Literature Analysis Questions for "The Carrie Diaries"

GENERAL
         
         The Plot of the story is related more to the life of a teenager. The author hit exactly every little detail of what a teenage girl faces in high school. The narrator is dramatic and confused about life. She doesn't make the best decisions and comitts various mistakes. She cries about it and complains, but in the end she learns how to let it go. The narrative fulfills the author's purpose by explaining that, a girl is always a diva as a teenager, as much as she doesn't want to admitt it. The central topic, or theme, is that many teens get persuaded into doing drugs and end up going through with it. Peer pressure is a huge thing in high school as well as bullying. The young teenager lives through all of that. She's a little of everything from crazy to druggy.

CHARACTERIZATION

         Direct characterization is shown when she personaly demonstrates her personality ehen going to the party. At the same time it showed inderect characterization when she decided to go to the bar after the party and be spontanious. The author is always focused on a character so the syntax doesn't change much. The story is told by the protagonist herself. There are a few occasions when the story does become a little more intense then usual, but besides that it doesnt really change. The main character is dynamic because towards the end she learns various things about life she didn't know before. She realized  that because certain things didn't go the way she wanted them to, it wasn't hte end of the world. The character learned who her true friends were and whome she could no longer trust after they had shown their true colors. After reading the book I felt as if I had met an actual person. It felt like I was actually in the story knowing everything they were talking about. I was able to connect with some of the conflicts that occured in the story as well. The part that stood out to me most were the true friends. I realized that yes, it's very true that you can't trust every single one of your high school friends because it's high school. People change after a while and they may turn and stab you in hte back. I've seen it happen with others so it makes everyhring seem even more real.

I'M A POET AND I KNOW IT

High school, its a bunch of cliques
Nobody gives a flip of who you really are...
You wanna be known
Give them a reason to remember you and care
Everywhere you look there's different types of people
The popular, the nobodys, the jocks, you name it
But deep inside everyone has their secret
Be careful in who you trust
Be careful in who you lust
They may come back and betray you

Wikipedia entry for Fahrenheit 451

Notes of the day...

• Utopian: Idea that the future is perfect
• Dystopian: Negative view of the future. (Fahrenheit 451)

5 things I learned...

1. has been the subject of various interpretations, primarily focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas. 
2. Television destroys the interest in reading literature.
3.  book's title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of book paper.
4. It's weird to be someone curious about life and nature in those times
5. Everybody forgot what happiness really feels like and the question confuses them. 

THEME FOR ENGLISH 3

Q:

• Are you the person your teachers think you are?  
• Can you be your real self as you pursue knowledge and find your place in the world?  
• What elements of you do you have to check at the gate when you get to school? 
• Do you have interests, talents or experiences that could add meaning to the class and enrich the learning experience for you and others?
• What elements of you do you think is valued by school and the "powers-that-be"?  
• What do you feel compelled to keep private?  
• Is it possible for you to take ownership of your learning process and demonstrate what you know, or is your role in learning a function of authority and power relationships?

A: 

• I'm not the person my teacher thinks I am. In reality, I'm not quiet and I'm not really that shy. I guess to the fact that I don't know the teacher so well, I don't feel very comfortable yet.
• I'm not comfortable with expressing who I truly am to just everyone. I've learned how to interact more with others over the past few years and not be too shy about everything. So I guess later on I will be a little  more of myself to pursue knowledge and find a place in the world.
• I'm unsure if I have any talents related to English that can add meaning to the class. Everyone has such great ideas in there that it's like wow. I just rahter be a part and do what I'm supposed to i guess.
• The only thing that has ever worked in my favor when it comes to school is creativity. When I'm told to be creative on a project, I like to go all out. I feel really comfortable on just going all out and making things stand out and just overall be creative. 
• I don't think forced to keep anything private. I'm not ashamed of who I am as a student and a person. I feel like I do pretty well in school and hopefully it stays that way. 
• I think it's very possible for me to take ownership on what I've learned and how I've learned it as long as I'm able to choose the way to demonstrate it. Last semester I demonstrated what I learned in poetry by relating it to true life events and this semester I'd love to do the same or in those lines. The best way to learn in that class is by working with others and getting their opinion on things as well. Together you can combine a lot of great ideas and get one even better.

Smart Goals

*To Graduate from High School
*To become someone and make my family proud
*Study in business or become a paramedic
*Learn new things that can help me achieve my school goals
*PASS the class lol

BIG GOAL
** Study in business and open a restaurant to make my parents catering business more of a success than it already is.

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN 1

This semester I plan on trying to stay caught up in this class and not forget to post all the time like I did last semester. Oops!! i need to realize that this class is as important as my other classes in which i'm struggling. I guess I just get caught up on trying to do good with my other classes that i forget to do this until super late, but by that time I'm super tiered. Good thing, now I got a new phone and its so much faster to get on the internet.

SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE

Q: Can we consider music to be literature? How do we define literature? What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?

A: I don't see why we shouldn't be able to consider music as literature, after all it does have a central message as well. It may not always be as positive as others, but it has it's purpose. We can define literature by seeing or hearing what the person is trying to tell you. Every author has a different way of getting out their message to you. There's really no difference at all between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony except ones singing, another is talking, and the other involves you reading it. Besides that they all have a narrator, a purpose, tone, and diction, grammar, spelling.

To give an example, there's the song What are words by Chris Medina. It's simple to define the literature in the song because his purpose is very obvious. He sends a message to the people listening by saying that you shouldn't say "I love You" to someone if it's only for some time. He tries explaining that what does it mean if you say them for no reason at all. You should only say them when you mean it. If you tell someone you love them keep your word and stick by them no matter what happens. When I think of literature in a song that's the first song that always pops up in my head. The Narrator would be him, purpose would be what do the words mean if they're only for good times and then they're gone. The diction, grammar, spelling used in the song is simple just so the audience listening is able to understand the message without any trouble.