Modernist Author Project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We finished our Video!!!!! Jessica Wilkin, Teanna Silviera, Jonah Maher, and I hope you enjoy it!!(: We want to give much thanks to all the actors: Raul Ramirez, Kaitlynn Dueck, Takara Wilkin, and Austin Aragon for helping us make this Video a success!!(:

"Brave New World" Notes Chapters 1-5

• Epsilons: letter from the Greek alphabet.
• Characters aren't designed to be different but interchangeable
• It's an allusion
• Book is based on timeless ideas
• Economic classes are a big part of this book
• Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gama <-- Dividers
• We have all the ingredients in society today for it to all fall apart tomorrow
• In Brave New World there are no rebels
• Cognitive Dissonance: Two ideas contradict each other and done to make you think
•  "Everyone belongs to everyone else" means they all share each other
• Why separate everyone into classes?:  Because Huxley wants to mess with people's minds
• Can't really know what it feels like to not have any emotions
• Racial Comments
• "Everybody's" living this way
• Word "Ford" was used like a lord (worshiped him)
• Ford was their god because he was the creator of manufacturing
• Marx--> symbolic
• Froid: psychoanalytic
• Why did they talk using "A.F." instead of saying the year they were in?: Means "AFTER FORD"
• Each name has a special significance
• Ford is the god head character in the story
• Bernard Marx: outsider; didn't like what was going on
• Pneumatic: airy/ fluffy (real definition).......  Referring to a girls figure in a sexual way (how it's used in the book) 

"MAPLAN"... Modernist Author Project

Notes for My Project.....

Jessica Wilkin, Teanna Silveira, Jonah Maher, and I decided to do a group project.

• Project?: News Report/ Broadcast
• Name?: Daily Modernist News
• Channel?: Channel 72
• We will be acting it out 
• Include background music based on what they liked
• Interview the authors
• start with the Credo: words to live by/ life philosophy
• Genre?: Report on a novel (what it's talking about)
• Report on the person behind the book:

1. Life circumstances 
2. Behaviors
3. Ideas
4. Religion & Politics
5. Childhood/ Family Background
6. Previous Work
7. Personality

• Ask random people on what their input is
• Have a "commercial" with one author talking about themselves and how they "help the community".
• Pressing Question?: Do it at the end (During Credits).... Have the question at the end and have the author answer it.

Back-up ideas in case this doesn't work!!!

• Make a group story about the authors.
• Write an essay with links to other websites with great information on the author.

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.