MY ESSAY ESSAY

Young Goodman Brown goes for a walk. Although he goes for a walk I don't think the events that occurred were in fact real. I believe they were a figment of his imagination. The theme of the story is how a persons perspective changes their personality and the reality of things. Hawthorne uses plot, symbol, and foreshadowing to help us better understand the theme. 

Hawthorne uses the walk that Brown took as the plot. Plot is the sequence of events in which makes up the story. The way in which Brown saw things before he went for that walk were innocent and pure. He thought his wife was innocent, he had faith in Faith. The townspeople as well, they were kind and normal, or he thought. Brown' perspective on people changed when he went for that walk, his mind was opened. The walk he went on was as if it were his own imagination, he saw the devil, he saw unimaginable things, but they were done by him. Until his walk, did he finally want to see the truth. He himself did it all, he had to make things up in his head in order for him to believe these things because he couldn't believe it for himself. He already knew these things about everyone but it was as if he needed to see it from a different perspective. 

Faith as we know was aptly named, her pink ribbons are a symbol of her purity. Throughout the story her pink ribbons are mentioned and they play a key idea in the story. When Brown sees the ribbons at the end of the story on the tree it is because the purity of Faith has been "left behind". Throughout the story she becomes a dynamic character although she herself doesn't do anything. In Browns imagination at the start the way in which he describes her is so pure but at the end of the story she "changes" in Brown's mind. 

Another way in which Hawthorne shows us the theme is by using foreshadowing. At the beginning of the story when Brown is saying goodbye to his wife, right before he leaves he reminisces about their conversation. Faith also doesn't want him to leave and wants him to postpone his walk through the forest. This is foreshadowing that something will happen and that is why Faith doesn't want Brown to leave. This helps us to better understand the theme by showing us how when he goes into the forest his perspective changed.
                         
Although at the end of the story Brown no longer sees things in the same way as in the beginning, the plot, symbolism, and foreshadowing helps us to better understand why his perspective changed. They create a base and support in which helps us to see why his perspective changed. He no longer believes in which things he sees and now he sees the truth. The truth about everyone and who they actually are. 

            

MY THESIS STATEMENT

I think its much easier to reflect on a story with a prompt because it gives you more of an idea of what you should be writing about. I see it as an outline to help us out. Although it can also restrict our writing because were used to so many teachers telling us that our writing has to be done again because it doesn't follow the prompt. Sometimes when we do write we need an outline and sometimes we don't because it depends on how much we think we can actually write about a topic. With Young Goodman Brown I think I might need an outline. A topic essay could be about how you either see the good or bad or about how you don't see a different perspective on people because you see what you want to see not what things actually are.

READ TALK UNDERSTAND

Reflecting on the conversation we had in class today what I took from it was, that we have to try. We have to try to get people to understand us because we can't do anything else. We can't keep worrying about a dumb letter grade when we're writing. Although a lot of people associate essay with negative thoughts we shouldn't have to. An essay shouldn't be making us feel afraid of expressing how we feel.

YOUNG OLD GOOD BAD

1. Hawthorne's purpose for writing this story was to show us how your perspective on someone can change and people who seem one way can be completely different when you start to know them better or in this case gain more information about them.  
2.  Yes i think Faith fits her because in the story, Goodman Brown was questioning his Faith and if his Faith could change. I think that's how it also played out in the story because Goodman Brown was questioning his wife and if she was capable of being this other person he didn't know. I don't think he had complete faith in her because he kept questioning it after the dream.  
3.  I think the pink ribbons signify the innocence of Faith.
4.  I think everything he witnessed was a dream but a dream that he created by the thing he saw or heard about the people. 
5.  I think the old man is the devil in disguise. The way in which he is proud of what he did to the men is a way this shows us. 
6.  The staff leads Brown onward into the forest. The man keeps offering Brown his staff during the whole journey so therefore asking him to keep "digging" as if to keep searching for the truth of who the people really are. 
7.  If Brown stayed home instead of going into the forest I think his perspective wouldn't change on everyone. He would still only see what he wants to see. He wouldn't see the "other side" of them. Yes he would probably still have faith because going into the forest is what made him uneasy about his faith towards everyone

Literature Analysis #1- HARRY POTTER

*PLOT* Harry Potter is an orphan, but not really because he lives with his aunt and uncle who have a very spoiled son. They don't really care much for Harry and only took him in to live with them because Harry's parents died and his aunt is the only living relative Harry had since she was his moms only sister. Before Harrys parents died his aunt and uncle didn't really know much about him and this is because they didn't really approve of Harrys parents and the way they lived and who they really were. Up to Harry's 11th birthday he's lived a very, well terrible life I could say. He wasn't loved, had no friends, and was always alone. When Harry was going to be entering a new school year he found out who he truly was. Harry found out he was a wizard and not just any wizard, he was famous. He was so well known and this was because he survived. Not only were his parents murdered but their killer was also trying to kill Harry, he didn't die but he did get a scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt. Harry goes on to Wizard school in spite of what his aunt and uncle think. On his way there he meets 2 other first years, Ron and Hermione and they become friends. At his new school a lot of things happen such as a teacher not liking him and then that same teacher asking him to play Quidditch, Harry does and is pretty good at it. He also eventually gets his fathers invisibility cloak during Christmas. Harry and his friends are also very curious to find out what the 3 headed dogs are guarding then they figure out that it is a sorcerers stone which can give who ever owns it eternal life and unlimited wealth. When Harry and his friends are sent to the forest to see whos been killing the unicorns there is a man who tells them that Voldemort is looking for the stone as well so now Harry is determined to get the stone before Voldemort does. They go late at night and get passed the dogs and eventually find Quirrell who tells Harry that he must die. Then it's revealed the Voldemort's face was on the back of Quirrell's head. Then Voldemort tells Quirrell to kill Harry but Quirrell is burned when he touches Harry. Harry then passes out and when he wakes up he is in the hospital with Dumbledore and Dumbledore tell his that he saved him right on time from Dumbledore and he also tells Harry that him and Flamel decided to destroy the stone. At the end Harry heads down to the banquet for their school where the Slytherin house always wins but Dumbledore awards last minute points to Harry and his friends in the Gryffindor house and they win the house cup.
*Theme* I think the theme of the book was to find yourself. Harry Potter didn't really fit into anywhere before his 11th birthday and it was mainly because he was different but once he moved different schools he was better able to relate to more people just like him and throughout the book he learned much more about himself and his parents.
*Direct characterization* An example is when the author is describing Mrs. Dursley he says "Mrs. Dursely was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors." (page 1)
*Static character* I think a static character is Dumbledore, since the start he has always been there for Harry and not turning on him or trying to hurt him in anyway possible and we see this also when he saves Harry from Quirrell at the end of the book.

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

*NOTES*
WE CHOOSE OUR CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION BEFORE WE THINK OF ANYBODY ELSE
WHEN WOULD I USE EMAIL?- CONISDER YOUR AUDIENCE
IF SOMEONE ASKS YOU TO EMAIL THEN YEA EMAIL
IF SOMEONE OLDER THEN 30 THEN CONSIDER EMAIL
SENDING TEXT IS USUALLY SOMEONE CLOSE TO ME- IF SOMEONE YOU DONT KNOW THEN YOURE CAUTIOUS OF HOW YOU TEXT
HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR EMAIL SECURE- CHANGE PASSWORD
-2 STEP VERIFICATION -PROTONMAIL

The ways in which I would choose an APPROPIATE channel/s for my communication is first ill take in consideration my audience. If its someone I'm close to then I would probably choose social media such as snapchat and I know it isn't safe but that's just an easier way for me to communicate with my peers. If its anyone older I might use email but usually for something professional because I wouldn't use email to get in contact with my uncles or aunts. I would use a phone number to contact my relatives who are older.

SO THIS GUY GOES FOR A WALK

This will be my first impression on "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Just by taking a glance at the reading it seems like it will be a very detailed story maybe a lot of events occurring.There is a lot you can take from the first couple of paragraphs. For example, "And Faith, as the wife was aptly named..." I feel like this sentence does a little foreshadowing. It makes it seem like the word faith and the wife have a big significance to this story. Also how they describe the wife's pink ribbons repeatedly symbolizes that it will be very important to the story although we don't know how yet. It was also weird how they started the story with the husband and wife saying goodbye to each other it makes me curious like are they ever going to see each other again? Is this there last goodbye?

FOR THE WIN

Something that I feel I accomplished very well in this course was when we had our second socratic seminar. I think I had some very good points when we were talking. I think I led the conversation and people had more to say. I was very proud because I felt like all I did was states my opinion but it led to the conversation actually going somewhere instead of girls just telling each other to read their own journals. Instead of just reading my journal I actually asked some questions that ive been wondering. I was glad that the conversation went somewhere and my classmates were actually responding to it. I also felt very good about asking questions because Dr. Preston also thanked me for getting the conversation going.

I A'INT GOT TIME FOR THAT

*NOTES*
You love the experience of succeeding.
When we invest a lot and don't get results we want we shift so we reduce our time and effort.
Sometimes we invest alot of time and energy and we don't feel satisfied with the results.
A person who hasn't worked for it feels like a fraud.
Lottery winners and inheritors don't get satisfaction because they know they haven't earned it.
Our class is expensive because it is about 3000 seconds closer to the end of our lives which we will never get back.
Selling time is when we agree to sell time to a market place.
We sell our time so we could get a profit or something better.
How do I do the things that would make me valuable?
We give time which is the exchange of time to socialize.
Spending time is when we exchange our times for things that are personally rewarding.
Example exercising, religion, and etc.
Passing time is non directed and we aren't focused on any specific outcome just recharging our batteries.
We want to pass time because we need a little bit of a break to recharge to get more motivation.
My dominant time allocations are probably homework and socializing. Homework apparently is supposed to show my teachers how smart I am and that is what's put into my grade but the matter is that I am a very intelligent student but sometimes I really ain't got time for that. Some teachers expect us to be doing homework from their classes as if we don't take about 5-6 other classes in which we also have homework for. On top of that they still expect us to study for at least another hour. The only reason that homework is such an allocation is because without it I wont have good grades and without good grades I wont get into a good college and if I don't get into a good college I wont get a decent job and without a decent job I wont have a decent living. The reason that socializing is such an allocation is that without it I wouldn't have a life. Adults do not understand how boring life can be without a social life, without friends your life could be so boring. Sometimes having a social life though can even distract you from everything in life that is so NOT FUN.

THE EARTH ON THE TURTLE'S BACK

I really enjoyed reading The Earth on Turtle's Back because it had a great moral to it. The moral was to not undermine the underdogs and don't doubt someone on their size. I liked how the muskrat was very small and it was a female and the stereotype of females is that they aren't as strong as males so this myth contradicted it. Personification played a big role because all the animals were talking but as most of us know animals don't actually talk to us. Its crazy to think about how myths like this one were told long ago by native people and were remembered as if it were something natural. Nowadays if we have to memorize things such as I don't know a poem like the Laughing Heart it seems harder but to think about it they used to memorize things that were much harder to memorize back then.

TODAY I WAS THINKING

Honestly I really loved seeing that there was like a "schedule". I really love knowing what's going to happen, I'm just one of those people who just enjoy knowing everything I guess. I love planning things and my days because I know what to prepare for. There wont be days where I'm not mentally prepared. For example like if it was a test one day but I knew about it then I could prepare for it just like mentally I guess I need to know. I feel like if I didn't know I would just be very overwhelmed. I know that the week isn't going to be exactly how it was up but at least I get an idea of it.

I CARE ABOUT YOUR UNDERSTANDING

I know that not all my blogs will make sense to you. I am truly sorry about that. This entire blog isn't only for my AP Literature class but it is about the people reading these blogs and even the future me reading these and looking back at how my writing has improved (hopefully). So for now I hope you guys understand that im not as great of a writer as I could be. I know I have a lot of potential and I can do better and the more I learn the more I know I can improve. So for now I hope you guys will stick with me while I try to find the ways in which I could improve. Some things might be very random to you now but I hope you try to understand me, because I do care about your understanding.

THE MAKING OF AN ESSAY

I HATE WRITTING ESSAYS. The process of it all would annoy me and it honestly just takes so much time and so much thinking. Even coming up with words like to make my essay sound better takes me a whole hour and I know what I want to say but there's so many rules in writing essays it makes it harder. I feel like the hardest thing is also just trying to be formal like making it sound very professional well usually that's the case unless were making a story up then usually it doesn't sound as professional. Usually also after ive come to like my "end" I get very tired. Even while Im typing this my mind is wandering off and I am already just tired.

Everything Is A Remix

REMIX:

• To combine or edit something existing and make something new 
• Anybody can do it

REMIX DEFINITION: Arrangement and transformation of 

Ex: lightbulb- popular metaphor

                     -movements of insights= becomes creations

HOW DO WE CREATE A REMIX: 

1. Domain Knowledge: speak how everyone does- copy it or other people
2. Transformation: creating variations with existing things -expansion ex: typewriter= piano inspiration
3. Combinations: merging them together

• original ideas are considered property
• property can be stolen
• ideas contain other ideas

THE FIRST 5O PAGES

OK so I just started reading Harry Potter, mmm let me tell you I don't really understand what the hype is about. Maybe because so many people talk so much about it and talk so highly about it. They over hyped it. Honestly the first 50 pages weren't that bad but its not something that I cant wait to read, you know? I know a lot of people are like super fans about Harry Potter even my younger brother is but it hasn't really gotten all my attention. The reason I chose this book to begin with is because my bestfriend Dennise really loves Harry Potter and she's always talking about it so I thought why not give it a chance. So far the most important (in my opinion) part about the first pages are that he finds out he's a wizard and everyone's been hiding it from him for so long and hes about to leave to Hogwarts. I mean I guess its probably a cliché you know "we were only doing it to protect you" type of thing. But in reality why would he need to be protected, who wouldn't want to be a wizard with all sorts of magic. Anyways that's besides the point but so far I think what im really interested in knowing is why Harry's parents HAVE to die. Like is he going to become Batman? You know his parents were killed and he became this great superhero, is this going to happen to Harry and is he supposed to fulfill this great destiny? I don't know maybe just another cliché or maybe not. I'm looking forward to seeing if this book turns out different from what im assuming right now.