Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Summer Reading Response #2
In continuation of July’s post, consider the connections between the second text you read this summer and a classmate’s first text. Read through the comments from Summer Reading Response #1 and identify a peer's post that connects in some way to the text you are currently finishing. Explain in depth and detail the connection between this peer’s passage and response to your current text, making sure you specifically mention to whom and what you are responding as well as your new text title. Scoring for this assignment will be based on thoughtfulness and effort. Total Points: another 30 of 100 for entire Summer Reading Assignment.
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ReplyDeleteEmily Kansler
ReplyDeleteI chose "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin for my second reading response. Aileen Martinez chose "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker for her first reading response. Aileen's novel is about a girl that was sexually and physically abused by her father. This tramatic experience caused her to stand up for herself and it allowed her to see the other woman being abused like her. My novel tell's about a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening that causes her to seek out desires and passions that threaten to consume her. Both of these novels shows a story of women that have struggled and had bad experiences but try to get threw them. Both in which shows that these novels are somewhat compatable.
Angelly Tovar
ReplyDeleteFor my second text, I chose to read "My Antonia" by Willa Cather. It is a dual coming of age story set in rural Nebraska during the late 1800s. It's about the lives of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda. The life of Antonia is presented through the eyes of Jim Burden.
I found a close connection involving Michaela Silva's response to "Pride and Prejudice" and an apparent theme in "My Antonia." Michaela noted the opinions and harsh judgments of society. Throughout "My Antonia," the actions our thoughts of characters are altered by the expectations or opinions of others. For example, Antonia is forced to quit an amazing job after her employers completely disapproved of her going out dancing, due to the highly respected status of their family. I have read "Pride and Prejudice" and noticed another connection, this time involving the romance in the novels. This romance is one that is deeper than just love; although, "My Antonia" ends not with a wedding but with an everlasting friendship and two separate paths. All in all, these connections come to show the often hidden themes that make these books so loveable.
Levi Ramsey
ReplyDeleteThe second book I chose to read was "Night" by Ellie Wiesel. It is an auto biography about his experience of him and his family being taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust.
The connection I found was between Elie and Jane Pittman from Emily Kansler's response. Emily chooses the quote that describes Pittman's situation where she was unsure where she would sleep, when she would eat, and weather or not she would be separated from her family. This connects to Wiesel because throughout the book he was never certain if he and his father would get separated from each other. He never knows if he might be moved to another area in the camp or a new camp all together. Each meal is never guaranteed due to punishments, theft from other inmates, or sacrificing it to gain something else.
The book I chose was "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. This book is mainly about a young 14-year-old colored girl who was physically and sexually abused by her father mostly after her mother died. She was also verbally,sexually,and physically abused by other different men. Celie the 14-year-old girl speaks in the first person through a series of some private letters she writes to god. This story takes place in Rural, Georgia. Celie with the help of Shug Avery learns to find her voice and her sense of self. Shug Avery also helps Celie find her sister Nettie.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Jensen - "The Time Machine" by H.G Wells
ReplyDelete(There weren't really any comparisons to the other books, but this is what I was able to find.)
This book is about a man who time travels to the year 802,700. Once he arrives, he finds how much things have changed with a society of the higher Eloi, who are constantly afraid of the underground Morlocks.
In this way, it can relate to society's hierarchy, like in Michaela's response for "Pride and Prejudice". However, other than the fact that there is a hierarchy, there's not much in common with these two books. From what is sounds like, in "Pride and Prejudice" the social hierarchies are based on wealth and cleanliness, which is a bit irrational. Whereas in "The Time Machine", the divide is due to the Morlocks eating the Eloi, which is a bit more understandable.
The book i read was Hiroshima by John Hersey.The book was about the bombing on Hiroshima by the U.S.Hundreds of people died but six survived and the book tells their story. I feel that my book related was related to Erin's book,Lord of the Flies.In Hiroshima they are also left with nothing, there are also just a few survivors trying to get themselves out that mess.In Hiroshima, John Hersey describes how everything happened.The stories described how alot of people were affected by radiation poisoning.
ReplyDeleteThe book I read was "Night" by Elie Wiesel. This book is being told by the main character Moishe the Beatle (Elie Wiesel). It is his autobiography he tells his expeience at the concentrations camps.
ReplyDeleteThe book I read was "Night" by Elie Wiesel. This book is being told by the main character Moishe the Beatle (Elie Wiesel). It is his autobiography he tells his experience at the concentrations camps.
I connect with Emily Kansier book "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" because in her response she talks about a journey transporting slaves. I connect with this when the Beatle (Ellie) and his family are being transported to Auschwitz camp. Those who were in the train with Ellie and his family didn't know where they were going, what they were going to eat, whose turn was it to sit and sleep, and if they were going to get separated. The same in Emily's book they didn't know the answers to this concerns.
The second book I read was “ The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan and it relates to Angie’s book because she said the book is an example of how doing what you think is "right" can have an array of consequences and change your life. With that said, in the book I am reading it is about four mothers who have been through different situations when they were young and that affected the way they raised their daughters, they didn't want their daughters to go through what they went through. Even though their daughters get annoyed because their mothers always want them to be better than everyone and expect them to be better. Because of this the four daughters start to distance themselves from their mothers and they talk about the hard times they went through with their mothers and now that they are older they still feel that they are being pushed around by their mothers. Just like Angie said doing what you think is “right” can have an array of consequences and change your life.
ReplyDeleteThe second book I read was called The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. And i want to relate to Eduardo's book. Eduardo's book was The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank. Anne Frank and her family were isolated from the world for quite some time and they struggled to live in such a little place with a bunch of people. In the great Gatsby there's a generation called the Lost Generation: the world Fitzgerald lived in, and the world his characters inhabit, is one without connections, friends, or family. People may come together in The Great Gatsby, but they always end up falling apart in the end. Only Daisy and Tom stay together in the end.
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