Great Expectations 2

Great Expectations. A book about the boy called Pip. In this week's reading, he was to become Joe's, his sister's husband, apprentice in becoming a blacksmith. One day, however, at a bar, he meets the supposed to be executed prisoner. However, the prisoner gives Pip 2 pounds. And Pip began to struggle about getting the money, where the prisoner might have gotten them from... Another day at Ms. Havisham's, when his day there was almost over, he meets a young man, near his age who asks Pip to fight with him. Pip manages to beat him up, but doesn't feel good here either. From these episodes Pip has, I think he's very conscious(?), because he feels a kind of pressure after doing bad deeds.

2nd Book; "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

As we do have to read every week, I took the opportunity to read a lot of the books I need to read, but haven't read. And a lot of them being classical literature, I began to read Charles Dickens. This story, I think has more story and plot to it than "A Tale of Two Cities" does. It's about a boy named Pip. I think some people may be able to relate to him as he does in the beginning of the story, sometimes when he steals food, lies, or sometimes even feel inferior to Estella in the story. But, as I have just started this book, I can see more will come as I go forward into the story

2nd Edition of InkBlotz!

This week, I forgot to lend a book from the library;;; so I will be reviewing(?) the 2nd Edition of InkBlotz! The 1st Edition was quite good from what I thought. Last edition was focusing more on negative and gloomy parts, thus sin, but this edition is showing, I think, more of a cheerful choice of topics. And a religious view to God, on how to live, although there were a bit more of the last edition's topic. But once again, I like the way how the writers expressed the way they write about their topics and how some of the stories are easily understood because they relate to us.

The Last Entry of "A Tale of Two Cities"

Today, I finished the book "A Tale of Two Cities." Now, I finally found the story that I was looking for. Until now, I did not have a clue what the story was, but as I progessed farther into the story, I found it. And it was quite endearing(?) also. When I found that Charles Darnay, or Evre'monde as he is called, was to be imprisoned again, I felt kind of 'tired(?)' that I thought the same story was going to be followed again and again. But I found out that it wasn't. In fact, it gave me a great impression. Sydney Carton was a hero after all! So, I think I can actually say that I enjoyed the book after finishing it and have a lot of mixed emotions about what happened to all of the characters in the end.

My Fifth Reading Week

For this week’s reading of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Darnay is now captured in France of the La Force Prison. After he went to save his friend, Gabelle, he was caught and imprisoned. However, good news to Darnay, Dr. Manette, who has a great and good influence in France arrives and manages to save the to save Charles Darnay as he talks to the jury in the court that was about to send Darnay to death, I was beginning to see a connection between the countries and that there is a story in this once what I thought “story”.

4th Blog Entry; A Tale of Two Cities

- In this reading, the French Revolution finally began from the storming of the Bastille Prison, in this scene, you can see how deadly the French people were when they were fighting, how they have become cold and mutinous about the French. They used all the weapons they could use against the French Prison keepers. And even still, they won! But here, I think you can see the deadliness the Defarges have been holding up in their hearts against the royalties of the French. Another I want to pick at is why the Mannetes or Charles Darnay were introduced. It comes out that they were married, but I don't see a connection between the two utterly different topics. Right now at the moment, the book is becoming boring, however I still have the sense of expectations for Charles Dickens...

Week Three

This is now the third week of reading "A Tale of Two Cities" and so far, the plot is very ordinary, the narrator (3rd Person) is just describing how the lives of all the characters are playing out at that moment. Few new characters have appeared; Mr. Stryyver, Sydney Carton, and Charles Darnay, who appears to be a very prosperous man in France, decided to renounce his property and come to England. So now, the story is beginning to take place in England where all three new characters are asking Miss Mannete to marry him. So here, Mr. Lorry stops Mr. Stryyver to ask Miss Mannete because he thought that Mr. Stryyver was not good enough for the Doctor's daughter. The other two however, had more success in the goal towards marriage. Charles Darnay asked the Doctor, the father of Miss Mannete, whether he approves of him or not. Sydney Carton however tells Miss Mannete if she could like him or not.
The story till now for me seems sort of boring still, but I'm still looking forward to the main plot, if there is one.

Blog for Class, Tale of Two Cities

This reading was during class. And here, you can learn some more truths about the
setting of the time period; the French Revolution. Here, in the book, it says that men in 'those times' that men drank a lot and very frequently. I would say it was due to the hardships of life and that they would have liked to avoid them. So, they thought the only way out would be to drink plentiful. Now back to the book! Now there are two new characters that are introduced, the Jackal and the Lion. Although I didn't really see an importance from the revealance of the two characters, I do believe they will appear once more in the book. Later in chapter 6, Mr. Lorry, Miss Mannete and more new characters named Miss Pross and Dr. Mannete appeared; Miss Mannete being the 'wild red woman' who appeared in the very first scene where Miss Mannete fainted and Dr. Mannete, I believe, has a daughter, although she has not been revealed yet. Now it shows where Mr. Lorry acquaints Miss Pross and discuss about his 'Ladybird'. And after this scene, I must read more to find out about the storyline in general. Up until now though, I'm thinking that this book is kind of boring up till this point, but I hope it will change as I advance more into the book "The Tale of Two Cities".

A Small Sidetrack...

Today, I forgot to bring my book, "A Tale of Two Cities" from home today...
So, I have gotten the Inkblotz' first edition and read it instead. Here, the writers of Inkblotz
wrote about the sins, such as pride, temptation, etc. I could see that they could connect
the themes with the stories that they have written by themsleves. I liked the way they wrote
the short stories in a amusing kind of way so it wasn't boring like some of these literature
magazines are, or the poems which actually did make you feel somewhat connected to you
by using the story-line of those which some of us may have encountered once in your life before.
Overall, I liked the Inkblotz first edition and look forward to the second one...

First Post of 2008

This is my first post for my AR book #1, "A Tale of Two Cities."
At first, this book may seem as if it gives a pointless narative at the beginning
of the book, but as i read more and more, it acutally gave a haunting
image of a certain country that turned out to be France, during the Frence Revolution.
It gave the image of a haunting country, where poverty was very eminent for all the
citizens. But, some people, the nobles, were living in comfort, unaware or ignoring the
harsh times the common citizens were in. But as the story goes on the story focuses
more on three characters; Monsieur Mannte, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Mannete. Although I haven'y gotten very far in the book, it seems that these characters are witnesses in a crime, but
the case seems to be between three men. And this is it for now, until I get farther into the book.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

The second book I will be reading is...

My second book shall be George Orwell's book, Animal Farm...

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My 6th Post!(Finally...)

Now, I think that this is a good novel. Not exactly my style, but I like it okay. It has an interesting theme, it pulls you into the story, so I enjoyed reading this book. I liked the storyline. It was engaging, but I felt that there could be some parts that could be somewhat too intense. A complete opposition to John Steinbeck's novel, 'The Pearl.' The Pearl was too dul, it's would be intense part was shrunk to be a sort of an interesting fact(?). When Coyotito was shot, it didn't give a real, accurate description while Fahrenheit 451 actually went on for at least a little while. (I don't mean to say that I enjoy violence.) Overall, I quite enjoyed Fahrenheit 451.

5th Post

Now, does this theme have anything to do with our lives as teenagers? I don't know, unless we all turn into mindless zombies as the othe characters do in the book... But in truth, I think that the war may happen (Small chance though.) to our world, but burning down the books and houses, I don't think that there will be much of a possibility. I mean, because if we don't have books, we won't be able to learn in school, which will probably lead to strikes, then chaos everywhere. And other scholars won't like it either. When a war does happen like the book, I think they would just leave the books, why burn them and lose more power, more soldiers? Children might like it, no studying, no head hurting things that happen. They would be able to play all day. But I thought that firemen ending up to burn books was a bit unrealistic. But those are my thoughts anyway, I'm pretty sure you have others...

My Fourth Post on Fahrenheit 451

Now, about the mood of this story. This story has a dark kind of mood, you can actually feel the dark thoughts of the firemen about books. You can see how they absolutely hate the books, as the woman, friend of Mildred cried after listening to Montag read out his poetry. How they burn the book keepers as well as the books. How they think of the book keepers. They consider them inferior. I think I would not enjoy living in that place. There's war going on, people kill each other for fun. This gives the story the dark mood, it makes the place feel like a place were criminals are grouped together, commiting crimes, trying to get revenge, just do no thinking live on one's self. I mean, does anyone actually want to live with restrictions on how to think your opinions? You wouldn't like to think about it. That statement Beatty said "Or even better, give them no sides at all." You wouldn't know. You wouldn't think about anything, you wouldn't care. This mood gives this story the dystopia setting a darker mood. I think that the mood fits the setting very well.

My 3rd Post!

Now, the climax of Fahrentheit 451, I think is, when Montag burns Captain Beatty to death. He killed Beatty and left him dead. He supposed he had to, and I guess that was well done. But, thinking that the Captain wanted die, I think that was a bit over-reacting, sort of trying to avoid the reality of things. I think that needling people would be one of Beatty's way of getting people to do what he wanted them to do. Beatty was a persuader. He uses his voice. Sort of like Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. So after Montag killed Beatty, he hurt the two other firemen who were with Beatty, and lost one of his legs while he was fighting with the Hound, a mechanical robot which kills people and animals which it is programmed to kill by injecting something into them. After the climax, he succeeds in running away and meets the nomads. He regrets everything, everytime he just lived on, not thinking nor feeling about anything in his life till the very moment he started to read books. So there's my thoughts about the climax.

Second Post.

Now, the main characters of Fahrenheit 451 are Guy Montag, Clarrise, Faber, and Captain Beatty. Now Montag was the fireman who never thought about destruction and the world. He just burned every single book he found out about. But, as he burned a house and was walking home, he met a girl. As the girl came up to him, and started talking to him, he started to think. He began to notice the things happening in the world. I think that she was the one who influenced Montag the most in the entire book. As the story goes on, it seemed as Beatty has read a lot of books, against the law. And he was the chief fireman. But he, unlike Montag considered them bad. He seemed to like the current law, give people no sides to think about, let them just live on. He was killed by Montag, he was 'needling' him, but at that, Montag thought that he wanted to die. But I feel that it just wasn't it. I think that was the way that he could have tried to protect himself. There could have been ways to feel about Beatty's actions. But thats how I feel about it. But without Faber, another character, Montag would have been running around, shouting out poetry or verses in books, thus being killed. I think that Faber is a really important character too. So that is what I think of the main characters.

My First Book.

Now, my first book is Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
Its about a fireman, Guy Montag. At this age, an atomic war was happening which shows that
it is in the future of our world. I think it's a bit drastic. The 'firemen' in the book are not real fire-fighters, but people who burn books and people who keep them. This I think, really is dystopia. No books, no freedom to think about other things. I think the only 'real' thinker in the book is Clarisse, her uncle, Faber, Guy, and the nomads. I liked the uncle of Clarrise. Because he, I think was the only person who actually did remember the age when people could actually think on their front porches, read books, do things as they wished. This, is where people drove 95 miles when the restriction was 40. The kids drove and tried to kill innocent passing people. Montag himself was nearly run over. These poeple thought a 'wall' (I think TV) was their family. The wife of the main character, Mildred seemed like an addict of the walls. She, I think, represented the TV addicts of this world. This book represents the kind of world we soon may live in. The war, the technology, how many poepe don't care about the books and their knowledge. You can see it little kids at times too, like when they could be reading, they still try and play games.

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