i am here..

The first grading period of second semester is finally here. My goals have been slowly coming along very well. For the classes that needed improvement from last semester. As of English... my blog posting as been a bit slower this grading period and I can only blame myself. I am still working on it. I have a feeling that my mojo is kind of slipping. I just need that mojo to come back because the big goal for me right now wold have to be the AP Exam. I need to study study study! Cause in the end it will benefit me.
As of  my senior project, it is coming along. Already have an idea and have begun some research. I am still reading more to get a ore understanding of exactly how I want to come across it and present it to my class.

Literature Analysis

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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GENERAL
1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read, and explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).

- Pip's expectations are 1) fulfilling the role of a gentlemen, at the same time is still searching for love and finds something about Estella that catches his eye. 2) Pip finally has money and is crazy about all his money, but Estella isn't so crazy about Pip just like he is about her. 3) Pip looses his money (value included) and is finally ready to become a real man "gentlemen". He reaches his expected point and in the end after loosing himself, money, love, he managed to gain it all back and be happily in love with Estella.

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

- Two main themes within Great Expectations revolve around social standings and self improvement.

The social classes inside of England didn't have to deal with real worth. 

- Joe, Biddy, and Magwitch are good hearted  characters in the story but apeare themselves to be on the lowest level social classes. 

- Drummle is rich but has a horrid personality. 

Self -improvement was a second great major theme. 

- Pip was always open for improvement. He knew he had to learn how t read and was ready to being his education. He knew he had to be Good as well. What do I mean by Good you ask?? Well good as in an all around good person, with a good education, good life, love life, good with money, good person, good heart, you get my point... With this you can see that he had "great expectations" He looked for improvement mainly in the areas of social status, morality, and education. 

- Dickens knew that yes you must be ambitious but our ambition must be a productive ambition. 

- Moral ambition means to build ones character.

  

3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
- Pip's story is his change from childhood to adulthood/ wisdom.
-to teen years--to adulthood-

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.)
-Metafor - “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” (122)
-Narrator - “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” (77)

-Figurative Language - “No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” (100)

- Climax - " did really cry in good earnest when I went to bed, to think that my expectations had done some good to somebody " (257)

CHARACTERIZATION
1. 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)?
-- Direct Characterization- It would have been cruel of Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practice on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella (378)

- Indirect Characterization - “I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up.”

2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
-The authors syntax/diction changes depending on each character.
Magwitch is a poor man, who is a criminal and his ankles are changed. Throughout the novel you get a clear understanding that Magwitch is poorly educated.
"This is a terrible hardened one,"they says to prison wisitors,picking out of me. "May be said to live in gaols this." They always went on agen me about the Devil. But what the Devil was I to do? I must put something into my stomach, mustn't I?" Ch 42

Criminal  and poor English skills

- Estella is much more educated and of high class. She makes sure that she is known and when she speaks to Pip she speaks with such a sophisticated manner but with a witty sense. 

3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round? Explain.
- Pip falling into a dynamic and round character traits, reveal his personality and his inner thoughts about his whole adventure in accomplishing his great expectations.

4. 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.
- As I read this novel I had a feeling like I was inside the novel and just watching everything go past me before my very own eyes. I enjoyed reading the novel and loved the drama within it. Reading about Pip's journey in finding himself is an experience to feel, because it was expressed very differently, especially in that time and country. Gave me another understanding of how everyone's journey in discovering themselves is totally different. Interesting is a good word to describe it all.