Tuesday, September 29, 2009

In the novel The Good Earth there is an evil character who wants food and money from Wang Lung. His uncle forces him to give money because he is his relative. A relative should not be like this he is lazy. Wang's uncle is so lazy he does not take care of his crops and his wife is fat and they do not care for work. Wang works for his food and saves his money instead of spend it. One day when Wang was sitting in his house his uncle came and asked for money. Wang sent him away without a word. Now the city was dying from starvation and Wang's uncle saw this as an opportunity to get back at Wang. He told the city that Wang had a lot of food and he wouldn't share any and they should go take it for themselves.
This section of the novel describes how the people are in despair, in the tragic flaw willing to do anything even rob someone for food. Altogether this is a tragic symbol in the novel stating that even though we are good friends we can turn enemy sooner than our friendship first began.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The novel talks about how the world is filled with poverty and how some are almost treated as though non-existent.The first chapter in this novel describes how in china the people are treated. It seems as though the poor are non-existent and only the rich and famous are the important ones. When Wang ( a poor farmer who lives with his dad) goes into the city to get a wife that was a slave and that he has never seen before, he is worried that she will not like him and his father said if she is beautiful and cannot work on a farm that Wang should just come home. Wang's father was so mean when he would come home his father would yell at Wang and when he wasn't doing that he was complaining about life and how it was so bad for them. This starts of as tragedy and is switching back and forth between comedy and tragedy.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Beowulf

  • Wrote in Old English language
  • Talks how the brave men that come to battle the demons.
  • Beowulf the Main character in the poem.
  • Talks about old ages like lord of the rings.
  • People thought that the Beowulf poet was not very good but once they read his poems he became a very popular man.
  • Poems:
  • The Last survivors speech
  • Beowulf and Grendel
    http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/the_classics/beowulf/grendel_attacks/




Roman Empire collapse, Christianity fills the void

First PLAY ever recorded: One MAN- morale Play, all old English

Geoffrey Chaucer

Middle English

Church + common people ideas

MODERN ENGLISH

Shakespeare- religion

Common people

Classics-Greek/roman

Love of language/ symbol/sounds/drama

Builds a place called Globe theater


Beowulf, Original copy of poem

It may be that a trained scop dictated the work to a scribe or that the poet had become literate, probably educated at one of the monasteries that existed in England at the time, which could account for the Christian influences in what probably was originally a pagan poem. Whatever the method was, the excellence of the work implies that the final result was the product of one very talented poet.


Monday, September 14, 2009

Language Arts

In the short story "A Jury of her Peers", the main point that the author is getting to is that the men don' t give the woman the rights that they deserve. When Mr. Wright killed the canary that would sing with Minnie she became terrified of him. When Mr. Wright killed the bird he was taking Minnie Foster's wrights away to do what she wanted. Minne then killed Mr. Wright for fear of him killing her first. Except she killed him by hanging him so that he would feel the pain of the bird. In the time during this short story the woman didn't have many rights, they got to do very few things with their life. That is what the main point of this short story is.