Solutions!!

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!!! After months of not knowing why my posts stopped showing up on my blog I found a solution. My posts will show up when I post Them through my phone versus online. Now the problem of retyping each and every post on my phone in order for them to post! To the graders tomorrow I am sorry my second half of my blog is boring but I am just exactatic that I figured out my problem and can now fix it!! 

Tobermory explained

 After reading the story, I feel as if Tobermory, the cat, was utilized as a symbol to how society is so quick to gossip and talk trash without being aware of their surroundings and who the information will get back to. Even I am guilty of this and because of it I have been confronted several times about talking bad about someone because either the person i told said the other individual something or someone heard while i was talking. Also, i think this story was written to exaggerate how influential, powerful, and somewhat dangerous society can be. Whether it really is teaching animals and nature how to interact with society on a social lever (talking, etc.) or whether it's mass killing animals/destroying nature, we really have a huge impact and one day it's going to come back and bite us in the ass or harm us just like the elephant did in one of the last paragraphs in the story.

Great Expectations Notes Day #1

Pip believes there is more to him than having JUST a family

He doesn't know what it all is nor does he know what he is

Pip fills the void of being fatherless by seeing the male models as figures in which to learn and listen from 

Typical of Fairy Tales: Magwhich and Mrs. Havasham 

Magwhich:

Magwhich is the adult all parents try to protect their kids from. 

He eats like an animal implying selfish brutality and the potential of violence 

He represents the potential of Pip to be alone again installing the fear of abandonment

Pip fears he might have these characteristics and being by his side intensifys the feelings and fear

Mrs. Havasham:

A witch like character! On one hind she has is a women of means but on the other hand she is a symbol of horrible decay 

Her house is stuck in a moment of time. She hasn't touched anything. Since the day she was left at the alter... It's been years 

Her home represents a memorial to a hope that never was. She left everything exactly where is was 

Her preservation represents it's loss 

"Begger your Neighbor" Pip realizes that Mrs. Havasham raised Estella as revenge 

Although he sees bad. Pip still falls for Estella 

Pip doesn't talk about either character truly to any other character in the book. They remind him of his own inadecuentcy. It shows he is uncomfortable. 

Mrs. Havasham and Magwhich disappear from the book 

Father figures to Pip: Joe and Jagger's 

When Pip sees characters that have a name that starts with 'J' he is seeing different versions of himself 

Both characters power lies more in potential than in actual use 

Joe- physical power. Could crush Pip. 

Jagger's- blackmail. He knows secrets. 

Joe has a very poetic and romantic outlook on everything. He doesn't judge others on their social standing. 

Jagger's lives by the letter of the law. He breaks everything down into evidence. He doesn't trust people, he only trusts facts. 

Pip is not really a true member of his new family. He is just there. 

Hacking my Education

This semester I really want to be more interested in reading novels. When I was younger I would read constantly just to get away from reality but as I got older I never had time to simply sit down and relax and enjoy a book. But with that said, I don't want to read early version novels such as Shakespeare and old English because it's usually hard for me to understand the meaning and therefore pushes me away from reading as a whole. However I am interested in reading MacBeth for reasons that I don't quite know. From what I've heard it's an exciting but I guess I will see. I was really excited to find out that our books for our next literature analysis could be chosen to our Masterpiece because I was able to pick a book that truly interests me and will be easier to read. When it comes to the class a whole however I like the freedom that we have for most options although I still have hesitation on certain assignments. 

Vocabulary List #1

Allegory: a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point

Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words

Allusion: a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize

Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation

Anachronism: something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time

Analogy: a comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them

Analysis: a method in which a work or idea is separated into its parts, and those parts given rigorous and detailed scrutiny

Anaphora: a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Anecdote: a very short story used to illustrate a point

Antagonist: a person or force opposing the protagonist in a drama or narrative

Antithesis: a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness

Aphorism: a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life

Apologia: a defense or justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action; also apology

Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly

Argument(ation): the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or the falsity of an idea or proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself

Assumption: the act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true

Audience: the intended listener or listeners

Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character’s personality

Chiasmus: a reversal in the order off words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order

STRESS!! 😩😩

I found this to be sooooooo relevant right now. Please read and comment if you disagree! 

Poetry Remix

 To fit this world

And by the world

Are shaped again.

The visible 

And the invisible

Working together 

In common cause,

To produce

The miraculous.

I am thinking of the way

The intangible air

Passed at speed

Round a shaped wing

Easily

Holds our weight.

So may we, in this life

Trust

To those elements

We have yet to see

Or imagine, 

And look for the true

Shape of our own self, 

By forming it well

To the great

Intangible about us.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrbUfYSt0E