Frankenstein 3/31-4/4

Pages: 130 out of 231
Prompt Miscellaneous: How did the reading make you feel?

              Introduction to Frankenstein 

    This week I started to read the class horror book Frankenstein and now that I'm reading it it seems that people in the 1800's were terrified of traveling by boat. The book starts off with a man named Captain Robert Walton sailing in a boat writing letters to his sister Margaret. He meets a man named Victor Frankenstein and Victor decides to tell him all about his terrifying tale. It starts off with a family of six a wealthy to be more specific having a splendid time in Geneva, Switzerland. The young Victor grows up to be a great scientist of philosophy. In his later years in college Victor decides to make life with his own scientific knowledge. He makes a monster that is murderous and suddenly goes on the loose to attacks Victor's family. The monster Frankenstein kills Victor's brother William and maid Justine. Victor feels responsible for the death of his brother so he escapes to the glacier area where the monster Frankenstein is waiting for him.


          The Reading that Improves Your Vocabulary

   At first I thought this book was going to be really boring but after a few pages the book started to get more interesting and descriptive. When reading this book it makes me feel smarter mostly because this book includes a lot of new vocabulary used from the 1800's. Since this is a horror book part of the reading made me feel scared because of the murders caused by the monster Frankenstein. In this part of the book they describe with full detail how the decaying corpse looks and the consequences of committing a crime in Switzerland. I also felt very disappointed because Victor never told the truth about the real murderer. The whole city thought that the maid Justine killed William so they took her to jail and they gave her a few days to confess. She was found guilty and condemned to death due to the very bloody murder. They beheaded her and soon after that Victor's cousin Elizabeth was dramatized.


      The Feeling of Happiness in Frankenstein 

  While I'm reading this book not all parts of Frankenstein are full despair but they're also filled of happiness and gratefulness. For example I just recently read about the confrontation between Victor and the monster. When I read this part I felt grateful because this monster is merely seed in this giant world while we humans are like elephants roaming this world. The monster has no feelings and all it wishes is to have the god-like abilities that we humans have. After this confrontation the monster escapes to a cottage where he sees the love of a family affected by poverty. He learns the communication of humans and how one little thing can make a family as happy as ever. This family doesn't have enough food but suddenly the whole family is taken to jail. The monster thinks that the family will become into horrible savages but the family is actually happy because they have one another. After this I felt very happy to have my known family with me.

I put a picture of Geneva, Switzerland the place where the Frankenstein family resides. Victor hasn't visited Geneva in six years but after the death of William he makes a trip to stop the horrid monster. This castle seems to be port of where traveling ships arrive, Victor takes a ship that almost leads to his own death. I picked this picture of Geneva because it shows the beautiful landscape of Geneva and part of the location where Victor created his monster.

This week I will comment on Emily, Nadrian, and Steven's Blogs.

Poetry Reflection

     

      When I think of poetry I always feel like I want to write about my origin city Durango, Mexico. The place that poetry makes me feel like a poet is Durango because when you describe this marvelous city a bunch of imagery comes up in my mind. I wrote a bunch of poems about this city and poetry helps bring out the happiness out of me. When I write about this city I feel like I’m actually there and poetry helps bring out the excitement/opinions about this city. The importance of poetry in my opinion is that a person can show what he/she really feels or they can poems to say something that can not be said with words. The importance of poetry in my life is that it taught me that poetry has to do more than just rhyming. In this poetry unit I learned a bunch of unique poetry forms and my favorite one was the spine poem. Overall this unit effected because now I can express myself using other types of poetry. 

 In my opinion I think that poetry does not belong to everyone because some people feel like they can represent their feelings another way. I think that poetry doesn’t belong to me because I’ve never been good with the concepts of poetry. I usually describe my feelings by writing narratives or sometimes when I have a great connection with a certain book. When I go through the hallways many people mention that they think they’re not good with poetry and some of them prefer writing in a journal. Another reason I know that poetry doesn’t belong to people because they usually write short stories and they make sure that their main character has some of the writer’s feelings. Overall I know because of personal experience and some of my friends have shared their opinions on this question. 

 The life and experiences of a poet usually effect the poem because the writer is writing about their own opinions. For example many poems have to do with lets say the Holocaust and these poem are tragic/sad because of the writer’s perspective on that certain event. These poems have to do about the situations that the Jewish people had to go through and a famous example of a poem like this is a poem by Anne Frank. When I went to Mexico it inspired me to write a happy poem in order to represent my feelings. This unit taught me that poetry can’t only be expressed by words but it can also be expressed through books. The type of poetry that truly effected me was the spine poetry because I could express my emotions through books. Instead of coming up with another character I was able to use my own favorite characters to represent my feelings. 

                                     

      

The Secret Garden 3/3-3/7

Pages: 230 out of 380
Prompt Test Readiness: analyze what motivates the main character's behavior

                         Introduction to the Secret Garden 

       The Secret Garden has to do with the life of a stubborn and miserable little girl called Mary Lennox. She lives in a large building with her parents, Ayah, and servants in the country of India. After a few days she realizes that her Ayah has died because of a rare disease. This diseases spreads and suddenly everyone in the building dies and poor little Mary Lennox is left alone. A group of officers discover her and they sent Mary to live with her uncle in London, England. She arrives in Misselthwaite Manor and she realizes that her servants aren't that obedient. Her head servant Martha tells Mary that once Mr. Craven's wife (Mary's uncle) had a garden that grew marvelous roses. Once Mrs. Craven sat on top of a tree branch she fell and died. Mr.Craven locked the garden, hid the key, and he makes sure that door will never be open. Later in the story Mary discovers the key and opens the garden which has rose roots growing out of the earth.

             What truly motivated Mary's behavior?

   In the beginning of the book Mary has such a rude behavior that some of the servants actually wanted to die. In my opinion I think that Mary acted this way because her parents ignored poor little Mistress Mary and her mother only thought about her beauty. At first Mary explains that she hated everything and everyone was because of the hot humid air of India. This terrible air caused her headaches which made her miserable and once she even slapped her Ayah. She hated life and she proved this by stepping on beauty blooming flowers during the beautiful daylight. I think that Mary hated life was because no one payed attention to her. The hot air might have not caused Mary's hatred, I think that the amount of food that Mary ate truly caused her pain. The book mentions that Mary barely ate and when she did she always complained about everything. The last thing that Mary hates is being with other people.


        How did the Garden truly change Mary?

   I mention in my last sentence that Mary hates being with people and the reason is because of a group of little children. At one point in the story Mary had to live with a miller and his family. The kids in this family used to annoy her by singing "Mistress Mary Quite Contrary" and truly made Mary contrary. When Mary arrived in the Manor the gardens in the house changed her because all she needed was cool clean air. After two months in the manor Mary cared more about people and she lived her life to the fullest. She enjoyed life and the person who inspired Mary was Martha's brother Dickson. Dickson is like an animal charmer and he made sure that Mary enjoyed life instead hating it. She mentions that she cares about Martha, Dickson, Martha's Mother, Ben Weatherstaff, and the beautiful robin. Martha told Mary that if she keeps hating life she'll end up like her uncle Mr. Craven. Those are the people that motivated Mary's behavior.

I put a picture of a red-chest robin because this little guy was the first friend that Mary ever made. This bird almost acts humans because he starts conversations with his chirping. He also lightens up people's day by landing on their shoulder or simply occupying them to their next destination. This bird even lighten up the day of poor cranky Ben Weatherstaff.

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