Act. 2 Scene I & II

U-Lord Polonius, Reynaldo, Ophelia -A room in Polonius' house -Lord Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris spy on his son, Laertes -Laertes is studying in France (bad reputation) -"By indirection find directions out" -Ophelia tells Lord Polonius how horrified she is of Hamlet  -King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Lord Polonius, Voltimand, Cornelius, Hamlet -King Claudius uses Hamlet's school friends to spy on Hamlet -Lord Polonius tells King Claudius about Hamlet -"Brevity is the soul of wit," -"More matter, with less art" -"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." -"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

-YunSoo Lee took these notes! Thanks buddy! 

"what a piece of work is a man" -hamlet 

-times have changed 

"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" -hamlet 

Literature Analysis #2

1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read according to the elements of plot you've learned in past courses (exposition, inciting incident, etc.).  Explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).

The Kite Runner by Khaked Hosseini is a story about good versus evil and how one bad decision can result in scaring a person for the rest of their life. Amir, the narrator who is a young Afghanistan boy who shares stories of how he has lived in guilt and only wanted love from his father, because he thought his father hated him and he did whatever he could do to change his mind. His mother died when he was born and he thought he was the cause of her death. Hassan, the Hazara servant’s son was Amir’s closet friend and Hassan would do anything for Amir but it wasn’t the same for Amir, he sometimes took of advantage of Hassan. After making a bad decision, Amir’s life is turned upside down and he is now looking for forgiveness from himself.

2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.

The theme of this story is definitely finding salvation. I feel all Amir does in this story is try to find salvation through his father because of his dead mother and his past.

3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).

The author’s tone of the book is desperate at times then sometimes sentimental and also judgmental. I believe it was sentimental because the author always went back to how Amir felt about what happened or at that moment. “Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.” I also feel he is desperate because he would always want his father’s attention. “Nothing was free in this world. Maybe Hassan as the price I had to pay, the lamb I had to slay to win Baba. Was it a fair price? The answer flooded to my conscious mind before I could thwart it: He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” And I also felt like he was a little judgmental because he showed how others judged him or people judged others. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”

4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.) 

1-Personification: Creates a picture in your head of a large man walking into the room and everyone stares “At parties, when all six-foot-five of him thundered into the room, attention shifted to him life sunflowers turning to the sun.”

2-Inversion: Hassan was so loyal to Amir, he would tell him this whenever Amir asked him for something “For you, a thousand times over!”

3-Metaphor: Rahim explained to Baba that he can’t change the way Amir is, this also shows how their father son relationship occurs throughout the book. “ Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

4-Interior Monologue: Amir contemplates what he could do in the next few moments of Hassan being raped. “ I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan- the way he’d stood up for me all those times in the past- and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run, In the end, I ran.”

5- Internal Conflict: Amir struggles with his decision of not intervening with Assef raping Hassan in order to bring back the kite he had won in order to show Baba he was worth something.

6- Rhetorical Questions: Amir still feels hopeless without him “It’s done, then. I’m eighteen and alone. I have no one left in the world. Baba’s dead and now I have to bury him? Where do I go after that?”

7-Symobolisism: This blue kite means the world to Amir because with it, Baba is proud. “ Behind him, sitting on piles of scrap and rubble, was the blue kite. My key to Baba’s heart”

8-allusion: amir is priveldged ““Never mind any of those things. Because history isn’t easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was a Sunni and he was a Shi’a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing”

9-Foreshawdow: This shows that Amir is going to have something happen in an alley which something did! “I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”

10-Irony: Amir is a coward because he didn’t stand up for his friend when he was being raped. “You’re a coward!” I said. “Nothing but a goddam coward!”

CHARACTERIZATION

5. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization.  Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?

Indirect Characterization:

Direct Characterization:

6. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character?  How?  Example(s)?

Yes, the author’s syntax and diction changes when he focuses on the character. The book is really all Amir’s thoughts and him talking in first person.

7.  Is the protagonist static or dynamic?  Flat or round?  Explain.

The protagonist is round and dynamic! Amir grows and learns throughout the book.

8.  After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character?  Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction. 

I don’t think I’ve met a character exactly like Amir but I definitely think everyone is always look back on their past trying to improve. 

Hamlet: Act I Scene V. another part of the platform.

-Enter Ghost & Hamlet 

-"Revenge is foul and most unnatural murder"-Ghost 

-The new king killed the old king and the new queen was seduced 

-The old king Hamlet was sleeping in the orchard, uncle came with a vile poison and put it in his ears and cursed him and then his blood stopped and body turned into crust.

-Don't give into your feelings and don't turn this royal family into

Insest and failure. 

-Burden to son, son Hamlet needs to

kill the king and leave your mom to be because she will get karma and guilt her own way. 

-Ghost exit 

-Son Hamlet is not cowardly or confused, no ambiguity and he knows exactly what he has to do.

-Enter Horatio and Marcellus 

-Son Hamlet doesn't say much to Horatio and Marcellus about what his father the ghost told him or confirmed to him. 

-"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in philosophy." -Hamlet 

-"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!-Hamlet

-I'm going to be acting a little weird and muniplating people but I'm not. 

Hamlet: Act I Scene IV: Platform

-Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus 

-Music and guns being shot off, Claudius taking the crown, celebration and partying

-Enter Ghost 

-Hamlet recognizes father 

-Exit Ghost & Hamlet 

-"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" -Marcellus 

-Exit Horatio & Marcellus 

LITERARY FICTION AND EMPATHY

I believe reading fiction can help me understand others because I believe when reading books especially fiction you place yourself in their shoes and make decisions on what we would do. We kind of just judge them and sterotype them to make sense of their character. When talking about the character Hamlet, I believe he is such a round character and has so much diversity in his attitudes and reactions to life events that reading fiction helps us understand people more.

What haven't I done this semester...

I was wondering what I haven't done for this class and I've basically done everything except for these three items and I think that is an accomplishment! I try to do all the assignments but so far I didn't do Essay #1 from the beginning of the year, I didn't comment on Good Charlie Brown or something like that, and I never did the blog post "Tale of Canterbury Tales" because we didn't discuss this in my class period because we were at College Boot Camp. To be or not to be 

"The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online" subject: Hamlet

So I typed in numerous words in my search bar that included the words Hamlet and school and basically I got a ton of old posts from like 2007 and none from now, 2014. I decided to not comment on the articles because I feel they would not get back to me, in a timely manner. I did learn that EVERYONE reads Hamlet and most people think its drab and boring and are always looking for ways to not make it boring. 

Lip singing is the best.

I had to post this because this is pure entertainment. I love Emma Stone and lip singing is great! 

Put one and two together and you get this

 People always mix up stories like

it's their profession because each person tells each story differentely because we get affected in some other ways and sometimes not in the same ways. 

Drama

Everyone says drama is essential part of high school but i believe a lot of people don't get or see that drama is just part of life. Through life we deal with drama with different types of relationships with your partners, friends, loved ones, and sometimes people you do not even know. This is even seen in movies and how we get attracted to them! We thrive off drama, we love it! I'm not saying we start it and sometimes we do, but it just happens. I just wanted to point out that drama is every where in life and it's not just in high schools. So stop saying when you get out of high school you won't have drama. 

Hamlet: Act 1 Scene 2 & 3

-Volitmade and and Cornelius 

-Hamlet's wife and now queen and then Hamlet died and wasn't queen and then she married the new king and now she is queen again. 

-Volitmade and Cornelius exit 

-"[aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind" Hamlet 

-Gertrude taking Claudius aside 

-Everyone loses a father and Hamlet wants to be in grieving. It's evil to mourn your dad??? 

-He is very romantic to his girl Where is loyalty to your husband? 

--Enter Horatio, Marcellus, Hamlet 

-Asking questions straight forward 

-Horatio didn't believe story but now will see tonight. 

-Hamlet is a well rounded character

Vocabulary: Fall list 6

abase:behave in a way so as to belittle or degrade (someone).
Ex-I watched my colleagues abasing themselves before the board of trustees.
abdicate:(of a monarch) renounce one's throne.
Ex-In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated as German emperor.
abomination:intense aversion or loathing; detestation.
Ex-He regarded lying with abomination.
brusque:abrupt in manner; blunt; rougH.
Ex-A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
saboteur:a person who commits or practices sabotage.
Ex- Don't be a saboteur and run my wedding! 
debauchery:excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.
Ex- Debauchery applies to today's youth. 
proliferate:to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
Ex- Social organizations proliferate but it is clear that they serve individual yearnings.
anachronism:something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier timw.
Ex-The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.
nomenclature:a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
Ex-Avoiding editorialising in the choice of nomenclature is hard.
expurgate:to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable.Ex-Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.bellicose:inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.Ex-The old gentleman was in a bellicose mood as he reminisced.gauche:lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless.Ex-Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
paradox:a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.Ex-This, in the view of the physicist, is a perfect example of the time paradox at work.

rapacious:given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
Ex-Insurance companies are rapacious and are not in the business of optimizing care.
conundrum:anything that puzzles.
Ex- I had a conundrum because I couldn't solve the problem. 
anomaly:a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.
Ex-If it happens once, it's an anomaly.
ephemeral:lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.
Ex-The ephemeral joys of childhood.
rancorous:bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
Ex-There was no rancor and there were good wishes all around.
churlish:like a churl; boorish; rude
Ex-She had a churlish attitude.
precipitous:a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
Ex-You guys are on the precipice of insanity.

CHARACTER STUDY (I)

Senior Year. Senior Privileges. College Applications. AP Classes. Extracurriculars. Football Games. Homecoming. Acceptances. I GET INTO SDSU. Prom. Gradnite. Graduation! High School went so fast, not to mention senior year. It was gone with just a blink of an eye. Just thinking back I probably had "senioritis" the first day of school. Actually I think I did because my instagram post for that day was a picture of me and my best friend and the picture was captioned "wearing black on my last first day of high school because I'm attending the funeral that summer is dead and I will be soon #sryrday1" I am getting so nostalgia.  My caption for my instagram posts scared me looking back because I feel like I am going to die with all the responsibilities I have living on my own. Don't get me wrong I love being out on my own but it's scary to think this is the beginning of new beginnings and how everything is not going to be the same anymore. I'm sitting here at school in my dorm room, trying to make a name for myself like I've always had. It's just weird. 

CHARACTER STUDY (III)

My friends got lost and I have no idea what I should do...Be a good friend and try to find my friends or look good for staying and volunteering with my sorority? I knew one thing thou! I had an hour till I had to go to volunteer! I was on a mission to find my friends. Their car broke down and I don't have a car. Luckily, Yun had a car and we started to drive on the freeway till we saw them! We finally found them and I had 30 minutes to get back! We told them we will go back for their car later, they got in the car! 10 minutes. Driving down. 5 minutes. 1 minute. I made it back in time and they helped volunteer too. After the 2 hours of volunteering, we went back for the broken down car and then headed back to campus to get ready for the party on Greek Row. WOOHOO

CHARACTER STUDY (II)

SDSU is great! We have great academic programs and the outside activities are also great too! But I miss my friends and I'm pretty sure my friends miss me too! Some of my friends from high school like Chrystal who goes to Fresno and Connor who goes to Long Beach want to come visit me and my friend Yun because we both go to SDSU. So I told them to come down to San Diego and help my fraternity, Ooze Ma Cappa volunteer and then attend the biggest party on Greek Row. They both came down and met me and Yun. The problem was that they got lost and I had to figure out how to find them while trying to volunteer. 

CANTERBURY TALES (II) : WHAT A CHARACTER

Narrator: indirect characterization 

The knight: direct characterization 

Humor: irony in some tales such as the wife of bath 

The author has many different types of stories and uses both satire and comical reliefs. 

More notes: 

Overview: 

Have and have not, what kind of have do you fall Under? 

Chaucer born into a working family, also born into a middle class and needs to work for a living. 

Administrator for 2 kings... Veer cat  and landed in Italy and france 

When you read a French book in America and then French book in France it's different and you start to see the disconnect when languages were learned in a different country other than the native country. 

Overview: 

Have and have not, what kind of have do you fall Under? 

Chaucer born into a working family, also born into a middle class and needs to work for a living. 

Administrator for 2 kings... Veer cat  and landed in Italy and france 

When you read a French book in America and then French book in France it's different and you start to see the disconnect when languages were learned in a different country other than the native country. 

That's when Chaucer decided to write in English and his stories were based on boccaccio Cameron which were a collection of 10 stories, 10 nobles had the plague and met and shared their stories, each one of their tales was a tale within a tale. 

Chaucer is no one genre, he has different genres because of the topics, symbols, and language 

Romance: knights tale (emotions, relationships) 

Fabliau: millers tale (basic human needs, food, sex, money) 

Saints life:seconds nuns tale (stories of god though a holy person) 

Morale tale: (right and wrong) 

Sermon: parsons tale (issues) 

Prolog: 

Opposites/ contradictions 

Serve to define one each other 

Progression  

Heavenly and the early 

Theological and biological (sexual sensual) 

Winter to spring 

Supernatural to natural 

Sickness to health 

Death to life 

Ex: pilgrimage (embodies both spiritual ideal and contemporary practice like walking) 

Tone: gentle satire, no shocking recommendations, analysis of hierarchy 

Mythic (utopian) to human (frail) 

“Unphotographable Phiction”

I love to take pictures of myself. Mainly because every time I want to take a picture my friends think they look bad so I usually just take a picture of myself. One time that I wish I could take a picture and could caption all the meaning and magic was when I went to New Jersey for the Special Olympics 2014 USA Games. Don’t get me wrong we took SO MANY pictures but in particular I wish I took a picture of the excitement of the athletes when they took off in a plane for the first time. I represented Southern California and our whole delegation took the plane together; mentors, athletes, their coaches, and me. Most of the athletes never flew on a plane before and it was their first time. They started cheering and clapping as the plane took off and I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything like that before. The excitement and the butterflies of attending the Special Olympics 2014 USA Games in New Jersey was in it’s midst at that moment. I wish I had a picture of that moment but the memory will stick with me forever. 

Hamlet: Act 1 Scene 1

-Elsinore. A platform before the castle
-Character: Fransico & Bernardo Enter

-It's midnight

-Character: Horatio & Marcellus Enter 

-In Denmark 

-Character: Fransico leaves 

-Talking about thing they have seen, maybe a ghost.

-Ghost appears and they talk about it.

-Marcellus is asking why this ghost is coming to meet.

-Horatio says he knows because of the last king and it is the king/s.

 -Two sons (Hamelet & Fortunbras)  are battling are gonna go take

Denmark soon. 

-The king ghost comes because something is wrong. 

-Reenter ghost 

-Exit ghost 

-Description of dawn 

-Not going to talk to us (King)lets talk to his son 

Notes from 10/8/14

Kirby Ferguson 

Everythingisaremix.info

Remix: to combine or edit something new or old = something NEW 

The arrangement and transformation of samples 

Rap remix: sugahill, chic 

Myths of creativity: creates within, old myths, lightbulb (creativity, symbol)

Domain language: Main knowledge 

Transformation: taking existing stuff and creating variation 

vocabulary: fall list 5

shenanigans: secret or dishonest activity or maneuvering
ex-Me and my friends do not have any part of the shenanigans of the popular kids. 
ricochet: a shot or hit that rebounds one or more times off a surface
ex-That country boys bullet ricochet across the room.
schism: a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief
ex-The schism between government officials sometimes is crazy. 
eschew: deliberately avoid using; abstain from 
ex- He appealed to the crowd to eschew violence. 
plethora: A large excessive amount of something. 
ex- There is a plethora amount of people at UCLA. 
ebullient: cheerful and full of energy. 
ex-Sometimes I am ebullient, but other times I am not. 
garrulous: excessively talkative; especially during trivial matters. 
ex-Sometimes my grandpa could be garrulous when he watches Jeopardy.
harangue: a ethylene and aggressive speech
ex- People that speak at board meetings can be harangue. 
interdependence: is mutual dependence between things.
ex-If you study biology, you'll discover that there is a great deal of interdependence between plants and animals. 
capricious: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. 
ex-Sometimes I can be rapacious if I heard something I don't like. 
loquacious: talking a great deal, talkative. 
ex-Sometimes I can be very loquacious. 
ephemeral: lasting for a very short time
ex- That ride was so ephemeral. 
inchoate: just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary. 
ex- A still inchoate democracy. 
juxtapose: place or deal with close together for contrasting effect. 
ex- Black and white photos of slums were starkly juxtaposed with color images. 
perspicacious: Having a ready insight into a understanding of things.
ex- It offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter.
mungo: cloth made from recycled woven or felted material
ex- I don't have mungo type clothing. 
sesquicentennial: of or relating to the one-hundred- and fiftieth anniversary of a significant event.
ex-California is the sesquicentennial state. 
wonky: crooked, off center
ex- That poster on that wall is wonky. 
diphthong: A sound formed by the combination of two vowels syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another. 
ex- Diphthong is weird word. 

THE POINT OF CANTERBURY TALES IS...

The point of "Canterbury Tales" is to show the clashes between social classes during the late fourteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" in many different attitudes toward life and literature while writing it in a poetic form. 

GREEN EGGS & HAMLET

a) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane"? 
I know nothing just that Hamlet is well known. 

b) What do you know about Shakespeare? 
I know Romeo and Juliet. 

c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"? 
Maybe because we all have learned about Romeo & Juliet, cool story but played out too much in education... so when we think of Shakespeare is reeks of SCHOOL WORK AND BORING.

d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget? 
Honestly have no clue 

You go girl!

Beowulf notes that I just got the chance to put up...

Heroic character: courageous, confident

Leadership/society/politics: assertive, very dynamic 

Greater forces: reliable, artifact of our culture because we don't know who 

Write it: fate-circumstances can't control 

Human action- other humans 

God- higher power 

More Notes from Canterbury Tales

Overview: 

Have and have not, what kind of have do you fall Under? 

Chaucer born into a working family, also born into a middle class and needs to work for a living. 

Administrator for 2 kings... Veer cat  and landed in Italy and france 

When you read a French book in America and then French book in France it's different and you start to see the disconnect when languages were learned in a different country other than the native country. 

That's when Chaucer decided to write in English and his stories were based on boccaccio Cameron which were a collection of 10 stories, 10 nobles had the plague and met and shared their stories, each one of their tales was a tale within a tale. 

Chaucer is no one genre, he has different genres because of the topics, symbols, and language 

Romance: knights tale (emotions, relationships) 

Fabliau: millers tale (basic human needs, food, sex, money) 

Saints life:seconds nuns tale (stories of god though a holy person) 

Morale tale: (right and wrong) 

Sermon: parsons tale (issues) 

 

Prolog: 

Opposites/ contradictions 

Serve to define one each other 

Progression  

Heavenly and the early 

Theological and biological (sexual sensual) 

Winter to spring 

Supernatural to natural 

Sickness to health 

Death to life 

Ex: pilgrimage (embodies both spiritual ideal and contemporary practice like walking) 

Tone: gentle satire, no shocking recommendations, analysis of hierarchy 

Mythic (utopian) to human (frail) 

Narrator: self deprecating, apologizes because they categorizes the characters, one person is representative of that class 

💛Relationships between social roles 💛

almost  American 

class against class 

Framing of Decameron is the narrator (lens which we see everybody else) 

Narrator: Compassionate, bemused, ironic, questioning, easily impressed, observant 

Each person tells each story differently 

Canabury tales: catalog of tales theme rivalry, competition