3/23/15

One way I seen the modern theme of industrialization/ mechanization was how the farmers had chickens in enclosed dark cramped areas instead of roaming free on the farm. Another way was how the beef processing plants contained workers that each did a single specific job all day everyday and the plants also had machines that did some of the work for the people and it substituted farming. I eat a lot of meat and chicken so this film had made me think to myself about what I am consuming and I noticed the difference in size of cuts of meat and poultry, some being significantly larger and more plump or meaty than others.

5/13/15

He develops the story by introducing a problem, solution, and then a bigger problem.

He makes the characters real by giving them emotions and colorful personalities 

He uses foreshadowing to show the bad that's to come in the story 

He incorporates it by showing the guy turn into a bee

3/4/15

7. Tennyson valued the real world because in his poems he reflected and symbolized real world problems.

10. In Ulysses, the speaker wants to have many adventures and travel to many places to follow his plan and he wants to go out and have excitement once again

2/25/15

In Mary Shelley has many textual examples of romantic themes. The description of the landscapes and the creature are all dark yet lovely descriptions. The supernatural is involved greatly through out the story because of the creation of the monster. Another romantic theme is how victor describes his wife and desire for the creature to become alive

2/11/15

The settings of these poems demonstrate the Romantics rejection of the dreariness of every day places and activities because it describes the beautiful scenery and cancels out often the negatives in them. For example the poem mentions domes of pleasure and a beautiful women singing from a mountain And a beautiful area in China .

2/10/15

He wants to wander the earth and tell his story to who he meets and show them to respect gods creation. It shows the reader to follow his lessons and the larger lesson is that u can redeem yourself from your mistakes

2/11/15

1. Plot twist a man will turn out to be a vampire.

2. Todd randy maddie Sarah 

3. Randy symbolizes rationality Todd symbolizes supernatural 

4. Cup of blood found in Todds house

Foreshadows them discovering his true identity 

2/6/14

In modern society people care about money and will sacrifice and harm the earth to get it. They lose sight of the earths beauty of we take care of it

2/4/15

6.The lamb is the symbol of innocence the baby as well and the chimney  sweeper. The Tyger symbolized experience. The Lamb is best because it repeats many phrases for emphasis 

7. The lamb references slaughtering animals the chimney sweeper references child labor. B. The chimney sweep because it explains the kids having no parents and dying and preventing there head from getting dirty

2/4/15

5. A normal house cat is quoting lines from The Tyger

2/4/15

1. The Lamb is universal symbol for innocence because it is described as little and helpless and dependent. B. The tiger is an archetype of experience because it is a hunter and is described fearless and immortal.C. Blake has a good reason for presenting the archetypes in pairs because they contrast and symbolize opposite examples of romanticism

2. Yes because the repetitions put an emphasis on the sayings or phrases to show significance 

3. It tells me that both the lamb and the boy were unaware of there ill fate. B The symbolism of the Lamb help me understand infant sorrow because both the baby and the lamb are helpless and dependent.

4. The lamb     About to get slaughtered 

The baby.        It is scared tired and hungry 

1/15/15

A. Man from the south

B. A man bets a young sailor his car that he can't spark his lighter 10 times and if he can't he will get his pinky chopped off. It turns out he did this several time

C. The man has an accent and an all white suit. The sailor has freckles and a bird nose and swimming trunks

D. The plot twist is that he is a con artist and he chopped many peoples fingers off

E. It's ironic how the woman at the end is missing most of her fingers. The four people sitting in the chairs in silence foreshadowed the young man taking the bet. The man that's the referee has a soliloquy that tells that he thinks the foreign man is crazy

E. 4

1/15/15

A. The Umbrella Man

B. A man asks to exchange his umbrella for a pound to a woman and her daughter. They follow him to find out that he does this several times a day to con people

C. Man was little with a mustache and dressed well and very polite. The mother was suspicious and stern and the daughter was curious

D. The plot twist was that he was using her money for booze.

E. It's ironic how he takes other people's umbrella everytime he leaves the bar. His con was foreshadowed because he was incredibly nice and the mom suspected something. His characterization being kind and what not disguised his ruse to get the woman's money

F. 3

1/14/15

A. The Sound Machine

B. Klausner is building a machine that can hear sounds humans can't hear and he heard plant life writhe in pain when they were cut so he prevents harming them.

C. Klausner, Mrs. Sanders, Dr. Scott

D. The plot twist is that klausner tries his best to help the tree and his machine broke

E. It's itonic how the tree he was listening to and trying to help fell and broke his machine. The plants and trees shrieks of pain are examples of personification. Him talking to the doctor the first time foreshadowed him going to the dr later on in regards of his machine. 

F. 5

1/13/15

A.The Hitchkiker

B. A man gives a hitchhiker a ride and him and the stranger are caught soeeding. A cop stops them and writes down there info and leaves then the hitchhiker revealed he pick pocketed the cops book

C. Man is curious and timid, the hitchkiker is crafty and sly and sneaky and the cop was a chubby jerk 

D. The plot twist was that the hitchhiker was a pick pocket and pickpocketed the cop

E. That's ironic because the two were in a lot of trouble from speeding. When the hitchhiker was taking the mans things it foreshadowed him taking the cops book. Characterization of the cop express the mood and its worries the man driving 

F. Rate 4.5

1/7/15

A. Genesis and catastrophe B. A woman had three of her children die. She just got finished with birthing a baby and she is doubtful that her child is okay and alive. She fears that she loses another child and doesn't trust the doctors. I assume the child is hitler. C. The woman is worrisome and hopeless. She's sensitive and protective of her child. The doctor is reassuring and comforting and the husband is a drunk, he refers to the babies as specimens. D. I assume the plot twist is that the baby is an infant Adolf Hitler. E. The text is foreshadowing upcoming events when it's introduced the babies name as Adolf and the parents last name is Hitler. Characterization is used in the text to describe the father and mother and this explains many of there actions. The child can symbolize new life and hope for the mother because of the many deaths she went through and this can help her overcome those deaths. F. Rate 3.5

1/7/15

A. Lamb to the Slaughter

B. Women kills husband with frozen lamb chop and covers it up by having police eat it unknowingly. This story was dark yet somewhat humorous. C.The woman was sneaky and manipulative, the husband seemed like a jerk and the cops were very gullible as helpful. D. The plot twist happens when the woman kills the husband and when the cops eat the lamb which is the weapon she used to kill him. E.Irony is used in this story. Irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. It's ironic how she killed the man with the lamb chop and the cops were eating it. Another literary term used in this story was imagery because of the way the author describes the house and dining area. Lastly mood is used because you can feel the woman's sense of urgency.

F. I rate this a 3/5

Roald Dahl

   

QUICK FACTS

NAME

Roald Dahl

OCCUPATION

Author

BIRTH DATE

September 13, 1916

DEATH DATE

November 23, 1990

EDUCATION

Repton

PLACE OF BIRTH

Llandaff, South Wales, United Kingdom

PLACE OF DEATH

Oxford, United Kingdom

Children's author Roald Dahl wrote the kids' classics Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, among other famous works. He was married to actress Patricia Neal.