Taylor Norman is a beast
Taylor Norman likes to feast
She never fights
She never knights
She is all of the things you could imagine
All of the things she is in
That didn't make any sense
All becuase of her innocence
Im trying to make this rhyme
and it is costing me a dime
not really...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
"The Lottery" is something you don't want to win...
We would all love to win the lottery, right? What if it had a little twist to it though? Maybe the “prize” was something that you would never want. In the story of, “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson, an event, just like this one, occurs. It’s pretty sick, but it makes a great story. With the symbolism and the characters in the tale, there is no telling what else can occur in such a bizarre town.
There were a few symbols that really stood out to me. First off is the actual word lottery. When someone says it, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Trusting common sense, I would assume that we would think of a huge amount of money awarded out to someone that wins with an assortment of numbers chosen at random. Not in this story. What you win if you are the unlucky person…is death. For the oddest reason, they choose one person from the whole town to murder, each year. This symbol only speaks one word to me: crazy. This town is obviously not normal due to their obsession with killing their own neighbors with rocks. The second symbol is the dark black pencil mark in the middle of the paper. This paper was dreaded throughout the whole town. It meant a for-sure death; it meant a cruel one.
Just like the symbols in the story, the character were phsyco too! I mean, seriously, what kind of a place likes to kill people for a hobby? If they find this even the tiniest bit of amusing, they need serious mental help. I couldn’t even imagine doing this to anyone or anything. The people seem scared of this little “game”. Yet, they don’t even want to think about illegalizing it. Just like the people said, “Pack of crazy fools.” They were talking about the villages that had gotten rid of the “lottery”. If I were to be in this foolish town for just a second, I would grab my belongings and run for my life. I would not want to risk my life with a bunch of lunatics.
As for the townspeople and the symbols, they’re pretty chaotic. This just goes to show that we don’t appreciate many freedoms that we have in life now. They don’t have a choice whether they want to participate in this ridiculous hobby or not. Whereas now, they would never dare to make us fear losing our lives in such a horrible way. We have so many rights nowadays, that we don’t realize it.
There were a few symbols that really stood out to me. First off is the actual word lottery. When someone says it, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Trusting common sense, I would assume that we would think of a huge amount of money awarded out to someone that wins with an assortment of numbers chosen at random. Not in this story. What you win if you are the unlucky person…is death. For the oddest reason, they choose one person from the whole town to murder, each year. This symbol only speaks one word to me: crazy. This town is obviously not normal due to their obsession with killing their own neighbors with rocks. The second symbol is the dark black pencil mark in the middle of the paper. This paper was dreaded throughout the whole town. It meant a for-sure death; it meant a cruel one.
Just like the symbols in the story, the character were phsyco too! I mean, seriously, what kind of a place likes to kill people for a hobby? If they find this even the tiniest bit of amusing, they need serious mental help. I couldn’t even imagine doing this to anyone or anything. The people seem scared of this little “game”. Yet, they don’t even want to think about illegalizing it. Just like the people said, “Pack of crazy fools.” They were talking about the villages that had gotten rid of the “lottery”. If I were to be in this foolish town for just a second, I would grab my belongings and run for my life. I would not want to risk my life with a bunch of lunatics.
As for the townspeople and the symbols, they’re pretty chaotic. This just goes to show that we don’t appreciate many freedoms that we have in life now. They don’t have a choice whether they want to participate in this ridiculous hobby or not. Whereas now, they would never dare to make us fear losing our lives in such a horrible way. We have so many rights nowadays, that we don’t realize it.
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Necklace
For ten years of your life, you work at your hardest to pay off a piece of jewelry. Then, you find out that the piece of jewelry was fake and wasn’t even worth half of what you paid for it. Wouldn’t this make you feel irritated and make you think that you spent a decade of your time devoted to working? In the story of, “The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, this precise tragedy happens to a woman named Mathilde Loisel and her husband when they borrow a piece of jewelry and they lose it during the nights events. The symbols and the and the mode of literature reflect off of each other in an immense way, all because of a few objects and some events of importance.
Two symbols that were relatively similar to each other were the dress and the flowers that Mithilde’s husband mentioned. They both had to do with them being middle-class people. She wanted a dress that would show that she had money when, really, she didn’t. Since this made her feel important and unique, that is what it symbolized; importance and uniqueness. Whereas, the flowers that Mr. Loisel talked about symbolized that they were poor. Mathilde even said it herself. There was nothing worse than a poor person in the middle of a bunch of rich ones. Then comes the most important symbol of all; the necklace. It symbolized the good and bad in her. I say that it symbolized bad because it brought out the greediness in her. This led to losing the necklace. Eventually, she wasted a great amount of her life working for money to pay it off. It symbolized the fineness in her because it showed that she could also be very graceful. She showed this while she was at the fancy ball.
The symbol of the necklace in the story is important, but the mode of literature is just as significant. You automatically know that is a comedy because it begins with normalcy when Mathilde and her husband are having dinner and talking about the ball. Next, there is a conflict that arises; she doesn’t have a dress to wear and then she loses the necklace. After that, she realizes the conflict; she has lost the “valuable” necklace. Finally, there is a resolution. Mathilde and her husband work for years to pay off the necklace. The bad thing about it though, is that then is the time that she finds that the necklace was fake all along, meaning she wasted her time on something that wasn’t at all necessary.
The mode of literature and the symbols had much in common and they all reflected off of each other. They also teach us a lesson; be happy with who you are and what you have. Otherwise we may end up like poor Mathilde, in the story, and wind up having to “pay” a much higher price for all of our unnecessary actions.
Two symbols that were relatively similar to each other were the dress and the flowers that Mithilde’s husband mentioned. They both had to do with them being middle-class people. She wanted a dress that would show that she had money when, really, she didn’t. Since this made her feel important and unique, that is what it symbolized; importance and uniqueness. Whereas, the flowers that Mr. Loisel talked about symbolized that they were poor. Mathilde even said it herself. There was nothing worse than a poor person in the middle of a bunch of rich ones. Then comes the most important symbol of all; the necklace. It symbolized the good and bad in her. I say that it symbolized bad because it brought out the greediness in her. This led to losing the necklace. Eventually, she wasted a great amount of her life working for money to pay it off. It symbolized the fineness in her because it showed that she could also be very graceful. She showed this while she was at the fancy ball.
The symbol of the necklace in the story is important, but the mode of literature is just as significant. You automatically know that is a comedy because it begins with normalcy when Mathilde and her husband are having dinner and talking about the ball. Next, there is a conflict that arises; she doesn’t have a dress to wear and then she loses the necklace. After that, she realizes the conflict; she has lost the “valuable” necklace. Finally, there is a resolution. Mathilde and her husband work for years to pay off the necklace. The bad thing about it though, is that then is the time that she finds that the necklace was fake all along, meaning she wasted her time on something that wasn’t at all necessary.
The mode of literature and the symbols had much in common and they all reflected off of each other. They also teach us a lesson; be happy with who you are and what you have. Otherwise we may end up like poor Mathilde, in the story, and wind up having to “pay” a much higher price for all of our unnecessary actions.
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