Author: Jan

Personal Response to “Romeo & Juliet” – A Sword with blood on it

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is one of the most famous love stories. It begins with the prologue. At first, I didn’t understand half of it. The words I understood but not the sentence. But after hearing and saying it a lot. At the point where I memorized it, I finally understood the sentence. The English language changed a lot back then and today. They use different words than we do, and most of them we don’t speak anymore. When the story begins, I understood more in the film than in the book. Not because they speak it. No because of the body language. And with that, it helped me to understand the book when I read it because I knew where we were. The story I liked how dramatic it is, where in one scene Romeo and Juliet are happy and in the other Romeo needs to leave the city. then in the other Talking now on the plot. What I liked most in the story is the film where Tybalt kills Romeo’s friend, Mercutio. To show the audience that Tybalt stabs Mercutio, they show the sword with blood and didn’t use a bloody realistic scene we he gets stabbed and blood sprays everywhere. It was also interesting the clothes that they used. Fashion has changed a lot.

#IRJE 6 – Wanne fight?

In Black Boy, by Richard Wright, Richard the protagonist, moves with his uncle Clark in Greenwood, USA. After his mother has a heart attack. There on his first day in the new school, on the school grounds at noon recess, a group of boys came to him and talked to him.

“‘Where you from?’

‘Jackson’ I answered.

‘How come they make you people so ugly in Jackson?’ he demanded.

There was loud laughter.

‘You’re not any too good-looking yourself,’ I countered instantly. 

‘Oh!’

‘Aw!’

‘You hear what he told ‘im?’

‘You think you’re smart, don’t you?’ The boy asked, sneering.

‘Listen, I ain’t picking a fight,’ I said.  ‘But if you want to fight, I’ll fight.’

…”

 (p.91, l.3)

I like this scene because, of how realistic it sounds, this adds the scene more realism, because it’s really sound like a real conservation before a fight.

#PW6 The Trial

The nameless protagonist, who wears a red poncho that goes up to his knees and has a hood, walks to a huge cave entrance. This isn’t just an adventure. It is a trial for the young in his village to prove they are adults.

The protagonist enters the cave and sees a corridor with spikes and tall walls in front of him. He jumps and runs with skill over the dangerous obstacles and before he knows it he is over with this area of the Cave. He takes a break to recuperate and in the meantime, he looks around. It seems he is in a mace and in the distance he sees something, but he can’t recognize what it is. His curiosity takes over him and he walks to it. A few steps away from the “ting”. He can see it. It looks like an arrow that is floating. His instincts are telling him that it isn’t friendly. His instincts are correct, the creature lunches at him with force. At the last moment, he dodges the attack and tries to counterattack. The only thing he causes is to enrage his opponent more. to make it more unfair for him, ten more appear from the corner. He knows at least now that he can not beat them, so he turns to the second-best option, to run away. They follow him. Unfortunately for him after running a while he gets fatigued but the arrows don’t show any sign of it. He knows it. If he follows his plan of running, he will die soon. So, he looks around and finds a Holl in the ground. He does not think twice and jumps into it. Luckily the monsters do not see him and pass by. He is relieved but waits a few minutes to check if it is saved. He jumps out of the hole and goes quietly away. He is walking almost half an hour.
A Big, heavy old Door appears in front of him. He tries to open it but struggles at first, but he doesn’t quit so easily and tries again. He finally opens the door and sees the Stone. He is relieved to have completed the trial and takes it. In the corner of the room is a tube. He enters it and it leaves him outside of the cave. And goes back to his village.

IRJE #5: Three shots

In White fangs, by Jack London, Bill and Henry are tasked in the middle of Winter, with transporting a person caucus. However, on the way, they are harassed by a group of Wolves. The Wolve pack have already eaten up 5 of their sled dogs. Name losses his nerves and goes with his revolver and the three bullets to kill the wolfs.

“He heard a shot, then two shots in rapid succession, and he knew that Bill’s ammunition was gone. Then he heard a great outcry of snarls and yelps. He recognized One Ear’s yell of pain and terror, and he heard a wolf-cry that bespoken a stricken animal. And that was all,” (p.108, l.15)

I really like this specific scene because, how jack London tells us indirectly to the reader that Bill is dead. It is also highly creative to tell someone died.

Personal Response: “Brave New World” and “Amusing ourselves to Death”

Postman saw a connection with Huxley’s novel and so do I. Huxel’s novel Barve new world talk about a future of humanities where people are divided into Alphas, Betas, Deltas, and gamma. Alphas being the best which are on the top of the chain and gammas on the bottom, the worst. In this fictional world, if a person feels sadness or some other emotion that is not happiness, then they will take some Soma. A drug that doesn’t have any second effect. Postman’s essay Amusing us to death talks about today’s society that all things are made so that it is amusing.

The connection is the television and the soma. If we’re not happy or we don’t feel well, we watch television and in Brave new world say take the Soma. Even Postman says it “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Barve New World” (p. 111).

IRJE# FELT STRANGE

Lois Lowry novel THE GIVER, talks about a boy who is 12 years old and lives witch his family in communities. One night, like usually they talk they feelings on the dining table. Ther the protagonist asks his sister how school was in a norther school. She responded:

I felt strange. Because their methods were different. (p.8, l.10)

I can connect with this statement, because I was there. When I chance school for the first time, I noticed the most of feeling strange. But what I learned is to compare the new and the old method and look what is the easiest and compared the compared time.

PR #2 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Erich Maria Remarque antiwar novel “All QUIET ON THE WESTERN Front” published in 1929. Talks about the story of Paul, a German soldier in the first World war.

I enjoyed reading the novel. Talked by a person who wasn’t so lucky in the war and died. I found also interesting how Erich Maria tells us how the protagonist dies.

    He fell in October 1918, on day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.                                                  He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning Him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come. (p. 296)

Normally in novels, the main character doesn’t die.

 

In conclusion the Book tells a very different view of the war.

 

PW#3 “Boat”

“Wake up Sven.” Set my father to me. It was morning and the sun began to shine. I ate bread, brown cheese and milk for breakfast whit my father, Ole. A big strong man with long blond hair. My mother and my little brother Lars were still sleeping. We got out of the house and only the fishermen were awake. We walked down to the rocky beach, where our boat was. Her name was “Olivia”. My father chose that name because it was the same name as my mother. The boat was colorful and decorated like the rest of the fisherman’s boat. But only ours had a thig red stripe going around the boat. My father had already but the necessary things yesterday. I was excited, it was my first day of fishing. We sailed to a spot near a rocky cliff. My father said to me “We arrived, now it is your turn Sven” I took the net and put it in the water it in the water. Then we waited and waited. I sit in a corner of the ship. After a while I sleep…

IRJE #2 Can’t wait

In Khaled Hosseini THE KITE RUNNER, the protagonist explains us that for all of Kabul, Kite-fighting was the highlight of the winters.

“Every winter, districts in Kabul held a kite-fighting tournament. And if you were a boy living in Kabul, the day of the tournament was undeniably the highlight of the cold season. I never slept the night before the tournament. I’d roll from side to side, make shadow animals on the wall, even sit on the balcony in the dark, a blanket wrapped around me. I felt like a soldier trying to sleep in the trenches the night before a major battle. And that wasn’t so far off. In Kabul, fighting kites was a little like going to war.” ( p. 52)

I like this quat because it let my thing of when I was a child, and the next day was my birthday, and I couldn’t sleep because I was so excited.

IRJE #1 “a sin is a variation of theft”

In Khaled Hosseini THE KITE RUNNER, the father of protagonist Baba talks to his son about what he thinks is sin.

“there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.”

“‘When you kill a man, you steal a life” Baba said.” You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?'” (p. 19)

I like what Baba said, because it is true, and it feels more wrongdoing a bat thing after reading this.

My Personal Writing to they shall not grow old

The thinks that I thought was surprising, Interesting and my ancestors who fought on both world wars. Surprised, because I always imagen that the trenches were more terrifying, but when I saw the trenches in color and the thought of the soldier, gave me the sense that it was livelier than I imagen. It was also very Interesting, how they thought of these “Horrific” thinks that they lived in, like ” being in the first line of trenches was fun.”. Last point is my ancestors. They came to my mind because there were also affected by the war like this British soldier. In conclusion, the movie was very good at brining me to think about those men who fought on wars.

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I’m celiac.  Meaning I’m allergic to Gluten. So, I can’t eat for example “normal Bread” but it’s not so easy,                                                                                          because of cross contamination, like if I cut bread with a knife and whit the same knife I cut a Gluten free bread, it’s contaminated. The point is that being in a Gluten free diet is hard and I wouldn’t recommended eating a Gluten free dyed, if you aren’t celiac.

 

JAN

Hi, my name is Jan, and I was born in Paderborn, Germany. When I was 10 I moved to Puebla, Mexico. It’s my first year attending in Brookes and my interests are playing videogames, coding and doing sports.

I don’t read a lot of Booke’s. The cause is that I don’t fined often Book’s that interest me. My favored ones are Level 4 and Die Kinder Karavana.

Like you see I am a bad writer, my spelling is bad one of the reasons I think is that I cannot concentrate very good as I slightly have ADHD and the other reason is that I don’t read a lot.