1) Mark Twain is a believer in realism and accusing Cooper of using very little realism. First he states that dialog should be written in formal conversation. He also brings up the fact that if characters have miracles and possibilities they have to be possible and reasonable. He feels that the writer should make the reader like the good people and hate the bad people but Cooper makes them hate both. Using simple and straightforward style is another aspect of realism that Cooper does not follow.
2) I learned that even though Cooper wrote many books he was still not the most experienced writer and did not follow many of the rules governing literary art. He did not put a lot of research into his books making them less realistic and inaccurate. It also seemed as if he did not put a lot of thought into his writings and just wrote what he thought would make sense. He also seemed to have the problem of repeating himself and using the same ideas through out his many books. His story outlines never really flowed, accomplished anything, and arrived no where. All of these conclusions come from the point of Mark Twain so it is hard to say if many of these are true but it is very likely.
3) This essay influences my understanding of Huckleberry Finn by letting me know that it is very realistic and reliable because Twain followed the rules of governing literary art. It also helps me know he put much thought into this book and wanted to make it as real as possible. It informs me that all of the characters in the story have a purpose are there for a reason. He also talks in great detail and this essay let me know that his story development is well put together. Having Twain write this essay helps us know that he knew what he was doing and wanted to help us understand his writings.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
vocab. sentences
1) The girl's temperance lasted for only a few days.
2) The histrionic scream of the girl made many heads turn in her direction.
3) The man was mused when he came across a math problem that stumped him.
4) Henry David Thoreau wrote with brazen words and was not afraid to be himself.
5) The contrite letter he wrote touched the girls heart.
6) The town was flooded due to the calamity of the tsunami.
7) I felt bad for the ponderous girl who got made fun of at school.
8) The stealthiest boy never got caught sneaking out late at night.
9) The blitheful girl never stopped talking.
10) Huck did not understand the idea of heaven and the infernal world.
11) Martin Luther King Jr. was a abolitionist trying to make blacks and whites equal.
12) The year 2009 will be afoot before we know it.
13) The coach was confound when his MVP basketball player punched his teammate.
14) The frivolousness piece art displayed at the museum.
15) The boy was very languish after using a pulled muscle.
16) The haughty school president made everyone want to replace him.
17) The girl liked to consider herself as having divinging beauty.
2) The histrionic scream of the girl made many heads turn in her direction.
3) The man was mused when he came across a math problem that stumped him.
4) Henry David Thoreau wrote with brazen words and was not afraid to be himself.
5) The contrite letter he wrote touched the girls heart.
6) The town was flooded due to the calamity of the tsunami.
7) I felt bad for the ponderous girl who got made fun of at school.
8) The stealthiest boy never got caught sneaking out late at night.
9) The blitheful girl never stopped talking.
10) Huck did not understand the idea of heaven and the infernal world.
11) Martin Luther King Jr. was a abolitionist trying to make blacks and whites equal.
12) The year 2009 will be afoot before we know it.
13) The coach was confound when his MVP basketball player punched his teammate.
14) The frivolousness piece art displayed at the museum.
15) The boy was very languish after using a pulled muscle.
16) The haughty school president made everyone want to replace him.
17) The girl liked to consider herself as having divinging beauty.
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Damned Human Race
Twain writes this essay to state how animals are a higher species than man. The first point he states is how evil man is. Animals kill for a purpose of survival when man kills with out reason. Next he reminds us that man will store, as in money, more than he can ever use. Man remebers injuries and insults so he gets revenge. The passion of revenge is unkown for animals. Man has has feelings that he has invented that animals know nothing about. Man is the only animal that engages in warfare and offers to fight when animals only fight when it is needed. Animals rob for survival and man is the only one that has ever robbed someone of their country. Man has people do work for them, unlike animals. Man murdered humans around the globe due to religion for centuries when animals have no idea of religion. Man is unreasoning when animals learn to get along. Twain states that man has a defect called Moral Sense and is the only animal that has it. Moral Sense is the quality that enables man to do wrong. It also gives men the ability to distinguish good from evil. Twain finds that we have descended from some far ancestor and are the lowest species living.
I think Twain had many great and true points. I especially agree with the point that man will store more money than they can even use when animals only store the amount of food they need. I also strongly agree with the fact that men get other people to do their work when animals hunt for their own food. I do not agree with the point that animals rob for food and man is the only one that has ever taken over someone's land. I believe that animals will also fight for a place to live and man is not the only animal to take over someone elses home. I think that this is an effective essay because he gave points that were easily believable and well discribed. Twain's points made me think that men really are the lowest of all species.
I think Twain had many great and true points. I especially agree with the point that man will store more money than they can even use when animals only store the amount of food they need. I also strongly agree with the fact that men get other people to do their work when animals hunt for their own food. I do not agree with the point that animals rob for food and man is the only one that has ever taken over someone's land. I believe that animals will also fight for a place to live and man is not the only animal to take over someone elses home. I think that this is an effective essay because he gave points that were easily believable and well discribed. Twain's points made me think that men really are the lowest of all species.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Rappaccini's Daughter Questions
1.a) This story takes place in the 16th century in Padua, Italy. Giovanni is in Padua to pursue hisstudies at the University of Padua. When he was in his chamber he enjoyed spending his time by looking down into the garden and Beatrice beneath his window .
1.b) Giovanni suspects that Rappaccini has arranged for him to visit the garden because he thought he was being set up when Lisabetta shows him private entrance in the garden and feels that she is some how connected to Rappaccini. He also remembers Baglioni warning him that Rappaccini could be using him as an experiment. Rappaccini's reasons for allowing a man to visit Beatrice could be that he does not want his daughter to be lonely and to show her she can fall in love even with the curse he has given her. He could have chose Giovanni to be the man to visit his daughter because he realized his love for the garden. He also noticed him talking to Baglioni, whom he does not get along with, and wanted to get back at him. Another reason could be that he knew Giovanni was constently looking below his window at the garden and Beatrice and that he eventually caught onto the idea that Beatrice's breathe was poisonous and deadly.
2.a) Baglioni is Giovanni's dad's friend and a professor of medicine in the University, whom Giovanni brought a letter of introduction to. Baglioni and Rappaccini do not get a long and have a long continuous professional warefare between them. Baglioni warns Giovanni that he is Rappaccini's next experiment when they see Rappaccini in the street and Baglioni notices the look on his face, the same one looking over a dead animal he has killed during one of his experiments. Baglioni also swears his life upon the idea that Giovanni is a subject to one of Rappaccini's experiments.
2.b) Giovanni could trust Baglioni's opinion because he knows Rappaccini really well and has seen what he can and has done. He may not trust Baglioni's opinion because he knows how much he dislikes Rappaccini and he knows about the continuous professional warfare between them. Baglioni has a voice of triumph mixed with fear at the end of the story because he is happy that he was right about Beatrice being poisonous and that he cured one of the many illnesses caused by Rappaccini. He is scared because his medicine killed Beatrice and he is also scared for Giovanni that he could now be poisonous.
3.a) Before Giovanni meets Beatrice he sees three things that are unimaginable and make him fear her. The first incident is when a small lizard is walking at the feet of Beatrice and she dropped a couple of drops of moisture from the purple gorgeous shrub onto the lizards head killing it. Then an insect was flying over her head and when her breathed reached the insect it dropped dead. The third incident happened when Giovanni threw down a fresh boquet of flowers down to her and they shriveled up in her hand. He forgot about his fears after he met her because he fell in love with her.
3.b) Beatrice hides her face and runs away because she touches his hand and is afraid that she could have poisoned him by just touching him. She says "I will drink- but do thou await the result," because if it does not kill her she wants him to still be there for her. I think Beatrice's love is more real for Giovanni because she can not go a day with out seeing him, she knows that she could kill him so she is cautious, and she also is willing to sacrifice her life for him. Giovanni also deep down seems to be somewhat scared of her making him love her less.
4.a) Most of the plants in Rappaccini's garden are poisonous. The purple beautiful shrub is deadly. Beatrice's breath is considered poisonous and could kill. I beleive that Rappaccini is poisonous in an unnatural way. He spreds poison among people and plants selectively. He also creates poison.
4.b) I think Rappaccini is evil because he made his daughter and many other things poisonous with out caring about what they have to think about his opinions. I define evil as one doing a harmful act upon another, gets joy out of doing it, and does not care about the other persons feelings. I believe all of the following characters are evil because they all had something to do with Beatrice's death and Giovanni's unhappiness. Rappiccinni would be on the highest degree of evil because he made his daughter poisonous, which is what caused all the problems. Right below him would be Baglioni because he was the one that gave Giovanni the potion that killed Beatrice and he also tried to get in the way of Beatrice and Giovanni's love. Next would be Lisabetta because she brought Giovanni into the garden which led him into falling in love with Beatrice. Beatrice would come next because she new she was harmful and could harm Giovanni but she still let herself love him and she also let him love her. Giovanni would be considered evil because he gave Beatrice the potion knowing that it could kill her.
5.a) Hawthorne describes Beatrice as a young girl beautiful as the day looking redundant with life, health, and energy. He also says, "she was more beautiful than the richest of them." She had a voice ful of richness and and youth was as rich as a tropical sunset. Her beauty was so brillant, so vivid in character, and glowed amid the sunlight. Her expressions where among simplicity and sweetness.
5.b) In earlier years people that smoked in movies could be considered toxic. Being a smoker used to mean something totally different people thought it was cool and made them look good. People who watched these movies with smokers thought they looked so cool and wanted to be just like them causing an impact on our society. It is the same way it is now, when you watch a movie and you really like one of the characters you think, "I want to be just like them," that's how it used to be but people wanted to be just like the smoker because they got all the girls/guys, were considered popular, or just looked cool. Some people who have stopped this trend would be doctors because they found out how bad smoking was and incouraged people to cut it out of their movies.
1.b) Giovanni suspects that Rappaccini has arranged for him to visit the garden because he thought he was being set up when Lisabetta shows him private entrance in the garden and feels that she is some how connected to Rappaccini. He also remembers Baglioni warning him that Rappaccini could be using him as an experiment. Rappaccini's reasons for allowing a man to visit Beatrice could be that he does not want his daughter to be lonely and to show her she can fall in love even with the curse he has given her. He could have chose Giovanni to be the man to visit his daughter because he realized his love for the garden. He also noticed him talking to Baglioni, whom he does not get along with, and wanted to get back at him. Another reason could be that he knew Giovanni was constently looking below his window at the garden and Beatrice and that he eventually caught onto the idea that Beatrice's breathe was poisonous and deadly.
2.a) Baglioni is Giovanni's dad's friend and a professor of medicine in the University, whom Giovanni brought a letter of introduction to. Baglioni and Rappaccini do not get a long and have a long continuous professional warefare between them. Baglioni warns Giovanni that he is Rappaccini's next experiment when they see Rappaccini in the street and Baglioni notices the look on his face, the same one looking over a dead animal he has killed during one of his experiments. Baglioni also swears his life upon the idea that Giovanni is a subject to one of Rappaccini's experiments.
2.b) Giovanni could trust Baglioni's opinion because he knows Rappaccini really well and has seen what he can and has done. He may not trust Baglioni's opinion because he knows how much he dislikes Rappaccini and he knows about the continuous professional warfare between them. Baglioni has a voice of triumph mixed with fear at the end of the story because he is happy that he was right about Beatrice being poisonous and that he cured one of the many illnesses caused by Rappaccini. He is scared because his medicine killed Beatrice and he is also scared for Giovanni that he could now be poisonous.
3.a) Before Giovanni meets Beatrice he sees three things that are unimaginable and make him fear her. The first incident is when a small lizard is walking at the feet of Beatrice and she dropped a couple of drops of moisture from the purple gorgeous shrub onto the lizards head killing it. Then an insect was flying over her head and when her breathed reached the insect it dropped dead. The third incident happened when Giovanni threw down a fresh boquet of flowers down to her and they shriveled up in her hand. He forgot about his fears after he met her because he fell in love with her.
3.b) Beatrice hides her face and runs away because she touches his hand and is afraid that she could have poisoned him by just touching him. She says "I will drink- but do thou await the result," because if it does not kill her she wants him to still be there for her. I think Beatrice's love is more real for Giovanni because she can not go a day with out seeing him, she knows that she could kill him so she is cautious, and she also is willing to sacrifice her life for him. Giovanni also deep down seems to be somewhat scared of her making him love her less.
4.a) Most of the plants in Rappaccini's garden are poisonous. The purple beautiful shrub is deadly. Beatrice's breath is considered poisonous and could kill. I beleive that Rappaccini is poisonous in an unnatural way. He spreds poison among people and plants selectively. He also creates poison.
4.b) I think Rappaccini is evil because he made his daughter and many other things poisonous with out caring about what they have to think about his opinions. I define evil as one doing a harmful act upon another, gets joy out of doing it, and does not care about the other persons feelings. I believe all of the following characters are evil because they all had something to do with Beatrice's death and Giovanni's unhappiness. Rappiccinni would be on the highest degree of evil because he made his daughter poisonous, which is what caused all the problems. Right below him would be Baglioni because he was the one that gave Giovanni the potion that killed Beatrice and he also tried to get in the way of Beatrice and Giovanni's love. Next would be Lisabetta because she brought Giovanni into the garden which led him into falling in love with Beatrice. Beatrice would come next because she new she was harmful and could harm Giovanni but she still let herself love him and she also let him love her. Giovanni would be considered evil because he gave Beatrice the potion knowing that it could kill her.
5.a) Hawthorne describes Beatrice as a young girl beautiful as the day looking redundant with life, health, and energy. He also says, "she was more beautiful than the richest of them." She had a voice ful of richness and and youth was as rich as a tropical sunset. Her beauty was so brillant, so vivid in character, and glowed amid the sunlight. Her expressions where among simplicity and sweetness.
5.b) In earlier years people that smoked in movies could be considered toxic. Being a smoker used to mean something totally different people thought it was cool and made them look good. People who watched these movies with smokers thought they looked so cool and wanted to be just like them causing an impact on our society. It is the same way it is now, when you watch a movie and you really like one of the characters you think, "I want to be just like them," that's how it used to be but people wanted to be just like the smoker because they got all the girls/guys, were considered popular, or just looked cool. Some people who have stopped this trend would be doctors because they found out how bad smoking was and incouraged people to cut it out of their movies.
Monday, October 6, 2008
"Most men live lives of quiet desperation", this quote said by Thoreau is one of his famous quotes with a lot of great meaning. He is saying how most men live lives of anxiety, worry, fear, distraction, and nervousness. It is saying how men live their lives according to others and society but secretly wanting to live life in a totally different way. It is also saying how most people will go through their entire lives never becoming who they were meant to be, never living the life they were born to live, and never realizing their true talents they have. We, the people of the present generation, still have the chance to live our own lives any way we want to and to not live lives of quiet desperation.
amanda vocab 3
His colloquial words made people dislike him.
The dotard spent his days sitting at home watching t.v.
The furrow had an abundant amout of corn.
There was a misnomer on the map, so we got lost.
The vilification of the girl's attitde to the boy caused them to break up.
Her hand atrophied due to too many english essays.
The man was a misogynist so he killed women.
She was vidicated for shoplifting hen she showed them her receipt.
The movie attenuated the watchers to read the book.
The book was full of drivel words.
The virulent words spoken by the boy made the girl hate him with a passion.
The dotard spent his days sitting at home watching t.v.
The furrow had an abundant amout of corn.
There was a misnomer on the map, so we got lost.
The vilification of the girl's attitde to the boy caused them to break up.
Her hand atrophied due to too many english essays.
The man was a misogynist so he killed women.
She was vidicated for shoplifting hen she showed them her receipt.
The movie attenuated the watchers to read the book.
The book was full of drivel words.
The virulent words spoken by the boy made the girl hate him with a passion.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
what Walden was about
The message that is being sent out by Thoreau in his story Walden is live your own life, live life fully, and live with the time you have, don't waste it. He chooses to live out in the woods to live purposefully, to discover the facts of life, and to live a full life. Thoreau felt that men had chosen to live the common mode of living when really they thought that was there only choice on how to live. He believes that what a person says does not mean it is true, so don't do things with out proof. Thoreau sees old people as being useless for information and you have to figure things out for yourself. "To be awake is to be alive," is one of Thoreau's quotes saying how blessed we are to be alive and how we need to use it as an advantage of living. He points out that when you arise early you see things others do not. He refers to people, who work all day or stay home, as railroad ties and being ride upon by a train. This is saying that society is taking controll of us when we need to take controll of ourselves, we are not riding upon the railroad it is riding upon us. He also points out that we need to follow the beat of our own drummer and do what we desire. One of the things he learned from his life in the woods is that if you go in the direction of your dreams with confidence, and endure to live the life which you have imagined, you will get there with a unexpected amount of sucess and time.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Amanda Vocab Sentances
The torpid girl became fat and dropt out of school.
The tempestuous storm left millions with out homes.
The edifice of people made the girl faint on stage.
The decorous boy was excepted into a private school.
Every one left crying after hearing the eulogium of their grandfather.
The sagacious lawyer won the case.
The voluminous test made all the students stress.
The arduous sport had very few participates.
They accepted the first place trophy with alacrity.
They started the game with a languid attitude.
The tempestuous storm left millions with out homes.
The edifice of people made the girl faint on stage.
The decorous boy was excepted into a private school.
Every one left crying after hearing the eulogium of their grandfather.
The sagacious lawyer won the case.
The voluminous test made all the students stress.
The arduous sport had very few participates.
They accepted the first place trophy with alacrity.
They started the game with a languid attitude.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
conclusion to hills like white elephants
Throughout the whole story the man and the women are talking about an operation,
the operation being an abortion. The man is trying to talk the girl into getting
the operation because he does not want to be committed to the girl and also doesn't want
to feel guilty about leaving her if she keeps the baby. Jig, the girl, has no idea
what she wants to do but she gets the idea that he is trying to talk her into getting
the operation and she gets the feeling that he is not going to stay with her.
At this point in time having an abortion is illegal in america and not very safe but
the man is still trying to convince her. He says he wants her to do what she wants to
do but yet he says that everything will be the same if she gets the operation.
The girl sees keeping the baby as the side with shade, trees, and water and she
looks at getting rid of the baby as the side with no trees and no shade but
the guy sees it in an opposite way. The whole time the man acts as if the baby
is a health issue that needs an operation and at the end of the story he asks her
how she is feeling. Jig says she feels fine and there is nothing wrong with her this
meaning she feels as if the baby is no problem and she doesn't need an operation to
feel better.
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