Someadores

Workers and poverty is the theme he feels that workers have sort of become part of the landscape and should receive more than they do

Good old desk

He is talking about god. Because I understood it was god it doesn't affect my understanding. "it's always there." "it's the one thing I've got" "it keeps my hopes alive"

Pinch of poverty

The author feels bad about poverty but hopeful because of the girl trying to overcome. He wants us to understand that you can make it out of poverty. The contrast of the girls flowers and the rest of the painting shows she could escape and the blurred lines of the baby and the mother show that poverty can create a cycle of poverty.

Runaways

1.The boy ran away
2. The boy represents the perfection of society and the uniformity at the time
3. The boy will return home

Runaway painting

Claims: The boy is the runaway.
The boy represents the counterculture emerging in the late 1950s and 60s.
The policeman represents the rest of society and wants to send the boy back home (into the rest of society.
Facts: The man is a policeman.
They are in some sort of shop.
The boy has a bag on a stick.

Culture

Culture is a combination of a persons beliefs and customs.
It is made up of the generals listed above as well as their food clothing and ideology.
It is extrinsic in that a person can change from one culture to another for example moving from Africa's culture to Kentucky and adopting our culture is a change and thus is learned not born into.

The Pearl 2

I knew this was coming (partially because I've already read the book) but also because this seemed like it was coming I hate that it had to have the baby die but I thought it would happen this book left me sad but I thought something like this would happen. I liked the book because it was depressing but at least, unlike Pygmalion, came to a completed feeling.

The pearl blog 1

I feel that this book can only end badly. I think there's no way they are going to succeed in passing the mountains. For one it is written by Steinbeck he is never ending with happiness but also the pearl seems like a very bad omen to me.  Also feel that the book is not very good plot wise it seems very flatlining and unexciting.

Pygmalion blog 2

At the end of the book I was angry in fact the first time I saw this show I was so angry I refused to get up until they came back on and finished it. Eventually they asked my friends and into leave because they were cleaning the theatre. I really dislike the end because you don't get the sense of fulfillment you do from most books like Harry Potter and the like because Higgins and Liza don't end up together as you feel they should.

Pygmalion blog one

At the end of act two in Pygmalion Pickering and Higgins I felt excited for the quest to make Liza into a lady. I felt the choice for it to be set in London was interesting because it seems to make more sense for a person with a very poor understanding of grammar to come from the country. However I understand that Shaw was Brittish thus this choice makes more sense. I identified with Higgins because I have younger siblings and can become very agitated with them when they mess things up.

Cuckoo's nest 2

In the first part Of the book McMurphy is benefitting while the nurse continues to struggle to keep him down even though it is obvious that Chief cheers for McMurphy I like the Big Nurse she is only doing what she is supposed to McMurphy is just causing trouble he is a troublemaker and the only people that Nurse was hurting were those who she didn't know how to deal with it isn't completely her fault that she doesn't know what to do for them.

Cuckoo's nest 1

In the first few pages McMurphy is a hero he is shown as an aid to the patients to change their ways and to be themselves instead of conforming to the big nurse's cookie cutter form. The chief does not really fit into one of the categories as he doesn't really participate in e proceedings. The big nurse is obviously a villain as she forces the other characters into her form like the "combine" described.

Gatsby post 3

1) Is the final sentence possitive or negative in terms of does he mean we should keep trying or give up on our dreams?
I believe the final sentence is negative that he means we must give up on our dreams and move on because of Fitzgerald's own history. When he gives up on so many of his dreams like being a chemist and being truly rich like many of his friends. I think that it is pessimistic also because of the fact that Gatsby dies. If Gatsby reached Daisy and got her to come back to him I think that it would make sense that it was positive however I believe because he cannot reach her and dies it means that you cannot escape what you are today.
2) Who is Gatsby supposed to be symbolically?
I believe that Gatsby represents Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald throughout his life was possessed by ambitions he could never achieve we see this also in Gatsby's life with his striving for Daisy. He also at the time the was written had lost his love Zelda because he didn't have enough money for her just like Gatsby didn't have enough to keep Daisy. They also shared that they both wanted a past love. Eventually Fitzgerald married Zelda although sadly soon after they were married Zelda developed schizophrenia, however ay the time they were seperated and Fitzgerald was certain they would never be together
3) how effective was the use of symbolism in The Great Gatsby?
I believe that the symbolism in this book is extremely effective because there are so many ways to interpret each of the characters and the places. Gatsby, Nick, both eggs, the eyes, the valley of ashes all of which are symbolic of things and can be interpreted differently.
Gatsby and Nick are most commonly disputed however all these symbols are at least mildly disputed.
4. Why does Fitzgerald leave unfinished the last sentence of the second to last paragraph of the book?
I believe it was to create hope and show that hope doesn't cause something real that just because we want something bad enough doesn't mean we get it the entire book we root for Gatsby yet in the end he never reaches his goal he loses it and such does the sentence we build up hope.... Then never get the satisfaction of completion showing Fitzgerald's understanding of the human condition.

Gatsby blog 2

1) Wolfsheim as a character makes Gatsby a more humanized character He seems less godlike and perfect. He is very idealized by Nick but with the entrance of Wolfsheim Ushers in a sense of doubt of Gatsby's perfection.

2) It kind of explains Gatsby and his pressure to have these parties

3) it makes me respect him more the idea of coming back and trying to work your way back to your girl is so romantic

4) I like him more he feels more realistic you can see through the fog of Nick's beliefs of Gatsby to the real him and I like the real him better the idea of a person trying to get back their love.

Gatsby blog 1

I think that in the first three chapters nick is an antihero because as he says in the first few lines of pg 1 "[he]'s inclined to reserve all judgements" he is a good person over all but is sort of along for the ride never taking a very active role in the proceedings.

I think that daisy is a Villian she is self centered when he says on pg. 9 "daisys murmur was only to make people lean toward her" and when she says "I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything" and she seems to have no real positive qualities.

I think that Tom is a antihero he seems to be very morose and dark but I think that that's probably a cause of his circumstances that like it says on pg. 6 "one of those men who reach such acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward Davies of anticlimax"

Bread Propaganda

Overtly it wants you to eat less bread and cook more.

Covertly it wants women to be in the kitchen and stay out of corporate America.

The ad seems to support women and them aiding the war effort but in reality it is subjugating them into the home and the kitchen.

"Clampdown" the Clash

The song is about big business and fighting the man. Support oft is cmes from "the voices in your head are calling" which represents everyone in the corporate world telling you the same thing that their way is the way it should be. Also where it talks about them stealing the best years of your life and "growing up and calming down" this you settling into their habits an ways.

The way he sings and the steady monotone beat support the lyrics.

The song is about conformity and coming to be one of the anonymous corporate workers.

Propaganda

I like 282, 285, 297, and 305.
 The quote is "what was once thought can never be unthought." Friedrich Durrenmatt
I believe he means that people are very succeptable and that propoganda is really just the exploitation of it. that it really isn't that bad. An exasmple of this is with propoganda of germany during World War II the money was worth so little that it was cheaper to burn it than to buy firewood to burn, yet the people were still commited to their country due to propaganda. Much like I usually will stay in my ideas against all evidence just because something doesn't make sense doesn't mean that people won't believe it.