Based on Millar’s Definition Of Tragedy Is Shakespearian or Modern Better?
Based on Millar’s definition of tragedy Shakespearian is better then modern because in a modern tragedy common man is usually the hero and the victim. While in Shakespearean tragedy show cases nobility, and the super natural.
Modern tragedies are now predictable, everything has been done. Some may say that Shakespearian tragedies are even more predictable / boring, however if they were boring or even predictable then why are we still reading them in our high school years? And most likely will be hearing about them until our later years.
Millar says “I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us”. Which is very true for Shakespearean tragedies. Upon watching or reading Hamlet or Macbeth at one point you must think, oh no, or I feel bad for this character.
December 15th 2008 6 people joined together in the RDHS English room at approximately 9:50 AM to debate on the topic “Does Gertrude betray old and young Hamlet?”. The judges were Stephanie Wilson, Jayme Bedell and Megan Marshall. On the affirmative side was Adam Young, Stuart Gendron and Matthew Brown-Tassie while on the negative side was Tyler Keith, Alex Van Der Mout and Jonathan Hughes-Khatib.
The debate started off with 5 minutes to either side for an introduction. The affirmative side opened with a definition of what betrayal is ... deception. While the negatives opened with many questions. Next was the 3 minute rebuttal where the affirmative side started to say things such as how Hamlets mother did not seem to love Hamlet. Examples such as, she went behind Hamlets back and told Claudius everything were brought out. Next the negative side had there rebuttal where they said Gertrude never lied to anyone. Once again both sides had a 5 minutes introduction then another 3 minute rebuttal. Stuart from the affirmative side asked the question was Gertrude faithful? The negatives came back with saying that there was proof that the Ghost (Old Hamlet) said she had nothing to do with his death.
Next was the 10 minute free for all where there was an intense life savers battle between Tyler Vs. Adam and Jon Vs. Stuart. The last battle of the free for all was played by Tyler and Adam, while in the background music played. Unfortunately the negative side won every battle.
Then is was back to the 5 minute discussion where Matt asked the other team, She called her own son crazy who does that? He also said that she didn’t trust Hamlet. The negative side came back with a question also, marrying into the thrown... is she betraying her son because she wants him to have a better life?.
The verdict of the judges was that the negative side had won.
December 12th 2008 9 people joined in a room together at Rockland District High School early in the morning. They gathered together to debate on weather or not Hamlet is crazy or not. 3 of these people were judges Yannik , Jennifer and Nick .3 from the affirmative side Mary, Ilayda and Micheala. And 3 from the negative side Melissa, Jessica and Kelsey.
The debate started with the affirmative side. 5 minutes were given to each side for a introduction statement. The affirmative side started off by saying that Hamlet had a unhealthy mind and that he has many mental illnesses. While the negatives came back with saying that he is still grieving from his fathers death, and that he has encountered many bad thing in the past 2 months. Next came a 3 minute rebuttal, then once again another argument. The affirmative brought up that he has schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and well as border line personalities. The negative came back with an argument saying that many people in the play do not believe that he is crazy. Another rebuttal came after where Mary said “look at his behavior not his personality, he obviously crazy”. With Melissa later saying something along the line that its only been 2 months since his father has died he has the right to be acting strange. Then the 10 minute free for all began, but before it did Micheala and Melissa took a sip of water followed by a nasty glare to one another.
After the free for all there was another 5 minute argument and 3 minute rebuttal. The affirmative side saying that insane is equal to not knowing right from wrong, and Hamlet does not know. While the negative followed with asking does speaking out loud make you crazy?.
The conclusion by both these side had many Shakespearian insults to one another however the negative side added that he has meaning for his actions.
The verdict of the judges is that the negative side should win.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Rest Of My Deliverables
Activity 1.5
Hamlet is only able to reach the Esteem section of Maslow’s Hierarchy. He is easily able to get through the Physiological, Safety and Love/Belonging levels. However in the Esteem level there are many things that are “if - ie”. Such as; he has achievement that we hear in the play such as him going of the school, but he has none in the play. He doesn’t ever really talk about his confidence, other then him saying he is sure he can kill his step-father. He does have respect from and for Horatio.
Activity 1.3
A family unit is important to society because, families show what the true meaning of love is. They show love to there children, which affects there attitude, and mood, affecting how the act around other people. It is like a chain reaction.
Activity 1.4
Thesis Question - Does Gertrude really love Claudius?
No...
1) Gertrude is a selfish woman who wants power. She marries Claudius for his power.
2) She cares more about Hamlet and wants him in power marrying in power.
3) She gets over Old Hamlet far to quickly.
Yes...
1) She married quickly she must of known she loved him
2) Perhaps she thought that since it was Old Hamlets brother they would be similar
3) If she didn’t love him she wouldn’t of told him about what Hamlet had said.
Hamlet is only able to reach the Esteem section of Maslow’s Hierarchy. He is easily able to get through the Physiological, Safety and Love/Belonging levels. However in the Esteem level there are many things that are “if - ie”. Such as; he has achievement that we hear in the play such as him going of the school, but he has none in the play. He doesn’t ever really talk about his confidence, other then him saying he is sure he can kill his step-father. He does have respect from and for Horatio.
Activity 1.3
A family unit is important to society because, families show what the true meaning of love is. They show love to there children, which affects there attitude, and mood, affecting how the act around other people. It is like a chain reaction.
Activity 1.4
Thesis Question - Does Gertrude really love Claudius?
No...
1) Gertrude is a selfish woman who wants power. She marries Claudius for his power.
2) She cares more about Hamlet and wants him in power marrying in power.
3) She gets over Old Hamlet far to quickly.
Yes...
1) She married quickly she must of known she loved him
2) Perhaps she thought that since it was Old Hamlets brother they would be similar
3) If she didn’t love him she wouldn’t of told him about what Hamlet had said.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
ISU
The Bad Seed, by William March
ISU by Rebecca Ritchie
December 10, 2008
Christine Penmark is an accomplice to her murdering daughter’s activities by enabling her actions and assisting her in hiding the evidence of her murders, and ultimately she is as evil as her daughter. Could the “bad seed” be passed on from one generation to the next? In the novel The Bad Seed by William March, the character Christine Penmark is a young mother of an eight year old daughter named Rhoda. The Penmarks live in an apartment building and are friendly with the landlady Monica Breedlove who lives upstairs. Ms. Breedlove has an particular interest in psychology and is fascinated with the old-fashioned Rhoda. The apartment handyman Leroy is rude to all of the tenants except for Christine for whom he has a secret affection. Leroy is the one person Rhoda is not able to easily fool.
Christine Penmark is an anxious woman. She worries about her past. Her father, whom she loved deeply, died violently when she was young and her mother was ill for a long time with a heart condition. She felt disconnected from her family, believing she was adopted. Now a mother herself, she feels uneasy about her daughter and finds something strange about her.
(March 26) “Mrs.Penmark said that she was, adding that the child, almost from babyhood, had been something of a riddle both to herself and her husband. It was a thing difficult to isolate, or identify, but there was a strangely mature quality in the child’s character which they found disturbing.”
(March 36) “There had always been something strange about the child, but they had ignored her oddities, hoping she would become more like other children in time, although this had not happened; then, when she was six and they were living in Baltimore, they entered into a progressive school which was widely recommended; but a year later the principal of the school asked that the child be removed.”
Christine’s fears are confirmed when the school psychiatrist describes Rhoda as,
(March 37) “...the most precocious child he’d every seen; her quality of shrewd, mature calculation was remarkable indeed; she had none of the guilts and none of the anxieties of childhood; and of course she had no capacity of affection, either, being concerned only with herself. But perhaps the thing that was most remarkable about her was her unending acquisitiveness. She was like a charming little animal that can never be trained to fit into the conventional patters of existence...”
Christine wishes her daughter had different characteristics. She is lonely and wishes she and her daughter had a warmer relationship.
(March 27 “Mrs. Penmark sighed, raised her hands with humorous exaggeration and said “Sometimes I wish she were more dependent on others, Sometimes I wish she were less practical and more affectionate.”)
Christine is a doting mother and is shocked when she learns of her daughter’s crimes. Her protective nature leads her to hide or destroy the evidence of Rhoda’s crimes.
(March 114) “Christine went to the end of the wharf, and stood there in indecision, then, knowing why she wanted to visit this place alone, she opened her bag, took out the penmanship medal, and dropped it among the pilings. In a way, she was as guilty as Rhoda, she thought.”
Then she justifies her actions.
(March 114) “Rhoda is my own flesh and blood. It’s my duty to see that she isn’t harmed.”
As the story continues, Christine’s awareness of her daughters true character changes from feeling her child is simply unusual to realizing what her child is capable of doing.
(March 137) “She had wanted to assuage her doubts, to know the truth–and now she did know. What she’d dreaded in fantasy so long, she faced at last in unalterable reality.”
Rhoda’s confession to Christine about her murder of the old lady in Baltimore gives Christine another example of what her daughter is capable of. And it requires Christine to decide how she will manage this information again. Each time she lies and hides the evidence of her daughter’s actions makes it harder to tell the truth.
(March 138) “ How did you manage it with the old lady in Baltimore? I know so much now, another thing won’t matter greatly.” And Rhoda, sure of her triumph, smiled and said meekly, “I shoved her, Mother. I shoved her a little.”
When her child had gone, she went to her bathroom, her purpose not clear in her mind; she stood there in indecision, but seeing her reflection in the mirror, she pointed her finger at her image and laughed shrilly. Then, resting her head against the glass, her arms hanging limply at her sides, she knew she must live with her secret as best she could; she must optimistically hope for the best.”
When Christine finds Rhoda trying to get rid of her shoes, she questions Rhoda directly and learns that her daughter has killed a boy from school. She is confused as to what to do and unable to make a decision. What she does know is that she will protect Rhoda.
(March 137) “Nobody will hurt you. I don’t know what must be done now, but I promise you nobody will hurt you.”
Her guilt and feelings of responsibility for what Rhoda has become lead her to make the decision to destroy the bloody shoes.
(March 141) “In sudden panic, she called Rhoda in from the park; and when the child stood before her , she said harshly, ‘Take the shoes and put them in the incinerator!’ The child moved away to obey her, and Christine called out in a shrill, agonized voice, ‘Hurry! Hurry, Rhoda! Put them in the incinerator! Burn then quickly!’ She stood beside her door, watching while the little girl when down the hall, lowered the chute, and dropped the bloodstained shoes into the furnace below”.
Christine stands up for Rhoda and makes excuses for her actions with other people. She imagines that Rhoda has feelings of remorse. It becomes clear that Rhoda feels nothing, and Christine has trouble understanding this.
(March 49) “Later Christine came into the room and put the sandwich and milk on the table. Her face was still puzzled, her brows puckered a little. She said ‘Just the same, it was an unfortunate thing to see and remember.’ She kissed the child on the top of her head, and continued. ‘I understand how you really feel, my darling.’ Rhoda moved a bit of her puzzle into its proper place on the board; then, looking up, she said in a surprised voice, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, Mother. I don’t feel any way at all.”
Christine keeps these incidents from her husband. When their little white terrier puppy suddenly dies, she is aware that Rhoda is to blame but she tells her husband that the dog must have had something wrong with it at birth.
(March 67) “Christine had heard the dying whimpering of the dog, and going into her daughter’s room, she had seen Rhoda leaning out of the window, dispassionately watching some object below. She had joined her daughter, and there, three stories below, was the little terrier with its spine crushed. She said, ‘What happened? What happened to the dog?’ But Rhoda had walked away as though the matter concerned her not at all. At the door she pushed and said, ‘ It fell out of the window, I think’.” Christine wrestles with the decision to keep her daughter’s actions to herself or have her institutionalized.
(March 145) “The more she considered matters as they were, the less she could see how any benefit could be had from the child’s exposure at this time.”
Christine Penmark eventually discovers that she is the biological daughter of a well-known serial killer. This knowledge increases her guilt and sense of responsibility for what Rhoda has become, the genetic “bad seed” has been passed down through the generations and Christine knows that Rhoda will kill again and that, again, she will protect her. She decides to give Rhoda an overdose of sleeping pills and then commit suicide with a gunshot to the head. The child’s death was much harder then her own.
(March 211) “ She considered and discarded several plans to get the child to take her death potion without suspicion or anxiety; and at last, to lend normal credibility to her design, she took the little girl to a doctor for an examination. The child’s appetite was not good; she’d seemed listless and pale of late; she wondered if there were anything the matter with her. The doctor examined the little girl, and later, when he was alone with Mrs. Penmark, he said her daughter was as healthy as a child could be.
On their way home, Christine said ‘ The doctor thinks you need vitamin tablets. We’ll stop here and get them.’
She brought the tablets in the child’s presence. Later, she took the tablets from their container and substituted the sleeping pills. That night when Rhoda was in bed, she said, ‘ I suppose you may as well take the tablets now. This is a good a time as any’. But when Rhoda saw the number of the tablets her mother has measured in her palm, she said, ‘ You don’t take all those at one time, do you?’ ‘ I asked the doctor that. I didn’t know, either. He said you usually took them one at a time, after meals; but your condition was a little different, and he thought it better to take them all at once.’ Rhoda said ‘ Let’s see the bottle, Mother.’
Mrs.Penmark gave her the bottle, and after the child had examined it, read the label, and verified that fact that the tablets in her mother’s hand were identical with those still in the bottle, she said ‘ Well, all right, Mother,’ and took the first of the pills.
After each tablet, she took a small swallow of water; and Christine said, ‘ These will make a difference. They’ll solve everything for you.... Now, you must take them every one. There are only a few left, now. You must try and take them all.’ Then, when the child had swallowed the last of the sleeping tablets, Christine sat beside her. ‘ Do you want me to read to you?’ she asked. The child nodded. She was in the middle of The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, and her mother, finding the proper place, read softly. She thought the child would never sleep; she wondered how long she could keep up her manner of deceptive calmness; then, after a long time, the eyes of the child inevitably closed.”
Christine’s death was quicker and was less emotional. It is uncomplicated and without hesitation. The pistol, which has been referred to often throughout the book, is now in play. Her final plan of murder/suicide is motivated by guilt and responsibility. She must protect Rhoda from being discovered as a murderer.
(March 213) “She is not going to destroy you, as she’s destroyed me. And she’s not going to die publicly as my mother did, with millions reading of her last words, her last thoughts, her last gestures of pain, with their morning coffee. That is not going to happen, That can never happen now.”
(March 213) “ She kissed the child once on her brow. She unlocked the drawer of her desk for a final time. She stood with the pistol in her hand, inspecting it idly, as though she did not understand its purpose. And then, standing before the mirror in her bedroom, she raised the pistol and put a bullet through her brain”.
Early in the story, Christine overhears a conversation between two men on the street while she is waiting for Mrs. Breedlove. The topic of their conversation is anxiety and violence and Christine considers what she has heard seriously. After some though she comes to the realization that violence in life is necessary. That without violence there is no kindness, compassion or even love.
(March 30) “ ‘If anyone asks me, I’d say the age we live in is an age of violence. It looks to me like violence is in everybody’s mind these days. It looks like we’re just going to keep on until there’s nothing left to ruin. If you stop and think about it, it scares you.’
‘ Well, maybe we live in an age of anxiety and violence.’
‘Now, that sounds more like it. Come to think about it, I guess that’s what our age is really like.’
They shook hands, made a date to meet for lunch the following week, and walked toward their beckoning wives, while Mrs.Penmark stood quietly, turning over in her mind the things she had heard. It seemed to her suddenly that violence was an inescapable factor of the heart, perhaps the most important factor of all–an ineradicable thing that lay, like a bad seed, behind kindness, behind compassion, behind the embrace of love itself.”
ISU by Rebecca Ritchie
December 10, 2008
Christine Penmark is an accomplice to her murdering daughter’s activities by enabling her actions and assisting her in hiding the evidence of her murders, and ultimately she is as evil as her daughter. Could the “bad seed” be passed on from one generation to the next? In the novel The Bad Seed by William March, the character Christine Penmark is a young mother of an eight year old daughter named Rhoda. The Penmarks live in an apartment building and are friendly with the landlady Monica Breedlove who lives upstairs. Ms. Breedlove has an particular interest in psychology and is fascinated with the old-fashioned Rhoda. The apartment handyman Leroy is rude to all of the tenants except for Christine for whom he has a secret affection. Leroy is the one person Rhoda is not able to easily fool.
Christine Penmark is an anxious woman. She worries about her past. Her father, whom she loved deeply, died violently when she was young and her mother was ill for a long time with a heart condition. She felt disconnected from her family, believing she was adopted. Now a mother herself, she feels uneasy about her daughter and finds something strange about her.
(March 26) “Mrs.Penmark said that she was, adding that the child, almost from babyhood, had been something of a riddle both to herself and her husband. It was a thing difficult to isolate, or identify, but there was a strangely mature quality in the child’s character which they found disturbing.”
(March 36) “There had always been something strange about the child, but they had ignored her oddities, hoping she would become more like other children in time, although this had not happened; then, when she was six and they were living in Baltimore, they entered into a progressive school which was widely recommended; but a year later the principal of the school asked that the child be removed.”
Christine’s fears are confirmed when the school psychiatrist describes Rhoda as,
(March 37) “...the most precocious child he’d every seen; her quality of shrewd, mature calculation was remarkable indeed; she had none of the guilts and none of the anxieties of childhood; and of course she had no capacity of affection, either, being concerned only with herself. But perhaps the thing that was most remarkable about her was her unending acquisitiveness. She was like a charming little animal that can never be trained to fit into the conventional patters of existence...”
Christine wishes her daughter had different characteristics. She is lonely and wishes she and her daughter had a warmer relationship.
(March 27 “Mrs. Penmark sighed, raised her hands with humorous exaggeration and said “Sometimes I wish she were more dependent on others, Sometimes I wish she were less practical and more affectionate.”)
Christine is a doting mother and is shocked when she learns of her daughter’s crimes. Her protective nature leads her to hide or destroy the evidence of Rhoda’s crimes.
(March 114) “Christine went to the end of the wharf, and stood there in indecision, then, knowing why she wanted to visit this place alone, she opened her bag, took out the penmanship medal, and dropped it among the pilings. In a way, she was as guilty as Rhoda, she thought.”
Then she justifies her actions.
(March 114) “Rhoda is my own flesh and blood. It’s my duty to see that she isn’t harmed.”
As the story continues, Christine’s awareness of her daughters true character changes from feeling her child is simply unusual to realizing what her child is capable of doing.
(March 137) “She had wanted to assuage her doubts, to know the truth–and now she did know. What she’d dreaded in fantasy so long, she faced at last in unalterable reality.”
Rhoda’s confession to Christine about her murder of the old lady in Baltimore gives Christine another example of what her daughter is capable of. And it requires Christine to decide how she will manage this information again. Each time she lies and hides the evidence of her daughter’s actions makes it harder to tell the truth.
(March 138) “ How did you manage it with the old lady in Baltimore? I know so much now, another thing won’t matter greatly.” And Rhoda, sure of her triumph, smiled and said meekly, “I shoved her, Mother. I shoved her a little.”
When her child had gone, she went to her bathroom, her purpose not clear in her mind; she stood there in indecision, but seeing her reflection in the mirror, she pointed her finger at her image and laughed shrilly. Then, resting her head against the glass, her arms hanging limply at her sides, she knew she must live with her secret as best she could; she must optimistically hope for the best.”
When Christine finds Rhoda trying to get rid of her shoes, she questions Rhoda directly and learns that her daughter has killed a boy from school. She is confused as to what to do and unable to make a decision. What she does know is that she will protect Rhoda.
(March 137) “Nobody will hurt you. I don’t know what must be done now, but I promise you nobody will hurt you.”
Her guilt and feelings of responsibility for what Rhoda has become lead her to make the decision to destroy the bloody shoes.
(March 141) “In sudden panic, she called Rhoda in from the park; and when the child stood before her , she said harshly, ‘Take the shoes and put them in the incinerator!’ The child moved away to obey her, and Christine called out in a shrill, agonized voice, ‘Hurry! Hurry, Rhoda! Put them in the incinerator! Burn then quickly!’ She stood beside her door, watching while the little girl when down the hall, lowered the chute, and dropped the bloodstained shoes into the furnace below”.
Christine stands up for Rhoda and makes excuses for her actions with other people. She imagines that Rhoda has feelings of remorse. It becomes clear that Rhoda feels nothing, and Christine has trouble understanding this.
(March 49) “Later Christine came into the room and put the sandwich and milk on the table. Her face was still puzzled, her brows puckered a little. She said ‘Just the same, it was an unfortunate thing to see and remember.’ She kissed the child on the top of her head, and continued. ‘I understand how you really feel, my darling.’ Rhoda moved a bit of her puzzle into its proper place on the board; then, looking up, she said in a surprised voice, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, Mother. I don’t feel any way at all.”
Christine keeps these incidents from her husband. When their little white terrier puppy suddenly dies, she is aware that Rhoda is to blame but she tells her husband that the dog must have had something wrong with it at birth.
(March 67) “Christine had heard the dying whimpering of the dog, and going into her daughter’s room, she had seen Rhoda leaning out of the window, dispassionately watching some object below. She had joined her daughter, and there, three stories below, was the little terrier with its spine crushed. She said, ‘What happened? What happened to the dog?’ But Rhoda had walked away as though the matter concerned her not at all. At the door she pushed and said, ‘ It fell out of the window, I think’.” Christine wrestles with the decision to keep her daughter’s actions to herself or have her institutionalized.
(March 145) “The more she considered matters as they were, the less she could see how any benefit could be had from the child’s exposure at this time.”
Christine Penmark eventually discovers that she is the biological daughter of a well-known serial killer. This knowledge increases her guilt and sense of responsibility for what Rhoda has become, the genetic “bad seed” has been passed down through the generations and Christine knows that Rhoda will kill again and that, again, she will protect her. She decides to give Rhoda an overdose of sleeping pills and then commit suicide with a gunshot to the head. The child’s death was much harder then her own.
(March 211) “ She considered and discarded several plans to get the child to take her death potion without suspicion or anxiety; and at last, to lend normal credibility to her design, she took the little girl to a doctor for an examination. The child’s appetite was not good; she’d seemed listless and pale of late; she wondered if there were anything the matter with her. The doctor examined the little girl, and later, when he was alone with Mrs. Penmark, he said her daughter was as healthy as a child could be.
On their way home, Christine said ‘ The doctor thinks you need vitamin tablets. We’ll stop here and get them.’
She brought the tablets in the child’s presence. Later, she took the tablets from their container and substituted the sleeping pills. That night when Rhoda was in bed, she said, ‘ I suppose you may as well take the tablets now. This is a good a time as any’. But when Rhoda saw the number of the tablets her mother has measured in her palm, she said, ‘ You don’t take all those at one time, do you?’ ‘ I asked the doctor that. I didn’t know, either. He said you usually took them one at a time, after meals; but your condition was a little different, and he thought it better to take them all at once.’ Rhoda said ‘ Let’s see the bottle, Mother.’
Mrs.Penmark gave her the bottle, and after the child had examined it, read the label, and verified that fact that the tablets in her mother’s hand were identical with those still in the bottle, she said ‘ Well, all right, Mother,’ and took the first of the pills.
After each tablet, she took a small swallow of water; and Christine said, ‘ These will make a difference. They’ll solve everything for you.... Now, you must take them every one. There are only a few left, now. You must try and take them all.’ Then, when the child had swallowed the last of the sleeping tablets, Christine sat beside her. ‘ Do you want me to read to you?’ she asked. The child nodded. She was in the middle of The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, and her mother, finding the proper place, read softly. She thought the child would never sleep; she wondered how long she could keep up her manner of deceptive calmness; then, after a long time, the eyes of the child inevitably closed.”
Christine’s death was quicker and was less emotional. It is uncomplicated and without hesitation. The pistol, which has been referred to often throughout the book, is now in play. Her final plan of murder/suicide is motivated by guilt and responsibility. She must protect Rhoda from being discovered as a murderer.
(March 213) “She is not going to destroy you, as she’s destroyed me. And she’s not going to die publicly as my mother did, with millions reading of her last words, her last thoughts, her last gestures of pain, with their morning coffee. That is not going to happen, That can never happen now.”
(March 213) “ She kissed the child once on her brow. She unlocked the drawer of her desk for a final time. She stood with the pistol in her hand, inspecting it idly, as though she did not understand its purpose. And then, standing before the mirror in her bedroom, she raised the pistol and put a bullet through her brain”.
Early in the story, Christine overhears a conversation between two men on the street while she is waiting for Mrs. Breedlove. The topic of their conversation is anxiety and violence and Christine considers what she has heard seriously. After some though she comes to the realization that violence in life is necessary. That without violence there is no kindness, compassion or even love.
(March 30) “ ‘If anyone asks me, I’d say the age we live in is an age of violence. It looks to me like violence is in everybody’s mind these days. It looks like we’re just going to keep on until there’s nothing left to ruin. If you stop and think about it, it scares you.’
‘ Well, maybe we live in an age of anxiety and violence.’
‘Now, that sounds more like it. Come to think about it, I guess that’s what our age is really like.’
They shook hands, made a date to meet for lunch the following week, and walked toward their beckoning wives, while Mrs.Penmark stood quietly, turning over in her mind the things she had heard. It seemed to her suddenly that violence was an inescapable factor of the heart, perhaps the most important factor of all–an ineradicable thing that lay, like a bad seed, behind kindness, behind compassion, behind the embrace of love itself.”
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Standardized Form
Standardized Form (http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=416ea666-e86f-4865-8122-22b7057dfd18)
1. 86 year old is hit by a dump truck.
2. Run down while crossing the street of downtown Ottawa.
3. Building bridges to direct big truck traffic away from the city.
4. People living and working downtown are in danger.
5. Newly appointed transport minister.
Therefore
Having large trucks drive around with many pedestrians is dangerous.
Standardized Form
(http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=40cc5867-4a50-4300-ac59-bb7e2bf2ec89 )
1. Boy in Toronto arrested for bringing gun to school
2. 1,200 students under lock down.
3. Streets nearby also locked down
4. Boy showed off hand gun to peers
Therefore
We need to do drills in order to make these types of incidents run smoothly
1. 86 year old is hit by a dump truck.
2. Run down while crossing the street of downtown Ottawa.
3. Building bridges to direct big truck traffic away from the city.
4. People living and working downtown are in danger.
5. Newly appointed transport minister.
Therefore
Having large trucks drive around with many pedestrians is dangerous.
Standardized Form
(http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=40cc5867-4a50-4300-ac59-bb7e2bf2ec89 )
1. Boy in Toronto arrested for bringing gun to school
2. 1,200 students under lock down.
3. Streets nearby also locked down
4. Boy showed off hand gun to peers
Therefore
We need to do drills in order to make these types of incidents run smoothly
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Take Home Test - The Wizard Of Oz
The film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack
Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton and Frank Morgan
is based on the children’s book written by L. Frank Baum in 1900
called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film proves several different
archetypal characters that mythopoeia criticism is based upon, such
as the journey, the lord, the dark lord and warriors.
The Wizard of Oz is a fantasy film that takes the viewer to a magical
land with a good witch, a wicked witch, a wizard, a talking
scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion and many other magical creatures
like munchkins and flying monkeys. It is the story of a young girl
named Dorothy Gale who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a
farm in Kansas but finds herself on a journey through this magical
land.
Dorothy’s journey begins when she becomes unconscious after being
hit on the head when a tornado goes through her family farm. While
unconscious she dreams of herself and her little black dog Toto in a
land she has never been to before.
Dorothy: "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore! We
must be over the rainbow! Now I - I know we’re not in Kansas!"
Dorothy is sent on her journey by Glinda, the Witch of the North. Her
instructions are to follow the yellow brick road and not to stray off
it’s path. Dorothy meets three characters along the way, the
Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion, together they face many
challenges. Each of them overcome their fears and strengthen their
friendship as they continue the journey on the yellow brick road. At
their destination, the Emerald City, they ask the all powerful Wizard
of Oz to grant each of them their wish; for Dorothy to return home, a
brain for the Scarecrow, a heart for the Tin Man and courage for the
Lion. The Wizard tells the four friends he will grant their requests if
they bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch. This is a very
dangerous journey but they are successful and through this last
challenge they become aware of their own strengths. It is a journey
of self-awareness and it brings each of them what they most desire.
For Dorothy her journey ends back in her bed in Kansas surrounded by
her family and friends.
Dorothy: "No. But it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you - and
you - and you - and you were there."
Professor: "Oh!"Dorothy: "But you
couldn't have been, could you?"
Aunt Em: "Oh, we dream lots of silly
things when we –"
Dorothy: "No, Aunt Em, this was a real, truly live
place. And I remember that some of it wasn't very nice - but most of
it was beautiful. But just the same, all I kept saying to everybody
was, 'I want to go home!' And they sent me home."
The archetypal character of the lord in this film is the Glinda, the
Witch of the North. A lord possesses great power and authority.
Glinda is a powerful witch and the munchkins look to her for
guidance. Glinda is the one first one to welcome Dorothy to
Munchkinland. She is kind and patient with Dorothy when Dorothy has
many questions, and she is strong and in control when she helps
Dorothy through her first encounter with the Wicked Witch. She is in
charge and she gives Dorothy the ruby slippers. Glinda is the one who
sends Dorothy on her journey down the yellow brick road to find her
hearts desire.
Dorothy: "Oh, I'd give anything to get out of Oz altogether, but -
which is the way back to Kansas?" I can't go the way I came."
Glinda: "No, that's true. The only person who might know would be
the great and wonderful Wizard of Oz himself."
Dorothy: "The Wizard of Oz? Is he good or is he wicked?"
Glinda: "Oh, very good, but very mysterious. He lives in the Emerald
City and that's a long journey from here. Did you bring your
broomstick with you?"
Dorothy: "No, I'm afraid I didn't."
Glinda: "Well, then, you'll have to walk. The Munchkins will see you
safely to the border of Munchkinland. And remember, never let
those ruby slippers off your feet for a moment,or you will be at
the mercy of the Wicked Witch of the West."
Dorothy: "But - how do I start for the Emerald City?"
Glinda: "It's always best to start a the beginning - and all you do is
follow the Yellow Brick Road."
And it is Glinda who teaches Dorothy near the end of her journey that
she does not need to look very far for what is most important in her life.
Glinda: You don't need to be helped any longer. You've always had the
power to go back to Kansas.Dorothy: I have?
Scarecrow: Then why didn't you tell her before?
Glinda: Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it
for herself.
Tin Man: What have you learned, Dorothy?
Dorothy: Well, I - I think that it - that it wasn't enough just to
want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. And that it's that - if I
ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further
than my own backyard, because if it isn't there, I never really lost it
to begin with. Is that single minded?
Glinda: That's all it is!
The dark lord, also known as the devil figure, is another archetypal
character. The dark lord is a powerful, evil character who creates
conflict in his attempt to gain more power. In this film the Wicked
Witch of the West is the dark lord. At Dorothy’s first encounter with
the Wicked Witch she is threatened.
Wicked Witch: "As for you, my fine lady. It's true I can't attend to you
here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try!
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!".
In her endeavor to take the magic ruby slippers away from Dorothy,
the Wicked Witch creates many dangerous situations for Dorothy to
manage. She causes conflict between Dorothy and the Scarecrow and
the apple trees. She sends her flying monkeys to kill the Scarecrow,
the Tin Man and the Lion and to bring her Dorothy and Toto. She sets
a spell on a field of poppies so Dorothy, the Lion and Toto would fall
asleep.
Wicked Witch: A-hah! So, you won't take warning, eh? All the worse
for you, then! I'll take care of you now instead of later! Hah! When I
gain those ruby slippers, my power will be the greatest in Oz! And
now, my beauties! Something with poison in it, I think. With poison
in it, but attractive to the eye and soothing to the smell! Poppies!
Poppies! Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleep - now they'll sleep.
Dorothy and her friends always survive the danger brought on by the
Wicked Witch.
Wicked Witch: Oh, Curses! Curses! Somebody always helps that girl!
But shoes or no shoes, I'm still great enough to conquer her. And woe
to those who try to stop me!
The archetypal character of the warriors in this film are Dorothy, the
Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion. The characteristics of a warrior
are strength, intelligence, bravery and compassion. The four warriors
fight through many battles created by the Wicked Witch.
Scarecrow: I've got a plan how to get in there.
Lion: Fine. He's got a plan.
Scarecrow: And you're going to lead us.
Lion: Yeah. Me?
Scarecrow: Yes, you.
Lion: I - I - I - I - gotta get her out'a there?
Scarecrow: That's right.
Lion: All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy -
Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch - guards or no guards - I'll tear 'em
apart. Ohhh! I may not come out alive but I'm going in there. There's
only one thing I want you fellas to do.
Tin Man and Scarecrow: What's hat?
Lion: Talk me out of it.
Tin Man: No, you don't
Scarecrow: Oh, no!
Lion: No? Now, wait a minute.
Tin Man: You don't neither -
Scarecrow: Up!
Lion: Now?
Scarecrow: Come on, I've got another idea
Lion: Do - do you think it'll be polite - dropping in like this?
Tin Man: Come on - come on. Where do we go now?
Lion: Yeah.
Scarecrow: There! Wait! We'd better make sure. Dorothy, are you in there?
Lion: It's us!
Dorothy: Yes, it's me! She's locked me in!
Lion: Listen, fellas. It's her. We gotta get her out! Open this door!
Dorothy: Oh , hurry! Please hurry! The hourglass is almost empty!
Tin Man: Stand back.
Dorothy: Oh - oh - oh, Toto! Toto!
Lion: Did they hurtcha?
Dorothy: Lion - I knew you'd come!
Tin Man: Dorothy!
Dorothy: I knew you would!
Scarecrow: Hurry, we've got no time to lose!
Although the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion did not believe they were
worthy warriors, they were each tested and proved their worthiness.
The Wizard of Oz sends them on a quest to get the Wicked Witches
broomstick; he is surprised when they return with it.
Wizard: Can I believe my eyes? Why have you come back?
Dorothy:Please, sir. We've done what you told us. We've brought
you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted
her.
Wizard: Oh - you liquidated her, eh? Very resourceful!
By virtue of successfully completing their quest the Wizard points out
to them that they do possess the characteristics of warriors.
Scarecrow is given a diploma for wisdom, the Tin Man is given a
testimonial for his kindness and the Lion is awarded the Triple Cross
for bravery.
Wizard: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre
commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth, or
slinks through slimy seas has a brain! Back where I come from we
have universities - seats of great learning - where men go to become
great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts,
and with no more brains than you have. But - they have one thing you
haven't got - a diploma! Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested
in me by the Universita Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby
confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D.
Scarecrow: Th.D.?
Wizard: Yeah - that - that's Dr. of Thinkology
Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles
triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh, joy!
Rapture! I've got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?
Wizard: Well, you can't! As for you my fine friend, you are a
victim or disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate
delusion that simply because you run away from danger you have no
courage! You are confusing courage with wisdom. Back where I come
from we have men who are called heroes. Once a year they take their
fortitude out of mothballs and parade it down the main street of the
city. And they have no more courage than you have. But - they have
one thing that you haven't got! A medal!! Therefore, for meritorious
conduct, extraordinary valor, conspicuous bravery against wicked
witches, I award you the Triple Cross. You are now a member of the
Legion of Courage!
Lion: Oh - oh, shucks, folks - I'm speechless!
Wizard: As for you, my galvanized friend - you want a heart! You
don't know howlucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be
practical until they can be made unbreakable.
Tin Man: But I - I still want one.
Wizard: Back where I come from there are men who do nothing
all day but good deeds. They are called phil....er.....phil...er...er....
good-deed-doers and their hearts are no bigger than yours,
but they have one thing you haven't got! A testimonial!
Therefore, in consideration of your kindness, I take pleasure at
this time in presenting you with a small token of our esteem
and affection. And remember, my sentimental friend, that a
heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are
loved by others.
Tin Man: Oh, Oh, it ticks! Listen! Look, it ticks!
Lion: Read - read what my medal says. Courage! Ain't it the truth!
Despite this children’s book being written in 1900 and the film being
released in 1939 the story through archetypal characters can be
compared to a modern day book/film such as Harry Potter. Any good
book/film has to have a journey, a lord, a dark lord and warriors.
Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton and Frank Morgan
is based on the children’s book written by L. Frank Baum in 1900
called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film proves several different
archetypal characters that mythopoeia criticism is based upon, such
as the journey, the lord, the dark lord and warriors.
The Wizard of Oz is a fantasy film that takes the viewer to a magical
land with a good witch, a wicked witch, a wizard, a talking
scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion and many other magical creatures
like munchkins and flying monkeys. It is the story of a young girl
named Dorothy Gale who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a
farm in Kansas but finds herself on a journey through this magical
land.
Dorothy’s journey begins when she becomes unconscious after being
hit on the head when a tornado goes through her family farm. While
unconscious she dreams of herself and her little black dog Toto in a
land she has never been to before.
Dorothy: "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore! We
must be over the rainbow! Now I - I know we’re not in Kansas!"
Dorothy is sent on her journey by Glinda, the Witch of the North. Her
instructions are to follow the yellow brick road and not to stray off
it’s path. Dorothy meets three characters along the way, the
Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion, together they face many
challenges. Each of them overcome their fears and strengthen their
friendship as they continue the journey on the yellow brick road. At
their destination, the Emerald City, they ask the all powerful Wizard
of Oz to grant each of them their wish; for Dorothy to return home, a
brain for the Scarecrow, a heart for the Tin Man and courage for the
Lion. The Wizard tells the four friends he will grant their requests if
they bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch. This is a very
dangerous journey but they are successful and through this last
challenge they become aware of their own strengths. It is a journey
of self-awareness and it brings each of them what they most desire.
For Dorothy her journey ends back in her bed in Kansas surrounded by
her family and friends.
Dorothy: "No. But it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you - and
you - and you - and you were there."
Professor: "Oh!"Dorothy: "But you
couldn't have been, could you?"
Aunt Em: "Oh, we dream lots of silly
things when we –"
Dorothy: "No, Aunt Em, this was a real, truly live
place. And I remember that some of it wasn't very nice - but most of
it was beautiful. But just the same, all I kept saying to everybody
was, 'I want to go home!' And they sent me home."
The archetypal character of the lord in this film is the Glinda, the
Witch of the North. A lord possesses great power and authority.
Glinda is a powerful witch and the munchkins look to her for
guidance. Glinda is the one first one to welcome Dorothy to
Munchkinland. She is kind and patient with Dorothy when Dorothy has
many questions, and she is strong and in control when she helps
Dorothy through her first encounter with the Wicked Witch. She is in
charge and she gives Dorothy the ruby slippers. Glinda is the one who
sends Dorothy on her journey down the yellow brick road to find her
hearts desire.
Dorothy: "Oh, I'd give anything to get out of Oz altogether, but -
which is the way back to Kansas?" I can't go the way I came."
Glinda: "No, that's true. The only person who might know would be
the great and wonderful Wizard of Oz himself."
Dorothy: "The Wizard of Oz? Is he good or is he wicked?"
Glinda: "Oh, very good, but very mysterious. He lives in the Emerald
City and that's a long journey from here. Did you bring your
broomstick with you?"
Dorothy: "No, I'm afraid I didn't."
Glinda: "Well, then, you'll have to walk. The Munchkins will see you
safely to the border of Munchkinland. And remember, never let
those ruby slippers off your feet for a moment,or you will be at
the mercy of the Wicked Witch of the West."
Dorothy: "But - how do I start for the Emerald City?"
Glinda: "It's always best to start a the beginning - and all you do is
follow the Yellow Brick Road."
And it is Glinda who teaches Dorothy near the end of her journey that
she does not need to look very far for what is most important in her life.
Glinda: You don't need to be helped any longer. You've always had the
power to go back to Kansas.Dorothy: I have?
Scarecrow: Then why didn't you tell her before?
Glinda: Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it
for herself.
Tin Man: What have you learned, Dorothy?
Dorothy: Well, I - I think that it - that it wasn't enough just to
want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. And that it's that - if I
ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further
than my own backyard, because if it isn't there, I never really lost it
to begin with. Is that single minded?
Glinda: That's all it is!
The dark lord, also known as the devil figure, is another archetypal
character. The dark lord is a powerful, evil character who creates
conflict in his attempt to gain more power. In this film the Wicked
Witch of the West is the dark lord. At Dorothy’s first encounter with
the Wicked Witch she is threatened.
Wicked Witch: "As for you, my fine lady. It's true I can't attend to you
here and now as I'd like, but just try to stay out of my way - just try!
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!".
In her endeavor to take the magic ruby slippers away from Dorothy,
the Wicked Witch creates many dangerous situations for Dorothy to
manage. She causes conflict between Dorothy and the Scarecrow and
the apple trees. She sends her flying monkeys to kill the Scarecrow,
the Tin Man and the Lion and to bring her Dorothy and Toto. She sets
a spell on a field of poppies so Dorothy, the Lion and Toto would fall
asleep.
Wicked Witch: A-hah! So, you won't take warning, eh? All the worse
for you, then! I'll take care of you now instead of later! Hah! When I
gain those ruby slippers, my power will be the greatest in Oz! And
now, my beauties! Something with poison in it, I think. With poison
in it, but attractive to the eye and soothing to the smell! Poppies!
Poppies! Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleep - now they'll sleep.
Dorothy and her friends always survive the danger brought on by the
Wicked Witch.
Wicked Witch: Oh, Curses! Curses! Somebody always helps that girl!
But shoes or no shoes, I'm still great enough to conquer her. And woe
to those who try to stop me!
The archetypal character of the warriors in this film are Dorothy, the
Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion. The characteristics of a warrior
are strength, intelligence, bravery and compassion. The four warriors
fight through many battles created by the Wicked Witch.
Scarecrow: I've got a plan how to get in there.
Lion: Fine. He's got a plan.
Scarecrow: And you're going to lead us.
Lion: Yeah. Me?
Scarecrow: Yes, you.
Lion: I - I - I - I - gotta get her out'a there?
Scarecrow: That's right.
Lion: All right, I'll go in there for Dorothy -
Wicked Witch or no Wicked Witch - guards or no guards - I'll tear 'em
apart. Ohhh! I may not come out alive but I'm going in there. There's
only one thing I want you fellas to do.
Tin Man and Scarecrow: What's hat?
Lion: Talk me out of it.
Tin Man: No, you don't
Scarecrow: Oh, no!
Lion: No? Now, wait a minute.
Tin Man: You don't neither -
Scarecrow: Up!
Lion: Now?
Scarecrow: Come on, I've got another idea
Lion: Do - do you think it'll be polite - dropping in like this?
Tin Man: Come on - come on. Where do we go now?
Lion: Yeah.
Scarecrow: There! Wait! We'd better make sure. Dorothy, are you in there?
Lion: It's us!
Dorothy: Yes, it's me! She's locked me in!
Lion: Listen, fellas. It's her. We gotta get her out! Open this door!
Dorothy: Oh , hurry! Please hurry! The hourglass is almost empty!
Tin Man: Stand back.
Dorothy: Oh - oh - oh, Toto! Toto!
Lion: Did they hurtcha?
Dorothy: Lion - I knew you'd come!
Tin Man: Dorothy!
Dorothy: I knew you would!
Scarecrow: Hurry, we've got no time to lose!
Although the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion did not believe they were
worthy warriors, they were each tested and proved their worthiness.
The Wizard of Oz sends them on a quest to get the Wicked Witches
broomstick; he is surprised when they return with it.
Wizard: Can I believe my eyes? Why have you come back?
Dorothy:Please, sir. We've done what you told us. We've brought
you the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. We melted
her.
Wizard: Oh - you liquidated her, eh? Very resourceful!
By virtue of successfully completing their quest the Wizard points out
to them that they do possess the characteristics of warriors.
Scarecrow is given a diploma for wisdom, the Tin Man is given a
testimonial for his kindness and the Lion is awarded the Triple Cross
for bravery.
Wizard: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre
commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth, or
slinks through slimy seas has a brain! Back where I come from we
have universities - seats of great learning - where men go to become
great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts,
and with no more brains than you have. But - they have one thing you
haven't got - a diploma! Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested
in me by the Universita Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby
confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D.
Scarecrow: Th.D.?
Wizard: Yeah - that - that's Dr. of Thinkology
Scarecrow: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles
triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh, joy!
Rapture! I've got a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?
Wizard: Well, you can't! As for you my fine friend, you are a
victim or disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate
delusion that simply because you run away from danger you have no
courage! You are confusing courage with wisdom. Back where I come
from we have men who are called heroes. Once a year they take their
fortitude out of mothballs and parade it down the main street of the
city. And they have no more courage than you have. But - they have
one thing that you haven't got! A medal!! Therefore, for meritorious
conduct, extraordinary valor, conspicuous bravery against wicked
witches, I award you the Triple Cross. You are now a member of the
Legion of Courage!
Lion: Oh - oh, shucks, folks - I'm speechless!
Wizard: As for you, my galvanized friend - you want a heart! You
don't know howlucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be
practical until they can be made unbreakable.
Tin Man: But I - I still want one.
Wizard: Back where I come from there are men who do nothing
all day but good deeds. They are called phil....er.....phil...er...er....
good-deed-doers and their hearts are no bigger than yours,
but they have one thing you haven't got! A testimonial!
Therefore, in consideration of your kindness, I take pleasure at
this time in presenting you with a small token of our esteem
and affection. And remember, my sentimental friend, that a
heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are
loved by others.
Tin Man: Oh, Oh, it ticks! Listen! Look, it ticks!
Lion: Read - read what my medal says. Courage! Ain't it the truth!
Despite this children’s book being written in 1900 and the film being
released in 1939 the story through archetypal characters can be
compared to a modern day book/film such as Harry Potter. Any good
book/film has to have a journey, a lord, a dark lord and warriors.
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Over time relationships change and people grow. Celie’s relationship with Shug has many levels of emotion throughout the novel “The Color Purple”. As their relationship grows Shug has many roles. She is confidant, lover, sister, teacher and friend to Celie. Celie is a black woman born to a poor family in the south in the early part of the nineteen hundreds. As a child Celie is constantly abused by her father and as a women she is abused by her husband. She is told she isugly. Celie writes to God because there is no one else she can confide in. The singer Shug Avery is a strong outspoken and beautiful woman. She left her children with her mother to pursue her own interests, singing in night clubs, and being involved with many men.
Before Celie met Shug Avery she fantasizes and dreams about her and her lifestyle . She first saw Shug when she found a picture of her on the ground of her father’s home; she later learned that this photo was a woman named Shug Avery. (Walker 8 ) “ Shug Avery was a woman. The most beautiful woman I ever saw. She more pretty then my mama. She bout then thousand times more prettier then me. I see her there in furs. Her face rouge. Her hair like somethin tail. She grinning with her foot up on somebody motorcar. Her eyes serious tho. I ast her to give me the picture. An all night long I stare at it. An now when I dream, I dream of Shug Avery. She be dress to kill, whirling an laughing.”
Celie is infatuated with the idea of Shug Avery. She believes the singer’s life is exciting, wild and unconventional unlike her own. When Celie learns that Shug is in town she becomes very excited and jealous that her husband Mr._____ is going to see her show. (Walker 24 ) “Shug Avery is coming to town! She coming with her orkestra. She going to sing in the Lucky Star out on Coalman road. Lord I wants to go so bad. Not to dance. Not to drink. Not to play card. Not
even to hear Shug Avery sing. I just be thankful to lay eyes on her.”
When Celie first meets Shug Avery she is not what she expected. Celie’s husband brings Shug home when Shug is sick with a “womans disease” and no one will take her in. Celie nurses her back to health. Shug is rude, bossy, hateful, and spoiled. She treats Celie like a servant. Shug does not appreciate the things that Celie does for her. (Walker 46 ) “I ast Shug Avery what she want for breakfast. She say what yall got? I say ham grits, eggs, biscuits, coffee, sweet milk or butter milk, flapjacks. Jelly and jam. She say , Is that all? What about orange juice, grapefruit, strawberries and cream. Tea. Then she laugh. I don’t want none of your damn food, she say. Just gimme a cup of coffee and hand me my cigarettes.”
Shug is used to having a lot of attention. She is not kind to Celie when they first meet. She wants to make sure that Celie knows she is the one in charge. ( Walker 42 ) “She look me over from head to foot. Then she crackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain’t believed it.” Later in the novel the reader learns that Shug’s actions were because she was jealous of Celie. ( pg 105 ) “And when I come here, say Shug. I treated you so mean. Like you was a servent. And all because Albert married you.”
After the two woman get to know each other it becomes clear that they have strong feelings for each other . Their relationship grows intimate and they often share the same bed. (Walker 124) “ Us sleep like sisters. Me and Shug. Much as I still want to be with her, much as I love to look. I love to hug up period, she say. Snuggles. Don’t need nothing else right now. Yeah I say. Hugging is good. Snuggle. All of it’s good.”
When they first act on their physical love for each other it is uncomplicated for them even though they are unsure of how to be with each other. ( Walker 97 ) “ She say, I love you, Miss Celie. And then she haul off and kiss me on the mouth. Um, she say, like she surprise. I kiss her back, say um, too. Us kiss and kiss till us can’t hardly kiss no more. Then us touch each other. I don’t know nothing bout it, I say to Shug. I don’t know much, she say. Then I feels something real soft and wet on my breast, feel like one of my little lost babies mouth. Way after while, I act like a little lost baby too.”
Their relationship transitions from lovers to friends when Celie finds out that Shug has married a man named Grady. (Walker 93 ) “ I run out the door. Before I know anything a skinny big toof man wearing red suspenders is all up in my face. Miss Celie, he say. Aw, Miss Celie I hear so much about you. Feel like we old friends. Shug standing back with a big grin. This Grady, she say. This my husband. The minute she say it I know I don’t like Grady.” Celie keeps her feelings about Grady to herself.
Shug taught Celie many things but not how to deal with her feelings of betrayal. When Shug has a 6 month fling with a younger man Celie feels horrible. She wonders if Shug ever loved her and questions her worthiness. (Walker 220 ) “Sometimes I think Shug never love me. I stand looking at myself in the looking glass. What would she love? I ast myself. My hair is kinky because I don’t straighten it anymore. My skin dark. My nose just a nose. My lips just lips. My body just any woman’s body going through the changes of age. Nothing special here for nobody to love.”
Over the course of the novel Shug taught Celie many lessons. Many of which help her personal growth . She became more independent and truly understands the meaning of love. She learns what it feels like to be in love, to be loved, to have her broken heart, to have a friend who is always there for her, and that she can do anything when she puts her mind to it. These are all thanks to Shug. Because of Shug Celie discovers she is worthy of respect, friendship, love, happiness and freedom. With Shug’s help Celie transforms into a happy successful and independent woman. Shug taught Celie about love, which allowed her to love herself and then everyone around her. ( Walker 228) “ I love folks.”
Bibliography
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York and London: Harcount Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
Before Celie met Shug Avery she fantasizes and dreams about her and her lifestyle . She first saw Shug when she found a picture of her on the ground of her father’s home; she later learned that this photo was a woman named Shug Avery. (Walker 8 ) “ Shug Avery was a woman. The most beautiful woman I ever saw. She more pretty then my mama. She bout then thousand times more prettier then me. I see her there in furs. Her face rouge. Her hair like somethin tail. She grinning with her foot up on somebody motorcar. Her eyes serious tho. I ast her to give me the picture. An all night long I stare at it. An now when I dream, I dream of Shug Avery. She be dress to kill, whirling an laughing.”
Celie is infatuated with the idea of Shug Avery. She believes the singer’s life is exciting, wild and unconventional unlike her own. When Celie learns that Shug is in town she becomes very excited and jealous that her husband Mr._____ is going to see her show. (Walker 24 ) “Shug Avery is coming to town! She coming with her orkestra. She going to sing in the Lucky Star out on Coalman road. Lord I wants to go so bad. Not to dance. Not to drink. Not to play card. Not
even to hear Shug Avery sing. I just be thankful to lay eyes on her.”
When Celie first meets Shug Avery she is not what she expected. Celie’s husband brings Shug home when Shug is sick with a “womans disease” and no one will take her in. Celie nurses her back to health. Shug is rude, bossy, hateful, and spoiled. She treats Celie like a servant. Shug does not appreciate the things that Celie does for her. (Walker 46 ) “I ast Shug Avery what she want for breakfast. She say what yall got? I say ham grits, eggs, biscuits, coffee, sweet milk or butter milk, flapjacks. Jelly and jam. She say , Is that all? What about orange juice, grapefruit, strawberries and cream. Tea. Then she laugh. I don’t want none of your damn food, she say. Just gimme a cup of coffee and hand me my cigarettes.”
Shug is used to having a lot of attention. She is not kind to Celie when they first meet. She wants to make sure that Celie knows she is the one in charge. ( Walker 42 ) “She look me over from head to foot. Then she crackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain’t believed it.” Later in the novel the reader learns that Shug’s actions were because she was jealous of Celie. ( pg 105 ) “And when I come here, say Shug. I treated you so mean. Like you was a servent. And all because Albert married you.”
After the two woman get to know each other it becomes clear that they have strong feelings for each other . Their relationship grows intimate and they often share the same bed. (Walker 124) “ Us sleep like sisters. Me and Shug. Much as I still want to be with her, much as I love to look. I love to hug up period, she say. Snuggles. Don’t need nothing else right now. Yeah I say. Hugging is good. Snuggle. All of it’s good.”
When they first act on their physical love for each other it is uncomplicated for them even though they are unsure of how to be with each other. ( Walker 97 ) “ She say, I love you, Miss Celie. And then she haul off and kiss me on the mouth. Um, she say, like she surprise. I kiss her back, say um, too. Us kiss and kiss till us can’t hardly kiss no more. Then us touch each other. I don’t know nothing bout it, I say to Shug. I don’t know much, she say. Then I feels something real soft and wet on my breast, feel like one of my little lost babies mouth. Way after while, I act like a little lost baby too.”
Their relationship transitions from lovers to friends when Celie finds out that Shug has married a man named Grady. (Walker 93 ) “ I run out the door. Before I know anything a skinny big toof man wearing red suspenders is all up in my face. Miss Celie, he say. Aw, Miss Celie I hear so much about you. Feel like we old friends. Shug standing back with a big grin. This Grady, she say. This my husband. The minute she say it I know I don’t like Grady.” Celie keeps her feelings about Grady to herself.
Shug taught Celie many things but not how to deal with her feelings of betrayal. When Shug has a 6 month fling with a younger man Celie feels horrible. She wonders if Shug ever loved her and questions her worthiness. (Walker 220 ) “Sometimes I think Shug never love me. I stand looking at myself in the looking glass. What would she love? I ast myself. My hair is kinky because I don’t straighten it anymore. My skin dark. My nose just a nose. My lips just lips. My body just any woman’s body going through the changes of age. Nothing special here for nobody to love.”
Over the course of the novel Shug taught Celie many lessons. Many of which help her personal growth . She became more independent and truly understands the meaning of love. She learns what it feels like to be in love, to be loved, to have her broken heart, to have a friend who is always there for her, and that she can do anything when she puts her mind to it. These are all thanks to Shug. Because of Shug Celie discovers she is worthy of respect, friendship, love, happiness and freedom. With Shug’s help Celie transforms into a happy successful and independent woman. Shug taught Celie about love, which allowed her to love herself and then everyone around her. ( Walker 228) “ I love folks.”
Bibliography
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York and London: Harcount Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Small ISU Essay Outline
Thesis: Celies relationship with Shug is has many levels of emotion through out the novel.
Reason #1: Before Celie ever even met Shug she fantasised and dreamed about her and her ways
Example #1: pg.8 “ Shug Avery was a woman. The most beautiful woman I ever saw. She more pretty then my mama. She bout then thousand times more prettier then me. I see her there in furs. Her face rouge. Her hair like somethin tail. She grinning with her foot up on somebody motorcar. Her eyes serious tho. I ast her to give me the picture. An all night long I stare at it. An now when I dream, I dream of Shug Avery. She be dress to kill, whirling an laughing.”
Example #2: pg 13 “ I think about Shug Avery. I know what he doing to me he done to Shug Avery and maybe she like it. I put my arm around him.”
Example #3: pg 19 “My ears perk when they mention Shug Avery.I feel like I want to talk about her my own self.”
Example #4: pg 24 “Shug Avery is coming to town! She coming with her orkestra. She going to sing in the Lucky Star out on Coalman road. Lord I wants to go so bad. Not to dance. Not to drink. Not to play card. Not even to hear Shug Avery sing. I just be thankful to lay eyes on her.”
Reason #2: After meeting Shug Celie realises how she really is.
Example #1: pg 42 “She look me over from head to foot. Then she crackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain’t believed it.”
Example #2: pg 43 “She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil.”
Example #3: pg 45 “ Hateful. She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.”
Example #4: pg 46 “I ast Shug Avery what she want for breakfast. She say what yall got? I say ham grits, eggs, biscuits, coffee, sweet milk or butter milk, flapjacks. Jelly and jam. She say , Is that all? What about orange juice, grapefruit, strawberries and cream. Tea. Then she laugh. I don’t want none of your damn food, she say. Just gimme a cup of coffee and hand me my cigarettes.”
Example #5: pg 105 “And when I come here, say Shug. I treated you so mean. Like you was a servent. And all because Albert married you.”
Reason #3: After finding there differences Shug and Celie have a loving relationship.
Example #1: pg 65 “Shug saying Celie. Miss Celie. And I look up where she at. She say my name again. She say this song I’m bout to sing is called Miss Celie’s song. Cause she scratched it out of my head when I was sick.”
Example #2: pg 69 “She say, What, too shame even to go off and look at yourself? And you look so cute too, she say, laughing. All dressed up for Harpo’s, smelling good and everything, but scared to look at yourself.”
Example #3: pg 96“After he through, I say, he make me finish trimming his hair. I sneak a look at Shug. Oh, Miss Celie, she say. And put her arms round me .She say, I love you, Miss Celie. And then she haul off and kiss me.”
Example #4: pg 124 “ Us sleep like sisters. Me and Shug. Much as I still want to be with her, much as I love to look. I love to hug up period, she say. Snuggles. Don’t need nothing else right now. Yeah I say. Hugging is good. Snuggle. All of it’s good.”
Example #5: pg 179 “Besides, she say. You not my maid. I didn’t bring you to Memphis to be that. I brought you here to love you and help you get on your feet.”
Example #6: pg 212 “Celie, she say, Do you love me? She down on her knees by now, tears falling all over the place. My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it . how can it keep beating, feeling like this? But I’m a woman. I love you, I say. Whatever happen, whatever you do I love you.”
Example #7: pg 240: “ oh Celie, she say stepping out of the car, dress like a moving star, I missed you more then I missed my own mama. Us hug.
Reason #4: However Shug does break Celies heart
Example #1: pg 93 “ I run out the door. Before I know anything a skinny big toof man wearing red suspenders is all up in my face. Miss Celie, he say. Aw, Miss Celie I hear so much about you. Feel like we old friends. Shug standing back with a big grin. This Grandy, she say. This my husband. The minute she say it I know I don’t like Grady.”
Example #2: pg 209 “ My heart broke. Shug love somebody else.”
Example #3: pg 220 “Sometimes I think Shug never love me. I stand looking at myself in the looking glass. What would she love? I ast myself. My hair is kinky because I don’t straighten it anymore. My skin dark. My nose just a nose. My lips just lips. My body just any woman’s body going through the changes of age. Nothing special here for nobody to love.”
Con: Over the course of the novel Shug has tought Celie to love and hate in the end there friendship is greater then ever.
Reason #1: Before Celie ever even met Shug she fantasised and dreamed about her and her ways
Example #1: pg.8 “ Shug Avery was a woman. The most beautiful woman I ever saw. She more pretty then my mama. She bout then thousand times more prettier then me. I see her there in furs. Her face rouge. Her hair like somethin tail. She grinning with her foot up on somebody motorcar. Her eyes serious tho. I ast her to give me the picture. An all night long I stare at it. An now when I dream, I dream of Shug Avery. She be dress to kill, whirling an laughing.”
Example #2: pg 13 “ I think about Shug Avery. I know what he doing to me he done to Shug Avery and maybe she like it. I put my arm around him.”
Example #3: pg 19 “My ears perk when they mention Shug Avery.I feel like I want to talk about her my own self.”
Example #4: pg 24 “Shug Avery is coming to town! She coming with her orkestra. She going to sing in the Lucky Star out on Coalman road. Lord I wants to go so bad. Not to dance. Not to drink. Not to play card. Not even to hear Shug Avery sing. I just be thankful to lay eyes on her.”
Reason #2: After meeting Shug Celie realises how she really is.
Example #1: pg 42 “She look me over from head to foot. Then she crackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain’t believed it.”
Example #2: pg 43 “She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil.”
Example #3: pg 45 “ Hateful. She weak as a kitten. But her mouth just pack with claws.”
Example #4: pg 46 “I ast Shug Avery what she want for breakfast. She say what yall got? I say ham grits, eggs, biscuits, coffee, sweet milk or butter milk, flapjacks. Jelly and jam. She say , Is that all? What about orange juice, grapefruit, strawberries and cream. Tea. Then she laugh. I don’t want none of your damn food, she say. Just gimme a cup of coffee and hand me my cigarettes.”
Example #5: pg 105 “And when I come here, say Shug. I treated you so mean. Like you was a servent. And all because Albert married you.”
Reason #3: After finding there differences Shug and Celie have a loving relationship.
Example #1: pg 65 “Shug saying Celie. Miss Celie. And I look up where she at. She say my name again. She say this song I’m bout to sing is called Miss Celie’s song. Cause she scratched it out of my head when I was sick.”
Example #2: pg 69 “She say, What, too shame even to go off and look at yourself? And you look so cute too, she say, laughing. All dressed up for Harpo’s, smelling good and everything, but scared to look at yourself.”
Example #3: pg 96“After he through, I say, he make me finish trimming his hair. I sneak a look at Shug. Oh, Miss Celie, she say. And put her arms round me .She say, I love you, Miss Celie. And then she haul off and kiss me.”
Example #4: pg 124 “ Us sleep like sisters. Me and Shug. Much as I still want to be with her, much as I love to look. I love to hug up period, she say. Snuggles. Don’t need nothing else right now. Yeah I say. Hugging is good. Snuggle. All of it’s good.”
Example #5: pg 179 “Besides, she say. You not my maid. I didn’t bring you to Memphis to be that. I brought you here to love you and help you get on your feet.”
Example #6: pg 212 “Celie, she say, Do you love me? She down on her knees by now, tears falling all over the place. My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it . how can it keep beating, feeling like this? But I’m a woman. I love you, I say. Whatever happen, whatever you do I love you.”
Example #7: pg 240: “ oh Celie, she say stepping out of the car, dress like a moving star, I missed you more then I missed my own mama. Us hug.
Reason #4: However Shug does break Celies heart
Example #1: pg 93 “ I run out the door. Before I know anything a skinny big toof man wearing red suspenders is all up in my face. Miss Celie, he say. Aw, Miss Celie I hear so much about you. Feel like we old friends. Shug standing back with a big grin. This Grandy, she say. This my husband. The minute she say it I know I don’t like Grady.”
Example #2: pg 209 “ My heart broke. Shug love somebody else.”
Example #3: pg 220 “Sometimes I think Shug never love me. I stand looking at myself in the looking glass. What would she love? I ast myself. My hair is kinky because I don’t straighten it anymore. My skin dark. My nose just a nose. My lips just lips. My body just any woman’s body going through the changes of age. Nothing special here for nobody to love.”
Con: Over the course of the novel Shug has tought Celie to love and hate in the end there friendship is greater then ever.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Structuralism Terms & Concepts Handouts
Structuralism Terms
- Structuralism:
- Sign:
- Signifier:
- Signified:
- Referent:
- Semiotic:
- Lexeme:
- Morpheme:
- Grapheme:
- Phoneme:
- Paradigm:
- Paradigmatic:
- Syntagm:
- Syntagmatic :
- Synchronic:
- Diachronic:
Text
The cat stopped at the stop sign as the dog rushed by in his coat.
1) Find 2 morphemes
2) Find 2 words that are not morphemes
3) Find a sign
- Structuralism:
- Sign:
- Signifier:
- Signified:
- Referent:
- Semiotic:
- Lexeme:
- Morpheme:
- Grapheme:
- Phoneme:
- Paradigm:
- Paradigmatic:
- Syntagm:
- Syntagmatic :
- Synchronic:
- Diachronic:
Text
The cat stopped at the stop sign as the dog rushed by in his coat.
1) Find 2 morphemes
2) Find 2 words that are not morphemes
3) Find a sign
Monday, October 6, 2008
The Color Puple Thesis - Small ISU
Celies relationship with Shug is has many levels of emotion through out the novel.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Accountability Agreement
ENG 4UE
Accountability Agreement : Rebecca Ritchie
Focus : What do you want to accomplish in this class or during this year?
-a better understanding in certain English subjects such as poetry
-get my G2 before the end of the semester
-start looking at different career choices
Contributions : What contributions will you make to this class or to the school this year?
-organize the 2008/2009 prom
Accountabilites : For what will you be held responsible?
- to hand in work on time
- to be responsible for my portion of a group project
Supports : What help and from whom, will you need in order to achieve your accountabilites?
- to receive help first from my pers then from my teacher
Measurements : How will you know what success looks like?
- my mark on work handed in to be in the 70's or higher
- to understand something I may not of understood before
Consequences : How should you be rewarded if you succeed? How should you be punished?
-if I succeed I would give myself a break from homework, I may also have a get together with some friends
- if I do not succeed I will lock myself in my room until I am finished all my homework or feel like I have accomplished enough work for the night
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