The english video

I thought they English video was very interesting. I loved hearing what our language sounded like many years ago. It’s so fascinating as to how we used to say our vowels and how we do now. I’m confused about some of it though. Like how did we change it? And why don’t we have a British accent? I kind of like how they talk because it sounds so eloquent and now it sounds almost trashy. Also, I love the way people used to write. How it looks now to how it did then is a huge difference. I would love to have handwriting like people did back in the day. I was also very interested in how Chaucer saved English. So was it because he was just very popular and so people read his book and it just spread? I thought it was cool hearing the kind of English that Beowulf was written in. It was just overall really cool and I’m glad we got to watch it.

Frankensteinnnn

Frankenstien! i really like this book so far. and its so fitting to read it around the time of Halloween. So far i am only confused on a little things. Justine? she was raised in Victors family right? and i really feel bad for her. i think Victor was being ridiculous. why wouldnt he just admit that it was his monster that killed william!? he even said that he wanted to admit it..so why not? he was just the cause of 2 deaths now instead of one. he could have easily saved Justines lifeif he wouldnt have been so selfish. he was driving me nuts. and also i think he should take responsibility for his monster that HE created. why would he do the amazing thing of creating life and then leave it out to fend for its self? the monster is starting to act and feel like a real human does, so Victor needs to take him into the family, even if he does think his creation is grotesque. i just feel bad for the monster. i think its so cool how he teaches himself how to read though. So its really not like he is just some mean, ugly brute. he can think, and is thoughtful and has feelings. and we were talking about this in our lit circle..since he has the brain of another person, does he think like that person and have their memories? i thought that was very interesting. Michael brought up a good point that no it doesnt but i forgot all his smart reasoning behind it, but it was good. well so far im loving this book and im curous as to what will happen!

Beowulf is pessimistic

ok so..im doing a little updating on my blog so everyone get excited. hopefully it will work.

I really liked our disscusion on beowulf today. I thought everybody had a lot of good  points. I still think though that overall beowulf is a pessimistic book though. I think that beowulf is an optimistic character because he comes to save the day and kills Grendel, Grendels mom and the dragon. but when Beowulf dies, I think it almost symbolizes who the optimism dies. No one was willing to help Beowulf when he needed them and now they are going to be defeated by the one city. i think it shows how now that beowulf is gone, they are basically screwd. So overall, i think that Beowulf is pessimistic but i really liked hearing everyones thoughts. 

Gardner's letter

oh gosh..where to start? well first of all, i think i got a little confused during this letter, yet i found it very interesting. I definitely agree with his opinions about Beowulf so that just made me really happy. He just put it in such good words and it made me think of our lit circle we had about it. i just dont see how it can be optimistic either. I also liked what he said about how they read too fast because i feel like i do that a lot. It was funny because when the kids said they thought he  believed what the dragon thought-well thats what i thought too. i guess i read like a child haha. but i also thought it was interesting to hear that he said he was actually inclined to believe theres a god. thats funny because when i read Grendel I thought there was no way Gardner could believe in god, but i guess i cant assume that whatever is in a book is what the author believes. i feel like i really would have like to read the essays that Robin, David and Teresa wrote, then maybe would i be able to understand this a little more? i dont know but although i was a tad confused during this, i still really enjoyed it. i think its really cool though that he actually took the time to respond to this class. but throughout this letter i get the feeling that Gardner is just very cocky or loves himself or something..i dont know though maybe not?

mary shelley?

so did this mary shelly  have a pretty messed up life or what?

well as i am reading Frankenstein i cant help but think that maybe Shelley's life was really sad or something or maybe similar to this. I don't know but i was curious to know what inspired her to write this novel..

so yeah, Mary's life was pretty horrible. Her mother died giving birth to her, so she never met her. She was raised by her father and then ran away with Percy, her soon to be husband. her first baby dide in the womb, so thats the beginning of her troubles. she then had 2 other kids who died. they finally had their 4th and last child but he lived. then her husband drowned. so basically she had a pretty depressing life. but she wrote Frankenstein because she was with a group of friends and they had a "most scary story" contest. im pretty sure she probably won but that is also how Dracula came about. Ok, i just thought all that was pretty interesting so i thought I'd share!

Frankenstein and Grendel!

I saw a lot of similar things between Grendel and Frankenstein. I got really excited. Frankenstein starts to get feelings and thinks back to when he was first created. he gets really mad when he finds out that hes creator thinks hes grotesque and he wasnt to know why he lives then. i felt really bad for him. He also gets really curious about the cottagers and wants to get close to them and see if they will accept him and be his friend, but they dont. Its similar to Grendel because he is also an outcast and Grendel is sad about this. He find out also how he was "created" or finds out about cain and why he is different. Also no one accepts Grendel, just like Frank. Grendel was really excited when the humans tried to help him, and wanted to be accepted by them, just like how Frank wants the cottager to be his friend. Then Frank kills William and Grendel goes on his killing strike. i actually feel quite bad for both of these creatures. i want to be frankensteins friend, its so sad. i wonder if he's going to start getting really mean? or what!? and wow i just realized that i refered this whole time to the monster as Frankenstein, my bad just ignore it.

the apple in enchanted

So my allusion group was the fairy tale one. We talked about how the apple represents temptation, sin, lust and evil in a lot of fairy tales and literature in general. well i found this to be true in the movie Enchanted.

This movie is like a funny mock of other disney fairy tales. its really good but anyways the princess is going to marry this prince but the princes mom doesn't want him to get married. she wants to be queen for ever and rule so she hates Giselle. She sends her servant to try and kill her. There are 3 apples that are poisoned and so the servant had 3 chances to kill her. The apple in this movie represents hate, jealousy, lust(in a way because the step mom wants to be queen), evil, and tempatation. it symbolizes all of these just like we talked about in class so that made  me really excited. In the end, just in case youre wondering, Giselle tries the last apple and is unconscious but of course, true loves kiss wakes her up :) 

Grendel the baby!

ok so i really like little baby Grendel and i feel bad for him. the first few chapters make him seem so innocent and nice. I feel like When he got caught in the tree is when he turns kinda against humans. at first he wants his mom so bad, and i think he realizes she isn't coming and at this point, that they are 2 separate people. It like what we learned in Pyscoholgy, you dont start realizing that you are seperated from your mom until a certain point when your a toddler. When he keeps thinking everything is his mom and then realizes she isnt coming, i think is when he realizes he is by himself. When the humans came, you could tell he didnt hate them and they werent afraid of him yet. they thought he was a fungus though haha. but i think its when he started to get really happy they were getting him food and they thought he was roaring at them, and then they started throwing things at him. thats when i think Grendel started hating the humans. But Grendel doesnt even like being in a war with the humans. he thinks its ridiculous and stupid. but idont know im excited to see what happens! so far i feel bad for him and i kinda like him..but i dont know that could change..

Spanglish?

As we were talking about how our language will sound in many years, I found myself getting quite sad. I really don’t even know why. But is our language really going to start becoming more Spanish than English? It made me sad I think because our country is based off of English, and I really don’t want it switching to Spanish. I know everyone should have the equal opportunities that were have, but I feel like the Spanish speaking people should speak English not we change to Spanish. I know I’m being ridiculous, but this is just what I as thinking over and I thought id blog about it. I know that our language evolved after many years, but I just don’t really want to it to have to switch to Spanish. Are there any other theories on what it will become in many years down the road?