Journal 14

“Richard Cory“
He was someone who was highly praised and looked up too. Cory had it all, he was rich and had everything going for him. The people who looked up to him where wrong because he wasn’t happy at all. One night he went back to his house and killed himself he was so unhappy. The thing that didn’t make his happy was that people judge him based on his money. Irony: apparence vs. reality. This “real” vs. “ideal” becaue if it was an ideal story he would be happy and the apparent and the reality would match. The people see having a perfect life but the reality is something different.

“Miniver Cheevy”
He wants to live in the middle ages but is living in the current world. He drinks because
he wishes he had a different life. He believes he was born in the wrong century because all his dreams and hopes belong to the middle ages. So to escape the real life, he decides to drink to become in his fantasy world. The meaning of Miniver Cheevy suggest a life full of depression and no success thats why his name sounds like minimal achiever.

“Mr. Flood’s Party”
Mr. Flood is an alcoholic. He sings and talks like someone is with him but in relilty he is all
alone. It is ironic because Mr.Flood’s Party sounds like he is having an
actual party. He drinks because he wants to fill the emptiness in him. He
drinks to have an ideal life, but in reality he has no one. He remembers the
past when he is drunk and that is when he was not alone and was happy. He
doesn’t look to the future and that is what people tend to do in their life.

Journal 13

1. What object symbolizes George Gray’s life? How is this object representative of him?

A sail boat. It represents him because the sail boat hasn’t gone anywhere and hasn’t done anything. It just represents an average life. His life is very grey. He says to not be afraid and let life take you where it will. Take chances.

2. How was Lucinda Matlock’s life different than George Gray’s? How do you interepret the last line of the poem?

Lucinda Matlock lived her life rather than never doing anything. She celebrated life and did not spoil it. The last line shows she lived her life. George Gray regretted his whole life unlike Lucinda.

3. How are “George Gray” and “Lucinda Matlock” examples of realism?

These types of stories represent average types of stories, about regular people. Its not about someone special or important, its just everyday life.

Journal 12

1. “Young Goodman Brown” is an allegory (symbolic narrative). What do the following represent?

Young Goodman Brown – He represents innocence. He follows a path from innocence to innocence.

Faith – She represents believe and faith.

The Elderly Traveller/Fellow-Traveller – He represents evil, the devil and temptation.

Goody Cloyse – She represents corruption.

The Ceremony – It represents a religious symbol. It represents the converts into the church.

The Pink Ribbon – This represents Goodman Brown losing his faith.

Young Goodman Brown’s Journey – This represents the change of life.

2. Identify the following for “Young Goodman Brown”:

Theme Message of Theme Element Used to Establish

The theme is sin and the message is that everybody is a sinner. In the story, Young Goodman Brown is tempted with sin through the whole journey. He also meets many people he knows that are also not what they seem.

In addition, provide three direct quotes from the story that address your theme.

``Too far! too far!'' exclaimed the goodman, unconsciously resuming his walk. ``My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs; and shall I be the first of the name of Brown that ever took this path and kept''

“I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem; and it was I that brought your father a pitch-

pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in King Philip's war. They were my good friends, both; and many a pleasant walk have we had along this path, and returned merrily after midnight. I would fain be friends with you for their sake.''

``Wickedness or not,'' said the traveller with the twisted staff, ``I have a very general acquaintance here in New England. The deacons of many a church have drunk the communion wine with me; the selectmen of divers towns make me their chairman; and a majority of the Great and General Court are firm supporters of my interest. The governor and I, too -- But these are state secrets.''

Journal 11

“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)

A man built a small house in the woods alone. He is showing that you are more intouch with life when your just living the the essentials and not over comforted. When you are in society you become to busy with comforts, your job and family. You become more focused on just the neseceities when you are in nature.

Quote: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Sounds” (234)

How he spends his days. He just sat there and observed nature and listened to the birds. He let everything pass through him in nature.

Quote: “Instead of singing like the birds, I smiled at my good fortune.”

“Brute Neighbors” (235)

This passage exaggerates between red and blcck ants. There is a battle between the red and black ants. The ants are fighting ovcer territory, which is wood chips. He compares them to soldiers fighting over land. This relates to human and how thye fight for dominance and power.

Quote: “They struggle half an hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looked again the black soldiers had severed the heads of his foes from their bodies…”

“The Pond in Winter” (237)

We see some nature in ourselves. The pund water was frozen and he cuts a hole in the ice to get water. The fish under the ice were still living we just could not see it. Even though you see dirt or ice, look beneath the surface and discover what good is actually there. Everything around us is beautiful

Quote: “Heavan is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

“Spring” (238)

This is about winter changing into spring. Winter is a harsh, cold, long season. While spring is calm, warm and beautiful. It’s the renewel of each year.

Quote:

“The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim.”

Journal 10

Othello’s final words summarize his insight at the end of the play. Othello had begun as a very high respectable figure. Yet he dies a murderer and an outsider. He expresses his sadness and embarrassment about himself. However, he wants everyone to speak of him as a inspirational person and a leader. His last speech emphasizes his tragedy.

Journal 9

Free Will is where we make our own choices and no outside forces affect on what we do. For example, when Othello married his wife Desdemona, he on his own free will decided to marry her without anyone’s advice or influence. Determinism is where someone decides or influences you to do something. For example, when Othello murdered his wife, he did it based on the information given to him by Iago. He was tricked and then decided to murder her.