Unit Three

1}ELAALRL4 The student employs a variety of writing genres to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of significant ideas in selected literary works. The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents.

This standard wants me to understand the different types of writing, and to be able to point out the differences between them. This Standard also wants me to be able write different types of literature.



2} I think I am closer to being a Transcendentalism because they did not believe in original sin unlike the dark romantics. The Transcendentalists did not believe that the origianl sin committed by Adam and Eve made the rest of us sinners. They also believed that God could communicate to people through nature and a persons intuition. The dark romantics believed in original sin and that it was responsible for the evil that existed inside of everyone. I believe everyone has atleast a little bit of good in them and everyone does "bad or evil things" and shouldn't be judged because of them.



4} The Black Cat

I thought the story of the black cat was a very good story. Edgar allen poe started off as a very happy man with many pets. His favorite pet was an all black cat named Pluto. But he started drinking and his mood changed and it caused for many unfortanute events to happen in his life. "I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence. My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition." Pretty soon his drinking got out of hand. One night after coming home drunk he took pluto and cut his eye out of his socket. After this happened he felt so guilty that he hung the cat on a tree on afternoon. The night when he comitted this act his home was set of fire. he thought he could replace his losses so he got another cat that kinda resembled pluto. Everything was going fine until he started to have the feelings and thoughts of hatred turn up again. One day out of rage he tried to kill the cat but ended up killing his wife instead with no remorse. "I aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan." This and many others is a perfect example why all people arent 100% good.



5} The Raven

I really liked the story of the Raven and a couple of things stuck out to me like everything that was happening in his life was going wrong. After his wife died he was never happy again. I think that’s was the raven reason on being there for because he was never going to have a life again. He had no one to care for him or nothing to live his life for, because he was probably just going to be old and lonely. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"--Merely this and nothing more. The Transcendentalisms would disagree with this because they think that what everyone thinks and says, is what god wants you to. They think that its the voice of god.This story is not Transcendentalism because it’s not saying that people’s thoughts and intuitions are the voice of good. For example the raven that appeared in his eye was just in his imagination. I personallydont think that the raven was real, I think that it was all in his head, and that his mind was playing tricks on him. I think he knew that he was never going to be happy again because he has been through so many things.



6} In the Poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, he used darkness as a symbol in symbolism. He proboly used darkness a symbol of being alone, or being scared. "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before." I also think the raven represents death "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee, by these angels he hath sent thee Prophet! said I, "thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil! And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreamingAnd the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadows on the floor;And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted--nevermore!" This supports my idea that the bird represents death.



7} I believe i am addressing these standards by taking direct eveidence from stories and putting in it into my own work.


Realism
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a) Some details in the Story of an hour by Kate choplin would be when the wife finds out her husband is dead and she runs upstairs. They start describing the scence and what the charcter is doing. "There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.
She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.
She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought."

b) The social issue I think that choplin wants to solve is why woman disliked their husbands and why women have to live through their husbands. When the woman found out her husband was dead she was actually very happy.The day before she prayed that she wouldn't have a long life, but after she found out she quickly said a quick prayer hoping to life a long life. "There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.
And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!
"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.

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a)I really think the story started to show detail when he was beated by Mr covey and he walkeed to his maters house seven miles away. "I then presented an appearance enough to affect any but a heart of iron. From the crown of my head to my feet, I was covered in blood. My hair was all clotted with dust and blood; my shirt was stiff with blood. My legs and feet were torn in sundry places with briers and thorns, and were also covered in blood. I suppose I looked like a man who escaped a den of wild beast, and barley escaped them. The writer is telling us all the details because he dosent want us to have to imagine anything. Thats why this descriptive part is realism.

b) The social issue the writer is trying to get us to solve is about slavery period. "About three o'clock of that day, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb". ."I told him as well as I could, for I scarce had strength to speak. He then gave me a savage kick in the side, and told me to get up. I tried to do so, but fell back in the attempt. He gave me another kick, and again told me to rise. I again tried, and succeeded in gaining my feet: but, stopping to get the tub with which I was feeding the fan, I again staggered and fell". This descripive paragragh shows how bad slavery is and how they enforce cruel labor.

10} An example of modern realism would be the movie Pearl harbor. This is realism because it shows how the war happened, news in about the war during this time, and a true reactment of how the war really happened. Fo instance in one scence of the movie it shows the japenese preparing for the attack on pearl harbor and how none was expecting the attack because it happened early in the morning and everyone on the base was sleeping.

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a) I think I like realism better than Dark Romanticism
b)My Car wreck.
Many teens often get in car wreaks when they first start driving. Here is how mine happened.
I was driving one night to go and pick up a friend to take him and get something to eat. Well I stopped at a three way stop at a stop sign and waited for awhile. As soon as I take off, Im hit by a big SUV and went flying into a bus stop with benches. The damage on my car was horrible. My whole bumped was pushed into he right side, the hood of my car was so smashed in I could not even lift my hood. My wind shild was cracked and my car was making funny kind of sound. In the end of the whole situation my car was totaled and the other persons car only suffured a minor dent by the right head light.
c) I think my story is a good example of realism because I described what was going on that night and the total damage of my car. I didnt just say I got into a car wreck one day. I told everything that happened bacause I didn't want the reader to have to imgine anything.

12}ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation.ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.ELAALRL4 The student employs a variety of writing genres to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of significant ideas in selected literary works. The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents.

I think I have addressed the standards by by doing questions eight and nine and providing direct evendience on them. I also wrote a short story and provided a reason on why I though it was a great example of realism.

Essay number Two

Snapped


In my spare time watching TV is something I love to do. I really enjoy watching reality TV. One of my favorite shows is called Snapped. This show is about people snapping and committing horrid murders. The show investigates how the murders, happened and where it took place. I like this show much more than similar shows like Americas Most Wanted because this is the only show I know that tells the whole story and also shows the real people who committed the crime.
Snapped starts off by introducing the people involved in the murder and going into their backgrounds. They tell where the person was born, their parents’ names, where they lived, their childhood, if they have gotten married, and how many kids they had. They also start by having people who knew the victim or suspect talk about them. Having this information about them is really interesting to me because many people may think all criminals come from the same background. It’s really interesting to see that most of them come from all different backgrounds. For instance I can remember this one time; there was a show about pure blood aristocrats, the Du Pont family.
The Du Point family is an American family descended from Pierre Samuel Du Pont De Nemours. The son of a Paris watchmaker and a member of a Burundian noble family, he and his sons, Victor Marie du Pont and Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, immigrated to the United States in 1800s and used the resources of their Huguenot heritage to found one of the most prominent of American families. Well further on down the line of the Du Pont family the heritress had her son’s girlfriend murdered and stuffed into a trash bag at a Las Vegas hotel room because she didn’t want her to get any of the inheritance. So as you can see many of these cases involve many different people from all types of backgrounds.
After the show goes on, it then goes into the trial and the consequences that happen after it. People may think these people go to prison for a long time, but many of these people get off with just a couple of years or no time at all. One example of that would be an episode I can remember watching about a woman named Ruth Ann Myers. She was prosecuted for solicitation to murder. She tried to hire a hit man to get rid of her husband who wanted to divorce her and a strong political opponent. They caught her red handed; they had phone records, pictures of her car, pictures of the money she took out of her account and everything. Well things didn’t look so good for Ruth Ann, but she wasn’t going down without a fight.
When it was time to go to trail she changed her physical apprence greatly, no make up, no nice clothing, jewelry or anything. She didn’t even do her hair. She pleads Not Guilty and said she was suffering from mental health since her father sexually abused her when she was younger. All in all when the trial was over Ruth Ann was only sentenced to two 18 month sentences. After that she lost everything, her political career, her husband ever one of her children, her son Joshua, who was a stockbroker who died in the September 11th attacks.
All in all I think Snapped is definitely a good interesting show to watch, because it tells about the background of the suspect to let you know what type of environment they came from. They talk about the crime and exactly how it happened, and also testimonies from real people who knew the suspect or the victim and the trial and consequences.