Wednesday, May 1, 2013

SCHLACHTOF SIEBEN (chapter 7)




  • Billy got into a chartered airplane.

  •  He knew that it was going to crash, but he didn't want to make a fool of himself by saying so.

  • There was a barbershop on board called "The Febs" which stood for "Four-Eyed Bastards." 

  • Billy once accidentally saw a Pole hanged in Dresden, a farm laborer hung for having sex with a German woman. So it goes.

SCHLACHTOF (chapter 6)




  • Billy Pilgrim went to Dresden after his morphine night.

  • He dozed and awoke in the hospital again.

  • Englishmen were building a new latrine. 

  • Billy records himself saying that he will die, have died, and will always die on February thirteenth, 1976. 

  • Billy dies and comes back to life a couple of hours later

Monday, April 29, 2013

SCHLACHTOF FUNF (Chapters 4 + 5)

Chapter 4
  • Billy could not sleep on his daughters wedding night
  • Billy was forty-four 
  • Billy knew that he would be kidnapped by a flying saucer when he went down the hallway.
  • He went downstairs and found half a bottle of champagne. It said "Drink me," but it was dead.
  • So it goes



Chapter 5

  • On the trip to Tralfamadore, Billy asks for something to read.
  • After reading the only Earthling novel onboard, he is given some Tralfamadorian books.
  • He is unable to read the alien books but tries to make out the symbols that are in groups instead of rows
  • He finds himself back in 1945 Germany
  • Billy is surprised to learn that the Tralfamadorians are not alarmed by the acts of murder and war carried out on Earth.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Gatsby Essay

           In "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway helps us (the reader) get better insight on who Gatsby is by giving us good descriptions about how Gatsby's parties were, how he is as a person and how Gatsby is trying to erase all the bad he did in the past by doing a lot of good in the present, basically putting the reader in Nick Carraway's shoes. Through Nick, we can see Gatsby's emotions toward Daisy we can also feel all of the heart pounding tension at the ending chapters through Nick. We can also see the struggles Gatsby goes through in the story and we begin to appeal to Gatsby through Nick because who else doesn't want to change something bad in our past by doing something good, like what Gatsby is trying to do.

Monday, April 8, 2013

BNW Essay Reflextion

    I believe that I did well in understanding the prompt and explaining my answer but I didnt have time to continue my essay and something I could have done better is to get a little better understanding about the ending chapters because I don't remember the last three chapters very well.

Monday, March 4, 2013

MAP (1): INTRODUCING (Woolf, Virginia)

1. Using such female authors as Jane Austen and Emily and Charlotte Bronte, she examines women and their struggles as artists, their position in literary history and need for independence.

2.Woolf was among the founders of the Modernist movement which also includes T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

3.The effects of bi-polar disorder at times caused Woolf protracted periods of convalescence, withdrawing from her busy social life, distressed that she could not focus long enough to read or write.

4.Virginia Woolf died on 28 March 1941 when she drowned herself in the River Ouse near their home in Sussex, by putting rocks in her coat pockets.

5.After her death, Leonard set to the task of editing her vast collection of correspondence, journals, and unpublished works and also wrote an autobiography.

Vocab: March 4



Chronic: (of an illness) Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring

Sentiment: A view of or attitude toward a situation or event; an opinion.

Morality: Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.

Remorse: Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.

Defect: A shortcoming, imperfection, or lack: "genetic defects"; "the property is free from defect".

Acquaintance: One's slight knowledge of or friendship with someone.

Sanity: The ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health.

Implication: The conclusion that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly stated.

Alternative: One of two or more available possibilities.

Savage:  (chiefly in historical or literary contexts) A member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.

Phenomenon:  A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, esp. one whose cause is in question./A remarkable person or thing.