Literature Analysis

1.) In the beginning of the story it starts off in a jail house where the verdict is being read of a young black man named Jefferson for the murder of a white man during a robbery. In the small town the event is a huge scene to the public. Jefferson with a white defendant lawyer is called a hog without a brain to commit such a well thought out plot. However, Jefferson is found guilty and sentenced to death by electric chair. The narrator of the novel, Grant Wiggins,goes back and forth from present to past in the description of what occurred at the scene, in which Jefferson was honestly a bystander blamed for the murder. Later in the story Grant is asked by his aunt and Miss Emma to teach Jefferson how to be a man and go to the chair knowing he is a man. After asking permission from the master of the plantation and the Sheriff, Grant is forced to visit Jefferson by his aunt. Grant has many moments where he wants to quit and run away from the plantation but stays because his love Vivian a white woman is staying. He says this but he never really wants to go because of his connections to all of his family. At the beginning of the visits Jefferson would not participate and said he was a hog and acted like one. As the visits progressed Jefferson became more open to letting Grant in along with his Nannan (godmother) and the Reverend. After months of visiting the date was set for the execution and Jefferson was executed as a man. 

2.)The theme of the novel is to live life as what we are and not what others say we are. Perspectives can be broken. 

3.) The authors tone is understanding and respectful to that of his people in which he stands up for. 

4.) 1. Repetition- "Gentlemen of the jury, this man planned a robbery? Oh pardon me, pardon me, I surely did not mean to insult your intelligence by saying 'man' would you please forgive me for commuting such an error? Gentlemen of the jury..." Pg. 8

2. Persuasion through logical Fallacies- "Please look. I want all twelve of you honorable men to turn your heads and look back to that mama, grandmother godmother-everything." Pg. 8 

3. Euphemism- "I didn't ask for none of your uppity, mister." Pg 100

4. Imagery- " I stated beyond the garden toward the budding pecan trees in Farrell Jarreau's backyard. The sky was so low the trees seemed nearly to touch it." Pg 213

5. Metaphor- "The one behind the desk didn't look decent at all. His eyes were the color of cement."

 Pg 70

6. Simile- "The courthouse, like most public buildings in town, was made of red brick. Built around the turn of the century, it looked like a small castle you might see in the country side somewhere in Europe." Pg 68

7. Foreshadowing- "But when it came to a discussion with a teacher, though he had known that teacher since his birth, then suddenly things were not so simple." Pg 101

8. Allusion- "None, none till He rose." Pg 215

9. Persuasion - "All of us on this earth. A piece of drifting wood until we each one of us visually decide to become something else. I am still that piece do drifting wood, and those out there are no better." Pg 193

10. Symbolism- "I probably would not have noticed it at all had a butterfly, a yellow butterfly with dark specks like ink dots on it's wings not lit there." Pg 251

Characterization 

1.) Two examples of direct characterization are " He was the strongest man in that crowded room, Grant Wiggins." Pg 253 "You're smart," Guirdy said. "Maybe you're just a little too smart for your own good." Pg 49

Two examples of indirect characterization are "I went up to the desk and turned to face them. I was crying." Pg 256 "I though it would be rude to go inside and leave her in the road with no one to talk to." Pg 96

The author uses both effects because he wants to show the character fully.

2.) The authors syntax when he describes the characters of the novel remain the same when he talks about himself because everything is coming from the narrator and what is in his mind. "Do you believe I'm your friend Jefferson?" Pg 185 

3.) The character is dynamic because he changes his mind about what life is really about through the experience with Jefferson. He goes from wanting to leave to being committed to stay with his people. He is a very round character because he has a lot of different values in which he expresses through out the novel. "I was crying." Pg 256 it's very interesting because as the last words of the novel you can tell he went from a touch hard edged man to soft and caring just as much on the outside as the inside. 

4.) I personally thought I met a character because I was almost inside of his head, in that I knew what was going on with how Grant felt. I could tell that he was a. Hat acted of truth and care. I found this through his acts. Including fighting with the man in the diner, going and seeing Jefferson (brought him a radio and a notepad), and his determination to stop the whites in their myths about the black race. " I want you to chop away at the myth by standing. I want you yes you to call them liars." Pg 192

Chapter 4 & 5

Reification- what we think or believe about things, different in different cultures 

- has a lot of conditionings 

- gamma, delta, need more of them so they split them into 96 because they are destined to be a lower class aren't important 

- need for humanity, the compassionate qualities, science can be a slippery slope, 

- what is important of life? 

- who is incharge? 

- chapter 2 assembly line of people, 

- Bernard cares about people 

- trends for people are popular because people want to break from the system 

- response of being shocked 

Masterpiece

Part 1: Medicine 

1. Contact the volunteer service about shadowing doctors and contact Bosshart ( general surgeries). (Second week of March.)

2. Set up times available to shadow surgeons. Second week of March 

3. Take notes of procedure in OR. 

4. Take poll of impact on the patients lives. 

5. Could use day of Hope papers. $1.00 each April 16th ( because general surgery also inudes cancers) 

6. Create an appreciation and informational collection of works to publish impact of general surgery on the lives of Americans (could be nation wide with Santa Maria numbers and review or just Santa Maria Citizens). 

Part 2: Book 

1. Start Collecting material for book. March 1st 

3. Organize pages/ brainstorm ideas for each page specifics. (Sketch out) finish March 30

3. Get book,corresponding page numbers. Beginning of April 

4. Design until end of May 

Brave New World: Chapter 2 & 3

Chapter 2:

- metaphor

- fifth floor is the nursery for delta they wear khaki. 

- are given books and flowers and then are shocked. 

- idea is supposed to make these children hate travel and learning so they can just work. 

- fourteenth floor has beta children, teens boys and girls, system makes them sleep and repeat the social classes on what the colors they wear and how other classes are worse and others better. 

- voice says it in sleep

- repeat it like a brain washing system, actually is brain washing, torturing children so they believe the world they grow up in 

- restatement straight from the horses mouth 

Chapter 3 

- time increments in ford, like A.F. ( after ford) 

- Mustafa Mond very important guy

- goes between four different scenes of people, one has Lenina and Fanny talking about men, go from man to man, can't just have one 

- everyone belongs to everyone else 

- other people is Henry foster talking to Beenard about getting with Fanny and Lenina. 

- other talking about the history of Ford, and discussing the past of vivacious humans, meaning they only had one kid at a time, very gross to them 

- other is children sleeping and repeating words of liking new clothes and things related to their caste 

Brave New World: Chapter 1

- imagery

- restatement 

- dialogue 

-personification, "The light was frozen, dead, a ghost."

- simile "..it barrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables."

- fretsawyers- people who work on ornamental projects 

- are within a fertility room 

- repetition " Straight from the horses mouth." 

- year A.F. 632 

- babies created from test tubes 

- Bokanovsky's Process of fertilization 96 humans grow from an original egg 

-idea is to mass produce the population put them on a system to have thousands of twins 

- idea is to mature humans faster to do labor or be the next rulers of the world. There are only two options

- Epsilons don't need intelligence just for labor so they cut off some of their oxygen 

- intellectuals 

Lit Terms #6

simile - noun a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
soliloquy - noun a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections; speech you make to yourself
spiritual - adj. lacking material body or form or substance;concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; resembling or characteristic of a phantom; concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; noun a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
speaker - noun someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
stereotype - noun a conventional or formulaic conception or image;verb treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
stream - noun dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth; something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression; a steady flow (usually from natural causes); verb exude profusely; flow freely and abundantly; to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; move in large numbers; rain heavily
consciousness - noun an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation; having knowledge of
structure - noun a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; a particular complex anatomical part; the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; verb give a structure to
style - noun a slender bristlelike or tubular process; a particular kind (as to appearance); editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display; (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma; a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; distinctive and stylish elegance; how something is done or how it happens; the popular taste at a given time; a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; verb make consistent with certain rules of style; designate by an identifying term; make consistent with a certain fashion or style
subordination - noun the quality of obedient submissiveness; the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head; the state of being subordinate to something; the act of mastering or subordinating someone; the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
surrealism - noun a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
suspension - noun a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc); the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely); a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle; an interruption in the intensity or amount of something; a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy; temporary cessation or suspension; a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
disbelief - noun doubt about the truth of something; a rejection of belief
symbol - noun something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
synesthesia - noun a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
synecdoche - noun substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
syntax - noun the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences;studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences; a systematic orderly arrangement
theme - noun a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition;(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; an essay (especially one written as an assignment); the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; verb provide with a particular theme or motive
thesis - noun an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument; a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
tone - noun (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; a steady sound without overtones; a musical interval of two semitones; the quality of a person's voice; a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; verb give a healthy elasticity to; change to a color image; change the color or tone of;vary the pitch of one's speech; utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
tongue - noun the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot;a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity; a manner of speaking; the tongue of certain animals used as meat; any long thin projection that is transient; metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side; a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language; a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea; verb lick or explore with the tongue;articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
in - adj. currently fashionable; directed or bound inward; holding office; adv. to or toward the inside of; noun a state in midwestern United States; a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot; a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite
cheek - noun either side of the face below the eyes; impudent aggressiveness; either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump; an impudent statement; verbspeak impudently to
tragedy - noun drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity; an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
understatement - noun a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
vernacular - adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; noun the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language); a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
voice - noun a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated; the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; the ability to speak; the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract;something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression; a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; (metonymy) a singer;(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes;the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; expressing in coherent verbal form; an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; verb give voice to;utter with vibrating vocal chords
zeitgeist - noun the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation

Learning

The love of learning inspires education because if you want to learn you are going to be educated on the subject. For example, if you look at an educational game with competition, students are more involved than a lecture. Therefore it's necessary to get students to love learning because when you love a subject it isn't work it's joy. As the lectures stated, "The future is only as far as the eyes can see" meaning that only we create our future, others can't make it for us, personally. Take education in a regular classroom for example you get information and you ask why do I need to learn this? And your teacher responds well we are teaching you how to learn. The idea is simple but angers you because you feel it's a waste of time, however in life you must learn what works and what doesn't work  socially, mentally and physically. 

Education is the base we as humans must build off of to continue the history of our species, in which we must look to better the future and the country we live in, due to the fact tomorrow isn't always given. The future is a fact of life in which people must progress and evolve like Darwins evolutionary theory. Education although is relentless and most of the time pointless, we need it to further ourselves in society. For example, yesterday I was looking at jobs that were hiring within my town and I found all jobs require education in order to even apply. Although having an education makes sense, why is it necessary if you are just going to learn how to preform your duties that are important on the job? Well I guess it comes back to the idea of learning to learn when you are young , in which we learn how to take criticisms and critiques to better preform the task at  hand. The concept of living to learn then makes work not work but a pleasure instead of a force. 

Aldous Huxley

A well known author who grew up loving literature and science. Wrote novels, his best known 'A Brave New World', short stories, screen writes, and poetry. In Huxelys teen years his mother pasted away,one of Huxely's brothers killed himself and Huxely started to go blind. His eyesight remained poor his entire life, however he didn't let his sight hold him back from the spectacular works he would create. 

- http://www.egs.edu/library/aldous-huxley/biography/

Lit Terms #5

Parallelism - the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning,etc. 

Parody - in use, is an imitative work created to imitate, or comment on an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation. 

Pathos - a quality that evokes pity or sadness.

Pedantry - excessive concern with minor details and rules.

Personification - the attribution of human natureor character to animals,inanimate objects, or abstractnotions, especially as a rhetoricalfigure.

Plot -  is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence.

Poignant- evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

Point of view- from where a readers perspective is taken 

Postmodernism - is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism

Prose- written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

Protagonist- the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

Pun - the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. the word or phrase used in this way.

Purpose- the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

Realism- the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.

Refrain- stop oneself from doing something.

Requiem- a musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass, or of a similar character, an act or token of remembrance. 

Resolution - the action of solving a problem. 

Restatement- of the Law are a set of treatises on legal subjects that seek to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of common law.

Rhetoric- the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. 

Rhetorical Question- is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point, rather than to elicit an answer