Sunday, August 19, 2012

Overall

I'm done, finished for good. I read my christmas story, my book book about writing and learned to read as I watch TV. Both the books beside on writing based themself on ignorance and hidden feeling eithier to one self or phyically. On writing became more of a guide to read. All of them were straight foreword, mostly without metaphor or other literary devices seen in complex books. All of them were simple to understand, expressed great meaning and managed to make start reading again, if I time. I honestly thought these were good. Honest.

Anotation of the play

There are many notable differences in the play which are mostly abrigdements, cut short to save time or money. Also little details like abigail reaching for mary waaren, not physcially showing Giles being murdered by pressing, putting large stone slabs on his chest until he confessed but died first. There is no wipping of slave in the play ( maybe because of the civil rights movement era). There are others I'll reread again.

Exectutuion

He dies at the end, ironically speaking the 'deliver us from evil' . This doesn't happen in the book, instead it leaves off at 'give me my name' scene. the inconclusion in the offers urest and outrage for the audience. In the movie its ending provided an epic conclusion. Both are equally good in their own way. I especially like the retort, "I'll see you again in hell" to abigail. All in all it was great movie and play.

Part 1 some minutes in

I really hate the girl, In retrospect she is the witch in Salem; Aslo harlot a whore and temptress. She is truly the antagonist of whole movie. Proctor is the overall 'good' in this movie, despite sleeping with the antaganist. Both characters are realistic and fascinating in their own way. Abigail is victim of love and specifically Proctor, which  was a victim of her love. A very intresting confllict; she would do anything to gain affection and vice versa to Proctor. Under this the whole town would suffer.

The Crucible Movie

I didn't know the crucible was a play. And I have to read it...
Well, here goes. I read abut the salem witch craft in history class about a couple years ago. At first It was really scary and sad from that time. But now I am grown up, Im indiferrent. They tried over 20 people that weren't spared, sad really. Such ingnorace that comes with religeon, no proof of a physical nature. It feels to like a massacre, because of such motives but  not from one person but of mulitple accounts each with their cause and victim. In this convoluted time anyone in Salem (or the salem area) could be accussed of witchcraft, Thus marking death for that person. I hope nothing like this ever happens again.

End of the cacther

After that he became lost in New york. He a date with Good ol' Sally and blew up for her not accepting his offer( about running away). She leaves angry making Holden remorse and so goes to a bar and finds another friend good ol' luce which they talked showing their feeling toward women. He got a little too personal... and drunk. Feeling lost he goes home feeling anew. his plans to see her sister in motion, futher in time he messes up again. This time Phenobe finds out that holden got kicked off Pency.They argue and he tells heer about not 'liking anything' that was happening in pency. (He was jeolous of Stradler and  at the time, that was the real reason i think). then after talking  he leaves to the living room to call the antolini's, his former teacher.

Dacing shortly, holdens mom comes home, he hides under the cover.Her mother talks a bit before going away. He cries the most here, and scares Phenobe. It's like he didn't want to leave but had to. Then he goes to antoni's and the teacher monologues about literature, eduction and poetry. Turns out the guys a wiedo staring at Holden while he's sleeping, rubbing hair. He didn't care that he slept on bench but he cared about phenobe's chistmas play. The idea of death and the easy way way out (like being deaf ans crzy) seemed to grasp him at the end until... he saw how it was a effecting her, the grade A student, a whole life ahead of her, to go off with her brother and ruin her life.

To cheer her up he goes to the zoo, with her closely following 'I thought the corsel was closed in the winter' she said then she rode. It cheered him up and her.
The book ends in a monologue, It is unkown to me whether he stays or not.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Character anaylysis

The summary of chapter 12-14 would be this; He talks with simmons with this navy officer looking guy then leaves to go to the hotel. Then he hires a prostitute. She leaves,angry cut short on her money. Then talks to his bother ,his dead one and the pimp walks in asking for five dolloars. After losing five he started to cry and called him a moron. So he gets punched being left alone in his hotel room.

This might be the climax of the story. Hopeless depression and sex with a prostitute followed by imagination induced rage can really change a person. He also mention religeon and how he was an athiest. (I think this is why the book was banned, damn religious nuts
s).

Repetitive Elements

I begin ananlyzing the authors writing style. The first person perspective can really be repetetive relaliticly. Verbal ticks 'that killed me' and for 'chissake' on nearly every page. I am up to forty pages and could tell about his style (good thing I read On writing). Long binding paragraphs with little metaphoric statements everything is out there, the only mystery is the future. Wait can that be considered the theme? 

escape

As I try to understand Holden, I see these other characters too, Ackley, a slob who never brushes his teeth and Stradler, the handsome one.In Holden rising action, he runs away, sick of his friends.(hell I get hell out my house if I can) Holden is charming, an amazing liar, his will is overturned weak minded plans of his own future. In the big city where will he go?

The start of Catcher

From the first few pages, I see it is a first person novella. The character is unresponsible, forgetting equipment for his fencing team. He is currently failing in all classes in the exception of english. Not sure If I like this book (or maybe it's just the main character).

Holden goes to his old teacher because of talk about his last essay. The teacher was was mockingly sarcastic as he read holden's essay letter of saying how he did not take the the time to do an asignment. My sided with the teacher( messed up I know) but in the general sense he was right. Holden needs some character development.

Almost death ending

 It's amzing how someone like Bryan Smith could stant there wacthing Stephen injured body and not feel some remorse. It's lucky that he survived and unlucky that he even got into that. Like many injuries stephen felt it was his fault and saying sorry after beening hit by a car. Obviously he lived to tell another tale. In recouperation, he began to write this book, you can say it lead him to write  this.

Overall, this is life-changing book intended for bright minds or aspiring write for years to come. I loved it because It taught me something, the theme was clear through and through. I kinda wish it was longer.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

TOOLBOX

This really helped me to improve my writing skills. I've learn alot these past days for example. It can take years for writer's skill to flourish.It takes loads of patient and tenacity as well as the tools. Tools meaning a giant metaphor on the first chapter of TOOLBOX. The second chapter reveals how how loser I am , which in it self is genious. It tells the importance of not overdramatizing any work of arto of one's creation Also simple grammar explained better.

I've learned you must read to write among other things.Practicing isn't enough one must  go from examples and get inspiration from other novels. Adverds aren't a good writing element.The easier the book the shorter the paragraph. The book tells me to pick up the book( that I needed to pick from a random bookshelf' ), Instead I used the book itself as the example.  telling me to examine the thickness, how books long or short can be crap. I wish  I tell more of what I learned but I need to go.(to the bathroom)

Conflict On Writing

After reading another one hundred pages i could say i have learned alot. It wasn't learning it never felt like that it was a conversation to me. Stephen king gave me tips as a young , aspiring writer and really in-spired me.what i learned about writing is. Every paragraph was fun to read and filled with information. I love it so. I fully anotated the first part but hesitant to write on even futher. If write on this, I'd never look at this part the same way that did before. So decided to seldom to write in THE TOOLBOX, putting a short paragraph on the title page of the toolbox.

this book really relates to me.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

First 100 On writing

I have read a hundred pages of On Writing which was enough to intrest me. It felt like I skimmed because of the such detail. Stephen king did not live a tragic early life, just a unlucky one. Between wiping his butt with poision ivy, measels with the needle-to-ear medicine, stipe-throat, a crazy baby sitter who farts on his head and among the other things, he had a wonderful life.

Ironically he becomes an drug addict and alchoholic (like many  people). In quote 'only a lunatic-- a mosochistic lunatic--- would make booze part of his life'. I would say self-taunting would be appropriate for his writing style.'Dam I'm an alcholic' he says later in th He get's over it by writing the book Misery, metaporizing the main antagonist, Annie Wilkes to drugs (also with her oh so helpful loving wife).


And now I'm going to reading the next part TOOLBOX, two-hundred and some pages left.

Stephen king, On writing

I can say this book is very long, oveer 200 pages, crap. Three forewords, My brother told me that everything in a book has a specific purpose. Stephen king was played in a band. The first forewords talk s about it. He played for the music, not for the popularity. Does that relate to me? Yes. the second foreword writes about how short this book is. This is not a short book, at least not to me. The third fore is to explain this is not a perfect book on writing. Explains some huminaty, and it's flaws. THe point of the last foreword I guess is don't use this book like a religeous nut to a bible. This is not god's finger.  After that then came the memoir...