Applied modernism

The following stories are categorized as modernism: Fahrenheit 451, Theme for English B and Richards Cory. For starters, all these literary works were written in the years when modernism first arose. The stories also use their thoughts on society being impersonal like in F451 where people are oblivious to what's to be cared about or Theme for English B which talks about a student which no one understands. The poetry that's is written modernist also has short images in which was a technique used.

My modernist view

I think that my writing has changed greatly in the past five years. Over the years I've became more mature and able to understand things I had then. Not only have I changed but also the world around me. Responsibility had become a factor and also the stresses that you hear about everyday influences how I think and how I put those thoughts on paper.

My modernist

I chose Scott F. Fitzgerald because he uses his relationship problems with his wife to write his novels.

I CAN READ!!!

This is the first time english class was physically straining! I need a glass of water after this.

The First Seven Years

I really didn't find the ending to this story quiet surprising. I saw that Sobel and Miriam had some kind of connection through the books but sobels reason for working for Feld and his response towards Feld trying to set max up with his daught did. I find that he must be in love with Miriam deeply for him to continue working for Feld even though he has to wait 2 more years.

Spring vocab 5

Brouhaha- a uproar
Cloy- overly sweet
Demeanor- a persons manners towards others
Deference- to easily go with others wants and ideas
Enigmatic- puzzling
Definitive- precisely outlining
Bumptious- very demanding behavior
Choleric- bad tempered
Bulwark- a wall with a similar structured being used as defence
Curtail- to cut short
Adamant- to be unwilling to try new things
Profligate- to be recklessly wasteful
Mawkish- to be very annoying when emotional
Thwart- to prevent something form taking place
Onus- burden
Requisite- necessary
Mollify- to claim
Sartorial- pertaining to tailors
Presentiment- having a sense of a future occurrence
Impromptu- reforming without rehearsal
Forbearance- prohibited
Remit- sending or canceling

BOB1

These are who I think are the best based on the fact that they actually post

Whitney Hough
Andrew alcazar
Eli Esparza
Sarah Stevens
Connor Albright
Rudy valentine
Malik pope
Miraya Biely
Alison fouratt
Mía Hernandez
Ethan mcClardy
Ashley chantry
Ricky luna

Essay postgame analysis

I felt that I did decent on the essay we took but i feel it could have been better. It lacked detail wasnt very long. I also didn't quiet clearly uderstand the topic which added to the difficulty.

LAQ: Fahrenhiet 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 is a story about a future society that lives like mindless zombies and are considered socially awkward. In this world firemen burn books instead of put out fires. It follows fireman Guy Montag over a period of time where his thinking process changes drastically because of the influence of books.

Guy Montag is the main character of this story and is a dynamic character.
He like all other people in this world are influenced by the media that is produced and is very simple minded. We see this change during the course of the story starting with the arrival of Clarisse. She was the first person we see in this world that actually thinks for herself and is considered anti social. The questions she asks Montag are simple but is still enough to get his brain turning because after his first encounter with her, he begins questioning things on why things work the way they do. It's then we see a new Montag who isn't content with his life and starts looking for ways to change how society works

Mildred is Guy Montags wife and she is a static character. She is very narrow minded and doesn't care about anything but her "walls" and "seashells". During Montage transformation he asks her question and talks to her in a way she just ignores or give selfish, simple answers too. A moment of this is when Montag is tell her about his experience with the burning woman in which she replies "I hate her, she shouldn't have had books". Nothing ever matters to her unless it's going to get her in trouble and she shows this when she reports Montag for possesion of books.

Clarisse is also a static character, but only because she had no time to develop in the story. When she is first introduced she already comes off as different from other people. She is the reason for Montags dramatic changes.I believe she would have became a dynamic character if she hadn't died.

Captain Beatty is a dynamic character with Montag. Around the same time we also begin seeing Beatty turn into the antagonist of the story when Montag starts finding out more and more about the truth. In the scenes coming to his death, the reader can start to see that he is very knowledgeable about books and is heard quoting famous writings like Shakespeare.

Ray Bradbury uses different literary element throughout the story. It seemed that one of the most used was foreshadowing. We see this right at the beginning of the story when Montag looks at the vent and sees a shadowy outline in there. It's not until later that we find out that there are books hidden in the vent which shows that he was interested even before clarisse came along. The mechanical hound was another source of foreshadowing when Montag first arrives at the fire station. The hound seemed not to like him already and later on, that hound would be trying to kill him.

Bradbury also uses symbols throughout the story to give readers more meaning to what they are seeing. One mentioned throughout the story is the salamander which is on the firemens uniform, I had to look up the meaning behind it which came up mentioning that the salamander is believed not to burn but I find it quiet ironic that Beatty burns to death. Another symbolic thing in this story is the phoenix. At the end of the story, Granger talks of how society is a phoenix and will be reborn once again after the city is bombed by jets.

My F451

This novel is about a fireman in the future who instead of puts out fires, starts them by burning books. In his time everyone is very narrow minded and don't care about anything but media. One day after his shift, his thinking process is changed dramaticly by an odd ball girl named clarrise who is said to be anti-social for talking alot instead of watching tv and playing sports. As his life went on, he began looking at what he does in a different way especialy after a women burned herself when she refused to leave her books. Montag has a hard time dealing with it and takes a break from the fire station. Durning his break, Beatty reveals to Montag the truth of the firemens history. After Montag reveals his stash of books to Mildred who is strongly aggainst it and Montag goes to a professor named faber. Faber gives Montag a listening device so that they can plan to take down the firemen. Before this happens Mildred reports Montag. He is forced to then bur down his house but when he finishes, he kills Beatty and the hound and runs away. He is on the run until he is in the countryside where he meets the book people. There he finds out they memorize there books and plan to fix society.

Parlor Poetry

The Mask by Lisa Willhite

Existing in the realm, of its own true hell
the pacing of the parasite begins to swell
it suffers in silence yet demands to be heard
it will never survive without its bevy of words

as an infant, it fed, on what it desired
and the need to grow was quickly retired
it donned a mask it had soon acquired
and eventually dressed in regal attire

I am! I am! it said aloud
while hiding behind a glistening shroud
to none it wavered to none it bowed
worthy am I! it heartily vowed

as a thief of hearts, it sought our souls
and refused to acknowledge the unspeakable tolls
it relished our pain our faults and our woes
acted as friend yet lived as foe

for the lower we were, the higher it’s rise
sometimes nestled on pillows, feathered with lies
soaring as an eagle, through bright blue skies
impeding the light, from watchful eyes

it changed lies to belief and that belief to admiration
it became its own form, of revered celebration
though to those who saw, through the garish decoration
it was nothing more than sheer abomination

these were few, who could actually see
how sad and sickened, this thing could be
they lost their battles, to make it flee
as it wiggled in joy and laughed with glee

and a new found strength, was gained from the seers
they found it flaunting, in front of its peers
for this mask was now learn-ed and it shed false tears
and a victim was born, its path, though not cleared

for as day turns to night, conflicts persist
the heart can grow cold, but the soul still resists
new defenders of truths will continue to enlist
and the spirit of God will always assist

yes a fight ensued, yet the beast stood tall
and flashed it’s lies, fooling most all
it cried poor me, and with such great gall
It is I who has suffered!, was it’s deceptive call

the truths presented the stern manipulations
the deeds that were done, with much stipulation
the lies that served, as mere stimulations
and these they hoped, were condemning revelations

the mask took form, and revealed a child
the innocence of eyes that appeared softly wild
no sign of his pride, no sign of the vile
how dare the "truths" accuse him of guile

hearts blood flowed, and non seers cried
as the villagers witnessed a man so tried
a man who was beaten, and his humanity denied
a man who was not evil, but sanctified!

The steel once hot, now cooled to strength
it enveloped his soul and his body at length
the blood of hearts, flowing in sync
protected him now from morality’s links

alas truth lost, but so did the beast
for a cancer did grow, and on lies it did feast
from within his throat, it locked in its feet
and his mask is now meeting a deadly defeat

Existing in the realm, of its own true hell
the pacing of the parasite begins to swell
it suffers in silence yet demands to be heard
it will never survive without its bevy of words


I think that Montag and Bradbury chose this poem because he really wants to show that the people in the story aren't in touch with there emotions so when they do come out, there not to sure what is happening.

To Modern or Postmodern

He talks about how our world is becoming dumber and dumber and how it shows now through our liturature and how people will do things not to stand out and try to find a way to fit into whats acceptable.

Spring Vocab 2

1 Patronage- power to control appointments

2 Cadence- rythmic flow of a sequence of sound and words

3 Suffused- o overspread something with a liquid

4 Sieve- a strainer

5 Centrifuge- a machine that has a compartment spun around an axis to separate contained materials of different densities

6 Dentifrice- toothpaste

7 Leisure- doing something withou a hurry in free time

8 Vessel- hollow container to hold liquid

9 Saccharine- excessively sweet

10 Phonograph- record player