Journal 14

“Richard Cory“ (497)
He was someone who was highly praised and looked up too. Cory
was rich and had everything going for him. The people who looked up to him
where wrong because he wasn’t happy at all. The thing that didn’t make his
happy was that people judge him based on his money. Irony: apparence vs.
reality. This “real” vs. “ideal” becaue if it was an ideal stpry he would be
happy and the apparent and the reality would match. The people see having a
perfect life but the reality is something different.

“Miniver Cheevy” (497)
He want to live in the middle ages. He drinks because he
wished he has a different life. He believes he was born in the wrong century
because all his dreams and hopes belong to the middle ages. So to escape the
boring life, he decides to drink to become in his fantasy life. Cheevy wants to
live his ideal life but in reality his lives in the different time period. He
doesn’t see that his lives a great life, so he wasted it away by drinking. That
it was most people do now, they waste away a good life. The meaning pf Miniver
Cheevy suggest a life full of depression. His first name Miniver even sounds
like minimal achiever.

“Mr. Flood’s Party” (498)
Mr. Flood is an alcoholic who likes to have a party for
one, himself. He sings and talks like someone is with in but in relilty he is
all alone. It is ironic because Mr.Flood’s Party sounds like he is having an actual
party. He drinks because he wants to fill the emptiness in him. He drinks to
have an ideal life, but in reality he has no one. He remembers the past when he
is drunk and that is when he was not alone and was happy. He doesn’t look to
the future and that is what people tend to do in their life.

Journal 13

1. What object symbolizes George Gray’s life? How is this object representative of him? The object the symbolizes George Gray’s life is a boat. This boat representatives me him because it is stuck in the harbor and is watching the other boats sail. Also because the boat with the furled sail symbolizes his life. The boat is going anywhere and Gray is thinking that his life he didn’t go to far. The boat was afaird to sail and Gray was afraid to do anything that was meaningful to him.

2. How was Lucinda Matlock’s life different than George Gray’s? How do you interepret the last line of the poem?

Matlock’s like is different from Gray’s because Matlock wasn’t afaird to do anything. So she went out and did things, like fall in love and raised a family. The last line means that to love the life you have, you have to have a life to live. That means that you do things you are meaningful to you and do everything that comes your way.

Journal 12

Young Goodman Brown – He represents the young and innocent that people have before they are tempted with evil. He also represents Adam, in Adam and Eve, because he is tempted by the devil.

Faith – She represents faith in humanity and young Goodman Brown’s faith. She also wears this pink ribbon that represents that good she has. Faith also represents Eve, in Adam Eve, because she is Young Goodman Brown’s wife.

The Elderly Traveller/Fellow-Traveller – He represents the devil because he was trying to tempt Young Goodman to turn away from God. He had a cane with a snake on it witch also represented the devil.

Goody Cloyse – She represents someone that was supposed to have faith because she was a catechist teacher, but then is turning away from God.

The Ceremony – A religious ceremony, like Baptism and communion. It represents that is going to sin or is sinning. The ceremony also represents that beginning of Young Goodman Brown losing his faith and his innocent.

The Pink Ribbon – This ribbon represents Young Goodman Brown’s faith. His wife faith would have this in her hair, but towards the end he saw it falling to the ground. That represents he lost his faith and his innocent.

Young Goodman Brown’s Journey – This represents a change of life, state of innocence to a state of knowledge. It also represents how everyone does have a little of evil in them, and is waiting for it to come upon them.

The theme of this story is sin. The story is saying how everyone is going to be tempted and most of them will lose their faith. The message of the theme is that humanity is intentionally evil. It is saying how now everyone is perfect and will make mistakes. The use to get the theme established is by the conflict and plot. Young Goodman’s Brown journey is how they get the theme established because his journey was about losing his faith to God from sin.

``My Faith is gone!'' cried he, after one stupefied moment. ``There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.'

``There,'' resumed the sable form, ``are all whom ye have reverenced from youth. Ye deemed them holier than yourselves, and shrank from your own sin, contrasting it with their lives of righteousness and prayerful aspirations heavenward

Far more than this. It shall be yours to penetrate, in every bosom, the deep mystery of sin, the fountain of all wicked arts, and which inexhaustibly supplies more evil impulses than human power -- than my power at its utmost -- can make manifest in deeds. And now, my children, look upon each other.'

Journal 11

“Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (232)

More in touch with life and who you are if living on the edge or just living with the essentials. Disconnects with you who you are if you are taking away from the essentials. Getting in touch with insistence is the higher power of the soul. Don’t do what ever else does, be self reliant.

Quote: “I went to the woods to live deliberately, to frint only the essentials facts of life…and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not live.”

“Sounds” (234)

How he spends his days. He just sat there and stared at the tree, listened to the birds. About the life that surrounded him.

Quote: “Instead of singing like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant god fortune.”

“Brute Neighbors” (235)

His neighbors would brids and ants, basically the wild life. The message is that they are fighting over territory. Over Wood chips. Comaring the red and black ants to soldier fighting in a battle for territory. Motivation in war is to win because of pride and dominance/ power

Quote: “They struggles half an hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looks back soldier had severed the heads of his foes form their bodies.”

“The Pond in Winter” (237)

We see same nature in ourself. When the ponder freezes because of winter, it is still living but we just can’t see and feel it. The leaves are gone, snow is covering the ground. The main point is nature is a never ending giver even if you cant see it.

Quote: “ Heaven is under are feet as well as over our heads”

“Spring” (238)

This is about winter changing into spring. Winter is a harsh, cold, long season. While spring is calm, warm, and beautiful. It’s the renewal of each year. Nature goes from being empty to being the beginning of the universe again.

Quote: “The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, form dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim.” “Walden was dead and is alive again.”

Journal 10

Othello’s insight is to remember him before everything happen. He wants people to remember him by seeing him not be jealous, by his fighting statues, and one who loved someone not wisely but did it well. Othello’s insight is that he will be happy if he died after everything had happen.

Journal 9

Free will is when your choices are not influenced by anyone; it’s you making the decisions on your own. Free will is used many times in Othello, like when Cassio decides to drink. Even though, ago is encouraging him to drink, he doesn’t forcefully make Cassio drink. Also in Othello, when Rodrigo decides to start a fight with Cassio, it’s on him own free will. Even when Iago gives him the idea, Rodrigo wasn’t forced or threaten to start the fight. Free will is a big part of the play Othello.

Determinism is when someone decides something for you, instead of you doing it on your own. This is used in Othello many times. An example is when Iago decides for Rodrigo that he is going to stay in Cyprus, instead of leaving to go to Vince where he wanted to go. Also in Othello, determinism is used when Iago has the plan and putting the emotion of jealousy in Othello’s head. The act of putting this emotion in Othello’s head starts many conflicts to rise. Othello didn’t decide to start the emotion, it was planted to start. Determinism is something or someone giving you an idea, and forcing or convincing you do it.

Journal 8

Emerson’s Aphorism “to be great is to be misunderstood” is saying how we don’t want to be prefect because that doesn’t mean are great. Emerson is completely right in this aphorism. You don’t want to be a person that everybody understands, you want to be a person that is hard to get. This aphorism is completely about not being someone can predict, but being someone that does something without other people excepted it. To be someone that is great doesn’t mean to let every understand you.

Emerson’s Aphorism “in skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed is saying that if we are in a problem, we should take our time to overcome it. This aphorism is telling us that we take our time in tough situations and not go at them with full speed. Emerson is right with this one. If you want to get out of a situation that still doesn’t mean you can’t think it out and take your time. You should always think about the situation, instead of going at without thought.

Emerson’s Aphorism “all life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better” is telling us that we should try things out, instead of being scared to do things. This aphorism is on the right direction and is completely right. We should risk things instead of doing things we are comfortable with. If you risk things you are making your like more fun and adventurous. The more you make the more memories you will get and more mistakes you will make. The more mistakes you make, will give you more lessons to learn. The more risks you take the better your life will turn out.