Scene analysis

This is a trailer for the movie. I couldn't find the acutal scene.







-My video couldn’t be found on YouTube- Just rent it and watch it on your own it is really good.
My scene came from the movie The Kingdom- The one with Jamie Fox and Jennifer Garner.

In the wake of September 11, 2001 fear of terrorism spread rapidly among Americans. Americans fear spread to racism and misunderstanding of Muslims and many of the nations in the Middle East. In The Kingdom the director creates an ironic tone by revealing that the terrorist and the Americans have the same goal and by creating a sad tone in the wake of a Saudi Arabian man dying that conflict with the FBI agents’ goal of killing all the terrorist.

The director creates an ironic tone through the building of suspense and the cutting to different scenes. By revealing what the FBI agents’ goal was all along to kill all the terrorist and then cutting to the young Saudi boy revealing his goal to kill all the Americans creates the ironic tone that both sides are trying to achieve the same goal to ease their pain from losing love ones. The director reveals to us that we must change our goals in fighting terrorist from killing them to stopping them and their motivation. The director builds suspense by cutting back and forth from two different scenes one with the Saudi boy and his mother and one of the FBI team. By cutting back and forth between the scenes and having minor characters ask questions and holding out the answers and revealing the answer after both the questions have been asked creates suspense in the scene and conflict between the idea that the two culture are not that different showing that they are very similar answers to the questions and that is they are both going to kill all their enemies. By having the answers be similar between the two conflicting cultures it creates irony because it reveals that the seemingly different people really are similar.

To build the sad tone in the final scene the director uses a lot of reaction shots and very soft sad music to build a sad tone. By building the sad tone at the end of the movie the director reveal the growth that the main characters goes through out the movie. The main character who expresses a lot of rage toward Saudi Arabians befriends one and when he dies it affects him deeply. This relationship between the FBI agent and the Saudi man help reveal that Americans need to learn to get rid of their miss concepts and racism and learn to corporate and understand other countries. Especially countries and people we don’t understand well.

By using the irony and the sad tone following the death of the Saudi police man the director reveals that Americans need to correct their misunderstanding of other people’s culture especially people from the Middle East. The irony created revealed that the two cultures are not as different as each side thinks and that we need to get past the miss conceptions and racism and work together to stop the threat of terrorism and violence among each nations people.

Movie Analysis

Movie: The Kingdom

Scene: Last scene before ending credits

Scene Running Time: 2.32

Description of the Scene: Starts blury with main character walk in and then focus on him. Camera then does close up on other important characters part of his FBI team. Then cuts to street in Saudi Arabia, establishing shot. Then cuts to a Saudi boys face, close up. Cuts to a media shot of him and his mother. Then cuts back to us and FBI director talking to main character and team. Close ups of each team member. Cuts back to Saudi Arabia and close up on the mothers face. Then swivels to close up on the boys face while voice of the FBI director talking the team in the back round. Cuts back to US and does close ups on each of the FBI members again. One FBI character ask a question reaction shot of other agents. Cuts to Saudi Arabia and the mother ask her son a question. Cuts back to US and close up on the agent who asked the question. Close up on main character and then false back memory of the scence the question is about. Then cuts back to agents face and he answers. Then cuts to Saudi boys face and he anwsers the same as the FBI agent. "We are going to kill them all". Cuts back to close up on FBI agents face and close up on all their faces. Main character turns and walks away camera follows him. Cuts back to Saudi boy's face close up and then fades to black.

Choose two themes and discuss how each theme is similar or different to a theme in the other plays.

Family comes above all
In both Medea and both Sophicles plays the authors stress the importants of family and the family name. In Medea the importance of family is stressed by Medea character and her desire to keep her family together. Expecially her reaction to Jason leaving her. In Antigone Sophicles stress the importance of family by Antigone's need and desire to bury her brother. In Oedipus he stress the importance of family by his disgrace in ruining his family name for his daugthers and sons.

Power given to only one person creates a tryannt.
In both Antigone and Oedipus Sophicles creates Creon and Oedipus as tyrants. They over react to challenges of their power with anger and rash decisions. Oedipus over reacts to Tiresase prophecy and to Creon possible challenging him for power. In Medea Creon over reacts to medea as does Jason to start with and this angers Medea by banishing her. These character when given to much power over react and try to defend their positon at all cost.

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 3

Word Choice:
During Creon and Antigone's argument Anouilh repeats many words and ideas. Choose a word or idea and discuss how Anouilh uses the term.
Sometimes Anouilh uses ambiguous terms, identify how the terms affect your interpretation of characters and their motivations.

Life is like water
Anouilhs repeats the idea that life is like water over and over again in Creons argument with Antigone. This give us a lot of insight into Creons character and what his view on life are and how they influence his decision and mental attitude.

Abstract idea of paying ofr you decsions
Anouilh repeates the idea of paying for your decsions in life. Creon talks about how he doesn't want Antigone to die as a payment to peace and securtiy for the city and Antigone counter with the idea that Creon must pay for saying yes to being king and that his suffering is the paymetn for his yes. This idea that the characters must pay for thing with pain and struggles in their life makes it seem like their characters got the lossing end of a deal.

Characters motivation

Think about the character you will be performing. What motivates him/her? What role does this motivation play? Use evidence from the play to defend your response.

Jason's motivation
Jason's motivation is fear and a need for security and power he is also driven by revenage toward Medea for taking his security and power from him. Jason fear is driven by who Medea is and her personality to kill without thinking to get what she wants. Jason need for security and power is reveal by him divorcing Medea and marrying Creon's daughter. This action would have given him security in life both politicaly and financialy with wealth that being a king or a prince brings.

Evidence:
"She, she shall be repaid through her victims"(73).

"Does she think that she can kill a princess and a country's king and vanish with impunity?"(73).

"I'll show you, first, it was an act of common sense,"(50).

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 2

4 literary techniques and their effects

Metaphor
"Wasn't I a miserable little beast when we were small?"(10).
Antigone compares herself to a little beast a pest something that is small and annoying and this gives us insight into how she views herself.

Imagery
Creates the image of the guards being dumb brutal beast and down plays her respect for them and also the readers respect.
"[...]surrounded by guards with their idiot faces all bloated, their animal hands clean-washed for the sacrifice, their beefy eyes squinting as they stare at us"(12). The effect is that it creates an image of the guards as being dumb mindless obeident creature who obey Creon and it helps to create the idea that Creon is a tryant and the he controls everyone who follows him.

Foreshadowing
"But if there was a reaon why I couldn't go on taliking to her"(15).
Foreshadow the idea that Antigone already knows that she is going to die and it helps reveal that she is going to be caught and be punished to death.

Personification: "[...]that there is something inside you that si just-dying?"(18). Idea that Antigone is everything to Haemon and that this personification that her love is killing something inside of him shows how great it is.

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 1

what do you know about the 1940s in Europe and how do you predict that will influence Anouilh's version of Antigone.

During the 1940's World War 2 was going on and for a portion of that time France was occupied by the Nazi's. This could really affect Anouih's version of Antigone because see was French and expeirenced a really hard time full of traitors to her people and also people who stood up against the nazi in resitance groups. I believe that this will influence her version of antigone to stand up agaisnt oprresion and morally wrong things

Antigone Journal # 3

Journal: finish your casting of the characters
1. name
2. actor/actress - description of appearance, personality, age, etc.
3. why you made the choices you did

Antigone
"I was born to join in love, not hate that is my nature"( 86).
"I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone"(87).
Age mid to early twenties. A person who is very religous. Is very emotional and can be rash. Actress- Carrie Underwood
Why- She is very religous in her music and in her music videos she does a great job protraying her emotions expecially saddness. Antigone character really express her emotion and i want and actress who does the same.

Ismene
"We must be sensible..."(62)
"Why rush to extremes?"(62)
Younger than Antiogones character. age late teen to early twenties. Very obident to the law. Doesn't break the las Actress Taylor Swift.
Why- Never has broken the law that i know of. Seems very moralistic and has good common sense. Ismene's character is reserved and catious.

Creon
"So, men our age, we're to be lectured are we?- schooled by a boy his age?"(96).
"What? The City is the king's- that's the law!"(97).
Age forties. Acts full of anger and is defiant in his postions and beliefs. Slightly balding with gray hair. Possible actor Mr. Wilson.
Why- Creon is very stubborn and argues his postions well. He believe he knows a lot and that is true but can refuse to see others points of veiw. Mr. Wilson can be a fairly good actor.

Haemon
"It's no city at all, owned by one man alone"(97).
-"Father, I'm your son ...you in your wisdom [...]I obey you" (93)
Personality. Very just and strong headed he sees both side of a situation and juges it fairly. He respects his place in society and he respects his father. Age early twentys tall, muscular atractive man who people admire.
Why- Haemon listens to what the people of Thebes say and he understand the fear they have in speaking against his father. Even though he belive speaking against a person father is wrong he does it because being just is more important to him.

Leader
"she hasn't learned to bend before adversity"(82)
"[...]could this possibly be the work of the gods?"(72).
Old late forties early fifties. Gray hair kid of log. Acts sort of goffy and looks sort of off. Grizzled beard gray.
Why- The leader sort of seems like an odd character and he is very observant of things but he doesn't really express what he thinks. This shows that he is very reserved but he speaks about obvious things. He also forshadows things and old werid people just seem like the best people for forshadowing.

Sentry
"i could have sworn i wouldn't hurry back{...}"(79)
"[...]jostling, baiting each other to keep awake[...]"(800
Age. early twenties. Light brown hair muscaular. probaly a colloge student. not to intelligent a person who like to screw aroung who is also somewhat of a coward.
Why- the century was afraid of punsihment and was going to run away. He also speicifys how he like to srew around and that they fell asleep the first time. show he doesn't take his job that serious need someone who will screw around and not make the best decisons.

Antigone Journal #2

Write two questions, pertaining to tonight's reading, for each level of questioning.

Knowledge Level (The recall of specific information):

Who is Antigone's father?
Who is Creon's son?

Comprehension Level (An understanding of what was read):

Why did Creon sentence anyone who burys Polynicies body to Death?
Why did Antigone believe Polynicies need to be buried also?

Application Level (The converting of abstract content to concrete situations):

Would you die to fullfill your religous obligations to a dead family member? Why or why not?
What is Ismene motivation for claming she had something to do with the burial of Polynicies?

Analysis (The comparison and contrast of the content to personal experiences):

What does Antigones and Ismene sacrifice of their lives for family mean about the importance of family in Greece?
What does Creon's refusal to pardon Antigone partially based on the fact that she is a women mean about the gender role of women in Greece?

Synthesis (The organization of thoughts, ideas, and information from the content):

How does the author protray the ideals of greek society in the characters Antigone and Ismene?
How does the author use the chorus contrasting lines when they are inteeracting with Creon and by them selves to invoke pity in the audience?

Evaluation (The judgment and evaluation of characters, actions, outcomes, etc…)

Is Antigone beleif that the gods demand her actions a plausable mean to justify her actions?
Was Creon irrational in his desire to fullfill the law or must all laws be followed or are their certain laws that must not be enfoced?

Antigone journal #1

3 literary techniques and their effect.

Metaphor: "he's flying headlong now the bridle of fate stampeding him with pain!"(65;124). Evokes the image and effect that fate is unstopable and builds to the common them about the role of fate in peoples lives.

Image: "his spears thirsting for the kill"(65;1340. The effect it creates is that killing is a nesseciatey it makes Polynices look like a brutal killer. It helps create this hate and distrust for Polynices because of the chorus' view of him.

Dramatic Irony: "These are the instigators, I'm convinced- they've perverated my gaurd, brived them to do their work"(73;332-334). This is dramtic irony because in Oedipus, Creon was being accussed of ploting against Oedipus and in this situation Creon is sure there is a faction against him and we know that this is not true but Creon is over reacting and this is the very thing he warned Oedipus about.

Medea Jouranl # 3

Journal: Compare the elements of tragedy in Medea and Oedipus. Look specifically at at the use of catharsis. Pay attention to how you organize your comparison. Be sure you start with a thesis/topic sentence.

In Medea and Oedipus the order of the catharsis is very built up very different changing the book.

In Medea

The story is first built up out of pity for Medea's situation and then it evokes fear in the audience for how Medea character turns out so full of hate and anger toward Jason. By building up the pity first and then using the fear of Medea and the drastic actions she resolves the pity with the fear almost balanceing them out by the end of the play resolving them.

In Oedipus sophocles builds up to the catharsis very differently. In Oedipus first the fear is built up and then the pity is evoked by his situation and it remove the fear and then it resolves it when he finally learns the truth.

Both Oedipus and Medea are different in how the cartharsis is reached but the have many other similar tragic elements. Both tragic heros are well off people that are above normal people of society that suffer. In both plays the suffering of the character starts before the play starts and the truth and polt is gradually revealed about what happened to them. Another tragic element of the play that in the end both heros take something vauable to them away from themselves. In Medea its here boys and in Oedipus it is his eyes because his eyes and seeing mean so much to him and this is revelaed in his mockery of Teiresisas

Medea Jouranl # 2

Compare and contrast Jason and Medea's interactions and attitudes towards the gods.



Medea interatcions with the gods place her on a similar level with the gods and she is more on a freind based relationship that the gods help her out when they can. With Jason his interaction with the gods are more distant yet he still expects the god to be playing a role in everything.



Jason



"... It was Aphrodite and no oen else in heaven or earth who saved me on my voyage"(50;527) ---Jason has this relience that the gods are in charge of everything and everything happened because of Aphrodite on the trip to get the golden fleece.

"Zeus, do you hear how I'm at bay,..."(77;1405)-- Jason calls on Zeus and expects him to do something and just begs him to do something to punish Medea.



Medea



"... now these treasures which were handed down by my father's father- the glorious Sun"(62;954-955).--Medea establish a personal relationship with the god through her linage and the conection she has to the gods.



"This chariot, the Sun-my father's father- gave me"(74;1322-1323).--Same relationship as the quote previous.



"Zeus the Father know exactly whtat you got from me..."(75;1352). Creates a personal relationship with another god by using father in describing Zeus and by say Zeus know creates this idea that she has a close relationship with the gods.

"O Zeus, wht made you give us clear signs for telling..."(49;5160). Medea again express the idea that she has a close relationship with teh gods and that Zeus is revealing things to her.

Medea Jouranl # 1

What is the role of the chorus in Medea? How is it different than in Oedipus?

The main role of the chorus in Medea is that it is a group of women from Corinth. The interact with Medea and sympthize with her and Medea tells her plan to them. Medea talking to the chorus is used to reveal information to the audience from Medea. Medea confides in the chorus and in a sense use the chorus as a way to confided into the audience drawing them into part of the chorus so the emotional response of the chorus play on the audience.

In Oedipus the chorus is the people of the town and they aren't really involved in the story they pray to the gods and they sumarize what happens to Oedipus in their speeches usally where they express their pity for Oedipus and his situation.

Sophocles - Oedipus Journal # 5

How does Sophocles evoke fear and pity in the reader/audience and what significance does this have?

Sophocles envokes fear and pity on the reader throught the structure fo the play and by his use of the readers knowlodge of the story. In Oedipus by revealing the prophecy first and having Oedipus being so defient of it it helps envoke pity in the audience. The audience know tht Oedipus is going to cause his own downfall but Sophocles add the element of Oedipus causing his downfall why the audience watches him and know what he is doing. Sophocles also use the audience's knowledge to envoke fear in them. The audience knows Oedipus fate and Sophocles plays on that by revealing that Oedipus struggles to escape the prophecy is what actually leads to him fullfiling it. It creates a fear that by trying to avoid a situation we might actually help cause it and this envokes fear in the audience.

Sophocles - Oedipus Journal # 4

Image of being blind.

"... Stone-blind, stone deaf-senses, eyes blind as stone!"(181 line 423)

"And if you find I've lied from this day onward call the prophet blind" (185 lines 525-526)

"Blind in the darkenss- blind!"(237, 1409)

Sophocles use the image of people being blind in regards to the facts and the truth. In the first qoute Oedipus accuse Teiresis of being blind to the facts and the truth and that what he is saying can't possiblely by true but in fact it is Oedipus who is blind to the truth and this accusation of this image of being blind to the truth helps to create a ironic situation. In the second quote Teiresis responds to Oedipus that if he is lying he can be called blind but not just in a literal sense but metaphorical that Teiresis would be blind to the truth and could be called such. In the 3rd quote the image of being blind is brought back up. The image is put forth by Oedipus about how he blind so he must be blind to ignore the suffering.

This image of being blind helps build to the idea of fate and not being able to see how it will unfold and not being able to stop it. It adds to the idea that men are blind and cannot see the truth of fate and how important in their live because they can't see it they think they have some control over it.

Sophocles - Oedipus Journal # 3

Who speaks to which gods and what does the connection suggest? How does Sophocles use metaphors and symbols? What do characters believe about the gods' role in society?

The main god that the people of Thebes talk to is Apollo. All the focus and praying is to Apollo and they always consalte his oracle at Delphi. The people and the chorus are not the only ones who pray to the gods Jocasta also expresses a desire to pray to the gods in a time of trouble when Oedipus is finally coming to terms with what he did. The prophet Teiresis and the Oracle at Delphi seem to have acloser relationship to the gods and so people seek their council for help.

"triple shield against death..." (185). This metaphor is used to convey that the gods are very real and can interact with people by using this meatphor of Apollo steping in with a sheild and protecting his people.

The character in the society that the gods are their to help them but they are also a large part of their trouble because tehy spite them for evil or to test them with prophecys and that they can curse a persons life to misserable.

Sophocles - Oedipus Journal # 2

Does Oedipus demonstrate the qualities of a proficient or deficient leader? Examine Oedipus' actions and word choice. As you continue to read, how does your impression of Oedipus change? How would you describe the personalities of Creon and Teiresias?

Oedipus deomostrates the qualites of a proficient leader in this passage. His focus on the welfare of his people is a good quality for a king and his desire to fix the problem any way possible is another good quality but Oedipus changes when he refuse to accept what Teiresias says or to even consider it when he is blamed. My impression of Oedipus changes with his harsh treatment of Creon and his accuations of treason to a family member. Oedipus had no merit for the accusation and he seemed parioned and i lost some respect for how ggod of king he seemed. I would describe Creon as loyal but as an under of achiver. Creon like to take the thing that come easy like haveing the king as a brother in law and he takes advantage of that instead of working for his respect in the kingdom he just takes it. Teiresias seems very frustrated with people not believeing him and it leaves him with a short temper and he gets very angry when people don't listen to his advice even though as the reader you know it is right. Teiresias also seems very set in who he is and he wont change for anyone.

Sophocles - Oedipus Journal # 1

159- The people of Thebes are dying and Oedipus doesn't believe it and the priests show up to talk to Oedipus.
160-The priest of Zeus shows up and asks Oedipus to recoginize that people are dying.
161-The priest ask Oedipus to do something about all the people dying.
162-Oedipus reviels he has done something he sent Creon to Delphi to talk to the oracle.
163-Creon returns and tells Oedipus that he has news.
164-Creon reveals what the oracle told him about what must been done to stop the plague
165-Creon reveals what the oracle told him about Laius death.
166-Oedipus is shocked that the people of Thebes did nothing to find out what happened to their king.
167-Oedipus vows to rid Thebes of the corruption that is causeing the play. The murder of King Laius.
168-The people of Thebes pray to the gods to protec tthem from the plague.
169-The people pray some more and ask for pity.
170-The people pray more to Zeus, Apollo, Artemis, and Dionysus.

Literary Techniques

Metaphor-"Here are boys, still too weak to fly from the nest,..."(16-17)
Compare the young men of the city to helpless bird that can do nothing to escape for danger, who need protection becuase they are so young.

Imagry-"you hurled the flames of pain..."(188). Very strong imagry about the situation of the city. Ask the plague to be taken else where.

Personification-"And black Death luxuriates in the raw, wailing miseries of Thebes" (37-38). Create an image of the complete satisfaction death gets in the misery of the people. Implies how horrible the plague is.

Metaphor- "laboring over many paths of thought."(79). This metaphor convaies that idea that Oedipus has struggled over many ideas and chosing one by comparing it to trying to figure out what path to take.

Rough Draft

Ben Harbolt
IB- JR English
Mrs. Wecker
April 1, 2009

Throughout the world today, many countries have decided to restrict the civil liberties of their people in order to gain security. Although people want to remain emotionally and physically safe from any kind of attack on them, balance of their civil liberties and security is essential. This idea is presented by Zamyatin in WE as well. Zamyatin uses the symbols of glass and The Great Operation, as well as the conflict between Mephi and The One State, to warn against the restriction of civil liberties in time of conflict for the addition of security. Instead, people need to be able to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security.
Zamyatin uses the symbol of glass to reveal the restriction of civil liberties the people of The One State face due to the conflict which has resulted from the 200 years war. The glass is a an example of how the society, in a time of conflict, gives up its civil liberties in order to feel secure. During D-503’s Fourth Entry, he talks of how, “At all other times we live behind our transparent walls that seem woven of gleaming air – we are always visible, always washed with light […] Besides, this makes much easier the difficult and noble task of the Guardians” (Zamyatin 18). D-503 talks of how everyone in The One State is always under constant surveillance, fearing that their security will be destroyed if someone’s civil liberties are given priority. This constant surveillance makes the Guardian’s jobs easier because without privacy, it is very hard to conceal things from The One State and the Guardians. Privacy is a civil liberty which should not be sacrificed during a time of conflict. Another point within the book where D-503 is talking of the transparency of the glass and its lack of privacy is during his Nineteenth Entry where he says, “Through the sun-drenched walls I can see far, both right and left and down, the empty rooms suspended in the air, repeating themselves as in a mirror” (Zamyatin 108). The ability for people to see into other’s rooms removes the privacy of individuals, and thus removes a civil liberty for the addition of security. Also, Zamyatin uses the word “through” to convey a helpless feeling, knowing that people were unable to hide anything from others. This complete lack of privacy allows for The One State to constantly spy on people while still offering complete protection to its citizens. Privacy is an essential civil liberty, and The One State lacks any sort of balance between this privacy and the security represented by the glass.
Zamyatin uses the symbol of the Great Operation to show how, in the most extreme manner, the civil liberties of citizens can be eliminated for the sake of happiness and security. When D-503 is speaking to a patient; “Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign- the divine minus” (Zamyatin 184). The patient uses a euphemism, in the creole of the One State that could be taken to mean that absolute happiness and personal freedom are mutually exclusive. The minus sign in this euphemism represents the lack of personal liberty (more specifically imagination). Absolute happiness is the desired state which all individuals should strive to achieve. Thus in order to achieve the desirable state of happiness, individuals within a society must surrender personal liberty. Zamyatin reuses the symbol of the Great Operation later in the book. After the failed attempt to seize the integral; “[…] everyone was to report for the operation” (Zamyatin 206). The quote uses the word “everyone” in order to emphasize the fact that no citizen can choose to escape the Great Operation. The passage also uses very forceful verb choice, ”was to,” in order to emphasize the fact that citizens cannot decide to not have the surgery performed; they have lost that right. In conjunction, this shows that citizens have completely surrendered all personal liberties to the state for the sake of happiness and internal security, thus dangerously upsetting the balance between liberty and security.
Zamyatin creates a conflict between the one state and the mephi in order to offer the idea that societies have a scale that balances security and civil liberties. The conflict Zamyatin creates is evident because of the word choice used by D-503, a member of the one state, while he is describing members of the mephi. D-503 has just entered the world outside the green wall, “In the clearing-people… Or-I don’t know what to call them-perhaps, more precisely, beings” (Zamyatin 155). Not knowing how to classify them, D-503 has just described these fellow humans as beings not as people but as beings. D-503 has just set himself and members of the one state as greater because they are people, which separates the two societies. This displays a conflict between them, since another society would classify the other as less than them. Depending on what is happening or has happened in societies, especially conflict, the balance scale may tip too much towards security or towards balance. Zamyatin attempts to give this idea of balance in society by creating a scale. D-503 has just announced his opinion on madness after someone in the audience regarded the rebellion as madness, “‘Yes, yes, madness! The sooner the better! And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential-I know it’” (Zamyatin 158). Members of the one state must be taught that security and protection are essential for humans to survive, or else the people would stand up for individual rights rather than societal security. This thought is imbued in their minds, it has become part of them and D-503 is stating that the people must lose their minds in order to rebel against the one state (need for security) to fight for civil liberty. Zamyatin is attempting to communicate the idea that in order to fight for liberty, one must give up the need for security, which assists in the idea that security and civil liberty are balance, equal and opposite. This idea of a balance scale contributes to a warning against having a total secure and protected society, since then civil rights would need to be abandoned or heavily restricted.
Civil liberties are the base of protection of oneself and Zamyatin stresses the need to protect these liberties in WE and not let the need for security allow for them to be restricted. Zamyatin use WE to urge people to stand up for their civil liberties and protect them when they are being restricted in the name of security.

Post paragraphs so we can put them together

Ben Harbolt
IB- JR English
Mrs. Wecker
April 1, 2009

Throughout the world today, many countries have decided to restrict the civil liberties of their people in order to gain security. Although people want to remain emotionally and physically safe from any kind of attack on them, balance of their civil liberties and security is essential. This idea is presented by Zamyatin in WE as well. Zamyatin uses the symbols of glass and The Great Operation, as well as the conflict between Mephi and The One State, to warn against the restriction of civil liberties in time of conflict for the addition of security. Instead, people need to be able to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security.

Seucrity Quotes

I'm thinking of opening with one of these qoutes tell me what you think if you get a chance


H. L. Mencken:
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

Germaine Greer:
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.


Benjamin Franklin:
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

James Russell Lowell:
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.


"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes

Revised thesis from school today

Zamyatin uses the symbols of glass and the great operation asa well as the conflict between the Mephi and the One State to war agains the resriction of civil liberties in times of conflict for security revealin that people need to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security

Outline done

I hope it is ok. I finshed it before i saw your commet will. We can always work on it and change it later as long as we get credit for having it done

Thesis for outline

Thesis: Zamyatin uses the symbols of glass, the great operation and the Table of Hours in WE to warn against the suspension of civil liberties in times of conflict for security revealing that people need to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security.

Outline

Please post ideas and symbols you think we should use also qoutes.

Thesis: Zamyatin use symbols in WE to warn against the suspension of civil liberties in times of conflict for security revealing that people need to balance the protection of their civil liberties with security.

Symbols to use.

Great Operation- symbolic to the restriction of though. Removing the ability to disagree with the goverment

Glass- Symbolic of constant survallience, lack of privacy for protection

Table of hours, pink slips- constant survallience by knowing where people are, controling their actions by controling how they spend their time and where. To stop meeting against gov

Green wall- Suspension of ability to explore other options better possibiltiys and extended form of propagnda it removes all out side information that make people question something better takes away all other options forces people to live one style of life.

Dystopian Journal: Topic C

How powerful/believable is the author’s vision?
What hope or alternative does the author give us?
Zamyatin gives us hope in the possibility to live outside the society as in We people are able to live outside the wall to avoid the society and people from in the society are able to escape out of it to the world outside the wall. Zamyatin gives us hope or an alternative by the option of separating yourself from society to avoid it controlling you. This option seems bleak but logical if you take yourself out of society you take yourself out of its control and influence.
Zamyatins vision is really powerful but it is not really believable people are to unwilling to allow class structure to be done away with. People like feeling superior to each other because it makes them confident in whom they are because they believe that they are better than someone else. Zamyatin’s visioin while not very believable is very powerful because of the ever advancement of technology and the risk it places on people. The farther technology advances the more control it has on people either their dependence or it us to watch and control them such as in the use of video surveillance and GPS tracking. This powerful vision of using technology for complete control such as in the “Great Operation” may not be realistic in its open use on everyone but the possibility of technology reaching a stage of something that extreme is realistic in our future.

Word Count 251

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Figures of Speech
Personification/ metaphor.
"I had to do something to expunge, to drown out that damned[root] -1" (Zamyatin 41).This metaphor is an extended metaphor for the book. The only thing that make math imperfect is irrational numbers. It is these numbers that are despised and hated by D-503. It is the same with the One State. Their are a few people who will not comform to the society and they belive that they need to be wiped out and destroyed. It is the same with D-503 he wishs to destroy and kill all irrational numbers. To "Drown the out" this act of killing a non living thing. Zamyatin use irrational numbers in We as an extended metaphor the society.

Structure
Through Zamyatin's use of structure, he is able to show how when one's thoughts and actions are oppressed by society, they will soon attemplt to escape this control, eventually leading them to happiness. This can not only be seen in We, but also with previous revolutions in history.

Patterns- Motif
through out the novel Zamayatin uses Teeth as a motif to express mainly primitiveness, particullarly unique to I-330. Zamayatin tends to describe I-330's teeth whenever she is doing something either divious, "ancient" or dangerous. I-330 describes the ancient house, "'This is my favorite...' and suddenly she seemed to catch herself. A bite-smile, white sharp teeth. 'I mean, to be exact, the most absurd of all their 'apartments''' (Zamyatin 27). by favoring this ancient house for whatever reason, I-330 sets herself apart from her society in which favoring an old house is considered silly since it is ancient. Teeth is typically associated with primitiveness in todays society, since man is said to have evolved beyond the need for large sharp teeth. by using teeth Zamayatin give I-330 a primitive attribute which is used in this particular quote to be relitive to her favoring of the ancient house.

Imagery- clouds, thunder storm
During the book, Zamyatin uses the imagery of the weather to convey some of his ideas more effectively. Many times throughout the book, Zamyatin uses the imagery of clouds to show how "perfect" the society depicted in We is, and how they have completely pushed nature out of their lives. During the beginning of the book, whenever D-503 looked up into the sky, there were no clouds. "But the sky! Blue, unblemished by a single cloud [...] I love - I am certain I can safely say, we love - only such a sterile, immaculate sky" (Zamyatin 3). He believed that clouds were disorderly and absurd and did not belong in a perfect society. They were something the ancients saw as being beautiful and splendid, but D-503 did not understand why. This passage also tells us that the society D-503 lives in is very concerned of everything that seems to be unorderly; a reason to why they shut nature out of their world inside The Green Wall.Another moment in the book where Zamyatin uses the imagery of weather is after The Green Wall has been destroyed. After it is blown up, a storm englufs The One State and the disorderly clouds start to rush in. This rush of nature coming into the society shows how people began to change and behave more like The Ancients had. They could finally experience freedom, something which the weather is able to portray in We.

Sentences
Through Zamyatin's use of sentence structure and ellipses, he is able to portray how individual thought is being constrained by The One State. Many tiems when D-503 is thinking, his thoughts abruptly end and almost never finish. This is used to show how when a controlling factor is added to ones life, they are unable to think for themselves and are unable to break apart from this control to develop independant thoughts and ideas.

Thesis

I think we need to put down our thesis from the blue sheets (the ones about sentence structure and word choice). I think that is where we get our thesis from and then we pick the best one but i'm not sure i've posted on here blog asking for some clarity but i haven't heard anything back. So i think we just do the blue sheets and get thesis from those. I think we only had three more of them to do and i thought we handed them out before class ended on friday but i'm not sure.

Thesis for WE

We need to get our thesis by monday i think so just add comments to this post on our thesis statments for our 8 things

Propagnda

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This propagnda is effect of because it plays on alredy exixting emotioins of the audience that it is aimed at and it is not over the top in it's message. This poster brings up the hatred that Pearl Harbor created and it use this to it advantage. This poster also doesn't make the viewer feel muniulated but rather it birng back emotions and help remind a person of them and strengthen them. This propagnda seems very effective and it is derected to U.S citizens after Pearl Harbor.

Figurative language of irational numbers

Personification/ metaphor.

"I had to do something to expunge, to drown out that damned[root] -1" (Zamyatin 41).

This metaphor is an extended metaphor for the book. The only thing that make math imperfect is irrational numbers. It is these numbers that are despised and hated by D-503. It is the same with the One State. Their are a few people who will not comform to the society and they belive that they need to be wiped out and destroyed. It is the same with D-503 he wishs to destroy and kill all irrational numbers. To "Drown the out" this act of killing a non living thing. Zamyatin use irrational numbers in We as an extended metaphor the society.

Dystopian #2

Topic B-

I-330 is victimized by society because she is oppressed. She has a free spirit that is kept hidden by the society because of their surveillance and inability to hide really anything from anyone else. I-330 is also victimized in the way she cannot expresser herself in public. I-330 must conform to society and wear the blue overalls of the One State.
I-330 resists this oppression and the society of the One State by her sanctuary of the Ancient house. She resist the One State by when she goes there, she dress in old style cloths that the One States despises she breaks the conformity. She also resists in a more mental approach. I-330 drinks alcohol when she is at the ancient house and she smokes. This resistance in her mind and in private is what helps keep her free spirit from being completely destroyed.
This resistance is not successful in the traditional sense of helping to destroy the government but it is very successful in the mental resistance. I-330 becomes more resistant to the rules of the One State the more times she breaks the rules at the ancient house. First she goes there with D-503 when they don’t have a coupon to be together and the drinking of alcohol and the smoking. She later becomes more resistant to the expectations of society when she begins to not use her and have D-503 fake that they are together for some unknown purpose. I-330 gradually becomes more rebellious throughout the book and the things she does get worse and worse when it comes to breaking the society’s rules and this is a successful resistance. This gradual building of confidence against the society.

Word count- 281

Dystopian #1

Topic A
“I know that the letter, which she had read, still had to pass to the Office of the Guardians (I believe there is no need to explain to you this natural procedure), and would reach me not later than twelve. But I was disturbed by that little smile; the ink drop muddied my transparent solution. So much, in fact, that later, at the Intergral construction site, I could not concentrate and even made a mistake in my calculation, which had never happened to me before” (Zamyatin 51).
The society in WE has absolutely no privacy except for when they are having sex and they can close their blinds. In this passage D-503 talks about the complicated task that it takes just to get a letter. He knows he has a letter. The lady tells him this but he knows a lot of other people must read it and examine it before he gets it. This control of privacy by the society helps them maintain control of the society and find any person who might threaten their ways. The society uses this Bureaucratic control of their lives to maintain complete control. A huge part of the bureaucratic control is the table of hours. The society is also unique because they believe so strongly in math and logic. This belief in logic helps create a sense that they are infallible. D-503 expresses his belief that he is infallible through his surprise to making a mistake in his calculations. This makes this society unique because each person believes that they are infallible and that not just their leader is infallible. In dystopian novel like 1984 all the people of the society believe Big Brother is infallible and that they must listen to him because he is always right. In WE all the people of the society believe that they can’t be wrong in their work. This makes them much happier.

Word count: 230

New Thesis

Camus use the interations of character with the legal system in The Stranger to show that people have a tendency to judge not only the actions but the emotional responses of others. Revealing that the legal system has flaws.

Stranger Journal #9

What conclusion does Meursault come to at the end of the text? Does Camus want the reader to come to the same conclusion? Do you believe Meursault is happier or less happy at the end of the novel?

Meursault comes to the conclusion that. Other people shape who you are through how they describe you. You are a bad person because people define you as a bad person. And with death coming you are free from how people define you, it now longer matters. Life is made from the definitions of people and that it is worth living to have meaning.

I believe that Camus want the reader to come to the same conclusion. That if no one defines what is good and bad or anything in life then how can one form to it so it is nessesary for societiy to shape people and views.

Meursault is happier in the end. Meursaults get over the fact that death is then end but rather a liberator of all the judgment and conflicts of life and makes you understand that life was worth it. But your own life should matter to you and not to others.

Stranger Journal #8

Thesis:

Camus use the symbols of the sun, the sky, and the foil of Marie to Meursault to reveal how the social expectations of life conflict with what is best for a person revealing that each person needs to set their own social expectations.

Stranger Journal #7

Why does Camus create a part 1 and a part 2? Identify parallel ideas or scenes that occur between the two parts. What does Camus accomplish by comparing ideas between the two parts?

There is parallel ideas in the first part to the second part with the sky. When Meursault is thinking the sky reflects different colors and when Meursault is in the cell thinking about telling the chaplin he doesn't want to see him he looks up at the sky and reflcts on the color. All the colors what are deamed peaceful colors. Green, gold, blue. Camus also takes Meursaults seperation from humans to another level. First it is just emotion and then it is physical seperation.

Camus accomplishs a more dynamic character who changes quicker in the second part. Meursault changes a lot more in the second part when he is by himself. He is less willing to listen to other people. In the first part he listens to people even if its not what he wants to do or cares for doing. When the derector in the begining say do you want to see your mom he does even though he really doesn't. But later on with the warden and the chaplin he doesn't listen to them at all and refuse to even make an attempt.

Stranger Journal #6b

Thesis Statements:

1 word choice
(Alexander) Why does Camus/Ward (translator) use simple words to describe so formal a book?
Camus use short simple words to create a more indepth relationship with the characters to make them more human.

2 Sentences
(Alexander) Why does Camus vary the sentence length?
Camus varys sentence length to create a very unique picture of Meursault. The difference in sentence length creates a little bit different side of Meursault one he talks long and it flow and the others are short and consice and get the information across.
3 Images
(Rachel) Why does Camus use the image of light always being harsh and unbearable?
Camus use light to show how a nessesity of life can cause pain but Meusault tries to avoid it like emotions and decsions.
4 Symbols
(Alexander) What idea is Camus trying to convey through the sun?
Camus is trying to protray through the sun the nessecity of human aspects of life. Like emotioins, making descions and the frustaion that comes with that. The cause pain and discomfort but the are nessesary for a person to live just as the sun is nessecary.
5 Figures of speech
(Athanasia) Why doesn't Camus create more obvious and deep metaphors?
Camus doesn't create deep metaphors to help show the simplistice approach Meursault has on life and their is really no deeper meaning ot his life.
6. rhetorical devices
(Athanasia) Why doesn't the narrator show more emotion and feeling than the dialogue?
The narrator is Meursault and as a character he lacks emotion but this helps juxtapose him to other characters who show emotion makeing him seem odd.
7 patterns
( Kevin W.) What message is Camus trying to show with the motif of the sun and heat?
Camus use the motif of the sun and heat as a thing that doesn't go away like human emotions that Meursault denies and that the pain they cause does disapear for a time they do come back.
8 Narrators
( Kevin W.) Why does Camus use Mersault as a narrator instead of someone else?
Camus use Meursault as the narrator to give us a deeped insight to why he lacking emotion. The fact that you can see how he feels toward other people when they express emotion helps use connect to him.
9 structure
( Kevin W.) What is Camus trying to say by having time go slower while Mersault is in jail?
Camus does make it seem like time is going slower for Meursault while he is in jail but he actual make months fly by and it makes the changes in Meursault seem likey they are happening really fast. Camus might be showing how changes in people happen over time and you can't expect dramatic results right away.

Stranger #6a

1. Word Choice- Use short simple words that convavy the meaning easily.
Why does Camus make his characters seem so simple?

2. Sentences-Use a lot of long slow sentence. The sentences are simple.
Why does Camus write in this layed back flowing style?

3. Images-Use the contrast of light to dark in sence to create an image also. The image of tempature.
Why does Camus play with Meursaults feeling of tempature so much?

4. Symbols- Camus focus a lot on the sun and heat. He also focus on the sky alot and it color.
Why does Camus focus on things that are out of reach for humans but still affect us?
5. Figurative Language-Use irony a fair bit to almost make some comical scenes.
Does Camus intend for his irony to create comical scenes?
6. Rhetoric devices-Juxputoses his emotions to what he belives others are feeling in a scene.
Why does Camus juxtapose the emotions of Meursault to what other characters are feeling?

7. Patterns-Use repatition of people pauseing and feeling uncomfortable around Meursault.
Why does Camus make Meusault akward around others?

8. Narration-1st person. Gives insight into Mearsault emotions and is very observent to the felling of others.
Why is Camus so observant to the feelings of others?

9. Structure-Very slow time movement at the begining of the story. Toward the end time moves very fastly months at a time and Meursault changes more quickly.
Why does Camus use these different speeds in the passage of time?

Stragner Journal #5

How does your own philosophy affect your reading?

My own personal philosophy affects my reading in first the type of characters i connect with. I usally connect with the more logical and resonable characters but the activiteis of my life also affect my reading as much as my philosophy. Just my general intrests affect the characters I identifiy with. My philosophy affects my reading with what i look for and see as valuable because what my philosophy is.

Stranger Journal #4

Sun

"When the sun got too hot, she dove off and i followed."(Camus 20) The sun pressures Meursault to make choices.

"The sun was shining [...] and the glare onto the water was unbearable" (Camus 52). This feeling of thinking and decisions diagrees with Meursault and he doesn't like it.

"I wanted [...] to escape the sun" (Camus 57). The sun makes Meursault fell emotion this feeling of need to escape.

"[...]his office was filled with sunlight barely softened by a flimsy curtain" (Camus 66). The discomfort the sun causes Meursault repersents the discomfort the situation cuases Meursault.

The Sky and Color change with it.

"I had the whole sky in my eye and it was blue and gold" (Camus 20). The sky really reflects Meursaults emotions that he is feeling with Marie.

"Soon after that, the sky grew dark [...]" (Camus 22). This also reflects Meursaults emotion and his dreaded feeling that he has to work tomorrow.

"Above the rooftops the sky had taken on a redish glow" (Camus 23). This again help reflects a mood change in Meursault when he see's the athletes being all cheerful.

Journal # 3

Harboltism

1. God and Christ play an active role in humans life.
2. They help provide moral examples to follow.
3. They are active with humans through prayer.
4. Reason and logic help create order in peoples life.
5. Lack of control is what people fear.
6. People need to learn to deal with stress in their own way to be able to live a happy life
7. The people you interact with in your life help shape your belief. Either through example of what not to do or by provide good solutions.
8. Faith is an inherent propertity of humans. Either in a religous way or in others

Stranger #2

Meursault's actions are all in a very slow dreary place like je is sepperated from the world. That he is not really involved in it. It seems like everything Meursault does is against the norm and he is always apologizing for it.
This sence of distatcement for the Meursault helps create a protagonist that you feel sorry for like he is lost and has no meaning or purpose in his life except to live. Also the the constatant apologizing by Meursault helps create the feeling of lost because he always does something wrong.

Stranger Journal #1

The two translations are different in the type of vocie the one on the front that says part one is very passive. A lot of " then i" it is also different in teh fact of who it was translated for the part one passage say 50 miles and the second passage says 80 kilometers. The langauge of the two is very different almost as if it was writen for different cultures. One says Maman and one says mother creating a different cultural setting toward the two passages.

Journal # 9 The Structure

The way Zora Neale Hurston ties the end of the book to the begining is really a key part in forshadowning the plot of the book. In the begining the reference to Tea Cake who we don't meet until later in the story and his absance from the scence leave a wonder about who he is and what happened to him to make his character no longer a part of the story. This tying of the begining to the end also creates a sence of completion that you know the story is going to end and it give you an idea of what characters are going to remain and who they are in the end so you can understand where their growth is leading to.

Journal #8 The Title

The title is significant in the fact that it gives a strong image to protray its meaning. This image of Janie, Tea Cake and Motor Boat looking upward in the dark toward hevean. This helps protray the meaning that no matter what they do, they know its out of their hands, it is the control of god. It also helps display a distance between the characters and God this figure they look to with hope yet at a distance not knowing what he is doing. Yet it gives you the feeling that God still gives them hope and they are looking at him with hope. This hope that things can turn out all right but its not in the characters hands its out of their control.

Journal #7 Mrs. Turner

Mrs. Turner's character is really affected by her relationship in the fact that she thinks that every black person will let her down like her husband. Mrs. Turners expectations are so high that she thinks everyone will fail her but white people who she has no interaction with. Mrs. Turners marrige is a foil of Tea Cakes and Janies her is a bitter one where whe has no trust for her husband and there is no happiness in the relationship. Compared to Janie's marriage which is full of turst and love. Janie trusted Tea Cake enough to leave Eatonville and get marry him. Mrs. Turner life seems to be the oppostie of Janie's. Janie's life began growing up in the company of whites and now she enjoys the company of the very people Mrs. Turner despises but Mrs. Turner longs for the company that Janie grew up in. Also compared to Sop-de-Bottom, Mrs. Turners marriage is a sad one, one with very little comunication or respect for the partner. In Sop-de-Bottoms relationship he still respects his wife and the strengh that she has.

Journal # 6 Figuative Language

Simile pg. 118 "But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane." Zora Neale Hurston does an excelent job tying her similes into the time period. The focus to little detail like that makes the writing so exceptional. This simile really helps create a setting and mood of autenticity. During the time period horses were used for a lot of labor. I also think this simile touches on the fact that during the time period Africans were used for the harsh labor of farming sugar cane.

Personification pg. 128 "So her soul crawled out from its hiding place."
The personification of Janie soul really potrays the story of her life. She had always been put down told she was wrong a bellitled by her first two husbands but Tea Cake is changing that he is coaxing her soul out of her comfort zone so that she can experience life. This personification is aall part of Janies growth and her soul coming out of hiding is part of that.

Repition pg. 119 "Who Flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day." This repition really show the fear that Janie has for her situation for Tea Cake. The fear that he will run of and leave her in utter despair. This repition not only shows Janie fear for her material thing but the fear for her heart and the trust she has put in Tea Cake. Janie sees the exact situation with her and Tea Cake and it terrifies her this though to be wrong that constently goes through her head. This repition is also closely tied to the repition of her emotions this constant fear of being left and being held captive once again.

The change in Janie

The biggest change in Janie is her thinking for herself. In chapter 12 she stop listening to all the advice the men of Eatonville are giving her in chapter 11 and follows her heart on her situation with Tea Cake. This is also a big change from Janie earlier in teh book where her opinion is easily swayed by her grandmother and the other people she cares for like Jody. This change of Janie forming her own beliefs and opinions in stead of her conforming to other peoples views is all part of her growth.

Janie's Motivation

The motivation of Janie is experience. She is driven by her desire to experience life and all the things she has been denied for so long. She wants to experience the conversations on the poarch and to be able to know what love truely is not just what other people tell her. She is driven by the want to experience new things and Tea Cake helps here experience all of these.

Rewritng of a Passage

So John began to dream of Time. Time, the never resting manager of all dictating its will to the world. The great master of all held on the wrist of man yet free to do as it pleases. What need does time have for a master, and what man may hold him as his own? He hovers high in heaven over looking his domain.standing patiant andd still yet ever constantly moving foward, waithing for his steed to carry him to the end. Been standing there before there was a where yet always moving foward. John was liabale to find a hair from his mane floating in the wind. John was terrified and depressed. Poor Mike! He should not have to fight the pressures of time on his own. John ordered Jim to councel him but Mike refused. The councelers knew all of pain, but they knew nothing of the passage of time. Mike would be fine as soon as time had been vanquished thru imortality. He wasn't going to age. Thats what Mike believed. But Jim told john differntly. And if Jim had said nothing. John would have know by the gathering of wrinkles under the worn pair of delecate orbs. Wrinkles that would once not of dared to imposse a man so energetic now advanced methodicaly. Creeping foward with each dip of the sun. Age, the speedy stalion had finaly taken the lead.

5 Literary Techniques: Their Eyes Were Watching God

The symbol of wood in chapter 4. pg 26. "If you can stand not to chop and tote wood AH reckon you can stand not to git no dinner"
The author use this symbol to repersent Janie character and how she is stiff and unwilling to bend to the reverends will just like wood that is stiff and doesn't bend that easy.

Personifications pg 28 "he meant to git dere whilst de town wuz yet a baby"
The author use this to show a vived image that the town is still young and in the need of someone to teach it how to survive and thrive

Metaphor pg 29 "You ain't got no mo' business wid uh plow than uh hog is got wid uh holiday" Zora Neale Hurston use this metaphor to show how Janie is precived by Joe Stark and that she is seen as a women who isn't ment to do manual labor but to be pampered almost like a white women during the time period the setting is based.

Dynamic pg 32 "Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if joe was not there waiting for her, the change was bound to do her good."
This dynamic is the sudden change in Janie's character that she suddenly ignored the advice of her grandmother and wasn't really obedient any more and she decided to think for herself and pursue love.

Simile pg 32 "With him on it, it sat like some high, ruling chair." The author gives us insight into the Character of Joe Stark and the air of authority he carried in his life and that authority is spread over thing around him. That he carries his own authority and it isn't given to him.

Journal 2. Their Eyes Were Watching God

The setting of Janie in the south helps affect the characterization of her with the contrast of her and her grandmother. Janie's Grandmother was raised in the slave south were she had absolutly know power or knowledge of what it was like to be free to make her own choices. This carries over into her deciding that Janie should marry the reverend. Janie's grandmother was never allowed to experience love and her belief that Janie should love the reverend just because he can provide for her is affected by the location of the story in the south and the time period it is based in. Where in the time period women must look for a provider to take care of her because they were given no rights. The setting also helps affect the motivations of Janie because of her growing up being raised with white children. She saw herself the same as them and it seems that she has an under lying motivation to be treated as an equal in life and to be happy and experience the wonders of life such as love.

Journal 1. Their Eyes Were Watching God

The narration differs from the dialect of the book in one way that the dialect is slang and has miss spelled words. This contrast with the narration which is in a more modern style. This juxtaposition shows insight to the time period and the culture of the charecters. The dialect also has the affect of making you focus on the words in trying to understand what is being said. The dialects helps create the story to feel very personal because you can relate to how people speak in every day life with slang terms and meanings. This contrast also helps make the story feel real, like it is being told to you. With a real word for word account.

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