My writing: Post five years

I think that my writing is different now that It would have been five years ago because entering this class has changed that way that I look at literature and express myself through my writing.

MY MODERNIST !

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". I chose him because I found him the most interesting to me.

Literary Analysis #2: Fahrenheit 451

GENERAL:
1) A war has broke out in a world where firefighters jobs are to start fires and end all way of freely thinking.  A middle aged man that goes by the name Montag; Guy Montag and his wife Mildred have quite the peculiar relationship.  Very dry and not loving at all.  Montag is a third generation fireman.  His job is to burn down houses and books, and arrest anyone who owned them.  He enjoyed his job very much and looked forward to going in to work until one day, when he met his seventeen year-old neighbor Clarisse.  She points out to him there is more to life then what he is doing now.  After thinking about all this he remembers and old man he met in the park one day.  He was a retired professor named Faber.  Faber loved books and all they information they had to offer.   Montag started to rebel against the rules of his town little by little. Meeting up with Faber now and again to talk about books because he knew Faber was the only one out there who would listen to all he had to say.  He wondered more and more about books and what the meaning of life actually was.  His fascination with books became stronger and more tempting that he ended up saving books and reading them and memorizing them.  Once his captain Beatty found out he had been getting interested by books, he gave him a few chances to get over it and come back to his old ways of burning things and loving fire.  Beatty realized after Montag had become more and more rebellious enough was enough and had to step in and stop Montag with all his absurd new ways of thinking.  After Making Montag burn down his own house and books he has stored away for a year or so, Montag finally cracked.  He kills his captain and runs from the law with his books in hand.  After leading on police with a chase, he escapes to a river just outside of town and is floats away like a piece of drift wood, being carried away farther and farther from the city and all he left behind.  After hiding in the forest he comes across a group of old men.  They welcome Montag with open arms and let him become part of their quest for seeking better ways of living.  They were all once professors and understand Montag.  The war continues until they drop the bomb that will end their old lifestyle and foolish rules forever.  Hoping to recreate a new town and rules, Montag and his new group start fresh with nothing but the shirts on their back and memories of all the books they had once read.
2) Theme of the novel: Some rules are meant to be broke, and follow your heart. When Montag broke the rules it ended up leading him to a better group of understanding people and a new civilization.
3) Authors tone: Somewhat gloomy because Montag is miserable with the way things are going now.
4) Simile: "there was only a girl walking with him now, her face as white as snow...." pg 7
    Imagery: When Montag explains how the burning books look like birds on fire with their feathers floating around his feet like ashes.
    Flashback: When Montag thinks back about the very first night he met Clarisse.
    Symbolism: Whenever Montag or any of the other men saw fire, they thought of their job, not about how beautiful and warm a fire actually could be.
    Repetition: "And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering lack of tree apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing, and said it loud, loud, loud." pg 44
Irony: Their firemen started fire, and our firemen are here to put them out.
CHARACTERIZATION:
1) Direct Ch: .."her face was white as snow.." Stating that Clarisse had a white face.
    Indirect Ch: Montag would always smell like kerosene and have a charred black face, describing him as a firemen.
2) I don't think the authors syntax or diction changed at all throughout the book ?
3) Montag is a dynamic character because he changed from a firemen who never really thought about the reasons why he had to burn down books, to a man who really wanted to know the meaning of life and what it had to offer.
4) After reading this book, I came to the understanding that some rules are meant to be broken and to always follow your heart no matter what; there's no way of telling what the outcome might be..

(title: BOB I)

Ranking Out of 1-5; 5 Being Highest 

Jarrett Anzalone: 2
Alyssa Barajas: 4
Joseph Beas:2
Jasmine Beebe:  5
Jacob Bigelow: 2
Michaila Bohard: 4
Amanda Cagle: 5
Roman Davis: 3
Jose Farias: 3
Danny George:  5
Derek Gonzalez: 2
Cory Grant: 1
Shelby Hennick: 4
Trevor Henson:  0
Melissa Hernandez: 4
Shelby Kanakanui:  0
Frank Limon: 3
Jonah Maher: 3
Taylor Martinez: 3
Rosario Mena Ortiz:  0
Chance Miranda: 4
Miguel Moreno: 3.5
Shelbi Nunes: 2
Karla Paredes: 4
Nicholaus Paulus: 5
Alicia Ramirez: 5
Cameron Reese: 5
Matt Reynolds:  4
Josh Salcido:  0
Carlos Serrano: 5
Teanna Silveira: 5
Kyle Stickler: 3
Diego Tejeda-Mora: 4
Patricia Tuttle: 4
Vanessa Vargas: 4
Miyah Velasquez:  5
Jessica Wilkin: 2

"The First Seven Years"

I absolutely loved this story!!! At first while reading it in class I didn't get into it because I couldn't focus and I thought it would be really boring.  While reading it at home, I got more and more into it and at the end of  the story when Feld goes to open up shop again, the day after his talk with Sobel, he walks in to find Sobel back to work.  My heart, oddly enough, started to pound at the end of the story because I was so anxious to find out what was going to happen next! All in all, I found this book to be quite delightful.

SPRING VOCAB 5

brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited display of interest
 cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness
 demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing
 deference: Humble submission and respect
 enigmatic: Difficult to interpret or understand
 definitive: final - conclusive 
 bumptious: cocky
 choleric: Bad-tempered or irritable.
 bulwark: A defensive wall
 curtail: shorten - reduce 
 adamant:  uncompromising
 profligate: wasteful
 mawkish: emotional 
 thwart: prevent
 onus: burden  - responsibility 
 requisite: necessary -required
 mollify:- soothe - pacify  
 sartorial:  clothing, fashion
 presentiment: premonition  - hunch 
 impromptu: Done without being planned
 forbearance: patience - endurance - tolerance
 remit: send in

Scavenger Hunt: Fahrenheit 451

Frank runs around campus on a hunt for new clues