Why is she so significant that she recieves a whole chapter to herself in this book? What is her role? What might the fire symbolize?
Mrs. Schaker is displaying to the people what they are all in for. She is showing them what they could turn to be and what their death could possibly be, fire. She could most likely be envisioning the rest of her family dying in the fire. She could be thinking that shes seeing fire because that what she truly wants to see. She wants to be warm and feel her husband and children by her side once more. It also foreshadows some of the other Jews death by the fire. She could be symbolizing the fear and the Jews will be facing in a short while, but noen of them realize it yet. The way the other Jews deal with her next to her is exactly how the Germans react towards the Jews.
Class List of Fire Symbolism
-upcoming danger
-burning of loss of faith
-unpredictable/fear of unknown
-fires of the crematoriums = death
-destruction
-chaos
-conflicts
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Night - Chapter 1--> Foreshadowing
My Foreshadowing from Chapter 1:
1. Moshie the Beadle - shows the disbelief that this could actually happen.
2. Ghettos - think that this can't get any worse, but really its the best of the worst.
3. "(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)"p11 - his father is going to die.
The Classes Foreshadowing from Chapter 1:
1. Moshie the Beadle - Warned the Jews of Sighet.
2. Ghettos - progression of the violation of rights.
3. Tzipora - given pack that was too heavy.
4. Jewish council leader could not speak up about future events - brutality.
5. Elie dsicusses the loss of valuables while on vacation - sarcasm.
6. Father's face pale when he found of the transports - knows the horror.
7. Elie's father's Hungarian police friend - came knocking at the window to warn them, but they could not open the window in time.
8. Yellow star - loss of identity.
9. Death of Elie's Father - he dies because hes a Jew.
10. Cattle Cars - no space, treated like foul smelling animals.
11. Wanted to move and not wait in line - Jews couldn't imagine anything worse than being thirsty waiting in that line.
12. Night - Night had fallen, darkness had fallen. Terribleness was upon them and they were in for something they never could've imagined.
1. Moshie the Beadle - shows the disbelief that this could actually happen.
2. Ghettos - think that this can't get any worse, but really its the best of the worst.
3. "(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)"p11 - his father is going to die.
The Classes Foreshadowing from Chapter 1:
1. Moshie the Beadle - Warned the Jews of Sighet.
2. Ghettos - progression of the violation of rights.
3. Tzipora - given pack that was too heavy.
4. Jewish council leader could not speak up about future events - brutality.
5. Elie dsicusses the loss of valuables while on vacation - sarcasm.
6. Father's face pale when he found of the transports - knows the horror.
7. Elie's father's Hungarian police friend - came knocking at the window to warn them, but they could not open the window in time.
8. Yellow star - loss of identity.
9. Death of Elie's Father - he dies because hes a Jew.
10. Cattle Cars - no space, treated like foul smelling animals.
11. Wanted to move and not wait in line - Jews couldn't imagine anything worse than being thirsty waiting in that line.
12. Night - Night had fallen, darkness had fallen. Terribleness was upon them and they were in for something they never could've imagined.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Holocaust
What do I know about the Holocaust?
-11 million people total killed; 6 million Jews; 5 million others: gypsies, Polish, Handicapped, Sexual Preference, Political Preference,...ect.
-Adolf Hitler at first blamed the Jews for their loss of WWI and having to pay off all the debt they were forced to pay.
-As Adolf Hitler and his army began to take over the rest of Europe and Asia in WWII he also began to create Concentration Camps where Jews were processed and eventually slaughtered in some manner.
-Concentration camps consisted of burning, gas chambers, starving and disease by death.
-Many Jews converted or went into hiding to be kept from being taken away and put into one of these death camps.
What do We Know about the Holocaust?
-The Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler.
-The Holocaust was considered genocide.
-The Holocaust happened in Europe during WWII.
-The book burning was an initial event that revoked the people's rights.
-Jews were expected to identify themselves with armbands.
-Jews lost personal rights such as not owning businesses, curfews, ect (Nuremberg Race Laws)
-Jews were placed into ghettos. Ghettos were a confined area within a town where one would be placed.
-Jews were then deported to Concentration Camps via cattle cars.
-The largest Concentratoin Camp was Auschwitz.
-There were gas chambers in the camps and they were disguised as showers.
-Prisoners were killed by starvation, disease, scientific experiments, shot, burnt, gased, worked to death.
-Anne Frank was a famous Holocaust victim due to her diary that was found.
-Some people doubt the existence of the Holocaust.
-Poles, homosexuals, Soviets, political opponents, gypsies, handicapped, and those who helped Jews were all targeted groups.
-6 million Jews were killed/11 million total.
-Survivors still exist today, but are slowly dying off due to age.
-11 million people total killed; 6 million Jews; 5 million others: gypsies, Polish, Handicapped, Sexual Preference, Political Preference,...ect.
-Adolf Hitler at first blamed the Jews for their loss of WWI and having to pay off all the debt they were forced to pay.
-As Adolf Hitler and his army began to take over the rest of Europe and Asia in WWII he also began to create Concentration Camps where Jews were processed and eventually slaughtered in some manner.
-Concentration camps consisted of burning, gas chambers, starving and disease by death.
-Many Jews converted or went into hiding to be kept from being taken away and put into one of these death camps.
What do We Know about the Holocaust?
-The Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler.
-The Holocaust was considered genocide.
-The Holocaust happened in Europe during WWII.
-The book burning was an initial event that revoked the people's rights.
-Jews were expected to identify themselves with armbands.
-Jews lost personal rights such as not owning businesses, curfews, ect (Nuremberg Race Laws)
-Jews were placed into ghettos. Ghettos were a confined area within a town where one would be placed.
-Jews were then deported to Concentration Camps via cattle cars.
-The largest Concentratoin Camp was Auschwitz.
-There were gas chambers in the camps and they were disguised as showers.
-Prisoners were killed by starvation, disease, scientific experiments, shot, burnt, gased, worked to death.
-Anne Frank was a famous Holocaust victim due to her diary that was found.
-Some people doubt the existence of the Holocaust.
-Poles, homosexuals, Soviets, political opponents, gypsies, handicapped, and those who helped Jews were all targeted groups.
-6 million Jews were killed/11 million total.
-Survivors still exist today, but are slowly dying off due to age.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
In-Class Essay Analyzing Characters Thesis
Brainstorm is on my paper...
Thesis: The change in life perspective of Tom Benecke in "The Contents of A Dead Man's Pocket" is depicted thought the significance of the yellow carbon paper, his self revelation, and the symbolism of the window.
Thesis: The change in life perspective of Tom Benecke in "The Contents of A Dead Man's Pocket" is depicted thought the significance of the yellow carbon paper, his self revelation, and the symbolism of the window.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Chrysanthemums Brainstorm
Setting: gray-flannel fog of winter closed the valley in (isolated)
-air is cold and tender
-fields seem bathed in pale cold sunshine
-no sunshine at all in December
-time of all quiet and waiting
Characters:
-Elisa: feels trapped in her life/surroundings, stays at the ranch, unhappy, settles for less
-Tinker: good salesman, charismatic, wanderer, wild, symbol of freedom, dark
-Henry Allen: simple, content, wants to make Elisa happy
Symbols:
-Chrysanthemums: hope, Elisa's self esteem
-Planters Hands: joy/strength (curse)
Conflict:
-P vs. self: Elisa vs. self
-P vs. P: Elisa vs. Henry/Elisa vs. Tinker
-P vs. society: Elisa vs. society
Climax:
Elisa sees the chrysanthemums crushed on the ground on her way to the hotel for dinner with Henry Allen.
P.O.V.:
third person limited [you see into Elisa's mind, which shows that shes a dynamic character]
Themes:
-False hope hurts.
-Foolish trust can crush your hopes.
-One's environment can effect ones actions.
Thesis:
The lifeless setting in "Chrysanthemums" paralells Elisa's perspective on life because setting's diction, Elisa's internal conflict, and the symbolic image of the flower.
-air is cold and tender
-fields seem bathed in pale cold sunshine
-no sunshine at all in December
-time of all quiet and waiting
Characters:
-Elisa: feels trapped in her life/surroundings, stays at the ranch, unhappy, settles for less
-Tinker: good salesman, charismatic, wanderer, wild, symbol of freedom, dark
-Henry Allen: simple, content, wants to make Elisa happy
Symbols:
-Chrysanthemums: hope, Elisa's self esteem
-Planters Hands: joy/strength (curse)
Conflict:
-P vs. self: Elisa vs. self
-P vs. P: Elisa vs. Henry/Elisa vs. Tinker
-P vs. society: Elisa vs. society
Climax:
Elisa sees the chrysanthemums crushed on the ground on her way to the hotel for dinner with Henry Allen.
P.O.V.:
third person limited [you see into Elisa's mind, which shows that shes a dynamic character]
Themes:
-False hope hurts.
-Foolish trust can crush your hopes.
-One's environment can effect ones actions.
Thesis:
The lifeless setting in "Chrysanthemums" paralells Elisa's perspective on life because setting's diction, Elisa's internal conflict, and the symbolic image of the flower.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Chrysanthemums
Title: The Chrysanthemums
Author: John Steinback
Date: 11/05/08
Prereading: none
Plot/Reaction: Elisa was working in her garden when her husband Henry came home and asked if her she would like to go see a movie and have dinner that night at a fancy hotel. He told her that he'd be back around 5 so they could go out that night. She continues in her garden caring for her Chrysanthemums. A salesman stops by and asks her for directions, when really he just wants her ask for his service so he can get some money. He sees her love for her Chrysanthemums, and when Elisa continually refuses to need his services because she is perfectly capable of doing them herself. He then pulls at her heartstrings and tells her a story about a woman who would love some Chrysanthemums. She falls for it and gives him a pot with 2 sprouts in it. She also finds some work for him to do so that he can make his money. Once he gets his flower pot of Chrysanthemums and money for his work he leaves and is on his way heading in the way she told him to go. When Henry gets home and he and Elisa leave to go to dinner she gets all dressed up and looks beautiful. They take his car and on the side of the road are the Chrysanthemums she gave to the salesman. Elisa realizes he only told her that story so he could get something out of her, and she begins to tear up in the car. Elisa also realizes the many things she could do and become.
Questions: -Why was she hiding her true feelings?
-Where did Henry get all the money from that they can go spend some on dinner?
Quote: "Sand, ma'am?--Sand? Oh, sure. You mean around the chrysanthemums. Sure I will"(274). This is clear that the salesman is using her and does not care about these flowers in the way that she does. He is manipulating her so he gets something out of her, instead of the nothing she kept on proposing.
"She turned up her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly--like an old woman"(278). The narrator is concluding the story here by telling the reader that Elisa is too trusting and loving. She has not experienced anything she wants and believes in people when they say they'll follow through. Here she is let down and realizes this. Elisa is comparing herself to an old woman who loves everyone and thinks the best of everyone.
Author: John Steinback
Date: 11/05/08
Prereading: none
Plot/Reaction: Elisa was working in her garden when her husband Henry came home and asked if her she would like to go see a movie and have dinner that night at a fancy hotel. He told her that he'd be back around 5 so they could go out that night. She continues in her garden caring for her Chrysanthemums. A salesman stops by and asks her for directions, when really he just wants her ask for his service so he can get some money. He sees her love for her Chrysanthemums, and when Elisa continually refuses to need his services because she is perfectly capable of doing them herself. He then pulls at her heartstrings and tells her a story about a woman who would love some Chrysanthemums. She falls for it and gives him a pot with 2 sprouts in it. She also finds some work for him to do so that he can make his money. Once he gets his flower pot of Chrysanthemums and money for his work he leaves and is on his way heading in the way she told him to go. When Henry gets home and he and Elisa leave to go to dinner she gets all dressed up and looks beautiful. They take his car and on the side of the road are the Chrysanthemums she gave to the salesman. Elisa realizes he only told her that story so he could get something out of her, and she begins to tear up in the car. Elisa also realizes the many things she could do and become.
Questions: -Why was she hiding her true feelings?
-Where did Henry get all the money from that they can go spend some on dinner?
Quote: "Sand, ma'am?--Sand? Oh, sure. You mean around the chrysanthemums. Sure I will"(274). This is clear that the salesman is using her and does not care about these flowers in the way that she does. He is manipulating her so he gets something out of her, instead of the nothing she kept on proposing.
"She turned up her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly--like an old woman"(278). The narrator is concluding the story here by telling the reader that Elisa is too trusting and loving. She has not experienced anything she wants and believes in people when they say they'll follow through. Here she is let down and realizes this. Elisa is comparing herself to an old woman who loves everyone and thinks the best of everyone.
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Lottery - Notes
"The Lottery"
Setting--June 27th, summer, clear and sunny, surrounded by rich green grass and blossoming flowers: symbolizes life
Children--gathering stones, boisterous play
Men--surveying children, speaking of tractors taxes weather etc.., smiled rather than laughed at the jokes
Women--gossiping, standing by their husbands
Old Man Warner--cranky old man, ensures tradition of the lottery is carried on, embodies the mindless violence of this society, symbolizes tradition and no change
Mr. Summers--conducted lottery and all other activities that went on in town [irony in name, life happiness but conducts the death]
Mr. Graves--postmaster (mailman), assists Mr Summers with lottery, helps the Hutchinson children pick out their slips of paper from the box [irony in name, graves=death]
Tessie--lighthearted and unconcerned in the beginning, frightened and distraught at the end [dynamic character]
Foreshadowing--children gathering stones at the beginning, the men not lauhging and being more serious, Mrs. Delacroix holds her breath, Mr Graves [name], black box [death]
Irony--Mrs Hutchinson is ironic because she entered happy and careless (expecting nothing will happen) while others are seroius and worrisome, but in reality she is the one who gets stone. Mr Summers has a joyful name but hes in charge of picking the death, the title of the story "The Lottery" which is usually depicted as winning something while in actuality youre losing your life not gaining anything if youre choosen
Conflicts--Person vx. Society (Tessie Hutchinson)
Exposition--children gathering stones/playing, woman gossiping, men talking, families getting together, Mr Summers entering with black box,community is gathering at town square for the lottery
Rising Action--men go up one by one, all families unfold paper, Bill Hutchinson receieves the black dot, Tess objects to firt round that its not fair, each family member picks a slip of paper
Climax--Tess wins the lottery, black dot on her slip of paper
Falling Action--community prepares to stone Tess by gathering stones and encircling her
Denouement--Tess states "It's not fair, It's not right" Then they were upon her
Point of View--Third Person Objective, you cant see into the mind of any characters, you learn about their actions from their dialogue
Themes--Traditions should be questioned and changed as people change
Family Loyalty: Self preservation can be put above family loyalty.
Human Nature: As human beings, we are capable of both good and evil.
Sometimes, we ignor injustices until they happen to us.
Setting--June 27th, summer, clear and sunny, surrounded by rich green grass and blossoming flowers: symbolizes life
Children--gathering stones, boisterous play
Men--surveying children, speaking of tractors taxes weather etc.., smiled rather than laughed at the jokes
Women--gossiping, standing by their husbands
Old Man Warner--cranky old man, ensures tradition of the lottery is carried on, embodies the mindless violence of this society, symbolizes tradition and no change
Mr. Summers--conducted lottery and all other activities that went on in town [irony in name, life happiness but conducts the death]
Mr. Graves--postmaster (mailman), assists Mr Summers with lottery, helps the Hutchinson children pick out their slips of paper from the box [irony in name, graves=death]
Tessie--lighthearted and unconcerned in the beginning, frightened and distraught at the end [dynamic character]
Foreshadowing--children gathering stones at the beginning, the men not lauhging and being more serious, Mrs. Delacroix holds her breath, Mr Graves [name], black box [death]
Irony--Mrs Hutchinson is ironic because she entered happy and careless (expecting nothing will happen) while others are seroius and worrisome, but in reality she is the one who gets stone. Mr Summers has a joyful name but hes in charge of picking the death, the title of the story "The Lottery" which is usually depicted as winning something while in actuality youre losing your life not gaining anything if youre choosen
Conflicts--Person vx. Society (Tessie Hutchinson)
Exposition--children gathering stones/playing, woman gossiping, men talking, families getting together, Mr Summers entering with black box,community is gathering at town square for the lottery
Rising Action--men go up one by one, all families unfold paper, Bill Hutchinson receieves the black dot, Tess objects to firt round that its not fair, each family member picks a slip of paper
Climax--Tess wins the lottery, black dot on her slip of paper
Falling Action--community prepares to stone Tess by gathering stones and encircling her
Denouement--Tess states "It's not fair, It's not right" Then they were upon her
Point of View--Third Person Objective, you cant see into the mind of any characters, you learn about their actions from their dialogue
Themes--Traditions should be questioned and changed as people change
Family Loyalty: Self preservation can be put above family loyalty.
Human Nature: As human beings, we are capable of both good and evil.
Sometimes, we ignor injustices until they happen to us.
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