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2. Andrew Nam
3. Hannah Jang
4. Jihun Jun
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Final post! :)
Entry of my choice.
- This book, I think is a very good book compared to what i've read before and heard about the other dystopian novels. This book can give a pretty strong impression. When I started to read the book, it was a fun idea, putting animals how they revolt against their owner, how they read, think up of things. It was a fun way to put it. Now, Ray Bradbury's Farhenheit 451 has a strong heavy kind of mood. It sort of envelopes you like you were in a room. It can even seem sort of unrealistic and it is very serious. But, Animal Farm, i think this kind of story can give a similar feeling in a lighter way. This book puts the situation in a sort of a funny kind of way, like a bit of a joke. But, if you look at it closely, it was and is similar to our world. It shows how we want to be free, do things we should and think of it as a better life. But, as Napoleon takes over, the image is shattered. It makes you feel that could actually happen to our world when we actually think peace has come. It sure disturbed me, thinking that this may actually happen to us when we finally thought that all our troubles and fears of wars, poverty, everything that we didn't like of our positions were over. So this is what i thought of the book. Overall, it was a great book.
5th post
Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
- Well, the only setting in animal farm was the farm. The story never actually went anywhere else. But, it is meaningful. One reason is because it was a place of happiness and hope, described by old Major. But it turned into something else as the balance of power tipped to the pigs side, not equal for every animal. I think the line behind the book "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL. BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." I think this fits just story. The setting George Orwell described was like a kind of fantasy, a land where everyone would like to be. The kind of place where Moses, the raven, keeps going on about. The setting was like a place that can never be achieved. That it's hopeless to try and achieve that place. It was memorable, but very disturbing to me because it sort of sounds like world peace can never be achieved, and it's what we're trying to achieve at the present.
4th post
What is the mood of the novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?
- The mood of this story, i think, is sort of disguised. If you look at it, the mood seems very happy, because the animals are able to do work because they want to, they do what they wanted to do before. But if you look closely, the mood is sort of dark and kind of evil. Because of all those cheerful and encouraging words of Squealer and the other pigs cover up the dark and sinister plan of Napoleon. The mood of the story really doesn't sadden me, because there really isn't anything to be sad about. The thing that actually saddens me is the animals position. The novel saddens me because there actually was a time when people were treated like this. But overall, the mood of the story doesn't sadden me in a way.
- The mood of this story, i think, is sort of disguised. If you look at it, the mood seems very happy, because the animals are able to do work because they want to, they do what they wanted to do before. But if you look closely, the mood is sort of dark and kind of evil. Because of all those cheerful and encouraging words of Squealer and the other pigs cover up the dark and sinister plan of Napoleon. The mood of the story really doesn't sadden me, because there really isn't anything to be sad about. The thing that actually saddens me is the animals position. The novel saddens me because there actually was a time when people were treated like this. But overall, the mood of the story doesn't sadden me in a way.
Post 3
What is the climax of the novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?
- I think the climax in this novel is sort of controversial. I personally feel that the climax of this novel is when the the pigs start to hang out with the humans, act like them, do everything just the same. They changed the rules, "Four legs good, two legs bad!" into "Four legs good, two legs better!" They just changed everything the animals ever worked for before. They were working to find a better and free life, away from human slavery. But, the pigs did just the same or worse as Jones ever did to the animals. The passage says, "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which." I think this is a powerful verse, it saddens you, it makes you think. It shows how anything, can turn into the same. I felt sort of bad for the animals after reading the ending, because they would have to work for a 'human' for the rest of their lives, but who knows? Maybe it would have turned out different.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
2nd Post
-Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal experience?
- I think the main characters are Napoleon, Snowball, and the rest of the animals. The first two characters are the most important of the characters in the book. I liked Snowball the best, how he thought about his and the other's farm, he wanted to protect it. But Napoleon, I think he only wanted to raise himself as the leader, or the dictator of the Animal Farm. I didn't like him very much, I think he kind of represents people who take advantage over people, for example some of the owners of some factories who take advantage of foreigners or the labor workers by making them work a lot and giving small pay. But, the other animals, I think they were a bit too ingenuous, they kept falling for the pigs fake explanation. But Benjamin the donkey, he was the kind who doesn't care about the surroundings or the changes. So he was the only animal who really wasn't affected. Because he couldn't see the difference between Napoleon or Jones, nor did he care.
- I think the main characters are Napoleon, Snowball, and the rest of the animals. The first two characters are the most important of the characters in the book. I liked Snowball the best, how he thought about his and the other's farm, he wanted to protect it. But Napoleon, I think he only wanted to raise himself as the leader, or the dictator of the Animal Farm. I didn't like him very much, I think he kind of represents people who take advantage over people, for example some of the owners of some factories who take advantage of foreigners or the labor workers by making them work a lot and giving small pay. But, the other animals, I think they were a bit too ingenuous, they kept falling for the pigs fake explanation. But Benjamin the donkey, he was the kind who doesn't care about the surroundings or the changes. So he was the only animal who really wasn't affected. Because he couldn't see the difference between Napoleon or Jones, nor did he care.
Friday, March 21, 2008
1st Post for Animal Farm.
-Are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or fixed?
- Animal farm is about animals taking over their owner's farm and rule them by themselves. There are horses, pigs, chickens, sheep, donkeys, etc) in the farm. In this world, there were and still are countries like the story. In the story of Animal Farm, the pigs start by the 'thinkers' of the farm, but later on, they start to rule over the other animals, and change the rules they have made at the start of the 'revolution.' This was like Hitler and the Nazis. They started out to seem to help the Germans, they liked it. But later on, Hitler ruled the citizens. Also, North Korea and Kim-Jung-Il, he also later ruled. This could be because they were communists, but Hitler, like Old Major, encouraged, and gave pride to the citizens of Germany, like Major did to the other farm animals. In the book Animal Farm, the animals could have made a great place for themselves, if the pigs hadn't got greedy and messed the farm up.
- Animal farm is about animals taking over their owner's farm and rule them by themselves. There are horses, pigs, chickens, sheep, donkeys, etc) in the farm. In this world, there were and still are countries like the story. In the story of Animal Farm, the pigs start by the 'thinkers' of the farm, but later on, they start to rule over the other animals, and change the rules they have made at the start of the 'revolution.' This was like Hitler and the Nazis. They started out to seem to help the Germans, they liked it. But later on, Hitler ruled the citizens. Also, North Korea and Kim-Jung-Il, he also later ruled. This could be because they were communists, but Hitler, like Old Major, encouraged, and gave pride to the citizens of Germany, like Major did to the other farm animals. In the book Animal Farm, the animals could have made a great place for themselves, if the pigs hadn't got greedy and messed the farm up.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
3rd Post!
I don't think I really want to become like a god. But if I have to, I think I would like to become like Apollo. Not in his temper, but in his talents. For example, according to Ron Leadbetter, author of the web page http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/apollo.html, he was the god of music, medicine, archery, colonization, poetry, dance, almost any kind of art. According to the description, it is said that he would 'heal guilty people by a ritual purification'.
One of his deeds was killing the serpent 'Python.' "It protected the sanctuary of Pytho from it's lair beside the Castalian Spring." But because the serpent was a child of Gaia, the mother of the earth (also by Ron Leadbetter) , he had to serve king Admetus for 8-9 years. His parents were Zeus and Leto. But Hera, being jealus of Leto, did not let her have birth on anywhere on earth. So she had to go on Delos, a floating island, which was not considered anywhere on earth.
Photo Citation - http://www.linsdomain.com/gods&goddesses/pictures/apollo.jpg
Sunday, March 9, 2008
2nd post!
Now, the Lernean Hydra, according to N.S Gill, author of the page http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/monsters/ss/Monsters_8.htm, at about.com, states that the Hydra was the monster that had many heads. One of the heads was impervious to weapons, the others sprouted 2 or more heads when cut off. This was the many headed monster that Hades made to fight against Hercules in the animation. It was the offspring of half woman/ serpent Echidna and 100 headed Typhon which lived in swamps. The breath, or the venom, of the hydra was lethal. It harmed and devoured the people and animals on the countryside. Hercules defeated this monster, in real stories not the animation, with the help of his friend 'cauterize each stump of the monster.' Hercules, finally leaving one head of the monster left, the impervious one, ripped the head off of the monster and buried it.
Photo from - http://theochem.chem.rug.nl/Gifs/hydra.jpg
Post number 1!
Zeus was the god who defeated his father. According to Ron Leadbetter, author of the web page, Encyclopedia Mythica, http://www.pantheon.org/articles/z/zeus.html, Rhea and Cronus were his parents. When he heard one day from a someone that one of his sons would dethrone him and take the throne from him, he swallowed all of his new-born children. But his wife, Rhea, smuggled Zeus to the island of Crete, and the divine goat Amaltheia raised Zeus. When he grew up like Hercules, returned to his father's domain. He then got all of his siblings out of his father, and had war against him and the titans. He defeated them and banished them. His father, to Uranus, and the titans to 'Tartarus' the lowest place on earth, even lower than the underworld.
He was similar to his son, Hercules. Because they both helped all the gods, Zeus by letting them out of his father's stomach, and the Hercules by freeing them of the chains and harden lava. But the difference is that Zeus was a god from the start, while Hercules had to work to become a god.
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Greek Mythology posts
1. Research about one Greek mythological god or goddess. Discover their origins and how they became a god or goddess. Summarize your findings, then compare and contrast the god or goddess you chose to Hercules. How are their personalities, character traits, and stories similar? How are they different? Include a picture of your god or goddess.
2. Research about on one Greek monster. Summariz your findings and explain on the monster terrorized humans nad/or how it got defeated. Include a picture of the moster you chose.
3.If you could be any Greek god or goddess , what kind of qualities would you like to have? Super human strength? Lightning bolts to throw at people? What would you physically look like? Hair full of snakes like Medusa? One huge eye like the cyclops?
2. Research about on one Greek monster. Summariz your findings and explain on the monster terrorized humans nad/or how it got defeated. Include a picture of the moster you chose.
3.If you could be any Greek god or goddess , what kind of qualities would you like to have? Super human strength? Lightning bolts to throw at people? What would you physically look like? Hair full of snakes like Medusa? One huge eye like the cyclops?
Monday, March 3, 2008
The second book I will be reading is...
My second book shall be George Orwell's book, Animal Farm...
Sunday, March 2, 2008
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