Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Catcher in The Rye

The Catcher In The Rye is about a boy named Holden who gets kicked out of school for failing his classes and midterms.Around the time of midterms he would goof off more then ever.His parents would have a discussion with the headmaster.They had to kick him out because he was failing and he didnt put in effort to try to pass.Before the winter break he visited one of his professors his friends parents,because after the winter break Holden had to leave somewhere else, he had to move.Throughout the book he gets different people annoyed but all of a sudden ends up in a mental hospital.He says that he was out there to calm down, that he had to relax.


The Catcher In The Rye is a very confusing book about how a sixteen year old teen ends up getting expelled from a school because he wasnt doing fine academically. He starts to say fair well to everybody he new when he jumps into a flashback on the good times he had in his school.Then throughout the book he gets a lot of people annoyed, and all of a sudden ends up in a mental hospital with very little details on how he ended up there.It is a very confusing book.

Hamlet

Hamlet talks about how hamlets father dies.His fathers ghost romes the ramparts of Elsinore Castle.Two watchmen discovered his ghost while they were on duty.They soon notify Hamlet.Hamlet does not believe what he is hearing, but later in the play his father's ghost appears in front of hamlet and tells hamlet how he died.His brother Claudius had killed hamlets father to take control of the thrown and marry his mother.His fathers ghost demands the young prince Hamlet to seek revenge, to seek vengeance for his father.Hamlet comes up with an idea.His idea is to put on a play but no ordinary play, a play that re-enacts his fathers death and hamlet will invite everybody to see the play hoping that Claudius feels guilty and confesses what he did to the young princes's father.


Hamlet the play is all about vengeance.Hamlets father had died from an unknown "accident".Hamlets father's ghost appears and seeks for young hamlet to tell hamlet what had happened and how he died.His father orders hamlet to get revenge for him, but what came to a shock for hamlet was how his father's brother Claudius his uncle had killed hamlets father.The revenge part had included a re-enactment on his fathers death hopingthat Claudius would feel guilty and confess to his murder.

The Death Of A SalesMan

The book Death Of A Salesman is about how Willy Loman fails to make a good sale.He comes back home and his wife Linda tries to help him and make him feel comfortable because his business trips are required to travel far away.She tries to tell him that things will soon get better but he does not believe.He thinks of coming to his house and interacting with his two sons Biff and Happy.Willy dreams of Biff becoming a famous football player but is yet disappointed because he has not yet made anything of himself.Willy goes into his bosses office and askes his boss if he can work in New York, his boss declines willys plea and is sent back to his own office.His boss later tells willy to take some time off.Willy is furious but can not do anything about it.He goes back home to his wife and son and gets into an argument and he decides to kill himself because he has life insurance that is 20,000 dollars, so he wants to kill himself for his son.

Death Of A Salesman is a sad story about how a father fails at making sales for his business.Throughout the book he gets into arguments with his older son Biff who is just visiting his father and mother.The book has some parts in it were they would have flashbacks into the old days and how things were, or how they wanted it to be.After a while the father comes up with an idea to kill himself and his family including Biff can take his life insurance money.At this time he is not being selfish because he is willing to end his life so his family can have a better life.Thats a father who cares about how his family lives.He just could not take the pain of seeing them hurt because of not enough money and his son not becoming a famous football player yet.That is one dedicated father.

Othello

Othello talks about how Othello sets off to help a town that is in chaos. Othello is sent off to help them but along his long journey his future wife Desdemona.Desdemona wants to be married to Othello because of his interesting life that he has lived during the times of ware.Throughout the book theres a lot of jealousy and a lot of blaming during the entire book. Lago Othellos best friend makes a plan to distroy Othello, and during his plan he kills Desdemona( Othello's wife), later Emilia tells Othello that Desdemona was innocent and that she did not do anything wrong.At the end of the story he goes to hurt Lago but then ends up killing himself.


Othello the novella is a complicated and confusing story about how people back stab each other and try to destroy one another.Othello's wife Desdemona is killed because Othello's best friend Lago wants to destroy him because he was stripped of his lieutenant rank and was embarrassed in front of a lot of people, so as for pay back he tries to destroy Othello through his wife.At the of the book Othello ends up dying so he could be with the one he loves.

The Lovely Bones

The book The Lovely Bones is about how a pedophile which is Mr.Harvey moves into a new neighborhood. The neighbors try to be neighborly until Mr.Harvey goes after a girl named Susie Salmon. It all started when Susie got out of school. It was night time so she decided to take a shortcut through the cornfield that was behind her junior high school. She was not paying much attention to her surrounding besides the fact of how she just want to get home, when all of a sudden Mr.Harvey pops out of know where, she was startled but made on with conversation with him.He told her that he had made a very nice cool hangout for kids.They enter the cool hangout which was in the earth, he tells Susie to get "comfortable", after a while she starts to feel uncomfortable and she tries to leave, and thats when everything happened.She fought as much as she can but as she knew it her life was over.Mr.Harvey rapes her and kills her,later stuffs her in a safe to hide the evidence.The next thing he tries to do is cover up his conscience, but ends up not working.At the end of the book he ends of dying by a icicle and falling off a big cliff.


The book and the movie The Lovely Bones is a sad telling story about how an innocent little girl can get raped and killed.It was the year 1973, where everybody did not believe in where little kids can get raped and killed.There were pedophiles all over the world at every year, but who would of thought that Susie Salmon would of run into one.Susie Salmon was a 14 year old girl who suffered a tragic death.A women never wants to be raped, and surely she never asked to be raped either.At that time everybody was not on the guard, if they lived in a nice calm neighborhood who would ever think that a pedophile would move in.Little girls such as Susie herself should not suffer like that.

Monday, February 7, 2011

1984

1984 is about how the government can control the lives of each and every single person. The government had the control over almost everything. The government had a strict policy, NO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION meaning you cant have sex with someone you love,you cant express your ideas and thought etc . Winston is the man who holds revolutionary dreams because he does not like the totalitarian government. Everybody was under control from someone called BIG BROTHER, and BIG BROTHER knows everything.Winston comes across a journal notebook, and he is thinking what to do with it.He comes up with the idea to write in it even though it is a violation to BIG BROTHER.He writes in it every day for the future generation and so that they could see how life was like for him.He knew that by writing in this journal he would be sent to jail if he got caught, but along the way he finds Julia, another person who wants to rebel against BIG BROTHER.They yearn to seek freedom, but end up finding it in one another.

The book 1984 talks about being stuck under a controlling government and how the main character is faced with many problems when seeking for his freedom. He cant escape BIG BROTHER because BIG BROTHER knows everything,but along the way of searching for his freedom he comes across another person who wants to have freedom as well, but ends up finding freedom in each other.

Animal Farm

Animal farm is about how farm animals can over throw humans. It is all about how the farmer works the animals hard and how he does not appreciate the animals for all there hard work, so the animals come up with a plan to kick the humans off of the farm. The evil pigs came up with the idea to kick the humans off the farm, they convinced all the other farm animals that it was for the best. Next thing you know the animals are doing all the work, and the pigs are commanding them. One of the pigs was not evil, so when he tries to tell the other animals that his brothers came up with this plan and that there just using them his brothers kick him out of the farm and or try to kill him. Later throughout the book the little pig that was almost killed returned to the farm and explained everything to the other animals. Then they kick the evil pigs out and they let the humans back onto the farm.

Animal Farm is the Fiction telling book about how simple farm animals can over throw humans and kick them off of the farm.George Orwell is giving the animals human characteristics to be evil,sneaky,conniving,being a traitor.The farm animals come together to form a plot against the humans for over working them.It is both funny and ironic how the farm animals kick the humans off of the farm because they were over working them, but the pigs are doing the same thing. The pigs are the most conniving because they took control over the farm and the other animals by convince the other animals that it is for the best ,how they should be in command because they know a lot more things then the other animals do. At the end the animals find out the truth and kick the pigs out and let the humans back onto the farm.