(explication:)
the speaker is remembering the way his father and grandfather could care for and plant just about anything in the garden, while he compares himself and realizes that he could never do something like digging for potatoes as well as his forefathers.
thats all i got for now...
6.3.08
POEM: bonny barbara allen
explanation:
its almost like a mock romeo and Juliette scenario. he loves her to an incredible point thats straddling the line between admiration and plain creepy obsession. the voice of the poem isn't one of the male character with the stalker potential. the author is its voice (Scott) and writes the passion and the things that the man says in a sarcastic manor that makes fun of the obsessive nature of the man he writes about....wait...does that even make any sense? *shrugs*
will it be ruined as a song?:
ha. hell yes! =] the poem is already perceived as quite juvenile. the idea of adding something like a little jig tune to it would probably take away the poem's "deep" potential. i think that it is well-written and if you can get past the fact that the main character practically wrote the stalkers hand book, you can see the good parts. for instance: the man dies and wants nothing more than to know that barbara allen knew that he loved her. she found him annoying for lack of a better term, but when he dies she is hit with a ton-o-bricks. she realizes that she loved him more than she wanted to admit.
you never know what you have had until you lose it...
its almost like a mock romeo and Juliette scenario. he loves her to an incredible point thats straddling the line between admiration and plain creepy obsession. the voice of the poem isn't one of the male character with the stalker potential. the author is its voice (Scott) and writes the passion and the things that the man says in a sarcastic manor that makes fun of the obsessive nature of the man he writes about....wait...does that even make any sense? *shrugs*
will it be ruined as a song?:
ha. hell yes! =] the poem is already perceived as quite juvenile. the idea of adding something like a little jig tune to it would probably take away the poem's "deep" potential. i think that it is well-written and if you can get past the fact that the main character practically wrote the stalkers hand book, you can see the good parts. for instance: the man dies and wants nothing more than to know that barbara allen knew that he loved her. she found him annoying for lack of a better term, but when he dies she is hit with a ton-o-bricks. she realizes that she loved him more than she wanted to admit.
you never know what you have had until you lose it...
11.2.08
Eng. class: Saboteur
The theme to the short story "saboteur", is that of revenge and revealing some aspects of Chinese culture that have proven difficult and some what controversial to discuss. The story takes place in communist china and is written from the point of view of the chairman Mao, or rather the statue built in his honor smack dab in the middle of the town square. It appears to be summer because Mr. Chiu and his wife are wearing sandals. and then also it mentions him signing his criticism on the date of July 13th. (summer month.) The plot is revealed early on in the story through some foreshadowing based on the condition of the eating place for the couple. (3.)
9.2.08
Eng. class: Barn Burning questions
QUESTION: Explain how the stream of consciousness sections of "Barn Burning" serve as the moral voice for the story. Is it Sarty's, the narrator's, or the author's?
ANSWER: The moral voice is that of the young boy named Sarty. He represents the morality in the story because he is the one in the story that says no to the idea of burning the barns out of revenge. Even as a young boy, he can see that what his father has done for a long while is not the way you should go about expressing your feelings of anger or otherwise.
(once again this is my opinion and im taking a total shot in the dark. :)
ANSWER: The moral voice is that of the young boy named Sarty. He represents the morality in the story because he is the one in the story that says no to the idea of burning the barns out of revenge. Even as a young boy, he can see that what his father has done for a long while is not the way you should go about expressing your feelings of anger or otherwise.
(once again this is my opinion and im taking a total shot in the dark. :)
Eng. class: A Clean, Well-lighted Place questions
"A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
QUESTION: Discuss why the waiter does not sleep until daylight.
ANSWER: The waiter cannot go home earlier than that because the old man stays in the cafe until odd hours of the night drinking. The waiters that work while he is there have to keep a close eye on him because when the old man (who is deff and cannot hear what the waiters say when theyre complainng about him) gets drunk he will walk out of the cafe without paying for his many drinks.
QUESTION: What do the shadows made by the leaves represent?
ANSWER: I really have no idea, but my guess is that it represents the old man choosing to stay until late. He could feel the quiet compared to the noise and the leaves' shadows cast by the electric lights symbolize the "cue" so to speak for him to know that the day was over and he could now bask and drink in the silence. and also they symbolize the hidden feelings that the man has underneath that resulted in him trying to take his own life.
*yawns*
QUESTION: Discuss why the waiter does not sleep until daylight.
ANSWER: The waiter cannot go home earlier than that because the old man stays in the cafe until odd hours of the night drinking. The waiters that work while he is there have to keep a close eye on him because when the old man (who is deff and cannot hear what the waiters say when theyre complainng about him) gets drunk he will walk out of the cafe without paying for his many drinks.
QUESTION: What do the shadows made by the leaves represent?
ANSWER: I really have no idea, but my guess is that it represents the old man choosing to stay until late. He could feel the quiet compared to the noise and the leaves' shadows cast by the electric lights symbolize the "cue" so to speak for him to know that the day was over and he could now bask and drink in the silence. and also they symbolize the hidden feelings that the man has underneath that resulted in him trying to take his own life.
*yawns*
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