We have been reading Shakespeare in class so I am going to talk about what I think about it.
My thinking of Romeo and Juliet has my baffled on somethings. Especially the type of language that Shakespeare uses confuses me often. Luckly, the book gives me some reference in the sidenotes of the book. But with that, the long speech with the Nurse really got confused. I never got what she said, it seemed like a bunch of giberish! But with all this, it is really easy to understand by looking up the definitions of the words.
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We recently read Night and watched Hotel Rwanda recently in class and I would like to talk about how stuff like genocide still happens. Mainly genocide happens when something happens and people blame a certain ethnic group or religion. The definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Like the Holocaust and the Bosnia Genocide are examples of mass genocides. I think things like these always happen because people always blame other people for the actions that happen. Like in Hotel Rwanda, the Hutu blamed the Tutsi for the death of their president. So they decided to kill them as their punishment. As a result, the Hutu killed about 1 million Tutsi people leaving the bodies there. Then the Nazis killed about 12 million people and life in the concentration camps seemed horrible according to Night. "Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies!" (Wiesel 32) It just crazy how many people have died to these causes. Can we do anything to prevent this stuff from happening? We could, but it would take a world wide effort to stop it in it's tracks. Get more people involved in trying to stop it. But no matter what, we are doomed to repeat this. The Holocaust was a tragic time in our world history. Many people of different ethnicities have died in this time period. Because of the horrible man Adolf Hitler. The leader of the Nazis', he thought that there should only be one powerful race, which was his race. This was happening during WWII and no one knew that this was happening. That's when Americans found out about this and went to action, the end of the war was the end of the Holocaust. A horrible time period for people like the Jews.
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Mr. Kerr Honors English 1 November 21, 2014 Actions and Reactions Literally Analysis (Option #2) Everything has a cause and effect, a action and reaction. It is a proven fact that everything has a natural reaction, like push goes to shove. But what does this have to do with literature? This is basically the same thing as real life. Everything in a book has an action and reaction just like real life, like cause and effect. The Road has many causes and effects, actions and reactions, simply because everything has a natural reaction. Everything has a reaction, but what does reactions have to do with basic needs of our lives? Without reactions there is no actions in life, so reactions need to happen. Without actions or reactions, our life would be a mess. Considering the human brain thinks what would happen if you if you do something. The human mind always thinks about the reaction that could happen. Mainly because we don’t want to get in trouble or we like to think things through. What do reactions and actions have to literature? It’s actually a lot like life. The characters act like humans very similarly. In The Road the main characters really think about the consequences. When they see a house, they decide whether or not to go look inside the house. It’s either because of bad people are going to be inside or other horribly reasons like dead people or a waste of time. Here is an example of doing an action that causes a reaction in The Road, “What is this place, Papa? Shh. Let’s just stand here and listen. There was nothing. The wind rustling the dead road-side bracken. A distant creaking. Door or shutter. I think we should take a look. Papa let’s not go up there. It’s okay. I dont think we should go up there. It’s okay. We have to look.” (105-106) What the boy and man are deciding whether or not to go check the house. But the boy thinks that there's something wrong with that house. Something is not right, but the man thinks about it. It’s because he thinks that there might be something in there. So they both decide to try to listen for anything that sounds suspicious from the house. They hear no sounds except a creaking noise from a door a shutter. This causes a reaction since no one is in there to check out if anything is in the house. Here is another example that something caused a reaction in The Road, “He slung their knapsacks over his shoulder and they tore through the crumbling bracken. The boy was terrified. Run, he whispered. Run. He looked back. The truck had rumbled into the view. Men standing in the bed looking out. The boy fell and he pulled him up. It’s all right, he said. Come on.” (61) They see the bad guys, which causes them to react and run for their life. They got away luckily. Now with every action has a reaction like I have been saying, but what actions do I do that causes reactions. Well, I did something like play video games when I was not supposed to and the reaction I got was getting grounded. But with this these are present choices that I am making. What about future choices and effects of those choices. Some of my choices that I have for the future are plentiful. I would like to go to college, maybe be a teacher. I might decide on a different choice later in my life. But to go to college, I have to be able to get through high school, and have enough money to go to college. With that, I have the choice to get a job when I turn 16 so I can get money to save up for college, or even maybe a car. And with that, I have the choice to get a banking account. The choices go on for being able to go to college. But if you have one major action that you want to do, say college for an example, is there a bunch of different choices to make for that choice? Each leading into another consequence that may lead to a whole different action? Say that I want to go to college and I become a high school drop-out. That could cause a whole new different reaction! The possible reactions of every action is endless. There could be at least 1,000 different possibilities. Now there are a bunch of possibilities that can go with actions and many of them can be good or bad. But we all know that the The Road helped us see some light on this subject. With some of the man and boy’s actions, they tell us that everything has a reaction and consequence. The Road really does help. The ending of the book really made me mad and sad. Well, the father died at the end of the book, which made me sad. But the fact that the child was left alone with a complete strangers that the boy doesn't know. Luckily those strangers are a nice family but the man of that family didn't let the child put the man anywhere. The man wasn't put in a proper sepulchre that would considered him to be laid to rest. But luckily the man and boy spent their last times together at the coast with boats. Vacating boats and looking at the tidewrack, these were good memories.
I thought I would share my love poem since I have been thinking about love a lot.
Love Love, what is it? Is love an emotion? Is it something that is physically real? I felt love a few times in life. It was a weird feeling most of the time. The thing about those crushes was that I couldn’t confess my love. And usually they end up with someone else… Love...A very destructive force that can ruin someone's heart. It ruined my heart a couple times... This week, reading The Road was a mixture of happiness and sadness combined. The man and the boy of course have had some problems while walking down the road. But some things made their life a whole bunch easier. The man found an old air raid shelter with a bunch of food in it. They took most of the food and lived in their for a little bit. But then they got back in the murk and back to the road. Their cart was fasten with grommets to keep the stuff down in it. But it seems they ran out of food quickly. They seemed to have food but then they back kind of emaciated when they started to run out of food again. To make things even worse, the man got a fever which made him sick even more! I could predict a very bad future for the man and the boy for the rest of the book.
I think the good qualities of hero are, protective, heroic, and, very caring. Lets take example of the man in the book I'm reading, The Road. He is very protective over the boy, he has been very caring to the boy, and he has saved the boy multiple times. Another example is Quote from Cave Story (A video game). Quote is protective about his friends, saves his friends from the world almost ending, and caring for Curly, his companion.
All heroes have these qualities I believe. Odysseus has all these traits and many other heroes have these traits. So I believe this is what I think of a hero! We are reading The Road in Honors English class and I was amazed at how sad and depressing the the tone is. Cormac McCarthy's language in this story is very depressing and sad in this story. He doesn't use simple terms like bushes or trees, he actually uses a real plant name for that specific thing. For example, instead of bush he calls it a bracken, which is a fancier word for bush but just the term makes it seem more depressing since he doesn't use a simpler term. Some other things that helps with McCarthy's language that affects the tone is the setting. Just how he describes the setting gives me some chills. Like a tractor with a trailer attached to it was jackknifed sideways across the bridge and how they had feel their way down the dark embankment just makes the atmosphere for this story is just chilling for me to read. So McCarthy's language is really chilling and depressing, so the tone is very easy for the reader to find in this depressing book.
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