LITERARY FICTION & EMPATHY

I think it's true that we may be able to relate more to literary fiction because those are usually based off actual events that may have happened whereas popular fiction is more made up. It does revolve around a specific plot that means the characters are made to revolve around what the plot needs. I also think that whether the character is in fiction or nonfiction we will always be able to relate to some one some how. We all have some type of struggles that can be related to how a problem is fixed. With Hamlet, his "family" could care less about him, but they pretend to for the courts sake. With my family, they're all talk but no action in the same way. 

Act 1; Scene 2:

-Hamlet Sr. died

- Everyone grieving but Uncle says we need to move on 

- Hamlets wife marries Hamlets brother. 

- Uncle plays to the audience

- Hamlet tells uncle yeah we're related but I'm not your son.

-He's resentful, doesn't want to show uncle what he really feels.

-Uncle calls Hamlet out making him seem unstable or unmanly 

- hamlet so pissed he talks about suicide but not because he's depressed but because he doesn't want to see what's going on. 

-he bashes his moms reputation

- he talks to the guards who saw his fathers ghost and asks them questions based on facts. 

Act 1; Scene 1:

-Francisco watch guard 

-Bernardo ask him what's happened and told him to go to bed for it is midnight 

-HORATIO and MARCELLUS enter 

-they see Hamlets ghost 

- they try to get it to talk to them but it does not 

- it reappears and almost talks but the crow scares it off 

-plans to tell young Hamlet about the ghost. 

VOCAB #6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

He was abased when she said no to his offer of a date. 
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

She abdicated when her essay just wasn't getting the right points. 
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust

His actions told his ex best friend made him an adomination. 
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

She was so brusque when her best friend was talking to her enemy. 
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

She tried her best to saboteur her crush and his girlfriends relationship. 
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Everyone was talking about the debauchery after homecoming. 
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly

Her cacti was not proliferating. 
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age;something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

She loved when her mom gave her anachronisms from the 80's. 
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

Her mom tended to talk about nomenclature when disciplining. 
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

He had to expurgate his card for her girlfriends gift. 
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

She was bellicose when she found out her friend was talking bad about her. 
gauche - adj. lacking social polish

Oh my gosh Antonia is gauche. 
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

During her PMS week she is rapacious in the kitchen. 
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

Chaucers CANTERBURY tales were pretty paradoxal. 
conundrum - noun a difficult problem

Her accounting class was a conundrum for her right now. 
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

Every one who wants to run for government is always trying to be anomal. 
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

Bad relationships are ephemeral. 
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment

She was rancorous towards her ex. 
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly;rude and boorish

On bad days most people are churlish. 
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices;extremely steep; done with very great haste and without due deliberation

The hike was very precipitous but she continued up the hill. 

UNPHOTOGRAPHABLE

This is a picture of one of the best nights of my life. My favorite cousin and I were able to enjoy seeing my favorite band play live from the comforts of our suite. Hearing the music course through our veins, feeling our bones rattle from the exciting guitar riffs. Alex's smooth voice giving everyone in our audience goosebumps. Being able to experience people with so much talent was amazing. 

CANTERBURY OUTLINE

VOCAB #5

shenanigans - mischievous acts. 

Her older brother was always upto some type of shenanigans. 

ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact

The bouncy ball ricocheted off the wall into the trash can. 
schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences

The congregations were still getting used to the schism. 
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

She needed to eschew the haters. 
plethora - noun extreme excess

She had a plethora off fake tattoos after the festival. 
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained

She was ebullient when her mom bought her a giant Reese bar. 
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation

The substitute was so garrulous it was annoying. 
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

She was acting harangue towards her friends when her football team lost. 
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)

It was nice when girls and boys could have interdependence. 
capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

Her boyfriend was capricious when another guy tried to talk to her. 
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation

Uhhhhhh see garrulous. 
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

She didn't understand that hamsters were ephemeral creatures. 
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

Her clay pot was inchoate before she painted it. 
juxtapose - verb place side by side

She juxtaposed her best friends for the pictures. 
perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise;mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

I would describe myself as perspicacious. 
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing

She loved to see journals full of codswallop. 

mungo- cloth made from recycled material. 

She only bought mungo clothing to protect the environment. 

sesquipedelian- given to using long words.
It bugged her when people are sesquipedelian and they don't know what they're saying. 

wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side

When she saw her crush with another girl she became wonky. 
diphthong - noun a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

Okay what even. 

GREEN EGGS AND HAMLET

I love that title haha. 

A) I literally know nothing about Hamlet except for the fact that people misinterpret it all the time and that Barrie Greeley won't shutup about how much she loves it. 

B) I only know that Shakespeare was a type of artistic genius. His plays were way before his time and thus controversial. 

C) I frown because WHAT ON EARTH IS THEIR LANGUAGE. If it was translated into modern day ENGLISH then I would probably love every single one of his plays because they're hilarious. 

D) please please please please please please help translate the dialogue. 

THE POINT OF CANTERBURY TALES IS...

Characterization or breaking out of society's didactic thinking. Or possibly hypocrisy and contradictions.. Ah I don't know there are so many ways his work could be introduced.