Unit 9 Modernism

1. I think this unit is going to be going over modernism and defining "The American Dream"  and knowing what it means and also i think we are going to have to relate them to their contemporary context or historical background.

2. The selection i chose was "The Jazz Age" because for some reason i really never learned to much about that and I'm very interested in learning a little more about it, and then again it just sounded very intersting to me.

3. The story i chose was "May Day by: F. Scott Fitzgerald" This story related to the theme that i chose which was Jazz Age it talked about how the soldiers in the story went to a night bar/club and got so intoxicated that they were ready to pick a fight. This story states many parts of the theme that i chose cause the setting of the story was about a dance that they danced to  a jazz band at Delmonico and it stated the smells and the views that was seen in the story. But the main thing that the author in the story is trying to point out is how the soldiers/people in the story made a fool of themselves for example:  when the soilders had picked a fight with the may day protester because they didn't agree with the fight and the soldiers caused a big huge fight out of nothing.

4.  Poem(1) The first poem was Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson this poem was telling about how this rich man seemed so happy everyday and how nice looking he looked everyday and but at the end of the poem he killed his self so the man in the story i think lived really well but at the end of the day he probably wasn't happy with himself or he had some trouble in his life that he couldn't take.

   In this poem it shows Disillusionment very well because the people in the poem are thinking in their mind just because he is rich hes living happy and so great not knowing how he could really be thinking or feeling inside.

Poem (2)  The second poem was Mending Wall by Robert Frost this poem was talking bout A stone wall separates the speaker’s property from his neighbor’s. In spring, the two meet to walk the wall and jointly make repairs. The speaker sees no reason for the wall to be kept there are no cows to be contained, just apple and pine trees. He does not believe in walls for the sake of walls. The neighbor resorts to an old adage: “Good fences make good neighbors.” The speaker remains unconvinced and mischievously presses the neighbor to look beyond the old-fashioned folly of such reasoning. His neighbor will not be swayed. The speaker envisions his neighbor as a holdover from a justifiably outmoded era, a living example of a dark-age mentality. But the neighbor simply repeats the adage. In this poem it shows Disillusionment well to because the neighbor in the story is not use to nothing but a wall to make himself feel safe but the speaker is trying to convince him that everything is ok without it.  

  
                                                            

Poem(3) The third poem was A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes i think this poem was about  when u have a dream that seems like u will never reach it because people try and get in the way of your dream u just push it aside and LH is asking what happens to it when it all fails. This poems show Disillusionment because its talking bout if people get in the way of your dreams.

Poem (4) The fourth poem was The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes this story was about a  speaker telling us that he has known rivers and that his soul has come to be as deep as a river. Then he explains just how that transformation took place. He lived near the Congo River in central Africa. He helped to build the pyramids in Egypt . He tells us again that he has known lots of ancient, dusky rivers, and that his soul has become as deep as these rivers. almost four thousand years ago. But i think the Disillusionment in this poem was that he been threw so much as a African American but he still made it to the top and explored everything.

Poem(5) The fifth poem was Incident by Countee Cullen in this poem begins his trip to Baltimore full of joy and excitement. He sees a boy from Baltimore about his age staring at him. Thinking he could possibly make a friend he smiled, but was totally unprepared for the boy’s reaction. Instead of a friendly gesture in return the boy stuck out his tongue and called him a “nigger.” As you could imagine the boy’s feelings were hurt. Out of all the things he experienced.
   The disillusionment in this poem was that the little boy wasn't use to what was going on and ended up getting hurt because he was just trying to make a friend of another race.
     
Poem(6) The sixth poem was Chicago by Jack London this poem is about a celebration of an urbanization that was fueled by industrialism and inventions like electric lights and new modes of transportation. It is also a realistic look at a city growing so fast that its population at this time was doubling every 20 years. 
 The Disillusionment in this poem is how a big city is progressing over time from a horrible storm . 
 
5. In this unit it basically went over disillusionment and what it meant and i had to find out how disillusionment fitted in the poems and story's i read.This unit was really different from the others because it had to do with real life things unlike dark romanticism and the others we did.

Unit 8 Realism

1. I think this unit would be going over imagination, realism and social problems and how if we could solve it. I think this unit is different than the other units we've done because its stating more realist things and solution than the others.

2a.
A detailed description of the setting : "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. "


2b. The social issue that chopin was trying to solve was the issue of the person that approached her and that was dieing before her eyes.


In part 2a of this story this was showing realism in a way because it shows how she used all the specific details to describe what she wanted the reader to know that she was describing like when she gave all the specific details about the lady/girl that she was talking about. Which gave you a real image of what she might have looked like.  In part 2b of the story it was talking about the social issue of the story and it gave you every detailed thing about hoe she was passing away before her eyes and every feeling and pain she felt.


3. In the story "The Battle With Mr.Covey" was basically about Fredrick Douglass being a slave and how he got treated as a slave . Douglass was trying to bring to light how slavery wasn't right and how he was trying to stop slavery.
    Douglass was beating and he was treated wrong when he didn't do things that his slave owner wanted him to do but at the end Douglass got his revenge when when he was doing what he was told to do Mr. Covey tried to attack Douglass when he was cleaning the stables and ended up getting hurt himself .
   Douglass was trying to make the facts clear that slavery isn't needed and how it is very bad and how it isn't good for nobody and how slavery is wrong.


4. The example i chose is the movie "Precious" its basically about a young girl who has gotten pregnant at a young age and she currently is pregnant and her mother is a mean mom who is jealous of her and calls her names and beats on her when she thinks about her pass and how her mothers ex-husband beat her and raped her and got her pregnant. The reason why i chose this one is because its based on a true story and  these things happen to young girls every day, and ts real life stuff.


5a. What i liked best out of these units was Dark Romanticism.

5b.  There was once a little girl who lived so bad her parents treated her like a slave they never gave her food, they never gave her clean clothes, and they never treated her like a real daughter or showed that they loved her the way they said they did. Little Sarah treated them with a smile and a yes ma'am and yes sir every day but she had set in her mind "only when i reach the age of 18 I'm going to get my revenge" soon as little Sarah's birthday came she was the Sarah they never knew she started not doing what they said to do and she started acting more devilish so devilish and evil that she decided to poison the meal she had made for them one day and killed them both.


5c. I think my story represents dark romanticism very well because it gives a brief detail of how the girl had some kind of evilness even though she had been trying to play it of with being nice for all those years.

6. I think i meet the standards for this unit because i stated every thing that was asked to do i gave every description of what was needed. In this unit it was about realism and i think i covered every part of what it means, how to use it, and how it differs from the other units we went over very well.

Unit 6 American Gothicism / AntiTranscendentalism

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2. I think i fall more closer to being a Transcendentalist becuase they believe in what i would probally believe in like i dont believe that everyone is just pure evil like the dark romantic.

3. I chose the story "Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

4. I thought that this story very mean in my opinion because the dwarfs was trying to get revenge and trying to escape from that king, but the story was about how the dwarfs or hop frogs was getting treated like slaves. The story illustrates how the Dark Romantics disagreed with the Transcendantalists by showing there dark side in the story how they had so much anger in the characters in the story and showing how every had some kind of evilness in them even it came down to being dirty by getting revenge on poeple that did you wrong for example: "Ah, ha!" said at length the infuriated jester. "Ah, ha! I begin to see who these people are now!" Here, pretending to scrutinize the king more closely, he held the flambeau to the flaxen coat which enveloped him, and which instantly burst into a sheet of vivid flame. In less than half a minute the whole eight ourang-outangs were blazing fiercely, amid the shrieks of the multitude who gazed at them from below, horror-stricken, and without the power to render them the slightest assistance." and that was when the dwarfs got there revenge.

5. This story (The Raven) was about a man named Edgar Allen Poe It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student,is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". A few lines that stuck to me from the story was "Then the ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore." This poem has anti-transcendental in it because its talking about how the raven in the story represents death and darkeness.

6. *The end rhyme in the story raven was:
-And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted--nevermore!
 *The internal rhyme in the story raven was:
-Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered, weak and WEARY,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly NAPPING, suddenly there came a TAPPING,
As of someone gently RAPPING, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
 *The Alliteration in this story was:
-Nodded,Nearly,Napping

7. This unit was mostly over what i exspected it to be over and it was how people was mostly evil but everyone is not evil like this unit believe in. I clearly stated what needed to be adressed in this unit in my work by answer the essential question for all parts of my work like for example:when i gave examples of how the dwarfs in the story "Hop-Frog".

Unit 5 Romaticism and Transcendentalism

1. What i think this unit will be addressing would probably be the three main themes of Romanticism. I also think this unit would go over the meaning of theme, how would you find it if you was looking for it and would you know what it meant if you saw it. The meaning of theme to me is a thought or idea the author presents to the reader that may be deep, difficult to understand, or even moralistic. Generally, a theme has to be extracted as the reader explores the passages of a work.

2. In RipVanWrinkle i think a romanticism part was when they said "Everychange of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day,produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains,and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky". In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow i think the romanticism part in this story was 

3. The way this poem illustrate all three of the main themes of Romanticism is by talking about Nature like when it said something about when nature was talking to man instead of man to man, it also talked about People when it stated thou shalt not lie down with patriarchs of the infant world meaning no matter if your a king or a relguar person when you die your going to die the same way no matter if your worth more or better than some one else.Then they state Imagination which it states all that treads the globe are but a handfuk to the tribes that slumber in its bosom.

4.  
1. An Original sin is known as total depravity

2. Puritans felt that Their doctrines stressed original sin-that all people are sinners (for Adam sinned), but that God,in his infinite mercy, has chosen to save a few

3.  The way rationalist and puritans differed was that Puritans believed God was actively involved in his creations of lives and in complete control and the Rationalist believed God created earth and then retreated and let his creations control themselves as if they were their own devices.

4. The three main themes of romanticism is imagination, nature, and promotion of common people

5. In the story "From Nature" By:Ralph Waldo Emerson" its basically talking about nature how nature is making things into real life imageries . Its showig how nature makes the world, like when it states how "The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; and The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. In the story from "from Self Reliance" this story is stating the intellegence of the mind a man and howwithout intellegence things wouldnt work and would be misunderstood and things wouldnt work.

6. In the first story its a good example of Transcendentalism because its stating how people get intouch with there surroundings and how there surroundings help them connect more with god. The second story is a good example of Transcendentalism because its stating how people use there mind to connect with god.

7. In the the Wilderness" was about a man that was living off of nature and serviving off of fish log cabins. This video relates to Transcendentalism very very well because he was using nature/surroundings to connect with himself and he used his mind to communicate with imself tomake it threw without material things like what we rely on today.
Closing: In this unit it was basically talking about what i thought it would be talking about from question one stating the three themes of romantisism. I think i did a pretty good on this unit because i answered the questions that was asked the very best way i could.