POETRY

Poetry is a way to express one’s feelings towards a certain thing or subject. It helps let out peoples emotions by writing them, and then telling people who also enjoy doing the same thing.

Poetry could be happy, sad, angry, upsetting, over a death, over love, heartbreak, about the world, about peace, or anything you choose to write about. It is a way for people who don’t know how to show their feelings, express it in a way where they are comfortable of doing it. Many kids have a hard time speaking in public or to people, so it’s a good way for people to express themselves without getting embarrassed. Most people write poetry about love, or about a break-up that they had, and how it affected them.

For poetry, people have poetry Bash’s, where kids and adults come together and read their poetry in front of everyone who’s their by standing on a stage and expressing their feelings. Or you could just sit there and listen to other people read their poetry if you didn’t want to read anything. Also you can meet people there who share the same interests as you and talk to them about how they handle problems or maybe the same problem as you.

Writing poetry is a good way to just let everything out. You don’t even have to show it to anyone, you can just write about whatever you want and get it out of your system, and nobody would have to know. Like if you had a bad day, you could just write everything down in your notebook and then you would feel so much better.

All and all poetry is a good thing for everyone. I think that everyone should write poetry sometime in their life so that they can express themselves without violence, so that there is less violence.

Song lyric post

How Far We've Come Lyrics
Hello

Hello

Hello

I'm waking up at the start of the end of the world,But its feeling just like every other morning before,Now i wonder what my life is going to mean if it's gone,The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour if thatAnd I started staring at the passengers who're waving goodbyeCan you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?

But i believe the world is burning to the ground Oh well i guess we're gonna find outLet's see how far we've comeLet's see how far we've comeWell I, believe, it all, is coming to an end Oh well, i guess, we're gonna pretend,Let's see how far we've comeLet's see how far we've come

I think it turned ten o'clock but i don't really know Then i can't remember caring for an hour or soStarted crying and i couldn't stop myselfI started running but there's no where to run toI sat down on the street and took a look at myselfSaid where you going man you know the world is headed for hell Say your goodbyes if you've got someone you can say goodbye to

I believe the world is burning to the groundOh well i guess we're gonna find outLet's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Well I, believe, it all, is coming to an end Oh well, i guess, we're gonna pretend,Let's see how far we've comeLet's see how far we've comeIts gone

gone baby its all goneThere is no one on the corner and there's no one at homeIt was cool cool, it was just all coolNow it's over for me and it's over for you Well its gone gone baby its all goneThere is no one on the corner and there's no one at homeWell it was cool cool, it was just all cool Now it's over for me and it's over for you

But i believe the world is burning to the ground Oh well i guess we're gonna find outLet's see how far we've comeLet's see how far we've come Well I, believe, it all, is coming to an end Oh well, i guess, we're gonna pretend,

Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come Let's see how far we've come

Essay Question #3

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, a character played a role in where they met someone from his past. This girl was a positive influence for him, but also affected him badly. In this work of literature, Jay Gatsby moved to West egg, to become closer to his love from his childhood.
Jay Gatsby moved to West Egg to see his love from his childhood. This was a good thing to him because he hadn’t seen her since when he went away to the war. He thinks it would be good to see her and that once she saw him, everything would be the same again. Also, he wanted to go further into the relationship with her. He thought that she was waiting for him to get back from the war so they could still be together.
That wasn’t the case though. Once he moved to West Egg, he realized that she was married to a man named Tom Buchanan and they lived in East Egg, which was right across the water. Jay met his neighbor, Nick Carraway and Nick told him all about Daisy and Tom’s relationship; how they are not very trustworthy to each other. But Jay didn’t care; all he cared about was seeing Daisy again for the first time, in a long time. Nick set up a date so that Jay and Daisy could see each other, and then Daisy started having an affair. At the same time, Tom was having an affair with Myrtle, who was with someone at the time.
How this affected him positively and negatively is, it was positive for him because he rekindled with his childhood sweetheart from a while back. That made Jay very happy, but then there was a bad part. The bad part was that she was married to Tom and she had a life with him. She started sneaking around with him, and in the end, he ended up dieing because of her.
All and all, Jay Gatsby was affected positively and negatively to Daisy. It went from really positive to really negative towards the end of the novel. Jay cared so much about this girl that he would do anything for her, but she wouldn’t do anything like that for Jay. In the end he ended up taking the blame for something she did, and ends up getting killed for his childhood sweetheart he could not wait to see again.

METAMORPHOSIS ESSAY 2 :]

METAMORPHOSIS ESSAY 2 :]

In the novel, The Metamorphosis, written by F. Kafka, symbols were used to play an important role. Also to add to the meaning of the work as a whole these symbols played an important role because they were the main elements Gregor faced throughout the novel.
The first symbol was Gregor getting turned into a bug. The bug represents isolation because he was not allowed out of his room. He was isolated because his family didn't want anyone to see him as this bug. Gregor went from being the hero for his family, into nothing but a bug.
Another symbol is the door and the window. These symbolize freedom to the outside world. These are Gregor's way's to get out of isolation, and into the outside world. Ever since he was turned into a bug from waking up from a dream, Gregor never went outside; he never even got to leave his room.
How these symbols relate is that all Gregor had to do was go outside in the outside world and he could get out of his isolation from the world. Of course he didn't do so, and ending up dieing while being isolated. Gregor had many chances to leave his room, and go to the outside world, but he chooses not too. He would have rather stayed in his room, and live with his family like that. All and all, these symbols contributed to the work as a whole. Isolation was the main symbol and what Gregor Samsa lived in. The window and door were his way of freedom in the outside world. Instead he chose to live with his family, and end up dieing from isolation.

ALBUM POST :]

ALBUM POST :]

I think that the music is pretty good and it has a strong message. It was saying that you should leave the bad stuff in your life and move on so that you make your life better. Also that you can make a bad situation better by changing the way you look and think about things. I actually enjoyed listening to some of the songs, but some, not so much. They all sounded the same too me, like the beat and the voice. I liked the lyrics a lot, while I was listening to the album, I looked up the lyrics for the songs and they were pretty good, a lot were talking about two people sticking together, saying like, I’ll side with you, if you side with me. All of the songs end with talking about sticking together and staying with each other. The sound of the music is like depressed sounds to me. The songs start off where he’s all alone and then by the end he ends up with someone. It’s almost as if he wants\ needs someone to be there and at first he starts off with nobody and in the end finds someone and asks them to care about him and just stay with him. Also, in some of the songs, he runs away from his problems. Like in Hate It Here and Shake it Off he tries running away from his problems, acting like nothing is wrong. He knows that he should try and fix them, but he doesn’t try, he acts like nothing is wrong. His music is very soothing. He also has very short lyrics, but they get right to the point. He sounds like he has lived a very depressed life. Also, he talks about leaving a lot and about the blue sky and the clouds. In almost about every song, he talks about getting out of where he is and leaves and moves on and goes somewhere else, because anything will be better than where he is now. The songs beat that is really different from the rest is part of Shake It Off, It has this up beat sound to it, compared to the rest of the album. I think that he needs to make it so all the songs don’t sound the same because when I first was listening to it, I couldn’t really tell when a new song started because all of the music sounds pretty much the same. Also, I think he shouldn’t write all these songs about the same thing, I think he should combine some of the songs so that there longer, because most of them are sending the same message, so why not put them in the song together and just make the song longer. Then he could write new songs about other problems he is having and have new beats for those songs. There are some good things in the album and there are some bad, but overall I thought it was a pretty good album, and I would listen to it again if I wanted to listen to something good.

5 QUESTIONS AND STORY RE-WRITE :]

5 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION :]
1./ Why would the people of the city want to watch his human during fasting?
2./. Why would they want to convince him to do this to himself?
3./ Why did the children think this was such a cool thing to watch?
4./ Why would the circus want to let him do this fasting again?
5./ What is the important lesson to learn from this article?


STORY RE-WRITE :]

Back in the day, being a hunger artist was a big thing. It brought in a lot of money to people who had one, but now-a-days, its not a big thing anymore. Those were different times. Back then, hunger artists caught the eye and attention of the entire city who had one, now if you were to see one, it would make no sense, or it would be a disappointment to some people. Back then, children loved watching hunger artists because they would always look and then their mouths would open in amazement because they’ve never seen anything like that before, but then some of there parents would pay no attention to them. There was always a constant observer watching the fasting happening. They would watch to make sure that he didn’t eat anything or sleep, but some of the observers depressed him when they would watch him at night because all they did was sit there and play cards. He liked it when the observers sat right at the bar and who was not satisfied with the dim backlighting of the room, illuminated him with electric flashlights. He liked when he could sit there and just joke and tell stories with them. No one person could stay with him every day and every night to see the true observations of how he was really handling it, so people took it in shifts. The hunger Artist started realizing how easy it was becoming to fast, he felt like he could do it forever. But the people of the city thought he was just a publicity seeker and just wanted attention and this was his way of getting it. The impresano set a limit for how long the hunger artist can fast for, and it was 40 days, and once those 40 days were up he had to get the hunger artist out of the cage. Once that day happened, everyone came to the amphitheatre, where he was for those 40 days, and brought doctors and a military band to celebrate that he survived the forty days of fasting. After they tried to get him out the cage, that he was so accustomed too, he didn’t want to stop. He thought to himself, why stop now, when he was in his best form yet? Then the crowd started getting mad that he was doing this. Next we was supposed to stand up in front of everyone and eat something. He made himself think that the food was going to make him feel sick, so it did. After that he got up and had the impresano talk more about him and then all the sudden he fainted on a poor lady, and she freaked out and started screaming, because he came half unconscious. Then the impresano finally put some food in the half unconscious hunger artist, it was supposed to take attention away from the position he was in right now. He lived this way for a long time. Every now and then though he would take little breaks of being a hunger artist. He loved being in the spotlight and being honored for his way of living like this. Later in the years, people who looked back on the hunger artist in disgust. They couldn’t believe how big of a hit that was and they thought it was so wrong, but the hunger artist didn’t care. The impresano was also mad, because he wanted people to still like it as well. Sooner or later, the hunger artist found a circus that would let him sit in a cage next to the animals and become the hunger artist again and let people come and see him. The hunger artist started turning into an animal almost. He would climb around his cage and try to scare the people thinking he was an animal because that’s how he was treated when he was in this cage. But this enthusiasm only brought smiles to the faces of the supervisors, not the families and people who went and saw this. Most people would either stare at him in disbelief or he couldn’t tell if they were staring at him or the animals next to him. A child went and looked the hunger artist and didn’t understand why he was like that, or why he was in a cage like all the rest of the animals, the child’s parents didn’t even know what to say about it. Then the hunger artist thought it would be better if he wasn’t near the animals, so maybe people would actually come and see him and not the animals, but he was wrong. People started not paying attention to the hunger artist at all, like he wasn’t even there. Then one day the supervisor went to the hunger artist cage to find him hiding behind Straw. They pushed the straw away and said “Are you still fasting? When are you going to stop fasting?” Then the hunger artist whispered, “ Forgive me everything.” “We forgive you” said the supervisor. “ I always wanted you to admire my fasting.” said the hunger artist. “We do.” said the supervisor. “But you shouldn’t admire it.” said the hunger artist. “ but why shouldn’t we.” the supervisor said. “ Because I couldn’t find food which I enjoyed. If I had found that, believe me, I would not have made a spectacle of myself and would have eaten to my heart’s content, like you and everyone else.” Those were his last words. After that the supervisor told everyone to tidy up the cage and the hunger artist. They ended up putting a young panther in his cage. In the end , the hunger artist realized that he had made a fool of himself in that cage all of his life when he could have been living a regular life, like everyone else. The panther represents what the hunger artist could have done if he didn’t make himself a hunger artist. The panther lacked nothing, it had a good home, freedom, and food, which the hunger artist could have had if he didn’t demand for all the attention.

After watching Kafka, my perspective on metamorphosis really didn't change. Something that was similar was that before Gregor was turned into a bug he had communications with the outside world just like Kafka, but once he turned into a bug he had lost all communication with everyone, and once all of Kafka's friends died and he found out about how everyone was getting killed, he pretty much lost all contact with the outside world.

I think the moral of the story of Kafka is sometimes when you look farther than you should in things, and find out more than you should really know. Like Kafka, he looked so far into his friends death, that he found out how everyone else was all the sudden dieing, and then he put himself into danger from looking so hard. For metamorphosis, i think the moral of the story is to not judge people on what they look like. Also, don't judge people before you meet / get to know them

I think what he is saying about humanity is that if you look different than everyone else, then you get treated differently, like before he was turned into a bug everyone loved him, and once he changed and looked different, his parents didn't want anything to do with him. Which he is trying to say that in society we judge people way to much, and we need to stop. We shouldn't judge people what they look like. Even our families, our families shouldn't judge us because we can't do things we could do before. Also saying tha institutions are very juedgemental as well, and that needs to change in society.