Good morning, Understanding Fiction students! Please copy and paste your report (comprehensive summary, strengths, weaknesses, and personal reflection) including your planned game/activity here. Cite your sources properly using APA. We will start our reporting next meeting.
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"The Man Who Could Be King"
By: Rudyard Kipling
This is an adventure story by Joseph Rudyard Kipling which focuses primarily on the crucial difference between a tale told by a narrator who merely reports a story and a narrator who has lived the story he tells. Rudyard works was appreciated by many critics and one them was Henry James where he called the story as an extraordinary tale that talked about the social parable of British imperialism in India. Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer and best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. Rudyard Kipling was also won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo.
The story was all about the adventure of two ambitious ex-soldiers named Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot. They first met the narrator that being told as Rudyard Kipling at his young age. Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot pretended that they are also writers and they were in the same newspaper to the narrator. But the narrator busted them and they become sort of friends. Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot told the narrator that they planned to find a small town and become the kings of the town. Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot go off on some adventures and then they found a small town. Through fighting and some religious stuff, they become kings and gods of the town. The savages thought that these Englishmen are gods. Then Daniel Dravot arranged to get married one of the native maiden. But the maiden was afraid in believing that any woman who sleeps with a god will be consumed by fire as a result of the intimate contact. So, on his wedding day the maiden bit him and Daniel Dravot draws blood. The natives witnessed the bleeding and found out that Daniel Dravot was a mortal and not a god. So they thrown Daniel Dravot off a rope bridge into a deep ravine, where his body is shattered on the rocks and chop his head off and crucify Peachey. Peachey survives, and brought Daniel’s head back and tells the narrator his story.
The story “The Man Who Would Be King” illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of British imperialism. Peachey Carnehan is practical, intelligent, cunning schemer while Daniel Dravot is magnetic, spiritual, and provides strength. Together, they represent a whole, and divided, each is weakened. Both of them have knowledge to travel and very advantage in civilization but both of them exaggerate their opportunity to become a king. As a result of their lied and abusive attitude to the natives they were punished in the end. Between 1890 and 1920, Rudyard Kipling writings celebrated the British Empire, particularly the raj in India and Burma, along with the Industrial Revolution that made it possible. Kipling made a legacy in changing India. The story mostly expressed paternalism where the rascally wanders of Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot epitomize the adventurers who built the British Empire in its early years, while their excessive pride and self-confidence captures the folly of the Empire’s paternalistic attitudes.
DeleteIn the story I made to realized that life was just like a wheels and where racism and stereotyping totally exist. It is somehow like in our life nowadays. I observe many “Lumad” people who originally own the land but now they are in the street raising their hands and begging to the people asking for a coin. It made realized the evident and memorable scene where racism was displayed. In the story I found it both amusing and yet felt a sense of sympathy that they are abused by those two white people who pretended as higher than them. Peachey and Daniel arrogance is to some extent countered by their sincerity and their willingness to treat everyone in the same way. They undoubtedly feel superior, but they are superior to all because they have total belief in themselves. They were synonymous to those people who never mind those “Lumad” and instead of helping them they push them down and put them under their feet. But all in all I’ve seen the story inspiring, interesting, awareness of mixing complete self-assurance with the unknown and knowing vaguely religious mystery and even fate.
Planned Activity:
My game was called “guess who I am?“ where the class must be divided into 4 groups with 9 to 10 members each and form a straight line by team. Each group must have one representative to illustrate or imitate one character in the story by their gesture, attitude or even facial expression. I prepared list of characters and only represented will come in front of me for them to know who are they going to guess. The representative must not allowed to speak while performing the imitation. The group must guess what are the representative trying to imitate and if they answered the correct character then another representative goes to the front to replace the representative until they gain points. They only have 5 minutes to obtain points. The group that has the highest points are the winner.
References:
Anderson, T. (1975) “Man Who Would Be King:Plot Summary” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/plotsummary
McGowan, E. (1999) “The Man Who Would Be King:Background”
http://www.schoolbytes.com/english/summary.php
http://www.enotes.com/topics/man-who-would-king
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
By: James Thurber
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" story began when a military officer charges a plane group to progress with a flight through an offensive whirlwind. The team individuals are apprehensive yet are floated by their officer's certainty, and they set their confidence in him. All of a sudden, the environment change to a normal thruway, where Walter Mitty and his wife are crashing into a city to run errands. The scene on the plane is uncovered to be one of Mitty's numerous dreams.
Mitty's wife watches that he appears to be strained, and when he drops her off before a hair beauty parlor, she reminds him to go purchase overshoes and encourages him to put on his gloves. He heads out toward a parking garage and loses himself in another dream. In this fantasy he is a splendid specialist, called upon to perform an operation on a noticeable financier. His contemplations are hindered by the orderly at the parking garage, where Mitty is attempting to enter through the off-ramp. He experiences difficulty pulling out to get into the best possible path, and the chaperon needs to take the wheel. Mitty leaves, angry of the orderly's ability and confidence.
Next, Mitty discovers a shoe store and purchases overshoes. He is attempting to recall what else his wife needed him to purchase when he hears a paperboy yelling around a trial, which sends Mitty into another fantasy. Mitty is on the witness stand in a court. He recognizes a firearm as his own particular and uncovers that he is an able marksman. His confirmation causes an aggravation in the court. An alluring young lady falls into his arms; the head prosecutor strikes her and Mitty punches him. This time Mitty brings himself out of his dream by recalling what he should purchase. "Puppy bread," he says so anyone might hear, driving a lady in the city to chuckle and advise her companion, "That man said 'Puppy roll' to himself."
Mitty then goes to a supermarket for the pooch rolls and advances toward the lodging anteroom where he has orchestrated to meet his wife. He sits in a seat and grabs a magazine that conveys an anecdote about airborne fighting. He starts to fantasize once more, considering himself to be a courageous aircraft pilot going to go on an unsafe mission. He is courageous and light-hearted as he plans to hazard his life.
He comes back to this present reality when his wife applauds him on the shoulder. She is loaded with inquiries, and he discloses to her that he was considering. "Does it ever jump out at you that I am in some cases considering?" he says. She answers that she wants to take his temperature when they return home. They leave the lodging and stroll toward the parking area. She dashes into a drugstore for one final buy, and Mitty stays in the city as it downpours. He lights a cigarette and envisions himself smoking it before a terminating squad. He hurls the cigarette away and confronts the weapons bravely Walter Mitty the undefeated vague to the last.
Strength and Weaknesses
ReplyDeleteThe story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses on every Walter Mityy’s dreams. The achievement and failure of Walter Mitty is inspected through his powerlessness to carry on with a satisfying outer life, which makes him retreat to an inward life loaded with pictures of victory. Walter Mitty is neither energizing nor fruitful in his regular life. Actually, the world Mitty lives in appears to be frightful to him. His wife's annoying voice stirs him from one dream. Like his wife, parking area orderlies and policemen reprimand him, and ladies at the supermarket snicker at him. A blundering, inadequate man disdained by others, he feels embarrassed by the knowing smiles of carport mechanics who know he can't take the chains off his auto's tires. To dodge their scoffs, he envisions taking the auto into the carport with his arm in a sling so "they'll see I couldn't in any way, shape or form take the chains off myself." The disappointments of his regular life are countered by the uncommon victories he plays out in his dream life.
Reflection
Have you ever gotten yourself in the shower putting on a show to be singing in front of an audience, Well, on the off chance that you have, then you may have a considerable measure in the same manner as Walter Mitty. It was anything but difficult to interface with Walter in James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". While a few individuals have distinctive points of view toward this class of writing, I observed it to be loaded with symbolism and sarcastic expressions. It was not quite the same as different readings in view of Thurber's utilization of creative energy and amusingness.
To begin with, this perusing was silly while in the meantime genuine. The tone and state of mind of this short story I observed to be somewhat not the same as alternate readings. It got my consideration instantly after perusing the initial few lines. The uncertain way of this short story can stand out enough to be noticed immediately. Since it identifies with some of my very own connections and their issues, I discovered it simpler to have an association with this piece. Since joy and satisfaction are generally connected with non-existent exercises, I thought it was a proper piece to start an investigation of reading so as to write works in which cleverness makes these responses as well as entering bits of knowledge. An investigation of writing, as it were, empowers us to witness into human instinct. It reveals what exists in us that permit us to grasp and handle astounding circumstances and unanswered inquiries in our own lives. This chose piece indicates how diversion can be utilized creatively as a part of a story to delineate the requirement for correspondence in human connections. Mitty's inundation in uncommon matters of his fantasy world squares him from affectability to his wife's conventional life concerns and from knowing whether her "making him" do things communicates genuine minding or simply bother.
References:
"Summary" Masterpieces of American Literature Ed. Steven G. Kellman. eNotes.com, Inc. 2006 eNotes.com 15 Nov, 2015, Retrieved from: http://www.enotes.com/topics/secret-life#summary-the-work
Cummings Study Guide (15 November 2015), Retrieved from: http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides6/Mitty.html
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty- Short Stories for Students.Encyclopedia.com, 15 Nov, 2015, Retrieved from: http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2694800022/secret-life-walter-mitty.html
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How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
Manuel E. Arguilla
Comprehensive Summary
The story started when Baldo (leon’s younger brother) was waiting for Leon’s and Maria’s (leon’s wife) arrival. The two arrived riding in a carretela. When Balo saw Maria, he was amazed by the beauty of Maria. He described Maria as tall, lovely, beautiful and Maria’s fragrant is like a mornig when papayas are in bloom. In their way home, Leon wondered why Baldo used the Waig as their route instead the another way in the Camino real. Baldo said that he was only instructed by his father. Baldo was very observant. He narrated their journey and how Maria enjoyed their trip. On their way home Maria admitted that she was afraid because maybe Leon’s father will not like her. When they reached home, Leon search his father and her mother told him that his father’s leg was not feeling well. On the other side Baldo was asked by his father if what happened in their journey, Baldo answered his father that Maria enjoyed the trip and Maria liked the place. Afterwards, the door opened, Leon and Maria came in and Baldo went out to water Labang as what his father told him.
Stenghts
The story gave a detailed description about the settings and the characters. The story is very realistic, a lot of Filipino people can relate to the story. It also implied a lot of moral values that the readers can get. The usage of the language is good. The story also presented the elements of literature well.
Weaknesses
The story do not have a clear and definite ending. It is still hanging.
Reflection
The story of “How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife” is good. I like the story because it is very realistic that viewed the life in the province. Also the love story of the main characters is very believable. The story also taught a lot of lessons in life. For example, the values of introducing our love one’s to our parents. The story also taught the readers that sacrificing is necessary to achieve a happy life.
Planned Game
• Vocabulary Test
I will scramble the unfamiliar words used in the story. I will read the meaning of each word and I will let my classmates guess the word. The person who can get the correct answer will be given a reward.
References:
Acas, A.M. (No Date). A Critical Analysis on “How my Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife”. Retrieved from http://sourcecode4us.blogspot.com/2008/07/critical-analysist-of-how-my-brother.html
Antonio, I. (2013, September 7). How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife. Retrieved from http://luwagniian.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-my-brother-leon-brought-home-wife.html
Blessed, J. (2013, Dec 27). How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/194035475/How-My-Brother-Leon-Brought-Home-a-Wife#scribd
Ibias, Mary Bhel B.
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Comprehensive summary
There was a man who packs his clothes in his suitcase when the woman came near to the door and said to him that she was glad his leaving then she began to cry. She noticed the baby picture on the bed and pick it up. When he looked at her she wiped her eyes then going back to the living room. He looked around before turning off the light then went to the living room. The woman stood in the doorway of the kitchen while holding the baby. The man said that he wanted the baby but the woman didn’t agree. He came near to her and trying to grab the baby on her grip. She tried to hold the baby over the corner but he reach her and tightened his hands on the baby as they shouted to each other. Suddenly the flowerpot behind them fall down as the baby was red-faced screaming. Still he is trying to break her grip on the screaming baby. She felt her fingers being forced open, she scream as her hands on the baby came loose. Then she grabbed the baby’s other arm but he would not let go. Both of them are pulling the baby like tug of war. He felt the baby slipping out of his hands and pulled back very hard.
Strength
The story has a big impact on the reader. It gives them a hint on the story that talks about the separation of the couple. The readers will have the freedom to imagine and apply their own interpretation of the story. They can ask questions on themselves on why and how the story can be concluded. The perception of the readers overwhelm with gratitude that their emotions on the baby’s situation, concerning the next thing to happen. As a result the readers can manipulate the ending of the story.
Weaknesses
The story has a lack of details that the reader could actually change the flow of the story. There is no reason why they are separated and no detailed explanation, both the characters are static that simply stay on the same emotion and no good things will happen to them and only their bad situation occurs.
Personal Reflection
In the story of Popular Mechanics there are things that I would like to do as a response after I read the story. I am so desperate to shout those couple who are actually fighting to each other. As I continue to read the story there’s a baby who actually part of the conflict in the story who were force to pull by the man and a woman who suddenly become so aggressive. The woman are much more shouting at the man that was actually so annoying. But there is no consideration to both couple because they were so eager to get the baby without even care if they actually hurt the baby, both of them keep denying the fact that they hurt the baby. There is no good in fighting and no one get the benefits of the baby because they just turn themselves into a monster, a terrifying monster who were so desperate just to get what they wants. No good result will come unto them just like the thing happen to the baby who were ripped apart or maybe dead by now.
Game Plan
Question and Answer portion
With prize
References:
Carver, Raymond, (1984).Cathedral, Knopf.
Douglas Adams, Date Retrieved May 11, 2014. Retrieved from http://www.tesltimes.com/pmech.html
Lohafer, Susan, Coming to Terms with the Short Story, Louisiana State University Press, 1983.
Popular Mechanics, (2015). Retrieved from http://www.ask.com/art-literature/theme-popular mechanics-raymond-carver-59e5ce64c222412
Popular Mechanics what symbolism, (2015), eNotes.com, Inc.
Popular Mechanics Term Papers, (1999). DMCA http://www.collegetermpapers.com
Retrived from http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7363.Raymond_Carver
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“The Nightingale and the Rose”
Oscar Wilde
Summary
The story starts with a student who is crying because there is no red rose in his garden. The red rose for him is so important because the girl that she loves will only dance with him at the ball if he will give her a red rose. The Nightingale in the oak tree saw the student crying and felt bad for him. The nightingale heard the student’s desire for a red rose. The nightingale decided to help the student to find a red rose for she believe that the student was a true lover and he deserves a red rose.
The nightingale flew over to the center of the grass-plot where standing a beautiful Rose-tree. The nightingale asked the tree for a red rose in exchange of her singing the sweetest song but the tree refused for the tree bears only white roses. The rose tree told the nightingale to go to his brother who grows round the old sun-dial and so the nightingale flew over to the rose tree that was growing round the old sun-dial. When the nightingale reached her destination, she asked the tree for a red rose in exchange of her singing the sweetest song but the tree refused for the tree bears only yellow roses. The rose tree told the nightingale to go to his brother who grows beneath the student’s window and so the nightingale flew over to the rose tree that was growing beneath the student’s window. As the nightingale reached her destination, she asked the tree for a red rose in exchange of her singing the sweetest song but the tree refused not because his rose are not red but because he can’t bear flowers throughout the year. But the nightingale is persistent, she would do anything just to have one red rose. The rose tree told the nightingale that if you want a red rose, then you must build it out of music by moonlight, and you must sing with your breast against the thorn and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into his veins. The nightingale accepted the offer for she believe that death is a great price to pay for a red rose.
When the night came and the moon shone in the heavens the nightingale flew to the rose tree, and set her breast against the thorn. All night long she sang until her last breath. Midday when the student saw a red rose in the rose tree near his window. He leaned down and plucked it, then he went immediately to the girl’s house. When he arrived, he saw the girl sitting in the doorway and approached her. He gave the rose but the girl refused for she already have a partner at the ball, the chamberlain’s nephew who had sent her real jewels. The girl told him that jewels cost far more than flowers and so the student got angry. He threw the rose into the street, where it fell into the gutter, and a cartwheel went over it. The student walked away and complained that love is a silly thing. It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. That love is quite unpractical, and, as in this generation to be practical is everything. And so he returned to his room and pulled out a book, and began to read.
Strengths and Weaknesses of the story
ReplyDeleteThe strength of the story is that it teaches a moral lesson, the essence of true love. It also shows the reality, that today’s generation being practical is a big deal than love. The story helps people to think and to take love seriously. It also helps people to appreciate the person who puts efforts in expressing their love and the person who is willing to sacrifice anything in the name of love. The weakness of the story is that the series of events happened so fast, like it happened only for one day. There is no climax and the problem was stated at the very begging of the story, like there is no thrilling. The problem for obtaining a red rose is solve but there is no happy ending.
Reflection
I like the story. It is worth reading for. Even though it is not that long, you still can get lessons from it. For me it’s right for the guy to be rejected because he doesn’t deserve a girl like that, he deserves someone better, someone who could appreciate every little thing he do. I also like the part when the story mentioned that “in this age to be practical is everything”, which is true in the sense that some people specially girls, they choose rich man over a man who has nothing but pure love because for them love is not enough. Girls always think about their future and one of that is marriage, and getting married comes with great responsibilities and cost lots of money, so that’s why love is not enough. I would agree that today’s generation being practical is everything and we are losing the true concept of love.
Planned Activities/Games
Name of the Game: Tricky tricks before treat
Mechanics: The class will be divided into 5 groups. Each group should answer 2 questions. In order to have the hidden questions they have to unscramble the words. If the group happens to answer the questions they will receive mind blowing treats.
YAPAC, SHYKHEN B. AS-English 3
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Comprehensive Summary:
A Haunted House
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
A man and a woman who occupy a house hear a male and female ghosts wandering about the dwelling as they talk about finding a treasure. The living man and woman have no knowledge of a treasure, such as gold or money, hidden on their property.
When they were alive, the ghosts had occupied the house more than a century before the current residents. The woman died first, and the man left the house and traveled. “He…went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky; sought the house, found it dropped beneath the Downs,” the narration says. The Downs are a range of chalk mountains along the southeastern coast of England.
After the man died, he rejoined the woman ghost at the house they once occupied, the same house where the living man and woman now dwell. As the ghosts search for their treasure, they roam the house, opening the closing doors and drawing curtains back. Although they try not to disturb the living couple, the latter can hear them now and then.
And what is the treasure the ghosts seek? The narration reveals that it is the rediscovery of the places in and around the house where the ghosts spent little moments expressing their love for each other. The female ghost says, “Here, sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure.”
After an encounter with the ghost couple in their bedroom, the living couple then realizes what the ghosts are seeking.
Strength and Weakness of the Story:
Strength: The story is well-toned. It is playful and lighthearted. Although, the title seems so creepy, the story is not, since it lets the readers realize the conversation and activity of the ghosts do not pose threat to the living couple.
Weakness: (own opinion) It is a little poetic making it hard to understand right away. As for me, I had to read it about thrice just to fully understand the story.
Reflection:
We, people are often blinded by the glitters of gold, the sound of money and the prestige of fame. We often try to seek for the things that we think would complete us, would complete the missing parts in us. We tend to think that all those tangible things can satisfy us; that it can light the gloomy paths we are taking. But we were thinking it all wrong. Just like in the story. The living couple thinks that the ghost couple is seeking for their treasure, perhaps gold or money. But the ghosts are not into treasure. As they wander about the house, they are rediscovering places full of memories of their love for each other.
Money? Treasure? Yes, “it is a universal provider, but not happiness and it is the passport to everywhere but never to heaven”. The real treasure and possession is the light in the heart--- love.
Activity (to be conducted before I tell them the story): I will ask few of my classmates what they want in the future. I will let them share their goals in life (and I will relate/connect it to my story )
YAPAC, SHYKHEN B. AS-English 3
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Comprehensive Summary:
A Haunted House
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
A man and a woman who occupy a house hear a male and female ghosts wandering about the dwelling as they talk about finding a treasure. The living man and woman have no knowledge of a treasure, such as gold or money, hidden on their property.
When they were alive, the ghosts had occupied the house more than a century before the current residents. The woman died first, and the man left the house and traveled. “He…went North, went East, saw the stars turned in the Southern sky; sought the house, found it dropped beneath the Downs,” the narration says. The Downs are a range of chalk mountains along the southeastern coast of England.
After the man died, he rejoined the woman ghost at the house they once occupied, the same house where the living man and woman now dwell. As the ghosts search for their treasure, they roam the house, opening the closing doors and drawing curtains back. Although they try not to disturb the living couple, the latter can hear them now and then.
And what is the treasure the ghosts seek? The narration reveals that it is the rediscovery of the places in and around the house where the ghosts spent little moments expressing their love for each other. The female ghost says, “Here, sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure.”
After an encounter with the ghost couple in their bedroom, the living couple then realizes what the ghosts are seeking.
Strength and Weakness of the Story:
Strength: The story is well-toned. It is playful and lighthearted. Although, the title seems so creepy, the story is not, since it lets the readers realize the conversation and activity of the ghosts do not pose threat to the living couple.
Weakness: (own opinion) It is a little poetic making it hard to understand right away. As for me, I had to read it about thrice just to fully understand the story.
Reflection:
We, people are often blinded by the glitters of gold, the sound of money and the prestige of fame. We often try to seek for the things that we think would complete us, would complete the missing parts in us. We tend to think that all those tangible things can satisfy us; that it can light the gloomy paths we are taking. But we were thinking it all wrong. Just like in the story. The living couple thinks that the ghost couple is seeking for their treasure, perhaps gold or money. But the ghosts are not into treasure. As they wander about the house, they are rediscovering places full of memories of their love for each other.
Money? Treasure? Yes, “it is a universal provider, but not happiness and it is the passport to everywhere but never to heaven”. The real treasure and possession is the light in the heart--- love.
Activity (to be conducted before I tell them the story): I will ask few of my classmates what they want in the future. I will let them share their goals in life (and I will relate/connect it to my story )
Bruce Marco R. Acosta
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The Drunkard by Frank O’Conner
The Drunkard by Frank O’Connor talks about a narration of Larry Delaney when he was still in his childhood years. The crisis began when Mr. Dooley, a friend of Mick Delaney. His death really struck him hard not just because they are of the same age, but Mr. Dooley was an “informant” of Mick Delaney at the corporation and Mr. Dooley would always tell Mick Delaney “the news behind the news”. To express his respect and mourning, he will go to the funeral of Mr. Dooley, a decision that causes Larry and his mother great concern. It is because his father his father’s weakness is drinking. Larry would always be the “brake” of his father’s drinking, that is what her mother is saying about him. But Larry knows that he cannot stop the drinking habit of his father. When going to the pub after the funeral, Larry knows that this is the place where he would be drunk so he said to his father “Dadda, can’t we go home now?” but his father bribed him of lemonade and he is really thirsty that time. His father ordered beer for himself. Knowing this, Larry said once again to his father “Run out in the road and play, can’ you?” Larry felt pride in himself for his father let him playing at an unknown residence. After that, Larry was still bored and much thirsty, tried to drink his father’s beer. Larry becomes drunk, so his father and Peter Crowley, a drunkard carried him from the pub to their home in broad daylight. Larry when carried home by 2 adults, shouting at the residence things that the resident enjoys but making Mick disgraceful of himself. When finally arriving home, Mick changed the clothes of his son and later on is the rush arrival of his wife. Mick got reprimanded of his wife by making their son drunk. The next day, Mick leaves the home quietly and Larry’s mother changed moods from rage to sincerity, praising and taking good care of Larry for being Mick Delaney’s “guardian angel”.
Bruce Marco R. Acosta
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Strengths and Weakness
Normal for Frank O'Connor, the story consolidates diversion and reality, a blend that the creator alluded to as "crab apple jam." The account incites giggling and bitterness as it investigates the moving predicament of a tyke who is obviously following in his dad's intoxicated strides. The obscure title focuses to the double importance: Is the peruser to concentrate on the funniness of the incidental lush, Larry, or on the flightiness of the more continual boozer, Mick, who pays for his drinking sessions by pawning everything in the house down to the kitchen clock? As the developed Larry remorsefully recalls that, "I could never get over the solitariness of the kitchen without a clock." The specific fulfillment of the story is not just in the inversion of desires that it makes additionally in the graceful equity that it conveys to the father. Casualty and scammer trade parts: The potential casualty Larry gets to be trickster of his dad, who is detached witness and defenseless casualty to his child's inebriation. The potential scammer Mick perceives how he himself looks, acts, and talks when he is plastered, as his child Larry ends up being a most unflattering mirror. The peruser's mindfulness that Mick has been the model for Larry's tipsy conduct underlies the diversion of Larry's disposition shifts from gaudiness to bellicosity to despairing self indulgence, in which last state he broadcasts his brave singing so as to suffer "The Boys of Wexford." In spite of the fact that the story records a little triumph for Larry and his mom, it evades nostalgia by helping the peruser to remember the various times when they remained by defenselessly, viewing the alcoholic's advancement of Mick Delaney. Larry reviews his dad saying, after the occurrence, "Never again, never again, not on the off chance that I lived to be a thousand!" in light of this announcement, the more established Larry remarks, "right up 'til the present time I don't know whether he was renouncing me or the beverage." He along these lines focuses out that, after this specific scene, his dad disavowed neither him nor the beverage. Consequently, the story closes joyfully yet not "cheerfully a great many."
Reflection
As I was reading this short story, I was very happy that I got this story because I can relate to it. My father would drink if he and his friends are having got together, and I also act as a “brake” for him. The only thing is that I am not stealing his drink. This story really reminded me that even no matter what happens to you as a child, your parents would always take good care of you, one way or another. This is the part where I really liked, I really liked funny sentimental kinds of story because it gives you happiness and at the same time, it touches your heart.
References:
Enotes.com,(2015). Retrieved from www.enotes.com/topics/drunkard/themes. Retrieved on Nov. 16,2015
Tripod.com,(2015). Retrieved from joelfinley.tripod.com/Drunkard.htm. Retrieved on Nov. 16,2015
Marichu Jane Martillan
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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by: Gabriel García Márquez
• Comprehensive Summary
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
The short story, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings tells the story of Pelayo and his wife Elisenda, who find an old man with wings in their courtyard after killing crabs in a rainstorm. Pelayo gets his wife, and they try to communicate with him unsuccessfully. They eventually get their neighbor woman, who informs them that the old man is an angel. She tells them that it was on its way for their sick child.
They put the angel in the chicken coop, and during the middle of the night their child's fever breaks. They decide to let him go, but when they return to the courtyard at dawn the entire community has arrived to see the angel. Father Gonzaga soon arrives, declaring that the old man is a fake. He promises to get the real truth from the higher courts of the church. The news of the angel spreads like wildfire, and the courtyard soon resembles a marketplace. Elisenda then has the idea of charging a 5 cent admission fee for seeing the angel; they are soon rich. Rome takes it time deciding on whether the old man is an angel, and while waiting for their verdict, Father Gonzaga works desperately to restrain the crowd.
The crowd leaves on its own, however, when a carnival boasting a Spider-Girl arrives in town. Spectators are allowed to question her, and she tells them how she was turned into a tarantula one night for disobeying her parents. This appeals to the masses more than an old winged man who ignores the people around him. Thus, the curious crowds soon leave the angel for the spider, leaving Pelayo's courtyard deserted.
Pelayo and Elisenda build a mansion with all the money they have accumulated. They neglect the angel and prevent their child from getting to close to the chicken coop. He soon becomes a part of their life, and they no longer fear him. The child visits him often. After a while the chicken coop breaks, and they allow him to move around their house, although it causes Elisenda much distress. He gets increasingly frail and sickly, and they fear that he will die. He recovers, however, and one day Elisenda watches him fly away, to her great relief.
• Strength and weakness
ReplyDeleteThe story doesn't focus on character. Not about character change or insight. No one changes during the course of the story. The characters are all types with the exception of the old man with wings. An old man, who happens to be endowed with a pair of enormous wings, crash-lands at Pelayo and Elisenda's house during a rainstorm. This is the setup for all the action that will happen afterward in the story. Since it's an unlikely situation, it also tells us that the story is going to have a magical-realism bent. The story defies the expectations of the reader, just as the man with the wings defies the expectations of society. The message may simply be that the world is a strange place, difficult to know, so doesn’t think you know what's going on. This is applicable to the reader because the same is true of the story.
• Reflection
ReplyDeleteIn “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one is led to question how they feel about a spiritual connection in the story. I would like to suppose that the old man with wings is representing a divine creature as I interpret. I would like to think that this story is comparing most people’s beliefs in god and religion to how the family in the story treats the old man. Most people will never believe in something unless they can see it. Never being able to see God leads most people to turn a blind eye to any god at all. His arrival is just as sudden as his departure, neither is expected and I think that’s how it is for many people in their pursuit of faith. People spend a lot of their lives looking for something or simply living life in accordance to their religion. However, when faced with their divinity it is not unnatural to be confused and often people don’t know how to treat it before it’s gone. I think that the family dealt with this in their interactions with the old man. They are living their life as they always have when this being comes upon them. They try to deal with him but in the end find it exhausting and overwhelming trying to cope with his meaning or what he might do to their son. Later in the story when the man is no longer interesting to the crowds, you feel there may be a connection to the old man and the son. Although there is no change in the old man’s disposition to the boy from any other person, the reader still feels like the son and the man are connected even if it is only slight.
In the other hand, I also think that the spider girl is meant to perform as a distraction from god or religion. She is something tangible and real, something people can see and touch and relate to. This suggests that most people will respond to something more human, something they can speak to and in turn get a response from. People have to rely on faith to believe in god and cannot depend on the answers to always be clear and that can be trying. Again with instant gratification, it doesn’t work when it comes to religion it’s why people call it having faith.
I also think it is sad that the family just let him go, the wife in particular just watched him disappear into the horizon and felt as if a burden had been lifted from her. I believe this happens regularly in religion, you may not think you have something until it is gone and you respond to it. It is sad that this old man/angel directly affected this family’s life for the better and they could show no gratitude or compassion of any kind. That the family could act almost greedily towards the wealth the old man/angel brought to them. People tend to value things as they have but when it comes they don’t want it anymore they easily let things go. And this story can open up the mind of the readers how interesting and important the religion is, because it is the only way we can communicate with God by having faith to him when it comes to any situation. I feel there is a very strong association between this story and a spiritual idea. Almost everything in this story can be compared to a version of faith/religion and it is up to you if you consider God as your life saver as what faith and hope arose.
• Planned Activity
Charade
Vocabulary (puzzle)
Spelling
• References:
Schenstead-Harris, Leif. "Four Stories: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez". Weird Fiction Review. Luís Rodrigues. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
McFarland, Ronald E (Fall 1992). "Community and Interpretive Communities in Stories by Hawthorne, Kafka, and Garcia Marquez". Studies in Short Fiction 29 (4): 551.
Goodwin, John (Winter 2006). "Marquez's A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and Bambara's The Lesson". Explicator 64 (2): 128–130. doi:10.3200/expl.64.2.128-130.
Cruz, Nilo (2003). "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings". Theater 33 (2): 64 (28p). doi:10.1215/01610775-33-2-65.
Planned Activity:
ReplyDeletei will ask 3 questions to my classmates. each question has a corresponding score, but it is their freedom to choose what will be their score from 1-5. if they got the correct answer, they will achieve have that score. but if not, the score that they chose will be deducted from them.
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THE YELLO\N WALL-PAPER
By Cltarlotte Perkins Stetson.
Comprehensive summary
The “Yellow Wall-Paper” is a short story that the story was focusing on the mental descent of a young woman. Also it is a commentary on the inferior lower status of women at the end of the nineteenth century and a satire ridiculing the so-called rest cure for persons suffering from depression and nervous disorders. The author was telling the story based on her own experience with a physician who treated her for a nervous disorder that’s why he wrote this story. For many years she suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown treatment to melancholia—and beyond. In her three years of her suffering she went into a devout faith and some stir of hope, to a well-known specialist of her illness that nervous disease that was the best known in the entire century.
The woman who is sitting near in the window that saying that "There is something strange about the house—I can feel it,” for her, that this something weird, creepy was enlarges to the appeal of the place, that can say an ancestral hall that she and her husband, John was decided to rent for the summer. Her husband named John, a physician that does not share his wife's unbelievable designs as a man of science that John is very practical and down to earth. The mansion was unoccupied, is just look like a simple a house that look so normally that there is no ghost inside or in the surrounding it’s not a haunted house. John only agreed to stay because of his wife that needs more rest that his wife can take relieve her nervous depression. She doesn’t not like the room that her husband chosen for them to live in. She was wanted the one downstairs that was opened onto a large porch, but John told her that they should occupy the nursery at the top of the house, so she could take advantage of air blowing into the large room, which is quite large and has windows all around. Actually, the nursery had at one time been converted into a gymnasium and playroom. Every time she always sits at a nursery window with a desire to write but not having the strength to focus on it. She can’t pursue her skills on writing because of her husband cruelty. Her husband was having a so much effort to attend patients because he is a physician doctor of course he will do that. She was thinking that His husband doesn’t know on how much she suffers. The wallpaper was continued to bother her all the time. She stays at the house when John was going to have a new wall paper to put up. When she tells John that she imagines seeing all sorts of visitors walking on the lane and the grounds, but John tells her to avoid doing so. Such thoughts can out of all proportion excite her, John says. But, she wants for company, but John says that she gets will they will invite their cousin Henry and Julie for a visitation. Meanwhile, the wallpaper is really getting to her so she decides to write and write. When she saw the sister of John, the house keeper, upcoming she puts away her writing, because like her husband too, she believes that her writing make her sick. She has Mother, Nellie, and Children that Characters whom the narrator mentions without providing additional information. Apparently, maybe the mother is her own mother. Exhausted after entertaining them, the narrator says that her husband is going to get her an appointment with Weir Mitchell, MD—a famous neurologist—if she does not soon improve. She was not in favor of what his husband suggestion because she knows that the work of Mitchell is just like her husband and her brother she will know the result would be the same. After spending so much time alone in her room, the narrator writes that she is beginning to like her room “in spite of the wallpaper” or because of it. She finds herself studying its pattern while lying on the bed. To help her get over her sickness, John gives her cod liver oil, tonics, rare meat, ale, and wine. She talk to John that she would like to likes to visit her cousins but she know John won’t get of it and then she ends up for crying.
ReplyDeleteOne day, he carries her upstairs and puts her in bed, then reads to her. He tells her that she is his comfort and that she must get well for his sake and keep well. One thing that comforts her is that her baby is well and does not have to occupy the nursery and see the wallpaper. And then, one night while John is sleeping in his bed, she gets up to feel the wallpaper to see whether it is moving, Jhon was awaken and then she ask if they can return already to their house but Jhon oppose with her idea, because their house is under doing of repair at the moment. Of course, he would return if she were not getting well. But, he says, she is improving. The wallpaper begins to bother her again. The narrator has noticed strange behavior in her husband lately, as well as in Jennie. Perhaps the wallpaper is causing it. During the day, the narrator continues to analyze the pattern of the wallpaper. Eventually, she discovers that the woman in the wallpaper shakes it and attempts to climb through the pattern. The vacation is nearing its end. While John is staying in town overnight, the narrator sees, by moonlight, the woman in the wallpaper shake the bars. The narrator goes to help her. By morning, she and the imprisoned woman have torn away a good deal of the paper. The narrator completely identifies herself with the woman imprisoned in the wallpaper that spends her time around the four corner of the room. Her husband discovers her and collapses in shock, and she keeps crawling, right over his fallen body.
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ReplyDeleteThe strength of the story is that the woman and the story were trying to shown up what she got but because of her husband she can't do it all. She only writes what she felt for her situation at the moment and then it is the only way that she can express what her feelings are. And also that the story was in wrote base on the true experience of the narrator with her husband.
Weakness
The weakness of the story is that the narrator and his husband whom is a physician doctor that nature and dealing of her illness leads to her weakness because her husband take a control of her what she wanted to do. She was imprisoned and she cannot do what she wanted to do to her life. The powerlessness of the narrator in the story was her weakness. The narrator was suffering from depression that cause of her nervous disorder that she undergoes robs her sanity. Then also the weakness of the story is that the usage of words that cannot easily to understand by the reader that can lead into suffering while reading the story. It’s very hard to understand the wordings of the story.
Reflection
ReplyDeleteMy reflection of the story is that it’s describing the submissive, childlike obedience of women to male authority figures that was considered typical at the beginning of the twentieth century. The story was written by Cltarlotte Perkins Stetson that was telling about all about of her own experience. I believed that during the time of the narrator was that, woman at that time was not having an opportunity to pursue what they want to do with their life. In the story Gilman was trying to write or to show her capability to write but because if her husband that is so secured her too much. As if it was all cared about of her nervous disorder but actually it was like imprison her at that nursery room where they live and stock there. She was helpless and the narrator that takes her as challenges to her to be a silly, the cruelty of her husband through all the times. The wall paper represents as a cause also of her illness it always bothering her again and again every time. The narrator was believed that women in the story were not up to the task of fulfilling their duties as mothers, let alone competing with men she is just imprisoned out there of the nursery like a baby not a well woman. I think that the wallpaper she said is that her husband decisions that only depends on what is right, for what she said that “In the moonlight—or by candlelight, lamplight, or twilight—the pattern forms bars. The woman behind the pattern is becoming easier to see .The husband of the narrator was not considering her of what she wanted to do. It was not easy for a woman to be imprisoned on that kind of jail that you are living with the people you love but suddenly pushed you to death as far as they could. Though they’re not pushing the narrator to commit suicide but as far as what they act, they did. I can say that the narrator was very helpless because she can’t do anything what she want she can’t tell what she felt for., and then she was tried to write but she can’t. Symbolically, the room with the yellow wallpaper serves as a prison where the wife is restricted, like a child, from the intellectual activities of reading and writing. At first, the narrator rebels against the constraints by keeping a secret diary. When John discovers her disobedience, she is chastised and her diary is cruelly destroyed that was a sign of irresponsible husband in the whole century. This kind of story is that it was a discrimination of a woman that, woman should contented of what they are and what they have, so pathetic because as a human being we have the power of being an equal to each other. Then I think that the woman in the wallpaper is an image she is seeing of herself being trapped that the wallpaper represent as the cruelty of her husband through to her . We know that People who are depressed are constantly stuck in their own minds like as the narrator experience in her own story. She's seeing herself in the wallpaper trying to escape because she is also trying to escape her depression; in her situation that even her husband cannot accompany her. When she is ripping off the wall paper and the woman is also ripping it from the inside, she thinks that the woman is helping her, but it's herself trying to escape and then when the story was going on, there are more revelations that intimate the readers can say that the narrators gradual mental breakdown.
Planned Games
• Vocabulary (Puzzle)
• Charade
• Spelling
References:
http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/gilman.htm
Berkin, Ruth Carol. “Self-Images: Childhood and Adolescence.” Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ed. Joanne Karpinski. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992.
Ceplair, Larry. “The Early Years.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Non-fiction Reader. Ed. Larry Ceplair. New York: Columbia UP, 1991. 5-19.
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The Rumor by John Updike
Annotation
I. Summary
The Rumor was the last piece of one of Americas' great authors, John Updike. It was the last of his many pieces appeared in Esquire over his seventy-six years. The Rumor was the story about the struggle of a married couple, because the husband which was Frank rumored of having a homosexual lover. It was published on 1991.
Frank and Sharon Whittier were married and happy with their lives. They opened a small art gallery on the fourth floor of a narrow building on West Fifty-Seventh Street. The time that the rumor about Frank having an affair to a homosexual reached to Sharon, she just laughed about it for Frank was at her side. The gossiper Avis, who had a romantic flare-up to Frank years ago insisted that she also heard that rumor from two other people and it was already spread up in town. As the phone call ended, Sharon told Frank about the rumor and Frank calmly answered Sharon that he do not have a homosexual lover and insisted that he was straight and faithful. Frank rebuked Sharon for taking the rumor seriously but Sharon protested that she was just curious of why such rumor became the talked of town if there is really nothing about it. As they argued, Frank became unusual and strange and it made the suspicion of Sharon drawn stronger. The following days after that rumor came to the Whittier she imagined it everywhere, from their staffs, artists’ agents and costumers. She can even felt unspoken pity from those women who embraced her. Frank teased Sharon through his actions about the rumor for he felt her awkwardness. Frank cannot prove his innocence on her for he was already trapped on the suspicion of Sharon for he was already had a record before of having an affair. Sharon confronted frank that the rumor was really true but Frank denied it in a half-lie.
II. Strength
ReplyDeleteGood introduction, good start up, and unusual issue are the strengths of the story. Good introduction of the main characters’ first meeting. Where they know each other during their childhood days, it is the first strength of the story for how this rumor can affect them for in fact they have known each other when they are still young. Good start up, the story directly became interesting for the early appearance of the conflict that will make the characters’ life go round. Unusual issue is the last strength of the story. The conflict between these couple is not mainstream, for it was not about Frank womanizing but Frank having relationship to another male.
III. Weaknesses
Unusual reaction of Frank towards the issue and not clear ending are the weaknesses found in the story. Unusual reaction of Frank on dealing of the issue, because from the beginning until the ending he seem so static. Even though gentlemen are known to be tough and they can handle their emotions at their best, it is not still good that Frank did not do anything to clear his name and prove to his wife his innocence for he keep on denying it without proving. The ending of the story is not clear, it is hanging. For it ended up without any clarification if Frank really have an affair to a homosexual if not to a homosexual maybe to another woman. It does not clearly include on the last part of the story if the conflict of the main characters has being resolved.
IV. Reflection
As a reader, The Rumor by John Updike is awaking piece not because it deals with betrayal in a marriage but rather because it illustrates that male to male relationship really exist not only on the story but also on the real setting. Base on the story, in a relationship nowadays, opposite sex is no longer the only threat but also the same sex is already a threat. In a deeper sense, people always think that when the two people are already married they are already secure that the other person inside that marriage will no longer fall or being tempted to another being outside that marriage. Sometimes because of that thinking they neglect what are the things that make every marriage being secure. It is love, care, attention, respect, communication, intimacy and faith that makes every marriage secure and lasts in a lifetime. These are the recipes’ that has been lost along the way in the marriage of Frank and Sharon. Those things that been mentioned are I guess the essence that has been lost and forgotten in the relationship of the main characters.
Planned activity:
Snake and Ladder
References:
Rosa Parks Biography – Academy Achievement. (Feb 26, 2010). Retrieved November 14, 2015, from http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
Updike, J. (June 1991). The Rumor. Retrieved November 13, 2015, from http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a5534/john-updike-short-story-0691/
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SHORT STORY ANNOTATION
The Fall of The House of Usher
Summary
The fall of the House of Usher is a gothic short story about an unnamed narrator visiting his boyhood friend named Roderick Usher on his ancestral house. When he arrived, he already felt that there was something bizzare on the house. The house was dull and in full gloom. When he arrived, he was welcomed by a weak Roderick looking much different the way he looked the last time they saw each other. He say that he was suffering from an illness and that any time soon he would perish. Roderick was also worried of the incoming death of his twin sister Madeline having an incurable disease.
Madeline died one night and they buried her in the family vault underground right at under the narrator's bedroom. After the death of Madeline, Roderick has chaged. He no longer play instrument that he used to and no longer paint. One stormy night, Roderick gets inside of the narrators bedroom and said some strange things. In order to calm Roderick, the narrator read him a story. In some strange reason, whatever sounds that discribed at the novel he seem to hear it for real; The breaking of hermits door, the death-cry of the dragon and the ringing sound of the shield. Roderick then confessed that he also heard some strange noise many days ago and said that it was Madeline's noise moving from her coffin struggling to escape from the vault. He said they had burried her alive and shes coming to scream at him for burying her alive.Roderick then said that Madeline was already outside the bedroom door and as if by cue, the door did flew open and there stood a horrible Madeline, pale and trembling with a blood on her white dress. She then fell heavily on the floor with her brother and Roderick also died at that moment.
Terrified, the narrator run outside the house of Usher and he noticed that the thin line of crack widened rapidly and the walls were falling apart. The lake below sullenly swallow the fragmented pieces of the house of Usher.
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ReplyDeletePoes style of writing is surely different from the others. In his gothic short story 'the fall of the house of usher' he uses images . His description of the house was very vivid. As the reader go on reading, he or she also feel bizzare about the text. The beauty and art of the story can be seen within the text. The words that are used explains clearly gives the reader the exact picture of what the author wanted to picture out.
Weaknesses:
The story somehow does not gave the reader the exact setting. It goes directly to its description. The story also does not provide poetic justice. The story left several questions on the readers' mind. Readers would be puzzled what lead Roderick on burying his twin sister. Why the narrator didn't noticed that Madeline was still alive when they buried her. The story also contains vague theme.
Reflection:
What attracts on Poe's short story is its used of vivid images on what is the picture being shown throughout the story. Despite it's vague theme, it still caters our imagination the emotion we wanted to feel. The story provides us the terrifying feeling as we imagined how Poe described the house and even how Madeline looks like. It both touches our senses completely. Poe's wild imagination emancipates us and sometimes took us to a place never knew existed.
References:
Levine, Stuart and Susan, editors. The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Poe, Edgar A. "The Fall of the House of Usher." 1839. Elements of Literature. Fifth Course. Austin: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2009. 321-333. Print.
Beebe, Maurice. "The Universe of Roderick Usher" as collected in Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays, Robert Regan, ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1967. p. 123.
Planned Games:
The Word Game
Materials needed: none.
Divide the class into 2 or 3 equal groups.
Ask one player from the first group to come to the front of the class and sit facing his/her team with his/her back to the board.
Write a word on the board.
Tell the team that they can give the player hints about the word.
Give the player a point if he/she can guess the word within one minute.
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The Looking Glass
By: Anton Chekhov
I. Summary
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was one of the writers of short fiction who is indebted to such literary giants as Maupassant, Tolstoy, and Turgenev, but his own influence on western literature has been immense. The author's masterful handling of prose, as well as his sensitivity towards character, mood, and setting, impressed authors as diverse as E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf. He also developed a technique of ending stories with what have been termed "zero endings" or anti-climactic conclusions. This technique makes the stories seem more realistic, and often more pathetic, because readers are left to guess what will happen next.
‘Looking Glass’ is one of Anton Chekhov’s short stories. It was about Nellie, a young and pretty girl, dreaming day and night of being married, gazes into a looking-glass. In the mirror, her future husband emerges and they live together through days and months in fast forward, yet she sees her future distinctly in all its details. The story jumps to Nellie banging on a doctor’s door, trying to get him to aid her ailing husband. The exhausted doctor is coming down with typhus and tries to reject Nellie’s pleading to help save her husband, but she is persistent and threatens to take him to court. After they arrive at Nellie’s house, she leaves to see to her husband, but the readers stay with the doctor. Running out the door to fetch another doctor after Lukitch becomes delirious, an overwhelming vision of poverty, creditor dodging, death of children and misery overwhelms her. This similar form of compression was used on the front end of the story, but this time much darker. Her dreams become so vivid that she begins to visualize her future life being played out in the reflection of her looking-glass.
II. Strengths and Weaknesses
“The Looking Glass” illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses on every Nellie’s imagination. Her imagination was full of actions and very powerful that she can even fast forward all with the details she was imagining and dreaming of her future. The only weakness of that is when she was too obsessed with the thought of marriage which she was really afraid of seeing her imaginary husband die before he does.
III. Reflection
ReplyDeleteFor me, it is important to acknowledge that sometimes life could take a different turn depending on the seriousness of any situation because life is unpredictable and nobody knows what might happen next. I believe that Nellie sees her despaired soul in this looking glass, always looking for more in her life she begins to hallucinate all of the joys that could be a reality in her life. She is looking through the looking glass as a sense of hope to find true love and happiness but she gets more than what she bargains for when she realizes the responsibility of being in love, when she wakes up at the end and realizes that it was nothing more but a dream she is relieved because she realizes that her life is perfect the way it is, loveless. I also believe that this story was trying to show that dreams and reality are two different things. You can dream of having so many things but it all depends on reality.
The reflection in the mirror can only reveal so much about reality. It is a superficial view that is given more to subjective rather than literal interpretation. It’s the same way with literature. It can provide an image, an impression but it only scrapes the surface of reality, and leaves the rest to interpretation.
Plan/Activities:
Charade Game
I will divide the class into three groups. Each group should have 1 representative. They will just pick the paper I conducted and they will just simply act if what is written on the paper. I will only give 1 minute for them to answer and if no one got it, the other group has a chance to steal.
References:
Hingley, R.F. (No Date). Encyclopedia Britannica. “Anton Chekhov Russian Author
Background”. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/biography/
Anton-Chekhov
Graham, Ann. 27 Sept. 2013 ‘Anton Chekhov, ‘The Looking Glass Summary’’, Short
Stories of All Time. Retrieved from http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/1142/
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ReplyDeleteBy: Ernest Hemingway
Comprehensive Summary
It was late at night and the two waiters were waiting to close the cafe. The entire costumer already left the place, except for the old man, deaf, who was still at the cafe. The old man was often stay late at the cafe. Sometimes when he was so drunk, he would leave and forget to pay his bills. The waiters we're watching and talking about the old man's attempted suicide from a distance. The old man tried to commit suicide but was stopped by his niece. When the other waiter asked why the old man tried to kill himself, he just said nothing.
Minutes passed, a soldier and young woman walked by the street, probably, it was beyond curfew. The two waiters thought that the guard would pick him up, but he wasn't. The old man asked another brandy, so the impatient waiter went towards him. He served the old man and disrespectfully saying that he should have killed himself. The waiter went back to the table and continues their conversation about the old man. The younger waiter was eager to go home because his wife was waiting for him in bed. He said that he doesn't want to get old because to be an old man is a nasty thing. However, the older waiter stood up for the old man against the criticism of the younger waiter. The older waiter even admired the cleanliness of the old man, even if he was already drunk.
Meanwhile, the old man asked again another brandy. The younger waiter refused saying that the cafe would close now. So the old man paid his bills leaving a big tip. Even if he was drunk, he still walked with dignity.
While the waiters we're closing the closing cafe, they we're arguing about the old man and to those people who need a clean, well -lighted cafe to spend their time. The older waiter admitted that he was one of those people who like to stay in a clean, well-lighted place, rather than in a dark bar or bodegas.
After the younger waiter went home to his wife, the older waiter continued his thoughts on his mind. He realized that when a person gets old, his life will be nothing and meaningless - and we need a clean, well-lighted place to sit to avoid the nothingness that life inevitably brings. He went to bar, but he disliked it. So he went home and said to himself that it's only insomnia.
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
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Strengths
The choice of words of the story is good because it is so formal, easy to read and understand the words. The author used only three characters in the story that is a good thing. Using few characters can avoid confusion among the characters. One important aspect that stories have is that it tells and shows the reader something. A Clean, Well-lighted doesn’t fail to tell and show the events in the story. The story does not only tell about the old waiter and the old man, who like to stay late at the cafe. But it also shows us about it because of the use of dialogues in the story. It makes the story livelier.
Weaknesses
One of the weaknesses in the story is the used of nameless characters. As you can read the story, the author used only old man, older waiter and younger waiter, instead of using name of a person. This would create ambiguity and confusion to the readers. The ambiguity and confusion appears in the dialogue. The author sometime uses “the other waiter". It is confusing because I don't know if whose waiter knew about the old man’s attempted suicide. Another weakness is, the story doesn’t contain a strong plot. Actually the plot is not exciting and it is difficult to identify the climax of the story. Another is, the story didn't have a plenty of action that would make it interesting. The story is full of talking, rather than actions. Another weakness is that the story lacks a sustained interest. It is so, because it is not suspense and exciting and the events are not complicated.
My Reflection
A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway is one of those simple yet meaningful stories I've read all of my life. When I started reading it, I find it boring but when I finished reading it, I was amazed by the message of the story. It talks about the reality of life when we get old. I was impressed by the author's choice of words. It is so simple and understandable and that's one thing I like about this story. When I was reading this story, I got mad at the younger waiter because of his bad personality. He was rude, impatient and disrespectful towards the old man. He didn't realize that he will be getting old soon. However, I admired the personality of the older waiter because he defends the old man against the criticism of the younger waiter. I find the story meaningful because the story employs about what life brings when you get old. However, I also find it difficult to identify the part of the plot because the story is subtle.
Plan games:
ReplyDeleteThe name of my game is Sa pula, Sa puti, sa itom. It is a vocabulary game. The mechanics of this game is I will give unfamiliar words. There would be 3 chairs in front with corresponding colors on it, red, white and black. That chairs will have a corresponding possible meaning of the unfamiliar words. The game is divided into three parts, easy, average and difficult. The winner will be rewarded snacks. The losses will be dancing in the front as a consequence.
References:
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway . (2015). Retrieved from HCC Learning Web: http://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/samuel.huntington/engl1302/materials-for-the-8-week-cinco-ranch-section/additional-readings-and-handouts/a-clean-well-lighted-place-by-ernest-hemingway/view
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. (2015). Retrieved from Sparksnotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/a-clean-well-lighted-place/summary.html
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Summary . (2015). Retrieved from Shmoop: http://www.shmoop.com/clean-well-lighted-place/summary.html
Hemingway, E. (n.d.). A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Retrieved from http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html
Comprehensive Summary
ReplyDelete“That Evening Sun” is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931. The story was originally published, in a slightly different form as, “That Evening Sun Go Down”. “That Evening Sun” is a dark portrait of white narrated by Quentin Compson, one of Faulkner’s most memorable characters and concerns the reaction of him and his two siblings, Jason and Caddy.
Nancy is an African-American dish washer from a Quentin’s family, while Dilsey is their regular cook who has an ill and that, Nancy took her place as a cook and dish washer. Jesus is the common-law husband of Nancy. His husband suspects her that she is pregnant with a white man’s child and leaves her. Nancy has an unreliable husband, and she taken to prostitution to supplement her income. Nancy has a fear from her husband, Jesus. At first, Nancy is worried about going home at night and running into Jesus, but sooner or later then, she is paralyzed with the fear that he will kill her, and having a delusion of him being hidden in a ditch outside her house.
The story focus to Nancy. It tells of how he and his siblings would throw stones at Nancy’s house to get her breakfast and tells the story of how Mr. Stoval refused to pay Nancy and beat her in the street. Mr. Stoval is a cashier in the bank in Jefferson. Nancy do his laundry but not paid her sometimes. Nancy attempts suicide by hanging but is cut down by the jailer and beaten again. And after that the story switches back to present. Nancy is pregnant and Jesus suggests that the baby is not his child.
As the story goes on, his father Mr. Compson ban Jesus to come in their house and Nancy tells the children how Jesus left town. Nancy is still afraid that he plans to attack her, however, suspecting that Jesus may be hiding from another place. Mrs. Compson becomes impatient because the attention of her family goes to Nancy and giving extra favors.
Nancy is afraid that something bad is going to happen. Nancy is visibly terrified and is making sound of fear to herself. She cannot even swallow because of her fear. We don’t know what kind of fear is Nancy’s experiencing. The children go home with her and entertain them with stories. Caddy is very interested with the story while Jason wants to home. The final part of the story is the children leave Nancy’s house, accompanied by their father and leave Nancy behind, paralyzed with fear. Nancy prepares for death and all the narrator chooses to report that Jason is insisting that “I’m not a nigger” and father scold Caddy.
The story ended those two items suggest that the he realized how unfair his white family’s indifference to Nancy’s fate. Nancy we’re left hanging as to whether Jesus will kill her.
Strength
ReplyDelete• Caddy and Jason help Nancy to protect her from Jesus.
• Dilsey is concerned about the situation of Nancy due to her fear of the dark and the fear of her husband whether she will kill her or not
Weaknesses
• Nancy commits suicide in jail and was beaten by one of his customer.
• Nancy has a fear of killing her from his husband because she was pregnant.
ReplyDeleteReflection
My reflection in the story of “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner is Nancy has a fear of his husband. The fear that she’s been experiencing whether she will kill her or not by his husband. Nancy became a dish washer woman by Compson’s family. Nancy do their laundry and even Mr. Stoval’s clothing but he did not pay Nancy. Because of her fear from her husband, she commits suicide in jail and beaten up there but unfortunately she has been saved. Although we’ve been experiencing fear with our daily lives and even with the power that we believe that happens in the future, we must believe in ourselves to overcome the challenges and obstacles that we will encounter for the rest of our life. Believe in God because He’s always right there willing to help and guide us.
Game Plan
ReplyDelete• Message relay
• Group them by 5 or 6 members in each team
• 5 questions only
• The first team will get the 5 score is the winner of the game
• I’ll give them the question about the story
• Whoever team will win the game, will have a prize
Reference:
ReplyDelete• Bennett, Ken. "The Language of the Blues in Faulkner’s 'That Evening Sun.'" Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 38.3 (Summer 1985):339-42. Salinger, J.D. "A Salute to Whit Burnett", Fiction Writers Handbook (New York: Harper & Row, 1975)
• Retrieved from Sparknotes: http://www.shmoop.com/that-evening-sun/summary.html
Dela Cerna, Queenie B. ASENGL3 TTH 7-8
ReplyDeleteAn Annotation of the story the Haircut by Ring Lardner
Comprehensive Summary
It was one time when a stranger came to Whitey’s Barber Shop for a shave. Then the story begins when Whitey started to tell a story to the stranger about Jim Kendall whom they call the “town card.”
Jim Kendall is a regular customer of Whitey who had divorced by his wife for the reason that he let his family suffer for poverty. He just drinks his wages and let other people be impressed with him. One time, he told his family that they would go out fro circus and told them that he is going to buy those tickets and meet them at the entrance, but Jim never came, he just let his family wait for him for nothing.
Jim works for a canned goods company but had fired from his work because he does many pranks or jokes instead of earning. One of those people that his fun to prank with was Paul Dickson whom he called “cuckoo” for the reason that his out of his mind since he fell from a tree when he was ten years old. Paul Dickson was close to only two people in town, Doc Ralph Stair and Ms. Julie Gregg.
Jim like Julie but Julie does not like her because Julie likes Doc Stair but does not like her. Jim was rejected when he tried to talk to Julie so he used forced, he went to Julie’s house and forced Julie to talk to her but Julie escaped and called the marshal, Joe Barnes. The issue had spread to the town and Jim was mad about it. To make revenge to Julie, he pretended and imitated the voice of Doc Stair whom at that time went out of town. He told Julie to go to his office because he has something to say. Julie fell with the prank and went to Doc Stair’s office. Jim then brings a bunch of drunken rowdies with him, and then they run after Julie where Julie was so embarrassed.
Paul found out about this and told Doc Stair the story. Doc Stair wants Jim to pay for it but he cannot, but he told Paul that if anyone does it again, do not have the right to live. On the other side, Jim went to Hod Meyers, Jim’s friend and fellow town jokers to invite him to go duck hunting. However, Hod refuses so Jim said he would not go, but Paul offered to be his company for the duck hunting. So they went together, after a round or two, Jim let Paul hold the gun for his turn, because Paul do not have any experience in holding a gun he is so nervous and he cannot control it properly, after Paul shoots, Jim fell from the boat and was dead.
After Whitey told the story to the stranger, he then asks, “comb it wet or dry?”
Strengths
ReplyDelete• Good choice of words, the author use simple words
• The author used a good technique when he used a first person as when the barber narrates the story
• The characters characteristics in the story was unique
Weaknesses
• Some of the ideas cannot be easily understand
• The jumping of the scenes were so fast
Reflection
ReplyDeleteThe story the haircut by Ring Lardner was a good sorry. I appreciated how Ring Lardner thought about his unique characters. Moreover, how he thought the frame of the story where in the barber narrates about Jim Kendall. At first as I read the story, I was discouraged to continue reading it because I cannot understand the story well, but as I go along with it, I realized that it was a good story. Though it was just a narration about the life of Jim Kendall, you can still get a lot of lesson from it. An example is that, do not be too proud of yourself.not everybody will like you. You cannot please everybody even if you are a good citizen or person, some people still would not like or love you, there are only few of them who does.
Planned game or activity
ReplyDeleteAct and Guess
The class will be group into two; each group will pick a category. Then they will have one representative who will act the word and will be guess by the rest of the member, the second word will be act by another member and so on, the same thing will be doing by the other group. Each group will only have 1 minute to guess the words. The winning group will have a prize after.
References:
ReplyDeleteClassic short stories: Haircut (2015). B&L Associates, Bangor, Maine, U.S.A. Retrieved November 14, 2015 from www.classicshortstories.com/stories/haircut.html
Haircut. Enotes (2015). Retrieved November 14, 2015 from www.enotes.com/topics/haircut
Literary Criticism: Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” (2008). Retrieved November 14, 2015 from http://darkparyreview.blogspot.com/2008/04/literary-criticism-ring-lardner-html
Lardnermania: Haircut (2006). Retrieved November 14, 2015 from www.tridget.com/haircut.htm
Dayonayos, Rinan T.
ReplyDeleteAS English3
TTH (7-8:30am)
Understanding Fiction
Comprehensive Summary
How to Tell a True War Story
By Tim O’ Brien (1990)
Tim O’Brien made a popular novels and short stories. He earned a Purple Heart medal for his two years of fighting in the Vietnam War. Interestingly, he writes fictional accounts of the war, and explains his reasoning like it’s kind of like a semantic game and lying versus truth-telling. One doesn’t lie for The sake of lying; one does not invent merely for the sake of inventing. Moreover, one he does it for particular purpose and that purpose always is to arrive at some kind of spiritual truth that one can’t discover simply by recording the world as it is.” O’Brien’s novels have received much acclaim for their profound studies of men at war.
The story was all about Rat Kiley that he assures his readers is true. He sent letters to the sister of Lemon and the sister of Lemon was never writes back to Rat Kiley. Rat’s friend named Curt Lemon was killed and that’s why Rat writes a letter to lemon’s sister about everything to Curt Lemon. Rat’s letter talks about Curt Lemon characters and the crazy stunts he attempted. Rat’s assumed or believed that the letter he made is emotional and personal. But from Lemon’s sister perception or viewpoint, it is inappropriate and disgrace. Rat is offended and angered, as the reader is left to infer as the sister never returns the letter. O'Brien suggests that Lemon's sister's failure to return the letter offers a kind of sad and true moral to the story. The death of Lemon was an accident resulting from a game of catch with a grenade as described in detail. O'Brien remembers every time the body parts strewn in the jungle trees and thinks about his own memories of the event. He also commented that in true stories it is difficult to distinguish what actually happened from what seemed to happen, again blurring the line between truth and story.
Lastly, O'Brien tells what following Lemon's death. The unit comes across a baby water buffalo. Rat Kiley tries to feed it but it does not eat, so Kiley steps back and shoots the animal in its knee. Though crying, he continues to shoot the buffalo, aiming to hurt rather than kill it. Others dump the near dead buffalo in a well to kill it. O'Brien concludes that a true war story, like the one about the water buffalo, is never about war, these stories are about love, memory, and sorrow.
Strengths
Tim 0’ Brein stories are very interesting and he also put a twist on the story. How to tell a true war story it tells about reality experienced and how you will relate on it. The introduction was much interested when it reads and It gets confusing to determined why the sister of Curt Lanon was never write back to Rats Kiley, despite the fact that the inside of the letter was very inappropriate and personal. There are a lots of moral lessons will you can get it from the story how to tell a true war story.
Weaknesses
Sometimes it makes confused to read it for the first time but when it read in twice, It would understood immediately. The story is good to read but sometimes there is a word that needs to look into dictionary and somehow you will catch up the things that might to know it. Just like vocabulary in the story the words like abstraction and truism may be unfamiliar to some readers.
Personal Reflection
ReplyDeleteMy reflection of the story entitled How to tell a true war story it is contains love, memory, and sorrow. Because the story tells about from the past and it shares to the present through the send of letters. It tells love when it comes to family and friendship. Also it tells sorrow when it comes to death and pain they felt. Tim 0’Brein was wrote a story based on his experienced also but his imagination put into the story and it results brilliant worked. O'Brien revives the trope of meta-narrative commentary as the story has been recreated in this fictional writer’s memoir, which is in fact not true, but trues enough to move the reader to identify emotionally with O'Brien and to share in his experiences through the use of imagination and sympathy. It deals also about reality the way people they act and the way they deal their life.
Planned Activity:
Let the words connect game
I will divide the class into 3 groups.
Each group I will give those pieces of words at them.
They need to arrange those pieces of words into a sentence form.
The group who first perfectly complete arrange the sentence will have a lovely price
Teamwork is needed!!!
References:
Herbert B. (2010). "'War Is Personal'; 'Wars are planned in corridors of power, fought by ordinary people'.” News India. Ethnic NewsWatch.
Meyer M. (2010).. How to Tell a True War Story. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 617-631. Print. O’Brien, Tim.Unknown." Metro Lyrics". 2004-1009. 27 07 .
Updike, J. (2004).How to tell a true war story. Retrieved from 123HelpMe.com. 15 Nov 2015
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Verdadero, Cristel Joy B. ASENGL3
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Comprehensive Summary
The story is about the servant who’s verbally and sometimes physically abused by her, obnoxious but kind at times, mistress. Her name is Rosa, and she always wants to go to the public bathhouse, to laugh and gossip with the other women there. Only if the thin wall separating them from her could just vanish. Though, she still go there whenever she has to refill the earthen jar for drinking water, and she’s always teased to Sancho whenever she did.
One time, when she went out to bleach some linen, she got into an accident with some dogs and tripped. Her ankles got swollen but she was only thinking about her mistress would scold her for taking so long. When walking limply, she met a cochero who treated her injury and bleached the linens. After that incident with the cochero, Rosa started to dream about him, being infatuated with what she named him “Angel”. She compares him to the other men, such as Sancho, and sees him greater than them.
One night, when she was sent by her mistress to buy wine, she got a very physical argument with Sancho, resulting with her going back with torn clothes and broken empty wine bottle. These earned her several blows from her mistress. She took her clothes and walked out of the house after that, vowing to never come back. She walked and walked, and on an expected moment she again met her “Angel”, only to realize that all those things about Angel were just her mind inventing things to comfort her in her everyday life as a servant, just some wishful thinking.
She was brought back to her mistress’ house, the house she just vowed not to enter again, by Angel. Which, she then found out, named Pedro.
Strengths
The realistic characters and storyline.
The good representation of a woman’s infatuation.
The respectable character representation of a servant back then.
The shift of point of view made it more interesting.
Weaknesses
Structure: grammar
Personal Reflection
Rosa was infatuated to a guy he doesn’t know, imagining him being infatuated to her too. I was once like her. Whenever I like somebody, I almost automatically assume he felt the same. However, I’ve grown out of that character. Just like Rosa, I learned to stop inventing things in my mind, the hard way. And Rosa’s attitude towards her mistress, who sometimes abuses her, is admirable. Her loyalty and patience towards a person like her mistress should be adapted by people these days. It may be called as cowardice, but she was not. She could pack up her clothes and left, and she did, but she came back and faced her life as a servant. What I really learned in this story was not to lose hold of reality and confuse it daydreams. I could reply apply that to myself, being a dreamer and all.
Game or activity
Ice breaker: the Beep Game
End activity: How to tell the story.
Reference:
Alfon, E. Servant Girl. Sushidog.com. Retrieved Web. 16 March 2013. From http://sushidog.com/bpss/stories/servant.htm
Ambat, B., Laguna, K., Alejar, A.&Nilo, K. 2013. CRITIQUE:Servant Girl. Retrieved Nov. 10, 15 from http://estrellaalfon.blogspot.com/2013/03/critique-servant-girl.html
"Servat Girl" by Estrella Alfon
DeleteAnasario, Kiezl Grace H. ASEnglish3
ReplyDelete"DEAD STARS" By: Paz Marquez Benitez
SUMMARY
The story starts with a conversation of two people particularly talking about Alfredo Salazar and Esperanza's relationship. The two people are Carmen, his sister and Don't Julian, his father.
Alfredo Salazar is engaged to Esperanza, there relationship started in a very good way, like, Alfredo is so avid in showing his love to Esperanza but a few years later the relationship of the two became cold, Alfredo's feelings towards Esperanza slowly vanished merely because of Julia Salas. Julia Salas is the sister-in-law of Judge del Valle. Alfredo met Julia when one evening Don Julian and him went neighboring at judge's house and he probably got the chance to chat along with Julia at the vine-covered porch. The two then started to chat more often every Sunday after mass because Don Julian and judge del Valle always play a chess and Alfredo always come along with his father, and since he's not interested in watching the chess match he always find himself accompanied by Julia. The long time they chatted, Alfredo never mentioned to Julia that he is going to be married anytime soon. As each day he spent time along with Julia he never realized that his heart's feeling slowly changing, he started to keep all the things he's doing from Esperanza.
One day, before the Holy week at Tanda, Alfredo knew that Julia will head back on her hometown already because her parents sent her a letter saying that she will spent the Holy week their made Alfredo felt sad. When the holy week came, Alfredo and Julia met at the end row of a Chinese store, this was the time where Julia congratulated Alfredo as he was going to be married on the month of May, Julia finally knew. Alfredo invited her and she said she will come and after that confrontations they parted ways.
Alfredo visited Esperanza and hear her talking with someone about man's immorality. He condemned such things to her, Esperanza was nagging telling and worrying about what the people in their place will think because of what he did, because of this Esperanza then dared him to leave. However the wedding was still proceeded.
A few years later, Alfredo was in a town near the place of Esperanza for some particular case. His desire in wanting to see Esperanza made him decline the dinner offered to him and found himself heading the way to Julia's hometown and there she found the lady. Julia is still unmarried, as he's sitting next to her, Alfredo felt something missing. He felt the absence of such sparks everytime she speaks and every time he looks at Julia's face and eyes. This made Alfredo conclude that everything has gone and passed away like their life as a youth and it all seems like dead stars all around them.
STRENGTH OF THE STORY
ReplyDelete The prologue or beginning of the story where the lessons about the story occurred, which makes every reader's attention, interest and curiousity about the story arouse and will make them read more further.
The theme of the story, even it was published in the year 1925 the theme of the story is still observed nowadays and the story is very relatable especially in the case of couples.
It shows the culture a particular place or country, specifically in religion and human characteristics.
WEAKNESSES OF THE STORY
Lack of Transitional Signals. The readers end up being uncertain to the scenes and sequence of the story.
Climax is too weak. It doesn't really give the highest satisfaction and impact to the readers.
REFLECTION
The story had this message telling that relationships are not perfect there will always be that time when you feel coldness towards your partner, you think that your love for him or her has already subsided. If you don't think maturely and let the coldness ruin your relationship it will probably provoke you in doing a mistake and possibly the reason of ending your relationship. This story tells us that we should do the right thing and stick to the commitments we had and believe on what they always say that if you're really destined to each other you will always end up together no matter what odds may come.
PLANNED GAMES:
Group Activity: Guess the Jumbled Word (either definition, scene, etc.)
REFERENCE
Benitez, P.M. Dead Stars. Retrieved Nov. 14, 2015 from http://sushidog.com/bpss/stories/stars.htm
Efren B. Santiago Jr
ReplyDeleteAb- English3
Understanding Fiction (7:00-8:30am)
The God Stealer
By: Francisco Sionil Jose
THE SUMMARY
The god stealer, F. Sionil Jose is a story of a friendship. An American and a Filipino go to the Cordilleras to look at the rice terraces which were built by the Filipino's ancestors. There they find the meaning of their friendship, how it defines the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized.
The story begins with two officemates Philip Latak (an Ifugao from the Mountain Province now working in Manila) and Sam Cristie, an American on the bus to Baguio.Philip (Ip-pig) now lives in Manila against the wishes of his immediate family, particularly his grandfather who intended to bequeth to Philip his share of the famous rice terraces. They are on their way to Baguio for one purpose: Sam wants to buy a genuine Ifugao god as souvenir and Philip was to help him find an authentic one through his local connections.
Philip is a Christian who no longer has any respect or affection for the Ifugao customs and religion.He considers himself a city boy and has no inclination to return to mountain life. Despite this attitude, his grandfather is pleased to see him and decides to throw a big party in his honor. On the day of the party, Sam and Philip discover that no Ifugao is willing to sell his god. And as a last resort, Philip offers to steal the god of his grandfather because he feels it would be his way of showing his gratitude to Sam for giving him a rise at work. The consequences of this act are severe.The next day, his grandfather died because he discovered that his god was stolen. He also informs Sam that Philip will no longer be going back to Manila. Curious, Sam looks for Philip and find him working in his grandfather's house. Philip poignantly explains his reasons for choosing to stay in the mountains:
"I could forgive myself for having stolen it. But the old man- he had always been wise, Sam. He knew that it was I who did it from the very start. He wanted so much to believe that it wasn't I. But he couldn't pretend - and neither can I. I killed him, Sam. I killed him because I wanted to be free from these. These cursed terraces. Because I wanted to be grateful. I killed him who loved me most.." a faltering and stifled sob.In the dark hut, Sam noticed that Philip is now attired in G-string, the traditional costume of the Ifugao. Furthermore, Philip is busy carving another idol, a new god to replace the old one which Sam will take to America as a souvenir.
The Strengths
ReplyDeleteThe introduction was very interesting because of the friendship shown upon it. It shows how the Filipinos are very hospitable to the tourists’ people or to the alien that will want to wander and keen to adventure and understand a certain culture and tradition of the Filipino just to have a souvenir within them. It creates a wondrous meaning on how nature was built by the people and it gives relaxation within the reader because during the first part story it describes the beauty, the sounds or the onomatopoeia that would then realize that the exquisite and never ending bounty of flesh around us gives us the imagination in which we are trying to compare the things which we haven’t seen yet from our naked eye. It realizes the person’s wealth and being a superb individual to the humanity whatever may be the native tradition that set apart. It also gives the values of patriotism in which, as a Christian or as a native one, we may have a different point in terms of religion, nevertheless we also try to understand and respect of one owns culture and beliefs.
The Weaknesses:
The story shows the cruelness of the people in terms of food. Yes, many people here in the Philippines are being starved because of the limitless of food and limitless of food supply. Yes, the story talks about the Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao and as we perceived it the life of the people there are richer than the people living in the urban areas. No! The growing path of the Philippines which is the Banaue Rice Terraces is now in a real danger of being lost to the world. It is said that to maintain them is very labor intensive. The story also shows that the young people of the culture can make more money if they are going to live in Manila than in their own culture. It has disclosed, definitely, on man’s ignorance It also has a weak understanding of a religion or the transmission of one’s own religion to the other and how really a city influence a person belief and tradition when it has a certain boundary because of the people’s not wanted to do it for you when you really want to. Furthermore, the story gives an insignificant action of a man by stealing things without any given permission by really wanting something in order to be contented.
ReplyDeleteReflection/Lesson Learned:
1. Philip's rejection of his Ifugao heritage may be concluded to mean that Filipino's rejection of his own roots and its replacement with colonial values.
2. It is significant that Philip steals the God for Sam out of gratitude. It is the Filipino gave up his most precious symbol of his past traditions to the Americans as an expression of gratitude. And by giving this symbol away, the Filipino murders his own roots.
3. The Filipino is a confused, emotionally disturbed and helpless, plagued by the fact that he repudiated his past, or that he could not do anything to help the suffering.
4. Symbolic of the foreigner's exploitation and imperialistic ambitions on the Filipino.
Plans and Activities:
Crossword Puzzle
To make it easier and fun, I will divide the class into three groups. Each of the group will be given 1 photocopy that contains the word puzzle inside the box. The answers may be seen horizontally, vertically and so on. The words are words that have been used in the story it may be in the name of places, persons, adjectives, etc. They allotted to finish it within 5-10 minutes. LET’S SEE HOW FASTER YOU’RE EYES AND BRAIN LINKS! GOODLUCK! TAKE THE CHALLENGE!
Note: The photocopies or the context of my activity will be given only after my report.
References:
Garcia, Cathy Rose. (27 April 2007). "Author F. Sionil Jose’s Insight on Philippines". BookAsia.org (Korean website). Retrieved 19 December 2008.
F. Sionil (30 July 2003). "Sense of the City: Manila". BBC News. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
Garcia, Cathy Rose. (27 April 2007). "Author F. Sionil Jose’s Insight on Philippines". Arts & Living. The Korea Times. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
Hazel V. Nipalar
ReplyDeleteASENGL3
Understanding Fiction
TTh 7:00-8:30
An Annotation
The Lottery by: Shirley Jackson
The fresh warmth of full bloom summer gathered the people at the center square during 27th of June and the day was clean and sunny. It is between the post office and the bank, it is exactly around ten o’clock in the morning. In the other parts of the village the lottery takes two days considering the number of the people living but in this particular village the number of people living is approximately three hundred numbers of people that they took the lottery in less than two hours so they could start at exactly ten o’clock in the morning so that the villagers could take their lunch at their house and the children were assembled first. Meanwhile Bobby Martin is arranging the stones at the corner of the square and the other boys soon followed him.
The lottery started and this is the start of the nightmare, this is what we called Halloween program preceded by Mr. Summers. The postmaster who is Mr. Graves who were along the way is carrying a three legged stool approaching to the center of the square with the set black box on it. The original apparatus for the lottery is lost long ago as well as the old rituals of the people and they don’t want the new one because they want to preserve the old traditions. Mr. Summers spoke about the making of new box but he knows that the people don’t want the new one. Mrs. Hutchinson came hurriedly to center path of the square and Mr. Summers started the lottery and consulted his list and he called the heads of the families first and men came up to pick a piece of paper from the box. While Mr. Summers giving the instructions the people half listened to the directions because people had done it for many times. They grinned at one another not looking once to the paper that they are holding until everyone is finish. Everyone is talking about the lotteries of other village that they almost quit the lottery. Suddenly the slips of the paper were opened and they began speaking about saving is it the Dunbars, is it the Watsons family, or the Hutchinson and Mr. Bill Hutchinson’s got it. Tessie began to react about the result and she said to Mr. Summers that he is unfair. Mr. Summers continue formally asking how many are there in the family and Bill answered three children there’s Bill Jr., Nancy, little Dave, Tessie and him. The lottery start over and Bill Hutchinson’s put the paper back inside the box and they were called for another draw lost for their family. Every one of them is picking up piece of paper individually until everyone of the family Hutchinson is finish. Mr. Graves opened the slip of the paper and he held up to the crowed so that everybody could see it was blank. Nancy and Bill Jr. opened theirs and at the same time they laughed turning to the crowd holding their slips. Now it is the time between Mr. Hutchinson and his wife and they took a pause with tension and Mr. Hutchinson unfolded his paper and showed it and it is blank. Now it’s the turn for Tessie but she is hesitant and Bill forced the slip of paper from the hands of his wife and it had a black spot on it. Tessie Hutchinson had won the lottery. Mr. Summers said its time to finish early and the villagers had used the old style which is the stones. Everyone had their stones in hand and also the children and they select different sizes and Mrs. Hutchinson is now on the spot which is a cleared space by now but she’s still saying that it wasn’t fair. A stone hit her on the side of her head and still saying that it wasn’t fair and she screamed.
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The weakness of the short story of Ms. Shirley Jackson entitled “The Lottery” although it used different kinds of structures in understanding the short story but it shows how the children involved in brutality or an act of barbaric in doing the rituals in their village. The people are being blind in following the customs and traditions in the village even if it can lead to a negative result or consequences for everyone. There has no exemption in the village or age that requires joining the lottery instead there is no gap of age to join the said traditions. It shows an image on how the people work for their traditions that even you are the youngest child in your family you are no exempted from the traditions it shows how the brutality of the village works in the family. The short story shows how people react about the traditions that they have and instead the whole duration of the story shows how much the people value the traditions in the village compare to their love ones. Children act violently that they don’t acquire the value of the family and in the first page of the short story children are very stubborn acting that they don’t heard their parents calling their names. Children involved in doing the tradition in the village and they are the one who were throwing the stones without any hesitation and children also one of the reasons why there’s a lot of stones in the corner of the square and people could easily throw a stone in the head of a person which is a victim in the said tradition. It shows how people are being ignorant because the said tradition has no basis involving the children to commit a brutal action in killing the person in the said cleared space traditions because children has no any idea in doing that kind of system whose winning the prize in the hands of death. Children are being abused because they are being brain wash about the future system that they will have. Children are trained to do the things which are not good for them instead they are trained to drag one another in the field of killing one another.
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The strength of the short story of Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” is one of the well known short stories that will never be forgotten. Shirley Jackson used different interesting characters in the short story that gives life and delight to the whole duration of the story. Each name of the characters has its own unique description that gives the whole meat of the story. It has different symbols that could be taken out but the most interesting is the black wooden box because it holds the suspense and intense in the flow of the story. The black wooden box is the ultimate thing which is the center life of the villagers and the readers could easily identify the symbols that rounding in the whole story. The readers will be guided because the whole story is focusing only in the box that suggesting what will be the next to happen. The wooden black box satirizes the whole issue of the event in the history during World War II and the people actually depending in their old traditions even if it is being outdated. The lottery represents something could not be easy to forget. The themes revolving around the lottery are the dual nature of humans and the societies because all individual is living for their own seek to have the capacity of living. The lottery gives us a sort background of knowledge on how prehistoric took place. The stone is a hard substance that comes from the ground and is used for building and carving and it has a particular purpose and from this it is used by Shirley Jackson to improve more suspense for the story to be more attractive for the listeners to read the whole story without any stopping them from thinking. The lottery emphasizes more reality situation of the society which alert the minds of everyone to come up with a great decisions in life.
To sum up all the things mentioned above, the whole story of “The Lottery” it consumed the whole villagers how much they value the traditions that they acquire from the beginning until the end that you are required to act nothing as if nothing happened. The negative side of the story is the children are involved in the act of barbarians among the people in the society. Killing one another is just following the rituals to save or to preserve the way of living the traditions. Sometimes people forgot to think the right decisions for them because they want life for survival. The lottery in said village, the people are too blind for the reality of the situation that they have because for them this is just the way how they live. The children are one of the victims regarding in this kind of traditions that they have because they don’t have any idea or knowledge about this kind of killing for them it’s just a game and nothing is beyond from this kind of thinking.
The good thing is the author acknowledges the prehistoric event during the World War II it gives us background or idea what was happened during that time. It gives us a definite definition on how people are being controlled by the situation in the society that they have. Shirley Jackson emphasizes the negative result if your action is negative and the consequences is never been defined as sweet as the death of a victim standing in the center square in the village. The author uses different symbols such as the names, paper, stones and the wooden black box that works differently in order for the story to be more productive in carrying the deeper meaning that gives a definite story that they have in the society.
Game Plan
Vocabulary quiz
The students should group themselves by
listen so they could answer the following questions using context clues.
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Strengths & weakness
Young Goodman Brown is a story that is completely using symbolism and allegory that provides good example of concrete items or characters represent abstract ideas. It is one of the techniques to encapsulate ideas and used symbols to better the support the allegorical tones.
The largest symbolic roles in the story are Goodman Brown and his wife faith. Goodman Brown’s personality is interconnected to his name. Goodman Brown is truly a good person of the Salem Village and even his parents were stated as Christians too. Faith also has a name that is indicative to her nature. It is being portrayed as a woman that has a great faith to God.
Hawthorne also used different objects as symbols. One of these is the staff of the old man which has a carved black snake symbolizing a biblical symbol of an evil demon. This symbol shows the reader that the snake is an archetype of the devil and was prominent to many cultures.
The other one is the pink ribbons that Faith in her cap represents innocence and purity. In our belief that the colour pink is symbolizing innocence and gaiety. And ribbons are associated to modest innocent decoration. The pink ribbon are twice mention in the story. The second one symbolizes that it is when Goodman Brown loses his faith as he hovers towards the devil ceremony.
Hawthorne revealed what he sees the corruptibility of the society that results in the emphasis on public morality, which often weakens private religious faith. It is the portrayal that when we are on the group, our faith is firm. But if we are tested in alone, our faith may be lost or weakens. Hawthorne themes suggest that the danger basing our moral principles and religious faith in our society, lies in the fact that members also do not arrive at their own moral decision. When they rely their personal belief of the people that surround them their faith becomes weak and rootless.
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The story young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a portrayal of today’s community that is irrelevantly hypocrite. The people or the mass seemingly very religious and saint We go to church, attend to masses and tend to be very devoted because of the faith we have.
Our devotion to god was very close and tight that it somehow made ourselves hypocrite. We do self-righteous towards god but somehow ironically we do not embraced the true meaning of being Christians.
It is somehow like after we massively go to church and after us being blessed with the priest sermons we forgot it when we had our exit on the church’s entrance. We then actually go back to our usual sinful nature, we had never give a chance to renew ourselves and change ourselves to what we’ve heard.
We tend to be ignorant of the God’s word. We just heard it and that’s it. We don’t even make thoughts of what’s we’ve heard. Is just we took it as nothing as long as we entered the house of God and that’s the routine. It seems we are dirty dogs or pigs that after when they are being washed and cleansed by their master, it eventually go back and been into the mud again. Ironically after we’ve heard the sermons off the pastor, priest or church leaders we just ignored it. And go back to our sinful routine again. But we have the faith as they said, but do not the things that God want us to do.
Thus, Young Goodman Brown is a story that depicts human faith. That human nature is full of hidden wickedness. That as a result of exposure to lust, greed, envy and other abominable sins we gradually loses our faith and seems we are out-track of the race.
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Young Goodman Brown is a perfect of example of Hawthorne’s favourite themes which is a portrayal that human nature is full of wickedness. The hero’s journey is symbolic that it can be connected through the life of everyone.
In the story one afternoon, Goodman Brown says good bye to his wife Faith in their house in Salem village. She ask her husband to stay with her because she feels scared when she’s alone and she could thought troubling and horrifying ideas. Goodman Brown reassured his wife to meditate on prayer and she will come to no harm.
Goodman Brown sets off on a road and enters to a gloomy forest. He looks around and being horrified of what behind in every tree. He soon met a man in the road. The man is dressed in regular in clothing but looks weird because of a walking stick he carries. This staff features a carved serpent.
The man told that he knew Goodman Brown’s parents, as well as the prominent members of the churches of New England and even the Governor of the state. The man’s word confused Goodman Brown, he wants to return to the village for his wife sake.
On their way the two met an old woman hobbling through the woods. Goodman recognizes it as Goody Cloyse, a pious and respected woman from the village. She identifies him as a devil and reveals himself to be a witch and she was on her way to devil’s ceremony.
Before he continues the journey, Goodman rest a little and the man offers Goodman the staff. Saying that “it might help him advance if he want to join the ceremony”. Eventually he hears the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin who were also apparently on their way to the ceremony. Goodman Brown was shocked; he thinks that everyone in the world has turn into evil. But he kept the faith that his wife will stay true to God.
Certain that there is none left good in the world that even faith have turned into evil. Goodman used the staff and fast track him quickly towards the ceremony. When he reaches the said place the trees around it are on a fire and he could see various faces of the respective community members. Then a sudden leader appears on the rock and tells the congregation to present the new convert. He’s been undecided he thinks that his ego pull and push him.
Eventually, Goody Cloyse and Martha carrier bring forth the new convert covered. Goodman sees that the other convert is his wife, and they reveal all wickedness of the world to them. But Goodman asks Faith to look up to heaven resist the devil and suddenly he finds himself alone in the forest. The next morning when he returns home to Salem village he sees every person seems evil. And that night change everything about Goodman Brown.
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Persons involve:
• Eye witness
• Observer
• Interpreter
• Writer
• Reporter
Mechanics:
1. The eye witness will be familiar the picture.
2. Observer will listens to the eye witness but can’t ask question
3. Interpreter will incorporates detailed meanings
4. Writer will writes the interpreters meanings
5. Reporter will report to the class the perceived meaning
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ReplyDeleteSummary: The Country Doctor by Franz Kafka
On a cool winter night, a country doctor gets ready to leave from his home to tend to the needs of a wiped out patient ten miles away. Shockingly, he needs a horse for his carriage, yet his own particular horse has died one night before. As the specialist kicks open the way to his pigsty, a groom shows up and provided him with horses and secures them to the carriage. The groom forcefully kisses the doctor's house maid, keeping in mind the doctor wishes to chide him. He feels that he can't as he is in the man's obligation. As he withdraws in the carriage, the servant escapes inside the doctor's home, with the man in close interest with Rosa, the housemaid. The doctor wants to help her, however he is feeble as the horse go promptly to their expected destination.
Once at his quiet's home, the doctor endeavors to treat his patient, an out of commission young man who doesn't seem to have any kind of illness. All things considered, the patient beseeches that the doctor let him die. The doctor then, notice that the patient has an appalling, grisly contamination on his side, which is assailed by multi-legged worms. The kid then asks to be spared. As his kin sees the doctor doing something to help him, the horses from outside have stuck their heads into the windows of the room.
The family sings an odd, semi religious verse as the doctor works. They then continue to strip him stripped and lay him in bed with his patient under the evident impression this will cure him. The doctor guarantees his patient that his injury is not deadly, and immediately leaves the room, snatching his garments and instruments as he goes. He did not bother try getting dressed, and expeditiously tosses his materials into the carriage, yet the horses are exhausted and just walk through the snow. The doctors then loses hope at his prospects of returning home at the rate the horses are presently moving, and he thinks quickly about his servant's approaching assault, that his practice will be lost, and the way that his fur garment now dangles out of range at the furthest end of his carriage while he is still stripped in the harsh elements. He feels betrayed that none of his patients will help him.
Weakness:
The story portrays the sad self-double dealing of an individual confronted with his own loss of confidence in his calling. The specialist promptly accuses different elements—the states of his vocation, his patients, the decay of religious conviction—for his inability to do his obligations, basically, to mend those in need. When he neglects to perform his obligations as a healer, his life loses all feeling of reason and importance.
Another is the ethical complexities, as on account of willful extermination in the restorative calling. Also, there is an obvious topical intrigue of circumstances, and its capability to change a man's point of view to life. On that what happened in the story is typical or not.
The specialist is dove into an existential emergency. All what he values throughout his life - both private and expert is under attack, and he neglects to fulfill his own guidelines and desires of himself.
Strengths:
The story mirrors the inner conflict towards a Jewish confidence. The author contends for the significance of confidence by standing up to its nonappearance. Without confidence there is nothing that a specialist can do. Kafka trusts that disease is essentially profound in starting point, that doctors need moral learning to really mend, and that the act of pharmaceutical ought to be a demonstration of confidence.
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The story tries to suggest not placing fault on other individuals on the grounds that you are being demoralize or disillusioned for the things that you are not fit for doing or in light of the outcome that is bad. Accusing other individuals does not bring an answer, rather another issue to you.
Like what the doctor did because of his own deficiencies, the doctor, definitely, places fault to other individuals. He trusts his powerlessness to go to his patient can be faulted for his absence of horse. Despite the fact that he sees the earnestness of his quiet's infection, the doctor still accuses the patient for absence of confidence. There is nobody point the specialist focuses at his deficiencies however he tirelessly grumbles that the general public expects a lot from him. He likewise accuses an "antecedent" for his poor execution in his administration.
We ought to never to offer up to the difficulties raised to us. Rather than getting away, it is ideal to face it in light of the fact that the more we escape from it, the more we are being adhered to it and its outcome is we could not move to another section in our life like the doctor in the story, he experienced different difficulties. He has no getaway aside from confronting them. It is the point at which he confronts these difficulties that he understands that he is frail as an individual and there are a few components that out of his control.
Planned game
Title: Jumble words guessing
Mechanics:
Each in the class will compete in solving the jumbled words which are found in the story entitled “The Country Doctor” by Franz Kafka. The first person to get two points will win a will receive a prize.
References:
Mitchell, D. (2015). A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka. Retrieved on November 15, 2015 from study.com: http://study.com/academy/lesson/a-country-doctor-by-franz-kafka-summary-analysis.html
Trans. Nanaimo, J. (2009). Kafka, Franz. "A Country Doctor". Retrieved on November 15, 2015 from: Malaspina University-College. Web.
Soman, E. (2010). Literary analysis: The Country Doctor, by Franz Kafka. Helium, Inc. Web. 21 May 2010.
Bernardo, K. (2010). Franz Kafka's "The Country Doctor". Retrieved on Nov. 15 from: www.storybites.com.
Manson, A. (2005). A Theology of Illness: Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor". Literature and Medicine Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2005 pp. 297-314. Retrieved on Nov.15, 2015 from: Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/literature_and_medicine/v024/24.2manson.pdf
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The story tries to suggest not placing fault on other individuals on the grounds that you are being demoralize or disillusioned for the things that you are not fit for doing or in light of the outcome that is bad. Accusing other individuals does not bring an answer, rather another issue to you.
Like what the doctor did because of his own deficiencies, the doctor, definitely, places fault to other individuals. He trusts his powerlessness to go to his patient can be faulted for his absence of horse. Despite the fact that he sees the earnestness of his quiet's infection, the doctor still accuses the patient for absence of confidence. There is nobody point the specialist focuses at his deficiencies however he tirelessly grumbles that the general public expects a lot from him. He likewise accuses an "antecedent" for his poor execution in his administration.
We ought to never to offer up to the difficulties raised to us. Rather than getting away, it is ideal to face it in light of the fact that the more we escape from it, the more we are being adhered to it and its outcome is we could not move to another section in our life like the doctor in the story, he experienced different difficulties. He has no getaway aside from confronting them. It is the point at which he confronts these difficulties that he understands that he is frail as an individual and there are a few components that out of his control.
Planned game
Title: Jumble words guessing
Mechanics:
Each in the class will compete in solving the jumbled words which are found in the story entitled “The Country Doctor” by Franz Kafka. The first person to get two points will win a will receive a prize.
References:
Mitchell, D. (2015). A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka. Retrieved on November 15, 2015 from study.com: http://study.com/academy/lesson/a-country-doctor-by-franz-kafka-summary-analysis.html
Trans. Nanaimo, J. (2009). Kafka, Franz. "A Country Doctor". Retrieved on November 15, 2015 from: Malaspina University-College. Web.
Soman, E. (2010). Literary analysis: The Country Doctor, by Franz Kafka. Helium, Inc. Web. 21 May 2010.
Bernardo, K. (2010). Franz Kafka's "The Country Doctor". Retrieved on Nov. 15 from: www.storybites.com.
Manson, A. (2005). A Theology of Illness: Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor". Literature and Medicine Volume 24, Number 2, Fall 2005 pp. 297-314. Retrieved on Nov.15, 2015 from: Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/literature_and_medicine/v024/24.2manson.pdf
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Where are going, Where have you been?
By: Joyce Carol Oates
There was a girl named Connie, a 15-year-old and a stubborn and spends much of her time lounging around the house, hanging out with friends and meeting boys. She doesn't get along with her mother; she's annoyed by her sister. She likes listening to music and watching movies, and doing crazy stuffs like the other teenagers would do. Her mother frequently scolds her for admiring herself in the mirror, but Connie neglects her mother’s criticisms. Connie’s mother urges her to be neat and responsible like her older sister, June.
Connie spends the summer avoiding her mother’s prying questions and dreaming about the boys she meets. One night, a boy named Eddie invites Connie to eat dinner with him, and Connie leaves her friend at the restaurant’s counter to go with him. In the parking lot of the diner, Connie encounters a mysterious stranger. His name was Arnold. When Connie first met Arnold, she doesn't know who he was he's just a creepy guy in a parking lot who threatens her in a vague kind of way. But for some reason, she can't help looking at him.
On the Sunday afternoon, when the rest of her family attends a barbecue at an aunt's house, leaving her home alone. The stranger pulls up in her driveway in a gold-colored car, accompanied by a friend named Ellie. The driver introduces himself as Arnold Friend and asks Connie to join him for a ride. During the course of their conversation, Connie realizes that Arnold is a threat. Arnold's language becomes more sexually explicit and violent, and he threatens to harm her family if she calls the police. Connie runs from the door and grabs the telephone. In a rushed, blurry scene, something happens: Connie is sweating and screaming for her mother; she can’t dial the phone. When Connie, it's clear that she has come to accept her fate, she must join Arnold in order to save her family. From the door, Arnold tells her to put the phone back on the hook, and she obeys. He tells her quietly where they’re going to go and tells her to come outside. She thinks to herself that she will never see her mother again and tries to figure out what to do. At his command, she stands up. She feels as though she is watching herself walk toward the door, open it, and walk outside toward Arnold. He comments on her blue eyes, even though she has brown eyes. Connie looks out at the vast expanses of land behind him and knows that’s where she is going.
Strengths and weaknesses of the “Where are you going, Where have you been?”
In observing the events of the story “Where are you going, where have you been”, the first few pages of exposition introduces Connie and her family which it provided the information about the character and lifestyle. The rising action began when Arnold friend pulls into the driveway and had a conversation with Connie. Connie’s character which was carefully stated begins to interact with another force. This force presents a conflict where she had to make a decision. At the climax of the story, Connie’s will was overtaken by Arnold and she acquiesces to his evil desire.
The strength of the story was its structure where the narrator introduces the character with the family and her lifestyle until she met the stranger guy that makes the story intense. Also, when the mysterious guy was in the house of Connie was also detailed. However, the weakness of the story was lack of resolution where the action abruptly ends as Connie walks towards Arnold. The only hint of the action’s resolution was the foreshadowing statement made by Arnold when he says he wants to “come inside you where it’s all secret” and show Connie “what love is like”, statements that is probably a rape.
Thus, the strength was on how the structure was made and how it was elaborate in every event. In contrast, the story had lack of resolution and information about Arnold Friend.
Reflection:
ReplyDeleteThe short story entitled “Where are you going, Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates was a story of a modern girl or teenager, who likes to hang out with her girl friends and met with boys than to have a bonding with her family. Actually, she always been scolded by her mother because of checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was alright.
Nowadays, teenagers are already exposed from the activities that would get far from their parents or would chose to consume their time with their friends than to their family. One of the reasons of it was to avoid from accusation and sometimes it is true that might hurt us. However, parents want their children to have a good direction in life. But suddenly, some teenagers today would chose temporary happiness because of being curios and just to avoid someone or something.
Connie and her sister named June were always compared that Connie might think that her mother was favoring her sister. But it’s not the point why her mother did it, there’s a possibility that what her mother want was to have or to do something meaningful in her life. But it seems that she was motivated to do things against the will of her mother and he never understood what it means.
In the story, the main character was threatened by a stranger named Arnold Friend. At this point, it gave a moral lesson that teenager would relate I guess. It is because she never expected that someone would do that and in that way she realizes how important her family that she chose to protect them from the threat of Arnold. Also, I think Connie was feeling remorse for not going with her family. If Connie joins with her parents and her sister, he would not be in that trouble or danger.
Moreover, the story taught us many lessons that teenagers can relate. It’s just that life depend on every decision that we made, what we sow is also what we reap. Like Connie, even though she doesn’t want it to happen. Consequently her decisions made her vulnerable.
Game Plan
Game Title: Guessing game
Persons involve:
• Group the class into three.
• Set a writer
Mechanics:
• The reporter would give a word from the story (divided into consonants and vowels).
• Each team members would relay the letters given by the speaker.
• Whoever who form the word faster is the winner.
• Letters coming from the front are vowels.
• Letters coming from the ending are consonants.
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Understanding Fiction
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
By Richard Connell
The story “The Most Dangerous Game,” was written by Richard Connell, an American from Duchess Country, New York. Connell started his writing career at the age of ten and was able to publish different literary works with the help of his father. His writing skill was later became the contributor to his father’s news-press. At the age of 16, he was his father’s secretary, but when his father died in 1912, Connell returned to his studies at Harvard University where he later became the editor of the Harvard’s Lampoon Magazine and became a news anchor in the New York American News.
During the World War I, Connell decided to enlist. Though he was enlisted, he never stopped his passion in writing. His experiences during the war were his major influences to his numerous literary pieces in the future writing collections which focus on the dark side of a human being. After the war, Connell went home and met his wife. When he got married, he decided to be a full time short story writer and was able to publish his 1922 first short story collection. For over ten years, Connell was able to produced major stories including his masterpiece “The Most Dangerous Game,” which later been adapted to a movie.
. It is late night. Two big-game seekers, Whitney and Rainsford, study the Caribbean from a yacht headed for Brazil. Whitney focuses to one side, to the area of a puzzling island.
"Mariners have an inquisitive fear of the spot, Whitney says. "I don't know why. Some superstition—"
Since the night is moonless, neither one of the men can see the island, around four miles away.
In the wake of touching base in Brazil, the two men are planned to go up the Amazon for panther chasing.
"The best game on the planet," Rainsford says.
"For the seeker, not the panther," Whitney answers.
"Try not to talk decay, Whitney. You're a defining moment seeker, not a rationalist. Who minds how a panther feels."
At the point when their discussion comes back to the adjacent island, Rainsford asks whether its terrible notoriety is because of man-eaters. Whitney says even they would not live in the spot, which is called Ship-Trap Island. "In any case, it's gotten into mariner legend, by one means or another," he says, indicating out that the ship's team has been anxious throughout the day about coming so close it. Indeed, even Captain Neilsen, an extreme old Swede, is anxious.
ReplyDeleteAfter the men say great night, Rainsford smokes a channel in a parlor seat on the afterdeck. All of a sudden, he hears gunfire from the course of the island. Three shots, Rainsford bounced up for a look. Not able to see anything, he climbs onto the rail for a superior perspective. His funnel strikes a rope and tumbles from his mouth. When he goes after it, he loses his parity and dives into the ocean. Water fills his mouth when he tries to shout out. In the wake of ripping off his garments, he swims for the yacht and yells however it speeds ahead and in no time flat vanishes.
The shots, Rainsford starts swimming in the course from which they came. Endlessly he swims. Finally, he hears an anguished cry, then another shot—a gun shot, he accepts. Following ten more minutes of swimming, he achieves the shore. Thick wilderness lies before him. Depleted, he tumbles down, nods off, and does not stir till the evening of the following day. He is invigorated however hungry. Strolling along the shore, he stops at a patch of pounded underbrush. There is blood, and he discovers a vacant cartridge and the foot shaped impressions of the seeker. He tails them along a precipice. As obscurity settles over the island, he sees lights on top of a feign.
To his awe, they are originating from a glorious château with pointed to He opens a tall iron entryway, ascensions stone steps, and lifts and drops the knocker on the entryway two times before a tremendous man, hairy to the waist, answers. He is directing a pistol at his guest, who distinguishes himself as Sanger Rainsford of New York City and says he tumbled off a yacht and needs nourishment. Another man in night garments goes to the entryway and says it is an amazing privilege to welcome such a praised seeker as Rainsford.
He takes note of that he has perused Rainsford's book on chasing the snow panthers of Tibet, then presents himself as General Zaroff. He is tall and attractive, with white hair and a mustache. Both men are Russian Cossacks. Subsequent to accepting guidelines from Zaroff, the enormous man, called Ivan, takes Rainsford to an expansive room and outfits him with garments, then escorts him to an oak-framed lounge area. On the dividers are mounted heads of lions, elephants, moose, cape wild ox, and other big game—every single extraordinary example. At the point when Zaroff says chasing is the enthusiasm of his life, Rainsford watches that he has dependably trusted the cape bison to be the most hazardous big game. Zaroff lets him know he isn't right, saying that he chases "more perilous diversion" on the island.
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ReplyDeleteThey appreciate another beverage as the general informs Rainsford concerning his chasing days as a kid on his dad's properties in the Crimea and about his military administration as leader of a division of Cossack mounted force. He additionally says he has chased in America, India, East Africa, and South America. Since chasing big game in the end turned out to be too simple for him, representing no test, he chose to locate another creature to chase. After he discovered it, he purchased the island, constructed the château, and devoted himself to chasing the new monster in the island's wildernesses. It is a creature that can reason, Zaroff says. At the point when Rainsford says creatures can't reason, Zaroff says that "there is one that can."
ReplyDeleteRainsford now understands that his host chases and murders people. Stunned, he says, "Extraordinary weapons, General Zaroff, what you discuss is murder."
Zaroff snickers and says, "I decline to trust that so advanced and acculturated a young fellow as you appear to be harboring sentimental thoughts regarding the estimation of human life. Unquestionably your encounters in the war—"
Rainsford completions Zaroff's sentence: "Did not make me approve heartless homicide."
"I'll wager you'll overlook your thoughts when you run chasing with me," Zaroff says. "You've an authentic new excite in store for you, Mr. Rainsford."
"Much obliged to you, I'm a seeker, not a killer," Rainsford says.
In an obvious endeavor to legitimize his diversion, Zaroff says he for the most part chases just the "filth of the earth: mariners from tramp ships—lassars, blacks, Chinese, whites, crossbreeds." He utilizes a little gauge gun. At a window, he presses a catch that turns on lights out adrift, showing a channel where there are really rugged rocks. At the point when a boat steers toward the lights, the stones wreck it and Zaroff harvests surviving crew members for his chases. At that exact second, twelve men from a little Spanish dispatch, the San Lucar, are in his basement.
Zaroff gives his quarry nourishment, a chasing blade, and a three-hour begin before starting his interest. On the off chance that the quarry survives three days, he wins. In the event that Zaroff discovers the quarry before the end of three days, the quarry passes on. Zaroff says he never lost a diversion, in spite of the fact that he needed to free his mutts on a man who just about escaped him. Any individual who declines to take part in the amusement is swung over to Ivan for game of an alternate kind. He takes note of that Ivan, other than being unimaginably solid, is a specialist at taking care of the whip as a beating instrument.
"Perpetually, Mr. Rainsford, "they pick the chase," Zaroff says.
His puppies lurk the grounds at night and during that time to keep anybody from entering or leaving the château. Subsequent to welcoming Rainsford to chase with him the following day, Zaroff recommends that his visitor get a decent night's rest. Zaroff himself won't be resting; he will be chasing. In spite of the fact that tired, Rainsford
experiences difficulty nodding off. Toward morning, he rests off yet stirs a brief time later when he hears gunfire out yonder.
ReplyDeleteAt a lunch meeting later, Zaroff says his nighttime chase was frustrating, for his quarry was too simple to discover. At the point when Rainsford communicates a wish to leave the island, Zaroff educates him that he will be the following quarry. In the event that Zaroff says, a sloop will take Rainsford back to development. Since Rainsford is dwarfed and has no weapons, he must choose the option to tune in the amusement. After Zaroff encourages him to keep away from a marsh with a sand trap in the southeast corner of the island, Ivan brings Rainsford chasing garments, sandals, a blade, and a sack of sustenance. Zaroff won't take after until the night.
In the shrub, Rainsford tries to put the best conceivable separation in the middle of himself and Zaroff. On the other hand, following two hours, he understands his system would just take him to the ocean. So he runs a trail brimming with wanders aimlessly. During the evening, he climbs a tree and lies on a branch, in spite of the fact that he doesn't rest.
Close morning, the cry of a winged animal cautions him to development in the shrubbery. Peering down through thick leaves, he sees Zaroff looking at the ground. At the point when the general's eyes travel "inch by inch up the tree" Rainsford holds his breath. Zaroff then brings down his eyes, grins, and turns back. Rainsford breathes out and asks why the general grinned. In the wake of descending, he strolls three yards to a dead tree inclining toward another tree. Working rapidly with his blade, he sets a trap, and then takes cover behind a log.
Zaroff returns, taking after Rainsford's trail of pounded grass and broken twigs. When he comes into contact with the trap, he hops in reverse, detecting risk, however not sufficiently far. The dead tree swings out and strikes him on the shoulder. The general recuperates and compliments Rainsford for knowing how to make a Malay mancatcher. He says he is leaving to treat his harmed shoulder—yet will be back.
Rainsford keeps on trudging through the bramble, notwithstanding when it is dim, until he ventures in a sand trap. With a strong draw, he free his foot. Going down around four yards, he burrows a pit shoulder-high. At that point he makes honed stakes from saplings, plants them in the pit, and covers the pit with brush and weeds, and holes up behind a stump.
Eventually, Rainsford hears Zaroff drawing nearer and even notices the breeze-blown smoke of his cigarette. After a minute, he hears the brush spread on the pit give route, trailed by a cry of torment. Be that as it may, as springs from his concealing spot, he sees Zaroff remaining again from the pit with a versatile lighting gadget. In the pit is one of his puppies. Zaroff says, "I think, Mr. Rainsford, I'll see what you can do against my entire pack. I'm going home for a rest now. Much thanks to you for a most entertaining night."
At day break, Rainsford hears the weak sound of yapping pooches. He climbs a tree on an edge and sees Zaroff. With him is Ivan, pulled along by the puppies on a chain. In the wake of sliding down the tree, Rainsford sets another trap: a blade fastened to the highest point of a sapling moved back and secured with grapevine. Development discharges the sapling and whips the blade forward. Rainsford then keeps running for his life.
ReplyDeleteA brief time later, the yelping stops. Something has happened, Rainsford considers. Again he climbs a tree to view his followers. Zaroff stands yet Ivan is down, a casualty of the trap. Rainsford shinnies down the tree, runs, and lands at a slope around twenty feet over the ocean. He bounced. At the point when Zaroff achieves the incline with the canines, he shrugs, takes a seat, drinks schnaps from a carafe, and murmurs music from Puccini's musical drama, Madame Butterfly.
That night, Zaroff has a decent supper, mourns the loss of Ivan, second thoughts the break of Rainsford, peruses from Marcus Aurelius in his library, and goes to his room.
There, he is astonished to see Rainsford, who had swum back to the château.
"I am still a brute under control," Rainsford says. "Get prepared, General Zaroff."
The general bows and says, "I see. Magnificent! One of us is to outfit a repast for the dogs. The other will rest in this extremely amazing bed. He had never rested in a superior bed, Rainsford won the game.
The short story’s weakness is that, it doesn’t show up the end of the story. The ending was still hanging despite the thrill that it contains. The extremity of the story was absolutely crazy and very interesting that it interests and captures the attention of the reader. As I read the story, I was like so interested to finish it and found out the end hanging. It never suffices the readers mind upon how to end the story. The story was expected to have a very amazing and detailed ending but it seems like a fire which was showered and turned off immediately.
The thrill and the intensity of the story were there, and as mentioned in the statement previously, it was able to capture the attention of the readers and it has the nature of thrill. It has the effective use of language to describe and discuss the events I the story fully for the readers to understand. The story never fails to get the trilled emotion of the readers like me, with the use of the story and the effectiveness of the usage of the language, it’ll surely be able to capture more readers and give a very suspense experience.
The story contains tragedy and it was not just a simple killing but to kill a human by hunting. There are these two hunters which are very much devoted to their passion upon hunting. Rainsford who have thought that killing a cape buffalo was the most dangerous game and General Zaroff who was bored in killing wild animals and shifted his hunting passion to hunting humans. The thrill was that these two hunters were to kill each other. In the story’s case, each reader would have thought that Rainsford will not kill Zaroff as readers would think that he will be the replacement for the death of Ivan the giant.It is wrong to kill people and killing will never be wrong. The story should have ended positively.
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ReplyDeleteUnderstanding Fiction
THREE QUESTIONS
By: Leo Tolstoy
Summary
The idea of the “Three Questions” went to a King that he would know the three things. And this three things were. First, “What was the right time to begin everything?”. Second is “Who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid?”. And third is “What was the most important thing to do?”
He declared that the ones who give the right answers might be rewarded. Many wise men endeavored to answer the King’s questions, however they all have different answers. And the King was not satisfy on that. So the King decided that he would ask the hermit. The hermit would just see ordinary people, so the King wear an ordinary dress as well, He lift his bodyguards or watchmen behind, and went on alone. The hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut when the King arrived. The King posed his questions, yet the hermit continued his work.
The King noticed that old and weak hermit was tired and breath heavily he offered to take the spade and work on his place. When the hour passed, the King ask again of his questions. Before the hermit could reply, a man rose up out of the forested areas running towards them. He was bleeding from a terrible stomach wound
The King and hermit help him, and the King stayed in the hermit’s hut. By the following day the injured man was recovering, yet was but was incredulous at the help he had received. The man admitted that he knew who the King was, and that the King had executed his sibling and grabbed his property. He had come to kill the king, however the lord's watchmen had recognized and killed him but he escaped. And now king help him to extend his life. The man promised to the King to be his faithful servant. The king feel glad to have made peace with his enemy easily. And the king send his personal doctor and servant to look after him. The King approached the hermit again for his answers, and the hermit replied
“You have already been answered”.
“If have not pitied my weaknesses yesterday and had not dug these beds for me, you would have gone away. Then the man would have attacked you and you would have wished you had stayed with me. So the most important time was when you were digging the beds. And I was the most important man and to do me good was your most important business. Afterwards, when the man ran to us, the most important time was when you were caring for him, because if you had not dressed his wounds he would have died without having made peace with you. So he was the most important man and what you did for him was your most important business”.
Personal Reflection:
The moral values that I absorb by the short of “Three Questions” is the importance of time. Give your best everyday because the only time that is important is NOW. Because it is the only time that we have any power to act not on the past nor tomorrow. And stop overthinking for tomorrow’s sake without any actions. Because whatever we have by tomorrow is the product of yesterday.
STRENGTH
- Has a good introduction
Because it gives an hint about the story. Example the story is occurred to a certain king that wanted to know the answers of his three questions.
- Has a good theme
Because it gives an moral lesson to the readers
- Has a strong settings
Because in the story, the place and time are interested.
WEAKNESSES
- Has a weak ending
Because it was not satisfy to the readers. It was not detailed after the king’s reactions or king’s actions or decisions after hermits explanations.
PLANNED GAME:
Title: Words Beginning with a Given Letter
REFERENCES:
Unknown (2000). Languages: English retrieve from www.online .literature.com/Tolstoy 12736/. Jalic Inc. 2015
Retrieve from www.enotes.com/homework -help-describe-king-three-questions.com
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Game Mechanics:
-The class will be divided into three groups
-Six questions with two expected answers each (2 points per answer** the points turns to 4 points in the last 4 seconds)
-Each group will be given 24 seconds to answer the questions (1st group to answer will have 2 attempts to correct their answers** groups to steal will never have the attempts and will answer the question in 14 seconds** if the question is still not answered correctly, the chance of answering will go back to the first group but will answer the question in 9 seconds with 1 point. each (2 points per answer** the points turns to 4 points in the last 4 seconds))
Note: If no one gets the correct answer, the points of 3 per question will be given to the reporter.
Reference:
ReplyDeleteRichard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game. Retrieved from http://www.shmoop.com/most-dangerous-game/literary-devices.html
Bayta, Breeny Jean A.
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Understanding Fiction
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Comprehensive SummaryThere was a town generally known as Tarry Town. Not far from this village, there is a little valley which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. The tapping of the woodpecker or a whistle of a quail can only break the tranquility of the places.
The place was known by the name of Sleepy Hollow. Some say that the place was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement. The dominant spirit that haunts this place is the ghost with a figure on horseback without a head. It is said that during the Revolutionary War. The ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head.
In this place, there was a guy whose name was Ichabod Crane , a native of Connecticut. He was instructing the children of vicinity. He was tall, lanky, with narrow shoulder shoulders, having a long arms and legs. His head was small and one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow eloped from the cornfield.
His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room it is constructed of logs. When school hours were over Ichabod was the companion of and playmate of the larger boys. He also helped the farmers to make hay, vending the fences and driving the cows from pasture. He was the singing master of neighborhood.
He was known as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through. He was afraid of ghost and goblins, especially of the headless horseman. There was a girl who captured his heart and that girl was Katrina Van Tassel, the only child of Baltus Van Tassel a wealthy, thriving, contented Dutch Farmer. Katrina has the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
Ichabod will do everything to win the heart of Katrina but he encountered a rustic admirer. He was Brom Van Brunt, the hero of the country round. He was an ideal man to marry. He was famed for great skill in horsemanship. Ichabod had an advantage because he had made frequent visit of the farmer house with the Katrina because he taught Katrina psalmody.
Brom have carried matters to open warfare. He made everything to annoy Ichabod. One afternoon while Ichabod was sitting, he was interrupted by a Negro. He gave Ichabod an invitation to attend a merrymaking to be held at Mynheer Van Tassel.
Ichabod spent an extra hours at his toilet, brushing and cleaning up his only suit. He borrowed a horse from the farmer where he lives. The animal was gaunt and shaggy, its head is like a hammer, one eyed was lost its pupil.
He starts travelling, on his way, his eyes ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly town. It was toward evening when he arrived at the castle of the van Tassel house. Brom Bones was the hero of the scene. Ichabod could not help rolling his large eyes on the ample charms of genuine Dutch country tea table. He chuckled with the possibility that he might be lord of all scenes which is almost an unimaginable luxury and splendor.
The sound of the music from the hall summoned to dance. Ichabod was very happy because the lady of his heart was his partner in the dance while Brum Bones sorely smitten with love and jealousy. After the dance, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks who with Old Van Tassel. They were talking about ghost, etc. again. In chief part of the story turned upon the favorite specter of sleepy hollow, the headless horseman who had been heard several times.
It was the very witching time of night that Ichabod heavyhearted and crestfallen pursued his travel homeward. The story of ghost and goblins that he had heard earlier was now entering upon his recollection. In the dark shadow on the margin of the brook Ichabod beheld something huge, misshapen, black and towering. Ichabod quickened his stood in hopes of leaving the midnight companion behind. But the horror was still more increased when the strangers head was carried before him.
ReplyDeleteBecause of an extreme fear Ichabod encountered his cranium with a tremendous crashed; he was tumbled headlong into the dust. The next morning the horse was found without his saddle and the bridle under his feet. They did not saw Ichabod after that. They searched everywhere but they did not saw Ichabod. The old country wives believe that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural powers.
Reflection
The story “the Legend of the Sleepy Hollow” is very good story. I find it funny at the same time scary. It is funny because when the author describes the appearance of Ichabod Crane and the horse that he borrowed to the farmer. It is also scary because it talks about ghost and goblins. In this story, I can see how Ichabod try his best to win the heart of Katrina but because of Brom Bones the forever did not exist in two of them. In this story, I learned that if you let your fear embraces you, you can do nothing but to make yourself coward in everything. If you do not know how to handle your fear, then you will not survive in this world. The story is hanging because it did not stated where ichabod went after the tragedy that happened to him. Reading this story test my vocabulary because some of the words that is being used are not familiar to me.
Strengths
The strength of the story is the author gave the complete description of the different characteristics. It is also their strength when they put jokes on the story they are not just focusing on the sleepy hollow but they included the love triangle between Brom Bones, Katrina Van Tassel and Ichabod Crane. It teaches life’s lesson that we can apply in our daily lives.
Weaknesses
The weaknesses of the story are its hanging and some of the words are not understood easily by the readers. They did not give justice to what was happened to Ichabod. Though it teaches life’s lesson but it was being portray in the story that people who are weak are being discriminated by the others who have the power.
Planned/ Activities
I will divide the class in 3-4 groups. I will ask questions that are answerable by TRUE or FALSE only. Questions will be coming from the story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Whoever team got the highest points will be given a price.
References:
ReplyDeletePochmann, H. A. "Irving's German Sources in The Sketch Book." Studies in Philology 27 (1930): 47707.
Richardson, J. Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Ringe, D. A. American Gothic: Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Rubin-Dorsky, Jeffrey. Adrift in the Old World: The Psychological Pilgrimage of Washington Irving. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Thompson, G. R. "Washington Irving and the American Ghost Story." In The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction 1820920, edited by John W. Crowley, C. L. Crow, and Howard Kerr, pp. 116. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
Williams, S. T.The Life of Washington Irving.2 vols. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1935.
Comprehensive Summary
ReplyDeleteEdgar Allan Poe was known for his short stories and poetry which mostly tackled tales of mystery. He was born on January 19, 1809. He was 2nd eldest among siblings in his family. He started to write some literary piece after his parents both died due to illness on 1821. He studied studied ancient and modern languages before at University of Virginia but he was dropped out. After he was dropped out, he decided to enter in United States Military Academy but he was expelled due of having caught drunk by his military superior. Edgar happily and secretly married to Virginia Clemm, his pure cousin on 1835. He was 26 and she was 13 years old though she is listed on the marriage certificate was 21. Eventually in 1837, her wife died due to tubercolosis. They were married for eleven years until her early death which he more inspired some of his writing. Regarding of the short story, "Cask of Amontillado," it was published 1846 and it was his last short story he wrote. The time it was published, this particular piece didnt received any critical recognition by the public. Somehow, it was suspected some several events surround the author's life. The point of view of the story is first person narrators produce unreliable confession. Also, the narrator is a protagonist by focusing on their struggles with madness. The tone of the story was often because they are some serious confessions that lead the reader to be suspense. This short story consists of two character named Montressor and Fortunato. It was started during the carnival in Italy, Montressor meet Fortunato and offers some bottle of Amontillado winr with him. Later on, montressor claims that Fortunato has insulted him and he was planning to get revenge. Then, Montressor lures Fortunato down into dark wine vault or what he called "catacomb" and keeps asking if Fortunato would like to turn back because he seems have an ill. But Fortunato continues to drink wine of Amontillado to ease his cough. When they reach their destination, there is no Amontillado but there is hole in wall. So, Montressor enacted his revenge. He shackles Fortunato inside in the wall and begins to bury and sealed him up the wall with bricks. Fortunado was shocked and he eventually screams for Montressor to stop, but it’s too late. And the ending was Montressor walks away with a smile because he successfully made his revenge. Also, he leaves the catacomb with the sound of Fortunato's jingling bells echoing in the catacomb.
Strengths and Weaknesses
ReplyDeleteMy observations in checking this context are the following; the strengths of the story provide some twist in a sense that the protagonist or narrator is also an antagonist. And the weaknesses of the story were the author didn’t provide some detail Montresor was getting revenge to Fortunato. Perhaps, the reader is left to ask themselves why Montresor did that action. Despite the fact that Montresor escapes with his crime, his soul is eaten up by hate.
Reflection
Upon reading this text, the primary focus of this story is on vengeance. Montresor is getting revenge against Fortunato for the "insults" conveyed upon him. On the other hand, those insults are never clarified, and Montresor demonstrating cool anger at this man who hurt him. Fortunato positively gives no feeling of having views of anger towards him. In this manner, I realized of the story is that revenge isn't right. The explanation behind this revenge won't be enough to grant what is being done to the loss. However, Montresor’s revenge does not help him, perhaps. Vengeance is useless.
Planned Activity
Before I discuss my report, I will provide a short game good for 5-7 minutes to be able the class will be more alive. This activity consists of vocabulary and this is called "Vocabulary Bingo." The mechanics are just simple because I will provide 16 words. Then, the class will draw a 4 box by column and by row. Then, they will write the words in any order in box. After that, I will read definition of a word and they will identify what word being define. If one gets the pattern horizontal, vertical and diagonal and they put the correct word in the box, they will say BINGO. But, if they say that he/she bingo but the words not are not correct, he/she will be disqualify. The first 3 student can BINGO will win.
Chantal Dominique Pahunang
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Understanding Fiction (TTH 7-8:30 AM)
The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad
Summary:
The story is narrated by Arsat. The story that Arsat tells Tuan ( the white man) is about sadness and betrayal. Arsat tells of the time when he and his brother kidnapped Diamelen ( his lover, who was previously a servant of the Rajah’s wife).They all fled in a boat at night and travelled until they were exhausted. They stopped on a bit of land jutting out into the water to rest. Suddenly, they spotted a large boat of the Rajah’s men coming to find them. Arsat’s brother told Diamelen and Arsat to flee on the other side, where there was a fisherman’s hut.
He instructed them to take the fisherman’s boat and then stayed back, telling them to wait for him while he dealt with the pursuers. However, Arsat did everything and wait for his brother. As he pushed the boat from the shore, he saw his brother running down the path being chased by the pursuers. Arsat’s brother tripped and the enemy was upon him. His brother called out to him three times but Arsat never looked back, he had betrayed his brother for the woman he loved. Towards the end of the story, symbolically, the sun rises and Diamelen died.
Arsat has nothing now, not a brother nor a wife. He lost everything and guilt stepped his pride. He plans to return to his home village to avenge his brother’s death. The story concludes with Tuan’s simply leaving and Arsat keeps on staring into the sun, a world of illusion.
Strength: The story is paralleled in real life and it gives a moral lesson. It portrays how a man can have the courage and invest love for all of the aspects.
Weakness: The usage of the language in the story is really hard to comprehend. There is no background hint of some of the characters.
Reflection: The Lagoon is a short story of love’s deceitfulness. Because of love, Arsat become ignorant about life. I could really say how deceiving love can be, because we tend to forget the reality. There are ramifications and consequences if once we ignored it. Sometimes, it leads to death. The good thing about death is that it makes us realize that we should make the most of our days here on earth worth it and manageable. Death is always around and we can’t avoid that fact.
Planned Activity:
Game Title: Game ka na ba mama
Guidelines:
1. There will be letters A-C to be posted in the board, each of the letters have a corresponding answers to my questions in relation of the story (such as vocabulary, spelling, etc.).
2. The game is only limited for fifteen people. There are 10 questions all in all. Whoever get the highest score ( or the first and the second winner is automatically compete in the second game called Brain versus Brawn)
Game Title: Brain versus Brawn
Guidelines:
1. The only objective of this game is you have to come up a strategy using your brain or brawn.
2. The marble should be put in the cup with the use of one hand only (your hand should hold the cup and make a strategy of how to put marble inside the cup)
*The winner deserves a prize
References:
Michael J. Cummings.(2009) The Lagoon By Joseph Conrad:A Study Guide. Retrieved from http://cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides6/Lagoon.html
Mantex (2015) The Lagoon:critical commentary, study resources, plot, and web links. Retrieved from http://www.mantex.co.uk/2013/09/10/the-lagoon/
eNotes (2015).The Lagoon Summary Joseph Conrad. Retrieved from http://www.enotes.com/topics/lagoon
Buntog, Jerica O.
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TTH 7:00-8:30
Annotation of the story A Little Cloud
Comprehensive Summary
A little cloud was written by James Joyce. He was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. His story, A little cloud is about a man who gave up her dreams for the reason that he’s so timid.
Thomas Malone Chandler known as Little Chandler worked as a legal clerk. On one particular evening he was so excited to meet again his old friend Ignatius Gallaher. Unlike Little Chandler, Gallaher was a successful man. He was a writer in an English newspaper. While Little Chandler had settled down and blessed with one child. While walking to the place where they’ll meet, Little Chandler minds wanders to the possibilities if he pursued her passion in writing poems. In the bar, Little Chandler and Gallaher talk about foreign cities, marriage, and the future. On the midst of their conversation, Little Chandler admired Gallaher’s gruff manners and tales of foreign cities. At the same time he despised him for Gallaher had much experience compared to him. When the subject was on Little Chandler, he seemed to be uneasy. He managed to invite Gallaher in their house to meet his wife but Gallaher refused and said he had someone with and they planned to go to other place and he had a short period of time in Dublin. Then, the two of them took their last sip of whiskey and prepared to bid good bye to each other. For their last subject they talk about marriage and Little Chandler told Gallaher that someday he’ll going to settle and he’ll be pleased to meet Mr. and Mrs. Gallaher on his next visit to Dublin. But Gallaher insisted that if he’s going to marry someone he’ll make sure that he’ll marry a rich girl. However, Gallaher stands that he is contented of pleasing himself with many woman rather than become a prisoner with one.
After having a fine night with his old friend, Little Chandler’s mind was full of thoughts while going home and he forgot to buy his wife a coffee. That is why his wife went out to buy one and told Little Chandler to watch over the child. While his wife was out, Little Chandler gazed upon the old photo of his wife and recalled his conversation with Gallaher. He then began to question his life now and his decisions in life. He began to read a passage of Byron to mend his longing to write. His son then cried and he don’t know what to do instead he screamed which makes the child frightened. As soon as his wife returned, she hurriedly snatched the child to Little Chandler’s arm and scolded him. Little Chandler felt regrets of his rebellious thoughts.
Strengths and weaknesses
ReplyDeleteThe most observed strengths of the story were on how the author successfully gets the attention of the reader. He used the character of Little Chandler to represent someone in the society who’s also a prisoner of his own life and person who quits and gave up his dreams because of marriage, an envious person. This kind of person can really be any of the reader who can relate to the story. On the other hand, the weakness of the story was on how static the character of Little Chandler. In the story it was not mention if Little Chandler did something that could at least lessen the insecurities he felt. It only ended up on the same manner, it does not solve the problem of the story.
Reflection
The story A Little Cloud was a good example for those people who always regrets on their decisions in life. Like Little Chandler he was also on the state of regrets but as on the ending of the story, he then realized that all things happened in the past will never be changed. Acceptance was the only way to stop this kind of state.
The story evolved on two characters; Little Chandler and Ignatius Gallaher. These two were great friends, but just like weather people changed. Ignatius Gallaher changed as he became successful and Little Chandler noticed these changes. The success of Gallaher was considered as downfall or an insult to Little Chandler which was not actually good. Little Chandler felt jealous towards the success of Gallaher and consoled himself for the wrong decisions he had done in his life.
The decision that you had done has nothing to do with the people that surround you. You own your life and for that you have the power to run it. The advices that other people gave were only part of your option if you’ll take them, then it’s your own decision. Just like what happened in the story, Little Chandler regretted all his decision including his marriage. But it’s his own decisions that take him where he was. That is why, on the end of the story he felt guilty about the thoughts that passed on his mind.
It can be reflected that anything that you had done in the past could really affect your future. Including how a person handles his own life. Everyone must be very careful upon making decisions. Everyone must know how to take chances. If you love your passion, then you must pursue it before anything else happened and before it’s too late.
At the same time value the things that you have. One must learn to be contented on what he has. Do not count on what you don’t have instead count the things that has given to you and be thankful, not everyone has the chance to own what you have.
Activities/Games
Before my report will start, I am planning to have this activity: I will let my classmates close their eyes for 3-5 minutes and think of the things that they like to do in the near future. This activity will help them more understand and at the same time relate to the story.
Refferences
Sparknotes. (n.d).Dubliners: “A Little Cloud”. Retrieved from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dubliners/section8.rhtml
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" The Overcoat"
Summary
The story focuses on the life of Akaky Akakievich Bashmackin, a devastated government assistant and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is devoted to his occupation, taking extraordinary relish in the hand-duplicating of records, however minimal perceived in his specialization for his diligent work. His co-workers tease him and distract whenever they want. His beat up coat is regularly the victim of their jokes. Akaky chooses to have the coat repaired, so he takes it to his tailor petrovich, who said that his coat is irreparable, telling Akakii he must purchase another overcoat.
The expense of new coat is beyond Akaky's pitiful salary, so he strived himself to work so he live inside of a strict budget to spare adequate cash to purchase the new coat. Akaky and Petrovich meet to examine the style of the new coat. throughout that time, akaky is so excited for his new coat. Finally, because of working so hard, Akaky has spend enough cash to purchase his new overcoat.
Akaky and Petrovitch go to the shops in St. Petersburg and pick the finest materials they can afford. The new coat is amazingly has a great quality and appearance. on the day he wore his new overcoat, he was the center of discussion of his co-worker not because he was bullied or teased but because his co-workers were amazed by his new overcoat. His assistant clerk decided to host a party honoring for his new coat, in which akaky expectedly out of place. After the occasion, Akaky go home from the gathering, the fact that he regularly would. as he routed near his home, two rascals attacked him, take his jacket, kick him down, and leave him oblivious in the snow.
No one helps akaky from the two rascals who steal his coat. he did not loose his hope but instead, he took the advice of one of his co-clerk to ask for help from an "important personage" who is a high-ranking official. The narrator noticed that the high-ranking official constantly puts down subordinates in endeavoring to seem more essential than he really is. after Akaky waited for so long, the important personage ask him sarcastically why he has brought insignificant a matter to him personally, and not introduced to his secretary
Akakii makes an unflattering comment concerning the Secretariat, from the important personage that he almost faint and must be lead from the general's office. Akaky get sick that he might die. In his last hours, he is woozy, envisioning himself again sitting before the important personage, who is again scolding him. Akaky argues absolution, yet as his death nears, he condemn all.
soon, the rumor spread out in their town that the ghost has appeared at night who stealing people's coat is no other than akaky. the important personage starts to feel bad about what he did to akaky. to take his mind relax and stop thinking akaky, he attended a party. everything was great not until he feels something in his collar who wants to get his coat and took it. the personage is so scared that he arrived home early and freaked out that he cannot tell anyone what happened. After those event, the personage starts to act like a jerk and the ghost is also gone after the event.
ReplyDeletestrengths and weakneses
The strengths of the story are, first is that the story is parrallel to real life that meant to deliver some kind of life lessons just like the charcter facing some kind of dilemma followed by his or her decision he or she make after that the consequence. second, though it has a life lessons, stil the author who is known for its comedy, he didn't forget to put some humor in the story and third it has a good and interested ending.
the weaknesses of the story are, first the narrator goes into detail about completely insignificant things. second, maybe some of the readers get confused about the ending if they only read it ones and third the main character died. maybe some of the readers might find it amazing and some find it a sad story.
Reflection:
The overcoat represents the human condition, protection oppression warmth and acceptance and in the end karma. Akaky Akakievich Bashmackin suffers lack of compassion and confident parallel to his tattered overcoat. Akaky struggles find his compassion and a new overcoat. after finding and achieving this stuff, he was shown a little respect but the society shows that achieving both compassion and a new coat is an even more difficult struggle. in the beginning of the story only akaky is the person who's ever contented in his life and theres this person who just came into your life who manipulates you that life is so beatiful when you have your ambition. its not an ambition that you want in the future but you have also wants that makes dissatisfied like people are just fond of bullying others and without knowing that the one that has been bullied might changed. just like akaky that his life was change because of his overcoat. for me the overcoat stands for two choices in ife. first, be happy, poor and dont mind others. second be unhappy, rich and powerful.
planned activity
title of the game: once upon a TWOMINUTESTIME!
before i discuss my report, i will present an object or a thing and have atleast 5 players. the mechanics are just simple. first, players must come up with an incredible story about the object that has been presented . the players will only be given 2 minutes to present their story. at the end of the report the audience will be the one to decide who won the activity.
References:
Gogol's The Cloak (The Overcoat): A Study Guide.(n.d.). Retrieved November 16, 2015, from http://cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/cloak.html
INTERACTIVE MOVIE BUZZ.(n.d.). Retrieved November16, 2015, from http://interactivemoviebuzz.blogspot.com/2008/01/overcoat-nikolai-gogol-summary.html
The Cloak. (n.d ). Retrieved November 16, 2015, from https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/gogol/nikolai/g61cl/
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"Silent Snow, Secret Snow"
Comprehension Summary
Silent Snow is a story written by Conrad Aiken. This is a story presenting the thoughts of Paul Hasleman as he reacts to the external world and withdraws into his imaginary world. The story tells of a boy named Paul Hasleman, who finds it increasingly difficult to pay attention to his classwork, and grows more distant from his family. He is, instead, becoming more and more entranced by daydreaming about snow. This began when he was lying in bed one morning, awaiting the approach of the postman. Unable to hear the expected footfalls, the boy imagines that they have been muffled by newly fallen snow, and is surprised when he looks out the window and discovers that there is no snow on the ground. Paul's increasing distance and indifference to the world around him alarms his parents. He has to struggle to get dressed and converse with others, because of the allure of his daydream about snow. They eventually call in a physician, who makes a house call to examine Paul. After revealing that he likes to think about snow, Paul tears himself away from the meeting with the physician and retires to his room. When his mother pursues him, he tells her "Go awayI hate you!", and is lost in the dream world of the snow.
Strength
The story uses some different kinds of figures of speech which makes the story creative.
Weakness
The story is hanging. It doesn't show a good ending that it can fulfill the satisfaction of the readers.
Reflection
The main theme of the story is the onset and development of a mental disorder that causes the main character to withdraw into his own inner world. It shows the result of getting into mental illness because you did not accept what is really the reality of things in the real world. I had a fake laugh on this story because I found myself acting like Paul sometimes. I want to escape from the reality of things in the world. Paul perceives the real world as ugly, dreary, and broken. There are times that I see the world as what Paul perceives too especially when I encountered serious problems just like family matters.
The story gives us a message about life. We have to accept the fact that an ugly world is a part of our living. We just have to look on the brighter side of our lives. God is bigger than our problems so we don't have to worry much. Problems make our life exciting. We have to overcome our struggles in a wise way. Problems made us so stressed but we have to deal with it and never quit. Face the reality of life and accept the bitter parts of the world.
Planned Activity
"Snow Charade"
Mechanics of the game:
- The class will be divided into two groups.
- In each group, there will be 10 snow balls which contain words inside.
- Each team in turn produces a "secret" word or phrase, to be guessed by the other team.
- The actor may not make any sounds or lip movements.
- The team that will guess more words will be the winner.
References
Aiken, Conrad. (1856-1920).Silent Snow, Secret Snow. Retrieved from
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides8/Silent.html
D. L. Lavery, "The Delicious Progress": Whiteness as an Atavism in Conrad Aiken's
"Silent Snow,Secret Snow," Psychoanalytic Review 70, no. 2 (1983): 235-39.