Great Expectation: The First Stage

When I read this over again, and try to contemplate what Pip is referring to, it is obvious to me that he is referring to his lies to Mr. Pumblechook and his sister. The lying has a big effect on Pip and he tells Joe about his mistake. This day has altered Pip because he has lied to two people straight in the face, and they believed him. Pip knew he had taken advantage of them and he confessed to his friend and guardian, Joe. Pip's character developed on this memorable day by realizing what he did was wrong and confessing it to someone he knew cared enough about him to say that it was wrong. He now knows not to do that again. One lie starts a chain of events, or worse, a chain of more lies.

I agree with Pip's quote on the "chains". When I have lied in the past to my parents I have felt terrible about it. Yet still try to hide the wrong thing that I have done. What I did wrong is usually found out anyways, and I found out that if you tell your parents what you did it before they find out you did it, then you feel better about yourslef and your parents can expect the truth from you. I used to lie about hurting my little brother. My parents would always find out. Either from confession or just the down right obvious. Also, a rule of life: the older brother NEVER wins. The best way to deal with lying is to confess to it. That's the easiest way.

Honors English group essay collaboration

The three points that I am making in my body paragraph are that the author uses large ways of being dishonest to drive the play along, the characters to pursue their pleasure, and to protect their relatives. My commentary takes place on pages 12, 64, and 48.

Jack: How should I make my conclusion to set you up for your body paragraph?

Mikaela: How are you making the small ways of being dishonest tie in to the play and your paper?

Mrs. Gilman: If my partners don"t make a blog, meaning I can't comment on their blog, does that mean I get marked down points for not doing it?

The Importance of Being Earnest/ Victorian Era research

Throughout the reading of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, there have been a lot of ties to the Victorian Era because that is when the story takes place. Some things that I have noticed about the History of the era and its ties the comedy are that it was common to marry your cousin in the Victorian era. I saw this in the book when Algernon is faking to be Ernest to hit on his cousin Cecily. Nowadays it is really wierd to marry your cousin, so if I didn't know that fact about how it was common to inbreed, I would have been confused.

Another tie I noticed between the history and the book is that there is a big difference between the social classes. This is shown in the book by the way Algernon treats his servant, Lane. Lane brings everything to Algernon on a silver platter, even if it is a small note. He always does what Algernon wants, at any moment. This is because Algernon is higher classed than Lane, so Lane is serving the food instead of getting served the food. Also, the higher class people are alot more respected and distinguished than the lower class people. Which is shown in the book by the way people treat Algernon.

My New Year's Resolution

My biggest downfall at the moment has to be my lack of confidence. Being a freshman at a new highschool has its pressures, of course, and I worry about them too much. I think that if I stop thinking and just go out to do what I know to do because that's the way i have been taught it then I'll do fine. But no, I think of all the ways i could fail. I have to get across my mind that failure is a part of life and that it takes wrong mistakes to make right decisions. I have to be confident that I will succed.

One of the ways that i can do this is by not comparing myself to others, because someone will always be better than myself. I can remember this by posting up clever slogans, proverbs, and Bible verses on my bathroom mirror and bedroom wall. I also need to find friends that are going through or have gone through what I am going through now so that we can help eachother with our struggles.

Thank you for reading my blog. I feel that this was more of a talk to myself rather than a writing to the reader, and I found it useful. Please comment.

Animal farm project

The Farm
By Michael Fairchild

Animals, toiling in a field,
tortured by pigs that they once
suffered next to under a different
power.

The animals, poor, starved, and dumb,
do not see what this horror
of an animal is doing to them.

He is powerful, merciless, and tyrranical.
His qualities are clear and distinguished, yet
they still don't see them.

They work in the fields while he is sleeping,
under rules like: all animals are equal,
and yet they still odn't see it.

After seeing their friends slaughtered,
torn from their grasp, they still
don't understand it.

After rebelling against an old enemy,
after making solid commandments,
after being free, they haven't
remembered it.

If they knew what he was doing,
they would feel such a
deep hatred
thet not even the most convincing speaker
could reason with them.

An yet they don't feel it.

These animals were made dumb by a friend,
starved by a comrade,
and made poor by a leader.

If they knew what was
happening they might think of taking
down
the growing, corrupting power
that is consuming them.

They would do it if they weren't blind to it.

Poetry Out Loud performances

"Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward," by Anne Sexton was recited by Amanda Fernandez. I was impressed by Amanda's dramatization, volume, and articulation during the poem. She emphasized each piece to it's fullest and raised her voice during the climaxes of the piece. She would wave her arms and her body would move and shake when she tried to convey anger. It was intersting to watch. Overall it was a great performance.

What I thought the poem meant is that sex at a young age is a very wrong thing. It is shunned by everybody, and nobody treats you like you should be treated. An example of this in the poem is the way the doctors treat her in the hospital and the way the father of the baby left her. "Go child, who is my sin and nothing more," writes Anne Sexton. Anne is saying that this baby wasn't meant to happen. This is what I analyzed from the poem.



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Mockingbird Motif

The mockingbird motif in To Kill a Mockingbird was that you shouldn't kill or hurt someone that is innocent of the crime. For example: Boo Radley saving the children and Tom Robinson not raping Mayella Ewell but still being convicted, even though everybody knew it was wrong. This adds meaning to ther themes in the novel, like loss of innocence/ growing up. The kids learned about all the evil that goes on in the world and the world isn't as safe as they thought it would be.

This motif helped me get a better insight of what a motif means by making it clear to me what the motif was, what it did, and why. It showed me how it supports major themes and why motifs are so important to writing. If motifs weren't in writing, writing wouldn't come up to it's full potential. This is the first time I have recognized a motif in writing so clearly.


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