LIT ANALYSIS #1

1) Basically a lady going through a midlife crisis... JK. kinda.. Edna Pontellier has your basic early 1800's perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect kids, perfect social status. Until they decide to go on a vacation and a certain friend changes Edna's view on life. She has her best friend, Adele, who shows her what life should be like with her freedom of expression. Then to top it off, Robert, a man who tends to pick married women and spend the summer with them, picks Edna to hang out with. They start out as just friends but we all know that when people say "just friends", it's never "JUST FRIENDS", so they fall in love with each other but neither will admit it (SKINNY LOVE). So Edna goes back home but wants to be free and be one with her art. She leaves her husband and her kids and goes to live alone. Robert returns but tells Edna he can't be in an adulterous relationship with her and he leaves. Edna realizes that she screwed up and that she's now completely alone and kills herself.
2) The theme that I got out of this book is that your actions always have consequences. In this case Edna was extremely selfish and he ending was not a happy one. She didn't keep her family in mind when she had multiple affairs, when she wanted to be free, and kind of like karma, she ended up alone. It didn't have to end that way but her mind games got to her and she thought that was the only way to truly be happy.
3) I think the authors' tone was a bit disapproving. Chopin didn't exactly make marriage look desirable. The way Edna was always so sad and depressed, showed that Edna preferred to be alone and free but she wasn't able to obtain that.
a) The way Edna and Leonce communicated with each other was always fighting or a sad tone.
b) The way Edna thought about her husband and their marriage.
c) The verbal abuse Edna experienced.
4)
Gothic tone- extremely gloomy, depressing and sad in characterization and imagery.
Irony- Leonce constantly acknowledging that Edna spends a lot of time with Robert.
Foreshadowing- A constant reminder of the sea being a big part of Edna's life, used as a symbol of life but ultimately being Edna's ending.
Symbolism- Birds were also mentioned a lot in the book. The signified the empowerment or the motivation to be free. It was mentioned at the beginning and also when she was dying.
Setting- 19th century, took place in Grand Isle and New Orleans.
Allusion- Indirectly referred to a women's expectation in the 19th century, she was trying to show that women can be more than what society called for.
Antagonist- Edna had many enemies in this book and not all were exactly human. Sometimes she was the protagonist but also her own antagonist. Although her main antagonist was her husband.
Imagery- Many times it was shown that Edna was unlike the other mothers in her town and that she had that certain something that made her different and was the reason Robert fell in love with her.
Theme- I know I already wrote about a theme but I want to do another one on Feminism. I loved that Chopin showed that women don't need to be dependent on a man to be happy. Women have been looked down on since the beginning but we can be just as strong as any man and even stronger. The social order that Chopin was trying to get out of was great.
Apologia- when Edna killed herself she thought it was the only proper way to say goodbye and be forgiven for her sins and she thought she had nothing else to live for, for she had failed at everything she tried to attain and that was how she thought it was justified.

1) Chopin used direct and indirect because the readers needed to be able to understand the difference in how people viewed Edna and Edna viewed Edna. Both are important and essential to see Edna's struggle. Direct- "There were days when she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. And she found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested. There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.” Indirect- “but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
 2) I don't believe the author changes her diction or tone when talking about characters because the whole book is kind of an angry, sad, vent on society. Edna was never truly able to be happy because everyone kept holding her back.
3) Edna was definitely a dynamic character. The whole book is literally about her becoming an independent woman.
4) I guess I felt both. I didn't really like Edna... she made a commitment to her husband and her kids and she just decided to up and leave them because she wanted to be free. like no... I guess it hits home more than anything and it pissed me off. If she wasn't sure what she wanted when she was younger she shouldn't have made that commitment.

Oh how I wish gov't was actually like this, maybe then I wouldn't suck so bad.

TALE OF TWO CITIES LECTURE NOTES

Victorian

Fears of a revolution 

Clear about similars of France and Britain 

Type of warning 

A serial series 

Pleased with publishing in us and uk

Tale of two cities 

Comfortable with serial parts

Illustrations came later 

Story was an extraodinary success 

Best story he has written 

Many historical everts 

Silent film version 

1935 sound version 

Influence over contempories 

Personal stories 

OMG he was a pedo 😰😪😭

LIT TERMS #3

I just did definitions because I actually use flash cards on my phone, it's a great app and it helps a lot more than this! 

exposition - noun (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur; an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
expressionism - noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
fable - noun a short moral story (often with animal characters); a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; a deliberately false or improbable account
fallacy - noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
falling - adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value; decreasing in amount or degree; coming down freely under the influence of gravity
action - noun something done (usually as opposed to something said); the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; an act by a government body or supranational organization; the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; the series of events that form a plot; the state of being active; a military engagement; a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings);verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; put in effect
farce - noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations; mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs; verb fill with a stuffing while cooking
figurative - adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; consisting of or forming human or animal figures
language - noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; (language) communication by word of mouth
flashback - noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story; an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
foil - noun a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button; a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; verb cover or back with foil; enhance by contrast; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
folk - noun people in general (often used in the plural); the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community; people descended from a common ancestor; a social division of (usually preliterate) people
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
foreshadowing - adj. indistinctly prophetic; noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
free - adj. not literal; unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion;able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint;not held in servitude; not occupied or in use; not fixed in position;not taken up by scheduled activities; costing nothing; adv. without restraint; noun people who are free; verb free or remove obstruction from; grant freedom to; free from confinement; free from obligations or duties; make (information) available publication; make (assets) available; let off the hook; remove or force out from a position; part with a possession or right; relieve from; grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
verse - noun a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; literature in metrical form; verb familiarize through thorough study or experience;compose verses or put into verse
genre - noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work; an expressive style of music; a style of expressing yourself in writing
gothic - adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; of or relating to the Goths; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German; as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; noun a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
imagery - noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false; something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
incongruity - noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
inference - noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
irony - noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs; witty language used to convey insults or scorn

WHATS THE STORY

Personally I think Dickens wrote Great Expectations because it was relatable. Either it was something he experienced or something he saw way to much of. He wanted to show his audience what could/would happen to people who were acting like Pip. It's not a literary term we've actually gone over but it is in our list, and I would say it's a bit gothic. It's not completely gloomy like Edgar Allan Poe status, but it was sad. The way Estella didn't love Pip back, the way he used and abused the people who actually loved him and way he never really got the ending he wanted but what he didn't know he needed. Another term I noticed was foils between Joe and Jagger. Jagger made Joe look like an angel. Joe was whay every one aspires to be like, whereas Jagger is what we end up becoming. The story was also an allegory (I tend to always confuse it with anecdote). Dickens wanted his readers to get something out of it and this story had tons of themes. You just need to pick one that applies to you. 

DICKENS REFLECTION

Well so far I'm having a hard time comparing the book with the notes you've given us. I don't see how Pip is a fantasist... I feel like he's just trying to be something he's not?? Or is that a fantasist??? Being fake?? Or is he really being fake if that's what he truly wanted but knew it wasn't what he actually is?? Oh gosh I need another lecture. 

LIT TERMS #2 REMIX

Circumlocution

Classicism 

Cliche 

Climax 

Colloquialism 

Comedy 

Conflict

Connotation 

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Contrast 

Denotation

Denouement 

Dialects

Dialectics 

Dichotomy 

Diction

Didactic 

Dogmatic

Elegy

Epic

Epigram 

ALL THAT DAVID COPPERFIELD KIND OF CRAP

Comparing David Copperfield and Pip... Well tbh I saw no difference. They were both young men who had awful upbringings. They had to raise themselves, teach themselves, but I noticed they both didn't know how to. They were influenced by people around them which in turn caused them to think they needed to act a certain way that they didn't truly believe in. They believed escaping their reality was their way out. But they really just needed to face their reality. So when Salinger says Holden didn't want to talk like Copperfield, I took it as a "you don't need to know my past to know my present". He was stronger than those boys who couldn't escape their past and move on. Holden talked about his present situation and how he was trying to face that. He didn't want the pity that would come with being an orphan with dead parents. 

HACKING MY EDUCATION

So this semester is going to be a lot harder than I expected. My easy classes are gone and all that's left is my dead body in AP classes. Soooooo... I'm nervous but I think I can do this. I need to do this. I MUST GRADUATE. I have gov't and econ this semester so there's no room for failing!! 

FML

Honestly what is my life. I've had the flu for like the whole break. My work will be a bit late. I am trying to finish while trying to not throw up so alas, I'm sorry :(