Sunday, April 29, 2018
The Color Purple
The novel, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker was a good read because it showed womanhood and how to find the beauty in one's self. The book shows through the protagonist, Celie, and many other characters throughout the novel. Womanhood, to me, is about being confidence in how looks and feels and having some independence. When the book first started, it showed the sexually and mental abuse Celie goes through at the age of fourteen and how it caused her to allow others control and to find little worth in herself. The book develops as she ages and finds herself bit by bit. The book starts this with the arrival of Shug Avery it then teaches her about womanhood through Shug as she teaches her about love, pleasure, and having confidence in one's self. The book then has her find Nettie's letters to see that independence does not get you killed or hurt and that it can lead to happiness and it also uses it to awaken Celie's anger and have it burst at Mr. . A big step was she when finally released a the anger she had suppressed at Mr. and his family and leaves with Shug and Mary to the city because it shows she was tired being controlled and that she has finally found the independence she desperately needed. This goes on until at the end Celie has found the true womanhood and inner beauty she was missing.
Color Purple Compare and Contrast
The novel, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker has many differences with the movie even with the opening which focuses on a rape scene which hits the readers with powerful sympathy for Celie while the movie focuses on a happier memory which tries that Celie has few good memories. It then hits them verbal abuse by Celie's Stepfather then goes to you the birth and taking away of her child which I fill makes it more powerful for viewers because they can actual see instead of imaging the heartbreak of having your child taken from you. The movie explains things less clearly and detailed then the book because in the book we get a clear of the relationship of between while in the movie it is vague and let to the interpretation of viewers. The book always told more clearly the deteriorate of Harpo's and Sofia's relationship and the fixing of Sofia's and Celie's friendship. The movie also makes the viewer think that Sofia never forgave her while in the book they had a talk and reforged their friendship. Another difference is how they explain Nettie leaving because the movie shows Mr. hitting on Nettie and trying to force himself on her on the way to her school then violently forcing her from the house after he failed while the book shows Mr. calmly saying she has to go with Nettie calmly leaving after Celie gave her some the advice about where to go and did mention it till the end in one of Nettie's letters. The movie basically focused more on the emotions they caused they viewers and Celie's own emotions while the book focused more on Celie's focused more on her faith in God and the abuse more bluntly and clearly.
Despite all the differences, they also have their similarities like how they both mention the rape and the taken of her two children because in both the movie and the both they are both moments that define Celie as a person. They both also show Celie's growth as woman. The growth is vital to both because they want to show how even a abused girl can find her way into womanhood by having the right motivations and a little outside help. Celie did not really become a woman till she found her inner beauty and realized that she was perfect the way she was. They both also show how Celie came out of shell and rises above the abuse ,not something many people can do, and finds herself while also loving it. They both also show womanhood in other characters such as Shug, Nettie, Sofia, and etc. because in one way or another they all found some form of independence and confidence in themselves.
Despite all the differences, they also have their similarities like how they both mention the rape and the taken of her two children because in both the movie and the both they are both moments that define Celie as a person. They both also show Celie's growth as woman. The growth is vital to both because they want to show how even a abused girl can find her way into womanhood by having the right motivations and a little outside help. Celie did not really become a woman till she found her inner beauty and realized that she was perfect the way she was. They both also show how Celie came out of shell and rises above the abuse ,not something many people can do, and finds herself while also loving it. They both also show womanhood in other characters such as Shug, Nettie, Sofia, and etc. because in one way or another they all found some form of independence and confidence in themselves.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Themes
1.) Living in the moment while waiting for a good future.
All the blacks in "I, Too" and Invisible Man are going through pandering to the white men's rule while waiting for the Time it can come true for them. In the case, of Dr. Bledsoe it has partially come in way that even though he is below whites ,but above blacks. In the poem "A Reguee in America", they are not truly free, but only going through the motions of fake-freedom while waiting for the day they will be truly Free.
2.) Fake
In the two poems, "I, Too" and "A Reguee in America" and the novel Invisible Man they are all fakeing something like how the blacks and white have fake interactions with each other through out the novel while the man in "I, Too" fakes thinking that things will always be this way while in "A Reguee in America" they are given fake freedom and liberty.
3.) Outcast or Outsider
In Invisible Man , the blacks are treated as outcasts by the whites. In "I, Too", the man is shown as an outsider in the way they make him eat in the kitchen. In "A Reguee in America" , they are shown as an outcast in the way the do not have true freedom and liberty while whites do.
All the blacks in "I, Too" and Invisible Man are going through pandering to the white men's rule while waiting for the Time it can come true for them. In the case, of Dr. Bledsoe it has partially come in way that even though he is below whites ,but above blacks. In the poem "A Reguee in America", they are not truly free, but only going through the motions of fake-freedom while waiting for the day they will be truly Free.
2.) Fake
In the two poems, "I, Too" and "A Reguee in America" and the novel Invisible Man they are all fakeing something like how the blacks and white have fake interactions with each other through out the novel while the man in "I, Too" fakes thinking that things will always be this way while in "A Reguee in America" they are given fake freedom and liberty.
3.) Outcast or Outsider
In Invisible Man , the blacks are treated as outcasts by the whites. In "I, Too", the man is shown as an outsider in the way they make him eat in the kitchen. In "A Reguee in America" , they are shown as an outcast in the way the do not have true freedom and liberty while whites do.
Chapter 7 Questions
1.) Telling him that he has to be careful about what he says and what he does because in the south playing the game really does not matter because they will always do something bring them down, but in the North as long as he does it right the narrator can make something of himself.
2.) It means now their can be no one to guide or control him now ,but himself because now what he makes of himself is all up to him. He has to guide himself towards greatness like a father would guide their son and he has to find control in what to do or not to do like a father would tell his son. He has to do this himself so he is his own father.
3.) The allusion was Johnna and the belly of the whale with how he said he felt like he was in the belly of a whale himself.
2.) It means now their can be no one to guide or control him now ,but himself because now what he makes of himself is all up to him. He has to guide himself towards greatness like a father would guide their son and he has to find control in what to do or not to do like a father would tell his son. He has to do this himself so he is his own father.
3.) The allusion was Johnna and the belly of the whale with how he said he felt like he was in the belly of a whale himself.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Emily Dickinson Poems
1. "Forever is composed of nows"
This line means that life is meant be lived the fullest and to do that you should not worry about a future that is not here yet and live in the now. The future would not be as fun if we knew everything about it.
2. "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
People say that the it is a once in a lifetime opportunity because life is short and we will die someday and makes the experiences we have and things we do all that more important and special. It makes does moments worth more then everything.
3." If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
This quote means that if she can save someone's from feeling pain that she live and die happily knowing her life had some meaning.
4. "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry."
She is saying that if something she reads makes her feel such powerful emotions she can say for certain that it is poetry. She is hinting that poetry is something that makes you feel things intensely and if it does not it is not poetry
5. "This is my letter to the world that never wrote me."
The letter she wrote were her poems to a world that did not understand her and what she stood for. The world never wrote her because they did not accept her and so Emily wrote to a world that would never understand her.
6. "Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
Sometimes when a person insults you and ignore them shows that you are more mature then them and when you can be quiet and listen to what others have to say shows the most.
7. "I dwell in possibility"
She is that poetry is possibility because poetry has the potential to be about anything like death, love, and birth. It is also something that can change forms depending on the readers on thoughts and views.
8. "Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
The art is poetry and while people try to demean it they can not because poetry will always an art just like nature will always be beautiful both are something that will be around forever.
9. "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
When people die and go to heaven all we know that is that they are going to better place where we someday join, but for now we have to part while is also hell because they person we love and hold dear is gone and we will not be able to see them for a while.
10. "I have been been bent and broken, but - I hope- into a better shape."
Emily has been through a lot in her life with having having nobody that can truly understand and being shunned for being true to herself. She is saying through this that she hopes she has come out stronger because of it.
11. "in this short life that lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power."
Life is short and not all of it is in our control so accomplish what you can and life to the fullest because you never know when it can end because that is one thing that is completely out of our control.
12. "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
Whenever sometime is done for the first time whether it is something good like creating medicine or something bad like killing somebody someone will want to do it again and the person with bad intentions is the little demon that is released.
13. "To shut eyes is to travel."
When you shut eyes you are traveling into mind like when you sleep or daydream. You travel to where innermost thoughts, memories, and emotions lie and when you close your eyes for last time you either travel to heaven or hell.
14. "open me carefully."
You have to be careful who you open yourself up to because they can be just trying to use you and when trying to get someone to open up to you do not pull to hard or you might push them away from you.
15. "Till I loved I never liked enough."
To Emily you have love something to truly have liked it because if you did not like it you can not learn to love it because when when you like something and truly like it you will slowly fall in love with it and will become something special to you.
This line means that life is meant be lived the fullest and to do that you should not worry about a future that is not here yet and live in the now. The future would not be as fun if we knew everything about it.
2. "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
People say that the it is a once in a lifetime opportunity because life is short and we will die someday and makes the experiences we have and things we do all that more important and special. It makes does moments worth more then everything.
3." If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
This quote means that if she can save someone's from feeling pain that she live and die happily knowing her life had some meaning.
4. "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry."
She is saying that if something she reads makes her feel such powerful emotions she can say for certain that it is poetry. She is hinting that poetry is something that makes you feel things intensely and if it does not it is not poetry
5. "This is my letter to the world that never wrote me."
The letter she wrote were her poems to a world that did not understand her and what she stood for. The world never wrote her because they did not accept her and so Emily wrote to a world that would never understand her.
6. "Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
Sometimes when a person insults you and ignore them shows that you are more mature then them and when you can be quiet and listen to what others have to say shows the most.
7. "I dwell in possibility"
She is that poetry is possibility because poetry has the potential to be about anything like death, love, and birth. It is also something that can change forms depending on the readers on thoughts and views.
8. "Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
The art is poetry and while people try to demean it they can not because poetry will always an art just like nature will always be beautiful both are something that will be around forever.
9. "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
When people die and go to heaven all we know that is that they are going to better place where we someday join, but for now we have to part while is also hell because they person we love and hold dear is gone and we will not be able to see them for a while.
10. "I have been been bent and broken, but - I hope- into a better shape."
Emily has been through a lot in her life with having having nobody that can truly understand and being shunned for being true to herself. She is saying through this that she hopes she has come out stronger because of it.
11. "in this short life that lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power."
Life is short and not all of it is in our control so accomplish what you can and life to the fullest because you never know when it can end because that is one thing that is completely out of our control.
12. "Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
Whenever sometime is done for the first time whether it is something good like creating medicine or something bad like killing somebody someone will want to do it again and the person with bad intentions is the little demon that is released.
13. "To shut eyes is to travel."
When you shut eyes you are traveling into mind like when you sleep or daydream. You travel to where innermost thoughts, memories, and emotions lie and when you close your eyes for last time you either travel to heaven or hell.
14. "open me carefully."
You have to be careful who you open yourself up to because they can be just trying to use you and when trying to get someone to open up to you do not pull to hard or you might push them away from you.
15. "Till I loved I never liked enough."
To Emily you have love something to truly have liked it because if you did not like it you can not learn to love it because when when you like something and truly like it you will slowly fall in love with it and will become something special to you.
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