The concepts that I enjoy learning this week is hearing about the different stories of my classmates that I have not have the chance to know about before. Furthermore, I enjoy reading the novel Fahrenheit 451 as our first book of the year. In addition, I have heard many good reviews from this book before and I have never had the chance to actually
The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding is a book about a plane full of boys crashing on an island. The boys are by themselves no adults so they have to survive on their own and establish their own government. Piggy is one of the first characters we meet as a boy with poor eyesight, a weight problem and asthma so the readers already like him even if no one else likes him. Piggy is the closest thing the boys have to an adult on the island. Throughout the story Piggy embraces the character traits of being intellectually intelligent, Mature and loyal.
William Golding’s fictional, British novel, Lord of the Flies, presents a character that serves a two-part function as a “scapegoat” and a certain commentary on life. During WWII, a group of British boys are being evacuated via plane when they crash and are stranded on an island without adults. As time progresses, the innate evilness of human nature begins to overcome the savage society of young boys while Piggy, an individual representation of brains without brawn, becomes an outlier as he tries to resist this gradual descent of civilness and ends up shouldering the blame for the wrongdoings of the savage tribe. Up until his untimely death, Piggy is portrayed as the most intellectual and most civil character in the group of stranded boys. Right from the beginning, Piggy realized that “[they] got to do something,” (8) and he recognized the shell Ralph had picked up as a conch.
Winnie the Pooh from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is bound for the Third Circle of Hell, for his gluttonous nature is evident in the excessive amount of honey he consumes. Data: When Pooh is prompted what his favorite thing is, his first thought is that “although Eating Honey [is] a very good thing to do, there [is] a moment just before you began to eat it which [is] better than when you [do]” (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh). Warrant: Pooh’s overindulgence and unnatural obsession of honey surfaces as it becomes the only thing that he can think about in his everyday life.
Author, William Golding, in his novel, "Lord of the Flies," follows a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and try to govern themselves. One of the boys, Piggy, is constantly bullied and considered a nuisance by the power-hungry boys on the island. Golding's use of an isolated setting in the midst of the other boys illustrates Piggy's struggle to liberate himself from their oppression. However the need to survive reveals Piggy's inventiveness and rational mindset.
Growing up we 've read picture books that have introduced us to literature, wildly funny characters and taught us how to use our imagination. However, have you ever thought maybe these children books aren 't just for entertainment? What if they have hidden messages with racist undertones or represent political movements. Sometimes what we see is not always what you get so I 've studied two popular children 's figures, Curious George and Babar the Elephant.
I thought that it was smart how we had to find our reading pace for each book. It is different from Elementary School and Middle School. I liked how you had us write reflections of the books, instead of just writing the page numbers. This helps me comprehend the book better because I have to go back and re-read parts of the book that I didn't get in order to finish the writing. I read many books this year, but my favorite was Ender's Game.
Archetypes Winnie the Pooh is one of the many classic children's stories that have entertained children from all over the world. I grew up listening to my mother read the many different stories from the books, and also watching the movies and television shows religiously. Ever since I was a little girl, my favorite Winnie the Pooh character has been Tigger. Tigger is a fun-loving, energetic stuffed tiger, who is always bouncing around the Hundred Acre Woods. Tiger is my favorite character because, I love that he is always optimistic about himself, even though it may sometimes come off as arrogant, he is always positive about himself and his abilities.
Alison from Fun Home and Yitzhak from Hedwig and the Angry Inch come to recognize new potential in gender expression in two, touching frames, yet these fleeting moments are provoked and executed in entirely different ways. In both moments of recognition, Alison and Yitzhak encounter a person and an object, respectively, that open possibilities related to their gender. In the case of Yitzhak, he places a wig on his head and is engrossed by the touch of it upon his hands and neck. Yitzhak needs no mirror to validate the feelings of comfort and delight the wig brings him. He is prominently in the center of the shot surrounded in a familiar environment, overflowing with blonde wigs, providing an absurd yet personal touch.
I enjoyed your discussion this week on the different perspective you provided about King Richard II from being inexperienced. Among the variety of supportive material you provided, the conversation between him and Bolingbroke did display his arrogance. Or how superior and almighty he felt as to why he said, “ Were they not mine? Did they not sometimes cry, “All hail!” to me?
“So he became a philosopher- someone who does not give up but tirelessly pursues his quest for truth” (Gaarder 68). Throughout the novel, “Winnie-the-Pooh” by Ernest H. Shepard, Pooh strives to solve all of his problems with his ability to reason and think rationally. Pooh is a philosopher as he constantly searches for answers and analyzes situations with his remarkable insight. He can be compared to Socrates, a philosopher who stressed the importance of human reasoning and believed that the right insight led to the right action. Like Socrates, Pooh has great insight and also acknowledges that he knows very little.
Within the different reboots of Winnie-the-Pooh, semiotics becomes interconnected in various ways. Whether the viewer becomes aware of semiotics or not, they still play an important role throughout different franchises. For some children, noticing the ways in which symbols or signs are used to replace the meaning of an idea is a complicated task, but for those who are able to achieve this, they happen to have an interpretation of the text in a completely different way. Teddy Bear, the first writing in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, includes various amounts of semiotics. Throughout this poem, a passage that was found to be representative of semiotics is: “We crossed the river and found a few-Yes, those are dragons all right,” said Pooh (Milne,
Some would say power is the ability to control a group and have them become your followers while maintaining a strong leadership role. The two books, Animal Farm and Lord of The Flies use power through the two main chiefs of the novels. The book Animal Farm, by George Orwell, is about a group of animals that declare a rebellion against the owner of their farm. They take the farm over, and make Napoleon, the main character who is also the dictator of the book, take leadership of the farm. On the other hand, the book Lord of The Flies, by William Golding is about a group of boys who are stranded on an island with no adults.
This book changed a little bit that I knew about WWI because it went in depth into somebody’s life. Even though I had seen movies on it, it is a different experience for when you read it. When we had our discussions it was very cool to see what others thought and our opinions and something we didn’t like or did like. The presentations in the beginning were pretty cool, I already knew some of the stuff like the weapons and vehicles but it’s nice to see and look back on them.
The Pooh cake with amazement. I used to have to be read Winnie The Pooh songs and books before I even considered going to bed between the ages 2 months-4 years old. I can honestly say that Winnie
