

*Audio sounds like it can come from Audience

*Audio relates to sound/listening

*The people (Audience) listens to the speaker

Thinking Outside the Box

  The “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “No Exit” by Satre relate by both showing real life themes. Both Plato and Satres believe that we are limited to our own thoughts and to what we can do. Though they both express them differently they end up having the same theme.  Plato describes people who have been in a cave their entire life and one person decides to leave the cave and realizes there is more to life than the shadows they would see. When he tried going back and telling the others they refused to believe it and killed him. Satres expresses this theme by having three people in hell all there for a different reason. They all have committed sins that landed them in hell and all carry some type of similar trait that the others have, but that trait irritates them all.
  Though the theme is limitation in thoughts they are both limited for different reasons. The people in “Allegory of the Cave” are limited to their thoughts because they choose to be. The person that left came back and tried to teach them more about what the world really is but  they refused to listen. They did not want to know about anything other than their “reality” which was the shadows. But the people in “No Exit” are limited to their powers because they are only surrounded to the other two people who are in hell with them. They are isolated from other people and have no other ways of being informed.
  The fact that they are limited to their own thoughts shows that they have to rely on others for the information they receive.  They can not  even think for themselves and whether that is by choice or because they have to it affects them. The two authors were trying to show that with limitation in thoughts not much can be done. They are trying to get others to see that people need to have an open mind so that things can work better and this world can work. If people were more open minded things would flow better but since most people are limited in thought things are the way they are. Both authors were from different time periods and the fact that they wrote about the same theme shows how little things have changed.

Literature Analysis-The color Purple

1. The Color Purple is a novel about an African American woman named Cecil who struggles throughout life. She had to take the part f her mother when she passed away, and during that time her father rapped. She had two children which she never met. Soon after that she is forced to marry another man who already has children. The children as well as her husband are cruel to her and do not respect her. After a couple of years she adjusts to the life. Her sister Nettie moved in with them for  a while but  when she refused to have a relationship with Cecil’s husband she was told she could no longer live there. When Nettie left the house she went to be a servant for an African couple and later became a missionary with them in Africa. Cecil not only morns with the loss of her sister but also with the fact that her husband cheats on her with a singer named Shug. After years of having Shug live with them Cecil begins to form a physical as well as emotional relationship with Shug. Together Shug and Cecil discover letters from Nettie to Cecil that her husband had been hiding from her. When Shug announces that she is leaving Cecil says that she will leave as well, she gets the courage to tell her husband how she really feels about him. Cecil begins her own store and becomes very successful. She goes back to the town to discover that her husband is a changed man and while there she is reunited with her sister.

2. The theme of this novel is that strength can be hidden in the people that appear to be weak. This theme mainly applies to Cecil because she started off as a push over and ends up being independent. She is pushed around by everyone at first and then comes out being strong. She dealt with her father abusing her and then with the abuse of her husband. Shug was the person that Cecil needed to push her to be strong.

3. The tone in this novel is serious and tragic. Though there is a couple of happy moments in there it is mainly filled with sad ones. Since the very beginning Cecil introduces the fact that she was raped and her tone was very somber. She had a very difficult life and spoke of it with a serious tone. The majority of her life was not very good and enjoyable for her. Even when Nettie sent the letters they always contained serious topics and a tragic tone to all she said. Toward the end of the novel it begins to brighten up a bit but Cecil still speaks with a tragic tone.

4. The literary elements in this novel were diction, zenith, and  characterization. The diction was used with the slang that Cecil spoke in. It was effective by making this novel more realistic as well as making Cecil more realistic. The zenith occurred when Shug and Cecil found the letters from Nettie. This was a turning point for the way the story took place because Cecil’s attitude changed after this. The characterization added a better idea f the characters. It helped make sense of why they did what they did. For example the death of Cecil’s husbands ex wife explained his cruel attitude.