Friday, June 1, 2012

rhime of the ancient mariner

Imagination is one characteristic of romantic literature that is in this poem. In the poem, the Mariners ship mates died, then all of the sudden they came back to life and started working the ship. This couldn't happen in real life. There's also the part about the Mariner killing the bird with his crossbow. All that bad stuff that happened wouldn't happen just because he killed a bird. Another characteristic is idealism. It has idealism in it because it has to do with spirits a lot in this poem. The spirit loved the bird that the Mariner killed. The spirit then became angry, and the spirit was the one causing all the things to happen.
I think the theme of this poem is that when you try to fix something that you're guilty about. I believe this is true because the Mariner shot the bird and after that, him and all of the people on the ship were stuck out in the middle of the ocean and all dying of thirst. He was the only one that didn't die and he had to live with that guilt. He then started praying and they were things other than just himself. After he started praying, angels helped him control the ship and it ended up saving his life.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Maslow's Hierarchy

The book "the hunger games" is very similar to maslow's hierarchy. cause when katniss get in to the games the most important thing on her mind was to get away from to cornucopia and get food and water. after she got away she had to find a place where she could get away from danger and get some well needed sleep, so she climbs a tree and gets away from the careers. when katniss had been saved by the little girl she imeditaly felt a connection and felt she should join up as a team with her. when katniss had take out a few of the careers she had gotten her self esteem up think that she was the big bad hunter. when they got to the last few people she new she would survive and nothing was going to get in the way of that.



Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Protagnist

the role of the protagonist in the book "Hatchet" is a young child Brian who has gone through a rough divorce. Brian was on his way to visit his dad in Canada when the pilot of the bush plane had a heart attack. and crash landed in a lake in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. Brian survived, but was the only one to survive. so he had to fight his way  to stay alive to be rescued and get back with his family. Brian battled wolfs and bears and even porcupines. Brian also had to survive a nasty tornado. Brian was survives of a lost cause, and the reason he had survived was because of hope and the want to live and see his family again (That and the hatchet).

Sneetches

The Sneetches is a simple, humorous tale that highlights the pointlessness of conformity. It's also a neat little allegory about the idiocy of racism, kinda like that old Star Trek episode about the black and white cookie-lookin' people, only the Sneetches stop short of trying to kill each other, and there's no Shatner. It's a nice way to introduce young children to the ideas of tolerance and individuality.

hungergames big question

How far would you go to survive? in the book "the Hunger Games" to survive means to kill! Their are twenty-four teens in an arena some big some small, ages 12-18 all out to kill one an other. an some out to just survive and hope everybody else gets killed first. Katniss the main character of the book is a person that will do anything to survive even if it means to kill, not that she wants to kill but a necessity to kill. when she finds out that her and Peeta can team up and win the games she knows that if they can work together they can both win and survive so she goes and searches everywhere for him and when she finds him, Katniss takes care of Peeta until he is okay to fight. but the question is how far would you go to survive?

Friday, May 11, 2012

Theme

In the book "hatchet" the overall theme is to always hold on to the hope of being survived and using that hope to help you push on and keep fighting to stay alive, to succeed in being rescued. Brian the young teenager had been in a plane crash in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, and he was the only one to survive. the pilot   had a heart attack. Brian had to fight for his survival, and the main thing keeping him alive is the hope for someone to rescue him. he had fought through sickness and danger of animals, and weather. In his struggles he realized how much he regretted hating his mom for getting a divorce and he just realized to accept it and just be glad he has a mom and dad. Brian had been stranded for so long he had started to fit in with the environment and animals they started to recognize him not as an outsider, but as a filmier face. when he gets rescued he is exasperated with joy and happiness. and that hope that he had all along had payed off in the end.

waking up earliey

I don't believe that your school systems are really working these days. The students aren't really in to school, the schools are forcing them to learn certain things and there's no point in wasting the states money on kids that don't want to be at school and learn its not worth the trouble. the schools are depicting there education on a whole of students its not relating to what the students want to do for a career. they are forcing the students to learn things that might or might not affect them in there life. the schools are throwing years away from some of these students not all but there are some.