Masterpiece Progress

My masterpiece... Well I'm going to be completely honest. It's the same it has been from the last time I had posted about it. My biggest push I need to get on is starting talk to people, interviewing them, having them pick transformation pictures of themselves throughout high school, I need to make up my questions, I need a camera to record, I need to learn how to make videos and clipping them( which is pretty important) hahaha but knowing me (being the biggest procrastinator in the world) I won't learn until it's clutch time. Go figures. I'm super excited to get it started though it's just extremely hard playing another sport occupying ALL my time:/ LITERALLY.  Spending my spring break in Anaheim for a softball tournament.... So fun. Cannot wait. But on a masterpiece note, I will be checking off "to do's" on my checklist as soon as I can! Can't wait to finish it so you can all enjoy it :) 

Tobermory

After reading the story, I feel as if Tobermory, the cat, was utilized as a symbol to how society is so quick to gossip and talk trash without being aware of their surroundings and who the information will get back to. Many human beings living in our society are guilty of this due to the lack of respect now a days. Yes, unfortunately karma has came back to bite me in the ass. Nobody is perfect.Also, i think this story was written to exaggerate how influential, powerful, and somewhat dangerous society can be. Whether it really is teaching animals and nature how to interact with society on a social lever (talking, etc.) or whether it's mass killing animals/destroying nature, we really have a huge impact and one day it's going to come back and harm us just like the elephant did in one of the last paragraphs in the story. The last line came off to me as you're going to get a sarcastic response back when you try to change people into certain way or habits they don't want to do and/or aren't ready for. 

Woman Work

TPCASTT POEM ANALYSIS METHOD

Title: (Of poem means) The title reflects the poem perfectly. Each and every line depicts a woman's work and that's something that needs to happen when writing a good poem. 

Paraphrase: (Parts of poem) Part of the poem that stuck out to me were the lines naming off each and every one of the "chores" the woman had to do. There's nothing more on point then those lines concerning a day in a life with women in general... Well most at least.

Connotation: (Changing literal meaning of words to implied values) When reading through the poem and trying to visualize and connect to, the words that had the biggest impact on me was the constant religion of the words "I got to, I got to, I got to". This is just really emphasizing how women feel about their duties. There's always a long list and no words mirror that feeling better than the words "I got to" over and over again.

Attitude: (Attitude of author, characters or yourself) The attitude of this novel is quite easy to pick up and understand. The characters (women) attitude isn't the happiest/ easy going. This poem shows the struggles and tiring of work women have to go through. My attitude towards the poem was shocking positive, but it was that way because of how much I was agreeing with it. Very on point. I find it 10 times easier to enjoy a poem that you relate to more. 

Shift: (Thinking one way at first then another later on) There was a slight shift throughout this poem. From talking about the "I got to" over a couple of lines then into wanted a fresh start to restart herself was a slight transition, but overall kept the same meaning and theme.

Title Revisited: (Any new insights on meaning or significance of title) the title couldn't have been more on point. The meaning of the title was portrayed perfectly throughout the piece. 

Theme: The theme of the poem was over all describing a day in the life of a women. Women do so much for others and themselves. Most the the rigorous work is just expected for our gender and that's just how society works.

Brave New World Essay

     Bernard Marx is one of the most self-inflicting characters ever developed. In Brave New World Aldous Huxley, the author,  has set out to create an Utopia that's so far out and different from the society he was currently living in to mirror our future society. Huxley has managed to develop a character that distances himself from the unorthodox society he is currently living in. Huxley through this novel warned us preaching through characters and the theme to not sacrifice your individuality in pursuit of social acceptance, because once you lose your individual imperfections you lose the basis of humanity.
   
     Throughout the novel Bernard Marx is socially accepting the new world, but inward and consciously battling the acceptance. In this society, Patrons are taught to live in a state where stimulated drugs are popped to cure unhappiness, sex games are demonstrated among any age or gender on the normality, and castes, that differentiate, are out in place to distribute each individual's job and title. Bernard Marx deals with an inward battle constantly with conforming to the new world's expectations. He reminds himself when going out with Lenina, a young individual who has completely conformed to the new society, that he isn't warped into this utopia. Marx understands that happiness can be conceived just be the simplest things such as just watching water ripple a certain way. Beauty is in the nature, but Bernard struggles with expressing that to others conformed in the society. 

     The key ingredient to stability that the novel implies is that individuality must be absent. The government in Brave New World understands that fact and in the worlds of one of the ten controllers of the world states there is no civilization without social stability. The basis of humanity revolves around individuality and imperfections and that's something the new world lacks. Bernard struggles with issue concerning questioning himself inwardly. He once throughout the novel approached the  director questioning the system which resulted in the Director himself leaking (or foreshadowing you can say) a prior incident revolving around the reservation. Marx only got scolded and threatened for his ambitions, but gained insight towards his theories concerning his inward questionings. 

     Emotions are controlled in Brave New World. Control and stability can best be achieved when everyone is happy. The government does its best to eliminate any painful emotion, which means every deep feeling, every passion, is gone. Huxley shows that the government recognizes the dangers of negative emotions when the controller states, "Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery." So is abnormal for a character like Bernard Marx to question his inward conscious? Only true human beings understand the importance of human-like qualities such as only feeling happiness when it is inherited unlike the individuals lacking those traits popping "happiness pills". Marx is a character developed to prove to the reader that even in the basis of a controlled society or world you can say, when a human is sought out to portray and obey rules that naturally don't abide to them the humans naturally instincts will always kick in and take control. Bernard Marx ends up being punished and exiled for his inward questionings, but is Aldous warning us in a sense that standing up for your beliefs is wrong and being exiled is a cruel punishment to stay away from or is the Utopia a world that should never be developed due to the fact that were human beings and there's always going to be those characteristics you can't take away from an individual?

Essay Prewrite

Before writing my essay I threw together some basics revolving the theme and characteristics of the main characters. Why Huxley decided to do certain things throughout the novel still have me questioning myself, but the novel itself has and will still continue to put a big input on our world's society. Was it a warning? Was it just an educated guess? Was it just fiction straight pulled out of pants? There's so many theory's and there's only one answer that will help solve it all and that's time. Time will tell us how precise our society will mirror Huxley's vision. I don't know about you, but I'm curious to find out how exactly our world is going to end up like but that's why there's writers and predictors with great amounts of imagination that can give us that head start. 

Brave New World Lecture Notes

Brave New World Ch 6

Bernard at the beginning of chapter 6 was extremely odd. Very different. 

Bernard was entitled to a permit 

Lenina compares the North Pole to the west (indirect characterization) she only cares about material things such as getting into a savage reservation (not for the historical significance, but how very rare it is to get into it) 

Henry compared Bernard to a rhino( don't respond properly to conditioning) 

The Lake District (northern England) where much of early romantic poetry was written

Bernard again refused to take the soma when lenina is forcing him because he doesn't seem happy. 

Lenina enjoys crowds, yet doesn't quite understand individually like Bernard does (who fights to be away from crowds as much as possible) 

Bernard expressed to Lenina about his true inner feelings and opinions on the society and how everyone's not free. Lenina disagrees and says we are happy..... But happy because of pharmaceuticals they take (soma) 

Bernard had given up on the conversation and finally took the soma 

Huxley begins and ends the chapter with the word odd (describing Bernard) because he's using 3rd person omnitient. We're listening to the voice and opinion of Lenina. 

Bernard is odd. Is that a good thing? Or bad? 

Part 2: Bernard's perspective- 

Suprised by his suprise: foreshadowing 

The director did the forbidden( reminisced) 

Helmholtz had negative reinforcement and Bernard actually cares about him other than the Director. The director gave away too much information to Bernard about the situation regarding the New Mexico trip. The purpose of that memory is there to foreshadow that that women may still be there alive and Bernard will find her. 

College Acceptances!!

This past week I had FINALLY heard back from the remaining two colleges I had applied to..... and I GOT INTO BOTH! Making me 4 for 4 for college acceptances baby! Nobody truly understands how relieving it is to finally take a BIG giant deep breath and now to sit back and relax for the next couple of months before I start school! I can officially say I am going to college. Now determining where is the big question.... 

   

To all my readers/viewers, you'll be reading up on a post in a month or so on my final decision! The process has begun! :)

                

Huxley Essay

   Aldous Huxley's predictions of the future back during the 1930's could not have been more accurate. That was an exaggeration, but that man predicted today's society very similar to the way it is now, but also very different. With the advent of the internet and electronic entertainment, as well as capitalism really gaining a grip on everyday life, some parts of Brave New World that were just a scary fictional quirk are becoming more and more real. Huxley may have written it in as a satire of the society he was living in, but it potentially holds even more weight now. 

   

   When comparing Huxley's comments during this interview and to today society there were some things I did not agree with. For instance, Huxley had stated that his predictions about the future were very near in our society today and that to some degree is true, but mainly disagreeable. Huxley's world consisted of genetic engineering to class struggles, embryos chemically treated to ensure they fit a certain class, and then babies and children are hypnotized into believing governmental doctrines as pure truth. Also, the use of Soma, a narcotic used as an instant anti-depressant, casts a worrying shadow on the chemical treatment of clinical depression to an extent. We are no where near becoming an Utopia and I'm sure glad of it. We live in a society where yes, we are utopia to a certain degree where we contain laws and a dictator, but we are shaped and funded among freedom. We have the choice to pursue in any career we choose to excel in, dress and look however we want to, and partake in any actions we desire (to a certain extent). I don't think well be having such dictation over us american citizens, but the way technology and science is progressing we may see a slight change in the way we modify our children. 

   Another thing Huxley stated in this interview was the issue surrounding overpopulating. I agree with this one. Yes, children and people are all wonderful people, but overpopulating the Earth can create major issues concerning limited resources, limited jobs and most importantly limited space. When there are mass amounts of people without jobs or homes then that lowers our economy and forces us to create more job opportunities for the homeless and that decreases the amount of money the current workers are earning. 

A more relateable detail that is striking in Brave New Worldis the distinction between public and private. In Brave New World, relationships are out in the open. Everybody knows everybody else’s business. It’s an everyday part of life – it is important that everybody knows who you’re going out with (and who you’re sleeping with), and how many people you're getting at the same time. It’s normal to discuss that people will regularly share partners without feeling any form of jealousy or shame. Engaging sexually with multiple partners is encouraged throughout the book. The moral norm that we’re used to (adultery = bad, monogamy = good) is dramatically altered to the point where if you remain monogamist for too long, you are punished by the authorities.

   The interview reveals a lot of Huxley's personal options towards the book were he elaborated more on, but he remained loyal to his exact presumptions and I found that very interesting. Aldous Huxley was a very brilliant man, and it's absolutely mind blowing that he accomplished predicting and blue-printing our future. I personally hope that our future doesn't obtain too many more qualities similar to Brave New World, but I know for a fact we will pursue in some. As weird as this book is, I'm enjoying it more and more the further I get into it and I'm highly interested in what the end will turn out to be. 

  

Blog Remodel!

As you may or may not know already I get bored very easily and its about damn time I changed my blog! It was this picture I had taken off Foster Road near the Animal Shelter! I fell in love with this edit I had put on it too lol

Andddd I changed it to this picture I took at the Lakers game I attended a couple months ago :)

My Dad knows someone that got us on the court after the game so why not upload it to my blog! It was one of the coolest experiences I had participated in that's forsure! Oh and that's Kyle my beloved boyfriend haha 

p.s. they did win #lakeshow

Literature Analysis #2

Title:  Great Expectaions 
Author: Charles Dickens

Summary:
1. The novel is about a boy named Pip who lost his parents and lives with his sister and her husband. Later he meets a man at the churchyard who threatens him and makes him do as he says. Out of fear Pip starts stealing for the man. Then he meets another character, Estella, who he falls madly in love with. Estella is taught to hurt boys because that's how her mother was taught. Pip still tries to win her over, but has to move to London for schooling. He received a large fortune and blew most of it while living with a friend in London. While away his sister, Mrs. Joe, passes away and he returns home for the funeral service. When he was in town he discovered that the fortune he had received came from the man in the churchyard. After all that he had gone through he still managed to unite with his love Estella in the end.
2. The theme in this novel is ambition. This is because Pip had the ambition that led him back to Estella and not giving up on trying for her. He went through a long journey with having to move and dealing with loss, but didn't lose hope.
3. The tone I felt from reading was a sense of loss and determination. Obviously if I was in his shoes I'd feel a little more sorrow due to having no family, but for him it just brings about determination. Even through his hard times he had determination to go back to Estella.
4. Allusions were used in the novel in the fact that Dicken's based the story off of his own life. Also the diction because it was written in an older era. Along with diction is the syntax for the way Dicken's categorized the journey of Pip's life. The tone was also important because it really made me in a way feel bad for Pip.
Characterization:
1. Dickens used direct characterization in describing Pip by expressing everyone of his actions. He also used direct characterization when telling of how Estella is taught to deal with guys. Indirect characterization is used on Miss Havisham because she's indirectly the problem. She seems like she's helping Pip, but she's really doing things for her own benefit.
2. I didn't notice a change in diction or syntax when focusing on different characters.
3. The protagonist, Pip, definitely is dynamic. Throughout the novel he goes from fairly immature to realizing importance and becoming a man.
4. After reading the novel I came away feeling like I'd met Pip and experienced the journey with him. The author really did a good job at allowing the reader to connect to the character.