what's the story?

Why do I think that Dickens wrote Great Expectations. Well like the guy from the doors said," he has a concert going on in his head and he;s just trying to wite it down," or something like that. But I think that Dickens just wanted to share that image in his mind with the world. Just from hearing how he wrote and acted out his characters, I can deduce that he was very passionate about his work. So obviously he wanted to share that. So thats why I think that he wrote it.

Lit Terms

Circumlocution- basically beating around and around and around the bush on a ceartain subject

Classicism- literature written by the greeks and or Romans

Cliche- something that's overdone

climax- the apotheosis of action in a story

colloquialism- a word that is not formal or literary

comedy- any story that has a happy ending or funny stuff

conflict- the action in a story between the protagonist and antagonist and, around which all plot revolves.

connotation- things associated to a word that go beyond the dictionary definition

denotation- straight up dictionary definition

denouement- the falling action of a story

dialect- a specific variation in a main language, usually regional

dichotomy - a division between two opposite things.

elegy- a alment for the dead, a poem for serious reflection.

Comparing Catcher in The Rye and Great Expectations

So in the opening sentence of JD Salinger's Catcher in The Rye, he mentions how," David Copperfield and all that crap," an allusion to Dickens book David Copperfield. So I read the Wikipedia on David Copperfield and it sounds kinda similar to what I've read so far in Great Expectations. So why is Salinger trying to distance his character from David Copperfield? Well like Dr Preston said today, Pip realizes that his expectations have always been there, and that everyone borrows them at one time or another in life. So it's like a big cycle. I think that Holden Caulfield wants to distance himself from that probably because he feels it's goddamn phony! No but really it seems to take away free will and the ability to choose your goals, etc. So when Holden says, "Where do the Ducks go?" I think he's talking about the realization that his goals were never his, and now he seems to have no direction in life. Salinger obviously put this allusion at the start to keep this on the minds of his readers. 

AP Siddhartha questions

1) What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Well I think that the answer to this question is quite obvious if we just look at the overall theme of the passage. Siddhartha wants to be individual and be free from the constraints of his social class. So Enlightenment would be Siddhartha realizing he that there is a future for him outside of these constraints.

2) What purpose does self-denial serve in this passage? Well we can make a pretty strong parrallel to Hamlet here and all the performative utterance stuff that he goes through. In the simplest terms, saying it and doing it are two different things.

3) What role does self indulgence serve in this passage? I believe that everyone has free will. So what some people may look at as Siddhartha indulging in breaking cultural conformity, I see it as a guy making a choice to do something different, and misconstrued as being indulgence.

I got all these questions from schmoop!!!!!

Masterpiece... Where I'm at so far

So my masterpiece topic stems from a lack of understanding in the world. I believe that if people got to know each other there would be significantly less hate and negativity in the world. It all started when I was watching the movie Platoon, with Charlie Sheen in it. There was a scene where he says, (pardon my language) "she's a human being man, fuck you!" when he sees his some other soldiers raping a vietnamese girl. I decided to give you all thhis context because Platoon is a great movie and That scene really stuck with me. I mean i try to see everyone i meet as a human being, with passions, desires, regrets and feelings. But we can also reciprocate this. We can sometimes put up walls and intentionally isolate ourselves. And another "thing" that can articulate this better than I can is when that Knsas City Chiefs safety killed his girlfriend and then committed suicide quaterback Brady Quinn said some really powerful stuff. I think I'll put this all together in a presentation or something.