Chandra Niharika

1. My first thought of the title was that it reminded me of bears because of a movie called Country Bears. Yes, the meaning of the title changed as I read the story because the story was in no way connected with bears.

2. I thought that it was so mean of the man to trick her and take her leg.

3. They are renting rooms to Mrs. Freeman and her family. Mrs. Freeman just doesn’t care. Mrs. Hopewell wants to hope for the best for her daughter and hopes she will be happy. When Joy changes her name to Hulga it seems that she doesn’t have joy in herself.

4. Mrs. Freeman is all about drama and life is drama in itself. Mrs. Hopewell is all about hope of change or for something else to come.

5. Hulga learns that she doesn’t know everything about life. Also, that education doesn’t eliminate her from life’s crazy experiences and getting tricked like she did.

6. O’ Connor seems to admire the girl, Hulga/Joy, at least by the end of the story. She seems to satirize the “bible” man.

7. Christianity is evident in the story. O’Connor seems to say that you can’t trust the values of Christianity because in the story she portrays the bible man as a lying, sneaky person.

9. I think it made a good story. Using satire in this story is justified because of the style or time period of which she is writing-the Gothic period.

Having to select a passage to memorize was quite easy for me. The Bible was the first place I thought of retrieving my piece from. Both of the passages that I have picked come from the Bible, one in the book of Psalms, the other from 1 Corinthians. To me, the Bible is the most important literature ever written. I have grown up around the Bible and these verses are of much importance in a Christian’s daily life. Psalms 23 is about how the Lord is our shepherd and we are his sheep. He is always there to guide us and watch us with every step we take. In kindergarten, when I went to private school, we were required to memorize this scripture. That fact shows the importance of the piece. In 1 Corinthians 13 it talks about the true meaning of love. Love is not how Hollywood portrays it to be; it is much deeper and there is much more to it then a feeling. Forgetting what love truly is wouldn’t be something I would want to do. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

The Excellence of Love. 1 Cor. 13 3-13. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.

A Psalm of David. Ps. 23. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.

*Sorry it’s late. I haven’t felt very good, having my teeth removed and all. I still don’t feel well.

I noticed several reoccurring themes when looking at all the book covers for Fahrenheit 451. For the most part all of them having a burning book or flames which is appropriate considering that seems to be what the story is about. Montag, the main character is a firefighter meant to start fires to burn books. That’s why on some of the book covers you see a man with book pages as his clothes and they happen to be on fire. The man with the armor of book pages also looks sad that the pages are being burnt. He might be finally realizing what he is doing is wrong. The authors named is in big print and most of the main colors on the covers were those of fire- colors like red, orange, and yellow.

The book cover that stood out to me was actually the one on the book that we got. The picture on the front was merely three already burnt books with no flames or anything. However, it seems to be the only one with words on the front. It clearly explains what the title means and it has that little quote which says, “ The novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze.” The irony of that statement caught my attention and made me wonder about this book. It’s not always the pictures that capture the readers attention.

One thing I find a lot of fun in doing is cleaning my room. Odd, I know, but I do. Normally my room is so messy I don’t know how or where to even begin. I start by filling up two garbage bags full of garbage. That task right there clears up a lot of space in my room. I can see 35% of my floor now. Whenever I do my laundry I never quite get it into draws-it ends up-on my floor, along with everything else. After finally folding it I find the shirt I had been looking for last week. I can now see 65% of my floor. Now, I have the little random things to pick up: bobby pins, pens, and homework assignments that had gone missing. This part takes the longest because all the items go in different parts of my room. Then I make my bed [only something I do when I clean my room]. I can now see 90% of my floor. The other 10% of floor will not be seen because of the furniture and because of the few items that will never get off my carpet, such as my shoes. However this is not the full process of cleaning my room. If I really wanted to clean it all the way I would have to clean out draws and cabinets. Most of the time going into that much detail cleaning my room takes too much time so I stick to the tradition cleansing. 

I clean my room for more than one reason. The main one however is because it bothers me when I can’t walk in my room or shut my door all the way.  When I can’t find anything anywhere I clean my room until I find it. Others might clean it because their parents yell at them too. Cleaning your room might teach you to never let it get dirt again because cleaning might be torture to you. However you might have found your new love: cleaning.

Arguement:

1. Anecdote
2. Luxiousness of naps
3. American feel they have be busy
4. Naps way of laziness
5. Counters her arguement- CEO, Winston Churchill
6. Productivity become creativity

Yes I do agree with her. Japan takes naps and they are smarter and more productive then Americans. However it might be considered a waste of time because you could be doing more important things.

Anthropomorphized- to take on form of a human or an animal, object, or plant

 2. Humans are depicted throughout the cartoon as the killers in the food chain to the killees and what would happen if the food chain was reversed.

4. The two pictures show parallesism because the illustration are very similuar, but in the first one the humans are testing food and the second the humans are testing another human, their own kind.

5. I found it ironic because humans are being served on a platter to the vegetables or the different species in the frame so it “served” them right. Ha.

6. When just reading the text it seems serious, like a serious subject but when the pictures are incorporated it becomes ironic or funny tone.

In paragraph 8, the purpose of the author’s use of irony is to:

a. shows she wants to be heard

b. shows there in no true meaning of silent

c. shows its hard to be silent

d. none of the above

Anwser: B

In “Professions for Women” by Virginia Woolf, she talks about, “The Angel in the House.” The “angel” represents women who just cook, clean, and take care of the kids all day. A women who doesn’t do anything but what is expected of her-a perfect women. Virginia talks about how she had been able to come out of the “trance” she was in and “kill” the angel meaning she was able to open her mind and stop living to what people found expectable standards. Having killed the “angel” she now could write about what she truly wanted to and not put on a fake front. “The angel in the house is dead and no longer lives in the imaginations of either women or men.” Women and men all have an “angel” in their lives that they need to overcome. Virginia Woolf’s “angel” was her ability to write, but it could be anything, not just writing. In our generation now people, both women and men, have became different. They don’t act how “the Angel of the House” was supposed to. Slowly people have started to come out and become themselves. However, people don’t always want to or can’t seem to let go of their “angel.” It might be easier to go along with the norm of things. Or if they do kill their “angel” the ghost may come back to haunt them. Sometimes people just need to overcome their fears and break down the angel that is holding them back from who they truly are and want to become.

3.  I think she means that in order to write a good fiction novel the author needs to be in a mind of their own, off in space. I think it would help make their novel better if the were “unconscious” so to speak. If an author was unconscious they might write something they never thought would ever do.

4. Virgina Woolf mean that the “angel in the house” is always there, a constant reminder.  A reminder to act how ladies, women, and girls are “supposed” to act according to that time period.

9. What she is saying about the girl who is just sitting with the pen is that she is thinking, deep in thought, almost not conscious anymore. She is that focused. The effect of doing this shows that not all girls act as they are portrayed to be.

1.  What is happiness to the author? How does his definition of happiness effect his essay?

3. In paragraph 16, Csikszentmihalyi writes thtat “the less one works just for oneself, the larger the scope of one’s relationships and commitments, the happier a person is likely to be.” How does his diction show his position on the subject?

4. What does the author suggest about the relationship between genetic and evolutionary psychology [paragraph 19]? What are the connections of these two things?

5. How does talking about Martin E. P. Seligman in the last paragraph strengthen Csikszentmihalyi’s argument? If you don’t think it strengthens his arguement explain what could be better.