Friday, February 26, 2010

The quote “ Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, or thornsor flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link of one memorable day.”, is brought up when Pip is referring to when he first went to Miss Havisham’s and also met Estella. The day altered him by becoming more aware of the upper class and not wanting to settle for being common. Pips charater was developed by not being okay with middle class which later lead on to him not wanting to be an apprentice.

A memorable day in my life that began a chain was when I was three years old and I was introduced to the best game on earth, baseball. My character today can easily be traced back to when the chain began in many ways. For example, I still play baseball and I always end up knowing the big free agent signing of the day because I enjoy baseball that much. Baseball has definitely had a positive impact on my life and continues to do so because of that memorable day.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

For my groups essay on The Importance of Being Ernest, our subject was about dishonesty in the book and the different levels that were used throughout the book. For me, three major happenings in the story that involved dishonesty was not very hard to find. The first one is Bunburying. Bunburying is a major part of the story because Ernest lying about his name seems to confuse everyone about why he even would want to change his name. He explained how his name is Ernest in the city and Jack in the country. The dishonesty led to a conversation about how Jack is a boring name and how Ernest is a much better name that suites him well. Another topic which is not as major is when they lie about “running out of cucumber sandwiches” at the beginning of the story. This is untruthful since he had ate all of the sandwiches before Lady Bracknell arrived. A final major part of the book that involves dishonesty is when Algernon pretends to be Ernest’s brother. This is a major part of the book because Ernest is very mad at him for pretending to be his brother, however later in the story it is discovered that they are actually true brothers. The commentary that I have written down supports the thesis by clearly explaining how parts of the story involve the dishonesty and what level it is on.

Since we didn’t have the chance to make sure we are using different concrete details within our own paragraph, here are my concrete details that I have.

1.Bunburying

2.Lying about cucumber sandwiches

3.Algernon pretending to be Jacks brother.

We also need to talk about the different levels that were involved, so we might want to each do a different level. If you guys want to do the different levels, or something else, just comment about what we are supposed to, and then write which topic you want to write about(different levels or other, and then what its about) and what level it is on in the book.