Thursday, February 2, 2012
IB Jr English Reflection
When I first came into IB Junior English, I didn't really know what to expect. Everyone told me it was "hell" blah blah. And yeah, it was pretty challenging, but I feel like I really did learn a lot. I can now read a book or (unfortunately) watch a movie, and think about why the creator did that or made that character say that or why is that car blue not red, why are the curtains up not down, yada yada. I can now analyze all that and possibly write a paper about how important it is to everyone else. My point being, I did actually learn a lot from this class, and I really do feel I have the fundamental skills to go to Senior English and beyond.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Blood Wedding Journal 2
Symbols:
Archetypes:
Lorca seems to be accepting most archetypes presented so far in the text. Through the characterization of the Mother in the first few pages, I can come to the conclusion that Lorca views mothers as slightly controlling and clingy, as a mother should be, and frantic at times, like when she goes off on a tantrum when the Bridegroom asks for a knife to cut some grapes, "(Muttering as she looks for it) The knife! The knife! Damn all of them! And the monster who invented them!"(6) Unprovoked, the mother starts on a tangent of violence by including the word monster and damn, the bridegroom simply wanted to cut some grapes, and had no intention of using it for violence, yet the mother freaks out.
Lorca seems to enjoy his take on neighbor-mother side-talk. The neighbor and mother chit chat for a few pages, just flitting from subject to subject like a hummingbird with flowers. I picture Lorca as almost cynically writing the script for the neighbor and mother, but that may just be me.
- Knife
- Weapons
- Flowers
- Vineyard
- Horse
- River
Archetypes:
Lorca seems to be accepting most archetypes presented so far in the text. Through the characterization of the Mother in the first few pages, I can come to the conclusion that Lorca views mothers as slightly controlling and clingy, as a mother should be, and frantic at times, like when she goes off on a tantrum when the Bridegroom asks for a knife to cut some grapes, "(Muttering as she looks for it) The knife! The knife! Damn all of them! And the monster who invented them!"(6) Unprovoked, the mother starts on a tangent of violence by including the word monster and damn, the bridegroom simply wanted to cut some grapes, and had no intention of using it for violence, yet the mother freaks out.
Lorca seems to enjoy his take on neighbor-mother side-talk. The neighbor and mother chit chat for a few pages, just flitting from subject to subject like a hummingbird with flowers. I picture Lorca as almost cynically writing the script for the neighbor and mother, but that may just be me.
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