...FRANKENSTEIN Study Guide Homework: Please write your answers on separate paper. Letters 1-4 1. Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? Robert Walton 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship? Mrs. Saville, his sister 3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans? St. Petersburg, Russia. He is hiring a crew for his ship. He intends to sail to the North Pole and discover magnetism. 4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself? He is passionately committed to discovery and adventure. He wishes he had a friend with the same sensibilities and he says he is self-taught. 5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man"? Walton is out to sea, sailing north. The quotation establishes the Romantic idea of the power of emotion over reason. 6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange accident" has happened to the sailors? One month has lapsed. The accident is the ship is trapped in ice and fog. 7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in? The man says he is “seek[ing] one who fled from me” (11) and he asks which direction the ship is sailing. He is near death, weak and emaciated. 8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man? The man remains silent and this creates a sense of mystery around him. Walton finds...
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...FRANKENSTEIN Study Guide Homework: Please write your answers on separate paper. Letters 1-4 1. Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? Robert Walton 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship? Mrs. Saville, his sister 3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans? St. Petersburg, Russia. He is hiring a crew for his ship. He intends to sail to the North Pole and discover magnetism. 4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself? He is passionately committed to discovery and adventure. He wishes he had a friend with the same sensibilities and he says he is self-taught. 5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man"? Walton is out to sea, sailing north. The quotation establishes the Romantic idea of the power of emotion over reason. 6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange accident" has happened to the sailors? One month has lapsed. The accident is the ship is trapped in ice and fog. 7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in? The man says he is “seek[ing] one who fled from me” (11) and he asks which direction the ship is sailing. He is near death, weak and emaciated. 8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man? The man remains silent and this creates a sense of mystery around him. Walton finds...
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...FRANKENSTEIN Study Guide Homework: Please write your answers on separate paper. Letters 1-4 1. Who is writing Letter 1 (and all the letters)? Robert Walton 2. To whom is he writing? What is their relationship? Mrs. Saville, his sister 3. Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1? Why is he there? What are his plans? St. Petersburg, Russia. He is hiring a crew for his ship. He intends to sail to the North Pole and discover magnetism. 4. What does Robert Walton tell us about himself? He is passionately committed to discovery and adventure. He wishes he had a friend with the same sensibilities and he says he is self-taught. 5. Where is Walton now? What do you think of Walton's question "What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man"? Walton is out to sea, sailing north. The quotation establishes the Romantic idea of the power of emotion over reason. 6. How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and Letter 4? What "strange accident" has happened to the sailors? One month has lapsed. The accident is the ship is trapped in ice and fog. 7. Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in? The man says he is “seek[ing] one who fled from me” (11) and he asks which direction the ship is sailing. He is near death, weak and emaciated. 8. What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man? The man remains silent and this creates a sense of mystery around him. Walton finds...
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...I decided to present The Monsters on the Bus by Sarah Albee. I chose this book because it was available for loan on the Libby application for free and I think that The Wheels on the Bus is a widely known song. I also chose this book because the fact that it has a Sesame Street theme would likely pique the interest of students who more than likely watched Sesame Street or have read other Sesame Street books since it is such a popular series. Another reason I chose this book was that I am thinking about teaching the first grade and this seemed like a grade-level appropriate book. I prepared for the presentation by splitting up what I did to prepare into two parts. I work every day from 9 am to 5 pm on campus with a break from 11 am to 2 pm so that I can go to this class. This did not...
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...In today’s society, we don’t hear cases about monsters scaring children and transforming into heroes. Monsters that turn into heroes come off as rare in the fiction world where most people only see one side of a monster. Two works that suggest monsters becoming heroes are The Cat in the Hat and Monsters Inc. At first, these monsters come about as scary looking but that’s not how these selctions end up; finishing with a twist in the end with monsters showing a care for human children. While written 40 years apart, Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and Pete Docter’s film Monsters Inc. demonstrate responsible behavior in interactions with children and show the flawed characters who though their journey have monster heroes who interact with human children and then accept responsibility for the messes they have created. The Cat in the Hat and Monsters Inc. portray a child’s adventure as a result of showing up unexpectedly. The Cat enters out of the blue introducing himself to the two children and begins creating chaos around the house because he’s being a careless cat. The Cat unlocks a crate and frees the two identical creatures with blue hair who rally round the Cat...
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...banana, etc. for lunch). Bag narrates, “I met her friends. She trusted me.” Next scene on tennis court; bag narrates, “She showed me what she knew of the world. I didn’t understand all her running around, but I always cheered her on” (as the woman takes tennis ball out of the plastic bag). At home, woman puts ice into bag, ties it up, and puts bag on the counter. Bag narrates, “This was shocking.” Next scene: Woman reading magazine in bed; bag narrates, “This brought me closer to her than ever before. My skin against her skin. My cold, her warmth. It made her happy, and she made me happy.” (As the plastic bag with ice is shown placed on the woman’s ankle.) “I thought we would be together forever….Until I met her own private monster.” (As woman scoops dog food into the plastic bag…) “Look at this point. How could she prefer this one to me? What could this thing do? Nothing but...
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... but the premise is almost entirely the same only because they both wanted to know the meaning of life. Gilgamesh was the ruler of Uruk around 2700 B.C., but he was not for his people in any way. In fact, he was a cruel king who killed his followers sons and raped their daughters. So as a solution the goddess Aruru creates a monster who ultimately ends up being Gilgamesh's ally and friend but also contributed to a change in his behavior. The two set off on an array of adventures that consisted of slaying lots of monsters who often served the great purpose but were killed for sport. The last monster that was slain resulted in the gods being angered in such a way that Gilgamesh's friend Enkidu was struck with an illness that he eventually died from. This so hurt Gilgamesh that he set out on a personal quest to find immortality but fails. The premise is almost the same for Odysseus. He was just as cruel of a ruler as Gilgamesh but he is considered a little more intelligent as well as cunning. Such traits helped He dominated the city of Troy and escaped being captured. However; this task did not go as easily planned. He fought various monsters on his way home but with...
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...become friends and she spends 15 years of her life with him, eventually leaving the island on the same raft. As she turns back, she sees that the creature turned to stone once she left. And she looks forward towards her new future off the island. A old important man of a prominent royal family dies, and secrets from his past are recovered bit by bit. As both sides of his family prepare for the funeral, there’s a big debate over how he should be buried based on his conflicting religious views. What if different types of hatred or prejudice were characterized as monsters? And depending on how big and evil the hatred was made the monster uglier, scarier, smarter and harder to destroy. What if there was a group of people dealing with different forms or hatred and prejudice that had to fight these monsters for the sake of their people or community. The process of them being defeated and learning more about the monster and eventually defeating it corresponds to big changes in societies views on their people. Have a story with an asexual character in it. Make it more about their personality and their romantic tendencies, but less about their sexual attractiveness. A story that makes people aware of the complicated nuances of governments and stupid things we don’t really think about in...
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...that believed in him and he wanted to prove that he could do it. Beowulf came here to do something and he wasn’t leaving until he was finish with it. Beowulf had enough courage he needed, he never backed down and he always got back up on his feet. He had the courage to go fight huge monsters and couldn’t let being afraid get in his way with any of the battles. Another theme Beowulf showed was strength. Beowulf proved that just because he was smaller and not a monster he could do just as much as them if not more. He killed with just his bare hands which showed so much strength and gave everyone else strength because if he can do it they can at least try. Beowulf had strength when he went to every battle, he had the strength that when he went to every battle he was going to succeed and he didn’t let anything get in the way. The last thing that I thought was a good theme was Heroic Deeds/Heroism. Beowulf went in there to do a job and save lives and he did. Beowulf is a hero to so many people because of his actions and what he has done. Beowulf killed the bad people that they couldn’t kill their selves. Beowulf was just a small guy but he could kill someone with his bare hands that was a monster and much bigger than him because he put his mind to it and he did it. Beowulf was a very important guy he saved many people’s lives and he helped many people out. Three things that I thought Beowulf showed was Courage, Strength, and Heroic...
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...Literature Through Time Literature depicts the morals of time it shift and morphs into less power in the divine and more faith in man. Stories began being written by monks and the clergy which in time turned into regular men with stores that focused on more secular matters. English literature fills up the gap between wars, between societal change, you can see time progressing, you can see our values and morals changing, you can see history passing by. In the beginning there was Bede, a philosopher, speaker of many languages, a man who looked around him and saw a world in peril that only God could save, a man full of faith. Time passes and we see Shakespeare, a genius, a man with a queen, a man who rallied against the common, Shakespeare was a man with deep loves and a strong voice. “The Story of Caedmon”, was written during a time when Christian religious dogma was primarily hagiography, “the telling of the life of virtuous men and women that represents what it means to be a good Christian.” These stories are used as a form of reflections on one’s life as to make it better in the future. Religious dogma needed to be made more accessible to the congregation which was widely illiterate, so the stories were written with easy points and then acted out so that the congregation would not only be awake and attentive, but so that these stories of morality and faith would really sink in. “Caedmon” is probably the earliest extant of Old English poetry, Bede tells about Caedmon, an...
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...1590’s, to the fashion for sonnets, he moved closer to the cultural and literary dominance of the court’s taste—to the fashionable modes of Ovid, Petrarch, and Neoplatonism—and to the need for patronage. Although the power of the sonnets goes far beyond their sociocultural roots, Shakespeare nevertheless adopts the culturally inferior role of the petitioner for favor, and there is an undercurrent of social and economic powerlessness in the sonnets, especially when a rival poet seems likely to supplant the poet. In short, Shakespeare’s nondramatic poems grow out of and articulate the strains of the 1590’s, when, like many ambitious writers and intellectuals on the fringe of the court, Shakespeare clearly needed to find a language in which to speak—and that was, necessarily, given to him by the court. What he achieved within this shared framework, however, goes far beyond any other collection of poems in the age. Shakespeare’s occasional poems are unquestionably minor, interesting primarily because he wrote them; his sonnets, on the other hand, constitute perhaps the language’s greatest collection of lyrics. They are love lyrics, and...
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...1. Find an example of a literary device and write the example. Be sure to label what device it is and explain how your example fits the description. Throughout the passage of "Grendel", I noticed the use of various literary devices. One of which, is alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of an initial sound in neighboring words of a poem. The passage displays the use of alliteration in lines 18-20, the "h" sound is repeated. "who haunted the moors, the wild Marshes, and made his home in a hell, not hell but earth." In the passage, the sop is referencing Grendel, and how this monster has created and found a home on earth, where he is known to terrorize people in the moors and marshes. I think that the "h" sound is kind of mimicking Grendel's breath and how he is coming out of the depths to cause harm to others. 2. Choose one character and describe what they are like, using at least one piece of evidence from the text....
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...A movie that has won recognition by the fans and the critics all around the world. Director: David Silverman An American production Gender: Animation/ Adventure/ Comedy Air date: 19th April, 2002 Time: 92 minutes Script: Pete Docter Music: Randy Newman Producer: Jhon Lasseter Awards: 13 Academy Awards and 31 nominations Another magnificent animation by the creators of Toy Story: 4th Pixar movie that is done by the partnership of CGI technology and Disney. Die Monster tells the story of the mosters that had to go to the places because of doors where some people live together to obtain energy in their own world. The best monster James P. Sullivan and his hard-working assistant Mike Wazowski work in the Monsters Company that is the biggest scream processing factory. The monsters’ world’s basic energy source is the people’s childrens’s screams. Monsters believe that children are dangerous and poisonous. Their work and their aim to gain energy according to them is to get into rooms of millions of children and to store their screams in little tubes. They have the connections to get into children’s rooms all around the world. Again in a normal working day, something unusual happens and a little girl gets into their world by mistake. They don’t know what to do because of fear. Sully (voice: John Goodman) who is not normally evil-minded among these strange creatures and his one-eyed friend Mike (voice: Billy Crystal) are one of the most terrified ones by this little girl...
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...Nikki Vanessa V. Novales July 20, 2012 # 2012-42443 PI 10 E2-6R Rizal: Hidden Beneath The Surface A Reaction Paper On “Bayaning 3rd World” “Who is Rizal?” If you ask this question to any Filipino, they will most likely say, “He is our national hero” Or “He’s the person stamped on our 1-peso coin”. But is that all he really is? The movie “Bayaning 3rd World” is about two film makers trying to make a movie about Rizal. They found out, however, that this would not be an easy task, for their subject is a very complicated man. Rather than focusing on a single issue about Rizal, they decided to make a detective story about Rizal being the country’s national hero. They tackled several issues but focused mainly on Rizal’s retraction and Josephine Bracken. The movie was meant to be educational, but unlike most documentaries, “Bayaning 3rd World” is definitely not boring. The documentary was presented in a comical way, so that viewers of all ages would be able to understand it and grasp its meaning. I was confused at first because I didn’t know what the “Retraction Controversy” was and the two film makers started having these long conversations about it without explaining it to the viewers. But when I found out what it was all about, following the flow of the story became easy. Another controversy that arose was about Josephine Bracken, on whether she and Rizal were married or not. It was implied that if they were indeed married, then Rizal retracted...
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...“Fenway Park” It is the bottom of the eighth inning and the Red Sox are down five runs to one run. David Ortiz steps to the plate and with one swing hits a grand-slam. Fenway Park erupted with cheer. As I looked around at the crowd celebrating, I began to admire Fenway Park. It was chockfull of banners and memorabilia. Fenway Park appeared simple in architectural design, but little did I know how much history existed here. In today's society some of the best things are ones that change little and remain basically the same as they have for decades. Fenway Park is an example of this as the Boston Red Sox have remained committed to staying at this classic ballpark that they have called home since 1912. It is the oldest major league ballpark in use and still retains the same feel and characteristics as it did when it opened on April 20th 1912. Newspaper coverage of the opening was overshadowed by continuing coverage of the Titanic sinking a few days earlier (National Geographic 2010). On March 7, 2012, the park was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The park is considered to be one of the most well-known sports venues in the world. (BCC 2010). The park's address was originally 24 Jersey Street. In 1977, the section of Jersey Street nearest the park was renamed Yawkey Way in honor of longtime Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey. The park's address is now 4 Yawkey Way. The Red Sox moved to Fenway Park from the old Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds. In 1911, owner...
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