1) The genre for Captured by Feministas is Tragicomedy, because it ended with no absolutes. The readers were not sure if he got shot or not it focused on the character relationships and how women are viewed in society. The play was funny but serious at the same time.
The genre for You Know How to Whistle, Don't You? is Melodrama because the girl is portrayed as the victim. Also this play has a strict moral judgement.
2) In both plays the choice of words were great in that it brought out the point that Rick Najera was trying to portray. He uses a lot of very common speech that can be understood by a variety of people. The words are descriptive so you know that the person who is talking is passionate about what they are saying.
However reading both plays seem to run on and on but I'm sure seeing someone act them out will give me a better understanding of each. In Captured by Feministas he used names of females that are feminist which allows the reader to relate if they know who these women are. In You know how to whistle don't you she uses every different approach to try to get this man to sleep pay to sleep with her but what she really wanted was just an escape from her reality.
3) I came up with several themes for each play
Captured by feministas- Superiority, Inequality, women struggle
You Know how to Whistle don't you- desperation, loneliness,struggle for survival
4) Captured by feministas- protagonist- male, antagonist- females but they can be switched
You Know how to Whistle don't you- Protagonist- female, antagonist- male
5) I really enjoyed reading these plays. They were funny and you can understand them. I would have really enjoyed watching them as well.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Hamlet
1) I think Hamlet is talking about life and making decisions. If we are not satisfied should we continue to live in misery or change and be happy. I got that explanation from the lines "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing them". I also think that Hamlet is saying that you should follow your dreams and only you alone can hinder yourself from what you want to accomplish.
2) I think this soliloquy is so famous because of the first line "To be, or not to be: that is the question:". Before I knew who William Shakespear was i would here this line used on TV in cartoons and movies. From what I think this soliloquy means I can identify with it in that If I'm not happy with something I don't sit around and complain about it, I change it so I am more comfortable and happy.
2) I think this soliloquy is so famous because of the first line "To be, or not to be: that is the question:". Before I knew who William Shakespear was i would here this line used on TV in cartoons and movies. From what I think this soliloquy means I can identify with it in that If I'm not happy with something I don't sit around and complain about it, I change it so I am more comfortable and happy.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Is Rap/Hip hop Poetry
1) Yes Rap/Hip hop music is poetic expression because it evokes emotion in the listeners and it also contains the poetic elements. If the lyrics were to be read, the reader would be able to experience some type of feelings. Even though majority of Rap/hip hop music is poetic expression not all songs are, or have the substance to be poetic.
2) Rap/Hip hop music contains all of the poetry literary terms such as simile, metaphors, rhythm and rhyme, and denotation & connotation. In the Hip hop Samples given on the paper:
"Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare." - Similie
"Im sweet like licorice, dangerous like syphilis."- Similie and Rhyme
"Like Slick Rick the ruler i'm cooler than a ice brick,/got soul like those afro picks, with the black fist, and leave, and leave a crowd dripping like John the Baptist,"- Rhyme, Assonance and Consonance.
A particular Rap/Hip hop artist that uses enjambment in his lyrics is Busta Rhymes. He continues and never seems to stop.
3) I would say that I am a context critic. The tone and the use of words are important to me. You could say one thing so many different ways and get so many different meanings out of it. If a person can come up with a different way to say something, I really appreciate them and that is why we have different genres, but an artist from hip hop and an artist from punk rock could sing about the same topic but the different elemest they use and how they put it together makes them unique. I think this is why I can appreciate music from different genres and not be closed minded.
2) Rap/Hip hop music contains all of the poetry literary terms such as simile, metaphors, rhythm and rhyme, and denotation & connotation. In the Hip hop Samples given on the paper:
"Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare." - Similie
"Im sweet like licorice, dangerous like syphilis."- Similie and Rhyme
"Like Slick Rick the ruler i'm cooler than a ice brick,/got soul like those afro picks, with the black fist, and leave, and leave a crowd dripping like John the Baptist,"- Rhyme, Assonance and Consonance.
A particular Rap/Hip hop artist that uses enjambment in his lyrics is Busta Rhymes. He continues and never seems to stop.
3) I would say that I am a context critic. The tone and the use of words are important to me. You could say one thing so many different ways and get so many different meanings out of it. If a person can come up with a different way to say something, I really appreciate them and that is why we have different genres, but an artist from hip hop and an artist from punk rock could sing about the same topic but the different elemest they use and how they put it together makes them unique. I think this is why I can appreciate music from different genres and not be closed minded.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Hills like white elephants
Part I
1) "The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. […] The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid."
The setting of the story takes place in a foreign land at a bar near the train station. The place is hot and the "no shade and no trees" show that that side was experiencing drought. Its symbolic about where the story takes place becasue at one end of the station the land was dry and barren and at the other end had lush vegitation and the river was there . Since they have to make a decision about an abortion, the dry side could represent the woman's state after the abortion and the lush side could represent her pregnant state now. The two rail lines also play apart as they have to make a decision whether to move forward with it and continue on their adventure or to go back, accept it and begin a new adventure. The two characters are stuck in the middle and they have to make a decision.
2) The point of view of the story is third person objective. We as readers get to examine the sistuation from both the american and the girls side without being biased. However the characters thoughts are inferred from the convosation and the actions in the story. The narrator's attitude towards the characters is that the American wants to continue to be free spirited and have no responsibilities and the girl is doing it because he wants to. The American has already made up his mind but Jig is still undecided.
3) Hemingway style is simple and compact, with short sentences and paragraphs. In this story he used dialogue throught most of the story. He have his readers interpret what he means.
Part II
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. He was married any times and spent time traveling the world and creating adventures for himself.
1. Hemingway began his career writing for a news paper hence his stories are simple and compact.
2. He was an American who did a lot of traveling.
3. Like the American character in the story Hemmingway was also selfish.
"Ernest Hemingway - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 5 Apr 2011 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html
1) "The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. […] The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building. It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes. It stopped at this junction for two minutes and went to Madrid."
The setting of the story takes place in a foreign land at a bar near the train station. The place is hot and the "no shade and no trees" show that that side was experiencing drought. Its symbolic about where the story takes place becasue at one end of the station the land was dry and barren and at the other end had lush vegitation and the river was there . Since they have to make a decision about an abortion, the dry side could represent the woman's state after the abortion and the lush side could represent her pregnant state now. The two rail lines also play apart as they have to make a decision whether to move forward with it and continue on their adventure or to go back, accept it and begin a new adventure. The two characters are stuck in the middle and they have to make a decision.
2) The point of view of the story is third person objective. We as readers get to examine the sistuation from both the american and the girls side without being biased. However the characters thoughts are inferred from the convosation and the actions in the story. The narrator's attitude towards the characters is that the American wants to continue to be free spirited and have no responsibilities and the girl is doing it because he wants to. The American has already made up his mind but Jig is still undecided.
3) Hemingway style is simple and compact, with short sentences and paragraphs. In this story he used dialogue throught most of the story. He have his readers interpret what he means.
Part II
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. He was married any times and spent time traveling the world and creating adventures for himself.
1. Hemingway began his career writing for a news paper hence his stories are simple and compact.
2. He was an American who did a lot of traveling.
3. Like the American character in the story Hemmingway was also selfish.
"Ernest Hemingway - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 5 Apr 2011 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Everyday Use and The Lottery
Everyday Use- Alice Walker
1) The term "everyday use" means the use of daily things passed down from one generation to the other and finding other ways to use them, such as using the butter churn that was made from the tree or the quits that were made out of pieces of the grandmother's dress or the grandfather's old civil uniform. Walker chose this as a title to possibly give the reader an insight to the story or the ending without them reading first, such as Maggie would use the quilts for their intended purpose "everyday use", while Dee "Wangero" would put them on display and not use them for their true purpose.
2) Each character serves as a representation of various aspects of African American heritage. Dee having gained knowledge from going to school would like to preserve artifacts that symbolize her culture. Maggie having grown up learning the ways of her people sees it fit to honor them and keep them close by following tradition and using the things that her ancestors have used before her. Mama has an understanding of both Dee and Maggie's sides and defines heritage as using the artifacts but at the same time preserving them. This is shown with the quilts. The pieces used for the quilt were worn and used before but in order to preserve them they were made into a quilt. Walker wants us to see where each character is coming from but i think she wants her readers to side more with Mama
3) It is ironic that Dee changed her name to Wangero because when she was younger she was ashamed of her past because it was not considered the in thing. She now changes her name to Wangero a more African name to try to symbolize that she is down with culture and appreciate it because everyone else thinks it is cool now.
4) The story would have changed in the sense that if it was Dee narrating it would sound as if she had suddenly found that we need to preserve our culture by putting it on display and if it was Maggie it would seem as if she never gets anything for herself and the quilts were suppose to be her wedding gift. We would not get the real jest of the story if it was someone else narrating, it would be biased.
The Lottery- Shirley Jackson
Literally i think the lottery is an act in trying to control the population of the village. Figuratively, the lottery symbolizes the underlying evil, hypocrisy and weakness of human kind. The fate of the winner is not winning a prize, as i thought because of the title of the story, but death by family and friends. Evil is portrayed in a simple, ordinary, friendly atmosphere which could mean that people are not always as they appear to be. I think Jackson wrote this fiction piece as a way of shocking the public. I think it was a way of informing people that our world is consumed by hypocrisy and weakness and there are many things that we are hush hush about and refuse to acknowledge even if it is not ethical. The message of the story is that people are not what they seem. Hypocrisy is prevalent and so is weakness.
1) The term "everyday use" means the use of daily things passed down from one generation to the other and finding other ways to use them, such as using the butter churn that was made from the tree or the quits that were made out of pieces of the grandmother's dress or the grandfather's old civil uniform. Walker chose this as a title to possibly give the reader an insight to the story or the ending without them reading first, such as Maggie would use the quilts for their intended purpose "everyday use", while Dee "Wangero" would put them on display and not use them for their true purpose.
2) Each character serves as a representation of various aspects of African American heritage. Dee having gained knowledge from going to school would like to preserve artifacts that symbolize her culture. Maggie having grown up learning the ways of her people sees it fit to honor them and keep them close by following tradition and using the things that her ancestors have used before her. Mama has an understanding of both Dee and Maggie's sides and defines heritage as using the artifacts but at the same time preserving them. This is shown with the quilts. The pieces used for the quilt were worn and used before but in order to preserve them they were made into a quilt. Walker wants us to see where each character is coming from but i think she wants her readers to side more with Mama
3) It is ironic that Dee changed her name to Wangero because when she was younger she was ashamed of her past because it was not considered the in thing. She now changes her name to Wangero a more African name to try to symbolize that she is down with culture and appreciate it because everyone else thinks it is cool now.
4) The story would have changed in the sense that if it was Dee narrating it would sound as if she had suddenly found that we need to preserve our culture by putting it on display and if it was Maggie it would seem as if she never gets anything for herself and the quilts were suppose to be her wedding gift. We would not get the real jest of the story if it was someone else narrating, it would be biased.
The Lottery- Shirley Jackson
Literally i think the lottery is an act in trying to control the population of the village. Figuratively, the lottery symbolizes the underlying evil, hypocrisy and weakness of human kind. The fate of the winner is not winning a prize, as i thought because of the title of the story, but death by family and friends. Evil is portrayed in a simple, ordinary, friendly atmosphere which could mean that people are not always as they appear to be. I think Jackson wrote this fiction piece as a way of shocking the public. I think it was a way of informing people that our world is consumed by hypocrisy and weakness and there are many things that we are hush hush about and refuse to acknowledge even if it is not ethical. The message of the story is that people are not what they seem. Hypocrisy is prevalent and so is weakness.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Araby
1) Trace the text's use of light and dark imagery. Quote the text. When is the only time Joyce uses light imagery in the story? What do these images represent in the story?
This story uses plenty light and dark imagery for instance in the 3rd paragraph where she stated that dusk fell and the space of the sky had the colour of ever-changing violet and the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanters.
Also the light from the kitchen windows, hidding in the shadow, the evening when the character entered the room where the priest died it was a dark rainyy evening, the darkness in some parts of the hall when he went to the bazzar portrayed light and dark imagery.
Joyce light imagery in the story when describing the curves of the girl. "The light of the lamp opposite our door caught the white curves of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there..."
2) Araby represents an event that he would enjoy, a way him to get the girl something because she would not be there, a chance to get out of the house , a special event
3) The climax is getting to the bazzar finally and getting in. The narrator eye's burnet with anguish and anger because he got to the vent late when everything was practically over. He realized that he promised the girl that he was going to bring back something for her and the first stall he had visited was not customer friendly. He learns don't make promises, don't depend on people for much, plan better and get to events earlier
This story uses plenty light and dark imagery for instance in the 3rd paragraph where she stated that dusk fell and the space of the sky had the colour of ever-changing violet and the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanters.
Also the light from the kitchen windows, hidding in the shadow, the evening when the character entered the room where the priest died it was a dark rainyy evening, the darkness in some parts of the hall when he went to the bazzar portrayed light and dark imagery.
Joyce light imagery in the story when describing the curves of the girl. "The light of the lamp opposite our door caught the white curves of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there..."
2) Araby represents an event that he would enjoy, a way him to get the girl something because she would not be there, a chance to get out of the house , a special event
3) The climax is getting to the bazzar finally and getting in. The narrator eye's burnet with anguish and anger because he got to the vent late when everything was practically over. He realized that he promised the girl that he was going to bring back something for her and the first stall he had visited was not customer friendly. He learns don't make promises, don't depend on people for much, plan better and get to events earlier
The Tell-Tale Heart
1) Who arethe protagonist and antagonist? How do you know?
In the story I would say that the narrator of the story is the protagonist as he is the story's main character and the one who drives the action of the plot forward. The old man, who is a character, is the antagonist because he is portayed as the villian or someone who is in conflict with the narrator.
2) What is the conflict or struggle that must be resolved?
The conflict or struggle that must be resolved is to carry out the act of murdering the old man because of the way he stared at the narrator.
"I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! he had the eye of a vulture-- a plae blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees--very gradually--I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever."
So the problem wasn't the old man himself or his attitude towards the narrator but the fact that the man had a weird looking eye that the narrator hated.
3) Identify the climax. And how, in the climax, is the conflict ultimately resolved?
The climax of this story is when the thread of light shot from the crevice and fell upon the old man's eye. The narator grew furious as he gazed at it. This propelled the narrator into finally carrying out the act.
The narrator carries out his act of getting rid of what was bothering him in the first place and that was the old man's eye, thats how the conflict was resolved.
In the story I would say that the narrator of the story is the protagonist as he is the story's main character and the one who drives the action of the plot forward. The old man, who is a character, is the antagonist because he is portayed as the villian or someone who is in conflict with the narrator.
2) What is the conflict or struggle that must be resolved?
The conflict or struggle that must be resolved is to carry out the act of murdering the old man because of the way he stared at the narrator.
"I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! he had the eye of a vulture-- a plae blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees--very gradually--I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever."
So the problem wasn't the old man himself or his attitude towards the narrator but the fact that the man had a weird looking eye that the narrator hated.
3) Identify the climax. And how, in the climax, is the conflict ultimately resolved?
The climax of this story is when the thread of light shot from the crevice and fell upon the old man's eye. The narator grew furious as he gazed at it. This propelled the narrator into finally carrying out the act.
The narrator carries out his act of getting rid of what was bothering him in the first place and that was the old man's eye, thats how the conflict was resolved.
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