Here is what I have come up with off of what we said in class for the Passage 8:
--> First of all Emmet noticed that there was a part of a line missing so I will post the passage and add the missing line to it:
Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them any more— then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others.
--> Our notes in paragraph form:
This passage represents the daily routines of Huck and Jim's life on the raft. We learn what kinds of food Huck and Jim eat, "watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn" and what time of day they usually get it "before daylight”. First, an important thing to remark is the use of language in this passage. Huck is speaking in this passage and we are reminded of his lack of formal education. He says words like “punkin” instead of pumkin, and says phrases like “warn’t no harm” instead of doesn’t cause any harm. The language in this passage is a trademark for the book and reminds us that the influences in Huck’s life were not always good. Second, in this passage Huck shows the readers that he is reflecting on his actions, conscious of how they might impact others. He has to wrestle with the different and conflicting morals that were imposed on him. He considers his father’s morals that encourage him to “borrow” the food and the widow’s morals that characterize the word “borrow” as a euphemism, “a soft name for stealing”. Huck is really torn in this passage because he feels he should listen to his own father but he knows that the widow is the most “moral” person according to his society (though in truth she is a slave owner and therefore not moral). Huck and Jim need the food to survive, they are not trying to make a profit off of the food and their intentions are good but Huck is still not easily able to distinguish the concept of stealing from the concept of borrowing, one that is good from one that is bad. He ends up not listening to his father or the widow, but to Jim. In Huck’s society, Jim is considered three fifths of a person yet he listens to him because he proposes the middle ground. By listening to Jim, Huck proves that his sense of morality was unorthodox. Despite his efforts to follow what his society has imposed on him, Huck subconsciously distinguishes himself even more from his society, he finds his own balance and eventually will find his own personality.
Some good stuff here, Charlotte. If I may, I'd like to make a couple of comments/corrections. A bit ironic that you've misspelled pumpkin, lol :) Mostly, I'd add that the fact that Huck is doing what his father did makes him question himself--Pap's morality is no morality at all and, if anything, Huck believes that the widow is the morality police, so to speak, which is also ironic given the fact that she is a slave owner (dramatic irony which WE today get, and part of Twain's satire). Finally, Huck's trademark language has to do with what Twain is doing, a new world, the real one, with stripped down,everyday language, and part of the revolution Twain is defining. And, yes, this moral dilemma, here, anticipates the larger one, where he will find his way and in which Jim serves, unwittingly, as moral compass.
Beowulf : Passage 1 : • Only those brave enough to venture into the unknown, can come out alive of this hellhole • Stag : symbol for Herot. Represent to the commitatus, but they would rather die on the shore being chased by the dogs than venture into the unknown with their leader • The lake is the unknown. • “It isn’t far, nor is it A pleasant spot!” A litote Passage 2: • We are supposed to feel bad for Grendel, he was condemned to be Evil. • Grendel has no honor, “ […] seeking no peace, offering no truce, accepting no settlement […]” • This a Manichean world, where everything is either black or white. There needs be a bad in order for good to continue to exist. There is no in-between. Passage 3: • Lots of treasure = Lots of power • “Noble corpse” – oxymoron • He is shipped off into the Unknown. • The people in Beowulf are pagans, but Christian Monks added on the parts that mention “God” • The pagans believe in fate which they called “wyrd” pronounced weird. • It is foreshadowing, and mentions the fact that without a King, the people could fall into chaos. • Story of Shild = mini epic.
Thank you for the correction I wasn't sure if I was heading in the right direction. Wow.. "pumkin" . This goes to show that formal education isn't always the most valuable ;)
Passage 13: (chapter 7) -The language in this passage is short and to-the-point, which makes it shocking for the reader. -Oknonkwo was told not to have a hand in the boy's death. -He lied to Ikemefuna and told him that he was going back to his village. -Okonkwo, who had raised this boy for 3 years, is betraying Ikemefuna because of his own ego. He was afraid of showing emotion and weakness --> situational irony because what he did was a true sign of weakness.
Passage 14: -Locusts are symbolic to the Igbo tribe. -In the beginning, the Igbos don't think they are harmful; they talked "excitedly and pray[ed] that the locusts should camp in Umofia for the night." -They later realize that they are consuming everything, like the colonists are going to do. -They show the arrival of the white settlers.
Passage 15: (chapter 9) -Ekwefi's babies keep dying in their infancy (it's the ogbanje that keeps coming back) -We can see by the language ("agony", "despair", "pathetic", "death") that this ogbanje causes sadness and grief for Ekwefi. -We can also see by the names she gives to these babies that Ekwefi is very up front with death.
Talk about two books, about a broad idea. How they relate to each other with the idea. Remember to put them together. Common ground. Two choices: • Whole first book and then the Second book. Transition sentence • Pick the criteria and move from one book to the other Second example can include elements of book 1. What does the word mean? What is morality?
Passage 3: • Burial of Shild • Treasure represents power and wealth • “Noble corpse” oxymoron • Kenning • Value of the king translated through treasure • Noble, generous • Accepted into the hands of the unknown • Faith = wyrd • No afterlife, we don’t know • No more king = chaos • Foreshadowing of things that could happen • Sets a tone = we worry about it • Gives us an idea about the culture and traditions • “motionless cargo” the king is no longer what he was
I am a bullet point person... so these are the main points, not so much a paragraph like charlottes :P
Here is what I have come up with off of what we said in class for the Passage 8:
ReplyDelete--> First of all Emmet noticed that there was a part of a line missing so I will post the passage and add the missing line to it:
Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them any more— then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others.
--> Our notes in paragraph form:
This passage represents the daily routines of Huck and Jim's life on the raft. We learn what kinds of food Huck and Jim eat, "watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn" and what time of day they usually get it "before daylight”. First, an important thing to remark is the use of language in this passage. Huck is speaking in this passage and we are reminded of his lack of formal education. He says words like “punkin” instead of pumkin, and says phrases like “warn’t no harm” instead of doesn’t cause any harm. The language in this passage is a trademark for the book and reminds us that the influences in Huck’s life were not always good. Second, in this passage Huck shows the readers that he is reflecting on his actions, conscious of how they might impact others. He has to wrestle with the different and conflicting morals that were imposed on him. He considers his father’s morals that encourage him to “borrow” the food and the widow’s morals that characterize the word “borrow” as a euphemism, “a soft name for stealing”. Huck is really torn in this passage because he feels he should listen to his own father but he knows that the widow is the most “moral” person according to his society (though in truth she is a slave owner and therefore not moral). Huck and Jim need the food to survive, they are not trying to make a profit off of the food and their intentions are good but Huck is still not easily able to distinguish the concept of stealing from the concept of borrowing, one that is good from one that is bad. He ends up not listening to his father or the widow, but to Jim. In Huck’s society, Jim is considered three fifths of a person yet he listens to him because he proposes the middle ground. By listening to Jim, Huck proves that his sense of morality was unorthodox. Despite his efforts to follow what his society has imposed on him, Huck subconsciously distinguishes himself even more from his society, he finds his own balance and eventually will find his own personality.
Some good stuff here, Charlotte. If I may, I'd like to make a couple of comments/corrections. A bit ironic that you've misspelled pumpkin, lol :)
ReplyDeleteMostly, I'd add that the fact that Huck is doing what his father did makes him question himself--Pap's morality is no morality at all and, if anything, Huck believes that the widow is the morality police, so to speak, which is also ironic given the fact that she is a slave owner (dramatic irony which WE today get, and part of Twain's satire). Finally, Huck's trademark language has to do with what Twain is doing, a new world, the real one, with stripped down,everyday language, and part of the revolution Twain is defining. And, yes, this moral dilemma, here, anticipates the larger one, where he will find his way and in which Jim serves, unwittingly, as moral compass.
Beowulf :
ReplyDeletePassage 1 :
• Only those brave enough to venture into the unknown, can come out alive of this hellhole
• Stag : symbol for Herot. Represent to the commitatus, but they would rather die on the shore being chased by the dogs than venture into the unknown with their leader
• The lake is the unknown.
• “It isn’t far, nor is it A pleasant spot!” A litote
Passage 2:
• We are supposed to feel bad for Grendel, he was condemned to be Evil.
• Grendel has no honor, “ […] seeking no peace, offering no truce, accepting no settlement […]”
• This a Manichean world, where everything is either black or white. There needs be a bad in order for good to continue to exist. There is no in-between.
Passage 3:
• Lots of treasure = Lots of power
• “Noble corpse” – oxymoron
• He is shipped off into the Unknown.
• The people in Beowulf are pagans, but Christian Monks added on the parts that mention “God”
• The pagans believe in fate which they called “wyrd” pronounced weird.
• It is foreshadowing, and mentions the fact that without a King, the people could fall into chaos.
• Story of Shild = mini epic.
Thank you for the correction I wasn't sure if I was heading in the right direction.
ReplyDeleteWow.. "pumkin" . This goes to show that formal education isn't always the most valuable ;)
Things Fall Apart:
ReplyDeletePassage 13: (chapter 7)
-The language in this passage is short and to-the-point, which makes it shocking for the reader.
-Oknonkwo was told not to have a hand in the boy's death.
-He lied to Ikemefuna and told him that he was going back to his village.
-Okonkwo, who had raised this boy for 3 years, is betraying Ikemefuna because of his own ego. He was afraid of showing emotion and weakness --> situational irony because what he did was a true sign of weakness.
Passage 14:
-Locusts are symbolic to the Igbo tribe.
-In the beginning, the Igbos don't think they are harmful; they talked "excitedly and pray[ed] that the locusts should camp in Umofia for the night."
-They later realize that they are consuming everything, like the colonists are going to do.
-They show the arrival of the white settlers.
Passage 15: (chapter 9)
-Ekwefi's babies keep dying in their infancy (it's the ogbanje that keeps coming back)
-We can see by the language ("agony", "despair", "pathetic", "death") that this ogbanje causes sadness and grief for Ekwefi.
-We can also see by the names she gives to these babies that Ekwefi is very up front with death.
Compare and Contrast Essay
ReplyDeleteTalk about two books, about a broad idea. How they relate to each other with the idea.
Remember to put them together.
Common ground.
Two choices:
• Whole first book and then the Second book. Transition sentence
• Pick the criteria and move from one book to the other
Second example can include elements of book 1.
What does the word mean?
What is morality?
Passage 3:
• Burial of Shild
• Treasure represents power and wealth
• “Noble corpse” oxymoron
• Kenning
• Value of the king translated through treasure
• Noble, generous
• Accepted into the hands of the unknown
• Faith = wyrd
• No afterlife, we don’t know
• No more king = chaos
• Foreshadowing of things that could happen
• Sets a tone = we worry about it
• Gives us an idea about the culture and traditions
• “motionless cargo” the king is no longer what he was
I am a bullet point person... so these are the main points, not so much a paragraph like charlottes :P
sorry, only saw these notes just now....thanks for the good work!!
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