Applied Modernism

1.Why is "The First Seven Years" considered a modernist story?

2. Why is Fahrenheit 451 considered a modernist novel?

3. Why is "Richard Cory" considered a modernist poem?

°Pre-Write

-The First Seven Years

*Way Feld treated his dauggter

*Strict

*Daughter wanted to be independent

*Old Fashion tone

-Fahrenheit 451

*Everyone was,a slave to technology

*Montag started to break the rules

*Punished (strict living rules)

*similar to the "lost generation" because they didn't enjoy life like they should have

-Richard Cory

*Wasn't Happy

*Didn't follow the lines

*Did opposite of what they should

*More Extreme

°Essay

2. Why's Fahrenheit 451 considered a modernist novel?

Fahrenheit 451 is considered a modernist novel for the simple fact that it was written in between the 1900s and 1965. Some of the content seems old fashioned, like including the bible as well. Not everyone reads the bible when reading literature now. The community Montag lived in was very strict to how it is now.

It amazes me on how exact the author was at describing some of the technology that we do, In fact, have today.  Only difference is, we have the right to read, walk the streets an not automatically be Considered suspicious, and think what we want and be different.

The author seemed to combine many theories into one novel and make sense. He shows a great example of the lost generation. To my understanding the lost generation is a generation who turned minds eye inward and attempted to record their thoughts as they happened. The community in Fahrenheit 451 never really lived life because they were so stuck on technology. They never realized how beautiful the outside and their surroundings are.

How NOT to write an essay NOTES...

1. Why is "The First Seven Years" considered a modernist story?
2. Why is Fahrenheit 451 considered a modernist novel?
3. Why is "Richard Cory" considered a modernist poem?

1. "The First Seven Years"
*Unreliable Narrator
*Rebellious
*Inner World--> Sobel

2.Fahrenheit 451
*World/ Future/ Books--> Destruction and Decay
*?- Relevant
*Breaking Rules
*ontags thought process--> Syntax
*Mistrust with the government

3. Richard Cory
*Richard Cory is a modernist poem.
*Expository (Explains something to reader) or Persuasive
*Bleak Future
*Money can't buy happiness
*Inner World vs. Outer World

My Modernist

Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
I chose this modernist because I'm sure Dr. Preston has already talked about him before. I'd like to learn more about him because I feel like i know the pure basics and he just seems like an interesting author to research.

"The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud

The ending of the story caught me by total SURPRISE!!!! I was shocked to find out that Sobel had been in love with the Shoemakers daughter the whole time. He was so in love with her that when he realized he no longer had a chance with her he left his job. He began to think his life was worthless. Once Feld, the shoemaker, agreed for Sobel to talk to his daughter Miriam, everything changes. Sobel is filled with hope again and returns to work for the shoemaker as his right hand man.I really did believe things were going to work out as the dad wanted with Miriam dating Max, but I guess stories, just like life, are full of surprises.

Vocabulary: Spring List 5!

• brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited critical response, display of interest, or trail of publicity

•  cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment

•  demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing

•  deference: Humble submission and respect.

•  enigmatic:  Difficult to interpret or understand

•  definitive: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation; serving to define or 

specify precisely

•  bumptious: Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.

•  choleric: bad-tempered

•  bulwark:  solid wall-like structure raised for defense 

•  curtail: To cut short or reduce

•  adamant: extremely hard substance

•  profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

•  mawkish: Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way

•  thwart: Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something

•  onus: Used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility

•  requisite: Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.

•  mollify:Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).

•  sartorial: Of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress

•  presentiment: An intuitive feeling about the future

•  impromptu: Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance

•  forbearance:  refraining from the enforcement of something

•  remit: Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting

Spring Vocab #2

1. Praetorian: Resembling the Roman guards.
2. Sieve: Utensil with a meshed surface for straining.
3. Veiled: Covered or in disguise.
4. Saccharine: Artificially sweet.
5. Harlequin: Character in a comic theater.
6. Toil: Hard and continuous work.
7. Delinquence: Neglectful; failing.
8. Jibbering: To move relatively sidewise or backward instead of forward.
9. Insidious: Intended to entrap or beguile.
10. Strewn: To let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface.
11. Patronage: Act of buying something.
12. Cadence: Pace
13. Suffused: To spread through or over
14. Centrifuge: Machine that separates substances by spinning fast.
15. Dentifrice: Toothpaste.
16. Leisure: Time free from work or duty.
17. Vessel: Large craft.
18. Phonograph: Record player.
19. Profusion: Abundance of.

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.