1. The Scarlet Letter is old book in the world. But we can found on the book that Hawthorne used key writing style is natural law. Hester broke a conventional law, but she did not broken a natural law. He made many complex sentences, creating a sense of mystery. And his writing skill can help to enter the readers and mystify their minds. 2. Hester's scarlet letter is a hardworking symbol. At various times, it symbolizes adultery, sin, hard work, skill, 3. I think there are two points in The Scarlet Letter could be identified as the book’s “climax.” The first is in Chapter 12, at the exact center of the book. As Dimmesdale watches a meteor trace a letter “A” in the sky, he confronts his role in Hester’s sin and realizes that he can no longer deny his deed and its consequences. The other climactic scene occurs in Chapter 23, Dimmesdale, Hester, and Chillingworth not only knowledge their secrets to themselves and to each other. They push these revelations to such extremes that they all must leave the community in one way or another. 4. I think the theme is Sin, Knowledge, and the Human Condition. By the other way, I get the Nature of Evil. Because Evil, in its most poisonous form, is found in the carefully plotted and precisely aimed revenge of Chillingworth, whose love has been perverted. The instability of the letter's apparent meaning calls into question society's ability to use symbols for ideological reinforcement. a symbol becomes a focal point for critical analysis and debate. 5. Firstly, I think this book is very influential. For example now a days no one would have to wear a "scarlet letter" or be shunned because they committed adultery. Secondly, I learned about writing skill form this book, He made many complex sentences, creating a sense of mystery.
1.The narrator, Holden uses a lot of slang and informal languages such as “you'd have liked [Allie]", "corny and phony”, "goddamn life” and "like a bastard.” It makes the book sounds colloquial and a lot more like a real sixteen-year-old talking. Also, he uses italics to make the words sounds like a spoken word such as "He's my brother and all".
2.There is irony between the relationship of Holden and his sister, Phoebe. Although Phoebe is many years younger than Holden, she seems to be much more mature and have a better understanding of the world: When Holden gets kicked out of school, Phoebe is very upset and tells him several times, “daddy’s going to kill you”. She understands how her parents will feel and understand its consequences. Also, she knows how Holden’s actions affect others. The reason why the author uses this irony is to help the reader understand the character of Holden and his weaknesses.
3.The climax of the novel is when Holden meets Sunny Mr. Antolini. With Sunny, he is unable to handle a sexual encounter. With Mr. Antolini, he feels unbearable when he questions Holden about judging other people. So, Holden runs away from both Sunny and Mr. Antolini’s apartment. This climax is led by his inner conflict. He wants to disconnect himself from such dirtiness and phoniness of the adult world.
4.There are three themes in the novel which are alienation, the painfulness of growing up and the phoniness of the adult world. First, for the idea of alienation, the author uses the symbol of Holden’s red hunting hat. It represents his uniqueness and courage to be different and standing out. His isolation from the world is because of his being better than everyone else and therefore above interacting with them. Second, Holden’s painfulness of growing up is shown in the Museum of Natural History and his quote. Just like the statues of Eskimos and Indians in the museum, he wishes everything in the world to be easily understandable and eternally fixed. Also, his pain is described when he talks about sex: “sex is something I just don’t understand. I swear to God I don’t”. Furthermore, in his imagination of a rye field, he describes the transition to the adulthood as children falling over the cliff which means death. Lastly, the phoniness of the adult world is portrayed through the characters he meets: Sally Hayes, Carl Luce, Maurice, Sunny and Mr. Antolini and their superficiality, hypocrisy, pretension, and shallowness. Although, the story is written in 1960s, these themes also apply to today’s world. Like the story, many people today seem impure, dishonest, and materialistic. Also, people take sex as an enjoyment which shows the disorderliness of today’s culture.
5.I learned a lot from the inner struggles of the main character, Holden. In the beginning, he isolates himself from the society and people to avoid the corruption. That’s what makes him feel lonely and depressed and because of it, he thinks of committing a suicide many times. But, at the end, he finally decides not to escape from the problem but to face his fear and fight the world. This determination is revealed in his dream of becoming a “catcher in the rye”: a person who catches children from falling over the cliff. Like this, I learned that instead of fearing away and escaping from the problem, we should have courage to face and fight it. Also, like Holden being different from the society, we should not be afraid of standing out from the wrong crowd.
1. As far as I know, Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darrel and their companions were called “Greasers” by the rich who lived in the west side of this town. Greaser originated from an American slang that Greaser was an impolite term for the Mexican in 19th century, and the slur likely derived from what was considered one of the lowest occupations that typically held by Mexicans. After the Mexican-American War ended, people kept using this insulting term to against Italian, Mexican, and even poor people like Ponyboy and his friends. 2. In my eyes, the famous book that was Ponyboy’s favorite, “Gone with the wind” was the symbolism of equality and freedom. Just like the novel’s name that “Gone with the wind” which illustrated abandon all the worries, and just follow the wind fluttering to a random place. Since Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darrel faced too many obstacles, and it would be wonderful for them going with the wind, but they couldn’t. It seemed like they were doomed to be restricted by poverty and troubles. The book was their expectation, an impossible expectation. 3. The climax of this story was that Greasers, including Sodapop and his friends, and Socials decided to have an ultimate battle for Bob’s death. Fortunately, Sodapop died eventually. The major conflict of the climax was that Bob’s death, and Sodapop had enough of hiding in the church, and the resolution was that Greasers still couldn’t get rid off Socials’ unfair treatment, and they didn’t dare to struggle again since Sodapop has been the sacrifice for their first try. 4. I think there are three main themes in this story. The first one is that be honest to yourself that don’t change for anyone’s judgments, and don’t be ruined by anything bad. The another them is that friendship and family are so important, and the last one is that don’t stop struggling because of the possibility of failure. 5. From this novel, I learnt that everyone should be honest to yourself that I should always know who I am, and what I am doing. These aren’t stupid questions since a number of things happen in our daily life would easily influence us, and we would become lost. I perceived this theory of life from Sodapop that Sodapop left a piece of paper to Ponyboy in the book, “Gone with the wind” before he went to fight with Socials. On this small piece of paper, he said, “Stay gold, which means stay true to who you are, don’t change for anything it’ll ruin who you are. The way you dig sunsets, Pony, that’s gold.” From Sodapop’s last letter, I can see Sodapop had already known he would fail in this battle, and the reason he persisted in going to fight was that he was so eager to fight for his destiny, only once a lifetime because he wasn’t a coward.
1. for the final chapter, the author, Margret uses the ironic: the mal characters who get touch with Grace, fell in love with her. She uses such an ironic way to express human's negative dualities. Her ironic figure of speech can tell about the lop side about how a character changes.
2. Margaret Atwood uses both irony and symbolism to express the emotions and behaviors of characters. The first figure of speech is irony. Irony plays key role in this novel for both Dr. Jordan and Jamie Walsh. Dr. Jordan, an up-and -coming doctor, has been suspected by the Governor's wife that he is sort of indecent, since every time he closes the door while he examines Grace Marks. Nevertheless, Dr. Jordan had once had an affair with his landlady Mrs. Humphrey. As a result, Dr. Jordan's improper conducts correspond with the Governor's wife's estimation. In general, Atwood ironizes Dr. Jordan's duality.
Symbolism: Alias Grace was written in Victorian Age. Inequalities were everywhere especially for female. And Grace Marks is the typical one. In his novel, paradise tree, apples peels, egg and bacon, are the symbols in this novel. Paradise Tree represents Grace's wish of living in peace circumstances without excessive trauma; Apple Peels, symbolize her future, Grace says" throwing Apple Peels behind my back can predict what kind of husband I was going to marry". Grace had suffered from abuses from her father, she wished she could marry a heartfelt man.
3. Grace talks about her second employment in Mr. Kinnear's house. And it is the place the murders happen. However, Grace cannot remember what exactly happened in that house, since her double personalities have existed. The other is" Mary Whitney", referring to her beloved friend. That is the climax in this novel. Even though Grace has been accused of murder, her mental disorder can be hard to explore. After dr. Jordan begins to analyse her behaviour, his spiritualist group determine to use hypnosis to discover the truth. In this treatment, however, the conflict is: we still cannot determine who really kills Mr. Kinnear, Grace Marks? or "Mary Whitney"? who should we accused of?
4. Themes: 1. Duality 2. Corrupted love 3.Extreme trauma 4. Asylum treatments, legal or illegal?
5. Social structure 6. Dreams and illusions 7. amnesia 8. Memory tracking 9. Abuse
Grace's experiences are full of sadness and maltreatments. Margaret Atwood describes the experiences and feelings from both Grace and Dr. Jordan. Their point of views can evince what Victorian age looks like and inequality between male and female. Further, all the themes are related to mental issues and living circumstance. All these themes
5. In this novel, what I learned: trauma of childhood can be extended to adulthood; you have to distinguish right and wrong; protect yourself legally; don't rely on male, be independent.
In this novel, it generally showed characters' double personalities, some characters are regular, but some are abnormal. To the other aspect, Victorian Age was a lopsided time period. Asylum was a place treating patients with illegal ways; so do punishments, at that obscure age, the heads of the corpses of prisoners were allowed to cut off as part of scientific research. In modern society, I shows the scorn to human beings.
It was an obscure day as usual. I have been in Asylum for 29 years. During the 29 years, I could hardly forget the murder of Mr. Kinnear and Nancy. However, could not remember what I had done? or what had McDommt done? In addition to these, it was nice of the Governor's wife to keep me as her servant.
As always, there were many guests come to visit the house of the Governor's wife. Most of them were doctors and nobilities. The different was, her two daughters came too. They watched me vigilantly as I were a tiger; and jealousy, since everyone said I was handsome and pretty, much prettier than the pictures of mine on her scrap book.
Today was a regular day. I got used to suffer from my bitter memory and endure people's scornful eye sights.
August 6th, 1854
They released me from the Asylum. The advent of the next doctor totally scared me. I wished he was not the one who cut off McDermott. Oh, here he was, he looked charming, polite and handsome. He was smiling at me. His name was Dr. Jordan. Would he trust me or not? When he took out his notes book, I was totally relaxed. He gave me an apple, did this help to recall your lost memory? He asked. Was he laughing at me? I thought we could be friends in the future days. He didn't seem to threaten me.
We finished our conversation for today. I felt released. I got closed to him. At least, I knew, I would not have the same fortune as McDermott. Or, was it a trick?
May 7th, 1855
Dr. Jordan and I have been meeting for almost one month since yesterday. He didn't come today, I felt like missing him. I couldn't help thinking, he was much better than McDermott. I wanted to share more about my experience. I felt relaxed being with him. Rather than his kindness towards me, I confessed that I fell in love with him.
Tonight, I lie on my bed. I thought I saw the illusions of Mary Whitney and Nancy Montgomery. They wanted to talk to me, especially Nancy. I was scared and curious. I was still confused: were they real? or was I dreaming? I wished they both lived, so that I would not suffered from my guilty.
April 6th, 1855
Dr. Jordan said, he was going to take me to his spiritualist group. I was trembling. I always dreamed about it: they were trying to cut my head off, in order to investigate what was in my head. Although legal treatment would not be as cruel as the Asylum did. Mr. DuPont, the main doctor, who glared at me seriously, as if I were a lion suffering from hunger. "Hypnosis was as safe as eating", said Mr. DuPont.
I awoke. I was still sitting on my chair. They asked me, whether I remembered what I had done. I had no idea. They all seemed shocked, even angry.
"Were you pretending", asked Dr. DuPont. " I was sleeping, and you woke me up." I replied.
I didn't know what they were talking about, or what I had done during my hypnosis. However, have I been proved innocent or not?
October 9th, 1895
I was knitting a sweater. The Governor's wife rushed into my room without knocking the door, the man behind her is Jaime Walsh. he told me excitedly, guess what, you were going to marry to Jaime Walsh, and you two were going to move to Los Angeles.
As I was in shocking, Jaime Walsh stride towards me, he said he was sorry for not proving my innocence on the court. He begged me to forgive him, and e would have a brand new start in Los Angeles. I accepted it, at least everything was over, and I was not going to see Dr. Jordan again.
We had our new house there. It was big, as gorgeous as Mr. Kinnear's. "This was your new house", said Jaime Walsh.
All my suspicions suddenly eliminated. I will not suffer from scorn and discrimination, even the shame of murder.
1. The Scarlet Letter is old book in the world. But we can found on the book that Hawthorne used key writing style is natural law. Hester broke a conventional law, but she did not broken a natural law. He made many complex sentences, creating a sense of mystery. And his writing skill can help to enter the readers and mystify their minds.
ReplyDelete2. Hester's scarlet letter is a hardworking symbol. At various times, it symbolizes adultery, sin, hard work, skill,
3. I think there are two points in The Scarlet Letter could be identified as the book’s “climax.”
The first is in Chapter 12, at the exact center of the book. As Dimmesdale watches a meteor trace a letter “A” in the sky, he confronts his role in Hester’s sin and realizes that he can no longer deny his deed and its consequences. The other climactic scene occurs in Chapter 23, Dimmesdale, Hester, and Chillingworth not only knowledge their secrets to themselves and to each other. They push these revelations to such extremes that they all must leave the community in one way or another.
4. I think the theme is Sin, Knowledge, and the Human Condition. By the other way, I get the Nature of Evil. Because Evil, in its most poisonous form, is found in the carefully plotted and precisely aimed revenge of Chillingworth, whose love has been perverted. The instability of the letter's apparent meaning calls into question society's ability to use symbols for ideological reinforcement. a symbol becomes a focal point for critical analysis and debate.
5. Firstly, I think this book is very influential. For example now a days no one would have to wear a "scarlet letter" or be shunned because they committed adultery. Secondly, I learned about writing skill form this book, He made many complex sentences, creating a sense of mystery.
1.The narrator, Holden uses a lot of slang and informal languages such as “you'd have liked [Allie]", "corny and phony”, "goddamn life” and "like a bastard.” It makes the book sounds colloquial and a lot more like a real sixteen-year-old talking. Also, he uses italics to make the words sounds like a spoken word such as "He's my brother and all".
ReplyDelete2.There is irony between the relationship of Holden and his sister, Phoebe. Although Phoebe is many years younger than Holden, she seems to be much more mature and have a better understanding of the world: When Holden gets kicked out of school, Phoebe is very upset and tells him several times, “daddy’s going to kill you”. She understands how her parents will feel and understand its consequences. Also, she knows how Holden’s actions affect others. The reason why the author uses this irony is to help the reader understand the character of Holden and his weaknesses.
3.The climax of the novel is when Holden meets Sunny Mr. Antolini. With Sunny, he is unable to handle a sexual encounter. With Mr. Antolini, he feels unbearable when he questions Holden about judging other people. So, Holden runs away from both Sunny and Mr. Antolini’s apartment. This climax is led by his inner conflict. He wants to disconnect himself from such dirtiness and phoniness of the adult world.
4.There are three themes in the novel which are alienation, the painfulness of growing up and the phoniness of the adult world. First, for the idea of alienation, the author uses the symbol of Holden’s red hunting hat. It represents his uniqueness and courage to be different and standing out. His isolation from the world is because of his being better than everyone else and therefore above interacting with them. Second, Holden’s painfulness of growing up is shown in the Museum of Natural History and his quote. Just like the statues of Eskimos and Indians in the museum, he wishes everything in the world to be easily understandable and eternally fixed. Also, his pain is described when he talks about sex: “sex is something I just don’t understand. I swear to God I don’t”. Furthermore, in his imagination of a rye field, he describes the transition to the adulthood as children falling over the cliff which means death. Lastly, the phoniness of the adult world is portrayed through the characters he meets: Sally Hayes, Carl Luce, Maurice, Sunny and Mr. Antolini and their superficiality, hypocrisy, pretension, and shallowness. Although, the story is written in 1960s, these themes also apply to today’s world. Like the story, many people today seem impure, dishonest, and materialistic. Also, people take sex as an enjoyment which shows the disorderliness of today’s culture.
5.I learned a lot from the inner struggles of the main character, Holden. In the beginning, he isolates himself from the society and people to avoid the corruption. That’s what makes him feel lonely and depressed and because of it, he thinks of committing a suicide many times. But, at the end, he finally decides not to escape from the problem but to face his fear and fight the world. This determination is revealed in his dream of becoming a “catcher in the rye”: a person who catches children from falling over the cliff. Like this, I learned that instead of fearing away and escaping from the problem, we should have courage to face and fight it. Also, like Holden being different from the society, we should not be afraid of standing out from the wrong crowd.
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ReplyDeletePart 3---Response 3 Guiding Questions
ReplyDelete1. As far as I know, Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darrel and their companions were called “Greasers” by the rich who lived in the west side of this town. Greaser originated from an American slang that Greaser was an impolite term for the Mexican in 19th century, and the slur likely derived from what was considered one of the lowest occupations that typically held by Mexicans. After the Mexican-American War ended, people kept using this insulting term to against Italian, Mexican, and even poor people like Ponyboy and his friends.
2. In my eyes, the famous book that was Ponyboy’s favorite, “Gone with the wind” was the symbolism of equality and freedom. Just like the novel’s name that “Gone with the wind” which illustrated abandon all the worries, and just follow the wind fluttering to a random place. Since Ponyboy, Sodapop and Darrel faced too many obstacles, and it would be wonderful for them going with the wind, but they couldn’t. It seemed like they were doomed to be restricted by poverty and troubles. The book was their expectation, an impossible expectation.
3. The climax of this story was that Greasers, including Sodapop and his friends, and Socials decided to have an ultimate battle for Bob’s death. Fortunately, Sodapop died eventually. The major conflict of the climax was that Bob’s death, and Sodapop had enough of hiding in the church, and the resolution was that Greasers still couldn’t get rid off Socials’ unfair treatment, and they didn’t dare to struggle again since Sodapop has been the sacrifice for their first try.
4. I think there are three main themes in this story. The first one is that be honest to yourself that don’t change for anyone’s judgments, and don’t be ruined by anything bad. The another them is that friendship and family are so important, and the last one is that don’t stop struggling because of the possibility of failure.
5. From this novel, I learnt that everyone should be honest to yourself that I should always know who I am, and what I am doing. These aren’t stupid questions since a number of things happen in our daily life would easily influence us, and we would become lost. I perceived this theory of life from Sodapop that Sodapop left a piece of paper to Ponyboy in the book, “Gone with the wind” before he went to fight with Socials. On this small piece of paper, he said, “Stay gold, which means stay true to who you are, don’t change for anything it’ll ruin who you are. The way you dig sunsets, Pony, that’s gold.” From Sodapop’s last letter, I can see Sodapop had already known he would fail in this battle, and the reason he persisted in going to fight was that he was so eager to fight for his destiny, only once a lifetime because he wasn’t a coward.
1. for the final chapter, the author, Margret uses the ironic: the mal characters who get touch with Grace, fell in love with her. She uses such an ironic way to express human's negative dualities. Her ironic figure of speech can tell about the lop side about how a character changes.
ReplyDelete2. Margaret Atwood uses both irony and symbolism to express the emotions and behaviors of characters. The first figure of speech is irony. Irony plays key role in this novel for both Dr. Jordan and Jamie Walsh. Dr. Jordan, an up-and -coming doctor, has been suspected by the Governor's wife that he is sort of indecent, since every time he closes the door while he examines Grace Marks. Nevertheless, Dr. Jordan had once had an affair with his landlady Mrs. Humphrey. As a result, Dr. Jordan's improper conducts correspond with the Governor's wife's estimation. In general, Atwood ironizes Dr. Jordan's duality.
Symbolism: Alias Grace was written in Victorian Age. Inequalities were everywhere especially for female. And Grace Marks is the typical one. In his novel, paradise tree, apples peels, egg and bacon, are the symbols in this novel. Paradise Tree represents Grace's wish of living in peace circumstances without excessive trauma; Apple Peels, symbolize her future, Grace says" throwing Apple Peels behind my back can predict what kind of husband I was going to marry". Grace had suffered from abuses from her father, she wished she could marry a heartfelt man.
3. Grace talks about her second employment in Mr. Kinnear's house. And it is the place the murders happen. However, Grace cannot remember what exactly happened in that house, since her double personalities have existed. The other is" Mary Whitney", referring to her beloved friend. That is the climax in this novel. Even though Grace has been accused of murder, her mental disorder can be hard to explore. After dr. Jordan begins to analyse her behaviour, his spiritualist group determine to use hypnosis to discover the truth. In this treatment, however, the conflict is: we still cannot determine who really kills Mr. Kinnear, Grace Marks? or "Mary Whitney"? who should we accused of?
4. Themes: 1. Duality 2. Corrupted love 3.Extreme trauma 4. Asylum treatments, legal or illegal?
5. Social structure 6. Dreams and illusions 7. amnesia 8. Memory tracking 9. Abuse
Grace's experiences are full of sadness and maltreatments. Margaret Atwood describes the experiences and feelings from both Grace and Dr. Jordan. Their point of views can evince what Victorian age looks like and inequality between male and female. Further, all the themes are related to mental issues and living circumstance. All these themes
5. In this novel, what I learned: trauma of childhood can be extended to adulthood; you have to distinguish right and wrong; protect yourself legally; don't rely on male, be independent.
In this novel, it generally showed characters' double personalities, some characters are regular, but some are abnormal. To the other aspect, Victorian Age was a lopsided time period. Asylum was a place treating patients with illegal ways; so do punishments, at that obscure age, the heads of the corpses of prisoners were allowed to cut off as part of scientific research. In modern society, I shows the scorn to human beings.
Part 4.(section 1)
ReplyDeleteDiary entries from Grace Marks:
January 5th, 1854
It was an obscure day as usual. I have been in Asylum for 29 years. During the 29 years, I could hardly forget the murder of Mr. Kinnear and Nancy. However, could not remember what I had done? or what had McDommt done? In addition to these, it was nice of the Governor's wife to keep me as her servant.
As always, there were many guests come to visit the house of the Governor's wife. Most of them were doctors and nobilities. The different was, her two daughters came too. They watched me vigilantly as I were a tiger; and jealousy, since everyone said I was handsome and pretty, much prettier than the pictures of mine on her scrap book.
Today was a regular day. I got used to suffer from my bitter memory and endure people's scornful eye sights.
August 6th, 1854
They released me from the Asylum. The advent of the next doctor totally scared me. I wished he was not the one who cut off McDermott. Oh, here he was, he looked charming, polite and handsome. He was smiling at me. His name was Dr. Jordan. Would he trust me or not? When he took out his notes book, I was totally relaxed. He gave me an apple, did this help to recall your lost memory? He asked. Was he laughing at me? I thought we could be friends in the future days. He didn't seem to threaten me.
We finished our conversation for today. I felt released. I got closed to him. At least, I knew, I would not have the same fortune as McDermott. Or, was it a trick?
May 7th, 1855
Dr. Jordan and I have been meeting for almost one month since yesterday. He didn't come today, I felt like missing him. I couldn't help thinking, he was much better than McDermott. I wanted to share more about my experience. I felt relaxed being with him. Rather than his kindness towards me, I confessed that I fell in love with him.
Tonight, I lie on my bed. I thought I saw the illusions of Mary Whitney and Nancy Montgomery. They wanted to talk to me, especially Nancy. I was scared and curious. I was still confused: were they real? or was I dreaming? I wished they both lived, so that I would not suffered from my guilty.
April 6th, 1855
Dr. Jordan said, he was going to take me to his spiritualist group. I was trembling. I always dreamed about it: they were trying to cut my head off, in order to investigate what was in my head. Although legal treatment would not be as cruel as the Asylum did. Mr. DuPont, the main doctor, who glared at me seriously, as if I were a lion suffering from hunger. "Hypnosis was as safe as eating", said Mr. DuPont.
I awoke. I was still sitting on my chair. They asked me, whether I remembered what I had done. I had no idea. They all seemed shocked, even angry.
"Were you pretending", asked Dr. DuPont. " I was sleeping, and you woke me up." I replied.
I didn't know what they were talking about, or what I had done during my hypnosis. However, have I been proved innocent or not?
October 9th, 1895
I was knitting a sweater. The Governor's wife rushed into my room without knocking the door, the man behind her is Jaime Walsh. he told me excitedly, guess what, you were going to marry to Jaime Walsh, and you two were going to move to Los Angeles.
As I was in shocking, Jaime Walsh stride towards me, he said he was sorry for not proving my innocence on the court. He begged me to forgive him, and e would have a brand new start in Los Angeles. I accepted it, at least everything was over, and I was not going to see Dr. Jordan again.
We had our new house there. It was big, as gorgeous as Mr. Kinnear's. "This was your new house", said Jaime Walsh.
All my suspicions suddenly eliminated. I will not suffer from scorn and discrimination, even the shame of murder.