Monday, March 22, 2010
lion
The lion is light brown with a pink button for its nose. Its whiskers are all white and crumpled like he is 100 years old. It is laying on its front as if it is on the hunt for food. Its tail is fluffy at the bottom and looks like as though it has just been brushed. Then lion looks as though it is very happy..although it does have a red ribbon that is tied around its neck and also has a label sticking out of its tail which must be rather uncomfortable. You can see the lines where the lion has been stitched together; its eyes are brown and looks as though it has a white beard that surrounds its mouth. I do feel sorry for the lion as it sits on the table in a class room full of students looking at it and analyzing it.
Monday, February 1, 2010
comparison of speeches rought draft
Comparison of two speeches made by the Invisible Man. 750-1000
Imogen Roscoe
Mr. Doubt
Block:
In the novel Invisible Man there were many references towards themes, motifs and symbols, whilst reading the second and third speech you have a true insight into how the narrator, also the protagonist of the book was able used and equally intertwined the most important symbols in both speeches. He is able to promote the symbols as acceptance from the audience in his speeches and is able to get them on side by using them, showing the importance of using the right symbols at the right time. The second speech is based on the brother hood and the third speech is the foundation of the eviction. As you go into each speech you can see the repetition of each symbol, by using repetition the protagonist creates a strong sense of emphasis to construct the wanted effect of his audience.
In the two speeches the first symbol of authority is exposed to the audience, “blue steel pistol and blue suits emerge.” This is the first and more important symbol of them all as the audience knows there is a higher power of authority and it also shows that it is connected to the white people and that they have the capability to use force and violence to restore law and order among the blacks. By comparing violence to authority the people know that the people in blue are to be avoided. It also shows a southern connection which the audience knows to be aware of as they have the higher ability than them. The protagonist integrates the police into his speech so that he is able to get the people to look at the police and then to look at the people that can’t afford anything and who have no power over what they do, the narrator knows that is this is in his speech he gets the sympathy vote as he knows who the reader with side with. People who know they have power and abuse it? Or, people who don’t even have a say in their own country?
In the second speech a few sentences appear that read that shared a lot of symbol which were related to the audience. The first sentence read ‘Old cracked dishes and broken-down chairs’ suggesting that they have nothing, not even the basic necessities a human being is entitled too. ‘Yes, yes, yes! Look at that old woman, somebody’s mother, somebody’s grandmother, maybe. We call them ‘Big Mama’ and they spoil us and – you know you remember…Look at her quilts and broken-down shoes. I know she’s somebody’s mother because I saw an old breast pump fall into the snow, and somebody’s grandmother because I saw a card that read ‘Dear Grandma’…’ This sentence is very important and the protagonist uses this to connect and relate to the audience moving them even more to side with him. As you interpret this sentence carefully you unveil a lot of symbols. The symbols were the breast pump and the card that read ‘grandma’ because this shows the reader that the audience is multigenerational and is involving one or two communities. The sentence that follows after this one says ‘…I looked into the basket and I saw some bones, not neck bones, but rib bones, knocking bones…’ showing southern connection with death.
In the third speech the protagonist refers to the audience as being blind ‘They think we’re blind – uncommonly blind. And I don’t wonder. Think about it they’ve disposed us each of one eye from the day we’re born. So now we can only see in straight white lines. We are a nation of one eyes mice…’ This sentence shows us that they have been blinded in one eye from the South and that they can’t see any differently other than in one straight white line, there is no black and white from them it is either one or the other, and in the other eye you see what you believe in and how the community has brought you up.
The symbols that were repeated were the most important ones and the ones that had a bigger impact on the readers and the audience. The narrator cleverly took the most important issues and turned them into symbols and related them to his audience. Power being the bigger issue he was able to connect his symbols with his audience, by association these two issues so closely he was able to accomplish the relationship with the audience that he wanted.
Imogen Roscoe
Mr. Doubt
Block:
In the novel Invisible Man there were many references towards themes, motifs and symbols, whilst reading the second and third speech you have a true insight into how the narrator, also the protagonist of the book was able used and equally intertwined the most important symbols in both speeches. He is able to promote the symbols as acceptance from the audience in his speeches and is able to get them on side by using them, showing the importance of using the right symbols at the right time. The second speech is based on the brother hood and the third speech is the foundation of the eviction. As you go into each speech you can see the repetition of each symbol, by using repetition the protagonist creates a strong sense of emphasis to construct the wanted effect of his audience.
In the two speeches the first symbol of authority is exposed to the audience, “blue steel pistol and blue suits emerge.” This is the first and more important symbol of them all as the audience knows there is a higher power of authority and it also shows that it is connected to the white people and that they have the capability to use force and violence to restore law and order among the blacks. By comparing violence to authority the people know that the people in blue are to be avoided. It also shows a southern connection which the audience knows to be aware of as they have the higher ability than them. The protagonist integrates the police into his speech so that he is able to get the people to look at the police and then to look at the people that can’t afford anything and who have no power over what they do, the narrator knows that is this is in his speech he gets the sympathy vote as he knows who the reader with side with. People who know they have power and abuse it? Or, people who don’t even have a say in their own country?
In the second speech a few sentences appear that read that shared a lot of symbol which were related to the audience. The first sentence read ‘Old cracked dishes and broken-down chairs’ suggesting that they have nothing, not even the basic necessities a human being is entitled too. ‘Yes, yes, yes! Look at that old woman, somebody’s mother, somebody’s grandmother, maybe. We call them ‘Big Mama’ and they spoil us and – you know you remember…Look at her quilts and broken-down shoes. I know she’s somebody’s mother because I saw an old breast pump fall into the snow, and somebody’s grandmother because I saw a card that read ‘Dear Grandma’…’ This sentence is very important and the protagonist uses this to connect and relate to the audience moving them even more to side with him. As you interpret this sentence carefully you unveil a lot of symbols. The symbols were the breast pump and the card that read ‘grandma’ because this shows the reader that the audience is multigenerational and is involving one or two communities. The sentence that follows after this one says ‘…I looked into the basket and I saw some bones, not neck bones, but rib bones, knocking bones…’ showing southern connection with death.
In the third speech the protagonist refers to the audience as being blind ‘They think we’re blind – uncommonly blind. And I don’t wonder. Think about it they’ve disposed us each of one eye from the day we’re born. So now we can only see in straight white lines. We are a nation of one eyes mice…’ This sentence shows us that they have been blinded in one eye from the South and that they can’t see any differently other than in one straight white line, there is no black and white from them it is either one or the other, and in the other eye you see what you believe in and how the community has brought you up.
The symbols that were repeated were the most important ones and the ones that had a bigger impact on the readers and the audience. The narrator cleverly took the most important issues and turned them into symbols and related them to his audience. Power being the bigger issue he was able to connect his symbols with his audience, by association these two issues so closely he was able to accomplish the relationship with the audience that he wanted.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
“Eloquence and the Invisible Man”
Creating a speech to an audience is like creating a musical piece for the audience to take out of the music what they please. Eloquence helps us to compose people but using instruments. As the speaker you are able to tell how the energies of the audience are due to the energies circulating around as the audience becomes one. Compares the audience to how a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery. He uses a technique; call-and-response like jazz composition is also the same. He then goes carries on his speech with a new stature towards the audience making the audience wonder what he would say next. He is able to change his tone of speech making the audience listen carefully as he is goes quieter. He creates ethos in his speech by doing this he is able to relate to his audience on a more closer emotional level. The written composition of the speech is for the audience and how they are able to respond. Ellison made a connection in the way the speech ties into the instrumental musical to re-invent the novel. Henry Louis Gates: "expressive doubleness." Which is reading too much into the book and taking out more than the author anticipated. We read too much between the lines which are usually the blank spaces which we then feel we are able to reconstruct because there are too many questions between these lines.
Roselily
B Block Thursday, January 14th.
a) Answer the questions below. Take particular care with question 5. Please post your responses on your blog.
“Roselily” Alice Walker
1) Describe the story’s point of view. How does the point of view affect your understanding of Roselily’s character and her circumstances?
After every wedding related part of the story, the reader is then taken into all the dreams, thoughts, and emotions of how the black woman is feeling towards marrying her groom. The story conveys a mixed feeling of emotions of how the woman feels towards a man that she feels she hardly knows. Her view shows that she is in two minds about getting married to her husband because she doesn’t want her freedom of being married to someone to be taken away from her, but then on the other hand she feels that she will be looked upon differently by her husband and this is something that she wants and looks forward to. With Rosalily’s character you cannot quite grasp her thoughts because they are always so different from the opening of the priests word until his final words.
2) How does the first paragraph announce the nature of the story’s conflict?
The first paragraph announces the nature of the story’s conflict, as soon as Roselily compares herself to a child in her Mothers wedding dress sinking into quicksand, it is almost as though she wants to be grown up but she still feels like a little girl inside and that she cannot handle what is going on around her and she gets distracted very easily and feels and though she is sinking because there is nothing that can pull her back up into the real world.
3) What do you think Roselily’s reflections about her fourth child reveal about her character?
Roselily’s reflections about her fourth child reveal about her character is that she has obviously had three children before that, but she felt as though she had to give her son to his father because she couldn’t give her son what she thought he deserved. I think this is a very big and caring thing to do because no mother wants to give their son away, she could of kept him and gave him the bare minimum of what she has but she decided against this and wanted what was best for her son. I don’t think she wanted her son to grow up and feel the way that she did when she was growing up because if he moved to New England he would be given the respect and opportunity he ought to have. You can tell that she still thinks about her son a lot and wonders of what he will grow up to do and will he be more like his father, this shows that she didn’t just throw her son away, because she cares for what he will make of himself in the future.
4) Describe the groom. What kind of man is he? What sort of life is Roselily likely to have with him?
The grooms thought are only described from the woman’s thoughts, but he feels anger and contempt for the white people driving by in their cars-feels as though they are disrupting the wedding. The groom seems like a very strict and proper spoken person, and thinks that he would probably know better most of the time. He doesn’t show any real emotion towards his soon to be wife and she feels that she can change enough for him to look at her different, but shouldn’t they marry because they love each other and no because of how they feel they are able to change someone and how far they would go to be changed. At the end of the story everything is put into place and they both know where they stand with each other, he wanted to marry and so did she, but I think they married for the wrong reasons and neither of them will get what they thought they would get from the marriage.
5) Write a paragraph in Walker’s style written from the point of view of the groom. You may place it in the story wherever it best fits and serves to reveal something essential about his character. (Length = A polished 300 words)
Be creative and try your best to imitate Walker’s writing style.
(Placed after “his peace”)
He thinks of his wife to-be, who comes along with baggage. Baggage but still the wife he loves and the woman he wants to marry. Joined by marriage forever. He wants to be able to show how he lives his lifestyle. He is sure that this is what she also wants. Although he knows she is just looking for the respect she thinks she deserves, like when she gave her fourth child away, she thought that his father would be able to give him the life she thought that her son deserved. He is able to sense the awkwardness of the people at the wedding. But he know that he is marrying his wife not them. He is ready for someone new in his life that is easy enough to please and not too much work. People will look at her different now that she is with him and she will experience so much more in life by being with him. He wants his peace in life and I think that is what she is looking for as well. Freedom. Respect that she is deserving of. During the ceremony he is in another world, his eyes stare straight through her. He feels, hears nothing. He does not remember anything of the ceremony except for “his peace” and this is all he wanted, was peace in his life and he realizes that this is not what he will be having because of the life his wife had already been through. This hit him as he left the wedding with his wife. He was speechless, he was free from any kind of reaction. He wanted to be desperately there for his wife but something inside his head was telling him not to be. He could not figure out why. He was supposed to be feeling a feeling that he has never felt before and will never be given the chance to feel again.
a) Answer the questions below. Take particular care with question 5. Please post your responses on your blog.
“Roselily” Alice Walker
1) Describe the story’s point of view. How does the point of view affect your understanding of Roselily’s character and her circumstances?
After every wedding related part of the story, the reader is then taken into all the dreams, thoughts, and emotions of how the black woman is feeling towards marrying her groom. The story conveys a mixed feeling of emotions of how the woman feels towards a man that she feels she hardly knows. Her view shows that she is in two minds about getting married to her husband because she doesn’t want her freedom of being married to someone to be taken away from her, but then on the other hand she feels that she will be looked upon differently by her husband and this is something that she wants and looks forward to. With Rosalily’s character you cannot quite grasp her thoughts because they are always so different from the opening of the priests word until his final words.
2) How does the first paragraph announce the nature of the story’s conflict?
The first paragraph announces the nature of the story’s conflict, as soon as Roselily compares herself to a child in her Mothers wedding dress sinking into quicksand, it is almost as though she wants to be grown up but she still feels like a little girl inside and that she cannot handle what is going on around her and she gets distracted very easily and feels and though she is sinking because there is nothing that can pull her back up into the real world.
3) What do you think Roselily’s reflections about her fourth child reveal about her character?
Roselily’s reflections about her fourth child reveal about her character is that she has obviously had three children before that, but she felt as though she had to give her son to his father because she couldn’t give her son what she thought he deserved. I think this is a very big and caring thing to do because no mother wants to give their son away, she could of kept him and gave him the bare minimum of what she has but she decided against this and wanted what was best for her son. I don’t think she wanted her son to grow up and feel the way that she did when she was growing up because if he moved to New England he would be given the respect and opportunity he ought to have. You can tell that she still thinks about her son a lot and wonders of what he will grow up to do and will he be more like his father, this shows that she didn’t just throw her son away, because she cares for what he will make of himself in the future.
4) Describe the groom. What kind of man is he? What sort of life is Roselily likely to have with him?
The grooms thought are only described from the woman’s thoughts, but he feels anger and contempt for the white people driving by in their cars-feels as though they are disrupting the wedding. The groom seems like a very strict and proper spoken person, and thinks that he would probably know better most of the time. He doesn’t show any real emotion towards his soon to be wife and she feels that she can change enough for him to look at her different, but shouldn’t they marry because they love each other and no because of how they feel they are able to change someone and how far they would go to be changed. At the end of the story everything is put into place and they both know where they stand with each other, he wanted to marry and so did she, but I think they married for the wrong reasons and neither of them will get what they thought they would get from the marriage.
5) Write a paragraph in Walker’s style written from the point of view of the groom. You may place it in the story wherever it best fits and serves to reveal something essential about his character. (Length = A polished 300 words)
Be creative and try your best to imitate Walker’s writing style.
(Placed after “his peace”)
He thinks of his wife to-be, who comes along with baggage. Baggage but still the wife he loves and the woman he wants to marry. Joined by marriage forever. He wants to be able to show how he lives his lifestyle. He is sure that this is what she also wants. Although he knows she is just looking for the respect she thinks she deserves, like when she gave her fourth child away, she thought that his father would be able to give him the life she thought that her son deserved. He is able to sense the awkwardness of the people at the wedding. But he know that he is marrying his wife not them. He is ready for someone new in his life that is easy enough to please and not too much work. People will look at her different now that she is with him and she will experience so much more in life by being with him. He wants his peace in life and I think that is what she is looking for as well. Freedom. Respect that she is deserving of. During the ceremony he is in another world, his eyes stare straight through her. He feels, hears nothing. He does not remember anything of the ceremony except for “his peace” and this is all he wanted, was peace in his life and he realizes that this is not what he will be having because of the life his wife had already been through. This hit him as he left the wedding with his wife. He was speechless, he was free from any kind of reaction. He wanted to be desperately there for his wife but something inside his head was telling him not to be. He could not figure out why. He was supposed to be feeling a feeling that he has never felt before and will never be given the chance to feel again.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Pathos, Ethos, and Logos
• Pathos:
The treatment of the blacks by the British they are used for slave labor and are fed little and when they cant work, they crawl off and die.
• People like Marlow because he is honest, tough, intelligent and relatable
• The Belgian king Leopold treated the Congo as his private treasury and the Belgians had the reputation of being far and away the most cruel and rapacious of the colonial powers
• On Marlow's journey into the Congo he meets men from a variety of European nations, all of whom are violent and willing to do anything to make their fortunes
• Ethos:
This untried dogmatism is at the root of the NDA rout; for it shows a cavalier irreverence to the ethos of India, which not only adopts but also adapts.
• Logos:
Went to the Congo to make the Europeans more civilized.
• They are going to Congo for Belgian company so that they can get more money.
• Marlow expresses horror when he witnesses the mal treatment of the natives and he argues that a kingship exists between black Africans and Europeans. He states that this kingship is ugly, horrifying and distant.
• Marlow's aunt as he is leaving expresses her hope that he will aid in this civilization of savages daring his service to the company, "she's wearing those ignorant millions from their horrid ways."
• There company operates for profit and not for the good of humanity.
The treatment of the blacks by the British they are used for slave labor and are fed little and when they cant work, they crawl off and die.
• People like Marlow because he is honest, tough, intelligent and relatable
• The Belgian king Leopold treated the Congo as his private treasury and the Belgians had the reputation of being far and away the most cruel and rapacious of the colonial powers
• On Marlow's journey into the Congo he meets men from a variety of European nations, all of whom are violent and willing to do anything to make their fortunes
• Ethos:
This untried dogmatism is at the root of the NDA rout; for it shows a cavalier irreverence to the ethos of India, which not only adopts but also adapts.
• Logos:
Went to the Congo to make the Europeans more civilized.
• They are going to Congo for Belgian company so that they can get more money.
• Marlow expresses horror when he witnesses the mal treatment of the natives and he argues that a kingship exists between black Africans and Europeans. He states that this kingship is ugly, horrifying and distant.
• Marlow's aunt as he is leaving expresses her hope that he will aid in this civilization of savages daring his service to the company, "she's wearing those ignorant millions from their horrid ways."
• There company operates for profit and not for the good of humanity.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Thesis statement
Although we will never have a clear-cut line between what is crazy and what is not, we believe fear and emotion of being lonely or isolated turns people crazy. Paranoia kicks in, and we become torn from reality into a world of despair and the panic starts to build, because war is an unforgivable and forgettable past.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Chapter: Style Page: 135
Chapter: Style Page: 135
There were no basketballs. Most of the court had burned down, including some of the people inside, which was now smoke, and the referee ran around with her eyes half closed, with no trainers on. He was maybe fourteen. He had no hair and brown skin. "Why's he running?" Azar said. We looked through what was left of the basketball court, but all that was there was ash and the smell of burnt plastic and skin. James shot a crow for our feast. Stuart shouted at the rabbits and told them to go away. The boy was still running in his trainers. He ran slow and fast, sometimes sobbing to him self. "Why's he running?" James said and Adam said it doesn’t matter why, she just was. After we found all the players in the court. They were burnt. It was all the players except for him, whose age was hard to tell. When we went in to the court to pull all of the players out, the boy kept running. He tried to lick is elbow, which must of meant something, and she ran around in a circle for a short while and then in a square. He did a heavy jump every second step. "well that is strange" James said. The basketball court smelled like burning skin. It moved up and down across the city very thick like a heavy smog. There were dead goats, too. The boy took his shoes and socks off and then ran to the middle of the smoke and sat down. His face was pale with fear and shock. Later on we moved out of the basketball court, he was still sat there. "Probably a very confused little boy" James said. But David looked back and said yes, the boy I mad.
That day, after we'd driven away from the smoking court, David imitated the little boys confused running around. He licked his elbow just the way the little boy had. James said yes. "All right, then," James said, "lets all do it."
There were no basketballs. Most of the court had burned down, including some of the people inside, which was now smoke, and the referee ran around with her eyes half closed, with no trainers on. He was maybe fourteen. He had no hair and brown skin. "Why's he running?" Azar said. We looked through what was left of the basketball court, but all that was there was ash and the smell of burnt plastic and skin. James shot a crow for our feast. Stuart shouted at the rabbits and told them to go away. The boy was still running in his trainers. He ran slow and fast, sometimes sobbing to him self. "Why's he running?" James said and Adam said it doesn’t matter why, she just was. After we found all the players in the court. They were burnt. It was all the players except for him, whose age was hard to tell. When we went in to the court to pull all of the players out, the boy kept running. He tried to lick is elbow, which must of meant something, and she ran around in a circle for a short while and then in a square. He did a heavy jump every second step. "well that is strange" James said. The basketball court smelled like burning skin. It moved up and down across the city very thick like a heavy smog. There were dead goats, too. The boy took his shoes and socks off and then ran to the middle of the smoke and sat down. His face was pale with fear and shock. Later on we moved out of the basketball court, he was still sat there. "Probably a very confused little boy" James said. But David looked back and said yes, the boy I mad.
That day, after we'd driven away from the smoking court, David imitated the little boys confused running around. He licked his elbow just the way the little boy had. James said yes. "All right, then," James said, "lets all do it."
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