Stuff about life by teenagers
by Gabi and Annette
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Plato vs. Sartre
Most everyone would respond to an amazing discovery as excited, or wonder struck. Many people would feel proud, and feel a fresh, open mind to new possibilities at hand. But the prisoners in the cave of Plato's The Allegory of the Cave tell different.
The Allegory of the Cave's prisoners are to be told to not appreciate what else the world has to offer. No prisoner in the cave would believe it until they could see it, which they can't if they keep spending their lives looking at shadows and darkness. Estella from "No Exit" would react exactly the same. See, she didn't even believe that she was where she was. She was supposedly in hell, but she believed that she did nothing wrong. Estella and a prisoner don't believe anything unless it is made true and realistic to them.
So many people in the world don't believe or understand things until they have the most amount of proof they can get. Such as the prisoner, he won't understand anything about life and the world until he gets out of the cave. Estella wouldn't believe she was in hell until it actually appeared to be what everyone was telling her. Sometimes, seeing is believing.
DON'T WORRY I'M WORKING ON IT .
The Allegory of the Cave's prisoners are to be told to not appreciate what else the world has to offer. No prisoner in the cave would believe it until they could see it, which they can't if they keep spending their lives looking at shadows and darkness. Estella from "No Exit" would react exactly the same. See, she didn't even believe that she was where she was. She was supposedly in hell, but she believed that she did nothing wrong. Estella and a prisoner don't believe anything unless it is made true and realistic to them.
So many people in the world don't believe or understand things until they have the most amount of proof they can get. Such as the prisoner, he won't understand anything about life and the world until he gets out of the cave. Estella wouldn't believe she was in hell until it actually appeared to be what everyone was telling her. Sometimes, seeing is believing.
DON'T WORRY I'M WORKING ON IT .
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
My group and I are doing a collaborative literature analysis on Great Expectations. The other parts of the analysis are on Taylor, Hannah, Ian, Serena, Bailey, and Meghan's blogs.
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
Dickens' tone is almost remorseful when he writes about Pip's viewing of his life.
"Dissatisfied with my fortune, of course I could not be; but it is possible that I may have been, without quite knowing it, dissatisfied with myself." (p. 126)
"It was an unhappy life that I lived, and its one dominant anxiety never disappeared from my view." (p.324)
"The mournfulness of the place and time, and the great terror of this illusion, caused me to feel an indescribable awe as I came out between the open wooden gates where I had once wrung my hair after Estella had wrung my heart." (p.341)
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
Dickens' syntax/diction does change a bit when describing characters; he is a little more descriptive.
"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head." (p.1-2)
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
Dickens' tone is almost remorseful when he writes about Pip's viewing of his life.
"Dissatisfied with my fortune, of course I could not be; but it is possible that I may have been, without quite knowing it, dissatisfied with myself." (p. 126)
"It was an unhappy life that I lived, and its one dominant anxiety never disappeared from my view." (p.324)
"The mournfulness of the place and time, and the great terror of this illusion, caused me to feel an indescribable awe as I came out between the open wooden gates where I had once wrung my hair after Estella had wrung my heart." (p.341)
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
Dickens' syntax/diction does change a bit when describing characters; he is a little more descriptive.
"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head." (p.1-2)
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